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CBS News published an article on its website Wednesday afternoon with the misleading headline “Romney claims many Aurora weapons were illegal.”This makes it sound as if Romney is keeping up with the news, since theguns used by shooter James Holmes

When you watch CNN and MSNBC all day as I do, but while doing so also work and live in the real world, you get a sense of the disconnect between media reality and what you might call reality-reality. For

MSNBC’s Touré made Aurora all about race yesterday:  “We understand those are outlier crimes, somebody going to shoot up the mall or shoot up the school. I would hope that it would be a Trayvon Martin situation that would make

The fact that Roseanne Barr hasn’t made us laugh since the Clinton administration should be enough to get her drummed out of the competitive realm known as show business. Barr’s steady stream of Twitter rage is also reason enough to

The only recent poll that reflects any good news for Team Obama is so wildly skewed in the President’s favor that it’s actually bad news. If a poll skewed D+11 only shows Obama with a 6-point lead and at 49%

Serious question: Does NBC just think we are all idiots? Have they been under a rock for the last decade and not realize that they no longer can control the information we hear? Do they think they can breathlessly report

What we now know happened to cable news viewership on Friday is telling because it gives us some insight into MSNBC viewers. When they want news instead of left-wing pablum, even lefties are smart enough to change the channel. Yep,

“Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government,” says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats

It took four to five days for CNN and the big three networks to notice Obama told his audience at a Virginia campaign rally that business owners and other successful Americans aren’t responsible for their own success. Worse, it took

If a “reputable” outfit like NBC News can post a poll on a site where only swamp-dwelling leftists visit, we figured we would do the same below at Breitbart News — where we enjoy a much more politically diverse readership.

View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. NBC Chicago: A North Texas man says he is outraged that airport security agents at Dallas Love Field strip-searched his wife and handled her feeding tube. Melinda Deaton has a four-inch medical tube sticking out

It’s a shame Jon Lovitz no longer toils on behalf of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Lovitz could teach his fellow cast mates how to make fun of a sitting president, something they apparently aren’t too keen on doing since January

Yesterday, I showed you how Slate’s Dave Weigel and NBC’s Peter Alexander worked together to journOlist away the Romney campaign’s compelling and troubling evidence that the Obama White House has used billions in taxpayer dollars to pay off campaign supporters.

***UPDATE: Weigel responds to my story here and pretends there’s nothing all that suspicious about the $100 million or so Obama reportedly received in 2008 from donors who contributed $200 or less. Well, I happen to remember that there were genuine concerns that some of that money

Proving that no misdeed goes unrewarded on the left, reports have it that once Microsoft and NBC News break up housekeeping and put an end to MSNBC.com in its current form, the resulting new Internet outlet will be getting a

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop star Jennifer Lopez will exit television singing contest “American Idol” as a judge but could return as a guest, possibly as a mentor, she told the show’s host Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview on

According to newly released evidence from the FBI, there appears to be no racial motivation in George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin. As NBC Miami reports: The FBI found no racial bias behind George Zimmerman’s shooting of Miami Gardens teen

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has gone missing from the House of representatives since June 10 with whereabouts unknown, is, according to his doctors, being treated for a “mood disorder.” What does that mean? Who knows? Jackson’s spokesman released this

NBC 4 New York: Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012. That

“Born on the Fourth of July” is the emotional journey of real-life wounded Marine Ron Kovic, but director Oliver Stone keeps nosing his way into the frame. Stone only appears on screen in a cameo, but it’s the famed director’s

(AP) Oscar-winning star Ernest Borgnine dies at 95By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and BOB THOMASAssociated PressLOS ANGELESErnest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher

(AP) Cosby star: New show about ‘positive black family’ By STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Actress Tempestt Bledsoe says she’s thrilled to be returning to network television on a show that portrays “a positive black family” similar to the

Filling the shoes of the legendary Tim Russert, the rare journalist worthy of respect, would not have been be easy for anyone. Searingly intelligent, authentically likable, always prepared and surprisingly even-handed, the one-time chief of staff for U.S. Senator Daniel

(AP) Jerry Seinfeld to debut Web series set in carsNEW YORKJerry Seinfeld is going back on the road. The comedian announced Thursday that he’ll debut the Web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” on July 19. The interview show will

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth “Faux-Cahontis” Warren — who has for decades made her fortune and gained professional success in part by falsely claiming she has native American ancestry — is now being called a victim of the “right-wing smear machine.”

(AP) NEW YORKClaire Danes has some busy months ahead: Not only is her hit TV series “Homeland” returning for its second season in September, but she’s pregnant as well. Danes’ rep, Jodi Gottlieb, confirms the actress is expecting her first child

Obamacare is a tax. President Barack Obama lied to the American people when he said it was not a tax, only to turn around and argue at the Supreme Court that it was. Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has

Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris suffered another legal setback today as a New York judge ruled that Twitter would be forced to release three months of Harris’ tweets that prosecutors say relate to Harris’s arrest at the occupation of the Brooklyn

Romney campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom appeared on MSNBC with Chuck Todd and explained that Gov. Romney did not agree with the Supreme Court ruling that allowed Obamacare to remain the law of the land and he agreed with the dissent

What a den of snakes at NBC News. Ann Curry, who was fired from her job as co-host of the Today Show, was savaged after she left by the president of NBC News, Steve Capus. Here was Capus’ parting shot:

(AP) Pelosi: GOP repeal of Obamacare is ‘unrealistic’WASHINGTONMinority leader Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats are happy to debate dismantling Obamacare, but repeal is unrealistic. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” slated to air Sunday, Pelosi says Republicans from

Media watchers are announcing that Savannah Guthrie has been tapped to replace the departed Ann Curry on NBC’s long-running morning show, Today. So, what can we say of Guthrie? What has she done before to prepare us for her new

In a teary, Oprah-esque farewell at the conclusion of this morning’s “Today Show,” co-host Ann Curry announced she would be staying on with the show but not in the seat next to Matt Lauer. In a pretty smart move, NBC

President Obama has had a bad June. You know that because the Democrats and the Left are already providing a laundry list of recriminations to explain a defeat in November: SuperPAC money, the European economy, a conservative Supreme Court, the

A few of the numbers from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal/NBC poll have gotten plenty of media attention, especially those numbers that look good for Obama. Buried deep in the poll, though, is bad news for both Obama and his media

In a report on the recent Supreme Court decision reversing parts of Arizona’s immigration law, NBC’s Matt Taibbi gave extensive airtime to an activist for illegal immigration. The woman was shown sitting in a room prominently featuring a poster of