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CNN's Baldwin Hypes Bush's Speaking Fee; Never Covered Clintons'
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin spotlighted the controversy surrounding a 2012 event where former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a gala for a veterans group. However, Baldwin has yet to cover a similar issue – the hundred-thousand-plus speaking fees that Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have charged to other non-profit…
July 9th, 2015 6:22 PM
Major Papers Avoid IRS Scandal, Bury Hillary's Subpoena Lie on CNN
News junkies are accustomed to Obama-scandal stories being ignored by the TV networks, but assume the national newspapers capture all the significant news. That would be wrong. Judicial Watch’s new revelations about IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner, the FBI and Eric Holder’s Justice Department discussing the prosecution of conservative nonprofits in 2010 drew no newspaper coverage.
The newspapers…
July 9th, 2015 5:39 PM
Maddow Attacks FNC Debate Rules; Ignores Similar MSNBC Restrictions
On Tuesday July 7, Rachel Maddow – evidently unaware of MSNBC’s and CNN’s similar previous rules on debates – slammed Fox News for their debate policy limiting the stage to the top 10 candidates in national polling. The Rachel Maddow Show host argued that “[t]he next three weeks are going to be off the charts bizarre. We’ve never tried to run a presidential nominating process like this before.”
July 9th, 2015 5:32 PM
Ann Coulter to Emcee NewsBusters Party, 1st Annual Noel Sheppard Award
It's hard to believe, but NewsBusters turns ten years old this August. To celebrate, we're having an anniversary party and you're invited.
July 9th, 2015 4:27 PM
'The View' Crazy Conspiracy Theory: SF Killing Timed to Help Trump?
Another wild conspiracy surfaced on The View, Thursday. New co-host Raven-Symone hinted that there was something suspicious about how the San Francisco shooting happening just as Donald Trump's presidential campaign began talking about illegal immigration. Offering up the incoherent theory, she suggested: "Doesn't anyone find it interesting that this happened as soon as Trump started to talk…
July 9th, 2015 3:51 PM
CBS Acts as Cuban Board of Tourism, Promotes Cruises to Island
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning devoted a nearly five minute segment to touting Carnival offering cruises to Cuba starting in 2016. Co-host Norah O’Donnell proclaimed: “The historic reopening of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba creates new business opportunities for both countries. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is announcing it received permission from the U…
July 9th, 2015 3:37 PM
CNN Voter Panel Features One Conservative Versus Four Liberals
Following in the footsteps of its first two voter panels each of which featured a sample strongly slanted to the left, CNN's New Day on Thursday unveiled its third gathering of voters, this time featuring a lone conservative pitted against four liberals in a group from Iowa which also included as its sixth member one Republican who did not express any ideological views.
July 9th, 2015 3:01 PM
Muslim Scholar: ‘We Have to Embrace’ Gay Marriage
CNN’s latest TV show host shares controversial
interpretations of Quran, Constitution.
July 9th, 2015 2:05 PM
NBC and ABC Hit George W. Bush Over Speaking Fee
On Thursday’s NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales seized on criticism of former President George W. Bush giving a paid speech to a veterans charity: “This morning some veterans are criticizing former President George W. Bush for charging a veteran's charity a six-figure fee to speak at a fundraising dinner....NBC News has confirmed the former president accepted $100,000 from them back in 2012…
July 9th, 2015 12:42 PM
NY Post: Is Sanjay Gupta 'the Next Brian Williams' for Medical Mix-Up?
On Wednesday, the New York Post's Andrea Morabito spotlighted Dr. Sanjay Gupta's appearance on CNN's New Day earlier in the day, where he issued a "clarification," as he put it, about apparently mixing up two earthquake victims he treated during the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Morabito noted that Dr. Gupta is "now under fire for some Brian Williams-like exaggerations of his…
July 9th, 2015 12:42 PM
Pope Rejects Communist Crucifix: ‘That’s Not Right'
While media have questioned Pope Francis’ political ideology, here’s one thing he won’t do: accept a communist crucifix.
Shortly after arriving in Bolivia, in the presidential palace, President Evo Morales handed Pope Francis a gift: a crucifix carved in the shape of a hammer and sickle.
July 9th, 2015 12:15 PM
Bozell: Media Silence on IRS Scandal 'Borders on Being Complicit'
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, released the following statement reacting to the Judicial Watch revelations about the coordination between the IRS, FBI and Department of Justice in the IRS scandal involving criminal, political persecution of taxpayers and independent organizations.
July 9th, 2015 11:54 AM
Gutfeld: Liberal Media People Who 'Essentially Agree with Each Other'
Appearing on Real Clear Politics’ online series Changing Lanes, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld spoke to how a lack of ideological diversity within mainstream media has caused him to have a “healthy contempt” for it as a whole. Gutfeld explained that since working in magazines he “was surrounded by people who agreed on everything and so they would voice their opinions in front of me as if I agreed with…
July 9th, 2015 11:38 AM
Is Reddit Turning PC?
Reddit — a “site known for open and often over-the-top discussion” — has come under the hands of PC warriors.
One user, or “redditor,” once called the online discussion forum a “place friendly to thought, relationships, arguments, and to those that wish to challenge those genres.” Yet, recently, redditors feel their speech has been censored and their trust has been breached.
July 9th, 2015 11:30 AM