Goldberg Hammers Media for Blaming Conservatives after Tragedies

Reacting to the media coverage thus far of the deadly church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Fox News contributor Bernard Goldberg joined Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel and eviscerated the liberal media for having “a long, detestable history” of using instances of innocent lives being senselessly lost “as an opportunity to bash conservative media.”
Curtis Houck
June 19th, 2015 4:07 PM

NBC’s Guthrie to Susan Rice: Does Obama Want Iran Deal ‘Too Much’?

In an interview with National Security Advisor Susan Rice aired on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie challenged the White House effort to reach a nuclear deal with Iran: “Anyone watching this closely, they all say basically the same thing – that the optics are that the administration wants this deal too much.”
Kyle Drennen
June 19th, 2015 3:36 PM

Dana Loesch Slams Gun Control Advocate on The Kelly File

On the June 18 edition of The Kelly File, Dana Loesch of The Blaze destroyed fellow guest Nomiki Konst’s argument in favor of gun control. Reacting to the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Konst pointed to Australia in an effort to show that gun control measures can be effective at reducing mass shootings and gun violence.
Connor Williams
June 19th, 2015 3:27 PM

Reuters: Humans Could Go Extinct in 100 Years Because of ‘Climate Ap

Slate columnist promotes massive reduction of carbon emissions, technological investment to reverse global warming.
Joseph Rossell
June 19th, 2015 2:05 PM

Hillary Smears Trump Remarks As a 'Trigger' for Unstable Mass Shooters

In an interview in Nevada, Hillary Clinton oddly smeared Donald Trump with the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. In an interview with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, she implied Dylann Roof may have been “triggered” by remarks like Trump’s statements on Mexico sending the worst Mexicans to America.  ABC’s Liz Kreutz and Rick Klein put the story online, if not on television (will TV…

Tim Graham
June 19th, 2015 1:15 PM

Maddow: ‘I’m Really Happy That Brian Williams Is Coming Here to MSNBC'

Rachel Maddow became the first member of the MSNBC community on Thursday evening to express her support for recently removed NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and took time on her eponymous show to opine that she’s “really happy” he will be joining her on the cable network since she “believe[s] in redemption” and “second chances.” Maddow argued that “work[ing] his way back in to earning…
Curtis Houck
June 19th, 2015 12:49 PM

Reuters: 'Climate Apocalypse' Could Wipe Out Humans in 100 Years

Although labeled as “The Great Debate,” a Reuters story about the necessity of drastic change to avert “the climate apocalypse that has already begun” was anything but a debate. Slate Magazine’s Bitwise tech columnist David Auerbach wrote that June 18 Reuters column with the dramatic headline: “A child born today may live to see humanity’s end, unless…” He promoted Australian microbiologist…
Joseph Rossell
June 19th, 2015 12:34 PM

Influential Conservative Fathers Write Kids 'Letters from Dad'

"The most important job that I have isn’t U.S. senator. It’s father," wrote Marco Rubio in an open letter to his daughters Amanda and Daniella. His words are part of TIME magazine's annual and touching compilation of "Letters from Dad," which features open letters of love and encouragement from famous men to their children. The project is published online in collaboration with Lean In, an…
Sarah Stites
June 19th, 2015 12:17 PM

Rolling Stone: ‘Weaponized’ Conservatism Led to Charleston Shootings

Anger, sadness, and disgust have been nearly universal responses to Wednesday night’s apparent act of racist terrorism in Charleston, S.C., but Jeb Lund doesn’t think such reactions make sense coming from conservatives. In a Friday screed, Lund argued that the Charleston shootings shouldn’t have surprised anyone, given that “American movement conservatism has already made these kinds of killings…
Tom Johnson
June 19th, 2015 11:10 AM

Larry Wilmore: Fox News Makes My 'Head Explode' on Charleston Shooting

In the aftermath of the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore ripped Fox News for its coverage regarding the motivations of the shooter, Dylann Roof. The Nightly Show host played clip after clip of hosts and guests on Fox News promoting the idea that the shooting could have been a religiously motivated attack.
Connor Williams
June 19th, 2015 11:06 AM

Brian Williams Claims ‘I Was Not Trying to Mislead People’

In his first interview since being suspended and removed as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams told Today co-host Matt Lauer on Friday that he “was not trying to mislead people” when he fabricated stories about news events he covered.
Kyle Drennen
June 19th, 2015 11:00 AM

NBC To Nikki Haley: Shooting Make You 'Rethink' Second Amendment?

NBC's Savannah Guthrie on Friday echoed Barack Obama's call for more gun control in the wake of the Charleston shooting. The Today host talked to South Carolina's Governor Nikki Haley and highlighted the President "venting" about gun violence. Guthrie quizzed, "I know you are a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Is there anything about this situation that makes you think, okay, should we…
Scott Whitlock
June 19th, 2015 10:59 AM

Baltimore Sun's Zurawik on Brian Williams Rehab: The Truth Lost

Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik was one of the strongest critics of the lies of Brian Williams back when he was exposed in February. So it’s only natural to turn back to Zurawik for one of the strongest tongue-lashings of NBC’s decision to re-purpose the serial exaggerator at MSNBC. The truth lost: 
Tim Graham
June 19th, 2015 10:58 AM

CBS, NBC Hype ‘Increasing Mistrust Between Blacks & Whites'

On Thursday’s network evening newscasts, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News did their parts in touting the supposed state of race relations in America with CBS’s Scott Pelley holding up the deadly shooting in Charleston as “com[ing] at a time of increasing mistrust between blacks and whites” while NBC’s Harry Smith proclaimed that the “virus” of racism from the 1960s “never died.”
Curtis Houck
June 19th, 2015 10:37 AM