Matt Taibbi: ‘Next Step Down’ From Fox News Is ‘The Third Reich’
Rupert Murdoch is in a pickle, and the famously abrasive lefty writer Taibbi is loving every minute of it. In a Tuesday article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi portrays Murdoch as “desperate… because he senses his beloved audience of idiots” abandoning Fox News in favor of Donald Trump, “a onetime Fox favorite who is fast becoming the network's archenemy.”
Taibbi argues that Fox News must routinely…
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O’Reilly, Perino Rip Media for Soft Analysis of Hillary after Debate
Discussing the media’s reaction to Tuesday’s presidential debate during Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly and The Five co-host Dana Perino blasted the liberal press for their pandering to Hillary Clinton after pushing for Vice President Joe Biden to run that’s now turned into calls for him to stay out of the race.
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NBC: Benghazi Committee ‘Delegitimized,’ Hillary Will Have 'Great Day'
Appearing on Friday’s NBC Today, Bloomberg Politics managing editor John Heilemann saw a rapidly closing window for Joe Biden to enter the presidential race: “...if he's making a calculation on the political landscape, it's more forbidding now than it was a month ago. You've got Hillary Clinton performing well at this debate, the Benghazi Committee now kind of delegitimized. She's teed up to have…
NYT's 'Hard-Line' Herszenhorn Takes Up Cudgels Against Paul Ryan Again
New York Times reporter David "hard-line" Herszenhorn is making hostile labeling of conservatives a bad habit, especially in his post-Boehner reporting. The shock resignation of the Speaker of the House gave Times reporters an excuse to target the "far-right" conservatives who had supposedly hounded John Boehner out of office, and granting the speaker never a popular figure in Times-land, some…
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Scarborough Suggests Hugh Hewitt Has 'Tingle Up the Leg' for Rubio
Joe Scarborough swung a double-edged sword on today's Morning Joe, swiping simultaneously at his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews and at radio host and debate panelist Hugh Hewitt. The subject was Marco Rubio, with Hewitt calling him "the most dynamic speaker the Republican party has seen ever, since Lincoln." "Since Lincoln," asked Scarborough incredulously—"do you have a tingle going up your leg…
McArdle: 'A Marshmallow Planet' More Likely Than Truth in 'Truth'
The disgraceful determination of Hollywood to rewrite history not favorable to the left, its causes and its personalities has perhaps reached its nadir with the laughably misnamed movie Truth.
The film is about Dan Rather's September 2004 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service during the 1970s. In Rather's words, "The nuanced, not preachy, script makes…
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Ellen Thanks Bernie for E-Mail Line; Exactly What 'People Are Sick of'
Liberal celebrity talk show host Ellen DeGeneres continued to dismiss Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal during her eponymous show on Thursday as she repeatedly thanked socialist Senator and Clinton opponent Bernie Sanders for railing in the Democratic debate against the attention devoted to Clinton’s “damn e-mails.”
'Family Guy' Creator Seth MacFarlane Endorses Sanders, Socialism
Socialist Bernie Sanders traveled to Hollywood for several fundraisers, including a small-dollar event for hundreds at the Avalon nightclub, where Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane endorsed Sanders for President.
MacFarlane said that he was particularly impressed by a response that Sanders gave at Tuesday night’s debate. Asked what was the country’s greatest national security threat, Sanders…
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NBC Cheers Liberal Mag's Photoshopping of Men from Pics of Politicians
Closing out Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, the evening newscast found it pertinent to tout a new campaign by the British edition of the liberal feminist magazine Elle to photoshop men out of pictures of elected officials in an effort to promote the global need for more women in office.
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US News's Milligan: GOP Committing 'Suicide' With Benghazi Probe
Hillary Clinton doesn't need to rail again against the evils of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" these days since Republicans are all too eager to openly admit they're out to get her, U.S. News & World Report's Susan Milligan insisted on Thursday's edition of Hardball: “The amazing thing is that she does not even have to talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy and have people make fun of her…
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Diaz-Balart Corrects Mohyeldin On Air Re: Jerusalem Stabbing
Yesterday in a live report from Jerusalem, NBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin -- winner of the Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award at the 2015 MRC DisHonors Dinner -- strongly suggested that a Palestinian man that Israel police killed was not armed with a knife and did not attempt to stab anyone. He was quickly corrected by his colleague Jose Diaz-Balart, anchoring the 10 a.m. Eastern hour of MSNBC…
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France's Top Weatherman Suspended Over 'Wrong' Views on Climate Change
Philippe Verdier, a popular weatherman on the France 2 television channel, found himself suddenly unemployed after publishing a book entitled Climate Investigation in which he charges the “climate change industry” is “a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear.”
According to an article written by James Delingpole at the Breitbart news website, “this went down very badly with his employer,…
The Atlantic: Bureaucrats Will Save Us from Climate Change
Thursday, Venkatesh Rao wrote in the Atlantic that "Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War." Rao examined multiple points in history where businesses and scientific experts worked together to overcome barriers and change society through innovation. However, he then declared Climate Change to be too big for those forces after the recent Volkswagen Scandal of rigging technology to…
NYT Admits Writer's F-Bomb Post on Jeb was 'Completely Inappropriate'
The New York Times admitted on Thursday that a staff writer's F-word attack on former Governor Jeb Bush was out of step with their standards. Politco's Hadas Gold and Marc Caputo quoted an unnamed spokesperson for the liberal newspaper who labeled the now-deleted Twitter post from Philip B. Richardson "completely inappropriate," and stated that "the staffer is being dealt with."
