MRC Announces 1st Annual Free Speech Award Winners: 10 Thought Leaders

“Our final MRC Free Speech Awards for 2024 are for Top Thought Leaders on Free Speech,” lauded MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell.

For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including…

Gabriela Pariseau and Dan Schneider
October 24th, 2024 10:28 AM
Elliot Williams Jonathan Alter CNN This Morning 10-23-24

On CNN, Alter Mangles Metaphors: Kamala Is Like Abe Lincoln in 1864!

On CNN This Morning, liberal author Jonathan Alter gets emotional as he inveighs against Trump, and the risk of electing this "dangerous" man. Host Kasie Hunt teed up Alter, citing statements in an Atlantic article by former Trump aides about his supposed danger. Alter compared Kamala Harris to...Abe Lincoln in 1864.

Mark Finkelstein
October 24th, 2024 7:01 AM

Column: CNN's Town Hall Leans into Boosting Kamala

Last year, CNN hosted a town-hall with Donald Trump, and Kaitlan Collins interrupted him incessantly. Now, CNN aired a town-hall with Kamala Harris, and Anderson Cooper asked his first question, Harris bloviated a 500-word answer. Cooper asked Harris if she thought Trump was a fascist, and she said yes for 300 words, without interruption.

Tim Graham
October 24th, 2024 6:01 AM

Harris CNN Town Hall Wrap: Kamala Doubles Down

CNN hosted Vice President Kamala Harris on what had been originally proposed as a debate that was rejected by former President Donald Trump. With the floor to herself, would Harris sink or swim? Would host Anderson Cooper try to tip the scale? And would CNN allow some Democrat ringers to slip through the cracks? We watched so you wouldn’t have to.

Jorge Bonilla
October 24th, 2024 1:49 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: CBS Runs with Anonymous Gossip from The Atlantic

Just like four years ago, The Atlantic magazine is running the claims of anonymous gossips that Donald Trump hates the American military, and he wishes he had generals like Adolf Hitler had. CBS Evening News jumped right on this garbage barge, leading its newscast with unproven allegations. MRC's Bill D'Agostino shares his thoughts.

Tim Graham
October 23rd, 2024 10:41 PM

PBS Ties Vance to 'Far Right' Preacher, Kamala Not Tied to Sharpton

When Republican vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance appeared at a Christian conservative town hall in Monroeville, Penn., hosted by controversial right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau on September 28, PBS ran a full story two days later on the threat of “Christian Nationalism” and by implication, of Vance himself. Never mind that Vance was not actually interviewed by Wallnau, who didn’t even…

Clay Waters
October 23rd, 2024 10:24 PM

Why Letting Your Kid Walk Home Alone Could Land You in Jail

What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of Hewitt, Texas, encourage their three boys to play outside on their own to build independence. One day, driving home from karate practice, 8-year-old Aiden misbehaved. So, half a mile from home, Heather stopped the car and told him, “Walk the rest of the way on your own.”

John Stossel
October 23rd, 2024 7:22 PM

CBS, NBC Tout ‘Disturbing,’ ‘Startling’ Tales by Kelly About Trump

Although nowhere near the ten and a half minutes ABC’s Good Morning America cranked out Wednesday seething over (years-old) claims from former White House chief of staff John Kelly that former President Trump is a fascist and Hitler enthusiast, CBS Mornings (2:57) and NBC’s Today (2:58) still spoonfed their viewers with coverage of the “disturbing,” “startling,” and…

Curtis Houck
October 23rd, 2024 6:25 PM

Shocker: WHO Boss Has Flattering Words about COVID-Era Censorship

The head of the World Health Organization has once again insisted that social media and governments work to crush free speech surrounding health and medical mandates.

Catherine Salgado
October 23rd, 2024 6:15 PM

LOL: The Trump and Harris Headlines on the Front of the New York Times

The October 23 New York Times ran a Donald Trump headline on the top-right corner of the paper, and a Kamala Harris headline just underneath it. The headline contrast is so cartoonish you might blink twice and think this is a Babylon Bee prank. 

Tim Graham
October 23rd, 2024 5:25 PM

FCC Commissioner Bashes Meta for Censoring Devastating Harris News

It’s late October in an election year and Meta is once again throttling a story that embarrasses Democrats, prompting Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to sound the alarm on Fox Business.

Tom Olohan
October 23rd, 2024 5:04 PM

ABC Unglued on Kelly Claims, Browbeats Voters About ‘Fascist’ Trump

ABC’s Good Morning America went full bore against half the country on Wednesday, going all out with over 10 minutes (10:28) of hyperbolic tailspins eagerly touting as fact wild claims from former White House chief of staff John Kelly that Donald Trump is a fascist, danger to democracy and the American people, and enthralled with Adolf Hitler. In turn, they hurled nothing but venom…

Curtis Houck
October 23rd, 2024 2:51 PM

UN Report Claims Men In Women's Sports Allows Violence Against Women

A UN report titled “Violence Against Women” reveals that female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals in women's sporting categories to male competitors. Reem Alsalem, a UN special rapporteur, argues that allowing biological men in women’s sports constitutes violence against women. Women's sports advocate Riley Gaines highlights the issue's impact on fairness and safety, stating even one…

Justine Brooke Murray
October 23rd, 2024 2:34 PM

CNN Cannot STAND Jennings Raising Doug Emhoff Girl-Slapping Allegation

On CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Scott Jennings was shouted down on Tuesday night as he tried to raise the allegations that Doug Emhoff brutally slapped a girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

Tim Graham
October 23rd, 2024 1:45 PM