WashPost Devotes Front-Page Real Estate to Junk Food-less Obama White

What better day than Easter Monday for the Washington Post to publish a 31-paragraph page A1 fluff piece celebrating the health nuts in chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Staff writer Juliet Eilperin was positively saccharine sweet about how the Obamas "have so transformed the culture inside" the White House "regarding nutrition and fitness" while painting conservatives as foot-stamping…
Ken Shepherd
April 21st, 2014 12:40 PM

ABC Devotes Almost 13 Minutes to 'Royal' Clinton Baby, Nothing on Keys

Since word broke on Thursday night that Chelsea Clinton will be having a baby, ABC has fixated over the news, devoting 12 minutes and 47 seconds of coverage to the arrival of America's new "royal" child. Yet, the same network totally ignored the latest delay of the Kyestone XL pipeline by the Obama administration (and the political ramifications that go with it).  On Friday morning, ABC…
Scott Whitlock
April 21st, 2014 12:05 PM

CNBC vs. NBC: Did Democrat Donor Influence Latest Keystone Delay

On Friday April 18, the Obama Administration announced yet another delay on whether or not to proceed with the Keystone XL pipeline. The Obama Administration’s decision came in the wake of a new ABC News-Washington Post poll which found 65 percent of Americans support the construction of the pipeline with only 22 percent opposed. Following the latest delay, NBC mostly ignored the story,…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 21st, 2014 10:52 AM

NBC Tried 'Unusual' Psychological Assessment to Figure Out David Grego

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a big Style section front-pager for Monday on how NBC's Meet the Press, "Sunday's most venerable news show has stumbled in the ratings." The shocking paragraph that will get discussed around Washington today is that NBC commissioned a psychological consultant to figure how who MTP host David Gregory is, and what makes him tick. Or maybe, why…
Tim Graham
April 21st, 2014 8:36 AM

Scarborough Says 'Asinine' Kansans Concerned About Michelle Obama's HS

Shut up, Joe Scarborough explained.  That was the Morning Joe host's advice today to people in Topeka, Kansas who are concerned that First Lady Michelle Obama's visit to the city's joint high school graduation ceremony will limit seating for family members and take the spotlight off the graduates themselves. The man who makes his living offering his opinions and expressing his concerns…
Mark Finkelstein
April 21st, 2014 7:55 AM

Stephen King: ‘Somebody Please Make CNN Stop with the Plane Coverag

Twitchy reports "Author Stephen King has had enough of CNN’s round-the-clock coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and he’s not alone." Even a guy who likes a good mystery is bored. His tweets begging CNN to realize "It's time to move on" have been favorited more than 3,800 times and counting:
Tim Graham
April 21st, 2014 6:35 AM

MSNBC's Alter Predicts Obama to 'Rule Against the Pipeline After the E

Appearing as a panel member on the Sunday, April 20, Disrupt with Karen Finney, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter -- formerly of Newsweek -- asserted that President Obama's move to delay a final decision on the Keystone Pipeline "strongly increases the likelihood that he will rule against the pipeline after the election." He recounted a history of Democratic presidents appeasing liberal…
Brad Wilmouth
April 20th, 2014 11:37 PM

NPR Promotes 'Landmark' 'Third Gender' Ruling In India, Ignores Oppone

On the evening of Good Friday, NPR All Things Considered anchor Audie Cornish announced one of those “landmark” (read: leftist) victories. “There was a landmark ruling in India this week on sexual identity. The country's supreme court declared that India's transgender population shall be considered neither male nor female but a third gender,” Cornish announced. “The sweeping decision…
Tim Graham
April 20th, 2014 9:47 PM

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Mocks People Who Lost Insurance: Suggests Dems Sa

On the Sunday, April 20, Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, as host Harris-Perry chastised Democrats for not bragging about ObamaCare for the year's midterm elections, she at one point mocked Americans angry about having their health insurance plans cancelled, which she referred to as "crappy plans," as she lamented that Democrats are not boasting about ObamaCare or declaring, "Yeah, you can't…
Brad Wilmouth
April 20th, 2014 5:51 PM

Sinking Colorado: 'All Weed, No Easter on Denver Post's Page One

Dan Gainor relayed to me that Sunday's New York Times hasn't a whiff of Easter on its front page -- not even in its blurbs at the bottom, saved for epic stories like "U.N. Cholera Struggle in Haiti." Above that is a depressing story about a 12-year-old Ecuadorean girl who committed suicide in Mexico after a second failed attempt at illegal immigration into America. But it could be worse. Jim…
Tim Graham
April 20th, 2014 2:33 PM

Shallow, Partisan NYT Says Only 'Angry,' Anti-Obama Right Mad at Commo

The headlines over the lead story of  Sunday's New York Times reduced the fierce opposition to the Common Core education standards among both conservatives and liberals to cynical "wedge issue" anti-Obama politics by the angry right: "As G.O.P. Wedge, the Common Core Cuts Both Ways – Associated With Obama – Education Benchmarks Once Backed by Party Now Divide It." The actual article by…
Clay Waters
April 20th, 2014 2:06 PM

George Will On ObamaCare: Claiming ‘The Debate Is Over Is Something

Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor George Will mocked President Obama’s claim last week that the debate over ObamaCare is over and that Republicans need to stop trying to repeal the law. Appearing as a guest on Fox News Sunday on April 20, Will argued that “The debate is over is something of a mantra. The debate is over about climate change, everyone be quiet. The debate is over…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 20th, 2014 12:51 PM

S.E. Cupp: Michael Bloomberg Is ‘The Best, And By That, I Mean The W

Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp had some tough words for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the wake of him giving $50 million to push his gun control agenda. Appearing as a guest on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the CNN Crossfire co-host mocked Bloomberg’s efforts: “Well, he's the best, and by that, I mean the worst face for gun control. And believe me, my…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 20th, 2014 12:12 PM

Bozell: Nancy Pelosi Washing Feet for Amnesty Is An Abusive Stunt

Craig Bannister at CNSNews.com reports that the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped an Episcopal bishop in San Francisco wash the feet of two children on Holy Thursday to "honor the dignity and work of immigrants," and push legislation for “an earned pathway to citizenship." MRC president Brent Bozell was appalled at this political display as an…
Tim Graham
April 20th, 2014 9:50 AM