Gays Stage ‘Kiss-In’ to Protest Pope

While thousands of young people gather in Rio de Janeiro this week to celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Francis for the very first time, gay rights activists can’t wait to welcome the pontiff to Brazil – with an offensive gay “kiss-in.” According to Huffington Post, a gay rights group plans to stage a gay “kiss-in” during the Pope’s World Youth Day appearance.  The obscene protest is…
Lauren Enk
July 23rd, 2013 2:47 PM

Bill O'Reilly Blasts Entertainment Media for Encouraging Violence Amon

On his program last night, Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly applauded President Obama for speaking out about the George Zimmerman verdict but argued that Obama, and the self-proclaimed civil rights leadership have been avoiding the larger issues facing black Americans. Instead of just focusing on how people felt about Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin, O'Reilly urged Obama to talk about…
Matthew Sheffield
July 23rd, 2013 2:28 PM

MSNBC's Finney Brings ObamaCare Rebate On Air, Gushes: 'I Got a Check

MSNBC’s newest weekend host is also a former communications director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Sometimes, though, it’s hard to tell if Karen Finney ever left the DNC. Finney spent several minutes touting the benefits of ObamaCare on Sunday’s Disrupt, excitedly holding up a rebate she received from her health insurance provider, gushing: “I got a check.”  As President Obama…
Andrew Lautz
July 23rd, 2013 1:54 PM

WSJ: US Marshals Lost 2,000 High-tech Radios, Possibly Endangering Wit

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has misplaced at least 2,000 high-tech radios, "creating what some within the agency view as a security risk for federal judges, endangered witnesses and others," the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. What's more, WSJ staffer Devlin Barrett noted, documents released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggest that the USMS's director, Obama…
Ken Shepherd
July 23rd, 2013 12:46 PM

ABC, CBS Punt on Democratic Party ID of Mayor Being Sued For Sexual Ha

On Tuesday, neither ABC's Good Morning America nor CBS This Morning mentioned San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's Democratic affiliation, as they reported on the new sexual harassment lawsuit against the former congressman. The CBS morning show devoted a full report to the latest development in the sex scandal, while the ABC broadcast only devoted a news brief to the story. NBC's Today has yet to…
Matthew Balan
July 23rd, 2013 12:10 PM

Pro-life Leaders Demand Burial for ‘Gosnell Babies,’ Philly Stonew

Kermit Gosnell is behind bars, and his little victims are long dead, but the case is still a fight about the dignity of life. On Friday, July 19, several pro-life leaders demanded justice and burial for the bodies of 45 babies found in convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic. They organized a prayer vigil outside the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, and…
Katie Yoder
July 23rd, 2013 11:46 AM

Chris Matthews Pollutes Royal Baby Coverage: Brits Like Us Even When W

Not even the birth of the royal baby could keep Chris Matthews from making a snide liberal attack. In a closing commentary, Monday night, the Hardball anchor touted the special relationship between Britain and America. But after nicely noting that "when it counts, we are with the Brits and they with us -- from the Falklands to Iraq and back to two world wars," he gratuitously played a clip from…
Scott Whitlock
July 23rd, 2013 11:37 AM

Leno: Biden Says He Can Die a Happy Man Never Having Been President

Jay Leno took a comedic swipe at Vice President Joe Biden Monday. During the opening monologue of NBC’s Tonight Show, the host said, “In a recent interview in GQ magazine, Vice President Joe Biden says he can die a happy man never having been President of the United States. And you know something? So can we! Woo, oh my God!”
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 11:21 AM

NBC Reporter Uses Al Qaeda Jailbreak in Iraq to Bash U.S. Over 'Notori

On Tuesday's NBC Today, during a report on a attack against Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that freed hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel couldn't resist slamming the U.S. for past abuses at the facility: "Abu Ghraib prison, notorious for American abuses and humiliations that [turned] an untold number against the United States, remains an open wound." [Listen to…
Kyle Drennen
July 23rd, 2013 11:09 AM

Jay Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and Rolling Stones Join Stevie Wonder's Fl

As NewsBusters previously reported, Stevie Wonder announced last Monday that in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, he was boycotting Florida due to the state's Stand Your Ground law. According to April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, top stars such as Jay Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones have joined Wonder's boycott.
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 10:18 AM

Nets Give Pro-Abortion Wendy Davis 3 Times Coverage of Entire Gosnell

With Matt Philbin  Remember the media blackout of the Gosnell trial? Earlier this year, Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of three counts of murder – two of them delivering babies and then killing them in his filthy “house of horrors” clinic. He was also found guilty of more than 230 other felony and misdemeanor charges. Pundits and journalists excused the…
Lauren Enk
July 23rd, 2013 9:41 AM

MRC Special Report: The Media Censorship That Put Barack Obama Back in

For more than two years, Media Research Center analysts monitored news coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign, especially the Big Three broadcast networks which reach the widest audiences. What we uncovered — both during the campaign, and then later while conducting research for Brent Bozell and Tim Graham’s new book, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election — documents how the top…
Rich Noyes
July 23rd, 2013 9:34 AM

Leno: I Was Supposed to Deliver Royal Baby Announcement But They Repla

Jay Leno took a another comedic swipe at NBC Monday. Early in his Tonight Show monologue, the host said, "I was a little bummed out because I was the one that was supposed to deliver the [Royal] baby announcement this afternoon at the hospital, and they replaced me at the last minute” with Jimmy Fallon.
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 9:30 AM

CNN's Don Lemon Thinks Non-Blacks Cannot Fairly Report on Blacks So Wh

During his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. declared that he wanted people to “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Almost 50 years later, that dream is still a long way off, judging from the clash on Saturday in which CNN Newsroom's black host Don Lemon told conservative white…
Randy Hall
July 23rd, 2013 9:19 AM