MRC’s Bozell Scolds Networks For Minimizing GOP Florida Congressiona

March 13th, 2014 9:40 AM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” last night and criticized the networks for barely covering the GOP victory in the Florida special election Tuesday night. Bozell’s comments came after the GOP candidate David Jolly was heavily outspent by his Democratic rival Alex Sink, and Bozell noted how little coverage the results received by the “big three…

Alan Colmes Attacks NewsBusters For Critiquing New York Times Coverage

March 10th, 2014 4:11 PM
Liberal Fox News contributor and former TV host Alan Colmes took a swipe at NewsBusters on Monday’s "Happening Now" over our coverage of "The New York Times" coverage of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Appearing alongside conservative writer Jim Pinkerton on Monday's "Happening Now", Colmes claimed that "Conservatives are always complaining they're not getting fair …

Bozell on IRS Targeting Conservatives: ‘Where’s The Rest Of The Pr

February 27th, 2014 2:03 PM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” last night and condemned the media for its continued blackout of the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups. Bozell’s comments came after Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the scandal, was recalled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions related to her involvement…

Wires Report Feds Will Wing It With Subsidy Payments to Insurers, Megy

December 4th, 2013 11:10 AM
On November 19, Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told a congressional committee that "[W]e still have to build the payment systems to make payments to issuers in January" for those who have enrolled in plans through HealthCare.gov. On Black Friday, while almost no one was paying attention, Alex Nussbaum at Bloomberg News reported…

Variety: Megyn Kelly Mopping the Floor With Her Time-Slot 'Competition

December 3rd, 2013 6:09 PM
Anyone doubting Roger Ailes' eye for talent needs to go somewhere else besides his shuffling of Fox News's weekday evening lineup, especially but not exclusively his decision to move Megyn Kelly into the 9 p.m. time slot. Variety's Brian Steinberg reports that Kelly has put even more distance between Fox and its so-called competitors at CNN, MSNBC, and HLN, while Greta Van Susteren and Sean…

Trace Gallagher at Fox: Insurance Cos. in Calif. Had to Cancel Non-Com

November 6th, 2013 3:41 PM
On Megyn Kelly's Fox News Channel show last night, reporter Trace Gallagher countered the Obama adminstration's attack on Stage Four cancer patient Edie Littlefield Sundby, whose Sunday evening Wall Street Journal op-ed on her individual plan's termination in California has garnered major attention. Ms. Sundby wrote that she has not found an available insurance plan option which will cover…

Megyn Kelly Reminds Viewers: Obama Said You Can Keep Your 'Acme' High

October 29th, 2013 2:10 AM
Monday night on her Fox News program, Megyn Kelly played a clip of President Obama going beyond the now-infamous "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" promise. Earlier Monday, as Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters noted, Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye at NBC News revealed that the Obama administration knew three years ago that "more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market…

Fox News Morning Hosts, Guest Slam Media Fury Over Obama Rodeo Clown

August 14th, 2013 11:42 PM
The focus of fiery discussion during Fox News Channel programs on Wednesday morning was the controversy over a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia who wore a mask that resembled President Barack Obama and was banned from the event for life as a result. The hosts of Fox & Friends stated that “presidents have been fodder for jokes before, and nothing happened to those people…

Unhinged Movie-Disrupting Dem Strategist to Judge Jeanine: Weekend Emb

August 4th, 2013 12:56 PM
Saturday evening, a friend suggested that I watch the midnight rerun of Judge Jeanine Pirro's Fox News program for her interview segment with a Democrat and a Republican about this weekend's closing of 22 embassies overseas in response to terrorist threats. Ryan Clayton was the Democrat whose arguments blaming George W. Bush's administration for the current level of threats in the Middle East…

Fox News Hosts a 'Fair and Balanced Debate' About Controversial Tucson

July 15th, 2013 6:30 PM
During a weekend dominated by partisan bickering over the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, it was refreshing to see a network that wasn’t exclusively covering the reaction to the verdict. On the Fox News Channel program America’s News Headquarters, host Shannon Bream served as the moderator of a “fair and balanced debate” on the recent revelations that a Tucson school district received…

Video: Media Criticism of Obama a Mere 'Marital Squabble' NB's Gainor

June 10th, 2013 1:45 PM
NewsBusters contributing editor Dan Gainor appeared on Fox Business's Varney & Co. on June 7, to discuss the New York Times speaking out against Obama. Gainor argued that, although The New York Times had criticized Obama, they were not siding against him just yet. [Video After Jump]

State Dept. Official Who Altered Benghazi Talking Points Promoted; Onl

May 24th, 2013 4:49 PM
News broke late Thursday afternoon that President Obama had made his selection for the appointee to the position of Assistant Secretary of State to Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland. Normally, that's a snoozer of a nomination unworthy of national media coverage but in this case, it should have garnered media attention.  If the name vaguely rings a bell, it is because Nuland was the…

Fox News's Beckel Issues Quasi-Apology for Rape Comments

February 20th, 2013 6:36 PM
Taken to task by numerous individuals on Twitter yesterday -- see Twitchy's excellent roundup here -- Fox News Channel The Five liberal co-host Bob Beckel today sought to explain, if not actually apologize for, his comments on the February 19  program in which the panel's token liberal both suggested campus rapes were rare incidents and that college co-eds might accidentally shoot someone who…

Kirsten Powers: ‘We Need to Hire Grown-ups to Cover the President

January 26th, 2013 1:00 PM
Despite her liberal beliefs, FNC commentator Kirsten Powers has really distinguished herself by her willingness to tell the truth about America's media elite which has moved from being a legion of skeptics into a team of cheerleaders during the presidency of Barack Obama. Earlier this week, Powers acknowledged the discomfort that many statists feel when confronted by conservative beliefs…