Nets Hype Trump ‘Stealing All the Oxygen’ from GOP Candidates

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows proclaimed that Donald Trump was making it “nearly impossible” for any other 2016 Republican candidates to get any media attention. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: “Donald Trump remains the talk of the presidential race with some new antics on the campaign trail. And it's making it hard for any of the fifteen other Republicans to get any…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2015 12:06 PM

Atlantic Writer: Ignoring Truth ‘Helps the GOP to Fire Up the Base'

NewsBusters readers likely are familiar with the saying “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Conor Friedersdorf thinks Republicans have a propensity for certitude about false beliefs, and that as a result they’re susceptible to “demagogues” such as Donald Trump. As for why GOPers are frequently mistaken in the first place,…
Tom Johnson
July 22nd, 2015 11:12 AM

Stephanopoulos to Kasich: GOP 'Ready to Accept' Caring About Blacks?

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday scoffed at a claim by John Kasich that he would care about the interests of African Americans. The new presidential candidate appeared on GMA and asserted, "...If you're black, if you're brown, if you're struggling, we care about you and we're going to work to make sure you're included in the American dream." A suspicious Stephanopoulos…
Scott Whitlock
July 22nd, 2015 11:07 AM

CBS Evening News Warns ‘Dire Forecast About the Climate’

On Tuesday, CBS Evening News promoted a new study by global warming alarmist and NASA’s former climate chief James Hansen that predicts a “dire forecast about the climate in the years ahead.” Fill-in host Charlie Rose introduced the broadcast by fretting “[a]n ominous forecast for more scenes likes this, surging floodwaters and rising sea levels.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
July 22nd, 2015 10:45 AM

87 Percent of Islamic Terror Stories Skip Threats of Ramadan Violence

Acts of terror marked the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Terrorists cut a bloody path from Tennessee to Tunisia -- one that commanded much of the broadcast network’s attention. Only newscasts often ignored the religious timing of the threats by Muslim terrorists. The Islamic terrorist group ISIS, which declared a Middle East “caliphate” a year ago on June 29, 2014, strongly encouraged violence…
Julia A. Seymour
July 22nd, 2015 10:10 AM

87 Percent of Islamic Terror Stories Skip Threats of Ramadan Violence

ISIS and other groups called for increased violence against ‘infidels’ during Muslim holy month.
Julia A. Seymour
July 22nd, 2015 9:49 AM

Oh Be Gone, Garrison! 5 Keillor Quotes to Make You Glad He’s Retiring

Good news, America! You no longer have to pay Garrison Keillor to sneer at you. After his 30-city “America the Beautiful” tour, the Prairie Home Companion radio host is retiring for good (and good riddance). His tour should have been called “America the Liberal.” Keillor is a malicious parasite who spent his career soaking up federal funding through NPR while wrapping his off-the-shelf anti-…
Sarah Stites
July 22nd, 2015 9:05 AM

Morning Joe Rips HuffPo for Relegating Trump to Entertainment Section

Arianna Huffington is no pachyderm, politically speaking, but like the elephant, she apparently never forgets--or forgives.  Three years ago, Donald Trump called Huffington "unattractive both inside and out."  Arianna has now returned the favor, relegating HuffPo's coverage of Trump to its entertainment section. On today's Morning Joe, HuffPo's Sam Stein was put in the unenviable position of…
Mark Finkelstein
July 22nd, 2015 8:52 AM

Jon Stewart to Obama: ‘Are We Demanding Too Much of You?’

During his final appearance Tuesday night on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart as host, President Obama was treated to a softball interview in which the retiring Comedy Central host worried: “Are we [the media] demanding too much of you?” Stewart clearly seemed to sympathize with Obama over his poor relationship with the press and spoke of Obama's “frustration sometimes with the media -- is the…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 22nd, 2015 8:07 AM

DC Journalist to Obama: 'On Behalf of an Ungrateful Nation, Thank You'

Dick Meyer was a producer at CBS for 23 years, many of them producing for biased blowhard Eric Engberg. After that, he was an editor for NPR and BBC America. He now works in the Washington bureau of Scripps and  Meyer thinks Barack Obama is wildly unappreciated. His latest op-ed: "Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you." He began: “Readers rarely believe it, but I am not on…
Tim Graham
July 22nd, 2015 7:08 AM

Nets Ignore Hearing on Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Immigrant Murders

In yet another example of bias by omission, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all refused to cover on Tuesday night a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing from hours earlier devoted to sanctuary cities and murders committed by illegal immigrants who benefitted from the policy. As it often does, FNC’s Special Report was there to pick up the pieces left by their network equivalents with a full…
Curtis Houck
July 22nd, 2015 1:56 AM

CBS's 'Zoo' Puts Hunters in Their Crosshairs - Yet Again - But Misses

Dylan Gwinn
July 22nd, 2015 12:20 AM

5 Days On, Press Won't Acknowledge Chattanooga Killer's Likely Motive

After five days, President Obama finally today ordered "that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds" and at other official federal locations until sunset on Saturday to honor the five victims of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's murder spree in Chattanooga, Tennessee last Thurday. Though the White House will never admit…
Tom Blumer
July 21st, 2015 11:45 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Haters of 'All Lives Matter'

When the hardcore Left met in Phoenix for the Netroots Nation conference, the networks didn't see a problem when socialist Barnie Sanders gets bum-rushed off the stage early for not being leftist enough. The Left assaulted Martin O'Malley as "tone deaf" for insisting that all lives matter, but they are the ones who don't realize most voters see "all lives matter" as the most reasonable and most…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
July 21st, 2015 10:59 PM