NBC: What Happened to White House Claims of 'Crippling' Terrorism?

In an exclusive interview with White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Wednesday's Today, co-host Matt Lauer actually questioned the administration's handling of terrorism: "Think of the things we're talking about here with the Khorasan group, with ISIS and the territory they've taken in Iraq, with the threat to airline travel internationally, with beheadings that we're seeing on…
Kyle Drennen
 

Networks Cover Liberal Bestsellers 2-1 Over Conservative Ones

In a fishy and yet unsurprising move the liberal newspapers bestsellers list banished David Limbaugh’s new book, “Jesus on Trial,” from it’s well-earned place on their list. The book should sit at this week’s number four spot, having sold “9,660 in its first week out … Instead, Henry Kissinger’s World Order, praised by Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post, is No. 4 despite weekly sales of 6,607…
Tianna DiMartino
 

Networks Cover Liberal Bestsellers 2-1 Over Conservative

Not even NYT bestseller status gets righty works a nod.
Tianna DiMartino
 

Minneapolis Star Tribune Surprisingly Critical of Al Franken

The Minneapolis Star Tribune is known for its liberal tilt so it was a surprise that they published an article that was not only somewhat critical of Al Franken but also sounded positive notes about his election opponent. In addition, the Star Tribune also published the resullts of a poll that could be bad news for Franken.  
P.J. Gladnick
 

Stephanopoulos Narrates Unofficial Infomercial For Clinton’s Charity

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos cozied up to his former boss Bill Clinton for an exclusive 9 minute interview on Wednesday’s Good Morning America in which he did his best promote the former president and his Clinton Global Initiative. During the discussion, which looked more like two buddies hanging out than an actual interview, Stephanopoulos lamented how President Obama’s “caught in something of a…
Jeffrey Meyer
 

UN Climate Summit Speakers FLY 1 Million Miles to Vilify Air Travel, C

Those speaking at the UN Climate Summit 2014 traveled a grand total of 1,036,537 miles from locations as distant as China, India and Peru. That’s enough miles to circle the equator 41.6 times.
Mike Ciandella
 

Forever: A Well-done Reboot of an Old Idea

Mike Ciandella
 

AP WH Reporter Deletes Absurd Tweet Hyping Obama's Anti-ISIS Coalition

Twitter users happening upon a Monday evening tweet by the Associated Press's Josh Lederman can be forgiven if they thought they were visiting a parody account. Lederman is a White House reporter for the AP. His LinkedIn profile indicates that his journalism career began about three years ago. His education, up to and including "a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s…
Tom Blumer
 

Bozell & Graham Column: Cancel the Unethical 'Daily Show'

The liberal legend of Jon Stewart began with his October 15, 2004 appearance on CNN’s “Crossfire,” where he rhetorically sentenced the show to death. He proclaimed, “It’s hurting America. Here is what I wanted to tell you guys: Stop... You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.” CNN announced it was canceling the show two months later, as network president…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
 

School Bullies Trump First Amendment in Liberal 9th Circuit

Well, the wild and crazy 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is at it again, this time ruling that in a conflict between bullies and the First Amendment, bullies win.
David Limbaugh
 

CBS, NBC Skip Obama Saluting Marines With Coffee Cup in Hand

When President Barack Obama stepped off of Marine One today in New York City on Tuesday for a series of meetings at the United Nations, he chose to salute the two U.S. Marines saluting him at the bottom of the helicopter with a coffee cup in hand in what many have seen as an unprofessional gesture. By the time Tuesday night came and the evening newscasts of the major broadcast networks aired, two…
Curtis Houck
 

Exercise in Fantasy: AP's Ludicrous Story on Davis-Abbott Debate

This morning (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis's awful performance in Friday's debate with Republican aspirant Greg Abbott was predictably ignored by the Politico, the New York Times, and the Associated Press's national site. The AP did have a story it apparently limited to distribution within Texas. As I also noted this morning,…
Tom Blumer
 

NPR Touts 'Nightmare' Sob Story to Rip El Salvador's Pro-Life Law

NPR's Jason Beaubien spotlighted a woman's "nightmare with El Salvador's abortion law" on Monday's All Things Considered. Beaubien zeroed in on the case of Christina Quintanilla, who served four years of a thirty-year prison sentence, after a dubious conviction for the death of her unborn child. He also cited unnamed "activists who are pushing to liberalize El Salvador's abortion law [who] argue…
Matthew Balan
 

DiCaprio Tells U.N. Climate Change Crisis Beyond Personal Choices

During the United Nations Climate Action Summit at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday,  Leonardo DiCaprio -- who was recently named the “Messenger of Peace” for the international organization -- told those in attendance that it's “time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet. … You can make history or be vilified by it.” “To be clear, this is not about…
Randy Hall