Benghazi Movie to be Released January 15 but Already Generating Buzz

Mark down January 15, 2016 on your calendar. It won't be one of Hillary Clinton's favorite days for just as the primary elections kick off, that is the day that 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is scheduled to be released in movie theaters. Judging from the movie trailer, this film directed by Michael Bay is exactly what Hillary doesn't want the public be reminded about. For one thing,…
P.J. Gladnick
September 20th, 2015 6:33 PM

NY Times Cohosts 'Oil and Money' Confab; Iran Oil Minister to Attend

A year ago, Tim Graham at NewsBusters noted that the New York Times was "offering 13-day tours of Iran guided by Times journalist Elaine Sciolino" at the bargain rate of $6,995 per person. Among other things, it promised "excellent insights into ... (the) life and accomplishments" of Ayatollah Khomeini, the ruthless Islamist leader who posed as a liberator, but then imposed a fundamentalist…
Tom Blumer
September 20th, 2015 6:28 PM

Buzzfeed Relays Obama's Stand for Open Debate, Ignores His Record

Good news to all the conservatives who were worried about free speech on campuses. Obama has spoken! And even better, the left-wing millennial obsessed media website BuzzFeed has picked it up! In an article posted on September 14, BuzzFeed political editor Katherine Miller reported Obama said in Iowa that college students should listen to opposing points of view and shouldn't be "coddled and…
Laura Flint
September 20th, 2015 5:23 PM

Salon Writer: Goebbels Would Have Been ‘Proud’ of GOP Debate

A common allegation against Ronald Reagan during his White House years was that he confused movies with the real world. According to Chauncey DeVega, the current Republican presidential candidates do somewhat the same thing, and have added video games and a bit of Comic-Con to the mix. “Wednesday night’s CNN debate showed the American people an alternate reality where Chuck Norris movies are the…
Tom Johnson
September 20th, 2015 4:18 PM

CBS’s Dickerson Throws Softballs at Hillary Over E-Mail Scandal

On Sunday, Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson interviewed Hillary Clinton for her first Sunday show interview as a 2016 presidential candidate and the host repeatedly tossed softball questions at the Democratic frontrunner over use of a private e-mail server. The CBS News Political Director did his best to stress how Clinton has “been transparent, in the release of these e-mails” and…
Jeffrey Meyer
September 20th, 2015 1:55 PM

ABC’s Dowd: ‘Theory of Hillary’ ‘Better Than’ Candidate Hillary

On Sunday’s This Week, ABC’s Matthew Dowd provided a dose of reality as to why Hillary Clinton continues to see her poll numbers decline and chalked it up to “the theory of Hillary is always much better than the actual reality of Hillary running for president.” Dowd pointed out that Hillary’s declining popularity was not a new phenomenon for the Democratic frontrunner 
Jeffrey Meyer
September 20th, 2015 12:11 PM

Press Ignores How Sanders Is the Really Angry Candidate — and Person

We've been told for over 20 years — at least since pundits falsely claimed that "angry white men" drove the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994 — that Republicans and conservatives have far more issues with anger than liberals and socialists. In the the 2016 presidential election cycle, current frontrunner Republican Donald Trump and especially his supporters have often been described in media…
Tom Blumer
September 20th, 2015 9:55 AM

Fiorina Calls Out ‘Mainstream Media’ for Defending Planned Parenthood

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina pushed back at the “supposed fact checkers in the mainstream media” for their continued defense of Planned Parenthood despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the organization's practice of harvesting fetal body parts. Fiorina charged: “I haven't found a lot of people in the mainstream media who’ve ever…
Jeffrey Meyer
September 20th, 2015 9:43 AM

People Stumbles to Praise Both the Pope and Gloria Steinem

When People magazine listed its “Best Books of the Fall,” they prominently featured “feminist icon” Gloria Steinem and her new book My Life on the Road as a “delight” full of “bracing insights.” So it’s not surprising that in its cover story on the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, People looked at “Where He Stands” and skipped right over abortion. Here’s what came under “Women” – just the…
Tim Graham
September 20th, 2015 8:29 AM

Rapper-Reporter Claims Huckabee 'Wants to Bring Back Slavery'

As presidential debates approach, tempers begin to flair and hyperbole tends to creep into coverage. However, with a headline like “Mike Huckabee Wants to Bring Back Slavery,” Luther Campbell of the Miami New Times crossed the line. Luther Campbell, the rapper who caused a social-conservative backlash back in 1989 with the song Me So Horny? Same guy.
Bryan Ballas
September 20th, 2015 7:39 AM

CBS: CMP Videos, Defunding PP ‘Could...Lead to More Crimes' at Clinics

With college football games airing Saturday on ABC, CBS, and NBC, none of the three aired their evening newscasts for viewers in the eastern or central time zones, but the CBS Evening News was shown in the western U.S. and featured another segment hinting at a link between the Planned Parenthood baby parts video scandal and a string of recent fires at their facilities. 
Curtis Houck
September 20th, 2015 1:39 AM

AP's Boak: With the Economy So Good, Why Won't Fed Raise Rates?

The business press just can't understand why the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates on Thursday. After all, these alleged journalists have been telling us for months bordering on years that U.S. economy is really in good shape. So it should be able to handle a rate hike, especially after over seven years of rates at essentially zero. The problem is that they now believe their own…
Tom Blumer
September 19th, 2015 10:51 PM

WashPost's Chris Cillizza, Trump Overcoverage Denier

Washington Post political writer Chris Cillizza has been routinely punching away at attack lines against the liberal media. First came the complaint “'The Media Isn't Biased in Favor of Hillary.” Now he’s asking “Can we please stop blaming the media for Donald Trump?” "One of the most persistent — and persistently wrong — storylines surrounding the 2016 presidential race is that somehow the…
Tim Graham
September 19th, 2015 10:34 PM

NYT Sudden Respect for Lefty Religion: Pope Object of Right-Wing Fears

More strange new respect for religion on the front page of the New York Times – at least when it comes to the economically liberal Pope Francis. Jim Yardley is the latest: "A Humble Pope, Challenging the World – First Latin American Pontiff Attracts Fans and Stirs Anxiety in Push for Change." Yardley tried to mainstream the left-wing Pope: "But he is hardly a left-winger, either -- at least in…
Clay Waters
September 19th, 2015 9:48 PM