CNN's Athena Jones spotlighted the latest pro-gun control headline on the New York Daily News's front page during Wednesday's New Day. Jones, who was following Jeb Bush's campaign, noted that the former Florida governor was "getting some attention for a tweeted photo of a handgun engraved with his name. The caption: 'America.' The New York Daily News having some fun with that picture, with the…
NewsBusted: So Trump Would Make Lady Justice Gorgeous Again?
"Donald Trump said HE is the candidate best qualified to choose Scalia’s successor – because he’s appointed a lot of judges for his Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants." – Jodi Miller of NewsBusted.
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Andrea Mitchell Frets Over ‘Painful’ and ‘Insulting’ Attacks on Obama
While discussing Barack Obama’s comments about Donald Trump, Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday lamented the “painful” and “insulting” attacks the President has endured. Regarding Obama’s assertion that Trump won’t be president, Mitchell worried, “He’s speaking from the perspective of someone who was so demeaned by Donald Trump back in 2008.”
It seems that no degree of exposure to the real world can destroy journalists' belief in Keynesian economic — not even the two decades-plus calamity in Japan. The Japanese economy has contracted again. According to a report at the Associated Press early Monday morning by an apparently perplexed Elaine Kurtenbach, this occurred despite — not because of — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "lavish…
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Coughing Fit Intrudes Upon New York Mag's Hillary Paean
Hooray for Hillary! She battled a coughing fit for almost three minutes and she emerged victorious!
That was pretty much the tone of how New York Magazine writer Rembert Browne handled the long coughing fit in an article about her speech yesterday in Harlem that comes off a paean chock full of adoration for Hillary Clinton. His ode to Hillary got so syrupy it is surprising she did not swallow…
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CNN Turns Tabloid: Guests Defend Kanye's 'Famous' Jab at Taylor Swift
On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, Entertainment Tonight's Nischelle Turner and liberal commentator Marc Lamont Hill defended rapper Kanye West's "I made that bitch famous" shot at Taylor Swift on his latest album. Turner claimed that West "raised her [Swift's] profile" when he stormed the stage during an infamous 2009 incident at the American Music Awards: "We started paying more attention to her then."…
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Mitchell Hypes GOP ‘Breaking With Their Leaders’ Over Court Pick
In a desperate attempt on Wednesday’s NBC Today to hype supposed divisions in the Republican Party over opposition to President Obama nominating a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, correspondent Andrea Mitchell enthusiastically proclaimed: “Even as a handful of Republican senators are now breaking with their leaders and saying the Obama nominee should at least get a fair hearing…
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ABC, NBC Skip Obama’s Hypocrisy on Supreme Court Nominations
ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today on Wednesday avoided the uncomfortable fact that Barack Obama has totally flip-flopped on whether ideology should be considered for a Supreme Court nominee. Only CBS This Morning highlighted the hypocrisy and shifting positions of Democrats. Reporter Jan Crawford played a clip from 2006 in which then-Senator Obama was supporting a filibuster.
Rewind: Hillary Lectures Media There Are Ten Commandments, Not One
In January of 1992, CBS and the 60 Minutes team awarded Bill and Hillary Clinton and interview for airing right after the Super Bowl broadcast, a gift of remarkable national visibility for a presidential candidate. Hillary was not only the co-star, but a crucial stage manager for that interview. Steve Kroft's questions about adultery were persistent, but incredibly vague.
Six years later, when…
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ABC Hypes Hillary Pinning GOP as Racists; 'Coded Racial Language'
The Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight played the role of spin doctor for the Hillary Clinton campaign as it stood out from the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News by prominently touting Clinton attacking Republicans as being racist in their opposition to President Obama and most recently his desire to place the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Further, ABC saw it fit to play up Clinton…
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CNN Covers for Hillary's Coughing Fit: 'Choked Up'
How can we put this politely? "Choked up," our hind quarters . . . In the most blatant case of the MSM covering for a liberal candidate with a potentially serious health issue that this NewsBuster can remember, CNN's Brianna Keilar has described a Hillary Clinton coughing fit as a case of Clinton getting "choked up."
Readers are urged to watch this clip from Hillary's speech in Harlem today.…
Envy is defined by Dictionary.com as "a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc." That perfectly characterizes the entire political philosophy of the Democratic progressive left.
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Matthews: Scalia Had 'Good Soul' But Retrograde Ideology
The late Antonin Scalia was a "good soul" personally but had a backwards, outdated "ideology," Chris Matthews asserted on his February 16 Hardball program. Of course, in the process, Matthews both confused Scalia's philosophy of legal interpretation with "ideology" and misnamed it as "originalist" when in fact Scalia repeatedly took pains to describe his philosophy as "textualism."
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CBS, NBC: Obama ‘Plans to Follow the Constitution’ vs. GOP ‘Roadblock'
The “big three” networks ABC, CBS, and NBC all made sure to weigh in Tuesday night on President Barack Obama’s comments hours earlier about his desire to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and spun them as Obama “plan[ning] to follow the Constitution” against “the Republican roadblock” in the Senate.