New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin Slams 'Fox News Justice' Scalia

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin blasted Antonin Scalia in a Tuesday column for The New Yorker, after the conservative Supreme Court justice cracked a joke during the oral arguments regarding the same-sex "marriage" cases. Toobin asserted that Justice Scalia's "rather refreshing" line in reaction to a pro-traditional marriage activist's disruption during the hearing was a "shocking, ugly moment…
Matthew Balan
April 29th, 2015 3:22 PM

On Newsmax TV, NB’s Noyes Talks Brian Williams, Baltimore Riots

On Tuesday, Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes appeared on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show to discuss the ongoing internal investigation at NBC News surrounding Brian Williams as well as the recent riots taking place throughout the city of Baltimore. 
NB Staff
April 29th, 2015 2:30 PM

Shepard Smith Loses It When Asked Legitimate Questions About Riots

During live coverage of the Baltimore riots during the 5:00 p.m. ET hour on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith scolded and mocked hosts of The Five for daring to ask legitimate questions about the violence. "If we want to turn this, as a nation, into something that will rile up the races, then we can do that. But it seems prudent to listen to the two sides....you get to this point, where you…
Kyle Drennen
April 29th, 2015 2:24 PM

Excusing the Rioters: How the Media Have Shifted Blame in Baltimore

The Baltimore riots surrounding the death of Freddie Gray became a moment for liberal reporters and commentators to take the blame off those who destroyed cars, looted businesses, burned a church senior center and hurled objects at police officers.
Geoffrey Dickens
April 29th, 2015 12:59 PM

WashPost Hits O'Malley For Truthful Statement on Baltimore Crime

At the Washington Post early Tuesday morning, Michelle Ye Hee Lee vetted a statement frequently made by former Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat and possible 2016 presidential contender, about reductions in crime on his watch. Ms. Lee must have been in a hermetically sealed cave during the previous two days, because her sole justification for conducting the fact check was the…
Tom Blumer
April 29th, 2015 12:50 PM

Economic Growth Slows, Networks’ Morning Shows Ignore

Economic growth has stagnated so far this year, catching the broadcast news networks inexplicably off guard yet again. The federal government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced April 29 that gross domestic product (GDP) expansion slowed to only 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015. This meant the goods and services produced by the United States economy grew only minimally, lagging…
Joseph Rossell
April 29th, 2015 11:55 AM

Nets Ignore Discovery of 'Lost' Lois Lerner E-Mails

Despite a combined eight hours of air time on Wednesday, all three network morning shows ignored the revelation that 6,400 "lost" e-mails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner have been found. On cable, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer alerted viewers, reminding, "The IRS claimed the emails were lost when learner's computer crashed three years ago. They will now be examined by the Senate Finance Committee…
Scott Whitlock
April 29th, 2015 11:46 AM

Lena Dunham on Hip-Hop: Suddenly More Tipper Gore Than Gloria Steinem

Given all the feminist hype for HBO star Lena Dunham, what she recently said about music is making her sound more like vintage Tipper Gore than a modern-day Gloria Steinem. Dunham was speaking at Variety’s Power of Women 2015 lunch when she made the following comments attacking music (most notably hip-hop and rap), which she says, “celebrates the exploiters and hides the exploited.”
Melissa Mullins
April 29th, 2015 11:28 AM

CBS’s Charlie Rose Proclaims ‘I Have Romance’ for John Oliver

On Wednesday, CBS This Morning hosted HBO’s John Oliver for an extensive promotional interview that featured the three hosts heaping praise on the “amazing” liberal comedian. In an interview that totaled more than 13 minutes across two segments, co-host Charlie Rose fawned over Oliver and proclaimed “I have romance for you” which Oliver took as an opportunity to awkwardly praise the CBS host’s “…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 29th, 2015 11:10 AM

NBC: Gay Marriage a 'Problem' for GOP, Unless Court Can 'End' Debate

Introducing a segment on Wednesday's NBC Today about the Supreme Court set "to weigh the historic arguments in a case that could bring same-sex marriage to all fifty states," co-host Matt Lauer hyped the political implications of the ruling: "...the issue is quickly becoming a major factor in the 2016 presidential race."
Kyle Drennen
April 29th, 2015 11:04 AM

Lefty Blogger: ‘Systemic Racism of America’ Unchanged Since 1870s

Late in the Reconstruction period and for many years thereafter, white-supremacist paramilitary groups often committed acts of terrorism in the southern United States. That much is clear. Also clear, at least to Daily Kos's Denise Oliver-Velez, is that the spirit of those groups lives today in American police departments and in the viewership of Fox News. “They don't kill us in bunches anymore.…
Tom Johnson
April 29th, 2015 10:51 AM

Scarborough Gives Pass to 'No Justice No Peace' Pastor

Yesterday, we reported on how just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an impassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement.  He also told the…
Mark Finkelstein
April 29th, 2015 10:05 AM

Scarborough: GOP Voters Make ‘Horrible Decisions Every 4 Years'

Occasionally Morning Joe can be quite eclectic. When watching the show, one could be following a clear trail of logic, only to be blindsided by a burst of absurdity. Such was the case with Monday’s broadcast, in which Joe Scarborough compared Republican voters to drunks. While critiquing Hillary’s prospects for the presidency in the face of the Clinton Foundation scandals, Joe suddenly jumped…
Bryan Ballas
April 29th, 2015 6:30 AM

On Newsmax TV, NB's Graham Discusses Williams Investigation Leaks

On Tuesday afternoon, NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on Newsmax TV to discuss leaked revelations from an internal investigation at NBC News regarding Nightly News anchor Brian Williams various tall tales told on air.
NB Staff
April 29th, 2015 12:24 AM