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'Madam Secretary' Explains How Hillary Would Have Prevented Iraq
On Monday night, CBS’ Madam Secretary revealed how Hillary would never have allowed us to get involved in Iraq, and could have prevented the entire disaster had she only been in a position of power to stop it.
November 30th, 2015 12:27 AM
ESPN's 2-Year Subscriber Loss: 7 Million Homes
The Walt Disney Company filed its annual 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
The "getaway day" timing of the filing may not be a coincidence, at least as far as its 80 percent-owned ESPN subsidiary is concerned. That's because the report contains bad news which Disney would surely want to see downplayed. Confirming problems yours truly observed in NewsBusters…
November 29th, 2015 11:53 PM
Nets Hit GOP Guests with Charges of 'Hateful Rhetoric' by Pro-Lifers
On all three broadcast network Sunday talk shows, hosts pressed some of their GOP guests by forwarding a quote from Planned Parenthood complaining that "hateful rhetoric" from abortion opponents had contributed to the shooting attack on Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain in Colorado.
NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press notably managed to utter the words "hateful rhetoric" three times and "heated…
November 29th, 2015 11:25 PM
Sports Media Mocks Tebow Over Break-Up Due to Abstinence Pledge
Tim Tebow’s relationship with former Miss USA model Olivia Culpo is over. Because, according to reports, Culpo is upset that the couple isn’t having sex, since Tebow has decided to remain abstinent until marriage.
November 29th, 2015 10:36 PM
‘Empire’ Features SJW Songstress Alicia Keys in Shocking LGBT Twist
Singer/Songwriter Alicia Keys guest starred in “Sinned Against,” the latest episode of FOX’s Empire. Keys plays Skye Summers, a multi-platinum record selling “girl power pop” star. Teaming up with Jamal (Jussie Smollett), the two are collaborating on a record for Empire Music – the “Black and White” album. The song featured is taken directly from recent headlines in your local newspaper or your …
November 29th, 2015 10:05 PM
AP, Despite Weak Economic Data: 'Fundamentals Remain Solid'
As yours truly noted in several posts at my home blog on Wednesday and at NewsBusters on Friday and Saturday, the torrent of pre-Thanksgiving "getaway day" economic data was largely disappointing.
That didn't stop the Associated Press's Chris Rugaber from pushing the "All is well" meme late Wednesday afternoon, declaring, contrary to what anyone's eyes could see, that "the fundamentals of the U.…
November 29th, 2015 10:03 PM
Top Daily Beast Editor Calls for Boycott of 'Neo-Fascist' Trump
Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman called for a boycott of Donald Trump’s businesses because he says they are supporting “racism and neo-fascism.”
"It's time for a boycott of Trump's businesses - and a public calling out of those who choose to work with him," Shachtman tweeted.
November 29th, 2015 9:05 PM
NYT's Egan Rages at 'Rabid Brown Shirts in Dockers' at Trump Rally
Two recent opinion pieces in the New York Times, one by a veteran reporter turned columnist, another featured in the Times' Sunday magazine, launched viciously hard-left attacks on Republicans on the issues of immigration and refugees. Timothy Egan's column, "Donald Trump's Police State," went so far as to compare Republican attendees at a Trump rally to "rabid brown shirts in Dockers" and that…
November 29th, 2015 9:03 PM
Doris Kearns Goodwin Gushes over ‘Ambitious’ Former Boss LBJ
Speaking as part of a panel about presidential books during Sunday’s Face the Nation, author Doris Kearns Goodwin couldn’t help but devote a few moments of her time to heaping praise on the “ambitious” man who she first worked for in politics in then-President Lyndon B. Johnson from the 1960's.
November 29th, 2015 6:29 PM
Washington Free Beacon Missed a Bright Spot in Books: Levin's Latest
Washington Free Beacon culture editor Aaron McLean scrunched as many book recommendations as one might expect in a single article – 66! But it might seem odd that such a 2015 Favorites list for conservatives would leave out a top seller this year – Mark Levin’s Plunder and Deceit.
It might seem possible for book reviewers to see the author is a popular talk-show host and not read further. But…
November 29th, 2015 4:37 PM
Kasich Makes Nice with Raddatz; ‘I Wish You Were’ Running for POTUS
Viewers tuning into Sunday’s edition of ABC’s This Week witnessed matters getting awkward towards the tail end of Republican presidential candidate John Kasich’s interview with co-host Martha Raddatz as Kasich attempted to flatter her by insisting that she condemn Donald Trump and half-heartedly telling her he wished “you were in the race” for President because he’d support her.
November 29th, 2015 3:51 PM
Conservatives Shun Colbert Because ‘Smart Comedy Has a Liberal Bias’
You’ve probably heard the phrase “too smart for the room.” Penn State professor Sophia McClennen thinks that Stephen Colbert is too smart for America, or at least a huge chunk of it, and that consequently he’s fallen to third place in late-night television’s ratings race. In a Monday Salon piece, McClennen argued that even though Colbert has “moved his satire into a more centrist mode” since…
November 29th, 2015 2:20 PM
Nation Editor Uses Trump to Slam Bush 'Lies,' Calls Trump 'Bush' Twice
Far-left The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel was still exhibiting signs of Bush Derangement Syndrome on Sunday's Reliable Sources as she appeared on the CNN show to discuss Donald Trump's claims of seeing thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering on the 9/11 attacks.
Vanden Heuvel not only used the controversy to rehash the war in Iraq as she complained that the media before the Iraq War…
November 29th, 2015 1:38 PM
Fiorina Slams ‘Delusional’ Obama for Pushing Climate Change as Threat
Appearing on November 29's Fox News Sunday, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina slammed President Barack Obama and his allies as “delusional” for continually pushing the notion that climate change is a chief national security threat for the United States and the world at-large.
November 29th, 2015 11:24 AM