NBC Pushes Trump Left on Transgender Bathrooms, Abortion, Taxes

During a town hall event on Thursday’s NBC Today, the hosts urged Donald Trump to move left on a series of issues and the Republican frontrunner happily obliged, adopting liberal positions on transgender bathrooms, abortion, and taxes. Willie Geist read a viewer's question: “Mr. Trump, please be specific, tell us your views on LGBT, how you plan to be inclusive as President. Speak about North…
Kyle Drennen
April 21st, 2016 10:55 AM

NBC Asks Trump About ‘Unborn Child’ Rights in Republican Platform

Thursday morning, NBC co-anchor Savannah Guthrie pressed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on the Republican platform’s stance on the “unborn child.” NBC Today hosted a “Donald Trump Town Hall” April 21. During the live broadcast event, Guthrie asked Trump if he would change his platform’s position on abortion.
Katie Yoder
April 21st, 2016 9:57 AM

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for ‘Unacceptable’ Free Speech

Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, for expressing an opinion online earlier in the week which just happens to be the view held by the vast majority of the American people. Earlier this week, Schilling posted a picture of a transgender person, and made a comment regarding the effort to let transgender men use women’s restrooms.
Bruce Bookter
April 21st, 2016 4:52 AM

TV Cop Calls Transgender 'Most Stunning Woman I Have Ever Seen'

The leading female star in a telenovela is murdered in Rosewood’s “Silkworms y Silencio” on Fox. The investigation leads to a stalker, Jaime (Ricky Saenz), who pursues the leading male star of the show, even after a restraining order is issued. Jaime is nabbed by Rosewood and Villa and taken in for questioning. This is where the ridiculous plot turn comes in.
Karen Townsend
April 21st, 2016 12:55 AM

Sheriff Slams Media Double Standard on Clinton’s ‘Pandering’

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Fox and Friends, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke slammed "liberal Democrat mayors" for mishandling crime and the economy in their cities, and accused Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of "pandering" to black voters in a recent appearance on a radio show, as he asserted that her behavior is "dehumanizing, it's embarrassing, it's disgusting…
Brad Wilmouth
April 21st, 2016 12:23 AM

Coincidence? Two Media Outlets Push Same Minimum Wage Advocates

On April 1, the Associated Press, in an online video which I covered in an April 2 NewsBusters post, interviewed three California business owners about the impact the state's just-passed $15-per-hour minimum wage would have on their businesses. Though the video was headlined "Small Businesses React to Calif. Wage Increase," the owners interviewed weren't representative of the whole state in any…
Tom Blumer
April 20th, 2016 11:54 PM

Special Report: Bernie's Support Shows 'Democrats Don't Like Hillary'

Even though Hillary Clinton’s recent win in New York went a long way towards knocking Bernie Sanders out of the race the Vermont Socialist is still holding on. “But Bernie Sanders is hurting her now. And it's gone on a long time. And it's revealed just how much Democrats don't like Hillary Clinton,” stated Charles Hurt of The Washington Times on Special Report Wednesday evening. 
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 20th, 2016 11:39 PM

Kelly File Reports on Major ObamaCare Failure that the Media Ignored

Major insurance company United Healthcare announced Tuesday that it would be pulling out of most of the ObamaCare insurance exchanges, after losing over a billion dollars due to the policy. This announcement was met with silence from ABC and NBC. Today the networks continued the trend of ignoring this new blow to the administration’s greatest, touted, “success” but The Kelly File gave it a…
Kristine Marsh
April 20th, 2016 10:51 PM

Nets Mute on Teens Killed by Illegal Immigrants

In a week where the networks have reported sympathetically towards illegal immigrants benefiting from President Obama’s immigration policies, they ignored a significant House hearing that revealed the terrible effects of these policies. Two mothers of teenagers murdered by illegal immigrants pleaded with Congress to step up enforcement of immigration policies and protect innocent Americans from…
Kristine Marsh
April 20th, 2016 9:12 PM

Matthews: Cruz Will Lose to ‘End Up on the Radio’ Fighting Mark Levin

Still recovering from a long night covering the New York primary results, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews resumed his recent streak of attacks on conservative talk radio host Mark Levin by suggesting on Wednesday that Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) will lose the GOP presidential nod so he can “end up on the radio duking it out with Mark Levin.”
Curtis Houck
April 20th, 2016 9:11 PM

Slate Writer: GOP Angry That Evenly Split SCOTUS Can’t ‘Screw’ Obama

Eight Is Enough was a popular television series in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Dahlia Lithwick hinted in a Saturday article that a show about Republicans’ sour attitude toward the current Supreme Court situation might be called Eight’s Not Enough, with the key role played in absentia by Antonin Scalia. Lithwick theorized that for Republicans, “the 2016 term was meant to be the Supreme Court’s…
Tom Johnson
April 20th, 2016 8:55 PM

Print Media Ignore Testimony of Parents of Murder Victims by Illegals

Three important things happened at Tuesday's hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. The first was the testimony of two mothers of children killed by illegal immigrants. The second was the outrageous and false contention by a Methodist bishop that the mere act of bringing attention to these heinous offenses is a form of "blind vengeance" over "…
Tom Blumer
April 20th, 2016 8:46 PM

Mark Levin Slams 'Pom Pom Boys and Girls' at Fox for Trump Hype

The Right Scoop reported that Mark Levin opened his show on Wednesday night hitting back at all the election propaganda being spouted by the media and pundits after the New York primary results. He noted 150,000 members of the Conservative Party of New York can't vote in the GOP primary for president, and Trump actually drew less votes in New York than Ted Cruz did in Wisconsin. “The Fox News…
Tim Graham
April 20th, 2016 7:54 PM

Daily Beast Asks: 'Could Legalizing Pot in Europe Help Stop ISIS?'

An Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor wants to make marijuana use legal in an effort to cut off profits for ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) streaming in from its drug trafficking through Libya, according to an article posted on Wednesday by Barbie Latza Nadeau, Rome bureau chief for the liberal Daily Beast website. “It's well known that ISIS leaders are are punishing those who use…
Randy Hall
April 20th, 2016 6:42 PM