Bozell & Graham Column: Trump Hits a Home Run

One after another, the pundits hailed this first joint address to Congress as Donald Trump’s finest speech, though the usual naysayers were quick to add snarkily that it was his only good speech, yuk-yuk.  Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume, a serious analyst with, by his count, some 40 of these speeches under his belt, called Tuesday night’s State of the Union address one of the most riveting and…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

CNN Hires Top Obama Aide's Daughter as Justice Dept. Correspondent

Now that CNN is in full High Dudgeon mode against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking whether he can  "last" in office, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire reminds us that in the midst of Inauguration hoopla, CNN hired Laura Jarrett, the daughter of powerful Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, to be a correspondent at the Justice Department. Jarrett is a Harvard-educated lawyer, but has zero experience in…
Tim Graham

'Star Wars' Actor: Lack of Diverse Casting Will Cause Men to Join ISIS

Actor Riz Ahmed, a star of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, gave a warning to the British Parliament and entertainment industry that due to a lack of diverse roles in television and movies, people could turn to ISIS in an effort to feel they “belong” to something or somewhere. “In the mind of the ISIS recruit, he’s the next James Bond, right? Have you seen some of those ISIS propaganda videos, they…
Melissa Mullins

ABC’s ‘When We Rise:’ Gay Marriage Not Enough – The Struggle Continues

The final installment of ABC’s ratings disaster When We Rise quietly ended Friday night with a victory and a warning. In the episode titled “Night IV,” the stabilization of the AIDS outbreak led to the charge for gay marriage. The success of California’s Proposition 8 – the state constitutional amendment that banned same sex marriage – lit a fire under the gay activists in San Francisco and led…
Karen Townsend

NBC's Todd Asks Dem If He Can Use Exec Order to Block NC Bathroom Law

On Friday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, during a pre-recorded interview with North Carolina Democratic Governor Roy Cooper about his efforts to get the state legislature to repeal the state's bathroom law, host Chuck Todd seemed to approach the interview with a premise sympathetic to getting the law repealed, and at one point even asked if it was possible for the Democratic governor to use an executive…
Brad Wilmouth

ABCNews.com Skips Anti-Trump Leftist Politics of JCC Threat Suspect

Imagine if the suspect arrested today in connection with making phone threats to Jewish community centers around the nation had been a big Donald Trump supporter. Do any of you have any doubt at all that the fact of his support for Trump would have been in the first paragraph of all the mainstream media reports of his arrest? In fact, it would probably have appeared in the very first sentence.
P.J. Gladnick

Media Uproar: Movie Theater ‘Idiots’ Cancel Film With Gay Nod

A small movie theater is at the center of media controversy after it announced it would not show Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast. The Henagar Drive-in Theatre in Henagar, Alabama, is a small business committed to showing family-oriented films. Once the owners realized that Beauty and the Beast would feature Disney’s first gay character, LeFou, they took to Facebook with a notice. 
Sarah Stites

Pundit: Like Almost All GOPers, Trump Practices ‘Voodoo Economics’

How is Donald Trump “not a normal Republican”? Let New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait count the ways. Trump is “crudely ethno-nationalist,” wrote Chait in a Tuesday post, and he’s “personally ignorant and undisciplined in a manner that sets him apart not only from traditional Republicans but most human adults.” That’s pretty much it for Trump’s deviations from orthodoxy, according to Chait, who…
Tom Johnson

Actor Patrick Stewart: 'I'm Moving to America to Fight Donald Trump'

As NewsBusters has previously reported, many actors and other liberals in the entertainment industry have gone out of their way to criticize Donald Trump since the Republican was elected president on November 8. The latest addition to this list is British actor Patrick Stewart, who is best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise and…
Randy Hall

The Revolution Moves to the Bathroom

WASHINGTON — As I find myself happily on the far side of middle age, I had assumed that I was now exempt from at least some of the cultural battles roaring through American society. How wrong I was. I recently found myself, despite my utter insouciance toward gender politics, suddenly hauled onto the battlefield, notwithstanding I am a full-bodied adult male somewhat advanced in years. Let me…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

HYPOCRISY: 7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt

If you ever doubted that the media see the news through a partisan prism, consider this: in less than two days, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted nearly 7 times as much coverage to Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian Ambassador in his role as a U.S. Senator than they did when then-Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June 2012.
Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes

MRC’s Bozell: Media Must Report All the Facts on AG Sessions’ Meeting

On Friday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell released a following statement regarding the media coverage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his interactions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
NB Staff

EWTN Pro-Life News Show to ‘Untangle Lies’ of Abortion Industry

In the past, the liberal media have either spun or omitted their coverage of abortion and the pro-life movement. But now there’s a new media source to turn to: EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly. On Friday, the EWTN Global Catholic Network, together with Susan B. Anthony List, will launch a half-hour weekly program to engage viewers with pro-life news while promoting a culture of life. Beginning March 3, Pro…
Katie Yoder

AP Touts Label of Conservative Author as a 'White Supremacist'

After longtime conservative author, columnist, and think tank scholar Charles Murray was chased on Thursday from far-left Middlebury College by an angry mob, the Associated Press felt more than comfortable smearing Murray as a supposed “white nationalist.”  
Curtis Houck