President Barack Obama, who has spent seven years complaining about Fox News and talk radio, mocked Republicans at a fundraiser in New York Monday evening over their complaints about the GOP debate moderators.
The man behind GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s “formidable” ground game in Iowa, Chuck Laudner, calls Trump’s presidential campaign “the greatest anti-establishment campaign of all time.”
All of NBC’s shills and all of NBC’s lies couldn’t makes Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers rise. In fact, in the week after NBC turned its entire news and entertainment divisions over to the Hillary Clinton campaign, a new Reuters poll shows that her “support tumble[d] from 51 percent of Democratic support to just 41 percent.”
Over at the left-wing Politico, media reporter Hadas Gold does an admirable if unconvincing job to rescue NBC News from criticism that erupted Monday after NBC turned its network universe over to the Hillary Clinton campaign for three days. On
Let me connect the pro-Hillary dots for you at NBC News… This is not rocket science. In fact, the effort NBC News is pouring into rehabilitating Hillary Clinton is now so painfully blatant that even left-wing CNN is calling out
Last month we learned that NBC News, a news outlet that identifies as objective, had funneled an astonishing $400 million to the hard-left website BuzzFeed and another $200 million to the left-wing Vox Media. In what can only be interpreted
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell admitted Tuesday that when it came to pressing Hillary Clinton on her email scandal that she “couldn’t ask everything that I did want to ask … out of concern” Team Clinton would cut the interview short. “We
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina took a jab at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump during her campaign swing through Iowa, where she said she doesn’t support challenging the Constitution or the 14th amendment, in light of Trump’s immigration plan.
It’s so much easier to deal with “spontaneous” and “hard-hitting” media interviews when you know what the questions will be in advance! At least NBC was asking questions instead of inviting Clinton to write the questions herself, as was the case with Senator Barbara Mikulski, who covered Clinton’s ring with a dollop of the usual slobber – “You are missed in the Senate and by me. But you are needed where you are.”
Nearly 25 percent of the terror suspects prosecuted in the U.S. since 2007 were influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based affiliate, according to an analysis by the Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security conducted at the request of NBC News.
Despite the fact that disgraced NBC News anchor Brian Williams has lost his “Nightly News” anchor chair, lost any kind of regular role at NBC News, and has been demoted to a breaking news anchor at low-rated MSNBC, he will
In a lengthy interview with his NBC colleague Matt Lauer, disgraced (and former) NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams blamed his ego for a litany of lies told over many years to NBC News viewers and others. “I was not
On Thursday, NBC News made it official: longtime newsman Lester Holt is no longer the temporary “Nightly News” host, he’s the full-time anchor.
NBC News made it official Thursday with the announcement from NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack that Lester Holt has been named the permanent anchor of the NBC Nightly News. That means Brian Williams has permanently lost his anchor chair. The
Brian Williams and NBC have reached an agreement for the former NBC Nightly News anchor to remain with the network, but not in his previous post.
Another day, another deadly leak from NBC News about the fate of suspended “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. The New York Post is reporting today that Williams is almost certain to lose his anchor chair. The announcement could come as
The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Masoud Barzani, blamed former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki for the turmoil in the country where the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has recently gained more territory.
