Anthony Bourdain: I'm 'Nauseated' by Left's 'Contempt' for the Right

December 29th, 2016 4:08 PM
From one elitist liberal to another, reality television show host and chef Anthony Bourdain had a harsh critique this week for the “privileged left.” Bourdain, who has travelled the world for over a decade on screen, admitted that his time spent in “gun-country” over the years, taught him empathy and respect for conservatives, a characteristic he admitted was severely lacking among his liberal…
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Beinart Calls It 'Racist' to Warn Jews Would Be Killed in Arab State

December 29th, 2016 1:53 PM
On Thursday's New Day on CNN, during a segment pitting liberal CNN political commentator Peter Beinart against former CIA director James Woolsey, Beinart bristled at Woolsey's warnings that Jews trying to live in a Palestinian Arab state would be in grave danger of being attacked and killed as he asserted that it was a "racist claim" for the former CIA director to make. Beinart found comfort that…
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Another CNN Guest Wildly Inflates US Aid to Israel, Claims $38 Billion

December 28th, 2016 5:52 PM
It would be a good idea for journalists to be wary of any anti-Israel or left-leaning guests making claims about how much foreign aid the U.S. grants Israel each year, since on two occasions just Wednesday, CNN guests managed to pass off wildly overstated claims about how much the U.S. spends in supporting the Jewish state and only liberal democracy in the Middle East. On CNN's Wolf show, pro-…
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CNN Panel Boasts of 'Personal and Passionate' Kerry Speech on Israel

December 28th, 2016 2:45 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, a CNN panel reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech lambasting Israel with praise for the “personal and passionate” address at the State Department aimed at a supposedly vast base of global supporters who believe in a two-state solution.
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CNN Guest Wrongly Claims 'Vast Majority' US Foreign Aid Goes to Israel

December 28th, 2016 1:33 PM
Appearing as a panel member on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Jason Johnson of The Root ridiculously claimed, during a discussion before Secretary of State John Kerry's speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that the United States "gives the vast majority of its foreign aid to Israel." In fact, according to the Washington Post, of the approximately $50 billion dollars the U.S. is expected to…
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NB Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2016, Part II

December 28th, 2016 9:55 AM
All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2016. Yesterday, we presented the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; today’s installment showcases some of this year’s most rancid quotes attacking Republicans or conservatives. Most of the media’s ire this year was aimed at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — who,…
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NB Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2016, Part I

December 27th, 2016 10:02 AM
As 2016 comes to a close, this week NewsBusters will be recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. Today’s installment: the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons, including Barack Obama’s “keen intelligence,” the “fundamentally honest” Hillary Clinton, and the “tremendous sense of pride” Cubans supposedly feel for their dead dictator, Fidel…
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Media Bias on Communism, 25 Years After USSR’s Demise

December 25th, 2016 9:52 AM
Looking back at the media’s track record on communism, one sees a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim that communism meant safety and security for its people.
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Fox's Carlson Investigates CNN Host's Spreading a YouTube Hoax

December 25th, 2016 8:28 AM
On Thursday's Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson decried CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter for insisting on his October 30 show that you should "triple check before you share" and then spreading on Twitter a YouTube hoax where prankster Adam Saleh claimed he was being thrown off a Delta Airlines flight merely for speaking Arabic. The airline and other passengers strongly…
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CNN Can't Stop Playing Their Gross New Year's Eve Commercial

December 23rd, 2016 12:12 PM
Is CNN trying to lose viewers or win them? In a new commercial promoting the network’s New Year's Eve Special, anchor Anderson Cooper and comedian Kathy Griffin play off their strange pairing with even more awkward humor. The commercial begins with Griffin getting a massage in Cooper’s office while teasing him to be “ready for anything.” The commercial ends with Griffin revealing an obviously…
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CNN Still Misinforming Viewers on NC Transgender Bathroom Law

December 22nd, 2016 5:42 PM
Over the past couple of days, as CNN has updated its viewers on efforts to repeal the North Carolina bathroom law, the news network has again been misinforming its audience on whether transgender individuals would be able to arrange to use the public restroom of their preferred gender. Even though North Carolina state law allows people to change their gender designation on their birth certificate…
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Ben Ferguson Dismantles Ivanka Trump Pay-for-Play Accusations

December 22nd, 2016 12:20 AM
The liberal media had been trying to make a lot of hay out of accusations that the Trump family had tried to sell access to themselves and their president-elect father. So far such concerns seem to have little merit since all of the instances pointed to by accusers have not actually happened. But that didn’t stop it from being a topic of conversation on CNN’s OutFront on Wednesday. “This has been…
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Gullible Media Fall for Another Muslim Who Cried Wolf Story

December 21st, 2016 4:14 PM
A Youtube prankster’s viral video accusing Delta Airlines of anti-Muslim discrimination made national headlines early Wednesday. But the man behind the video has a proven record of faking stories for attention and the media didn’t think twice before reporting his unsubstantiated story.
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CNN's Louis, Gregory Defend Obama Giving Record Number of Pardons

December 21st, 2016 4:00 PM
On Wednesday's New Day, during a discussion of President Barack Obama issuing a record number of pardons and commutations before leaving office, CNN commentators Errol Louis and David Gregory both spoke up in defending his actions. Louis even repeated the term "mass incarceration," which in recent years has been commonly used on the left when complaining that too many criminals are in prison.