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‘Soft Censorship’ Decried in Climate Science Fight Down Under
Australian University bullied by climate alarmists into dropping new department, Inside Higher Ed says.
May 15th, 2015 9:57 AM
Stephanopoulos Flashback: 'Hope' Is Donations Will 'Lead to Something'
Even as he apologized on Friday for donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, George Stephanopoulos tried to spin the contributions as innocent, swearing, "I have made substantial donations to dozens of charities, including the Clinton Global Foundation... I made them strictly to support work done to stop the spread of AIDS, help children and protect the environment in poor countries."
May 15th, 2015 9:40 AM
Bozell: ABC Should Remove Stephanopoulos from Campaign Coverage
MRC president Brent Bozell issued a statement Friday on George Stephanopoulos and his Clinton Foundation donation scandal:
“The most appropriate way for ABC to resolve this issue is by forbidding Stephanopoulos from anchoring any political coverage of the 2016 cycle or they will face the same integrity and ethics problems now plaguing NBC."
May 15th, 2015 9:30 AM
George Stephanopoulos Apologizes On-Air: I Made a 'Mistake'
After coming under heavy criticism for donating $75,000 to the foundation of Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Stephanopoulos on Friday made an on-air apology. Addressing the revelation that he failed to inform viewers or his bosses at ABC, Stephanopoulos conceded on Good Morning America, "I should have made additional disclosures on air when we covered the foundation and I now believe directing…
May 15th, 2015 8:06 AM
Bozell Blasts ABC for Adding Sitcom on Anti-Religious Bigot Dan Savage
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined Sean Hannity on his eponymous Fox News Channel (FNC) program Thursday evening and ripped ABC for deciding to air a sitcom this fall that’s loosely based on the life of anti-religious bigot Dan Savage. The segment began with Hannity providing a brief synopsis of the upcoming show (titled The O’Neals) and highlighting how “several high-profile…
May 14th, 2015 11:58 PM
Nets, MSNBC Skip Stephanopoulos’s Donations to the Clinton Foundation
On the heels of the news Thursday that former Clinton aide and ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos gave a previously-undisclosed $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC joined MSNBC in making no on-air mention of the newest scandal facing the foundation. As of Thursday night at 10:30 p.m. Eastern, the scandal was mentioned on ten different Fox News Channel…
May 14th, 2015 10:54 PM
White Appreciation Day on Telemundo
Conservative Mexican-American business owner Edgar Antillón and the “White Appreciation Day” scheduled for June 11 at his Colorado barbeque joint received sympathetic treatment in Telemundo network coverage of the controversial initiative.
In his first comments to national Spanish-language media about the restaurant’s controversial promotion, the co-owner of Rubbin Buttz BBQ in Milliken,…
May 14th, 2015 10:30 PM
Nets Continue Hammering Jeb Bush for His ‘Evolving Answers’ on Iraq
On Thursday night, the major English-language broadcast networks again covered possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s comments about the Iraq War and featured ABC and NBC omitting the fact that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq War when she was a U.S. Senator. Additionally, all three network evening newscasts continued to ignore how…
May 14th, 2015 9:17 PM
Exposing Obama's Flimsy Bipartisan Masquerade at Georgetown University
I watched President Obama's remarks on poverty at Georgetown University, and several things stood out to me, apart from his umpteenth swipe at Fox News.
May 14th, 2015 9:00 PM
Politico: Free Beacon Broke Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Story
So how did Politico break the George Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation donations story? Actually they didn't break it at all. The story was shopped to Politico after the Washington Free Beacon made inquiries to ABC News about Stephanopoulos' contributions to the Clinton Foundation. Apparently ABC News thought Politico would offer more favorable coverage so they leaked the story to Politico.…
May 14th, 2015 8:38 PM
Did Chris Matthews Belittle MSNBC Colleague Chris Hayes On Air?
I report, you decide, but it looks to me like MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews worked in a thinly-veiled dig at colleague Chris Hayes, who is an editor-at-large for the leftist magazine The Nation.
May 14th, 2015 8:28 PM
Bill Press: Snowden Revealed Secrets to Americans, Not to Our Enemies
Plenty of opinion to go around on whether ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is a traitor or candidate for canonization.
But a liberal radio host who clearly opts for the latter is unwilling to concede that it wasn't just Americans who learned previously classified information about government surveillance and data mining from Snowden's leaks to the media in 2013.
May 14th, 2015 8:04 PM
Hannity Calls Jon Stewart a 'Sanctimonious Jackass' Over Spring Break
The conservative host of the Fox News Channel's Hannity weeknight program used his Wednesday episode to push back on the mockery he received from Jon Stewart, the departing liberal host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, over Sean Hannity's extensive coverage of last year's spring break in Florida.
Hannity called Stewart a “sanctimonious jackass” for dubbing him “America's oldest hall monitor”…
May 14th, 2015 7:04 PM
CNN Touts Stephanopoulos as 'One of the Biggest Stars' on TV
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Brian Stelter asserted that George Stephanopoulos is "one of the biggest stars on all of television," as he reported on the ABC anchor's $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation. Stelter later claimed that Stephanopoulos has "done a lot to earn people's respect and trust. He's one of the most well-respected anchors at ABC." During his report, the correspondent…
May 14th, 2015 5:46 PM