CBS Skips Reports ISIS Used Chemical Weapons to Attack Iraqis

On Thursday night, the CBS Evening News omitted reports that the Islamic terrorist group ISIS used chemical weapons in multiple attacks in Iraq over the past week against Kurdish forces the group claimed responsibility for a bombing in Iraq earlier in the day. In contrast, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News offered news briefs on the development with the latter program also providing a…
Curtis Houck
August 13th, 2015 10:16 PM

MSNBC Embassy-Opening Article Fails to Mention Dissident Controversy

Cuban dissidents will not take part in Friday's formal ceremony opening the U.S. Embassy in Havana tomorrow, something that Secretary of State John Kerry is chalking up to a matter of respecting diplomatic protocol and a lack of space at the venue. But the controversy over the matter was omitted entirely from an NBC News article at MSNBC.com on Thursday evening.
Ken Shepherd
August 13th, 2015 9:14 PM

Gutfeld Hits Rivera: ‘Hope You Live Long on the Backs of Dead Fetuses'

During a discussion on Thursday’s The Five about the Planned Parenthood videos, liberal co-host Geraldo Rivera suggested to fellow co-host Greg Gutfeld that aborted babies should made into “dog food” and after claiming that he “want[s] a cure” to various diseases using baby parts, Gutfeld schooled him by informing him that he “hope[s] you live long on the backs of dead fetuses.”
Curtis Houck
August 13th, 2015 7:57 PM

MSNBC's Sharpton: Racial Clashes Usually ‘Sparked by Police Violence’

While a guest on Wednesday's edition of Tom Joyner's morning radio show, Al Sharpton -- the host of the PoliticsNation weekday program on the liberal MSNBC cable television channel – used the opportunity to declare that most instances of race-related violence during the past 50 years have been “sparked by police violence.” The civil rights activist also stated that he had flown overnight to Los…
Randy Hall
August 13th, 2015 7:35 PM

'Racist'? POW/MIA Flag Under Attack by Newsweek

The Newsweek website was so impressed by historian Rick Perlstein of The Washington Spectator declaring war on a historic flag that they republished him. He’s talking about a flag that is deemed as racist, “one that supposedly honors history but actually spreads a pernicious myth, and is useful only to venal right-wing politicians who wish to exploit hatred by calling it heritage….” Surely he…
Melissa Mullins
August 13th, 2015 6:21 PM

Immigration Doublespeak? Bernie in English vs. Bernie in Spanish

Judging from his diverging comments to English and Spanish-language media outlets, when it comes to immigration Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders seems increasingly prone to speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
August 13th, 2015 6:03 PM

'The Wire' Creator: Clinton to Blame for Mass Black Incarceration

The creator of HBO's The Wire, a liberal former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, has come out and blamed former President Bill Clinton for the large number of young black men in America's prisons.  He also praised a quite conservative Southern state for leading the way on criminal-justice reform.
Ken Shepherd
August 13th, 2015 5:48 PM

MSNBC's Alter: GOP Getting 'Just Deserts' for Creating 'Trumpenstein'

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter -- formerly of Newsweek -- rejoiced over Republicans being uneasy over Donald Trump's presidential campaign as he asserted that GOPers "have created Trumpenstein," "their own Frankenstein monster," adding that they are getting "their just deserts as a political party." After host Al Sharpton noted that they were…
Brad Wilmouth
August 13th, 2015 4:47 PM

Bernstein: Marco Rubio Is 'Unelectable' Because of Abortion Stance

The journalists at CNN again went after Marco Rubio on abortion, Thursday. Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein appeared on New Day to weigh in on the state of the presidential race. Singling out the pro-life senator, Bernstein suggested Rubio "has painted himself so far to the right" and "has put abortion so front and center in this campaign as to render his candidacy unelectable, probably, in terms…
Scott Whitlock
August 13th, 2015 3:33 PM

AP Revises Job Growth Description From 'Seemingly Robust' to 'Solid'

It "seems" that a bit of doubt seeped into an economy-related Associated Press report today. An hour later, it was gone. An early report by Josh Boak with a 10:22 a.m. time stamp found at a subscribing outlet's site described job growth in the past 12 months as "seemingly robust." An hour later, in an expansion of that early report primarily covering today's government release on July retail…
Tom Blumer
August 13th, 2015 2:32 PM

Lois Lerner Rages Against 'Evil and Dishonest' Republicans

Lois Lerner’s utter contempt for Republicans was on full display in a newly uncovered email in which she railed: “They called me back to testify on the IRS ‘scandal,’ and I too[k] the 5th again because they had been so evil and dishonest in my lawyer’s dealings with them.”
Geoffrey Dickens
August 13th, 2015 2:30 PM

Andrea Mitchell Turns to Left-Wing Activist to Fact-Check GOP

On her MSNBC show on Wednesday, host Andrea Mitchell brought on Heather McGhee, president of the left-wing group Demos, to “sort all this out” when came to the debate over student loan debt in the 2016 race: “...student debt 101. The presidential candidates are put to the test on what to do about the rising cost of college.”
Kyle Drennen
August 13th, 2015 2:23 PM

NPR Anchor Nudges Obama on Race With Praise from Leftist MSNBC Host

NPR Morning Edition anchor interviewed President Obama about just two topics: the Iran deal and race relations. On Wednesday’s morning show, Inskeep began with a question from the radical left – from black professor and MSNBC host Michael Eric Dyson – and then just prompted the president instead of really asking questions.  Dyson wrote a column for The New York Times going after the usual…
Tim Graham
August 13th, 2015 2:11 PM

Blogger: Trump a Product of the ‘Loud…Stupid’ Reagan Era

There’s going to be a Top Gun sequel, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is coming back, and Bloom County has already returned. Still, suggests Esquire's Pierce, when it comes to things that have the 1980s written all over them, these days Donald Trump is the king of the mountain. In a Tuesday post, Pierce contended that Trump “was one of the purest products of the Age of Reagan, which was…
Tom Johnson
August 13th, 2015 11:52 AM