2009: Chuck Schumer Thanks 'Un-American' Koch Brothers for Campaign Co
Remember the extreme discomfort Senator Chuck Schumer displayed recently when pressed by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC's Morning Joe as to whether he agreed with Harry Reid's description of the Koch brothers as "un-American?" After much evasion, Schumer finally agreed with Reid that the Koch brothers were un-American due to the political ads they are running.
It now turns out that Schumer's…
Double Standard: The Daily Beast Whines That ‘Breitbart Twerks Pelos
The conservative website Breitbart.com recently started running a controversial ad campaign featuring Nancy Pelosi’s head superimposed on the body of a twerking Miley Cyrus. Unsurprisingly, an April 8 piece by The Daily Beast’s Emily Shire complained that “Breitbart Twerks Pelosi With Credibility-Destroying Ad” without admitting her publication’s double-standard when publishing questionable…
The Guardian: ‘Sex with Robots’ Should Be ‘Embraced
Poor Tariq Moosa; who knew writing for a left-wing British newspaper could be that lonely?
But there Moosa was on April 7, welcoming the brave new world of sex robots. “Robots and Sex: Creepy or Cool?” came down decidedly on the side of “cool.”
ABC Reminds: Congressman Caught in an Affair Is 'Conservative' and a
Good Morning America reporters on Tuesday reminded viewers that a Congressman who has been caught in an alleged affair with a staffer is a "conservative Republican." GMA, which is co-hosted by former Bill Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos, also included a network graphic that hyped: "Conservative Asks for Forgiveness." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
ABC routinely downplays the…
CBS Destroys White House Rhetoric on Gender Pay Gap; NBC and ABC Ignor
On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, White House correspondent Major Garrett completely dismantled President Obama's left-wing talking points on the supposed gender pay gap of women making 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, reporting: "The White House is getting...roughed up by hits own pay equity rhetoric." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Garrett used the…
CNBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, WaPo Claim Too Many Jobs is Bad for Econ
There were 192,000 jobs created in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report released April 4. Some media outlets presented the idea that it was good the numbers weren’t lower than they were. But others including Bloomberg Businessweek latched on to the idea that many more jobs would have been bad for the economy.
Bloomberg Businessweek, The Washington Post’s Wonkblog,…
Univision Sunday Show Sidesteps Proof of Network's Liberal Skew
As promised, following its launch last week, the Media Research Center’s new Hispanic media arm, MRC Latino, is conducting ongoing analysis of the news coverage on the country’s top Spanish-language television networks. In this space, as well as bilingually on the Facebook page and Twitter account of MRC Latino, we’ll be calling out instances of slanted, incomplete or inaccurate news coverage on…
NY Times Promotes Hard-Left 'Truth-Telling Prize' for Edward Snowden
On Monday, The New York Times defined as “news” a hard-left award to Edward Snowden. The headline was “Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize.” There was no leftist label as they explained the award came from The Nation magazine’s Nation Institute.
"It's the latest honor for the reporting based on the top-secret material leaked by Mr. Snowden, who was a contractor for the National Security…
Salon: In the Tea Party 'Dunce-off,' Rand Paul Attracts Bigots, While
Digby is far from the biggest name in the left-wing blogosphere, but she's one of its most influential figures. Lefty bloggers often introduce links to posts on her site, Hullabaloo, with the phrase "what Digby said" (it's sort of their equivalent of "megadittoes").
On Monday morning, Digby published a piece in a higher-profile outlet, the liberal online magazine Salon, in which she…
Still Not News: UC-Santa Barbara Prof Who Admitted Destroying Pro-Life
On Friday, University of California Feminist Studies Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young pled not guilty to misdemeanor theft, battery, and vandalism. To bring those who missed the two previous related posts up to speed: A video at the YouTube site of the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (warning: profanity) shows Miller-Young taking a sign away from a participant in a campus pro-life…
NewsBusted: The NYTimes and All the Cruz That's Fit to Bruise
"Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz just signed a $1.5-million deal to write a book. Hold on… This just in: Even though the Cruz book has yet to be written, the New York Times just gave it a bad review."
ObamaCare, John McCain and the Chicago Cubs also got a ribbing in the latest edition of NewsBusted, NewsBusters' original Web comedy short, which you can watch in the embed below the page break.…
New Yorker Mag Declares Obamacare Victory With Cartoon Cover of Obama
Here’s another bizarre “victory lap” for Obamacare, courtesy of the latest cover of The New Yorker magazine. It shows a happy Obama spoon-feeding his medicine to Republican children.
Cover artist Barry Blitt proclaimed “I enjoyed drawing Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Michele Bachmann as petulant children—and I especially wanted to draw an open-mouthed Mitch McConnell being spoon-fed his meds.”
Networks Ignore New GOP Claim That IRS Didn't Target Liberal Groups
Monday's network evening news casts ignored a new GOP claim that Tea Party groups were indeed singled out for "systematic scrutiny" by the IRS.
House Republicans released a report that said the IRS began special investigations in 2010 by targeting only Tea Party groups. Of the first three groups investigated, two of them eventually dropped their applications for non-profit status. The…
Howard Kurtz Rips Media Double Standard On Mozilla CEO's Resignation
On Monday's Special Report, Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz ripped the media double standard on the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.
After news surfaced that Eich supported California's Prop 8 six years ago, gay activists were furious and Eich resigned amidst a firestorm of controversy. Kurtz noted that the network evening news casts completely ignored the story last week, but…
