Networks Slam 'Controversial,’ ‘Beyond Insensitive’ Ben Carson

The outraged journalists at NBC, ABC and CBS on Wednesday slammed the “controversial,” “beyond insensitive” Ben Carson for his comments about last week’s mass shooting in Oregon. Their anger provides a strong contrast to controversial statements by Hillary Clinton in recent days. Carson urged people in mass shooting to attack the gunman, prompting Today co-host Natalie Morales to rage, “It's…
Scott Whitlock
October 7th, 2015 11:51 AM

CBS This Morning Hosts Hit Carson from Left on Gun Control

On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, the show’s three hosts spent the entirety of a 7 minute interview with Dr. Ben Carson grilling the Republican presidential candidate from the left over his support for the Second Amendment. After reporter Julianna Goldman ran an anti-Carson piece during the 7:00 a.m. hour in which she played up his “controversial comments” following the Oregon school shooting,…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 7th, 2015 11:00 AM

Press Ignoring Unsettling News For Global Warming's True Believers

On Saturday, conservative Australian columnist Miranda Devine revealed that an Australian engineer claims to have "fixed two errors" in "the basic climate model which underpins all climate science." The person making this claim was a "climate modeller for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office," and has "six degrees in applied mathematics." What he found is that "the new corrected model…

Tom Blumer
October 7th, 2015 10:25 AM

Scarborough: We Cut Clip of Dem Focus Group—Too Negative About Hillary

Is it the MSM's role to protect Hillary Clinton's image by preventing the public from seeing what members of her own party think of her?  Today's Morning Joe played a clip from a Dem focus group in New Hampshire in which there was near unanamity that Hillary's personality could be a serious turn-off to voters, particularly male ones. Joe Scarborough then said: "we actually cut a good bit in…
Mark Finkelstein
October 7th, 2015 8:45 AM

'The Muppets' Reveals a New Ethnic Group That is Safe to Shame

Clearly, the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty needs to be amended. According to The Muppets, it should probably read something like this: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. Because LOL!!”
Dylan Gwinn
October 7th, 2015 7:33 AM

ABC's 'Dancing With The Stars' Tells a Story of Finding Faith

We’ve reported several mysterious media aversions to the mention of God in the last few days, so we should note the opposite. On ABC’s Dancing with the Stars on Monday night, a couple danced to “Amazing Grace.” Boy-band member Carlos PenaVega of the group Big Time Rush testified about finding God and his wife Alexa in one week’s time.
Tim Graham
October 7th, 2015 7:28 AM

Jay Leno Returns to Tonight Show to Pan the Economy, Hillary, O’Malley

Promoting his new car show set to premiere Wednesday night on CNBC, Jay Leno made his return to NBC’s The Tonight Show on Tuesday night to give a portion of the opening monologue. He poked fun at Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Republicans, ObamaCare, and the economy to name a few targets. 
Curtis Houck
October 7th, 2015 2:51 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Pelosi vs. Pro-Life Press

In January, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked by a reporter if an unborn baby at 20 weeks is a human being. She shot back that when she was a new member of Congress, someone quipped, “Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope.” She added, “Yeah. That would be true.” That same smarter-than-the-pontiff feminist arrogance unfolded again on October 1, a few days…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
October 6th, 2015 10:52 PM

NBC Blasts Rubio for Senate Record; Now ‘Bigger Target for His Rivals'

Following the lead of Tuesday’s Today show, NBC Nightly News continued its offensive against 2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio for his attendance record in the U.S. Senate (despite previous precedent) and warned that his rise in the polls could result in Rubio suffering the same fate as failed candidate Scott Walker. 
Curtis Houck
October 6th, 2015 10:00 PM

Vox Writer: Hillary’s Not Concerned With ‘The Spirit of the Rules’

The antics of the former major-league baseball player Manny Ramirez were frequently described as “just Manny being Manny.” Yglesias suggests that Hillary Clinton’s ill-advised use of a private email server was just Hillary being Hillary, and that that’s a good thing. In a Tuesday article, Yglesias wrote that “from her adventures in cattle trading to chairing a policymaking committee in her…
Tom Johnson
October 6th, 2015 9:28 PM

Hardball Panel Not Disturbed Biden May Be Exploiting Son's Death

Politico reported today that numerous sources are pointing to Vice President Joe Biden himself as the anonymous source who told the New York Times's Maureen Dowd about Beau Biden's dying wish that his father run for the presidency. While the Biden camp is strongly denying that there was any political motivation for effectively putting feelers out for a presidential campaign via a friendly…
Ken Shepherd
October 6th, 2015 9:08 PM

ABC Tries to Hit Carson for Answers on Facing Shooter, Arming Teachers

On Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight filed its lone 2016 election report on GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson in attempt to slam him for his response to a question on FNC’s Fox & Friends about how he’d deal with facing a mass shooter and his desire to arm trained schoolteachers to protect their students. With the on-screen headline entitled “Carson controversy,” anchor David Muir…
Curtis Houck
October 6th, 2015 8:31 PM

John Oliver: GOP Focus on Mental Health Distracts from Gun Control

No sooner than President Obama jumped the gun (no pun intended) and literally said he was politicizing the mass shooting in Oregon, John Oliver took to his Comedy Central show on Sunday and accused GOP presidential candidates as using mental illness as a “means of steering the conversation away from gun control.”
Melissa Mullins
October 6th, 2015 8:27 PM

CNN's Banfield: Pro-Gun Activists Want to 'Tear Apart 4th Amendment'

Appearing as a guest on Monday's The Nightly Show on Comedy Central, during a discussion of recent mass shootings, CNN host Ashleigh Banfield declared that it is "amazing" that, although "those who support gun ownership and gun rights" treat the Second Amendment as "unassailable," they wish to "tear apart the Fourth Amendment" to fight terrorism. Near the end of the show, after The Nightly…
Brad Wilmouth
October 6th, 2015 6:28 PM