Colbert Cozies Up to Elizabeth Warren, Pleads with Her to Run for Pres

Joining new Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s show, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) received quite the welcome as the liberal late-night host compared her to Batman and repeatedly urged her to consider running for president. Near the tail end of his opening monologue, Colbert hyped that Warren “has launched a one-woman crusade against the billionaire class” and is “like…
Curtis Houck
September 24th, 2015 2:40 AM

Veteran AP Reporter Promotes Absurd 'Laissez Faire Regulation' Myth

The competition for the most annoying aspect of establishment press business reporting is fierce. One which immediately identifies a reporter as hopelessly biased and ignorant is any reference to "laissez faire" as a condition allegedly present in any modern economy anywhere on earth. "Laissez faire" is an economic concept involving "an economic system in which transactions between private…
Tom Blumer
September 24th, 2015 1:48 AM

Frank Rich: Carson Appealing to Racists, 'Muslim Is the New Black'

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's CNN Tonight, former New York Times columnist Frank Rich -- now of New York magazine -- accused GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson of receiving support from a "racist, bigoted part of the Republican base," in the aftermath of Dr. Carson's comments opposing the election of a Muslim President. A bit later, he even accused GOP candidate Mike Huckabee of "…
Brad Wilmouth
September 24th, 2015 12:57 AM

ABC's 'Blackish' Leads with the N-Word in Season Premier

In its first season, ABC’s Blackish waited until about the 6th episode before delving into any meaty topics of political/social controversy. In their second season, they’ve taken a slightly different approach. On Wednesday’s season premier, an episode titled “THE Word,” blackish jumped right in and dedicated the first episode to the n-word.
Dylan Gwinn
September 24th, 2015 12:37 AM

NPR: Hillary Timed Keystone Announcement to Pope's Visit

It would appear that Hillary Clinton's act is wearing thin even among the people at that liberal bastion known as NPR. Tuesday afternoon, the headline at an NPR story about Mrs. Clinton's sudden decision to publicly announce her opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline project indicated that her announcement was deliberately timed to coincide with Pope Francis's visit to the United States (HT…
Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2015 10:46 PM

Walker Didn’t Appeal to GOP’s ‘Increasingly Disreputable Base’

A few months ago, many liberals, including much of the bloggerati, were afraid that Walker had a good chance to win not only the Republican presidential nomination but also the presidency. Now that Walker’s out of the GOP race, several lefty pundits have weighed in on why.
Tom Johnson
September 23rd, 2015 10:13 PM

ABC’s WNT, CBS EN Punt on FBI Recovering Lost Hillary E-Mails

On Wednesday evening, ABC and CBS moved on from the latest break in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal as it was revealed that the FBI has been able to recover an unknown number of previously deleted personal and work e-mails from Clinton’s private e-mail server. The CBS Evening News also completely ignored the 2016 presidential campaign to instead give a full segment to the five-year-old girl…
Curtis Houck
September 23rd, 2015 9:51 PM

NYT Flips Off Walker as He Leaves Race: Made 'Tacit Racial Appeals'

Jason Horowitz, one of the New York Times more colorful reporters, gave Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a gleeful finger upon his departure from the Republican presidential race, suggesting Walker has advanced his career on racist appeals in "Dismal Finish Is a Fitting Result, Old Foes Say." Horowitz wrote on Tuesday: "Old political adversaries of Mr. Walker greeted his dour denouement as a fitting…
Clay Waters
September 23rd, 2015 9:35 PM

Dem Rep: Challenge Pope on Abortion, Gays, Not Illegals, Poverty

To quote the Church Lady: isn't that conv-e-e-e-e-nient? On Chris Hayes' MSNBC show tonight, Dem congressman Luis Gutierrez claimed that while he was "challenged" by the Catholic church's teachings on abortion and gay rights and found them "difficult" [but not difficult enough to change his standard liberal positions], no one can really argue the Pope's positions on illegal immigration and…
Mark Finkelstein
September 23rd, 2015 9:28 PM

Matthews: Women Could Be Priests If Rome Allowed Married Clergy First

Cradle Catholic Chris Matthews spent the first segment of his September 23 Hardball program effusively praising Pope Francis, particularly for raising immigration and climate change in his brief remarks at a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. But in a later segment, Matthews and guests Joan Walsh and Sister Simone Campbell lamented how even the liberal-leaning Francis is…
Ken Shepherd
September 23rd, 2015 8:52 PM

Matthews Slams 'Fragile' Benedict; Williams Hypes Chris's 'Patriotism'

Joining Brian Williams for his second day back anchoring MSNBC’s coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States on Wednesday afternoon, Catholic and Hardball host Chris Matthews blasted Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict XVI for being “so fragile and removed” and possessing a “weakness” and “coldness” that Francis does not have. The disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor gushed over…
Curtis Houck
September 23rd, 2015 8:15 PM

Maddow: Conservatives Lament Pope's Visit as 'The End of the World'

It's too much to expect that Rachel Maddow will accurately report that many conservatives express misgivings about Pope Francis's leftist economics and willingness to wade into the political realm.MSNBC's most earnest evening host prefers to depict conservatives as adorned with sandwich boards and sputtering incoherent warnings of doom in response to the pope's visit to the U.S.
Jack Coleman
September 23rd, 2015 7:45 PM

Daily Beast: 'Indefensible' for Catholic Hospital to Refuse Surgery

Welcome to the United States, Pope Francis, it's "indefensible" that Catholic hospitals refuse to perform tubal ligation surgery on women. That is the thrust of a Daily Beast piece written by one Jessica Mann, who explained her plight in a September 23 article headlined, "A Catholic Hospital Says It’s ‘Evil’ For Me to Get My Tubes Tied"
Ken Shepherd
September 23rd, 2015 6:14 PM

Bozell Highlights Media's Support for the Pope's Liberal Views

During an appearance on FBN's Cavuto: Coast to Coast this afternoon, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell examined the media's eager promotion of Pope Francis in light of areas where he weighs in  in favor of liberal pet causes like combating climate change by government intervention.
NB Staff
September 23rd, 2015 5:04 PM