AP Does Bogus 'Fact Check' of Jeb Bush's 4 Percent Growth Goal

It seems as if the establishment press has ruined virtually everything connected with journalism. The whole idea of "fact-checking" is certainly no exception. The thoroughly misnamed Politifact pioneered this particular form of disinformation. The Associated Press, apparently determined to give that web site a run for its money, devoted a writeup to "fact-checking" (i.e., virtually ridiculing) a…
Tom Blumer
June 17th, 2015 11:41 PM

New Republic Writer Lauds Hillary’s ‘Leftward Shifts Toward Sanity’

From her years at Yale Law School until early in her Senate career, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s liberal credentials rarely were questioned. Since then, many on the left have come to doubt that Hillary is one of them, for reasons that include her support for the Iraq war and her alleged coziness with Wall Street. Rebecca Traister believes that it’s been twenty-five, not fifteen, years since Clinton…
Tom Johnson
June 17th, 2015 10:11 PM

CNN's Cuomo Hits Fiorina Over Net Worth, Defends Obama on ISIS

As GOP presidential candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina appeared as a guest on Wednesday's New Day, CNN co-host Chris Cuomo pressed Fiorina over her wealth and her criticisms of President Obama's handling of the ISIS threat. After bringing up the former CEO's $59 million net worth, Cuomo made it sound as if he were speaking for 98 percent of Americans as he suggested that they…
Brad Wilmouth
June 17th, 2015 9:43 PM

America Is Ted Kennedy's Latest Drowning Victim, Thanks to 1965 Law

Sen. Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration act allowed the Democrats to start winning elections the same way they win recounts: by enlarging the pool of voters.
Ann Coulter
June 17th, 2015 9:36 PM

NewsBusted: You Can't Monkey Around with the Laws of Economics

"According to a new study, chimpanzees may have the ability to cook.  Which is more bad news for fast-food workers demanding 15 dollars an hour!" -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller
NB Staff
June 17th, 2015 9:27 PM

Did Lethargic Politico Reporter Pull a Dolezal With College Entry Lie?

Politico has been covering the Rachel Dolezal story as have many other news sources. Who can blame them? It is a fascinating story about a white person casting herself (soon to be himself?) as a member of another group. However, it turns out that Politico may be able to get the inside scoop on what it is like to fake ethnicity from one of their own. None other than their hilariously infamous…
P.J. Gladnick
June 17th, 2015 9:04 PM

CBS Plays Up GOP Candidates 'Getting Slammed By the Musicians'

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Jan Crawford hyped the latest "dust-up between the musician and the politician," and underlined that "rare is the Republican candidate who isn't told to stop the music – even if...they paid licensing fees." She asked a GOP strategist, "Why is it it's always Republicans who are getting slammed by the musicians for using their songs?"
Matthew Balan
June 17th, 2015 8:50 PM

MSNBC, WADR Bash Bush, Santorum for Opposing Pope on Climate Change

The media’s tendency to use the Pope to criticize Republican candidates and officials was on display Wednesday afternoon as MSNBC’s Live with Thomas Roberts and Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect took shots at the 2016 GOP presidential field and, specifically, Catholics Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum (in the case of the latter show) for opposing Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical on global warming.
Curtis Houck
June 17th, 2015 8:37 PM

Gallup Poll: Confidence in Police Rates Twice That of Mainstream Media

A new Gallup survey has revealed that Americans have approximately twice as much confidence in law enforcement personnel -- 52 percent -- as they do in newspapers -- 24 percent -- and television news -- 21 percent. The telephone poll was conducted June 2-7 and included Gallup's newest survey on confidence in U.S. institutions, which it has updated every year since 1993.
Randy Hall
June 17th, 2015 8:04 PM

BREAKING: Brian Williams Will Not Return to NBC Nightly News [UPDATED]

According to CNN's Brian Selter on Wednesday night, NBC News will announce that suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will not return to the anchor desk when his six-month suspension ends in August for having perpetuated lies about numerous stories he’s covered in his career. The network has stated that Williams will assume a new role in the network.
Curtis Houck
June 17th, 2015 7:49 PM

For Leftists, It's Open Season on Christians

If you doubt that Christians are fair game for ridicule by the cultural left, take a look at the hit piece on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Jeffrey Tayler for Salon.
David Limbaugh
June 17th, 2015 5:31 PM

Sorry, Hillary, You're So 'Yesterday'

In her reintroduction speech on Roosevelt Island in New York last Saturday, Hillary Clinton hit all the boilerplate liberal Democrat notes: The New Deal, big government, soak the rich, evil Wall Street... you know the song because the music is from a familiar score.
Cal Thomas
June 17th, 2015 5:16 PM

Liberal Actor John Cusack Rips Obama: Just as Bad as Bush

In an interview with Larry King, the liberal John Cusack again ripped Barack Obama, declaring him as bad as George W. Bush. On the topic of free speech and privacy, the actor lectured, "Well, after 9/11, right, a lot of rights went out the windows because we say magic words, like terror and so we don't need to respect constitutional rights..." 
Scott Whitlock
June 17th, 2015 4:58 PM

'So Anticipated:' CNN Hypes Pope's Document on the Environment

Delia Gallagher touted Pope Francis's upcoming encyclical on the environment on Wednesday's Wolf program on CNN by claiming how "Church leaders say that this is the first time the release of a papal encyclical has been so anticipated." Gallagher spotlighted an "epic theatrical trailer for the Pope's words" from an environmentalist group in Brazil," and hyped that "with the Pope's popularity, this…
Matthew Balan
June 17th, 2015 4:47 PM