ABC, CBS Won’t Explicitly Cite Hamas For Ending Cease-Fire; Labeled

During Friday morning’s coverage of the 72-hour cease-fire ending in Gaza, ABC and CBS refused to explicitly acknowledge Hamas as the party responsible for ending the cease-fire with Israel. Instead, those two networks referred to those responsible only as “militants” or “Palestinian militants” firing rockets at Israel. NBC’s Today did cite Hamas as the side responsible for terminating the…
Curtis Houck
August 8th, 2014 3:25 PM

Flashback: In October 2001, Liberal Media Bashed Bush for Air-dropping

As President Obama authorizes both limited airstrikes on ISIS targets and the air-dropping of relief supplies to beleaguered religious minorities in northern Iraq, we thought it good to rewind to the early days of the war in Afghanistan when the liberal media criticized President Bush for both bombing al Qaeda and Taliban targets while simultaneously air-dropping food and medicine for civilians…
NB Staff
August 8th, 2014 3:05 PM

Only NBC Mentions Criticism of Obama Being 'Too Late' to Combat ISIS T

Of the three network morning shows on Friday, only NBC's Today made any mention of President Obama being criticized over his slow response to the terrorist group ISIS taking over Iraq. Co-host Savannah Guthrie raised the issue to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd: "Listen to the President last night, his reluctance to get into Iraq is palpable. But on the other hand, he's facing…
Kyle Drennen
August 8th, 2014 2:49 PM

Journalists Restricted By Hamas Rules and It's Reflected in Their Cove

On August 6, Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies charged that while the media have filled their stories on the current conflict in Gaza with “pictures of neighborhoods reduced to rubble, with Palestinian men, women and children in desperate circumstances,” they have been negligent in telling their audiences that Hamas has been “deploying civilians as human shields, storing…
Geoffrey Dickens
August 8th, 2014 1:52 PM

Pope Marries Gay Disney Princes in Anti-Catholic "Art

It’s all for the art, man.  José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros, the artist behind the exhibition called ‘Profanity Pop’ has taken his “art” to an irreligious level, depicting Mickey Mouse as Christ, Daisy duck as the Virgin Mary holding pregnancy test, and a priest giving communion to Jessica Rabbit. Predictably, Ontiveros is a hit with liberals. 
Anna Walker
August 8th, 2014 1:29 PM

Indian TV Shows 'How Hamas Assembles and Fires Rockets'; U.S. Press Mo

In an English language report at NDTV.com on Tuesday, Sreenivasan Jain, reporting from Gaza, witnessed a Hamas "rocket silo being created under a tent right next to the hotel where our team was staying." His news team then "saw the rocket being fired, just before the 72-hour ceasefire came into effect." It would seem that Western news organizations who have seen their onsite reporters…
Tom Blumer
August 8th, 2014 1:04 PM

Networks Avoid Scandal-Plagued Democratic Senator Dropping Election Bi

Despite a combined eight available hours of programming on Friday, all three network morning shows avoided the news that a scandal-plagued Democratic senator from Montana dropped a reelection bid. This move leaves the seat as a likely Republican takeover in the 2014 midterms. But viewers wouldn't know that on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning.   John Walsh left the…

Scott Whitlock
August 8th, 2014 11:45 AM

'Morning Joe' Condemns Minn. Restaurant's Min. Wage Fee as 'Revenge T

Friday’s Morning Joe panel made sure to express how it was “disappointed” that a Minnesota restaurant had the audacity to put a “minimum wage fee” on its receipts after the state hiked the wage requirement. While Joe Scarborough acknowledged that “it's hard” for “small business owners running restaurants” he had no sympathy for the restaurant, which had received shocking blowback from its…
Laura Flint
August 8th, 2014 11:15 AM

Lefty Media Love Profane, Anti-Catholic Disney ‘Art

Gay drug use in the Magic Kingdom? Sign HuffPo up!
Lilly Bozzone
August 8th, 2014 11:01 AM

New Yorker Blogger: Nixon Pioneered Politics of ‘Perpetual Grievance

A great many movement conservatives weren’t fans of Richard Nixon’s presidency, to the point that some of them, including William F. Buckley Jr., William Rusher, and M. Stanton Evans, backed a 1972 primary challenge to Nixon by Rep. John Ashbrook of Ohio. But has Nixon, despite his ideological squishiness, greatly influenced today’s Republican party? New Yorker blogger Jeff Shesol says he has…
Tom Johnson
August 8th, 2014 7:35 AM

Kevin Drum Doubts That 'Anti-Abortion Activists Really Think Abortion

The left constantly and falsely characterizes the right, particularly those sympathetic to Tea Party-related causes, for their alleged incivility, racism, bigotry, nativism, blah-blah-blah. This stereotype apparently drives Kevin Drum's contention, expressed at at Mother Jones, that Americans who say the believe that abortion is murder really don't feel that abortion is murder. After all,…
Tom Blumer
August 8th, 2014 12:39 AM

As Brent Bozell Predicted, Big Three Newscasts Ignore Plagiarist Dem D

It looks like Shannon Bream of Fox News lost a friendly bet with Brent Bozell, the president and founder of the Media Research Center, NewsBusters's parent company. On last night's Kelly File, the fill-in anchor argued that the liberal broadcast networks would have to devote time to covering John Walsh if he bowed out of his Senate race due to his plagiarism scandal. Bozell insisted otherwise…

Ken Shepherd
August 7th, 2014 8:48 PM

FNC's Hannity Rebukes Smarmy Colbert, Challenges Him to Come to Israel

While Sean Hannity was providing first-hand coverage of the struggle between Israel and Hamas over the Gaza Strip, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert edited the Fox News Channel host's reporting to make it seem that he used the word “literally” constantly and compared that to a five-year-old boy who has become an Internet sensation after his live television where he often used the word “…
Randy Hall
August 7th, 2014 8:15 PM

Misleading Super PAC Ad Attacks ATR Pledge; Iowa TV Station Fact-Check

Erroneous attacks against the American for Tax Reform’s (ATR) Taxpayer Protection Pledge are nothing new. Liberal Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer is funding the latest spate of misleading TV ads through his super PAC. The ad  wrongfully attacks Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst for signing the Pledge, claiming that the pledge protects tax credits for companies that send jobs overseas…
Christian Robey
August 7th, 2014 6:35 PM