Crickets: Fed Official Finds No Evidence That QE Accomplished Anything

Imagine if, in 1987, a Federal Reserve official could have pointed to a poorly performing economy and said, "Gee, this supply-side economics hasn't worked out very well." The press would surely have treated the story as a front-page item and ensured that it got air time on the Big Three networks' then-dominant nightly news broadcasts. Of course, there was no such credible report, because the…
Tom Blumer
August 20th, 2015 10:26 AM

Morning Joe on Hillary Aide's 'Disaster' of Interview: No Good Answers

Hard for staffer interviews not to be a disaster when telling the truth could land Hillary in the hoosegow . . . Yesterday, this NewsBuster was gobsmacked by the spectacle of senior Hillary aide Jennifer Palmieri suggesting that the FBI would be happy to discover that Hillary's infamous email server had been scrubbed clean. We wrote about it here. Today's Morning Joe picked through the…
Mark Finkelstein
August 20th, 2015 10:26 AM

Charles Barkley: ‘Right Now I Like John Kasich’

The last NBA player to deliver the “Kiss of Death,” was Mario Elie of the Houston Rockets. Who in 1995, nailed the critical 3-pointer to complete the Rockets comeback, and eventual elimination of the Phoenix Suns. That was the last true “Kiss of Death” that was kissed in the NBA. Until this morning.
Dylan Gwinn
August 20th, 2015 8:58 AM

Nets Censor PP Vid Describing Baby with 'Beating Heart' Being Cut Open

In what’s become commonplace, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC partnered with Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision to censor from their evening newscasts on Wednesday arguably the most disturbing video yet in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal that included a description of an abortion worker harvesting an aborted baby while their heart was still beating. 
Curtis Houck
August 20th, 2015 2:56 AM

Politico Lets Hillary Cite Doc Security Problems in 40 Year-Old Item

You rubes. Don't you understand that the entire problem Hillary Clinton is facing over her use of a private server to process government communications is the fault of thousands upon thousands of people who don't know how to classify documents? That's essentially the argument Hillary Clinton's spinmeisters are now employing. This evening, Josh Gerstein at the Politico was all too ready to relay…
Tom Blumer
August 19th, 2015 11:18 PM

ABC Ignores Hillary's E-Mail Scandal; Hypes Rubio Video with Football

ABC’s World News Tonight chose to ignore on Wednesday the latest on the Hillary Clinton e-mail server scandal to instead continue obsessing over video of a little boy being hit in the head with a football after missing a pass from Republican Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio (Fl.) in Iowa. After the networks spent 18 seconds on Tuesday night and two minutes and 43 seconds Wednesday…
Curtis Houck
August 19th, 2015 11:10 PM

NYT Makes Trump's Blunt Immigration Talk a Front-Page Problem for GOP

No issue most exposes the liberal bias of the New York Times more than the matter of illegal immigrants (or as the paper prefers to call them, "undocumented immigrants"). The Times favors generous amnesty, and keeps pushing it both on its news pages and in opinion. A Wednesday Page One story by Trip Gabriel and Julia Preston tried to transform Donald Trump's blunt words on illegals into a problem…
Clay Waters
August 19th, 2015 10:39 PM

16 Journalists Accept Planned Parenthood Awards, Despite Abortion Vids

While the media stay away from the recent videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby parts, they are drawn to Planned Parenthood’s annual media awards ceremony. During Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Awards for Media Excellence Tuesday night, the abortion giant recognized 16 journalists for pushing “reproductive rights.” From Buzzfeed and Yahoo! to MSNBC, MRC Culture compiled a…
Katie Yoder
August 19th, 2015 9:30 PM

Matthews: If Hillary Drops Out of Race, I'm Ending 'Hardball' Run

Is that a promise, Chris? Tonight on MSNBC, mocking the notion that Hillary Clinton's e-mail server woes may eventually push her out of the presidential campaign, network anchor Chris Matthews sneered that when that happens, he'd wrap his Hardball program.
Ken Shepherd
August 19th, 2015 8:59 PM

Abortion-Enabling Reporting on Univision

The Planned Parenthood-sponsored campaign to overturn current anti-abortion laws in Peru received completely one-sided, favorable coverage on Univision’s principal national evening newscast.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
August 19th, 2015 8:57 PM

Carville Blasts Media ‘Stupidity’ of Covering Hillary's E-Mail Scandal

Appearing on MSNBC early Wednesday afternoon, long-time Clinton adviser James Carville came out of the woodwork to condemn not only Republicans but the news media for their “stupidity” of harping on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal and refuted the notion that there’s “a full-scale Democratic freak-out” underway.
Curtis Houck
August 19th, 2015 8:34 PM

Hillary Aide: Finding Server Scrubbed Is Outcome FBI Would 'Want'

We are now officially in Hillary-in-Wonderland world . . . A senior aide to Hillary Clinton has suggested that the FBI would be happy to discover that Hillary's infamous email server was wiped--and not with a cloth. Interviewed by John Heilemann on today's With All Due Respect, Jennifer Palmieri--Communications Director for Hillary's campaign--insisted that finding that the server was thoroughly…
Mark Finkelstein
August 19th, 2015 7:49 PM

MSNBC.com Trolls with 'Is God Anti-Capitalist?' Headline

The award for trollish headline of the day should go to MSNBC.com.
Ken Shepherd
August 19th, 2015 6:30 PM

AP Keeps Hillary's 'With a Cloth?' Response Out of Coverage

The Associated Press works very hard to ensure that its subscribing outlets and low-information voters who rely solely on its work — knowingly or unknowingly — never learn about Hillary Clinton's smart-aleck, sarcastic, condescending, reality-avoiding behavior. Tuesday night, four AP reporters (saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes) — Jack Gillum and Stephen Braun in…
Tom Blumer
August 19th, 2015 5:45 PM