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Only CBS Highlights Congressional Battle Over Border Security Bill
With less than two weeks until Congress departs Washington, D.C. for its summer break, Republicans and Democrats are battling over how to best stop the flood of illegal immigrants from Central America crossing over the Texas-Mexico border.
On Thursday, July 24, CBS This Morning was the only network morning news show to spotlight how “Congress is taking new action to solve the immigration…
July 24th, 2014 12:57 PM
NBC Notes Apollo 11 Astronauts' Meeting With Obama; Ignores Press Shut
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams reported the Apollo 11 astronauts' meeting with President Obama to mark the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing, but failed to mention that only photo journalists were permitted to cover the event. Williams spotlighted Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins's visit to the White House, and how "with them in spirit in the Oval Office today was the…
July 24th, 2014 12:25 PM
New York Times Suddenly Respects Religion, When It Comes to Sheltering
When the New York Times starts praising religious activists, you know there's a deeper agenda at work. National religion reporter Michael Paulson, whose reporting is preoccupied with gay marriage and the church, praised denominations of all stripes that lined up on the Times' side of an issue -- granting amnesty to the streams of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border illegally, while…
July 24th, 2014 11:41 AM
Obama Favorite, NYT Reporter Josh Barro: ‘We Need To Stamp [Anti-LGB
Last night on Twitter, Josh Barro, the openly gay, neo-conservative political editor for Business Insider, MSNBC regular, columnist for Bloomberg and New York Times reporter went on a tirade against “anti-LGBT” people, calling on the public to shame them, and stamp out their views “ruthlessly.”
The budding totalitarian sure has a bully pulpit – one of the most popular political blogs, with…
July 24th, 2014 11:23 AM
ABC, NBC Ignore Montana Democrat Accused of Plagiarizing Masters Thesi
On Thursday, July 24, the New York Times revealed that Senator John Walsh (D-Mont.) plagiarized his masters thesis from the United States Army College and that at least 25 percent of his paper “was either taken without attribution from other authors’ works or improperly sourced.”
Despite the embarrassing revelation, CBS This Morning was the only network morning news show to report on the…
July 24th, 2014 9:35 AM
Sour Old Rocker Tom Petty: 'No One's Got Christ Wrong More Than The Ch
Billy Hallowell at The Blaze passed along a Billboard magazine interview with classic rocker Tom Petty, who’s now 63 and writing protest songs about the hot issues of...2002. His new album “Hypnotic Eye” carries a bonus track called “Playing Dumb” that attacks the problem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Is he playing dumb that the church hasn’t made any strides in correcting the problem…
July 24th, 2014 7:14 AM
NBC Spotlights Bloomberg Blasting FAA For Suspending Flights to Israel
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News was the sole Big Three evening newscast to notice the criticism of the Obama administration banning U.S. airliners from traveling to Israel. Prominent politicians from both sides of the political spectrum, including Senator Ted Cruz and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have denounced this move by the FAA. Senator Cruz accused the administration of using…
July 23rd, 2014 11:44 PM
Paul Waldman: ‘Cruel and Uncaring’ Right-Wingers Rejoiced as Appea
What did conservative leaders and activists feel when they learned of the D.C. Circuit Court decision on Obamacare subsidies? Happiness? Relief? American Prospect blogger Paul Waldman seemed to have another word in mind: schadenfreude -- “satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.”
In a Tuesday post, Waldman opined that, sure, righties were “excited” that the ruling was a…
July 23rd, 2014 10:22 PM
Coulter Column: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, Mississippi Republicans
When a U.S. president is using the IRS to terrify his political enemies, destroying American health care and opening our southern border to millions of future welfare-collecting, Democratic voters from the Third World, why is a dime's worth of money being wasted on trying to replace the Republican senator from Mississippi with a slightly different Republican?
Honestly, I think these deck…
July 23rd, 2014 10:05 PM
Networks Ignore GAO's Study on ObamaCare Accepting Fake Applications
The Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Government Accountability Office's investigation of ObamaCare's sign-up process that uncovered that fraudulent documents were able to procure federal health plans and subsidies. On Wednesday, Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post reported that "undercover GAO investigators tried to obtain health plans for a dozen…
July 23rd, 2014 10:02 PM
Walter E. Williams Column: Blacks Don't Need Special Favors From Gover
Earlier this month, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act was celebrated. During the act's legislative debate, then-Sen. Hubert Humphrey, responding to predictions, promised, "I'll eat my hat if this leads to racial quotas." I don't know whether Humphrey got around to keeping his promise, but here's my question: Is it within the capacity of black Americans to make it in this society…
July 23rd, 2014 9:55 PM
MSNBC's Hayes Hails 'Gutsy' Israeli Reservist Who Refuses to Serve if
MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes -- who once infamously felt "uncomfortable" calling American servicemen "heroes" -- complimented as "gutsy" one Yael Even Or, an Israeli reservist who explained in a Washington Post op-ed why she refuses to serve in Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip should she be called up for service.
The comment came at the beginning of his July 23 interview with Ms…
July 23rd, 2014 9:20 PM
Maddow at Most Delusional - Claims 'Vast Majority' of Illegals Floodin
Not sure which is sadder -- that Rachel Maddow actually believes this, or that she knows it's not true and says it anyway.
A sure sign that Maddow is on thin ice is when she makes a dubious claim without attribution. She did this on her MSNBC show Monday night while trotting out a deceptive euphemism to hide what she was actually saying. (Video after the jump)
July 23rd, 2014 9:01 PM
Turnaround: After First Mocking Concerns as Prejudice, NYT Takes Islam
New York Times international reporter Katrin Bennhold followed up her previous whitewashed story on Islamic extremism in schools in England with an update headlined "Report Cites ‘Aggressive’ Islamic Push in British City's Schools," which thankfully lacked the tone of mockery that marred her first report.
In June, Bennhold tried to make the UK government investigation sound ludicrous and…
July 23rd, 2014 6:15 PM