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'People' Celebrated PP, Leads Outrage Over Cecil the 'Lion King'
Back in February, People magazine devoted a “Why I Care” feature to celebrating Planned Parenthood and one of its most fervent Hollywood backers, Lena Dunham, who said: “What I love about Planned Parenthood is it is focused on destigmatizing abortion and birth control.” They haven’t covered the abortion giant since the grotesque exposes of their baby-parts business started leaking out.
But the…
August 8th, 2015 5:37 PM
Media Warmly Remember Jon Stewart Celebrating Obama's 2008 Election
Former New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter wrote a valentine for Jon Stewart in The Hollywood Reporter, suggesting Stewart’s departure “is expected to leave a void for loyal followers of liberal causes, though it also may inspire sighs of relief from the horde of public officials Jon has eviscerated over the years... It is no exaggeration to say it: When Jon Stewart goes, the country will be…
August 8th, 2015 10:10 AM
Illegal Immigrant MSNBC Guest Jabs Jeb For Opposing Sanctuary Cities
If a woman announced on live national TV that she had shoplifted an iPhone, there'd presumably be a cop at the studio door to greet her. So why is it that someone can blithely announce on national TV that she's in the country illegally, and far from fearing any repercussions, have her views on the American presidential election respectfully solicited?
It happened this morning, when MSNBC…
August 8th, 2015 9:45 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Katie Couric's Islamophilia
Five years ago, Katie Couric exemplified our secular media’s Islamophilia when on an online show at CBS, she proclaimed "Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show. I know that sounds crazy, but The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don't understand.”
Now online at Yahoo, Couric is still…
August 8th, 2015 8:00 AM
Geraldo Threatens Trump Adviser: 'I'm Going to Kick Your Racist Ass'
He may be 72, but Geraldo Rivera is threatening people with violence once again! Just last month, it was fellow Fox host Eric Bolling. Now it's former GOP consultant and current Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, who insulted Ana Navarro and Roland Martin as "quota hires" as CNN pundits.
August 8th, 2015 7:24 AM
AP Again 'Fact Checks' a Goal: Bush's 4 Percent Annual Growth Target
On Friday, in his desire to help his employer outdo Politifact as the last place to go for accurate fact-checking, the Associated Press's Josh Lederman "fact-checked" Jeb Bush's belief that the U.S. economy can grow annually at an average rate of 4 percent.
As seen in my Friday NewsBusters post, when the AP reporter "fact-checked" assertions that really are facts, specifically Bush's claim that…
August 8th, 2015 12:04 AM
Taiwanese Animators Declare Trump Winner of GOP Debate
Whether or not you agree with the assessment of the Taiwanese Animators that Donald Trump won Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, I think we can all agree that their video is quite funny in a vaudvillian sort of way. It was also quite astounding in that only hours after the debate the video was up and running on YouTube. So watch and enjoy.
August 7th, 2015 9:31 PM
CBS, NBC, Spanish Nets Ignore Navy's Plan for Armed Guards At Centers
ABC's World News Tonight was the sole broadcast network evening newscast on Friday to cover the U.S. Navy's announcement that it would soon position armed guards outside its off-base reserve centers. CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, along with Univision and Telemundo's evening news programs, ignored this change in policy. ABC's David Muir noted that "the decision follows the deadly shooting…
August 7th, 2015 9:21 PM
Nation Writer’s Dream Debate Moderator: Ralph Nader
If you watched Thursday night’s Republican debate and wished that a onetime Green Party presidential nominee had been asking the questions, then you agree with Washington correspondent John Nichols, who thinks Ralph Nader would be the “ideal prospect” to moderate presidential debates for both major parties.
Spoilsports might argue that Nader’s fifty-year record of lefty activism would make him a…
August 7th, 2015 8:45 PM
Russert: Schumer Opposing Iran Deal 'Public Act of Being Disloyal'
Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who has all but been anointed the successor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nevada), exploited the media focus on the GOP presidential debate last night to release a press statement announcing that he would be voting against the Iran nuclear deal when it comes to the Senate floor. This decision, according to MSNBC's Luke Russert, is a "public act of being…
August 7th, 2015 4:30 PM
Nets on Stewart: Our 'Satirical Voice' Held Powerful 'Accountable'
According to the networks on Friday, Jon Stewart's departure from the Daily Show means "America's satirical voice," the man who held the powerful "accountable," had said goodbye. A more honest reading would be that a low-rated liberal comedian left his basic cable television show. Instead, Good Morning America's Lara Spencer mourned, "He started out as a comedian and really evolved into holding…
August 7th, 2015 4:03 PM
AP: Jeb Bush Is Responsible for Jobs Lost Under Charlie Crist
The Associated Press seems determined to become even worse at "fact-checking" politicians' statements than Politifact, the current cellar-dwellar in that regard. At the rate things are going, the wire service, in addition to richly earning its nickname "the Administration's Press" since January 2009, appears to be in line for yet another: "Associated Politifact."
In his "fact check" following…
August 7th, 2015 4:00 PM
CNN's Hill: GOPers 'Hate Certain People and Love' Ben Carson
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield, liberal CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill slammed GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson as having "racial amnesia and racial blindness" for not taking a left-wing, divisive view on race in Thursday night's Republican debate, as Hill accused the Republican base of being "race deniers."
The CNN commentator also sounded like he…
August 7th, 2015 2:46 PM
Media Ignore Their Own 'Wage Gap' Guilt
While liberals and journalists love to hype income inequality to slam CEO paychecks and push for a higher minimum wage, a new SEC law shows liberal media CEOs are the ones the media should be criticizing.
On August 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a new rule that requires companies to “disclose the ratio between their chief executives' annual compensation and median, or…
August 7th, 2015 2:13 PM