CBS’s 'BrainDead': Don’t Compromise with Republican Terrorists

This week’s episode of the new CBS body-snatching, political comedy BrainDead kicked off with escalating tensions as Senators Luke Healy and Ella Pollack battle to become the next Democratic Whip. For those outside the beltway, the whip is a party’s enforcer. It’s their job to count votes and ensure their members toe the party line when necessary.
Erik Soderstrom

Oprah's New Show Tackles Black Lives Matter in a Surprising Way

Oprah Winfrey produces and plays a minor role in a new church drama on her OWN channel. Greenleaf is a show about a black family by the same name that runs a mega-church in Memphis, Tennessee. Being as they’re all supposed to be “good Christians,” of course they all have dark secrets and skeletons in their closets. 
Alexa Moutevelis

CBS, NBC Silent on Huma’s Sworn Deposition to Judicial Watch

On Wednesday one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Huma Abedin, testified in a sworn deposition to Judicial Watch about Clinton’s use of a private E-Mail and server, as a part of an ongoing lawsuit. That evening, two of the “big three” networks were silent about the testimony and the latest batch of E-Mails. On Special Report, Fox News’ Bret Baier read some of them, “Hillary to Huma, “Let’s get…
Nicholas Fondacaro

On Brexit, CBS's Economic 'Experts' Show Partisanship and Ignorance

CBS broadcasts discussing the Brexit Leave vote on Sunday and Monday went to economic "experts" whose "analysis" betrayed partisanship and both feigned and real ignorance. On Sunday on Face the Nation, max 2015 Hillary contributor (as usual, not disclosed to viewers) Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics predicted that that the UK economy "is going down the rabbit hole" as the result of the Leave…
Tom Blumer

Networks Ignore Gitmo Detainee Who Went Missing in Uruguay

All of the “big three” news networks ignored new details Wednesday evening of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who went missing in Uruguay. “The detainee was transferred to Uruguay by the Obama administration in 2014,” stated anchor Bret Baier on Special Report, “But has since vanished and officials say he could be in Brazil.” The development provides Congressional Republicans with even more ammo to…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Matthews Worries Obama Could Lose ‘Some of His Glow’ Fighting Trump

A day after he wondered why terrorists always use bombs, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews spent parts of Wednesday night’s show comparing President Barack Obama to Reggie Jackson in being a clutch campaigner for Hillary Clinton this fall but worrying that the President’s jousting with Donald Trump could cause him to lose “some of his glow.”
Curtis Houck

WashPost Pundit: For Hillary, Benghazi Just the Latest ‘Non-Scandal’

Conservatives can’t stand Hillary Clinton, but do they have reasons for their antipathy? No, suggests pundit Paul Waldman, who indicates that detailed accusations about such matters as emails or Benghazi are mere pretext for the right’s “visceral loathing” of Hillary, which would be expressed more genuinely via sexist insults, or maybe primal screams. In a Tuesday Post web piece, Waldman wrote…
Tom Johnson

Ed Schultz Slams Elizabeth Warren as 'Over the Top' in Attacking Trump

Best criticism this month of aspiring Scold-in-Chief Elizabeth Warren comes by way of former conservative turned liberal bullhorn Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz is probably best known to NewsBusters readers from his five-year run at MSNBC until given the boot last summer. He also hosted one of the top-ranked liberal radio shows -- agreed, it's a short list -- for a decade before putting it behind him…
Jack Coleman

Out-of-Control Amanpour Badgers Pro-Brexit Official; He Pushes Back

CNN's Christiane Amanpour took her left-leaning, pro-European Union activism to a new level on Tuesday during an interview of pro-Brexit politician Daniel Hannan. Amanpour, who recently blasted the referendum as an example of "xenophobia", tried to implicate Hannan as somehow partially responsible for supposed post-vote "hate crimes."
Matthew Balan

MRC’s Graham Slams Media for Using ‘Old Clinton Playbook’ on Benghazi

Making his latest appearance on the Fox Business Network (FBN), the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Director Tim Graham slammed the liberal media early Wednesday evening for using “the old Clinton playbook going back to 1992” in their reaction to the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s report and peddling Clinton talking points to absolve her of responsibility.
NB Staff

Univisión y Telemundo hablan con enojo del fallo sobre inmigración

La rabia fue evidentemente la orden del día para los presentadores de Univisión y Telemundo en los programas dominicales de noticias que dedicaron la mayor parte de sus tiempo al fracaso de las órdenes ejecutivas sobre inmigración dictadas por el presidente Obama en 2014, cuya invalidez fue confirmada por la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos.
Edgard Portela

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Slammed as 'Sexist,' 'Offensive'

Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes a crossword puzzle in Tuesday's edition of the New York Times, which had the clue to 31D as a “decidedly non-feminist women’s group” and the answer was the word “harem.” According to an article by Sarah Fisher on the Truth Revolt website, even the Times' puzzle “isn't safe from charges of sexism." “That little joke has some people outraged.…
Randy Hall

ABC Spins Lib Singers Whining About Songs as a Problem for ‘All’ Pols

According to the journalists at Good Morning America, having liberal singers lash out for using their songs is something that happens to “all” politicians. In reality, it tends to mostly impact Republicans. George Stephanopoulos and Matt Dowd on Wednesday discussed Mike Huckabee settling with the band Survivor for using Eye of the Tiger without permission. 
Scott Whitlock

NY Times Article on Brexit Leave Voters Chock Full of Condescension

An amazing thing happened during the counting of the Brexit votes in Great Britain. The early returns showed a comfortable lead for those who wished to remain in the European Union. The political establishment must have been breathing a sigh of relief...until the returns from the city of Sunderland, England were announced with a lopsided vote of 61% to leave which put that group ahead. 
P.J. Gladnick