Leno: 'Clinton Thought DOMA Was Defending Marriage as if it Were Reall

Jay Leno took his sights off Barack Obama Wednesday and set them upon former President Bill Clinton. During the opening monologue of NBC’s Tonight Show, the host said, “In fairness to Clinton, see he didn't totally understand the law. When he signed the bill, he thought the Defense of Marriage Act was defending marriage as if it were really just an act.”
Noel Sheppard
June 27th, 2013 11:32 AM

No Objectivity Needed: Robin Roberts Thrilled Over 'Wonderful' 'Jubila

The journalists at Good Morning America seem to have decided that the gay marriage debate no longer has two sides. On Thursday, co-anchor Robin Roberts opened the program by spinning Wednesday's Supreme Court decision only as a good thing. She extolled, "And some wonderful pictures to show you of jubilation. People dancing in the streets in cities all around the country." [See video below. MP3…
Scott Whitlock
June 27th, 2013 11:31 AM

Letterman: ‘Rush Limbaugh’s Head Exploded’ Over DOMA Decision

Although CBS Late Show host David Letterman admitted that he had no idea what the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act meant, he still felt the need Wednesday to use the decision to bash conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. “Earlier today, Rush Limbaugh's head exploded. It's crazy!” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 27th, 2013 10:29 AM

Deceit about Senator Who Jumped Parties Comes Easy to Ed Schultz

Liberal radio host and MSNBC parolee Ed Schultz -- they let him out only on weekends -- will never face accusations that he's a stickler for accuracy. Schultz counts on those who follow his shows as too dumb or indifferent to care when he gets it wrong, as often the case. On his radio show Tuesday, for example, Schultz made a deceitful claim that bordered on nonsensical while talking about…
Jack Coleman
June 27th, 2013 9:40 AM

Capehart Hails Protest That Prevented Texas Pro-Life Vote As 'Democrac

  On Morning Joe today, Jonathan Capehart hailed the loud protest in the Texas Capitol gallery by pro-abortion rights advocates—which prevented the state senate from voting on a pro-life bill—as an example of "democracy in action." Joe Scarborough countered that if pro-life protesters had done the same, people on MSNBC and elsewhere would be calling them an "angry, unruly mob." …
Mark Finkelstein
June 27th, 2013 9:05 AM

Banned From Britain: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer

Pamela Geller announced at her Atlas Shrugs blog Wednesday morning that "the British government has banned us (herself and fellow Stop Islamization of America activist Robert Spencer) from entering the country ... In not allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de facto Islamic state. The nation that…
Tom Blumer
June 27th, 2013 1:21 AM

NYTimes Curiously Silent On Sexual Misconduct by NYC Public School Emp

In today’s New York Times, there is an analysis of former CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s new group, Parents’ Transparency Project, that was established to root out public school employees guilty of sexual misconduct. This is what it says about the ad: “Her case is helped by stark statistics and will appeal to parents who would not want anyone who had been accused of misconduct, no matter how minor…
Bill Donohue
June 26th, 2013 11:14 PM

Piers Morgan: Rush Limbaugh is ‘Too Old and Too Boring

Piers Morgan normally gets around 500,000 people to watch his pathetic show on CNN. Despite this, the man few Americans actually know by name had the nerve to say Wednesday that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is “too old and too boring” to be a regular on CNN’s revival of Crossfire (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 26th, 2013 10:30 PM

NYT Scrubs Obama Panel Adviser's 'War on Coal' Quote From Print Editio

First, they buried the lede, then they excised it completely. An initial report yesterday at the New York Times on President Obama's speech on "climate change" at Georgetown University by Mark Landler and John M. Broder -- a report which was still up at least as late as 6 p.m. Tuesday evening, according to this story pull posted at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (go to the bottom of the article…
Tom Blumer
June 26th, 2013 9:12 PM

Chris Matthews Compares Gavin Newsom to Executed Civil War-Era Aboliti

 Though Chris Matthews was happy with Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings in support of gay marriage, the liberal host still used hyperbolic rhetoric to describe the state of the country and the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of California. Talking to Gavin Newsom, Matthews praised the politician, comparing him to an executed Civil War abolitionist: "In effect, you were sort of like John Brown or…
Scott Whitlock
June 26th, 2013 6:14 PM

Big Three Acclaim 'Passionate' Pro-Abortion Texas Legislator's Filibus

ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning newscasts on Wednesday spotlighted Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster against pro-life legislation, hyping how she stood for hours in "comfortable pink sneakers" to stop a vote on the bill. The networks trumpeted how "the unfolding drama topped the list of worldwide Twitter trends", but ABC and NBC failed to include any tweets or soundbites from supporters…
Matthew Balan
June 26th, 2013 5:58 PM

NBC Reporter Gushes: Gay Marriage Rulings 'Very Personally Satisfying

Reporting from the White House lawn during NBC's live coverage of the Supreme Court's rulings in favor of gay marriage on Wednesday, correspondent Peter Alexander touted how the decisions were "very personally satisfying for the President, who it was only about a year ago during the course of the campaign...came out and said that he has had this personal evolution on the topic..." [Listen to…
Kyle Drennen
June 26th, 2013 5:43 PM

Supreme Court 'Just Cancelled the Dream' of Martin Luther King, Jr., A

It only took a few minutes for the Rev. Al Sharpton, host of MSNBC's weekday “PoliticsNation” program, to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to overturn Section IV of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires regions to submit new apportionment plans to the Justice Department before any changes can be made. “What they just [sic] done is really revoke a lot” of what Martin Luther…
Randy Hall
June 26th, 2013 5:39 PM

Two of Three Evening Newscasts Downplay Obama’s Global Warming Speec

On a big day for news, two of the three major networks downplayed President Obama’s global warming speech on yesterday’s evening newscasts. ABC and CBS reduced the story to a brief anchor-read blurb, while NBC included a sound bite and a full in-studio report from a correspondent. The speech, delivered at Georgetown University, was notable for Obama’s threat to bypass Congress by directing…
Paul Bremmer
June 26th, 2013 5:34 PM