Sharpton Claims Blacks Suffer From 'Battered Race Syndrome

Al Sharpton veered into unintended hilarity on his radio show yesterday when he unveiled what he surely considers clever framing for the current state of race relations in America. Too many African-Americans, the Rev. Sharpton informs us, are afflicted with a pernicious form of "battered race syndrome" comparable to that suffered by victims of domestic abuse.
Jack Coleman
August 14th, 2013 5:35 PM

MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Attacking the Poor

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton griped about FNC host Bill O'Reilly labeling some welfare recipients as "parasites" and complaining about President Obama making it easier for people to take unfair advantage of the system. Without informing viewers that the FNC host was referring to a California beach bum who seemed disinterested in getting off welfare when he used the…
Brad Wilmouth
August 14th, 2013 5:34 PM

NBC Reports ObamaCare May Force People to Change Doctors, Skips Presid

Leading off Saturday's NBC Nightly News, fill-in anchor Kate Snow declared: "Healthy choices? Big challenges ahead for when the new health care law takes effect. Will you have to change your doctor?" However, in the report that followed, not one word was mentioned of President Obama's repeated promise that people would be able to keep their own doctor under the new law. [Listen to the audio or…
Kyle Drennen
August 14th, 2013 5:18 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Liberals Reacting to Obama Rodeo Clown Like Muslims to

Leave it to conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to make the best observation yet about the phony scandal surrounding a rodeo clown wearing a Barack Obama mask this weekend. On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh marvelously said, "This is no different than those countries reacting freakishly when there were cartoons of the prophet Mohammed" (video follows courtesy Daily Rushbo with…
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2013 5:07 PM

Michelle Malkin Column: Forget Gun Control, We Need Illegal Immigrant

Why is gun control the only policy we're allowed to discuss when horrific murders occur? In the liberal mindset, "root causes" of crime begin and end with the Second Amendment. But who pays the price when our public guardians fail to secure our borders, refuse to deport serial criminal offenders, and enable drug-crazed menaces to prey upon innocent citizens? Meet 27-year-old Julio Miguel…
Michelle Malkin
August 14th, 2013 4:28 PM

NYT Fawns over 'Charismatic,' 'Media-Savvy Star' Booker, Ignores Mayor

The New York Times’s Raymond Hernandez delivered New Jersey primary election results with a spin Tuesday night, offering a mushy profile of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the state’s landslide winner in the Democratic primary for United States Senate. The report’s lead lauded Booker as a “charismatic and media-savvy star in the Democratic Party,” noting the mayor’s efforts to “remake a notoriously…
Andrew Lautz
August 14th, 2013 3:44 PM

NPR’s Voting Rights Battle: 92-Year-Old Black Woman vs. Racist Gover

Media liberals have been up in arms since the Supreme Court decision that Congress should revisit the Voting Rights Act. They’re also upset about North Carolina, which on Monday, August 12, passed sweeping new voter laws including the use of state issued ID cards in all elections starting in 2016. On the August 13 All Things Considered on NPR, reporter Dave DeWitt of North Carolina Public…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 14th, 2013 3:01 PM

NBC ‘Nightly News’ Rare Media Outlet to Report Businesses Cutting

Economists, business owners and employees are worried that the Affordable Care Act is resulting in fewer hours for workers. The networks had been ignoring this shift toward part-time work and its relationship to Obamacare earlier this year, but NBC has let the cat out of the bag. On the Aug. 13, “Nightly News” Lisa Myers reported on an NBC News investigation into the issue.
Julia A. Seymour
August 14th, 2013 2:44 PM

USAT's Story on Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Sentencing Fails to Tag Him as a D

USA Today's "breaking news" email ("Ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months") opened with the following opening sentence: "The nine-term Democrat from Illinois and son of the former civil rights leader had pleaded guilty in February to using $750,000 in campaign money to pay for living expenses, clothes and luxury items." So it seemed like it would be a waste of time to click through…
Tom Blumer
August 14th, 2013 2:30 PM

NBC Admits Businesses Cutting Back Hours Due to ObamaCare

‘Nightly News’ and NBCNews.com find businesses across U.S. trimming hours because of health insurance laws.
Julia A. Seymour
August 14th, 2013 2:08 PM

NBC's 'Today' Ignores ObamaCare Failures, Touts Downfall of Obama-Mock

While NBC's senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers did a full report on Tuesday's Nightly News about ObamaCare causing cutbacks in worker hours across the country, Wednesday's Today couldn't find time to even mention the damage the law was inflicting. Instead, the morning show updated viewers on a rodeo clown that mocked President Obama at a state fair finally facing justice. News…
Kyle Drennen
August 14th, 2013 1:23 PM

What?! Piers Morgan Falsely Claims Virginia Had Highest Murder Rate In

[UPDATE BELOW] Trying to refute his guest's argument that "more guns equal less crime," CNN's Piers Morgan fell flat on his face on his Tuesday night show. When guest A.W.R. Hawkins cited Virginia as an example where violent crime fell in 2012 as gun sales increased, Morgan answered that "It's Virginia, the very state you just quoted to me actually has the highest murder rate in the country…
Matt Hadro
August 14th, 2013 1:14 PM

MSNBC Geography Fail: Cities on Obama Bus Tour Shown in Wrong Location

Maybe part — but certainly not all — of the reason President Obama basically got away with claiming that Jacksonville, Flordia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia are ports "along the Gulf" is that the press is so geographically ignorant that it did not recognize the obvious mistake until someone outside of their bubble pointed it out. I say that because the geniuses at MSNBC…
Tom Blumer
August 14th, 2013 1:11 PM

ObamaCare Suffers Another Setback, ABC and NBC Ignore

On Tuesday morning, The New York Times reported the Obama administration had delayed a “significant consumer protection” in the Affordable Care Act, a provision that limits how much individuals and families can pay out-of-pocket for health care, until 2015. Under ObamaCare, the limit on out-of-pocket health care costs was set at $6,350 per year for individuals and $12,700 per year for families…
Andrew Lautz
August 14th, 2013 12:38 PM