Andrea Mitchell Snarls: Rush Limbaugh Is a 'Bully With a Megaphone

MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell berated Rush Limbaugh in an interview with More magazine, deriding the conservative star as a "bully with a megaphone." Mitchell is often billed as one of the network's serious journalists, but sounded more like Rachel Maddow in the article. Discussing Sandra Fluke in the June issue, the reporter sympathized that the college student became "part of a national…
Scott Whitlock
May 23rd, 2012 12:30 PM

Fury Spreads: Catholic Leaders Join MRC Outrage Over Network Silence o

Nine prominent Catholic leaders have joined the Media Research Center to voice outrage over the broadcast networks deliberately withholding news of the momentous 43 Catholic entities suing the Obama administration for violating their religious freedoms. They represent major organizations including the Acton Institute, Cardinal Newman Society, SBA List and others. More are coming in every hour…
NB Staff
May 23rd, 2012 12:13 PM

Liberal WaPo Columnist: 'OWS Is Going Nowhere Fast

Remember the Coffee Party or No Labels? You don't? Both those movements quickly disappeared from the scene shortly after being heavily hyped in the mainstream media so you can be forgiven their absence from your memories. And now the latest liberal fad, Occupy Wall Street, seems to be fading fast as well. This is the claim made by liberal Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart in this…
P.J. Gladnick
May 23rd, 2012 11:53 AM

Networks Censor News of Massive Democratic Protest Vote Against Obama

42 percent of Democratic primary voters in Kentucky on Tuesday chose "uncommited" over Barack Obama. In Arkansas, a Tennessee attorney finished with 41 percent of the vote. ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning all skipped the embarrassing story, despite the fact that CBS and NBC covered the far less interesting Republican primary. During the month of May, Obama…
Scott Whitlock
May 23rd, 2012 11:35 AM

Donny Deutsch on NBC: Unlike U.S., 'World Has Grown Up' to Accept Infi

During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today about new French President Francois Hollande having a girlfriend, advertising executive Donny Deutsch insisted Americans would soon accept the same: "I think we're ready for it....the culture that grew up on the internet, that is not going to keep prisoner candidates or people because they've had some personal mishaps, infidelities. I think the…
Kyle Drennen
May 23rd, 2012 11:14 AM

Anderson Cooper Slams NYT's Tom Friedman: 'He's Smart, But He's Not "J

As NewsBusters previously reported, three time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman got his butt kicked by CNN's Anderson Cooper on Jeopardy! last Friday. Cooper told NBC's Jimmy Fallon Tuesday regarding Friedman's performance, "He's smart, but he's not Jeopardy! smart!" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 23rd, 2012 10:30 AM

Arsenio Hall: 'California Economy Is So Bad a TV Network Might Give a

"California economy is so bad a TV network might give a talk show to a black guy again." So said comedian Arsenio Hall during a "How Broke Is California" sketch with Jay Leno on NBC's Tonight Show Tuesday (video follows with transcribed highlights):
Noel Sheppard
May 23rd, 2012 9:20 AM

Brit Hume Calls Out Media Double Standard on Rich Democrats and Republ

Appearing on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former FNC anchor - and former ABC correspondent - Brit Hume recounted the liberal bias many journalists exhibit in how they treat wealthy Republicans versus wealthy Democrats.
Brad Wilmouth
May 23rd, 2012 7:44 AM

Was Rev. Wright Offered Hush Money? Nobody In The Media Cares

When the New York Times warned it had been handed a “super PAC” memo suggesting someone, somewhere might plot to make a “hardline attack on Obama” with Wright sermon soundbites, MSNBC expressed outrage hour after hour.  But scandalized liberal journalists had no appetite for a different behind-the-scenes Reverend Wright narrative. In Ed Klein’s new book “The Amateur,” he interviewed Rev. Wright…
Tim Graham
May 23rd, 2012 6:56 AM

Open Thread: Obama Loses 40 Percent of Vote in Arkansas, Kentucky

It appears we have a trend, ladies and gentlemen. Significant numbers of Democratic voters in several states have now voted their displeasure against the extreme liberalism of the Obama Administration. The president faced another embarrassment Tuesday night as over 40 percent of Democratic primary voters in the states of Kentucky and Arkansas voted against Barack Obama. The two states joined…
Matthew Sheffield
May 23rd, 2012 6:41 AM

Morgan, Cooper Drag CNN to Lowest Weekday Prime-Time Ratings in 20 Yea

If it weren't for bad luck, CNN would have no luck at all. During the week of May14-18, the network drew its lowest-rated weekday prime-time ratings in two decades, in terms of total viewers.
Randy Hall
May 23rd, 2012 6:39 AM

Ex-ABC Head Westin Denies Liberal Bias, Rationalizes Greater Media Foc

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor to promote his book, Exit Interview, former ABC News president David Westin denied seeing a liberal bias among his colleagues when he was head of ABC News, and, when confronted by a recent study by the MRC's Business and Media Institute, rationalized the greater attention the media have paid to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's…
Brad Wilmouth
May 23rd, 2012 6:25 AM

Big Three Evening Newscasts At or Near All-Time 25-54 Demographic Lows

At Media Bistro earlier today, the news about the combined average total audience for the Big Three TV networks' evening news was grim enough, coming in at a combined 20.15 million (NBC, 7.52 million; ABC, 7.14 million; CBS, 5.49 million). But the news about the audience in the key 25-54 demographic was, from what I can tell, either an all-time low or darned close to it. I couldn't find an…
Tom Blumer
May 22nd, 2012 11:43 PM

Bozell Column: Shameless Bias by Omission

You’d think the largest legal action in American history in defense of religious liberty would be a major news story. But ABC, CBS, and NBC don’t judge news events by their inherent importance as relates to the future of our freedoms. They deliver the news according to a simple formula: Does it, or doesn’t it, advance the re-election of Barack Obama? If it doesn’t, it isn’t news. 
Brent Bozell
May 22nd, 2012 11:37 PM