MRC's Brent Bozell Demands Univision Remove Jorge Ramos as Anchor

On Thursday night’s Kelly File, Jorge Ramos doubled down on his recent defense that journalists should ditch neutrality in their coverage of the 2016 presidential election contest. Specifically Ramos defended his anti-Trump statements from his platform as an anchor at Univision and Fusion, condemning Trump as an anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant racist.
NB Staff
August 26th, 2016 11:24 AM

'Who Is This?' NYT's Blow Explodes On CNN For Inviting Pro-Trump Guest

On CNN’s New Day Friday morning, Chris Cuomo interviewed two black guests from opposing parties about Donald Trump’s outreach to minorities. The anti-Trump guest, New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow grew visibly irritated with Cuomo and the pro-Trump guest, GOP commentator Paris Dennard, when Dennard said things Blow didn’t agree with. After a heated back and forth discussion, Blow…
Kristine Marsh
August 26th, 2016 11:09 AM

Love U Hillz! 10 Crazy Examples of Women’s Mags Gushing over Hillary

Women's magazines are notorious for their undying devotion to Hillary; but sometimes, they go a bit too far. Hopefully, if you don't get sick, this slideshow will spark some chortles and eye-rolls. 
Sarah Stites
August 26th, 2016 10:19 AM

Barbra Streisand Joins Jimmy Fallon for Musical Trump Bashing

Jimmy Fallon’s back at his Trump act. But this time, the Tonight Show host was joined on stage by avid Hillz supporter Barbra Streisand for an evening of musical Trump bashing. Parodying the Annie Get Your Gun song “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better,” Fallon crooned: “Any wall you can build, I can build taller.” Later, he sang “I can build casinos and deport Latinos,” to which Streisand parried…
Sarah Stites
August 26th, 2016 9:36 AM

NY Times Rages Against Texas AG Opposing Obama's Transgender Dictates

The New York Times editorial page has already raged that any opposition to the wishes of transgender activists is the new Jim Crow. Now it’s imposing its wrath on conservative politicians. Ken Paxton, the Republican Attorney General of Texas, secured an injunction against the Obama administration’s warning schools it would deny federal funds to any establishment failing to bow deeply to the…

Tim Graham
August 26th, 2016 7:30 AM

Libs Gone Insane: Let’s Have An Environmental Catastrophe!

Editor’s Note: Normal people might find some of this offensive. (We hope.) If you want to be a victim, become a liberal. It doesn’t matter whether you want to go online to whine about your lot in life or whether you want to harm others with everything from shutting down free speech to fiddling with the climate. Both work.
Dan Gainor
August 26th, 2016 7:30 AM

Nets Censor U.S. Navy Ship Forced to Shoot Warning Shots

Disturbing news broke Thursday that for the third time in a week US Navy ships in or near the Persian Gulf were harassed by vessels maned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But the situation escaladed Thursday when the vessels ignored warnings and got close enough to for the USS Squall to draw warning shots. As provocative as the actions of the Iranian vessels were, they did not seem important…
Nicholas Fondacaro
August 26th, 2016 12:49 AM

Blogger Not Sure Trump Would Be a Worse President Than Dubya

Many liberals are certain that a Donald Trump presidency would be an unprecedented fiasco, but The Washington Monthly’s D.R. Tucker isn’t among them. In a Sunday post, Tucker suggested that in terms of racism and overall “incompetence,” a Trump administration would be a sort of sequel to George W. Bush’s, and speculated that Republicans who are backing Hillary Clinton may be, “on a very subtle…
Tom Johnson
August 25th, 2016 11:30 PM

Kelly Confronts Ramos on Trump Disdain, Not Branding Hillary a 'Liar'

On Thursday night, Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos met his match in Fox News Channel’s Kelly File host Megyn Kelly, who proceeded call out Ramos on his claim that journalists shouldn’t be neutral in their coverage of Donald Trump and wondered if he’d do the same for Hillary Clinton since many consider her to be a liar like some Latinos consider Trump a racist.
Curtis Houck
August 25th, 2016 11:00 PM

ABC, NBC Swoop in to Defend Clinton from Trump’s ‘Bigot’ Remark

The war of words in the 2016 race for president reached a new level Thursday when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton accused one another of being a “bigot.” On CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor James Brown seemed disappointed in them, starting the show off saying, “The presidential campaign may have hit a low point today, and there are still 75 days to go.” While Brown seemed disappointed, both…
Nicholas Fondacaro
August 25th, 2016 10:59 PM

Dyson: 'Making America Great Again' Is 'Code' for 'White Nationalism'

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Georgetown University professor and former MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson was the latest liberal to claim that a general slogan like "Make America Great Again" really has a racist "code" of "white nationalism" as he claimed that even a generic reference to the "nation" of America implies "whiteness" "by default."
Brad Wilmouth
August 25th, 2016 10:46 PM

Press Followup on $1.3B Cash-For-Hostages Sent to Iran Has Been Weak

Reporters at the State Department's daily briefing were very impatient with the bobbing and weaving of spokespersons Mark Toner on Tuesday and Elizabeth Trudeau on Wednesday when they were questioned about $1.31 billion in payments out of the U.S. Treasury's Judgement Fund listed as having occurred on January 19, two days after several hostages were freed. It was also the first banking business…
Tom Blumer
August 25th, 2016 10:10 PM

Russell Wilson Doesn’t Deny Canceling NC Wedding over HB2 Law

Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Russell Wilson’s wedding planner, and her statement that the Wilsons scrapped North Carolina as a potential wedding destination, due to the state’s HB2 law regarding transgender bathrooms. Enclosed in that story was my fervent hope that the wedding planner got it all wrong, and that the proudly Christian Wilson had decided to forego the Tarheel State…
Dylan Gwinn
August 25th, 2016 10:06 PM

CBS, NBC Hype 'Uproar' Over Secular France's Burkini Ban

On Thursday, CBS and NBC's evening newscasts played up the "controversy exploding around the world over so-called burkinis," after several French city governments banned the Islamic swimming garment. CBS's James Brown previewed the subject by trumpeting, "Nuns go to the beach in their habits; so why has France banned the burkini?" NBC's Kelly Cobiella spotlighted protests against the ban, and…
Matthew Balan
August 25th, 2016 9:42 PM