Bozell Discusses 'Collusion' With John Miller of National Review

MRC president Brent Bozell talked about his book Collusion with Tim Graham in an interview with John J. MIller at National Review as part of his author-interview series "Between the Covers." Miller began asking about the subtitle, the charge that the media stole the 2012 election. "When the good folks at Harper Collins came to me with the idea of doing this book, and that title was  suggested…
NB Staff
July 19th, 2013 5:31 PM

MSNBC's Hayes Suggests He Defended Rolling Stone Cover Because Michell

On Thursday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes again demonstrated just how far left his views are when he admitted that he has had difficulty understanding the widespread criticism of Rolling Stone magazine over its provocative cover photo of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. To his credit, Hayes brought aboard someone with an opposing opinion from his own in the form of The List's…
Brad Wilmouth
July 19th, 2013 4:24 PM

Breitbart's Shapiro Outshines Politico's Tau in Initial Coverage of Pr

President Obama made a surprise appearance at today's White House briefing. He chose to speak on Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman situation. Byron Tau at the Politico and Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com's Big Government have initial reports. Let's compare them, shall we?
Tom Blumer
July 19th, 2013 3:15 PM

Blogger Mychal Denzel Smith Equates Zimmerman Defense with Justifying

MSNBC's Steve Kornacki took to the air on Sunday morning's edition of Up with a panel comprised exclusively of liberal African Americanshe panel, which was composed of exclusively African-American liberals, all in agreement regarding their disdain for the not-guilty verdict reached in the Zimmerman trial on Saturday. [Link to the audio here] But Mychal Denzel Smith of The Nation took his…
Nathan Roush
July 19th, 2013 3:00 PM

PBS NewsHour Mentions ‘Worry’ From Supporters, Omits Union Critici

PBS led off Thursday’s NewsHour with a story about President Obama’s efforts to defend his healthcare law amid increasing public skepticism. But the taxpayer-funded network managed to avoid mentioning the recent harsh criticism of the law from three prominent labor union leaders, despite a vague reference to “worry from some supporters.” Anchor Jeffrey Brown, who narrated the package,…
Paul Bremmer
July 19th, 2013 2:18 PM

Twitter Explodes With Vulgar Racial Epithets Towards Bill Cosby and Ch

On Thursday, NewsBusters reported stunning comments made by Emmy Awarding-winning actor Bill Cosby and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley concerning race and the George Zimmerman trial. Much as liberals attacked conservative talk radio host Larry Elder for his comments about this issue Wednesday, Twitter exploded with vulgar racial epithets towards Cosby and Barkley Thursday (extreme vulgarity…
Noel Sheppard
July 19th, 2013 1:57 PM

Speaking for ‘All White People,’ Chris Matthews Apologizes to Blac

On Thursday, limousine liberal Chris Matthews took it upon himself to apologize on behalf of all white people for unspecified transgressions. “I’ll just tell you one thing,” Matthews said. “And I’m speaking now for all white people, but especially [the ones] who’ve tried to change the last 50 or 60 years. And a lot of them really tried to change, and I’m sorry for this stuff. That’s all I’m…
Joe Newby
July 19th, 2013 1:18 PM

NBC's Mitchell Avoids Tough Questions with Pelosi, Asks About Hillary

NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell sat down for an interview with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. But instead of asking the Democratic leader tough questions about issues facing the House of Representatives this summer, Mitchell instead chose to lob softballs at the former speaker of the House – giving…
Andrew Lautz
July 19th, 2013 1:15 PM

The Atlantic: Look! Pro-Life Women Exist

We shouldn’t be surprised that the liberal media is frustrated over the fact that pro-life conservatives won a monumental battle in Texas on July 13.  HB-2, which was signed into law by Gov. Perry yesterday bans abortions after 20-weeks into a pregnancy.  It also mandates that abortion clinics upgrade their medical equipment – and be reclassified as surgical medical centers.  Particularly…
Matt Vespa
July 19th, 2013 1:00 PM

NBC's 'Today' Gushes Over Rahm Emanuel's Dance Moves, Ignores Chicago

On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie promoted a video of Rahm Emanuel caught dancing at a Chicago music festival: "Rahm's rhythm. You know, a lot of people find it just hard to sit still when they hear Robin Thicke's hit summer anthem Blurred Lines. Well now you can add Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's mayor, to that group." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] While the…
Kyle Drennen
July 19th, 2013 12:44 PM

NB's Bozell: Sharpton Is a Racist with No Credibility to Pass Judgment

MSNBC's Al Sharpton become a "millionaire celebrity" by "stirring the flames of racial discord," but the "Lean Forward" network won't ever admit that to its viewers, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity on the July 18 edition of his eponymous program. "They won't talk about Al Sharpton's record. They won't talk about Crown Heights and the racial discord that…
NB Staff
July 19th, 2013 11:31 AM

On Detroit Bankruptcy, All Three Networks Skip the Sky High Taxes, Dem

 All three networks on Thursday night and Friday morning avoided key factors in the bankruptcy of Detroit, skipping the city's astronomically high tax rate and ignoring Democratic dominance for the previous half century. (Detroit's last Republican mayor left office in 1962.) Instead, ABC, NBC and CBS acted as though the bankruptcy, what Brian Williams called "the slow-moving tragedy of decline…
Scott Whitlock
July 19th, 2013 11:17 AM

Indiana Health Insurance Rates Rise 72% Under ObamaCare - Will Media R

Liberal media members earlier this week pounced on a New York Times article claiming that health insurance rates in the Empire State will decline by 50 percent when ObamaCare fully kicks in. Will they give similar attention to Thursday's announcement from the Indiana Department of Insurance that health insurance rates in the Hoosier State will rise by an average of 72 percent as a result of…
Noel Sheppard
July 19th, 2013 11:07 AM

ABC, CBS and NBC to Viewers: IRS Scandal? Please, That's Old News

The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have essentially censored the latest IRS scandal news. Not a single network reported on the bombshell coming out of Thursday’s congressional hearing that IRS employees were ordered to send Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins, who at that time was the only Obama political…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 19th, 2013 10:57 AM