Obama Avoids Discussing Punishment Received by Dissident Saudi Blogger

During an interview with the Cable News Network's Fareed Zakaria in India on Tuesday, Barack Obama avoided directly addressing the severe punishment of 1,000 lashes -- 50 at a time -- received by Raif Badawi, a blogger who criticized the government of Saudi Arabia even though that nation has been a longtime ally of the U.S. When asked by Zakaria why Saudi Arabia remains a close partner with…
Randy Hall

NewsBusted: KP Duty More Popular with Soldiers Than Obama

You know you've got a problem when GIs would rather be peelin taters than listening to the commander-in-chief give a speech!
NB Staff

Look Out! MSNBC Journalists Are Reporting While Driving in a Blizzard!

MSNBC on Tuesday showcased the northeast's dangerous blizzard conditions by sending journalist Rehema Ellis out on the roads to report while driving, often taking her hands off the wheel.
Scott Whitlock

Leader of Soros-Founded INET: Rich are Ready to Flee in Case of Uprisi

Soros gave $100 million to INET, used it to host a conference to remake the global economy.
Mike Ciandella

HuffPo's Stein: Clintons Need to Win Lotto to Compete With Koch Bros

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday, Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein worried that the Clinton political machine would be unable to compete with funding from Charles and David Koch during the 2016 presidential campaign: "I mean, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton will be scratching lotto tickets, I think, for the next week just trying to catch up with the $889 million that the Koch…
Kyle Drennen

Once Again, Nicolle Wallace Shows She’s Obsessed With Attacking Palin

On Monday night, Nicolle Wallace, former Communications Director for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, appeared on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman and proved once and for all that she loves to criticize Sarah Palin. During her discussion with the liberal comic, Wallace mocked Palin’s intelligence and insisted that she “gave a speech this weekend…
Jeffrey Meyer

Daily Beast Cites SPLC to Assert Jindal, AFA Embrace ‘Hate’

The religious fundamentalists are coming! The religious fundamentalists are coming! Daily Beast writer Dean Obeidallah frantically warns, in his Jan. 27 piece “Bobby Jindal Wants to Fistfight Your God." Obeidallah clearly imagines himself some kind of Paul Revere warning America of the impending doom at the hands of ISIS-like Christians and the rest of the media is locking step in his mission to…
Kristine Marsh

New Poll Throws Cold Water on Charge That Oscar Voters Are Racist

Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reports “A new Ipsos/Reuters poll throws cold water on the racially-charged #OscarsSoWhite trend and other campaigns suggesting that the overly liberal Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was biased this year against blacks and other minorities in picking Oscar nominees.”
Tim Graham

AP Plays Up 'Staunchly Religious' Opposition to Pro-LGBT Bill in Idaho

In her Tuesday item, the AP's Kimberlee Kruesi repeatedly emphasized the ideology of opponents of proposed legislation in Idaho that would "create protections for gay and lesbian people." Kruesi underlined that the state legislative committee that held the heading was "made up some of the Statehouse's most conservative lawmakers and only a handful of Democrats." However, she failed to give…
Matthew Balan

SEAL Who Trained Chris Kyle: Michael Moore Is 'Shameful' and 'Shallow'

The man who trained Navy S.E.A.L Chris Kyle appeared on Fox Business, Monday, to slam liberal filmmaker Michael Moore for his repeated attacks on the movie American Sniper and its subject, Chris Kyle.
Scott Whitlock

Lefty Professor: ‘American Sniper’ Delusional, Just Like the GOP

In an article for Salon, Penn State professor Sophia McClennen claims the box-office blockbuster has “no nuance, no context and no subtlety” and that its director, Clint Eastwood, “represents a dark, disturbing feature of the GOP mind-set.”
Tom Johnson

CNN Host Kisses Ultra-Liberal NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio

Following Monday’s severe blizzard that pummeled the Northeast, on Tuesday morning, CNN’s New Day hosted liberal New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio to discuss the city’s handling of the snowstorm.  After DeBlasio briefly spoke with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, brother of New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota greeted DeBlasio with a friendly kiss and embrace before…
Jeffrey Meyer

Rush Limbaugh: Success of 'American Sniper' Mirrors Midterm Landslide

A tidal-wave election that Republicans rode to victory in 2014 and the roaring success of American Sniper, a film that many liberals loathe -- yes, they're related, Rush Limbaugh pointed out to his radio listeners today. Bad enough for Democrats to suffer epic losses in the midterms, but when their power and influence are on the wane in Hollywood too -- that's a problem.
Jack Coleman

Don't MSNBC Graphics Guys Know How to Tell Time?

See if you can spot the typos on this map, which depict mandatory travel bans in Northeastern states for the overnight of January 26-27. 
Ken Shepherd