Vox Writer Skips Obvious Laugh Line in Hillary's Speech

Jonathan Allen of General Electric Vox wrote a loving paean about Hillary Clinton's speech today at Columbia University which touched on the Baltimore riots. However, what was really notable about his article is what it left out. An inadvertently jarring laugh line which Allen very conveniently skips. 
P.J. Gladnick

George Stephanopoulos Hedges on Hillary Scandal: 'This Is a Tough One'

Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton operative, appeared on Tuesday's Daily Show and hedged on the scandal engulfing Hillary Clinton and her family's charitable foundation. Prompted by Jon Stewart, the co-host minimized, "This is a tough one. Because when you actually look at, look closely at it, he [Peter Schweizer] even says there is no evidence of any…
Scott Whitlock

Gangbanger to Toure: We Made Ties with 'Political Officials' in B'more

Bloods member Nikko Caldwell insisted in an interview with MSNBC's Toure that the gang's truce with their rivals the Crips would continue indefinitely because they have made the right ties with certain "political officials" in the city. The Cycle co-host completely dropped the ball after such a shocking admission, however, when he failed to ask Caldwell to name names.
Ken Shepherd

Twitter Rants! Celebrities Slam Baltimore’s ‘Police Brutality’

In volatile, uncertain moments like the rioting in Baltimore, most people inevitably say to themselves, “I wonder what that guy from Grey’s Anatomy thinks of all this” or, “I bet my favorite hip hop star has a thoughtful take on what’s happening.”  Well, no, they don’t. But that rarely stops celebrities from sharing anyway.
Katie Yoder

New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin Slams 'Fox News Justice' Scalia

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin blasted Antonin Scalia in a Tuesday column for The New Yorker, after the conservative Supreme Court justice cracked a joke during the oral arguments regarding the same-sex "marriage" cases. Toobin asserted that Justice Scalia's "rather refreshing" line in reaction to a pro-traditional marriage activist's disruption during the hearing was a "shocking, ugly moment…
Matthew Balan

On Newsmax TV, NB’s Noyes Talks Brian Williams, Baltimore Riots

On Tuesday, Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes appeared on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show to discuss the ongoing internal investigation at NBC News surrounding Brian Williams as well as the recent riots taking place throughout the city of Baltimore. 
NB Staff

Shepard Smith Loses It When Asked Legitimate Questions About Riots

During live coverage of the Baltimore riots during the 5:00 p.m. ET hour on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith scolded and mocked hosts of The Five for daring to ask legitimate questions about the violence. "If we want to turn this, as a nation, into something that will rile up the races, then we can do that. But it seems prudent to listen to the two sides....you get to this point, where you…
Kyle Drennen

Excusing the Rioters: How the Media Have Shifted Blame in Baltimore

The Baltimore riots surrounding the death of Freddie Gray became a moment for liberal reporters and commentators to take the blame off those who destroyed cars, looted businesses, burned a church senior center and hurled objects at police officers.
Geoffrey Dickens

WashPost Hits O'Malley For Truthful Statement on Baltimore Crime

At the Washington Post early Tuesday morning, Michelle Ye Hee Lee vetted a statement frequently made by former Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat and possible 2016 presidential contender, about reductions in crime on his watch. Ms. Lee must have been in a hermetically sealed cave during the previous two days, because her sole justification for conducting the fact check was the…
Tom Blumer

Economic Growth Slows, Networks’ Morning Shows Ignore

Economic growth has stagnated so far this year, catching the broadcast news networks inexplicably off guard yet again. The federal government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced April 29 that gross domestic product (GDP) expansion slowed to only 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015. This meant the goods and services produced by the United States economy grew only minimally, lagging…
Joseph Rossell

Nets Ignore Discovery of 'Lost' Lois Lerner E-Mails

Despite a combined eight hours of air time on Wednesday, all three network morning shows ignored the revelation that 6,400 "lost" e-mails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner have been found. On cable, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer alerted viewers, reminding, "The IRS claimed the emails were lost when learner's computer crashed three years ago. They will now be examined by the Senate Finance Committee…
Scott Whitlock

Lena Dunham on Hip-Hop: Suddenly More Tipper Gore Than Gloria Steinem

Given all the feminist hype for HBO star Lena Dunham, what she recently said about music is making her sound more like vintage Tipper Gore than a modern-day Gloria Steinem. Dunham was speaking at Variety’s Power of Women 2015 lunch when she made the following comments attacking music (most notably hip-hop and rap), which she says, “celebrates the exploiters and hides the exploited.”
Melissa Mullins

CBS’s Charlie Rose Proclaims ‘I Have Romance’ for John Oliver

On Wednesday, CBS This Morning hosted HBO’s John Oliver for an extensive promotional interview that featured the three hosts heaping praise on the “amazing” liberal comedian. In an interview that totaled more than 13 minutes across two segments, co-host Charlie Rose fawned over Oliver and proclaimed “I have romance for you” which Oliver took as an opportunity to awkwardly praise the CBS host’s “…
Jeffrey Meyer

NBC: Gay Marriage a 'Problem' for GOP, Unless Court Can 'End' Debate

Introducing a segment on Wednesday's NBC Today about the Supreme Court set "to weigh the historic arguments in a case that could bring same-sex marriage to all fifty states," co-host Matt Lauer hyped the political implications of the ruling: "...the issue is quickly becoming a major factor in the 2016 presidential race."
Kyle Drennen