MSNBC Celebrates AL ‘Earthquake’; ‘Very Significant Night’ for America

The mood on Tuesday’s 11th Hour was rather jubilant following Democrat Doug Jones’s victory in the Alabama Senate race, with assembled MSNBC guests touting the “earthquake” that resulted in a “very significant night” for the ages in America. While it’s significant that an accused child molester and predator didn’t win the race, MSNBC was undoubtedly going to be celebratory no matter who the…
Curtis Houck

MSNBC on #MeToo: Believe the Women, Just Not the Ones Who Accuse Dems

On Tuesday’s MSNBC Live with Katy Tur, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson was brought on to talk about the significance of the #MeToo movement and its role in fostering the current climate of seemingly ubiquitous allegations of sexual misconduct allegations against a slew of prominent politicians and media figures. In spite of weeks of equivocation and doubts being expressed about…

Chris Reeves

NY Times: Criticize ‘Fake News’? You’re Acting Like a Dictator

President Trump is attacking the media once again, and the New York Times is playing scared, and playing the “dictator” card. The front page of Wednesday’s Times featured Steven Erlanger in Brussels shaming Trump, and suggesting he’s somewhat responsible for foreign dictators acting like foreign dictators, in “Globe’s Autocrats Echo Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Cry.”
Clay Waters

Hollywood Gets Religion After Moore Defeat: ‘God Is a Black Woman’

After preaching at the world that thoughts and prayers were useless in tragedy, Hollywood has proven that yet again they are nothing but hypocrites.
Corinne Weaver

Todd Warns: ‘Every Republican’ Must ‘Fear for Their Political Lives'

Appearing on NBC’s Today Wednesday morning to react to Democrat Doug Jones winning the Alabama special election for Senate, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd spun that the defeat of scandal-plagued Republican Roy Moore was not just a “one-off” and even bizarrely claimed that Democratic losses earlier in the year were a sign of building political momentum on the left.

Kyle Drennen

Evening News: More Time to CIA Dog Graduation than Strong Jobs Report

Another 228,000 jobs were added in November and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent — a 17-year-low. The numbers were better than expected, however the three broadcast network evening shows barely spent any time on Dec. 8, reporting on the issue of jobs and employment.
Julia A. Seymour

Bozell on Negative Trump Coverage; ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It'

Making his latest appearance on the Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell highlighted on Wednesday the bombshell study by Rich Noyes that found the network evening news coverage of President Trump has been 90 percent negative from September to November.
NB Staff

Soros-Funded Journalism Comes to Seven States in 2018

Soros-funded journalism is coming to seven states in 2018, thanks to ProPublica. The liberal journalism nonprofit announced on Dec. 9 it had chosen journalists in Louisiana, West Virginia, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Illinois and Florida to receive year-long stipends to pursue ProPublica-approved investigations.
Aly Nielsen

Acosta Follows Press Tradition: Harass GOP Admins, Go Easy on Dems

CNN's insufferably self-important Jim Acosta made the news all about himself once again on Tuesday. This time, as reported by Randy Hall at NewsBusters, following in the footsteps of ABC's detestable Sam Donaldson during the Reagan administration, Acosta, despite being warned not to, interrupted a bill-signing ceremony to shout out a question at President Donald Trump. Acosta's press cohorts…
Tom Blumer

Ex-NYT Editor Touts 'Historic Night’ Putting AL on 'Right Road’

Late Tuesday night, longtime New York Times editor Howell Raines joined MSNBC’s The 11th Hour to gush over the “historic night” in his home state of Alabama and declare that Democrat Doug Jones’s victory put the state on “the indisputably right road” “for the first time in 175 years.”
Curtis Houck

Cheers Heard on CNN Set as Jones Takes the Lead in Alabama

In the early part of the 10:00 p.m. Eastern hour, and before the Alabama Senate race was called for Democrat Doug Jones, cheers could be heard on CNN’s live broadcast as Wolf Blitzer announced Jones had taken the lead. At roughly 10:19 p.m. Eastern, Wolf Blitzer exclaimed: “Look at this! Wow, look at this. All of a sudden, Doug Jones is taking the lead.” As he spoke, an audible whoop from off-…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Will Nets Cover? Strzok, Page Trash ‘Awful,’ ‘Loathsome’ Trump

On Tuesday night as the election results came in from Alabama, a number of news outlets reported on the Department of Justice obtaining thousands of text messages between controversial FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page showing their disdain for “awful,” “idiot,” and “loathsome” President Donald Trump, creating yet another headache for Robert Mueller as the Trump-Russia probe drags on.
Curtis Houck

Bozell & Graham Column: Robert Mueller's Valentine Writers

A cascade of embarrassing details have poured out over the last few weeks on how special counsel Robert Mueller’s staff is a gang of Democratic partisans with a rooting interest in Hillary Clinton in 2016. Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman even attended the doomed election–night Clinton “victory party” in New York. The network anchors can barely mention that senior FBI agent Peter Strzok was removed…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

CNN Commentator Calls Out ‘Radical’ Dem Position on Abortion

As the results were starting to come in from Tuesday's closely watched Alabama Senate election Tuesday, a CNN discussion during Anderson Cooper 360 got heated when Republican commentator Amanda Carpenter pointed out how Democratic candidate Doug Jones was in jeopardy because of his position on abortion.
Nicholas Fondacaro