Univision Asleep: No Post-Soleimani 'Al Punto'

The first Sunday of 2020 offered no shortage of things to be discussed on the nation’s Sunday public affairs shows. However, Univision took the opportunity to show how committed it is to immigration advocacy, and how disconnected from the public it claims to serve.
Jorge Bonilla
January 5th, 2020 5:25 PM

Killing of Terrorist Is 'Racist, Imperialist' ― Kaepernick

Disgruntled America hater Colin Kaepernick just won't give it up. The activist who threw his football career away has accused the U.S. of targeting minorities after American forces used a drone strike to kill an Iranian terrorist responsible for many atrocities. "Imperialism" against black and brown people, says Kaepernick in his latest caustic Tweet.
Jay Maxson
January 5th, 2020 4:42 PM

ABC Stands in Awe of Iranian Politicians Chanting ‘Death to America’

ABC News kicked off Sunday’s Good Morning America by marveling at the sea of mourners in the streets of Iran and hyping the Iranian politicians who gathered on the floor of their legislature to chant “death to America;” in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani on Thursday.

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2020 3:52 PM

CNN Grills Pompeo on Airstrike, But Treated Iran With Kid Gloves

As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recently reported, CNN’s Erin Burnett conducted a sit-down interview with Iranian ambassador to the U.N., Majid Takht Ravanchi on Friday where she treated him to some slow-pitch softball questions. The network took a complete 180 on Sunday when State of the Union host Jake Tapper unloaded on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by grilling him on the airstrike…
Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2020 1:14 PM

NBC: Trump Starting ‘Religious War’ To Distract from Impeachment

Three days after President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the liberal media were still tripping over themselves as they continued to clamor about the President supposedly starting a war (while downplaying the Iranian-backed attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq). But during NBC’s Sunday Today they took it another step, declaring Trump had started a “religious war” and…
Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2020 10:38 AM

Stern Was Progressive ‘Racist’ NBA Commish -- The Nation

Even progressives can be seen as racists now, people like former NBA Commissioner David Stern, who died New Year's Day at the age of 77. ESPN's Jeremy Schaap called him the greatest leader of any sports league ever, a man who will be remembered for elevating the NBA. The Nation's Dave Zirin alleges Stern globalized the NBA brand while simultaneously championing progressive causes and racist…
Jay Maxson
January 5th, 2020 10:00 AM

State-Run TV? Erin Burnett Throws Softballs at Iranian PR Thug

One of the worst tendencies of American media is boasting about how independent they are, and then granting the most obsequious access to our worst tyrannical enemies. CNN boss Jeff Zucker calls Fox News "state-run TV," then acts like state-run TV for our enemies in Iran. On Friday night, Erin Burnett threw softballs at Iran's representative to the UN that she would never toss at Trump…
Tim Graham
January 5th, 2020 9:32 AM

Biden Lies to Fox News About Opposing Raid on Osama bin Laden in 2011

The latest test of the "independent fact-checkers" just unfolded in a Joe Biden interview with Peter Doocy of Fox News in Dubuque, Iowa. It's cut, and dried. Biden is on record opposing Obama's decision to take out Osama bin Laden in 2011. But now he's claiming he never did. It's an easy "Pants on Fire" for PolitiFact. It's Four Pinocchios for The Washington Post. 
Tim Graham
January 4th, 2020 8:46 PM

The Media Don't Treat Bernie Sanders With Enough Respect?

In his newsletter, CNN's Brian Stelter touted how Mike Allen of Axios was slamming the media. For what? "The media rarely treats Sanders, 78, with the seriousness warranted by his sustained popularity and fundraising."
Tim Graham
January 4th, 2020 5:59 PM

NYT: Trump 'Wags the Dog,' Pompeo Spreads Soleimani 'Misinformation'

The front-page lead story of the New York Times National Edition prominently framed conspiratorial Democratic doubts after the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani, responsible for the death of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq, was killed by an American drone strike at Baghdad airport ordered by President Trump. That wasn’t quite the paper’s spin. Over the banner headline…
Clay Waters
January 4th, 2020 5:34 PM

Obama vs. Trump: The Media's Terrorist Double Standard

Recall that on April 11, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he would be running for a second term. And twenty two days later, on May 2, 2011, Navy Seals, under the direct order of the President — who was watching via TV cameras from the White House Situation Room- stormed Osama bin Laden’s no-longer-secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Killing him.
Jeffrey Lord
January 4th, 2020 4:00 PM

CNN Hints Climate Skeptics to Blame for Australia Wildfires

On Thursday's New Day show, CNN correspondent Anna Coren highlighted accusations by climate alarmists that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is partly to blame for the intensity of the current wildfires because he has not done enough to support regulations to try to curb global warming, as if were possible for government action to do so.
Brad Wilmouth
January 4th, 2020 3:28 PM

David Brooks Fantasizes Trump 2020 'Landslide Defeat' to Biden

David Brooks engages in New York Times "conservative" fantasy to imagine the 2020s, where "the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party," including Trump's "landslide defeat" to Joe Biden, which "left him humiliated, and the Republicans lost their Senate majority."
P.J. Gladnick
January 4th, 2020 1:57 PM

FLASHBACK: MSNBC Host Confused Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton

Earlier this week, CBS Evening News journalists apologized for embarrassing themselves as the program used a picture of Congressman Elijah Cummings in a story on Congressman John Lewis. Both are African Americans. This isn’t the first time members of the liberal media committed such a gaffe. On October 21, 2009, then-MSNBC host Contessa Brewer introduced Jesse Jackson this way: “Joining me now to…
Scott Whitlock
January 4th, 2020 1:30 PM