Ayman Mohyeldin is advertised by NBC News as an objective reporter. This objective reporter became infamous earlier this year for lying about and smearing a decorated veteran sniper, the late Chris Kyle, as a “racist” who went on anti-Muslim “killing
With the news that the “NBC Nightly News” has now lost to ABC’s “World News Tonight” for four weeks in a row, the fall of NBC News is nearly complete. The “Nightly News” now joins the once-mighty franchises of “Meet
Another day, another leaked log on the fire of the end of Brian Williams’ career. The latest leak went to the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, who learned Saturday that the ongoing internal NBC investigation into Williams’ serial-embellishments has thus far
From the New York Times: An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances in which he is thought to have fabricated, misrepresented or embellished his accounts, two people with knowledge of the investigation said. The
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi makes it clear that the internal NBC rebellion against the suspended Brian Williams occurred back in February, at the height of the scandal. “Sentiments may have calmed down … since,” he writes. Considering the embarrassing
After NBC News anchor Brian Williams was caught lying about being in a helicopter over Iraq that took enemy fire, according to Vanity Fair, he wondered aloud if he had a brain tumor. Turness and the other executives who had
According to an extensive Vanity Fair article looking at the trials and tribulations of NBC News, the ongoing internal investigation of suspended-NBC News anchor Brian Williams has resulted in the discovery of a “number of incidents” that “paint a portrait
As he returns to run the NBC News Group, Andy Lack faces one of the same puzzles he tried to solve a decade and a half ago: how to make MSNBC work.
One unbiased, objective cable news analyst was caught on video claiming a presidential candidate was so hateful and racist he wanted to party while black people drowned. Another described a decorated Navy SEAL as a racist spree killer. Still, both
Dr. Nancy Snyderman and NBC News announced a parting of the ways Thursday. In a statement, Snyderman said that she is returning to academia. In its own statement, NBC News wished her “all the best.” Snyderman served as NBC’s chief
Actor Harrison Ford’s decision to crash-land his vintage airplane on a Los Angeles, CA golf course Thursday may have saved lives, according to witnesses and a representative for the National Transportation Safety Board.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, sat down with NBC News this week for an exclusive interview. NBC’s headline for the interview is: “Iran Foreign Minister: We Believe We Are ‘Very Close’ to Nuke Deal.” But the Times of Israel noted a buried lede–“Zarif: The Netanyahu regime ‘should be annihilated’.” While the American editors focused on boosting prospects for President Barack Obama’s signature diplomatic initiative, their Israeli counterparts focused on the threat that remains.
Both Variety and the Associated Press are reporting that the future of newly-installed (in 2013) NBC News President Deborah Turness is now up in the air. After bungling a Today Show leadership change and the agonizing firing of “Meet the
NBC News is giving host Savannah Guthrie a shot to show them what she can do with the Nightly News as she spends the next few days filling in for temporary anchor Lester Holt.
A new Wall Street Journal /NBC News poll confirms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity among Americans has grown since last August, when Israel fought Hamas in the Gaza War. Currently, 30% of Americans now view him positively, as opposed to 24% in August, despite apparent rising tensions between the Obama administration and the Prime Minister.
A U.S. intelligence officer told NBC News the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will not likely team up with Nigerian radical Islamic group Boko Haram in any official capacity due to the group’s racism against black Africans.
If suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams thought he was invaluable to the success of the NBC Nightly News, the ratings for the first full week without him are bound to be a disappointment. Williams’ replacement Lester Holt held on
In 2006, on NBC’s Today Show, former-Vice President Al Gore predicted that Manhattan would be flooded in “15 to 20 years.” He added, “In fact the World Trade Center Memorial site would be underwater.” Just 3 years ago, the New
How in the world did NBC News let its biggest star and face of its division run around America for more than ten years telling stolen valor lies, lie-lies, whoppers, white lies, exaggerations, and — if you want to be
From CNN Money: As NBC’s fact-checking continues, two accounts from Williams’ younger days could also invite scrutiny. As a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York in 1989, Williams traveled to Berlin to cover the demolition of the Berlin Wall. The
More details are emerging about Brian Williams and his reporting mission in Iraq in 2003. Army vets confirm there were two different missions, and say Williams and his NBC team were on one that did not take fire.
The Drudge Report claims that Savannah Guthrie is the leading candidate to replace NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams if he is ultimately fired.
There’s a bigger point here: the same people Dan Rather once derided as idiots in “pajamas” have completely reshaped the mainstream media. Were it not for those nefarious Snidely Whiplashes of the keyboard, Brian Williams would still be anchoring the nightly news while stumping for Jay Leno’s old job.