Reid, Grim Blast Tea Party Movement and Republican Party on 'PoliticsN

MSNBC contributor Joy Reid – in her infinite liberal wisdom – has the Republican Party all figured out. In a sneering tirade against conservatives on Wednesday’s PoliticsNation, Reid broke the entire party into five separate groups: the “angry” Tea Party, the evangelicals that “want to litigate social issues only,” the “economic conservatives” who want to “get rid of Social Security and…
Andrew Lautz
May 30th, 2013 5:37 PM

Networks Bashed Tea Party Before IRS Probe

The Tea Party grassroots protesters have made no secret of their support for limited government and lower taxes. But from the perspective of network reporters and anchors, the Tea Party’s message was more radical: “no government” and “no taxes.” On May 10, the IRS admitted to flagging more than 100 Tea Party-related applications for higher scrutiny, including applications that included the…
Mike Ciandella
May 30th, 2013 5:32 PM

MSNBC's O'Donnell Links NRA Rhetoric to Ricin Attack on Bloomberg

On Wednesday's The Last Word show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell tried to link rhetoric by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre to the ricin attack on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he played several clips of LaPierre criticizing the liberal mayor's support for gun control before getting to the story of ricin-tainted letters. After running the clips, O'Donnell ominously related…
Brad Wilmouth
May 30th, 2013 5:04 PM

Newsweek's Gross: Apple 'Too Greedy For Its Own Good

As we've documented time and again, Newsweek global business editor Daniel Gross has a history of anti-business and pro-big government bias. Gross stayed true to form in his latest attack on a successful American business enterprise in his May 29 Newsweek feature, "Is Apple Too Clever By Half?" Gross's answer, unsurprisingly, was yes, and that the company was greedy because it has followed U.…
Ken Shepherd
May 30th, 2013 4:48 PM

CNN Claims Americans Are Saying 'To Heck' With Obama's Scandals

CNN exaggerated poll numbers on Thursday's Newsroom to claim that Americans are writing off the scandals of the Obama administration. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and Alison Kosik reported that voters were "a lot more concerned about the economy" and were saying "to heck with the scandals." Yet poll numbers showed voters did not say "to heck with" the IRS scandal, as a vast majority still wanted…
Matt Hadro
May 30th, 2013 4:46 PM

NBC's Brokaw on AG Holder Targeting Journalists: First Amendment 'Not

On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie asked special correspondent Tom Brokaw about his recent comment that the press "has to be careful about having a glass jaw" when it comes to the Obama Justice Department investigating reporters: "...you made a remark that journalists...shouldn't have what you called a 'glass jaw' when it comes to some of these investigations, citing the First…
Kyle Drennen
May 30th, 2013 4:21 PM

HuffPo Live Yucks it Up at Pope’s Expense

The talking heads at HuffPo Live must think the Pope is pretty funny, since much of their short discussion of him on Wednesday at the tail end of a religious segment – was laughs and grins. Perhaps it’s no surprise after HuffPo misrepresented the Pope’s words on atheists, but when the Vatican’s Rev. Rosica issued a clarification, HuffPo Live host Mike Sacks seemed to have trouble taking it…
Lauren Enk
May 30th, 2013 4:05 PM

NY Times: Al Jazeera America to Focus on Domestic U.S. News

Times’ Stelter puffs ‘boots-on-the-ground news coverage.’  
Matt Philbin
May 30th, 2013 4:01 PM

Liberal Activist: Democrats Can 'Decapitate' McConnell and Cause 'Chil

Sane, normal people are sickened by the jihad and the increasingly frequent atrocities committed in its name. Then there are other people -- Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green, for example -- who on some bizarre level seem to draw inspiration from it. Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, one week after an off-duty British soldier was beheaded by two Muslim…
Jack Coleman
May 30th, 2013 4:00 PM

Stephen King Shocks NPR Audience: Nature 'Suggests Intelligent Design

On Tuesday's Fresh Air on NPR stations from coast to coast, host Terry Gross interviewed author Stephen King on his new book  "Joyland," which features a young man in a wheelchair with muscular dystrophy and his grandfather, a radio evangelist named Buddy Ross, who insists the disease is divine punishment. King might have surprised the secular-left devotees of public radio -- not with the…
Tim Graham
May 30th, 2013 3:41 PM

MSNBC Panel Members Slam Bachmann and GOP 'Haters

As MSNBC's Al Sharpton hosted a panel on Wednesday's PoliticsNation to discuss Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann's retirement, MSNBC analyst Karen Finney claimed that Bachmann never had an idea "that wasn't about hate or wasn't about being against something," while MSNBC analyst and former Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell similarly charged that historians will put her "in a…
Brad Wilmouth
May 30th, 2013 3:25 PM

CNN Anchor Draws Legal Parallel Between Catholic Teacher's Firing and

Chalk this one up to the absurd. CNN's Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday tried to draw a legal parallel between a Sharia Law execution and a Catholic school firing a teacher for violating her contract by disobeying church teaching on pregnancy. Banfield argued both violated the teacher's Constitutional rights. "Well if it's an Islamic school and they decide to go with Sharia Law and they decide…
Matt Hadro
May 30th, 2013 3:09 PM

Soros-Funded News Operation Helped Build IRS Case Against Tea Party

While the IRS targeting of conservative groups was still heating up in 2012, a Soros-funded journalism nonprofit was helping fan the flames. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning ProPublica released two stories targeting conservative nonprofits including Crossroads GPS, Americans for Prosperity and the Republican Jewish Coalition. ProPublica was founded by prominent Democratic contributor and has direct…
Mike Ciandella
May 30th, 2013 2:52 PM

AP Finally Gets Around to Covering Major Problem with ObamaCare

While the Associated Press may get something wrong – and omit things on occasion – they’ve admitted one thing that the big three has yet to confirm: Obamacare will cost Americans their health care coverage.  In a story by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar that was published on May 29, he noted that Americans might find themselves stripped of coverage this fall since their current plans don’t meet the…
Matt Vespa
May 30th, 2013 2:49 PM