CNN's Hill Wonders Why People Have Negative Reaction to 'Socialism'

On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, during a discussion of the Democratic presidential debate, liberal CNN political analyst Marc Lamont Hill defended Bernie Sanders' socialist views and griped about Hillary Clinton apparently taking a jab at the Vermont Senator as the CNN analyst complained that "she's playing to people's insecurities and fears," and "play[ing] to the cheap seats."
Brad Wilmouth

Clinton Donor George Stephanopoulos Hypes Hillary’s ‘Best Day’

Clinton donor and Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday touted Hillary Clinton's campaign assessment that Tuesday’s debate was the “best" ever. Stephanopoulos opened the show by cheering, “Democrats took over Las Vegas last night and after their first debate, here was the scene at Hillary's party.” Uncritically repeating, the journalist parroted, “Good reviews coming in…
Scott Whitlock

MRC's Brent Bozell Praises CNN's Anderson Cooper on Debate Questions

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell praised CNN host Anderson Cooper for his "tough, probing questions" and followups during his moderation of the Democratic debate. 
NB Staff

NBC: Clinton Team ‘Ecstatic’; Hillary ‘Poised and Passionate’

On Wednesday, NBC’s Today celebrated Tuesday night’s Democratic debate by heaping effusive praise on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Correspondent Peter Alexander began his report by cheering: “Hillary Clinton's debate experience, her debate preparation paid off last night. Her advisers this morning are ecstatic. They insist she was on, that she looked poised and passionate...”
Kyle Drennen

Lefty Billionaire Bails Out Flailing Relativity Media Sports Offshoot

Relativity Media may be dying a painful death, but thanks to lefty investor and former Clinton BFF Ron Burkle, at least one of Relativity’s offshoots will live on. For now. On Oct. 7, Burkle announced that he would be dropping $30 million into Relativity Sports to keep the athlete marketing business alive. Burkle, who was a founding member of Relativity Sports, will be increasing his influence…
Aly Nielsen

Joy Behar Declares ‘I’m Aroused’ by ‘Hot’ Bernie Sanders

On Wednesday’s The View, co-host Joy Behar gushed over Bernie Sanders’ performance at last night’s CNN Democratic debate and she proclaimed that the Socialist “aroused” her. The liberal ABC host gushed that Sanders was so “menschy in that moment like a real guy” when he defended Hillary Clinton from scrutiny over her e-mail scandal and insisted that she “find[s] him to be eye candy, not ear candy…
Jeffrey Meyer

Another Reason to Skip HBO: Lena Dunham to Direct New Show

Evidently, you can’t make Lena Dunham go away, no matter how much you want her to. As soon as HBO Girls star Lena Dunham announced she was leaving Twitter, many Americans gave a collective sigh of relief. At least,  there was one less way for Dunham to annoy us. The relief was short-lived however; hardly a week has gone by and HBO announced another show was in the works with Dunham as the…
Kristine Marsh

Huffington Post Hypes Donald Trump ‘Blow-Up Sex Doll’

The media are having a difficult time smearing candidates without damning themselves in the process. For her latest piece, entertainment editor Sara Boboltz gushed over a new creation: the Donald Trump sex doll. “Now You Can Buy Your Own Trump Blow-Up Sex Doll (For A Good Cause),” her Huffington Post headline advertised Monday.
Katie Yoder

Mike Barnicle: ‘Nut-Boy’ Ben Carson ‘Gives New Meaning to Crazy’

For nearly three decades, Ben Carson was the head of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the world’s best hospitals. To MSNBC panelist Barnicle, however, Carson is a “political nut-boy” who reminds him of a patient at a certain type of hospital. In a Monday Daily Beast column, Barnicle opined that Carson is “out there on the fringe talking nonsense in a soft, nonthreatening manner that is quite…
Tom Johnson

NYT Devotes Front Page to Attacks on Paul Ryan by Furious 'Far-Right'

During the 2012 election the New York Times treated Rep. Paul Ryan, currently a reluctant Speaker-elect, as fearsomely conservative. But now the paper is defending him from the "far-right" on the front page. Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer got to the labeling bias right off the bat: "Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious…
Clay Waters

MRC’s Bozell: CNN Should Treat Dems Just Like GOP During Debate

On Tuesday night’s Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell helped preview CNN’s Democratic presidential debate and demanded that the cable network treat the Democratic candidates the same as the Republicans were treated when Jake Tapper moderated CNN's Republican debate. In response to CNN’s Anderson Cooper who claimed it will be hard to get the Democrats to actually challenge each other, Bozell…
NB Staff

Bozell & Graham Column: Bullying Ben Carson, Coddling Democrats

We've been waiting for the media attacks on Ben Carson to begin. To this point he'd been (relatively) untouched: he wasn't viewed as a credible threat. But his numbers aren't receding. They're growing. So he's now in the crosshairs. The "news" networks have spent several days manufacturing outrage over Carson, saying that if he were in a mass-shooting situation, he would want to fight back. “I…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Geist: 'My Conservative Friends' Thought Cooper Would Go Easy on Dems

Wow: an MSMer who not only has "many" conservative friends, but is willing to admit it on live national TV? On today's Morning Joe, in the course of praising Anderson Cooper's performance as debate moderator, Geist let drop that prior to the debate "many of my conservative friends" thought CNN would go easy on the Dems, but that five minutes in, they told him "oh, I guess he's not going to go…
Mark Finkelstein

Politico Proclaims: ‘Hillary Crushes It’ in Democratic Debate

In its lead article early Wednesday morning on the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the night before, Politico proclaimed that “Hillary Clinton crushe[d] it” as she “delivered some of the evening’s most stinging retorts” and “moved with relative ease from swipes against her Democratic rivals to more direct attacks on Republicans.”
Curtis Houck