Liberal Politics Ignored, Yellen’s Gender the Focus of Network Cover

Janet Yellen was confirmed as Federal Reserve Chairman on Jan. 6, but in spite of becoming one of the most powerful bankers in the world, the broadcasts networks continued to ignore her left-wing views. Instead of discussing Yellen’s support for fiscal stimulus and regulatory efforts, ABC, CBS, and NBC focused exclusively on her gender in recent news reports. In the first 24 hours following…
Sean Long
January 8th, 2014 2:57 PM

In Munoz Case, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell A Lone Media Voice for Life

In bioethical matters of life and death, the liberal media can generally be counted on to come down on the side of death. But once in a while, exceptions arise. CBS’s Norah O’Donnell joined a panel with her “This Morning” co-anchor Charlie Rose and legal analyst Jack Ford on January 6 to discuss the heated controversy of brain dead Marlise Munoz, a Texas woman who remains on life support…
Katie Yoder
January 8th, 2014 2:44 PM

Liberals Fight: For Questioning Harris-Perry's Genius, Politico's Dyla

Tom Blumer reported earlier for us that Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic anointed MSNBC host Melissa Harris- Perry as “America’s Foremost Public Intellectual.” If you think that’s funny, see what happened next. Politico media reporter Dylan Byers claimed on Twitter that Coates had compromised his “intellectual cred” and listed other (whiter) leftist intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Paul…

Tim Graham
January 8th, 2014 2:23 PM

MSNBC.com Article Omits Gates Criticism of Hillary in New Book

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently wrote a tell-all book that slams Congress, President Obama, and several members of the Obama administration. Over at msnbc.com, Sarah Muller highlighted some of Gates’ criticisms in a Tuesday article. However, Muller did not mention Gates’ major criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, Muller outright lied when she wrote…
Paul Bremmer
January 8th, 2014 1:49 PM

Katie Couric Upsets the 'Trans Women' By Asking Those Uncomfortable Wi

Katie Couric’s upsetting the leftists again. The “girl-on-girl culture site” Autostraddle was unhappy that she had to ask the inevitable “genitals” questions when she had on two men on her talk show Monday who dress like women (“trans women”), model Carmen Carrera and actor Laverne Cox. As might be expected, Couric promotionally titled the segment "Transgender Trailblazers." “The real…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2014 8:32 AM

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: The Magical Place

Agent Coulson's mysterious ressurection is explained, which raises important ethical and power questions.
Evan Mantel
January 8th, 2014 2:36 AM

Comedy Gold: Senior Editor at The Atlantic Calls Melissa Harris-Perry

I kept looking for any sign that Ta-Nehisi Coates, described as "a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues," was kidding in his Monday afternoon column about Melissa Harris-Perry when he called her "The Smartest Nerd in the Room." He wasn't. When last seen here at NewsBusters, Coates was pretending that the wealth gap between blacks and whites…
Tom Blumer
January 8th, 2014 12:35 AM

LAT's Doyle McManus: 'None' of Obama's 'Controversies ... Quite Reache

Los Angeles Times columnists have produced several delusional doozies in the past few days. One of the more hysterical came from Doyle McManus on Sunday ("The president's hump year; The sixth year is often tough, but Obama could triumph"). While acknowledging that "The public's initial romance with the president has faded" and that "events are in charge now," he backhandedly described Obama's…
Tom Blumer
January 7th, 2014 11:11 PM

Bozell Column: The Liberal 'Least Productive' Complaint

Liberals are angry that President Obama won a second term, and yet they didn’t get the liberal agenda items they wanted passed in 2013, including gun control and amnesty for illegal aliens. The complaint at the end of the year is that this was the “least productive Congress” in 66 years, production always measured by the amount of legislation passed. But the media complaint here isn’t about…
Brent Bozell
January 7th, 2014 10:58 PM

Diane Sawyer's Political Views a Mystery? She Claims Even Her Husband

ABC “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer gave an interview to Ladies’ Home Journal magazine and drew this silly question, like she was completely objective on TV: “Do you let your own politics be known when you’re behind closed doors?” How naive do they think America's women are? Sawyer replied: “My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's…
Tim Graham
January 7th, 2014 10:14 PM

Column: Minimum Wage Hikes Are Great Politics for Leftists, Bad Econom

There's little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the minimum wage. He reports that 85 percent of the studies "find a negative employment effect on low-skilled workers." A 1976 American Economic Association survey found that 90 percent of its members…
Walter E. Williams
January 7th, 2014 7:24 PM

Daily Beast Hails Sen. Heller (R-Nev.) As 'Compassionate Conservative

Daily Beast political writer Patricia Murphy dutifully peddled Democratic spin on the economy and unemployment while singing the praises of Nevada Republican Senator Dean Heller who led a breakaway contingent of fellow GOPers to invoke cloture on a Democratic bill to extend unemployment benefits without any offsetting spending cuts. In her January 7 story "The Senate’s Last Compassionate…
Ken Shepherd
January 7th, 2014 7:13 PM

CNN's Cuomo Slaps Republicans for Taking Americans 'Hostage' Over Spen

CNN's Chris Cuomo pounded Republicans on Tuesday's New Day for demanding offsetting spending cuts in exchange for extending jobless benefits. "Are they holding these people hostage? I mean, shouldn't these be extended and then have a legitimate jobs policy discussion?" Cuomo asked in disbelief of Republicans holding out for a deal on jobless benefits. Cuomo is the brother of New York's…
Matt Hadro
January 7th, 2014 6:41 PM

Ed Schultz: Thank Postal Employees for Working in the Cold, Just Like

  MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Tuesday compared thanking postal employees for working in the cold to praising military veterans for serving their country in war. The Ed Show anchor was talking to postal union President Frederic Rolando and railing against Republican Congressman Darrell Issa's criticisms of the money-losing agency. This led Schultz to compare, "Oftentimes, we see citizens in this…
Scott Whitlock
January 7th, 2014 6:11 PM