Fox's 'Special Report' Passes Along MRC Finding: OWS-Loving Networks A

January 27th, 2012 10:41 PM
On the "Grapevine" section of Friday night's Special Report, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported the MRC's findings on how the networks covered this year's "March for Life" -- or, to be more precise,  how they skipped it. Once again, ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nothing on the thousands and thousands of pro-life protesters marching to the Supreme Court on the 39th anniversary of the high court…

TV Pundits, Left and Right, Insist Gingrich Cannot Win, Would Drag Dow

January 22nd, 2012 3:28 PM
Given his high unfavorable rating, Newt Gingrich “cannot win a national election,” MSNBC’s very liberal host Lawrence O’Donnell insisted early Saturday night when it became clear Gingrich would win the South Carolina primary, “it’s impossible.” O’Donnell’s assessment, however, is held beyond left-wingers animating MSNBC shows.   Saturday night, Fox News veteran Brit Hume asserted: “…

Juan Williams Boasts of Serving as Gingrich’s Foil, Krauthammer: Kin

January 22nd, 2012 7:21 AM
Newt Gingrich wouldn’t have won the South Carolina primary if not for two journalists who served as his perfect foil at two debates in the days before Saturday’s contest, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer contended Saturday evening on FNC. “I was expecting a check,” quipped Williams who had challenged Gingrich Monday night about comments “intended to belittle the poor and racial…

Bill Clinton: MSNBC 'Has Become Our Version of Fox

January 19th, 2012 5:11 PM
Next month's Esquire magazine has an interview with Bill Clinton wherein the former President said MSNBC "has become our version of Fox":

Gingrich to Juan Williams: 'I Know Among the Politically Correct You A

January 17th, 2012 12:34 AM
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had a rather testy exchange with Fox News's Juan Williams during Monday's debate in South Carolina. After Williams accused the former Speaker of the House of being racially insensitive when referring to Barack Obama as "The Food Stamp President," Gingrich said, "The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any…

FNC's Rivera Slams Romney as 'Hypocrite' & 'Most Virulent Anti-Illegal

January 15th, 2012 5:56 PM
As he appeared on Friday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC's Geraldo Rivera complained that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney never mentions that his father, George Romney, was born in Mexico while campaigning as the "most virulent anti-illegal immigration person ever," and ended up calling the former Massachusetts governor a "hypocrite." (Video below)  

Society of Professional Journalists Wants to Avoid Term 'Illegal Immig

January 10th, 2012 8:27 PM
A group that calls itself "The nation's most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior" sounds important, and would probably be a stickler for accuracy among its members and in its own affairs, wouldn't it? Not the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ recently institutionalized political…

Speak No Evil: Planned Parenthood Protected by Networks

January 4th, 2012 10:35 AM
What does Planned Parenthood have to do for a mention on the network news? The group provides services abhorred by much of the American population and it has been riddled with scandal recently. But according to the abortion group's latest figures, its intake of federal tax dollars up by more than a third, and that 90 percent of its government funding comes from federal money. Sounds like a…

John Fund Explains Why Gingrich May Yet Appear on Virginia Ballot

December 25th, 2011 5:34 PM
In light of the development this weekend that Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were the only two presidential candidates who had enough valid signatures to appear on the Virginia Republican primary ballot on March 6,  the American Spectator's John Fund appeared on Sunday's Fox and Friends on FNC and suggested that Newt Gingrich may yet find a way to secure a spot on the Virginia ballot. (Video below)

Ben Stein Argues Against Claims Middle Class Hurt by the Wealthy

December 22nd, 2011 8:48 AM
Supposedly right-leaning actor, economist and former Nixon speech writer Ben Stein of late has become famous for advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy, but on Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, Stein was finally seen arguing from a conservative point of view again as he debated David Callahan of the left-wing group DEMOS, and argued that taxation rates on the wealthy are not to blame…

FNC's Bret Baier Cites NewsBusters Critique of UNICEF Ad Attacking San

December 21st, 2011 4:30 PM
During the "Grapevine" segment on Tuesday's Special Report on Fox News, anchor Bret Baier played a clip of a UNICEF ad depicting Santa Claus as an uncaring Scrooge and quoted an item from NewsBusters' senior editor Tim Graham: "Conservative site NewsBusters asked quote: 'Why on Earth would jolly old Saint Nicholas resent aid for the poor? Is this just another way the UN bureaucracy asserts its…

Bill Clinton to Tell Obama to Appoint Fox News's Bill O'Reilly Secreta

December 20th, 2011 10:41 PM
Fox News's Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday told Bill Clinton, "You should suggest to President Obama that he appoint me Secretary of Housing." The former President in his first appearance on The O'Reilly Factor seemed to like the concept saying, “I will tell him tonight...That’s probably the best idea he’s had” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Bill Clinton: Press Favored Obama Over Hillary in 2008, Weren't Biased

December 20th, 2011 8:54 PM
Bill Clinton on Tuesday said the press favored Barack Obama over his wife for president in 2008. Not surprisingly, he told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly that he didn’t believe the media were biased towards him when he first ran for president in 1992 (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Media Mash: NB Publisher Bozell Takes On Liberal Media Pumping Up Obam

December 19th, 2011 12:45 PM
Appearing on Friday's Hannity on Fox News, during the weekly "Media Mash" segment, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell detailed ABC's attempt to paint a rosy economic picture to help President Obama and the liberal media's across-the-board effort to slam Newt Gingrich as a "frightening" "political killer." [View video after the jump]