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Best Bet to Beat Hillary? Mika Says It's Trump

The polls might currently be suggesting something else, but Mika Brzezinski's view on which Republican has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton might surprise you. On today's Morning Joe, Mika said "If you want someone to beat Hillary Clinton, it would be Donald Trump. Because he will do things that none of those candidates will do . . . The Democratic party has a problem if Trump wins the…

Mark Finkelstein

December 18th, 2015 8:20 AM

NYT: ‘Hard-Right’ GOP Foreign Policy Dummies ‘Dwell Darkly’

Thursday’s New York Times was particularly dense with bias against the "hard-right" and "far-right" Republican Party, starting on the front page, where a story about Latino candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio turned into a criticism of GOP immigration policy, and reaching the back page, with an editorial hitting the Republican Party for its "Appalling Silence on Gun Control" (the candidates "…

Clay Waters

December 18th, 2015 8:15 AM

Clueless Cosmo: Buying a Gun in Mo. Is Easier Than Getting an Abortion

The people who run Cosmopolitan Magazine's Twitter account really stepped in it today — and they're so utterly clueless that they doubled and tripled down on their ignorance. Cosmo's tweeters have thrown themselves behind legislation drafted by Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman. Newman, a Democrat, actually believes that it is more difficult to get an abortion in the Show Me State than…

Tom Blumer

December 18th, 2015 1:22 AM

Obama Turns Bear Grylls Show Into a Global Warming Yuck Fest

So, if you were playing a drinking game where you took a shot for every time Bear Grylls congratulates President Obama on saving the world during Thursday night’s episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” I hope you filled out a will before doing so. Because you are no longer alive.

Dylan Gwinn

December 18th, 2015 1:02 AM

Hollywood Hypes Sheldon and Amy Putting the Bang in ‘Big Bang Theory’

Leading up to tonight’s winter season finale of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, “The Opening Night Excitation,” the breathless anticipation of Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayam Bialik) having sex was palpable. The mocking was crude and vulgar, to say the least. Spoiler alerts flew as entertainment writers couldn’t bear to keep the juicy secret. The show’s creator and executive producer, Chuck Lorre…

Karen Townsend

December 17th, 2015 10:43 PM

NBC's Mitchell Claims 'A Lot of Discrimination' Against Muslims

Nearing the end of her MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed that "there is a lot of discrimination" against Muslims as she was introducing President Barack Obama's 1:00 p.m. speech. After suggesting that some of the "rhetoric" at Tuesday's GOP presidential debate was "really a recruitment tool for ISIS," she…

Brad Wilmouth

December 17th, 2015 9:56 PM

'CBS Evening News' Downplays Ash Carter's Private E-Mail Scandal

The Big Three broadcast network evening newscasts all touched on the revelation that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter used private e-mails for government business and this well after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire for exclusively conducting her official email correspondence that way. That said, only CBS's Evening News downplayed the significance of the story by…

Ken Shepherd

December 17th, 2015 8:53 PM

Late Night TV Targets Trump and GOP Over Hillary and the Democrats

A new report from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University finds that it’s not just the news media that’s obsessed with Donald Trump. A study of jokes told by late night comedians finds that GOP frontrunner was the target of more punchlines (308) than the rest of the GOP field combined (282). And Republicans were targeted by more than twice as many jokes as Democrats…

Rich Noyes

December 17th, 2015 8:07 PM

ExxonMobil, the Kochs 'Enemies of the State'? Kerry Won't Disagree

James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal wrote his last column of 2015 on a John Kerry profile by New Yorker editor David Remnick, and a Rolling Stone interview with Kerry. "He denies -- too strongly -- that he's still bitter over 2004. Taranto saw liberal media hypocrisy as Kerry was noncommittal on Rolling Stone's suggestion that Exxon Mobil and the Koch brothers should be considered treasonous…

Tim Graham

December 17th, 2015 5:53 PM

‘View’ Gun Rant: Build ‘an Assault Weapons Wall!’

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg went on a rant, Thursday, as she reported the news that a majority of Americans oppose a new ban on so-called assault weapons. Referencing Donald Trump, she lobbied, “Because it seems to me, you know, you want to ban people, you want to ban a people from coming. You want to build a wall? How about an assault weapon wall? Let's build a wall about that!”

Scott Whitlock

December 17th, 2015 5:47 PM

NewsBusted: Might the IRS Finally Clip Rev. Al's Wings?

"The State Department may rescind passports for tax delinquents… which will make it almost impossible for Al Sharpton to vacation at Charlie Rangel's timeshare." -- Jodi Miller of NewsBusted.

NB Staff

December 17th, 2015 5:23 PM

Some Thoughts About the GOP's Fifth Presidential Debate

Each of the Republican presidential candidates brings something good to the race for the GOP nomination and some things not so good. In the fifth and final GOP debate of the year, the candidates on the main stage, and even a few on the "undercard," presented ideas and positions that many Republican voters would consider far better than those we have now under the president we have now.

Cal Thomas

December 17th, 2015 5:14 PM

AP Howler: Economy 'Healthy' Because of 'Solid Consumer Spending'

For an understanding of just how weak the business press's understanding of economic fundamentals is, look no further than Paul Wiseman's brief "coverage" at the Associated Press Wednesday of the Federal Reserve's awful Industrial Production. The Fed reported yesterday that industrial production fell by 0.6 percent in November on top of a revised -0.4 percent (down from -0.2 percent) in October…