NBC Runs Puff Piece on Ben Affleck, But Nothing on Midterms, Hong Kong

On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News concluded its program by pushing an over four-minute-long fawning segment on Hollywood actor and activist Ben Affleck that included banter between anchor Brian Williams and Affleck on New York and Boston sports teams, gushing over Affleck’s life and “restless mind,” and his disappointment about the United States “nation-building elsewhere” when it should be …
Curtis Houck
October 1st, 2014 12:05 AM

O'Reilly: Obama Resumé on Terror 'Is About As Weak As You Can Get'

Bill O'Reilly's opening talking points on his show tonight went after President Obama's claim that the intelligence community underestimated and did not adequately communicate the dangers of ISIS/ISIL in Iraq and Syria with both barrels. As documented in several NewsBusters posts in the 48-plus hours since Obama's Sunday night "60 Minutes" interview, O'Reilly's no-holds-barred analysis…
Tom Blumer
September 30th, 2014 10:44 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Reagan Had It Easy In The Cold War?

They don’t hand out master’s degrees in revisionist history, but if they did, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman might deserve one.  Obama is mired in a geopolitical mess of his own making, from the Ukraine to the ISIS menace, yet Friedman’s decided to argue that Obama shouldn’t be harshly judged. His era is much more complicated than Reagan’s, you see. “I’ll leave it to historians to…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
September 30th, 2014 10:22 PM

How Parents Can Help Combat Campus Sex Assault

College freshmen are completing their first month on campus. According to the website The Other Freshman 15, "The first 15 weeks of college can be the riskiest for sexual assault. ... One out of five students experience rape or sexual assault while they are in college, and in the great majority of cases (75-80 percent), the victim knows the attacker."
Cal Thomas
September 30th, 2014 9:43 PM

Hardball Panel Briefly Kicks Around Secret Service Conspiracy Theory

During a panel discussion on the September 30 program, MSNBC Hardball panelists briefly discussed how some folks may feel that recent lapses in Secret Service security are not accidental but in some way intentional, borne out of a dislike or hatred for the president within the agency's ranks. 
Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2014 9:18 PM

Over 300,000 Face Deadline to Prove ObamaCare Eligibility; Nets Omit

Tuesday marked the deadline for hundreds of thousands Americans with insurance through ObamaCare to provide proper verification of their income levels or risk losing their government subsidies used to purchase health care plans. When it came to marking this critical deadline for ObamaCare, the major broadcast networks dodged coverage of the story in both their morning and evening newscasts.…
Curtis Houck
September 30th, 2014 9:00 PM

NYT's 'Woe Is Us' Report on Ohio Dems Woefully Short on Fact Checking

On Sunday, Trip Gabriel at the New York Times had the thankless task of concocting a report which would somehow make Ohio Democrats feel positive about winning at least one statewide office in November instead of getting skunked, which appears pretty likely at this point. That's because the campaign of the Dems' gubernatorial candidate, affectionately known as the Wreck That Is Edward FitzGerald…
Tom Blumer
September 30th, 2014 8:53 PM

Ed Schultz Actually Corrects Bogus Obama Claim on Jobs

Not a good sign for President Obama when his one of his most reliable cheerleaders in media turns into a skeptical fact-checker. While MSNBC's token working stiff Ed Schultz remains reliably besotted with Dear Leader, he's also unwilling to let a misleading claim from Obama pass unchallenged. At least when Schultz is outside the narrow ideological confines of MSNBC and opining on his daily…
Jack Coleman
September 30th, 2014 7:50 PM

WashPost Puts Thumb on Scale for Liberals in Ohio Early Voting Story

Washington Post Supreme Court correspondent Robert Barnes gave readers of today's Washington Post an imbalanced, biased story regarding the Supreme Court's intervening to permit Ohio to reduce its early voting plan by one week.
Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2014 5:46 PM

Midterms: CBS Sees 'Very Conservative,' 'Far Right' Problem in Kansas

Polls and prognosticators suggest a Republican takeover of the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections. Yet, the networks continue to offer scant coverage of the various races. The CBS Evening News on Sunday managed to look at the Senate elections in Kansas and Colorado. Regarding incumbent Pat Roberts, Nancy Cordes warned, "He's being dragged down by a very conservative governor who even some…
Scott Whitlock
September 30th, 2014 5:40 PM

NBC Tackles Claims of Anti-Muslim NFL, Skips Islam in Okla. Beheading

On Tuesday, NBC's Today seized on accusations of anti-Muslim bias in the NFL after Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah was hit with a 15-yard penalty after appearing to pray in the end zone after scoring a touchdown against the New England Patriots Monday night. This was the same network that censored any mention of the Islamic extremism of an Oklahoma man who beheaded a co-worker on…
Kyle Drennen
September 30th, 2014 4:55 PM

Harry Reid, Dem Predecessor Tom Daschle Feuding; Will Media Report?

Bob Cusack and Jessica Taylor of The Hill newspaper have an excellent piece today documenting a feud between current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and a predecessor of his, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). The contentious argument between the two is apparently over how Reid refuses to be a party loyalist and endorse the South Dakota Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. Senate.
Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2014 4:02 PM

Imams Deny ISIS's War Crimes, Islamic Faith of Beheading Suspect

On Monday's Fox News's Hannity, Islamist cleric Anjem Choudary accused the Western media and Blackwater of framing ISIS for the atrocities that the terrorist group has freely admitted to. When host Sean Hannity raised the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, Choudary contended that "the information that we received...is very biased....I don't take my news from Fox News or the BBC. If you…
Matthew Balan
September 30th, 2014 3:58 PM

Reporter 'Creeped Out' at Obama/Dem Attempt at On-Site Censorship

 The Blaze relayed that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Kissinger was insulted that aides to Michelle Obama and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke told her she could not talk to the crowd at a Milwaukee event. "To say that I was creeped out is an understatement," she said. "This is what reporters do in America: we speak to people."
Tim Graham
September 30th, 2014 3:56 PM