CNN's Costello Bemoans 'Bizarre' Focus on 'Text Rage' Instead of Conce

Carol Costello hinted at her liberal slant on the gun issue on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom as she discussed the recent movie theater shooting in Florida. Costello lamented the "bizarre conversation now taking place in America: instead of talking about whether loaded guns ought to be allowed in movie theaters, many people are talking about 'text rage.'" An on-screen graphic during the segment…
Matthew Balan
January 15th, 2014 2:52 PM

Comedienne Who Mocked Pearl Harbor Survivors Gets Pilot and Stand-up S

What do you get if you're an actress/comedienne who mocks Pearl Harbor survivors on a nationally-televised New Year's Eve show? If you're Natasha Leggero, you get a pilot for a new series and a stand-up special at Comedy Central.
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2014 1:59 PM

Daily Beast Spins for Hillary, Dismisses Her Scandals as Irrelevant

The Daily Beast’s Michelle Cottle seems to feel the need to do Hillary Clinton’s bidding as the former Secretary of State prepares for her eventual 2016 presidential run. In a January 15 piece, The Daily Beast contributor whines that “the Hillary-Haters’ Book Club Will Never Run Out of Things to Read.” Cottle’s entire piece was nothing more than a dismissal of Clinton-era “scandals” as a…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 15th, 2014 1:37 PM

MSNBC’s Wagner, Klein Wildly Spin Poor ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers

MSNBC personalities continue to do all they can to put a happy face on the rollout of ObamaCare. On Tuesday’s NOW with Alex Wagner, Ms. Wagner and MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein furiously spun the latest enrollment numbers of “young invincibles.” First off, Klein advised the MSNBC audience not to worry about the presently low enrollment among young people; things will probably get better!…
Paul Bremmer
January 15th, 2014 1:20 PM

Math-Challenged Cory Booker Wrong on 'Half of All Students Live in Pov

Before anyone seeks to level a criticism for picking on someone's mistake, let's imagine what the press, which is so desperate to pin anything on Ted Cruz that one of its members recently tried to hold him responsible for others' comments on his Facebook page, would do to him if he made the error recently elected New Jersey Senator Cory Booker made two days ago on Twitter — and has yet to…
Tom Blumer
January 15th, 2014 12:58 PM

Federal Court Halts Obama FCC's Abuse of Power, WashPost's Kang Files

On Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overstepped its legal authority in 2010 when it imposed so-called net neutrality regulations on broadband companies -- cable and fiber-optic Internet providers like Comcast or Verizon FiOS. The FCC had done this despite language in federal law which forbade the regulations under a "common carrier"…
Ken Shepherd
January 15th, 2014 12:40 PM

TMZ Snidely Mocks Tea Party Coloring Book: 'No Colors Allowed

Known more for getting in the faces of celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber the tabloid/paparazzi show TMZ turned its camera sights on conservative Ted Cruz and the Tea Party. Not surprisingly the cast couldn’t get through the segment without mocking conservatives as racist, homophobic and just totally uncool. After ambushing the GOP senator to get his take on a coloring book…
Geoffrey Dickens
January 15th, 2014 12:20 PM

Vapid ABC Thrills Over 'Revealing,' 'Elegant' Michelle Obama and Her E

On the same day that the latest report on the terrorist attack in Benghazi was released, the journalists at Good Morning America chose to obsess over an "exclusive first look" at People magazine's "revealing" interview with Michelle Obama. Focusing on the scoop, lifestyle anchor Lara Spencer on Wednesday gushed, "So honest on a range of topics, including her take on plastic surgery and Botox.…
Scott Whitlock
January 15th, 2014 12:05 PM

NBC's Maria Shriver Offers Fawning Profile of 'Overnight Sensation' We

In a glowing profile of Texas state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis that amounted to a campaign commercial on Wednesday's NBC Today, correspondent Maria Shriver proclaimed: "Wendy Davis became a familiar name last year when she stood in her pink tennis shoes for eleven hours to defeat a Texas abortion bill. Even though the bill eventually passed, Davis became a star.…
Kyle Drennen
January 15th, 2014 11:25 AM

MRC Plans 'March for Life' Documentary

Each year, the March for Life is by far the largest annual rally in Washington, D.C., and each year, it’s met with a near-black-out from major media. But for 2014, there’s a way for the pro-life movement to change that. In a new initiative to combat media censorship on abortion, the Media Research Center (MRC) is inviting marchers to donate video for a documentary on the movement the media hide…
Katie Yoder
January 15th, 2014 11:09 AM

Jimmy Kimmel Savages ObamaCare and Uninformed Young People Who Support

As NewsBusters has been reporting for months, late night comics have been tearing the atrocious rollout of ObamaCare apart. Conceivably the best job done to date was by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel who during his opening monologue Tuesday evening absolutely savaged the law whilst ridiculing the uninformed young people in this country that have ignorantly supported something that clearly harms them (…
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2014 11:08 AM

NBC Takes 'Wage Gap' Activism to White House, Brags of Obama's Support

NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver played both roles of journalist and activist on Tuesday's Nightly News, as she promoted her own report on closing the gender "wage gap" while touting President Obama's support for her cause. "NBC's Maria Shriver was invited to the White House to present her report to President Obama late today," reported anchor Brian Williams, unconcerned about the…
Matt Hadro
January 15th, 2014 10:50 AM

Springsteen and Fallon Mock Christie's Bridgegate in Song: ‘You’re

Chris Christie watchers know that the Governor of New Jersey is a HUGE Bruce Springsteen fan. It therefore makes one wonder how the embattled governor felt about his hero doing a version of the legendary “Born to Run” with NBC’s Jimmy Fallon Tuesday evening wherein the couple lampooned the current Bridgegate scandal with one verse accusing him of "killing the working man” (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2014 9:06 AM

First Media Gift for Michelle's 50th Birthday: WashPost Hails Her as

Tuesday’s Washington Post Express tabloid went gooey three days early for Michelle Obama’s birthday. “FLOTUS at 50,” they touted on the cover page. Inside, the headline on the article was “A First Lady for the Ages.” All it was lacking was a smiley-faced emoticon. The article was recycled from the Sunday Outlook section, where former Post fashion reporter Robin Givhan tried to “correct” five…
Tim Graham
January 15th, 2014 9:04 AM