Richard Clarke's Double-Standard on Security Under Obama vs. Bush

Don't be surprised to see former counterrorism czar Richard Clarke working for Hillary Clinton if she wins the election. Based on what he said on yesterday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Clarke seems to be signaling that he's receptive to yet another high-profile government gig. This became apparent when one considers the striking contrast in how Clarke perceives current threats to our…
Jack Coleman

‘MTP’ Panelists Knock Conservative Media, FNC for Decline in Civility

On the same Sunday morning that NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources duking it out over Trump and the news media, a pair of panelists on NBC’s Meet the Press took veiled shots at the Fox News Channel (FNC) and conservative media figures like Glenn Beck for the decline in American political civility and decorum because they’ve been undermining the federal…
Curtis Houck

Baffled CBS Can't Imagine: Why Send Anti-Trump Tax Docs to NYT?

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday leapt to cover illegally leaked tax documents, declaring they show Donald Trump to be a “flop of a businessman.” Guest co-host Josh Elliott played dumb and pretended he didn’t know why a mystery individual would have sent them to the New York Times. Talking to two of the reporters who broke the story for the paper, Elliott wondered, “Do you have any…
Scott Whitlock

NYT (Delicately) Explores Hill's Attacks on Bill's Sex Accusers on A1

Monday’s long New York Times front-page story by Megan Twohey, “Her Husband Accused of Affairs, a Defiant Clinton Fought Back,” is all too soft on Hillary Clinton, with the beginning especially tracking closely with Hillary’s preferred image as a long suffering victim of husband Bill’s infidelity. The names of two of Clinton's assault accusers, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick, were totally…
Clay Waters

Nicolle Wallace Warns Trump Not to Question Illegal Leak of Tax Docs

Responding to concerns raised on Monday’s NBC Today that Donald Trump tax documents obtained by The New York Times may have been leaked illegally to the paper, political analyst Nicolle Wallace acknowledged the possibility but advised the Republican nominee’s campaign to move on or risk having Trump look guilty.
Kyle Drennen

MRC’s Bozell Blasts NYT on Trump: Their Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement regarding the blatant hypocrisy uncovered about the New York Times. Over the weekend, the Times reported a story about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tax returns.  The returns may have been obtained and published illegally. This comes just weeks after the top editor at the paper, Dean Baquet, said he…
NB Staff

Baseball Legend Johnny Bench Endorses Trump on ‘Squawk Box’

National Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench threw his support to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and argued on CNBC’s Squawk Box that Trump could “change Washington.” “I’m going for Donald,” Bench said on Oct. 3.
Sam Dorman

'Once Upon A Time' Shows Folly of Obama's Refugee Program

In the episode "A Bitter Draught," ABC's Once Upon a Time has a refugee crisis that in many ways reflects our own. 
Justin Ashford

‘Simpsons’ Admits: 'SCOTUS Full of Scalias' Is a 'Beautiful' Thing

Sunday’s episode of Fox’s The Simpsons, titled “Family and Friends,” brings up the late, great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a conservatives' dream scenario of the Court.
Karen Townsend

CBS’s ‘Madam Secretary’ Trashes Uncaring 'Climate Deniers'

If you wondered why Sunday evening television seemed so fun, and non-vomit inducing, it’s because CBS’s Madam Secretary was between seasons. But fear not, “Madam Hillary” is back, and they’re here to let you know that global warming will destroy the United States Navy. While President Dalton (Keith Carradine) struggles through his reelection bid, a naval base in Bahrain is hit with a tropical…
Dylan Gwinn

The ‘Best Obamagasm Clips’ Shown at MRC’s DisHonors Awards

The best, or worst, depending on your view, “Obamagasm” clips of the past ten years. The Media Research Center’s DisHonors Awards and gala back on Thursday night, September 22, featured a collection of the media’s most over the top fawning for Barack Obama. Master of Ceremonies Cal Thomas, who came on stage in a costume to match the evening’s Italian theme, set up the compilation.

Brent Baker

NYT Again Rolls Out Red Carpet for Fidel Castro Fan on Arts Front Page

For the second day in a row, the New York Times hailed a Communist and Fidel Castro supporter on the front of its Arts page. On Friday, it was former Communist Party vice presidential candidate Angela Davis who got red-carpet treatment. On Saturday, the Times senior staff editor for culture Tamara Best conducted a fulsome interview with 89-year-old entertainer Harry Belafonte, “Old Warrior Takes…
Clay Waters

Press Mostly Ignores Story of 19 Dead Registered to Vote in Virginia

The left continues to insist that voter fraud is a myth, specifically that "voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent," and that "most allegations of fraud turn out to be baseless." Part of the support system for that insistence comes from the press, where reports of election fraud routinely get ignored or downplayed.
Tom Blumer

WashPost Files Big Story on Trump Backer...with 'Homicidal Ideation'

The Washington Post uncorked a pretty smarmy attack on the “typical” Donald Trump supporter on the front of the Sunday newspaper. The headline was “Finally. Someone who thinks like me.” Yes, the woman who thinks Trump thinks just like her was hospitalized for “homicidal ideation.”
Tim Graham