Networks Exaggerate WHO Statement On Risk of Bacon and Hot Dogs

After an international agency made an announcement about risk of eating processed meats, many media outlets went hog wild. That included the broadcast networks which hyped the “troubling new warning” and ordered people to “cut down on that red meat.” ABC and NBC evening news programming hyped the “unprecedented “warning,” and the decision to put them in the “same category” of carcinogens as…
Julia A. Seymour
October 28th, 2015 10:43 AM

Colbert Tees Up Clinton to Promote Paul Krugman’s Endorsement of Her

On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton sat down with Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a friendly interview which saw the CBS host eagerly tee up Hillary Clinton to promote liberal economist Paul Krugman’s endorsement of the Democrat’s anti-Wall Street proposal. 
Jeffrey Meyer
October 28th, 2015 10:42 AM

ABC Dumps on Trump: He’s Got ‘Electile Dysfunction’

On the morning of the latest Republican presidential debate, ABC’s Good Morning America mocked Donald Trump as having “electile dysfunction” and of being in need of “polling Viagra.” The comment on Wednesday by political analyst Matthew Dowd prompted laughs from journalists George Stephanopoulos and Jon Karl. 
Scott Whitlock
October 28th, 2015 10:22 AM

Journalists vs. 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' GOP

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. From September 25 to October 23, MRC analysts reviewed all 82 ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news stories about John…

Rich Noyes
October 28th, 2015 10:05 AM

'Clackery of Clacking Class': Wallace Slams Politico Story on Jeb

Whatever Nicolle Wallace had for breakfast this morning, Jeb should down a double order . . . On today's Morning Joe, former Bush communications chief Wallace slammed a Politico story in which former McCain staffers rejected parallels between Jeb's campaign and that of McCain, who came back from the political wilderness to win the nomination in 2008. Calling the story a "cheap shot," "low blow"…
Mark Finkelstein
October 28th, 2015 8:32 AM

Kelly, Beck Rip Melissa Harris-Perry over ‘Hard Worker’ Comment

As part of his appearance on the Tuesday edition of Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File promoting his new book The Immortal Nicholas, The Blaze founder/host Glenn Beck and host Megyn Kelly slammed Melissa Harris-Perry for her now viral comment condemning the use of the term “hard worker” because she believed its demeaning to slaves and working mothers. 
Curtis Houck
October 28th, 2015 2:31 AM

Bradley Cooper Returns to 'Limitless,' Slams Anti-GMO Crowd

After disappearing from Limitless since its pilot episode, Bradley Cooper finally returned to the small screen spinoff of his 2011 movie by the same name. Cooper plays Senator Eddie Morra, the NZT mastermind pulling lead character Brian Finch’s (Jake McDorman) strings.
Erik Soderstrom
October 28th, 2015 1:56 AM

CNN's Cuomo Hits Begala from Right on Hillary Changing Benghazi Story

On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of how the latest poll numbers might affect the upcoming Republican presidential debate, co-anchor Chris Cuomo predicted that the debate would include discussion of the revelation that Hillary Clinton initially told people close to her that Benghazi was a terrorist attack before switching to the discredited story of a video merely inciting a…
Brad Wilmouth
October 28th, 2015 1:09 AM

Without Evidence, AP Credits 'Solid Sales' For Home Price Index Uptick

To err is human, but some errors are more obvious than others. One pretty obvious error occurred Tuesday at the Associated Press. It involved veteran economics reporter Christopher Rugaber, who somehow assumed that the August increase in home prices recorded in a well-known index published on Tuesday primarily occurred because of "solid sales." The problem is that seasonally adjusted existing…
Tom Blumer
October 28th, 2015 12:59 AM

Latest CMP Video Confirms PP Tissue Harvesting Was Far More Widespread

Earlier today, Katie Yoder at NewsBusters posted and described the latest video from the Center for Medical Progress on Planned Parenthood's late-term abortion business and its related ghoulish work in harvesting fetal tissue from abortions for research. Yoder's work and that CMP video caused me to remember how the Associated Press wrote up Planned Parenthood's announcement that it would cease…
Tom Blumer
October 27th, 2015 11:38 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Hillary's 'Victory Lap' of Lies

To hear the media tell it, Hillary Clinton came to Capitol Hill as a bullfighter and easily killed the angry bulls of the House Benghazi committee. The “mainstream” media wondered why these crazy Republicans would “walk into the trap” of trying to scrutinize and question a media darling.      It was a “commanding, presidential performance,” gushed the “objective” Associated Press. It created “…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
October 27th, 2015 11:15 PM

Piers Morgan Whines on Twitter Overseas Teams Can’t Be in World Series

As only Piers Morgan could, the liberal former CNN host went on a Twitter rant Tuesday evening complaining that teams not from the United States are unable to compete in the World Series (plus the Toronto Blue Jays, but who’s counting). In a series of tweets starting just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern, Morgan whined that only Major League Baseball (MLB) teams can compete for the title in the Fall…
Curtis Houck
October 27th, 2015 10:43 PM

Nets Yawn at House Starting Impeachment Process for IRS Commissioner

On Tuesday, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC censored from their evening newscasts any mention of the House of Representative beginning the procedures to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on the heels of Republican Congressman and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s expected ascension to Speaker of the House.
Curtis Houck
October 27th, 2015 9:07 PM

MSNBC's Matthews and Bernard Attack Huckabee As Anti-Semitic 'Hick'

On the October 27 Hardball, anchor Chris Matthews and MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard took turns denouncing GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as an anti-Semite. Their sole piece of evidence for the claim: Huckabee lamenting that Hillary Clinton regularly corresponded via email to longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal, but she didn't communicate with Amb. Chris Stevens prior to the…
Ken Shepherd
October 27th, 2015 8:48 PM