Charlie Rose Laughs With Republican-Bashing Poet Calvin Trillin

Thursday night’s episode of PBS’s Charlie Rose proved that left-wing smear jobs can come in many forms - including poetry. The New Yorker’s Calvin Trillin stopped by the show to chat about his latest book, an account of the 2012 presidential election told in comic verse. Trillin shared a few of his poems with Rose, including this one:   I did a poem after the election that was called "…
Paul Bremmer
February 22nd, 2013 5:32 PM

CBS Sympathizes With 'Beloved' Mayor Who Lost $1 Billion Gambling; Omi

Bill Whitaker did his best to depict former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor as a tragic figure on Friday's CBS This Morning, but glossed over her Democratic affiliation. Whitaker sympathetically asked O'Connor, "What's the worst of it for you?" The correspondent also spotlighted how the former mayor "brought in light rail, a convention center – helped transform San Diego from a sleepy navy…
Matthew Balan
February 22nd, 2013 5:25 PM

Bloomberg's Carlson Predicts GOP 'Squeals' When Obama Makes Sequester

Appearing on Friday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to discuss the upcoming budget sequestration, Bloomberg View columnist Margaret Carlson touted President Obama's ability "to manipulate some of these cuts so that they're going to hurt and people are going to see them," in order to put pressure on congressional Republicans. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Carlson…
Kyle Drennen
February 22nd, 2013 5:03 PM

Jimmy Carter Claims He Raised No Money In '76 Election, Piers Morgan D

Former President Jimmy Carter claimed he didn't raise a dime of money in the 1976 general election and CNN's Piers Morgan wouldn't challenge him on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight. "As a matter of fact, when I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None," Carter bragged to Morgan. According to election law, general election campaigns couldn't take…
Matt Hadro
February 22nd, 2013 4:54 PM

What Objectivity? Three ABC Co-Hosts to Appear at a Political Fund-Rai

Apparently, objectivity just isn't needed on some issues. On March 16th, Good Morning America's Josh Elliott, Sam Champion and Lara Spencer will co-host the 24th annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awards. The event will honor another journalist, Anderson Cooper, for being "an advocate for the LGBT community." This isn't the first time Elliott, supposedly a neutral…
Scott Whitlock
February 22nd, 2013 4:15 PM

Wolf Blitzer, Piers Morgan Give Warm Interviews to Jimmy Carter and Hi

CNN only had soft questions and praise on Thursday for Jimmy Carter's grandson who had unearthed the tape of Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remarks. Host Wolf Blitzer gave a warm interview to James Carter IV on The Situation Room and Piers Morgan later teed up former President Carter to brag about his grandson on Piers Morgan Tonight. "How does it make you feel that your grandfather is so proud…
Matt Hadro
February 22nd, 2013 4:05 PM

Coulter Column: The Hispanicked GOP Elite

Don't anyone tell Marco Rubio, John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama, or who knows what they'll come up with. I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap, unskilled labor through amnesty, but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign…
Ann Coulter
February 22nd, 2013 3:45 PM

CNN Money Hypes Plight Of Unemployed Transgendered Individuals

Apparently CNN’s LGBT activism has found its way onto its financial website CNN Money.  In a February 22 article, writer Blake Ellis featured numerous transgendered individuals struggling to find work in America. The article serves as a means to promote transgendered rights and Ellis claims that, “as millions of Americans struggle with unemployment, this community is being hit especially hard…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 22nd, 2013 3:14 PM

Worse Than a Hurricane? New York Times Hypes Effect of Sequester on Ai

Worse than a hurricane? New York Times reporter Matthew Wald went a bit overboard in his Friday story on possible delays at airports because of the budget cuts due to take effect next week, known as the sequester: "Spending Cuts Threaten Delays In Air Travel."
Clay Waters
February 22nd, 2013 1:39 PM

A Quintessential New York Times Headline: 'Why Taxes Have to Go Up

Friday's lead editorial encapsulates the liberal mindset that drives the New York Times: "Why Taxes Have to Go Up." And not just on the rich -- the Times argues that the rich must pay more first in order to build "consensus" for raising taxes on the middle class as well. In Times-land, there is no such thing as a spending problem, only a failure to sufficiently raise taxes on everyone.
Clay Waters
February 22nd, 2013 1:10 PM

In Shift, NY Times Embraces 'Moral Dimension' Provided by Bishops -- a

Friday's lead New York Times story celebrated "G.O.P. Governors Providing a Lift For Health Law." The most notable convert: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who reversed his position this week and announced his support for expanding Medicaid. The Times' Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear credited Scott for the embrace of Obama-care (via "proponents" who "say that doing so will not only save lives, but…
Clay Waters
February 22nd, 2013 1:01 PM

WashPost Runs Two Stories Pushing Gun Control

On Friday February 22, the Washington Post took a double-barreled approach to pushing more gun control In a 52-paragraph front-page story, staff writer Stephanie McCrummen highlighted the efforts of anti-gun activist Susan Beehler, a North Dakota woman “going against the gun culture” in the Roughrider State. Elsewhere in the A-section, staffer Philip Rucker devoted 23 paragraphs to boosting…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 22nd, 2013 12:38 PM

NBC's Todd: GOP 'Begging the Media to Say It's Obama That Started the

After dismissing the argument that President Obama was to blame for the sequester as "dumb" on Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd further mocked the notion on Friday's program: "Republicans have been playing, well, an inside game, the inside the Beltway game, trying to build support for their position against the cuts and begging the media to say it's Obama that…
Kyle Drennen
February 22nd, 2013 12:18 PM

Panic! ABC Warns of Sequester 'Fiscal Emergency' to 'Cripple' Much of

The journalists of Good Morning America on Friday adopted White House talking points, foreseeing a "fiscal emergency" that will "cripple" flights in the United States. Jon Karl warned, "When it comes to air travel, the first thing we'll all see are longer lines at airport security. Expect ten percent fewer TSA agents on the job." An ABC graphic blared, "Seven Days to Fiscal Emergency: Air…
Scott Whitlock
February 22nd, 2013 11:47 AM