Nashville Paper Smears NRA Confab as Potential Hive of Sex Trafficking

The National Rifle Association annual meeting in Nashville drew nasty coverage from Anita Wadhwani, who reports for the Tennessean and for USA Today. On Saturday, the local paper reported “At NRA, little love for media turnout.” The NRA’s not used to fair and balanced coverage. Wadwhani dramatically underscored their hostility on Monday with a story headlined “Big conventions, like NRA, can draw…
Tim Graham
April 13th, 2015 12:07 PM

Ripping Rubio: The Media’s Worst Attacks on the Florida Senator

Not long after he arrived on the national scene in 2010 Republican Senator and forthcoming presidential candidate Marco Rubio was exploited by the liberal media as a way to depict Republicans as anti-immigrant. Anchors like ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Rose portrayed him as a token Latino in the GOP. MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch actually hurled a racial slur against Rubio, calling him a “…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 13th, 2015 11:40 AM

NY Times Editorial Melts Down Over GOP's 'Racist' 'Insurrection'

On Saturday evening (published in print on Sunday), the editorial board at the New York Times had an epic meltdown over the Republican Party's allegedly shabby treatment of President Barack Obama. Although its title claimed that the GOP had entered "A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks," nothing truly new seemed to prompt this rant. Its primary focus was the letter 47 GOP Senators led by Tom Cotton…
Tom Blumer
April 13th, 2015 11:36 AM

ABC Touts Hillary in a 'Commanding Position' for Launch

Despite devoting three segments to Hillary Clinton's 2016 launch, the journalists of Good Morning America on Monday totally avoided any mention of the Democrat's scandal involving deleted e-mails. Also ignored was any description of the former politician as a liberal. Instead, ex-Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos enthused that the wife of his old boss "is in a commanding position."  
Scott Whitlock
April 13th, 2015 11:26 AM

NBC Anticipates Positive Coverage Clinton Wants...And Delivers

Amid a plethora of coverage on Monday's NBC Today fawning over Hillary Clinton's  announcement of her presidential campaign, co-host Matt Lauer led off a discussion with Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd by wondering: "What's she running on? What's her message? If the Hillary Clinton campaign could write the headline on the front page of major newspapers this morning, what would they write?"
Kyle Drennen
April 13th, 2015 11:18 AM

CBS Touts Hillary’s ‘Road Trip’ to Iowa After Campaign Announcement

Following Hillary Clinton’s formal presidential announcement over the weekend, Monday’s CBS This Morning eagerly promoted her candidacy, and provided it more than 10 minutes of coverage throughout the broadcast but completely ignored the multiple scandals surrounding her as of late.  
Jeffrey Meyer
April 13th, 2015 11:01 AM

Bloomberg Falls for Fake Report that Nancy Reagan Endorsed Hillary '16

Bloomberg Politics published a report claiming Nancy Reagan had endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. They fell for a fake news site called NationalReport.net. An editor’s note was added: “This story has been retracted. We fell for a hoax. Apologies.” Hadas Gold at Politico noted Bloomberg Politics Executive Editor Mike Nizza said in a tweet "very very stupid mistake, and one we take very…
Tim Graham
April 13th, 2015 10:54 AM

AP's Pace: Hillary Hesitated on Run Because of Friendship with Biden

As we would cynically say back in the good old days in Queens [insert NYC accent]: yeah, right.  On today's Morning Joe, Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace claimed that one thing that made Hillary hesitate in deciding to run for president was that she "worried that her candidacy would block out Joe Biden who is quite a close friend of hers."  When Joe Scarborough expressed…
Mark Finkelstein
April 13th, 2015 10:28 AM

Thomas Friedman: Obama Can See America From Iran's Perspective

Ronald Reagan: "My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: we win and they lose." Thomas Friedman on Barack Obama: "He actually knows what America looks like from the outside in. And he can actually see America even to some point from the Iranian perspective." So whom will history record as being more effective in countering America's…
Mark Finkelstein
April 13th, 2015 8:50 AM

Hillary's Original Bio Said She 'Fought Children and Families'

With months (really years) to prepare, the allegedly well-oiled Hillary Clinton for President machine still managed to produce a howler of a mistake in her campaign bio's debut. Since corrected, it originally stated that "she's fought children and families all her career." This and other obvious gaffes are likely destined to go unreported by the Hillary-worshipping establishment press, while the…
Tom Blumer
April 13th, 2015 1:33 AM

ABC, NBC Cheer Hillary’s Rollout; Fawn Over Video, Skip Liberal Label

In the first network newscasts since Hillary Clinton officially announced her presidential campaign, on Sunday night ABC and NBC cheered Clinton’s announcement and gushed over her campaign video as well as the traffic it received on Twitter. In addition, the networks refused to label her a liberal. “The campaign kicked off with this video sent out on social media. Twitter lighting up the…
Curtis Houck
April 12th, 2015 11:33 PM

USA Today: Obama's Smoking May Be Cause of Daughter's Asthma

A Wednesday "Good Morning America" piece gave President Barack Obama an open mic to claim that, in ABC's words, "climate change became a personal issue for him when his older daughter Malia, now 16, was rushed to the emergency room with an asthma attack when she was just a toddler." Somehow, ABC managed to avoid another possible contributor — besides the obvious possibility that Malia developed…
Tom Blumer
April 12th, 2015 8:41 PM

Tom Rogan Schools Eleanor Clift on Key Distinction Between US and Cuba

Chatter among the pundits on today's McLaughlin Group centered around President Obama meeting with Cuban dictator Raul Castro during the Summit of the Americas, the first time in nearly 60 years that leaders of the two countries have met in person. Unfailingly predictable paleo-lib Eleanor Clift depicted Cuba as a magnet for foreign investors, a claim that led to a devastating retort from Tom…
Jack Coleman
April 12th, 2015 5:49 PM

CNN Bogusly Hypes Paltrow's 'Food Stamp Challenge' Participation

On Saturday, CNN hyped actress and self-appointed "lifestyle guru" Gwyneth Paltrow's participation in the "Food Stamp Challenge." This is the fundamentally dishonest campaign which has been working for at least eight years to convince Americans that benefits provided under the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are inadequate. As usual, Paltrow has taken up the…
Tom Blumer
April 12th, 2015 4:50 PM