Boy Fears Michigan Heart Docs Will Change His OSU Allegience

You can surgically repair the heart of the boy, but you better not reprogram it to be a Michigan fan. Our feel good story of the day comes from Ohio, where according the Sporting News, a young Buckeye fan is very concerned about his upcoming heart surgery. Understandably. Though, not for the reason you might suspect:
Dylan Gwinn
August 26th, 2015 1:45 PM

Bozell Petitions Networks Over Lack of Planned Parenthood Coverage

On Tuesday, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell, along with more than two dozen pro-life leaders, sent letters to the network news chiefs at ABC, CBS, and NBC, protesting their lack of coverage of shocking Planned Parenthood sting videos. ABC News, in particularly, was particularly egregious, as it "has no even aired one second of video footage with audio of the Center for…

NB Staff
August 26th, 2015 1:03 PM

Lawrence O'Donnell and BLM Activists Blast Ben Carson Op-Ed On Race

Lawrence O’Donnell and MSNBC proved again Tuesday night that Republican presidential candidates will never receive a break, even when they appear to be agreeing with them on an issue. On his show The Last Word, the liberal host held a segment on Ben Carson’s USA Today op-ed in which the Republican presidential candidate acknowledged the issue of police brutality, and offered a new way of…

Spencer Raley
August 26th, 2015 1:02 PM

What? Obama Will Fly 14,000 Miles on Lecture Tour on Climate Change

USA Today published this lede from White House reporter Gregory Korte without the slightest bit of irony about carbon footprints:  "WASHINGTON — President Obama will log more than 14,000 miles on Air Force One over the next 11 days in a climate change tour that will take him from the desert West to the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle."
Tim Graham
August 26th, 2015 12:31 PM

NBC: Jorge Ramos ‘The Walter Cronkite of Latino America’

At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer described how Univision anchor Jorge Ramos was “kicked out of a Donald Trump news conference” on Tuesday and wondered: “Can Trump’s confrontational style carry him all the way to the White House or will it wear thin with voters?” Peter Alexander proclaimed: “To be clear, Jorge Ramos is the most powerful newsman in Spanish-language TV. He's…
Kyle Drennen
August 26th, 2015 12:28 PM

Jorge Ramos: The Job of Journalists Is to 'Denounce' Trump's Positions

Fresh from his confrontation with Donald Trump on Tuesday night, activist reporter Jorge Ramos appeared on ABC and CBS to pitch the idea that it's the job of journalists to openly oppose the candidate's positions. On Good Morning America, Wednesday, he asked colleague George Stephanopoulos: "We have to denounce that he wants to deny citizenship to children being born here." He added, "They're…
Scott Whitlock
August 26th, 2015 12:18 PM

Venezuela's Govt. Largely Avoiding Media Blame For Economic Calamity

As Venezuela's Chavista economy under Nicolas Maduro continues to crumble, the Associated Press and others in the media to describe its problems as if they came out of nowhere instead of originating with its statist, oppressive government. Examples follow the jump.
Tom Blumer
August 26th, 2015 11:44 AM

Katrina Anniversary: Media's 10 Most Outlandish Hurricane Predictions

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, destroying homes, businesses, and claiming more than 1,000 lives. The networks saw Katrina as a harbinger of climate doom. Hurricane Katrina was the 7th-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, the third-deadliest in US history, and the most expensive at roughly $108 billion (including economic impact,). That was more than twice as…
Aly Nielsen and Joseph Rossell
August 26th, 2015 10:07 AM

NYT Indulges in Gratuitous Labeling of 'Jewish' Opponents of Iran Deal

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman on Tuesday made gratuitous (dare we use the lazy liberal term "problematic"?) references to the Jewish religion of some Democratic congressional opponents of the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran. Weisman's usual slant was accompanied by explicit religious identification of a particular group, a practice a liberal paper like the…
Clay Waters
August 26th, 2015 9:05 AM

Ted Cruz Pushes Back on 'Mainstream Liberal Journalist Question'

On Tuesday’s The Kelly File, Senator Ted Cruz took exception to a question about whether he would deport all 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States as a “liberal journalist” question. Kelly asked the Texas Republican “if you have a husband and a wife who are illegal immigrants and they have two children who are here who are American citizens, would you deport all of them? Would you…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 26th, 2015 8:15 AM

Actress Julianne Moore Lobbies to Scrub High School Name in Virginia

Hollywood is getting involved with the renaming of a local high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside Washington.  Why? It’s because the name of the high school, J.E.B. Stuart, has only now started to offend people, despite opening its doors in 1959. J.E.B. Stuart, of course, was a Confederate Army general during the Civil War. Two alumni of the high school – Academy Award-winning…
Melissa Mullins
August 26th, 2015 7:14 AM

Rupert Murdoch Touts 'Greatest Mayor' Bloomberg for President

While the liberal media love to frame Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch as a raging conservative, he certainly likes crossing that image on Twitter. On Sunday, Murdoch proclaimed Michael Bloomberg, the anti-gun, anti-Big Gulp liberal, should be the billionaire candidate running for president. He tweeted: "With Trump becoming very serious candidate, it's time for next billionaire candidate, Mike…
Tim Graham
August 26th, 2015 7:04 AM

ABC’s Nightline Jumps on Ramos' Bandwagon in Battle with Trump

In the first major network news program since 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump sparred with liberal Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos at a press conference on the subject of illegal immigration, ABC’s Nightline was there to circle the wagons for their Disney partner and “America’s best known Latino anchorman.”
Curtis Houck
August 26th, 2015 2:54 AM

Trump Clashes with Ramos on Illegals; Ramos Gets Tossed from Presser

In the epic multi-part battle on Tuesday night that social media and every cable news outlet were talking about, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sparred with Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos over illegal immigration with Ramos being removed then allowed back into a press conference prior to a campaign rally in Iowa.
Curtis Houck
August 25th, 2015 11:44 PM