CBS Highlights Florida Green Project Turned Eco-Disaster

Environmentalism is a disaster. CBS Evening News reported that Ft. Lauderdale found itself in an ecological disaster after a local government sponsored the dumping of millions of tires in the city’s waters. In its Dec. 16 broadcast, CBS said that used tires, originally intended to form artificial reefs for new fish, dispersed and created an untenable living space for the city’s wildlife.
Sam Dorman
December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM

CBS Muslim Focus Group: Don’t Let Children Watch ‘Hateful’ GOP Debates

In a focus group with American Muslims on CBS This Morning, participants told political strategist Frank Luntz that Republicans discussing terrorism was so offensive that their children could not be exposed to GOP debates. One woman warned: “I actually did a call out to Muslim parents across the country to not watch the Republican debate in front of their children because I knew that, that –…
Kyle Drennen
December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM

Blogger On Gun Control: ‘No Rational Conservatives In This Country’

Starting with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, several mass shootings have brought about considerable debate regarding restrictions on access to firearms for the mentally ill. D.R. Tucker argued last Sunday that denying guns to “deranged individuals” should have been a special cause for conservatives long before -- specifically, since March 1981, when John Hinckley tried to assassinate…
Tom Johnson
December 18th, 2015 11:02 AM

Best Bet to Beat Hillary? Mika Says It's Trump

The polls might currently be suggesting something else, but Mika Brzezinski's view on which Republican has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton might surprise you. On today's Morning Joe, Mika said "If you want someone to beat Hillary Clinton, it would be Donald Trump. Because he will do things that none of those candidates will do . . . The Democratic party has a problem if Trump wins the…
Mark Finkelstein
December 18th, 2015 8:20 AM

NYT: ‘Hard-Right’ GOP Foreign Policy Dummies ‘Dwell Darkly’

Thursday’s New York Times was particularly dense with bias against the "hard-right" and "far-right" Republican Party, starting on the front page, where a story about Latino candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio turned into a criticism of GOP immigration policy, and reaching the back page, with an editorial hitting the Republican Party for its "Appalling Silence on Gun Control" (the candidates "…
Clay Waters
December 18th, 2015 8:15 AM

Clueless Cosmo: Buying a Gun in Mo. Is Easier Than Getting an Abortion

The people who run Cosmopolitan Magazine's Twitter account really stepped in it today — and they're so utterly clueless that they doubled and tripled down on their ignorance. Cosmo's tweeters have thrown themselves behind legislation drafted by Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman. Newman, a Democrat, actually believes that it is more difficult to get an abortion in the Show Me State than…
Tom Blumer
December 18th, 2015 1:22 AM

Obama Turns Bear Grylls Show Into a Global Warming Yuck Fest

So, if you were playing a drinking game where you took a shot for every time Bear Grylls congratulates President Obama on saving the world during Thursday night’s episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” I hope you filled out a will before doing so. Because you are no longer alive.
Dylan Gwinn
December 18th, 2015 1:02 AM

Hollywood Hypes Sheldon and Amy Putting the Bang in ‘Big Bang Theory’

Leading up to tonight’s winter season finale of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, “The Opening Night Excitation,” the breathless anticipation of Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayam Bialik) having sex was palpable. The mocking was crude and vulgar, to say the least. Spoiler alerts flew as entertainment writers couldn’t bear to keep the juicy secret. The show’s creator and executive producer, Chuck Lorre…
Karen Townsend
December 17th, 2015 10:43 PM

NBC's Mitchell Claims 'A Lot of Discrimination' Against Muslims

Nearing the end of her MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed that "there is a lot of discrimination" against Muslims as she was introducing President Barack Obama's 1:00 p.m. speech. After suggesting that some of the "rhetoric" at Tuesday's GOP presidential debate was "really a recruitment tool for ISIS," she…
Brad Wilmouth
December 17th, 2015 9:56 PM

'CBS Evening News' Downplays Ash Carter's Private E-Mail Scandal

The Big Three broadcast network evening newscasts all touched on the revelation that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter used private e-mails for government business and this well after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire for exclusively conducting her official email correspondence that way. That said, only CBS's Evening News downplayed the significance of the story by…

Ken Shepherd
December 17th, 2015 8:53 PM

Late Night TV Targets Trump and GOP Over Hillary and the Democrats

A new report from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University finds that it’s not just the news media that’s obsessed with Donald Trump. A study of jokes told by late night comedians finds that GOP frontrunner was the target of more punchlines (308) than the rest of the GOP field combined (282). And Republicans were targeted by more than twice as many jokes as Democrats…

Rich Noyes
December 17th, 2015 8:07 PM

ExxonMobil, the Kochs 'Enemies of the State'? Kerry Won't Disagree

James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal wrote his last column of 2015 on a John Kerry profile by New Yorker editor David Remnick, and a Rolling Stone interview with Kerry. "He denies -- too strongly -- that he's still bitter over 2004. Taranto saw liberal media hypocrisy as Kerry was noncommittal on Rolling Stone's suggestion that Exxon Mobil and the Koch brothers should be considered treasonous…
Tim Graham
December 17th, 2015 5:53 PM

‘View’ Gun Rant: Build ‘an Assault Weapons Wall!’

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg went on a rant, Thursday, as she reported the news that a majority of Americans oppose a new ban on so-called assault weapons. Referencing Donald Trump, she lobbied, “Because it seems to me, you know, you want to ban people, you want to ban a people from coming. You want to build a wall? How about an assault weapon wall? Let's build a wall about that!” 
Scott Whitlock
December 17th, 2015 5:47 PM

NewsBusted: Might the IRS Finally Clip Rev. Al's Wings?

"The State Department may rescind passports for tax delinquents… which will make it almost impossible for Al Sharpton to vacation at Charlie Rangel's timeshare." -- Jodi Miller of NewsBusted.
NB Staff
December 17th, 2015 5:23 PM