MSNBC's Taylor: 'Right-Wing' Hosts 'Pimping' for 'Personal Gain

On Friday's PoliticsNation, as host Al Sharpton attacked "right-wingers" like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh for "push[ing] the most negative stereotypes of the African-American community for their own gain," and again repeated a 2007 smear against O'Reilly, MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor accused conservative hosts of "pimping" and "pandering" for "personal gain." After a clip…
Brad Wilmouth
July 29th, 2013 5:47 PM

CNN Taps Leftist For Its Own Film on Hillary Clinton

Add CNN to the networks who are producing a Hillary Clinton movie. “CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” reports Dylan Byers at Politico. The film will air on CNN and be released in theaters (no word of a release date). Like NBC News, CNN is insisting this doesn’t reflect on their editorial content.…
Tim Graham
July 29th, 2013 5:34 PM

Networks That Yawn Over IRS Scandal Find Time for 50-Year-Old JFK Vaca

The same networks that have been minimizing and ignoring the growing scandal at the Internal Revenue Service all found time to fawn over 50-year-old footage of President Kennedy vacationing with family. A World News graphic on Sunday night thrilled, "Return to Camelot." Anchor David Muir breathlessly narrated the video to cloying, emotional music provided by ABC: "President Kennedy teeing off…
Scott Whitlock
July 29th, 2013 5:34 PM

Martin Bashir Thinks If a Poll Questions 21% Republicans, Only 21% of

Can MSNBC’s Martin Bashir really be this ill-informed? Consider that on Monday’s installment of the program hysterically bearing his own name, Bashir made it seem that he believes if a poll questioned 21 percent Republicans, that means only 21 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republican (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2013 5:31 PM

CNN Hopes Pope's Comment on Gay People a 'First Step' Towards 'Change

Out of all the things Pope Francis said at World Youth Day, the liberal media were buzzing about his refusal to judge a gay person who "accepts the Lord and has good will" – ignoring that Pope Francis still upheld the Catholic Catechism's teaching on homosexuality. New Day co-hosts Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan sounded hopeful that the Pope's remark would lead to change down the road. "One…
Matt Hadro
July 29th, 2013 5:06 PM

'Today' Show Promotes NBC's Upcoming Hillary Clinton Biopic

On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie seized on Hillary Clinton having lunch with President Obama to promote NBC's upcoming four-part miniseries on the former secretary of state and first lady: "[She] has been traveling around the country giving speeches as you know, as she considers whether to get into the 2016 presidential campaign. Well, whether she runs or whether she doesn't, NBC…
Kyle Drennen
July 29th, 2013 4:48 PM

Media Overreact, Claim Pope ‘OK with Gays

Liberals in the media are doing what they do best when it comes to Pope Francis today: misrepresenting him to their hearts’ content. When asked in a press conference about celibate priests who suffer same-sex attraction, the Pope replied: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” – a view which is exactly in line with Church teaching. But of course, the…
Lauren Enk
July 29th, 2013 3:45 PM

Hollywood’s ‘The To Do List’: ‘Sometimes Sex Is Just Sex

Forget the summer reading list, try a summer sex list. Hollywood’s latest movie posits that “sometimes sex is just sex,” and gives young audiences eight easy steps to make it that way – via Brandy Klark’s “To Do List.” A comedy, “The To Do List” followed class valedictorian Brandy Klark (played by “Parks and Recreation’s” Aubrey Plaza) as she created a list of sexual experiences to complete…
Katie Yoder
July 29th, 2013 3:36 PM

Alan Colmes: We’ll Have True Equality When Blacks Can Speak Against

As NewsBusters has been reporting, CNN’s Don Lemon has taken a lot of heat from the left for having the nerve to agree with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly about problems in the black community. On Fox News’s Happening Now Monday, liberal talk radio host Alan Colmes marvelously stated, “We’ll have true equality in this country when someone like Don Lemon or any other person of color can make a…
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2013 3:28 PM

Media Overreact, Claims Pope ‘OK with Gays

Pope’s comment, consistent with Church teaching, blown out of proportion by press.  
Lauren Enk
July 29th, 2013 3:13 PM

Virtually Unreported: Detroit's Bankruptcy Came With Sky-High Tax Rate

Just over a week ago, MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry claimed that Detroit's bankruptcy is a result of "when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub," and analogized it to "exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us." The truth, of course, is that Detroit has had quite a large government. It also had and still has frightening rates of violent and nonviolent…
Tom Blumer
July 29th, 2013 3:12 PM

Delusional Schultz: Social Security is 'Cheap,' Doesn't Contribute to

Ed Schultz took a dive off the deep end on Saturday’s The Ed Show, claiming that Social Security is a “cheap” program that “has never contributed one penny to the deficit.” The bombastic MSNBC host also blasted Republicans who support partially privatizing Social Security, arguing those lawmakers just want to “get their hands on the money.” Schultz echoed similar arguments made by Rep. Mark…
Andrew Lautz
July 29th, 2013 1:59 PM

MSNBC's Hayes: 'Frustrating' That 'More People in Prison' While 'Crime

On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes did not seem to recognize that putting criminals in jail contributes to reducing crime as he declared that it was "frustrating" to him that there has been more "incarceration" while "crime is going down." As the MSNBC host brought aboard California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee as a guest to discuss some of FNC host Bill O'Reilly's recent…
Brad Wilmouth
July 29th, 2013 1:50 PM

NBC: Weiner Scandal 'Terribly Painful'... for Hillary Clinton

On Monday's NBC Today, following a report on the latest fallout from the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, Hillary Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell fretted over the impact of the controversy on the former secretary of state: "This is terribly painful....this is getting to the point where it is really splashing up against the Clintons because it's almost unavoidable that people are making…
Kyle Drennen
July 29th, 2013 1:18 PM