CBS Morning News Tees Up Dems to Lament ‘Reluctant’ Congress on Guns

In report that didn’t make the cut for Thursday’s CBS This Morning amidst the San Bernardino shooting coverage, the CBS Morning News aired congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes’s latest attempt to push gun control and lament how Congress is “reluctant to pass new control laws” with friendly soundbites from Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Hillary Clinton.
Curtis Houck
December 3rd, 2015 6:14 PM

CNN's Cuomo: 'That Muslim Thing Matters'

When the establishment media so often tries to turn attention away from the reality that much of the world's terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims in the name of their religion, it is refreshing to see a pillar of the establishment community actually acknowledge the elephant in the room. That's what Chris Cuomo did shortly after 8:30 (Eastern time) on CNN's morning news coverage, with regard to…
Quin Hillyer
December 3rd, 2015 5:23 PM

CBS Hosts Pester Paul Ryan on Gun Control, Demand Legislation

In a contentious exchange with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday’s CBS This Morning, co-hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King repeatedly pressed the Republican leader to take up gun control legislation in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. Rose began: “But why don't you...call the President and say, ‘I'm going to come down Pennsylvania Avenue, let's you and I start off and do something about…
Kyle Drennen
December 3rd, 2015 5:21 PM

Bozell Denounces Journalists Who Praised New York Daily News Cover

A statement by Media Research Center president Brent Bozell released this afternoon condemning the New York Daily News for their anti-faith "God Isn't Fixing This" headline.
Brent Bozell
December 3rd, 2015 4:59 PM

Chuck Todd Shudders at Coming ‘Islamophobia’, ‘It’s Going to Get Ugly'

MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall had Chuck Todd on for two segments related to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino on Wednesday. When confronted with the idea that this could be terrorism, as many labeled the Colorado Springs shooting, Todd hesitantly said, “I don't know if we want to go down that road, Tamron, just yet. I think, I think let's let all this play out. But I have, I have very, I have…
Michael McKinney
December 3rd, 2015 4:06 PM

Media Pushing Faulty Liberal Statistic on Number of Mass Shootings

Our good friend at the Washington Free Beacon Stephen Gutowski – formerly of our sister site MRCTV – has an excellent piece up about how the liberal media are credulously parroting lefty gun-control advocates' who make it out as though there is literally just one mass shooting in America every day of the year.  As Steve shows in his piece, it's simply not true as judged by impartial criteria…
Ken Shepherd
December 3rd, 2015 3:46 PM

NBC Promotes BBC Reporter Calling Shooting ‘Just Another Day’ in U.S.

At the top of Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seized on a BBC World News correspondent dismissing the San Bernardino shooting as “just another day” in America: “I don't often start coverage of an event like this by talking about how other people are covering it, but a commentator for the BBC said overnight, ‘Just another day in the United States – another day of guns, chaos, and panic.…
Kyle Drennen
December 3rd, 2015 2:58 PM

Networks Hype Paris Climate Goals, Ignore US Energy Achievements

The Paris climate talks have been underway for four days, and broadcast network coverage included journalists marveling at the French security presence and praising the talks’ goals. Between Nov. 28 and Dec. 2, the morning and evening news shows on ABC, NBC, and CBS collectively spent more than 30 minutes covering the U.N. climate conference in Paris, called COP 21.
Aly Nielsen
December 3rd, 2015 2:48 PM

CJR: Paris ‘Opportunity’ for Media to Show Commitment to Climate

One-sided and overwhelmingly biased coverage of climate change wasn’t enough for the news industry publication Columbia Journalism Review. On Dec. 1, CJR contributing editor Cristine Russell actually claimed “climate change has often languished in news coverage ...”
Julia A. Seymour
December 3rd, 2015 2:46 PM

CNN Boosts NY Daily News's 'Provocative' Anti-Prayer Front Page

Three CNN programs on Wednesday night and Thursday morning promoted the anti-prayer front page of the New York Daily News: "God Isn't Fixing This." Unsurprisingly, pro-gun control anchor Carol Costello quoted from the liberal newspaper's headline and sub-headline on Thursday's CNN Newsroom: "It's gotten a lot of buzz this morning...It reads, 'God Isn't Fixing This,' and slams [Ted] Cruz and other…
Matthew Balan
December 3rd, 2015 1:03 PM

Media, Politicians Mock Prayer After Shooting: ‘F**k Your Prayers’

Immediately following the shooting in San Bernardino yesterday, many people offered up their prayers for the victims and their family members. In response, many liberal journalists and politicians took to Twitter to mock prayer as “ineffective” and called for conservatives to “shut up.”
Kristine Marsh
December 3rd, 2015 12:22 PM

MRC’s Brent Bozell Blasts Media Derision of Prayer

MRC President Brent Bozell on Thursday slammed the media’s mocking of religious Americans who offered prayers in the wake of the shooting in California. Responding to a New York Daily News cover saying, “God Isn’t Fixing This,” Bozell attacked, “If you don't want to believe in God, you don't want to believe in God. But what the New York Daily News did here was take it far further than that and…
NB Staff
December 3rd, 2015 12:03 PM

NBC, CBS Tout NY Daily News Attacking Prayer After Shooting

On Thursday, both CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today eagerly promoted the New York Daily News attacking Republicans for sending “thoughts and prayers” to victims of the San Bernardino shooting but not signing on to liberal gun control measures. This Morning co-host Gayle King declared: “I think this headline’s very powerful.”
Kyle Drennen
December 3rd, 2015 11:55 AM

O'Malley:'Outrageous' Ryan Talks of Due Process Rights of Gun Buyers

Maybe Martin O'Malley could come up with a list of all the constitutional rights which, as president, he would suspend. On Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC show today, discussing the rights of Americans to buy guns, O'Malley said "the very fact that Paul Ryan would start talking about due process and these sorts of issues, I mean I think is outrageous" in the wake of San Bernardino. During an appearance…
Mark Finkelstein
December 3rd, 2015 11:47 AM