Andrea Mitchell Hails Hillary: 'Not Afraid to Run as Her Own Woman'

On Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell cheered Hillary Clinton "carving out her own identity as a candidate" by "breaking ranks with a key part of her husband's legacy – a tough anti-crime bill now blamed for some of the problems dividing communities like Baltimore."
Kyle Drennen
April 30th, 2015 3:32 PM

Time Lets Cecile Richards Plug Abortion As Key for Women's Dreams

Young women, do you want to attain your dreams and seize your opportunities? Then snuffing out an innocent life may be just the thing for you!  In an April 28 piece for TIME, Cecile Richards, president of taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood, argued, “We Need to Talk – Really Talk – About Abortion.” In it, her “talk” focused on how abortion is “key to women’s opportunity” and an outlet to “pursue…
Katie Yoder
April 30th, 2015 3:19 PM

Time Reporter Obeys When Obama Says Put Cameras Down at Lunch Spot

When they're not fawning over President Obama at their annual dinner, the White House Correspondents Association has protested the White House trying to limit any independent photography of its events. But even outside the White House, reporters cave when Obama demands they stop filming him. Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit noted the quick media surrender happened at the trendy restaurant…
Tim Graham
April 30th, 2015 2:04 PM

Conservatives Rally Behind Tony Perkins and Blast CBS's Schieffer

Under the auspices of the Conservative Action Project (CAP), more than 40 conservative leaders sent a letter to David Rhodes, president of CBS News. The letter slammed Bob Schieffer for his recent bigoted and biased remarks and put forward conservative support for Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins.
NB Staff
April 30th, 2015 1:51 PM

NBC Reporter Aghast That Getting Arrested Unpleasant for Juveniles

Only among liberals is it deemed newsworthy that spending unsolicited time in police custody doesn't resemble a weekend at Disney. Speaking with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last night, NBC reporter Rehema Ellis could barely contain her disgust that juveniles arrested in Baltimore on criminal charges aren't being treated with "kid gloves." After all, they're just "kids", right?
Jack Coleman
April 30th, 2015 1:40 PM

Cuomo Warns Baltimore Protester About Police: 'You Know How They Are'

CNN's Chris Cuomo warned a protester in Baltimore about a possible police overreaction on Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360. Cuomo walked up to a line of demonstrators who were protesting the death of Freddie Gray, and underlined that the police would go after them: "You got to know: walking toward the cops in the middle of the street – they're going to come at you." When one of the protesters…
Matthew Balan
April 30th, 2015 1:36 PM

CBS Gently Wonders If Baltimore Mayor Wants a 'Do-Over'

Journalists at CBS and ABC on Thursday gently, gingerly interviewed the Democratic mayor of Baltimore. The two networks either ignored or downplayed a gaffe made by Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King cautiously questioned the woman, whose city has been the site of violent looting and rioting. King vaguely wondered, "Mayor, it's been a rough week for you personally... If…
Scott Whitlock
April 30th, 2015 11:45 AM

Larry Wilmore Insists ‘Thug’ Is the New ‘N-Word’

On Wednesday night, Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore went to great lengths to promote the idea that calling rioters in Baltimore thugs was just a socially acceptable way of using the “n-word.” The Nightly Show comedian began is commentary by playing several edited clips of different people referring to the Baltimore rioters as thugs, including President Obama, which Wilmore took great offense to…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 30th, 2015 11:31 AM

PunditFact Calls Accurate Claim on Clinton Foundation 'Mostly False'

If Rush Limbaugh told his audience that the sun rose in the east today, it seems that PunditFact, an arm of Politifact, would find a way to determine that he wasn't telling the truth. That's pretty much what you have to conclude from the web site's laughable evaluation of Limbaugh's true assertion that "The Federalist reports only 15 percent of the money donated to the Clinton Family Foundation…
Tom Blumer
April 30th, 2015 11:06 AM

Nets Tout Socialist Sanders in 2016 Race, NBC Skips Left-Wing Label

On Thursday, all three network morning shows noted independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders entering the 2016 presidential race as a Democrat. However, NBC's Today left out any mention of the self-described socialist's radical left-wing views.
Kyle Drennen
April 30th, 2015 11:03 AM

Bloomberg Promotes $100M LGBT Funding Event

Liberals who habitually decry all the money in politics may want to turn their attention to Dallas today. That’s where a secretive meeting of millionaires and billionaires is convening and planning how to deploy $100 million over the next decade to influence American politics. Closed to the press and public, the exclusive, invitation-only event includes the famous and not-so-famous, just so long…
Matt Philbin
April 30th, 2015 10:06 AM

Poll: Just 2% of Young Americans Trust Media to ‘Do the Right Thing’

A new poll from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics has some alarming findings about the trustworthiness of the American media. Among adults aged 18-29, the poll found that just 12 percent believe the media "do the right thing." 
Jeffrey Meyer
April 30th, 2015 9:44 AM

Scarborough: Howard Dean the 'New England Version of Carville'

How did Howard Dean go from vivid voice of the New Left to political hack defending Hillary Clinton at all costs? Joe Scarborough called Dean on it today, telling Howard he had become the "New England version of James Carville." Dean, on today's Morning Joe, dismissed the latest Washington Post story suggesting possible financial improprieties at the Clinton Foundation as "a breathless piece of…
Mark Finkelstein
April 30th, 2015 9:13 AM

Media Still Ooze at 'Stunning' and 'Effortlessly Chic' Michelle Obama

It may be the “fourth quarter” of the Obama presidency, but the flower-petal patrol around First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t slowing down. Wednesday’s USA Today carried a flashy photo montage titled “SPRING FORWARD WITH MICHELLE.” “On the heels of a stunning turn by the first lady at the celeb-laden White House Correspondents’ Dinner, USA Today’s Andrea Mandell takes a look at the effortlessly…
Tim Graham
April 30th, 2015 9:02 AM