Time Warner CEO Blasted Over CNN's Liberal Tilt, Says Bias Is a Matter

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes faced a barrage of questions last Friday about CNN's liberal tilt. The National Center for Public Policy Research's Justin Danhof confronted Bewkes at a shareholder meeting. After reading a litany of examples of CNN's bias, The general counsel for the National Center pressed, "...Do you recognize that there is a liberal bias at the network and that may be hurting the…
Scott Whitlock
June 18th, 2014 5:53 PM

Stewart Claims Koch Brothers Have An 'Elitist View' Disguised As 'Free

On June 17, John Stewart invited Daniel Schulman, senior editor of left-wing Mother Jones magazine, onto The Daily Show to discuss his newest book, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty. The liberal Comedy Central host couldn’t end the interview without making his own political opinion of the famous libertarian donors clear, stating, “it is…
Laura Flint
June 18th, 2014 5:30 PM

IRS Promises Soros-funded Group It Will Further Regulate Nonprofits

Proposed new rules would disproportionately affect conservative groups.
Mike Ciandella
June 18th, 2014 5:16 PM

MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Refers to Military Tribunals As ‘Kangaroo Cour

MSNBC’s resident “boy genius” Ronan Farrow made a backhanded slap at our men and women in uniform by referring to the military commissions set up to try unlawful enemy combatants as “kangaroo courts.” On Tuesday afternoon’s edition of Ronan Farrow Daily, the host was joined by Maryland Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen to discuss Ahmed Abu Khattala capture and where the alleged…
Jackie Seal
June 18th, 2014 5:08 PM

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Who is Getting ‘Thrown in Jail’ Over IRS

As we’ve noted here at NewsBusters, the liberal media have remained virtually silent on new reports of years and years of emails being lost from Lois Lerner and other IRS employees. So it was refreshing that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough spent some time on his June 18 Morning Joe program to briefly discuss the new developments. Reactions to the news from USA Today that there were “seven hard drive…
Connor Williams
June 18th, 2014 4:55 PM

Sensitive MSNBC Host Warns Viewers About Someone Saying the 'Racial Sl

MSNBC is the network where ex-host Martin Bashir suggested that someone defecate and urinate on Sarah Palin. Yet, the suddenly sensitive Joy Reid on Wednesday warned viewers that she was about to feature someone saying the word "Redskins," what she deemed to be a "racial slur." [See video below. MP3 audio here.'] Hours after the U.S. Patent and Trademark office had cancelled the Washington…
Scott Whitlock
June 18th, 2014 4:10 PM

Column: Latinos Against Lawlessness

Now that the initial shock of Dr. Dave Brat’s primary victory over outgoing House Minority Leader Eric Cantor has passed us by a bit, it is time to look at it for what it really is.   First off, it is only a primary victory. There is still the general election. And you can be sure the Left and their allies are now as busy as ever, plotting and sneaking and doing all sorts of devilry to send…
Miguel I. Prado
June 18th, 2014 3:55 PM

NYT Visits Hometown of Koch Brothers, Surprised to Find Opposition to

An article appearing in the Wednesday print edition of the New York Times (“In Wichita, Koch Influence Is Revered and Reviled”), reporter Carl Hulse traveled to the hometown of businessmen and libertarian donors Charles and David Koch in Wichita, Kansas.  Much to the dismay of the newspaper that has an obsession with peddling Democratic attacks on the Koch brothers, Hulse was unable to find…
Curtis Houck
June 18th, 2014 3:40 PM

Fox News Asked Hillary Clinton Three Important Questions The Liberal M

It took six television interviews but Hillary Clinton was finally asked questions that have remained absent during her book tour to promote “Hard Choices.”  On Tuesday, June 17 Clinton sat down with Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren and for the first time on television was asked about the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the NSA spying on Americans, and the American marine…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 18th, 2014 3:22 PM

Will CNN Notice? Hillary's 2014 Answer on Amnesty Sounds Different Tha

Doing her best impression of a moderate, clear-headed patriot on CNN's "town hall" offered to her, Hillary Clinton opined about the thousands of illegal immigrant children flooding the U.S. border from Mexico: “They should be sent back as soon as can be determined who the responsible adults in their family are because there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back, but I think…
Cheri Jacobus
June 18th, 2014 2:30 PM

Networks Offer Scant Coverage of Dick Cheney 'Blasting' Obama on Iraq

Former Vice President Dick Cheney co-authored a blistering op-ed, deriding Barack Obama's handling of Iraq. But you wouldn't know it from the network coverage. ABC's Good Morning America completely ignored Cheney speaking out. Yet, the program devoted three minutes to the deeply irrelevant story of jump suits and fanny packs making a comeback. On NBC's Today, Savannah Guthrie managed a scant…

Scott Whitlock
June 18th, 2014 12:35 PM

MSNBC Guest: Hillary Appealed to Voters Who Cling to 'Guns', 'Religion

The ‘Fox News viewers are racist’ meme hasn’t died yet on MSNBC. Analyzing Hillary Clinton’s interview on June 17 with Fox News, Hardball guest Michelle Bernard insisted that Hillary Clinton was “reaching out to those voters that Barack Obama said were the people who get scared of people who are different than them, and they cling to religion, or they cling to guns or have anti-immigrant…
Connor Williams
June 18th, 2014 12:20 PM

'CBS This Morning' Only Network Morning Show to Cover IRS Scandal

CBS This Morning was the only broadcast network news show that covered the latest discovery in the IRS scandal on the morning of June 18. Meanwhile, all three networks devoted at least two minutes to report on Dr. Oz’s appearance before the Senate’s Consumer Protection Committee to discuss the unconsented use of his image to endorse diet products online. While CBS devoted only 30 seconds to…
Laura Flint
June 18th, 2014 12:05 PM

Chuck Todd: Public Is Telling Obama 'Your Presidency Is Over' In New N

Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd reported on the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing President Obama's poll numbers taking a nose dive and made this stunning declaration: "This is as if the public is saying, 'Hey, buddy, your presidency is over. You may not believe it is, but your ability to lead and convince us…
Kyle Drennen
June 18th, 2014 11:50 AM