CBS Ignores FBI Getting Grilled on Capitol Hill Over IG Report

Despite an avalanche of coverage of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, both ABC and NBC found time to offer full reports on FBI Director Christopher Wray facing a tough grilling on Capitol Hill on Monday over the Justice Department’s “scathing inspector general’s report.” However, CBS was far too engrossed visiting illegal immigrant detention centers along the U.S. southern border…

Kyle Drennen
June 19th, 2018 3:59 PM

Lena Dunham Bashes Pro-Lifers Neglecting Immigrants’ ‘Living Children’

Separating children from their parents is wrong – including when they’re in the womb. But don’t expect actress and producer Lena Dunham to understand that. Dunham once publicly wished she had an abortion, so her moral compass isn’t exactly stellar.
Katie Yoder
June 19th, 2018 3:36 PM

Perspective: The Atlantic Talks to Trans People With Regrets

The trans community doesn’t seem like much of a “community,” at least not if you regret your transition. They only care if you advance their agenda; no matter how miserable you may be. Carey Callahan, interviewed for a documentary with The Atlantic, experienced it first hand when she decided to go back to her biological gender.
Rachel Peterson
June 19th, 2018 2:42 PM

Gayle King Badgers Mexican American to Be Easier on Illegals

A day after sneering that the policy of separating illegal immigrants from their children is making the “Statue of Liberty weep,” CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King badgered a Mexican American to be easier on illegals. King talked to Frank, a man who works in construction.   
Scott Whitlock
June 19th, 2018 1:08 PM

Wow: The ‘View’ Argues for More Deportations, ‘Like Obama’

On Tuesday's The View, the panel talked about Trump's border policy yet again, this time actually arguing in favor of more deportations, if you can believe it. Because, Obama! After host Sara Haines talked about how she can't believe anything Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says, giving examples of times she said inaccurate things, host Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin began by making the…
Kristine Marsh
June 19th, 2018 12:59 PM

NBC Seizes on Nazi Concentration Camp Comparisons

After cable news channels CNN and MSNBC made 22 references to Nazi concentration camps and other human rights atrocities during coverage of illegal immigrant detention centers along the U.S. southern border over the past few days, on Tuesday, NBC decided to join in touting the extreme rhetoric. Specifically, the Nazi death camp comparison was repeated four times in three hours, across two of…

Kyle Drennen
June 19th, 2018 12:24 PM

New Yorker Fact Checker Doesn't Check Facts, Calls Veteran A Nazi

Over the weekend, Justin Gaertner, a wounded U.S. Marine veteran, came under fire because a New Yorker journalist mistook his tattoo for a Nazi symbol. The staff writer and fact checker, Talia Lavin, took to Twitter to condemn the man who now works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a forensic analyst.
Alec Sears
June 19th, 2018 11:43 AM

Nets Flood Broadcasts With 176 Minutes of Separated Kids Coverage

Outraged anchors and correspondents at ABC, CBS and NBC attacked the Trump administration for separating children from parents at the border as they overwhelmed their Monday morning and evening news programs with a massive 94 minutes of coverage on the detainment policy. Overall, in just six days of coverage (June 13 through June 18) the nets have flooded their broadcasts with almost three hours…
Geoffrey Dickens
June 19th, 2018 11:02 AM

Conservative Coalition Calls on Tech Giants to Eliminate Bias

RESTON, VA – On Tuesday, the Media Research Center (MRC) and the recently formed coalition, Conservatives Against Online Censorship, called on tech giants Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to release blueprints by September 1 for how they will address the four following key areas of concern:
NB Staff
June 19th, 2018 10:14 AM

ABC's Muir Asks David Hogg to Teach Others How to Be Civil on Guns

On Tuesday's Good Morning America, fill-in anchor David Muir held a sympathetic sit-down interview with Parkland activist David Hogg and his sister Lauren to promote their anti-gun activism movement called #NeverAgain. Muir pretended that Hogg had never been nasty to people who disagreed with him politically, and actually asked him what lessons he could share about how to deal with critics, with…
Kristine Marsh
June 19th, 2018 10:08 AM

SPLC Pays $3.375 Million, Apologizes to Moderate Muslim Group

The anti-conservative Southern Poverty Law Center just learned hate can be expensive. The SPLC had to “apologize” to a moderate Muslim organization and give it a nearly $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit. It added: “In a public statement, the SPLC’s president, Richard Cohen, explained that “Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by…
Gabriel Hays
June 19th, 2018 9:37 AM

Actor Blasts U.S.: We Are ‘Among the Worst Abusers of Human Rights'

Actor Ron Perlman suffered a meltdown on Twitter, Monday, attacking the United States, smearing a Marine and launching into a profanity-laced tirade. The star of shows such as Sons of Anarchy and films like Pacific Rim freaked at the news that America would be withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council: 
Scott Whitlock
June 19th, 2018 9:29 AM

Crackdown Against Abuse of Asylum Claims Sparks Panic at Telemundo

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement that federal law enforcement and judicial authorities are now working in unison to stop the rash of illegitimate asylum claims that have plagued the U.S. immigration system in recent years is meeting with stiff opposition from Telemundo, the Spanish-language sister network of NBC.
Garvin Oliver and Ken Oliver-Méndez
June 19th, 2018 9:27 AM

Reiner: Unhinged Resistance Is Fine, Just Don't Be Profane About It

In an interview posted on Wednesday, Hollywood Director Rob Reiner criticized Robert De Niro's profane, F-bomb Tony Awards speech aimed at President Donald Trump because such antics end up "helping Trump." (He didn't mention that the crowd's gleeful applause and Hollywood elitists' support on social media for De Niro's rant contributed mightily to "helping Trump.") On Howard Kurtz's Sunday Media…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2018 3:53 AM