MSNBC’s Mitchell Cheers On Planned Parenthood, Asks Them to Take Act

As we've documented the past few years, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is notorious for her softball interviews with abortion rights absolutists like Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood. Sadly it seems Ms. Mitchell hasn't made a new year's resolution to treat those occasions as opportunities for fair and balanced interviews rather than platforms for advancing their agenda. On her January 2 Andrea…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 3rd, 2014 11:25 AM

NYT: De Blasio Inauguration Speakers Were 'Graceless and Smug

One would have expected the folks at the New York Times to be almost orgasmic witnessing leftist after leftist bash former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at the inauguration of Bill de Blasio whilst touting income equality as the best thing since sliced bread. Quite surprisingly, such wasn't the case Friday when the Times editorial board accused some of the speakers of being "graceless and…
Noel Sheppard
January 3rd, 2014 11:15 AM

CNN Congratulates Illegal Immigrant on His Receiving Law License

An illegal immigrant can now practice law in California, and CNN marginalized the controversy on Friday's New Day by giving new lawyer Sergio Garcia a soft interview with little voice from his critics. After reporting that the state's supreme court ruled in Garcia's favor, co-host John Berman congratulated Garcia and asked him to share "what this decision means to you, personally." CNN…
Matt Hadro
January 3rd, 2014 10:55 AM

MRC's Brent Bozell Reviews Our Worst Media Quotes of 2013 on FNC's 'Ha

When he revealed to Fox News Channel viewers the winner of the Media Research Center's liberal media Quote of the Year, substitute host Eric Bolling couldn't "run the actual footage" of the description of the disgusting scatalogical treatment that former MSNBC Martin Bashir wished on Sarah Palin "because it's too obscene" for television, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell noted on the…
NB Staff
January 3rd, 2014 9:29 AM

NPR Remembers Late GOP Major Donors As 'The Texans Who Made Attack Ads

We told you about how Harold Simmons, our chairman of the board of directors at MRC and a longtime major funder, was dissed in a New York Times obituary, remembered bitterly as he “backed Swift Boat ads” against John Kerry in 2004. NPR was worse on Thursday night’s All Things Considered. Peter Overby, NPR’s “power, money, and influence correspondent,” filed a “news story”-slash-attack ad…
Tim Graham
January 3rd, 2014 8:59 AM

The Big Bang Theory: The Hesitation Ramification

The Big Bang Theory makes a surprisingly poignent comment on society.
Evan Mantel
January 3rd, 2014 5:47 AM

Self-Important NYT Columnist Drops Middle Initial From Byline, Insists

Nicholas D. Kristof (I've tended to call him "Nick" through the years) has made and implemented a momentous, course of civilization-altering decision effective 1/1/2014 (HT Twitchy): "If you look closely at my Times byline ... I’ve knocked out my middle initial for the new year." Why oh why would Nick want to do that? "I think in the Internet age, the middle initial conveys a formality that…
Tom Blumer
January 2nd, 2014 11:08 PM

Cal Thomas Column: The War on Poverty Is 50 Years Old and Has Been a H

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war on poverty." Today, with roughly the same number of people below the poverty level as in 1964 and with many addicted to government "benefits," robbing them of a work ethic, it is clear that the poor have mostly lost the war. In 1964, the poverty rate was about 19 percent. Census data from 2010…
Cal Thomas
January 2nd, 2014 6:57 PM

CNN Hypes Legal Marijuana In Colorado; 'Amazing Experience to Witness

As Colorado stores began legally selling marijuana to customers on Wednesday, CNN hyped the opening as "history being made" and an "amazing experience to be a part of and to witness." "[H]istory being made there in Colorado," noted New Day co-host Michaela Pereira on Thursday. Anchor Ashleigh Banfield excitedly reported that "some people have waited a lifetime and others have waited in line…
Matt Hadro
January 2nd, 2014 6:25 PM

Phil Robertson Rumored to be Moving Duck Dynasty to a Christian Channe

The war between Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and A&E might not be over. According to a report at the Daily Mail, the Robertson patriarch is looking into ways to move the hit program about his family to "a Christian channel more in keeping with his views."
Noel Sheppard
January 2nd, 2014 6:10 PM

CBS Spotlights Sotomayor's Stay of ObamaCare's Contraception Mandate

CBS stood out as the only Big Three network to devote full coverage to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Tuesday night stay of the federal government's birth control/abortifacient mandate under ObamaCare. As of Thursday morning, CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News devoted three full reports and a news brief to the ruling against the controversial regulation. By contrast, NBC's…
Matthew Balan
January 2nd, 2014 5:55 PM

Walter E. Williams Column: There Are Irreconciliable Differences Betwe

Here's a question that I've asked in the past that needs to be revisited. Unless one wishes to obfuscate, it has a simple yes or no answer. If one group of people prefers strong government control and management of people's lives while another group prefers liberty and desires to be left alone, should they be required to enter into conflict with one another and risk bloodshed and loss of life…
Walter E. Williams
January 2nd, 2014 5:32 PM

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on PBS: Supreme Court Has Moved Race Relations 'Ba

On the December 30 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar decried the state of America’s race relations as he claimed the country was “back sliding” in that area due to recent “Supreme Court decisions” and all the efforts to “suppress minority voters.” Invited on to promote his new children’s book “Sasquatch in the Paint,” the former Los Angeles Laker center…
Geoffrey Dickens
January 2nd, 2014 5:27 PM

CNN Poll Shows GOP In Nice 2014 Shape; NBC News Ignores That Poll Enti

As Kyle Drennen noted today, NBC political analysts and reporters like Chuck Todd deny that the Republican Party looks any better right now than they did after the government shutdown ended in mid-October. No one at NBC is noticing that the latest CNN/ORC poll showed Republicans leading Democrats in the generic congressional ballot by five, 49 to 44 percent. Even the First Read political blog…
Tim Graham
January 2nd, 2014 5:07 PM