Henneberger: GOP Candidates Can't Match Hillary on Foreign Policy

Are we talking Frequent Flyer Miles, Hillary's record of "success" in such places as Benghazi, Syria and Yemen, or just what? On today's With All Due Respect, Bloomberg's Melinda Henneberger claimed that when it comes to foreign policy, none of the Republican presidential hopefuls "can possibly come up to the level of the former Secretary of State."  Host John Heilemann had teed up the question…
Mark Finkelstein
April 9th, 2015 9:04 PM

Matthews Makes Excuses for Clinton's 'Pig' Snub of Secret Service

In the midst of discussing Kate Andersen Brower's new book The Residence -- a behind-the-scenes look at the White House told from the perspectives for domestic staff there -- Hardball host Chris Matthews sought to innocently explain away an account in the book where first daughter Chelsea Clinton referred to Secret Service agents as "pigs." 
Ken Shepherd
April 9th, 2015 8:58 PM

Hanging Judge Thom Hartmann Convicts Jeb Bush of 'Voter Fraud'

Liberals are perennially keen on leniency in sentencing, except of course when it comes to political opponents guilty of nothing more than thought crime. Old habits like that are hard to shake. The news that former Florida governor and presumptive GOP candidate for president Jeb Bush checked off "Hispanic" on a voter registration form provides an example of this perverse tendency on the left.
Jack Coleman
April 9th, 2015 8:03 PM

Carly Fiorina: A Woman of Accomplishment

When people speak of "the first woman president" they usually mean Hillary Clinton, who is expected to announce her candidacy soon. But there's another woman, a Republican, who will shortly vie for the top job. She isCarly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard. The polls don't register much support for Fiorina, but if people listen to what she has to say, particularly aboutHillary Clinton, that…
Cal Thomas
April 9th, 2015 7:01 PM

Can the Left Come Up with Just ONE True Story for a Change?

From the Duke lacrosse team, the Columbia mattress girl and the University of Virginia, the left has not been able to produce one actual rape on a college campus. It's beginning to look as if the rape of the Sabine women never happened, either. Someone's going to have to go back and investigate.
Ann Coulter
April 9th, 2015 6:46 PM

Spinning Against Sen. Paul, in Spanish

The nation’s leading English-language television networks aren’t the only ones giving presidential candidate Rand Paul a hard time.  Spanish-language networks Univision and MundoFox have also been battering the Kentucky senator in their initial coverage of his presidential aspirations.
Yuri Perez
April 9th, 2015 6:20 PM

CNN Spotlights U.S. Cop-Killing Suspect Harbored By Castro's Cuba

Thursday's CNN Newsroom zeroed in on "one of the issues that needs to be resolved" between the U.S. and the communist regime in Cuba – namely, its providing a safe harbor for U.S. fugitive Charlie Hill. Correspondent Patrick Oppmann interviewed Hill, and noted that he is "accused of killing a police officer in New Mexico. He's accused of hijacking a plane 43 years ago to Cuba." Oppmann then asked…
Matthew Balan
April 9th, 2015 5:47 PM

Scarborough: Bring Back the Draft So Neocons Won’t Push Endless War

On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raged against "chicken hawks" at think tanks like the Heritage Foundation argue America "needs to be all over the world...Let them send their families." Then Scarborough said we should return to a draft, so all Americans have "skin in the game" and politicians "won't see this as toy soldiers moving across the globe.”
Bryan Ballas
April 9th, 2015 5:10 PM

Nets Silent! DNC Chair OK with Aborting 7-Pound Babies

The media would be all over a Republican politician if he or she refused to support abortion – even in cases of rape and incest. But a Democrat politician supporting abortion in any situation? Not so much.  Following the lead of an AP reporter earlier that day, New Hampshire journalist Paul Steinhauser asked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about his stance on abortion on April 8. Sen. Paul responded, “…
Katie Yoder
April 9th, 2015 2:11 PM

AP Buries, Downplays Grim Wholesale Sales Data

It took the Associated Press barely 2-1/2 hours to bury the bad news in the Census Bureau's 10 a.m. release on February wholesale sales and inventories. As of 12:32 Eastern Time, Martin Crutsinger's 10:21 a.m. time-stamped story was not present at the AP's Top 10 Business stories page (saved at my host for future reference), making it quite likely that the news won't get much prominence at the…
Tom Blumer
April 9th, 2015 2:07 PM

CBS Oozes ‘Giant of Journalism,’ 'Amazing' Bob Schieffer Retiring

At most companies, when someone who's worked for the company for 46 years retires, they get a nice speech and a nice watch. But at a TV news network, the audience is subjected to the most extreme fawning, complete with the bizarre notion that no one has ever criticized the retiring journalist.
Jeffrey Meyer
April 9th, 2015 2:00 PM

NewsBusted: Democrats Facing a Two-headed Monster

"A majority of Democrats surveyed want to see new faces in the 2016 presidential race. The rest are content with the two faces Hillary already has." -- NewsBusted host Jodi Miller
NB Staff
April 9th, 2015 12:59 PM

Steyn Slams Obama for 'Dishonoring' Dead Christians, Media Still Quiet

Though the networks have been silent on Barack Obama's latest slam against Christians, writer Mark Steyn unloaded on the President, Wednesday. Appearing on Hannity, the commentator responded to Obama's critique of "less than loving Christians" by highlighting the murder of Kenyan Christians: "This is a guy who's happy to draw general lessons when a black youth gets killed in Ferguson, Missouri.…
Scott Whitlock
April 9th, 2015 12:46 PM

Politico Hypes 'Gender-Neutral' Bathroom at the White House

Sarah Wheaton touted the new "gender-neutral" bathroom at the White House as "the latest in a series of symbolic steps the Obama administration has taken to work the priorities of the LGBT community into its broader themes of inclusiveness and tolerance" in a Thursday item on Politico.com. Wheaton played up how "the newly designated restroom is an example of how the administration has been…
Matthew Balan
April 9th, 2015 12:21 PM