Nets Punt on ObamaCare Repeal, Defund PP Vote Passing Congress

On Wednesday night, the major network evening newscasts all failed to cover the first full, successful congressional vote to repeal of ObamaCare and defund of Planned Parenthood that will go to President Obama’s desk where he’ll likely veto the measures seeking to undo his health care law and strike federal funding from the nation’s largest provider of abortions. Providing a more balanced…
Curtis Houck
January 6th, 2016 9:14 PM

CNN's Foreman Frets Guns to Be Obama's 'Great Unfinished Business'

On Tuesday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman ran a piece sympathetic to President Barack Obama's failure to achieve his "passion" to enact new gun control against the opposition of the "gun lobby" in the aftermath of each public mass shooting during his presidency. Foreman concluded his report by lamenting that "the matter of gun violence could well remain the great…
Brad Wilmouth
January 6th, 2016 8:13 PM

The Delusional Self-Importance of the Liberal Media

I have long marveled at liberals' air of superiority and lack of self-reflection, which have always been particularly evident among liberal media elites and journalists. They tend to view themselves as sacrosanct and above scrutiny. Perhaps this attitude sprang from the British and, later, American tradition that the press is the Fourth Estate. It doesn't just serve to inform the people and make…
David Limbaugh
January 6th, 2016 7:28 PM

CNN's Lemon Lets Far-Left Guest Wildly Berate Pro-Gun Conservative

Don Lemon granted the heckler's veto to Igor Volsky of Think Progress on Tuesday's CNN Tonight. Volsky repeatedly interrupted conservative talk show host Ben Ferguson during a segment about President Obama's orders on gun control, and unleashed on the pro-gun lobby: "They want to silence any reasonable discussion about what can you do when a guy walks into a school and kills twenty first graders…
Matthew Balan
January 6th, 2016 5:33 PM

ABC Hypes Obama on Guns: ‘America’s Parent-in-Chief’

According to Nightline co-anchor Byron Pitts, Barack Obama is “America’s parent-in-chief” when it comes to guns. The ABC journalist on Tuesday night hyped the President’s White House speech: “Camera clicks the only sound in the White House east room as the normally stoic President Obama openly wept and paused to compose himself.” 
Scott Whitlock
January 6th, 2016 5:28 PM

AP Highlights One Piece of Good Economic News, Buries 3 Weaker Ones

Today was a fairly brisk day for economic data, as four noteworthy reports were released. One of them contained good news, but with a heavy asterisk. The other three were either not good, period, or came in below expectations. Readers here probably know which one the Associated Press was still carrying at its Top Business Stories page as of 2:39 p.m. Of course, it was the one with good news.
Tom Blumer
January 6th, 2016 4:29 PM

Inside the Garden of Town Hall Plants

On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience." Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there…
Michelle Malkin
January 6th, 2016 4:04 PM

NBC’s Today Set to Air Obama Infomercial Live From White House

At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teased an “exciting” announcement about the morning show preparing to broadcast from a new location far from its New York studio. Fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie added: “Yeah, the whole show is headed somewhere. We’ll have more on that in a minute.”
Kyle Drennen
January 6th, 2016 3:32 PM

Cruz, Rubio Charged with Race Treason by Univision’s Jorge Ramos

Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are being denounced by Univision's Jorge Ramos as traitors to their ethnic roots, because neither of them toe his preferred line on immigration policy.
Jorge Bonilla
January 6th, 2016 2:36 PM

Brent Bozell Slams Media’s ‘Unanimous’ Push for Gun Control

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Wednesday slammed the media’s seemingly “universal” push for gun control. Appearing on Varney and Company, he explained, “There are three issues, Stuart, where the media... won't brook dissension. Gay rights, global warming, and gun control.” 
NB Staff
January 6th, 2016 1:26 PM

Larry Wilmore Raps 'Complicit Culture' Around Cosby, But Bill Clinton?

Larry Wilmore, host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, didn’t hold back his joyful glee on Monday night when he opened his first show of 2016 with Bill Cosby’s framed mugshot. “This is exactly what I wanted! How did you know?” Wilmore gushed over this apparent Christmas gift.  He then so eloquently added, “Yes, we didn’t forget about you, motherf***er, and now neither did the justice system…
Melissa Mullins
January 6th, 2016 1:01 PM

CMP Releases Highlight Reel Targeting Planned Parenthood

In the wake of Wednesday’s vote by the U.S. House, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) is reminding the public of why it says Planned Parenthood should be defunded. At midnight, CMP released a video compilation of highlights from its past videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts. Entitled "‘PROFIT’ - Planned Parenthood's Illicit Moneymaking From Baby Body Parts,”…
Katie Yoder
January 6th, 2016 12:45 PM

Nets Amazed by Obama’s ‘Anger and Emotions’ on Gun Control

All three network morning shows on Wednesday were in awe of President Obama tearing up during his White House gun control address on Tuesday. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer used the “rare display of emotion” to tee-up a four-minute segment on “The Politics of Tears” and Obama being the “Latest in Long Line of Emotional Politicians.”
Kyle Drennen
January 6th, 2016 12:39 PM

AP Admits: Obama's Gun Actions 'Would Not Have Prevented' Sandy Hook

The liberal media, especially the Big Three networks, have been so caught up in President Obama's "deeply emotional appeal," as he issued his executive orders on gun contro,l that they haven't bothered to check the effectivity of the actions. On Wednesday, the AP's Michael R. Sisak pointed out that "the gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have…
Matthew Balan
January 6th, 2016 12:13 PM