David Rutz Named Winner of Annual Noel Sheppard Blogger Award

August 31st, 2016 2:41 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell and the staff of NewsBusters awarded Washington Free Beacon video editor David Rutz the second annual Noel Sheppard Media Blogger of the Year Award at MRC’s headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
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NBC Deceptively Edits Video of Andrea Mitchell Defending Clintons

August 2nd, 2016 6:06 PM
Washington Free Beacon staff writer and former CNS News staff writer Elizabeth Harrington revealed late Tuesday afternoon that NBC News has stealth edited a May 19 video of Clinton campaign correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Today denouncing Juanita Broaddrick’s sexual allegations against Bill Clinton as “a discredited and long-denied accusation” to simply saying merely a “long-denied accusation.”
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Nancy Pelosi Thanks Press for Creating 'Echo Chamber' on Gun Control

June 24th, 2016 4:41 PM
During a press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi openly thanked people in the news media for creating an “echo chamber” that provided extensive coverage of the Democrats' “sit-in” seeking legislation to promote stricter gun control even though the Senate didn't approve a similar measure. “Thank you all,” the California Democrat said. “I never saw the gallery so full,” she…

Levin Slams on Media Over Trump, Ignoring Treatment of Sailors by Iran

May 17th, 2016 2:50 PM
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin opened his Monday program by excoriating the media for their proverbial leap “into the sewer” by obsessively covering the Sunday New York Times piece on Donald Trump’s treatment of women and instead ignoring revelations that there’s disturbing details being withheld from the American people about the capture of U.S. sailors by Iran in January.
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Matthews Hints Non-Whites Are Handicapped, Tells Carson He’s ‘Cupid'

May 13th, 2016 3:20 PM
David Rutz of Washington Free Beacon came across the latest mind-baffling statement by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews early Friday afternoon when he remarked to Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson that non-white people are handicapped similar to how some develop or are born with “physical handicap or they’re born to poverty.”
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Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘Hard Worker’ Is Offensive Term to Slaves, Women

October 26th, 2015 6:21 PM
On Saturday, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry scolded guest Alfonso Aguilar for using the term “hard worker” because it’s demeaning to slaves and working women: "I want us to be super careful when we use the language 'hard worker,' because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like."

State Dept Throws Free Beacon Reporter Out of Iran Nuke Talks Briefing

June 29th, 2015 3:24 PM
Arrest that reporter for attempting to commit a blatant act of flagrant journalism! The Washington Free Beacon today carried a report from Adam Kredo about the State Department removing him from a briefing on the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria. He was even threatened with arrest by security. Here is how the State Department of "most transparent administration in history" dealt with Kredo:
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MSNBC’s Wagner Bemoans Scalia’s ‘Deeply Emotional, Partisan Core’

June 25th, 2015 6:23 PM
Despite getting a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the ObamaCare case King v. Burwell, MSNBC’s Now host Alex Wagner couldn’t help but take issue with Justice Antonin Scalia as a Justice and the “bitterness and the vitriol” he employed in his dissent. She lamented that it “revealed a deeply emotional, partisan core that informs Scalia's decision making.”
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Nets Skip Report Feds Unable to Verify $2.8B in ObamaCare Subsidies

June 16th, 2015 9:13 PM
The top English and Spanish networks refused on Tuesday evening to cover the findings of a federal audit report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) that concluded that just under $3 billion in ObamaCare subsidies have been unable to be properly verified that, according to the audit, puts taxpayer funding “at risk.” While the broadcast networks…
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Hillary's Campaign Manager Robby Mook Interned for Stephanopoulos

May 14th, 2015 5:35 PM
As uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon Thursday afternoon, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook interned for ABC News chief anchor and former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos during his tenure at Columbia University and even thanked Mook in his 1999 book All Too Human. In addition to praising Mook in his book, Stephanopoulos had some rather kind words for Mook on the April 12…
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NBC Enthusiastically Cheers Union-Led Protests for $15 Minimum Wage

April 16th, 2015 3:12 AM
In response to the far-left and union-led protests nationwide on Wednesday for a $15 minimum wage for fast-food and retail workers, NBC Nightly News applauded the protests with a glowing report that felt more like a campaign commercial. Disguised as a segment on the broader topic of income inequality, interim anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Stephanie Gosk led the way in offering no opposing…

Xerox Funds Latest MSNBC '30 Seconds To Know' Initiative

June 18th, 2014 10:59 AM
On Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Xerox is funding MSNBC’s new “30 Seconds to Know” initiative. It’s MSNBC’s version of VOX which offers 30 second videos of MSNBC pundits explaining the news. Clearly, reasonable, restrained MSNBC journalists are the best people for that job. Ursala Burns, the CEO of Xerox, as the Free Beacon pointed out, is a staunch supporter and financial…

Viewers of MSNBC's Ed Schultz Troll On-Screen, Reply to Stupid Poll Qu

May 19th, 2014 11:01 AM
The people who watch The Ed Show, a weekday afternoon program on MSNBC, are regularly invited by bombastic host Ed Schultz to participate by tweeting comments regarding the topic under discussion and take part in polls that are so slanted, they're bound to overwhelmingly mirror the host's wildly liberal views. While being interactive with your audience is a laudable goal, the process also…

Newspaper Cartoon Compares Washington Redskins to Nazis, Confederates

October 20th, 2013 10:34 PM
Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes a political cartoon in the New York Daily News attempting to change the name of a National Football League team that's not even in their city. The illustration posted on Thursday featured three flags, the first containing the swastika symbol of the Nazis, then the star-filled banner of the Confederates from the Civil War, and finally the…