MRC’s Noyes to Cavuto: Media ‘Finger on the Scale’ in Trump Coverage

Appearing on Fox Business’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Wednesday, Media Research Center research director Rich Noyes took the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed to task for “basically telling his staff that it's okay to call Trump a mendacious racist, a lying racist.” Noyes told host Neil Cavuto it was “another example of the media trying to basically, you know, deal with Trump themselves rather than…
NB Staff
December 9th, 2015 3:55 PM

Networks Spend 105 Minutes in 2 Days Bashing Trump Comments

The networks are never willing to let a good Trump controversy go to waste. The morning and evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated a whopping 105 minutes (1 hour and 45 minutes) to criticism of Trump’s comments about restricting Muslim immigration, since Trump made the comments on December 7.
Mike Ciandella
December 9th, 2015 3:45 PM

Real Life PC Principal Interrupts Ben Shapiro Speech

His name is Dean Nafarrete, associate principal of Otay Ranch High School near San Diego.  I have no idea how his name is pronounced but it really doesn't matter since he seems to have doomed himself to being called "PC Principal" now and forever unto the end of time. How did he accomplish this distinction? By interrupting a speech at that school sponsored by the Young America's Foundation by Ben…
P.J. Gladnick
December 9th, 2015 2:39 PM

CNN's Walsh Likens Trump's 'Radical' Supporters to ISIS

Appearing on Wednesday's New Day on CNN to discuss reaction in other countries to Donald Trump's proposal to ban immigration into the U.S. by Muslims, CNN Senior International Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh described Trump supporters as being a "radical part of a wing" that is similar to "the same radical ideology ISIS is to the Muslim faith."
Brad Wilmouth
December 9th, 2015 1:19 PM

Squandered Resources on College Education

"Most college students do not belong in college" and what's more "some college professors are not fit for college, as suggested by the courses they teach," argues George Mason University's Walter E. Williams.
Walter E. Williams
December 9th, 2015 1:12 PM

Bozell Slams Media’s Trump Obsession While Ignoring Obama's Errors

Media Research Center founder and President Brent Bozell slammed the media’s lack of interest in Barack Obama’s aimless, muted response to the latest terror attack on the United States. At the same time, he contrasted this with the networks obsession with what Bozell described at Donald Trump’s “reckless,” “stupid” remarks on Muslims. 
NB Staff
December 9th, 2015 1:02 PM

Fox Spotlights Town's Rebellion Against Anti-Christmas Atheists

Fox News Channel's Kelly Wright detailed on Wednesday's Fox & Friends First how Christians in Wadena, Minnesota launched a silent rebellion, after the nativity scene in their town's square was taken down due to the threat of a lawsuit from the atheist Freedom From Religion Foundation. Hundreds of Wadena residents set up nativity scenes outside their own homes once the Christmas creche was…
Matthew Balan
December 9th, 2015 12:46 PM

ABC Predicts Anti-Muslim Violence After Trump's Comments

Good Morning America’s Matt Gutman on Wednesday feared that angry Americans will lash out with violence in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting and Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims. The segment also highlighted the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Just as with CBS on Monday, the group’s extremist views weren’t mentioned. 

Scott Whitlock
December 9th, 2015 12:01 PM

Time Names Merkel 'Person of the Year,' Lauds 'Leading From Behind'

In an announcement which deservedly carries far less weight than it has in the past, Time Magazine (1997 circulation, 4.2 million; current circuation, 3.3 million) has named German chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 Person of the Year. The stated reason for her selection: "Not once or twice but three times this year there has been reason to wonder whether Europe could continue to exist, not…
Tom Blumer
December 9th, 2015 11:58 AM

Liberal 'Talking Points Memo': Fox News Is Trump’s Leni Riefenstahl

A lot of people (not all of them liberals) consider Donald Trump a demagogue, but Talking Points Memo editor and publisher Marshall thinks Trump is as much of a collaborator as he is a leader. In Marshall’s telling, Trump’s invective derives in large part from an audience that’s been primed by Fox News’s nonstop emission of “hate, lies, nonsense and febrile fear.”
Tom Johnson
December 9th, 2015 11:56 AM

Nets Tout Trump Could ‘Gift Wrap the White House’ for Hillary

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows eagerly seized on the latest Donald Trump controversy to boost Hillary Clinton’s 2016 chances. On NBC’s Today, correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed: “For the Grand Old Party, an urgent dilemma, fail to stand up to Trump and risk long-term damage to the party or confront Trump and risk his running as an independent....A Trump third-party bid would…
Kyle Drennen
December 9th, 2015 11:36 AM

257 Media Outlets and Journalists Awarded by Planned Parenthood

It’s time to give them back. Planned Parenthood understands that, faced with the reality of what it does, the American public would decline to fund the nation’s largest abortion mill with tax dollars. So it makes sense that Planned Parenthood wants to keep its media friends happy. Cue the Maggie Awards.
Katie Yoder
December 9th, 2015 10:52 AM

Scarborough: Even for GOP, Hillary 'Unifying, Strong Leader on ISIS'

From the woman who brought you Benghazi, the Russian reset, the bungling of the Arab Spring, and the disregard for national security that compromised classified email material . . .  Yet , incredibly, Joe Scarborough today extolled Hillary's foreign policy credentials, claiming--not a typo--"what an amazing brand she would have to offer the American people right now. Even Republicans that are in…
Mark Finkelstein
December 9th, 2015 7:43 AM

Brokaw Uses NN Commentary to Compare Trump to Nazism, McCarthyism

As part of NBC Nightly News’s five segments on Tuesday obsessing over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on all Muslims entering the United States, the program turned to former anchor Tom Brokaw to end the show with a commentary comparing Trump to Nazism, McCarthyism, and opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the three teases proceeding Brokaw’s editorial, current anchor Lester Holt promised that…
Curtis Houck
December 9th, 2015 3:14 AM