Former CNN/U.S. Prez Defends Piers Morgan Hire, Affirms He Wanted Olbe

The former president of CNN/U.S. doesn't regret bringing Piers Morgan to CNN and reaffirmed his desire to hire Keith Olbermann away from MSNBC in 2010, in an interview with HuffPost Live. When asked if he regretted hiring Piers Morgan, Jon Klein replied "as a viewer I don't regret it. I mean, I watch him all the time." When pressed about Olbermann, Klein admitted his "foresight" in wanting…
Matt Hadro
February 4th, 2013 6:21 PM

NPR Touts Leftist Groups' Protest of Israeli Company SodaStream

On Monday's Morning Edition, NPR's Larry Abramson boosted an "international boycott movement" against Israeli company SodaStream without mentioning the left-wing ideology of the organizations behind the protest. Abramson merely described the boycott organizers as "supporters of Palestinian rights." The correspondent featured a soundbite of a December 2012 anti-SodaStream protest in Boston,…
Matthew Balan
February 4th, 2013 6:01 PM

Howard Kurtz Tells Obama and Gore 'Stop Whining About Right-Wing Media

Liberal media members defending Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are about as rare as Halley's Comet. Yet that's what CNN's Howard Kurtz did Monday in a piece surprisingly titled "Obama, Gore, Stop Whining About Right-wing Media."
Noel Sheppard
February 4th, 2013 5:12 PM

CNN Thanks Gay Rights Activist for His Work

CNN thinks the Super Bowl has become "a platform for the culture wars," but they are using that "platform" to support causes like gay marriage. The morning after the Super Bowl, CNN's openly-gay anchor Don Lemon interviewed gay rights activist and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo and thanked him for his work. No guest from the other side was brought on.
Matt Hadro
February 4th, 2013 4:49 PM

WashPost's New Managing Editor Denies There's Widespread Liberal Bias

The Washington Post announced today that former national editor and staff writer Kevin Merida is the paper's new managing editor, effective immediately. "Kevin is a journalist of remarkable accomplishment, with a record of strong leadership," Post executive editor Marty Baron was quoted in a community relations notice. "He has cultivated a talented staff on the National desk, and he has won the…
Ken Shepherd
February 4th, 2013 4:05 PM

Donald Trump Issues Statement Regarding $5 Million Lawsuit Against Bil

As NewsBusters reported Monday, Donald Trump is suing HBO's Bill Maher for the $5 million the comedian offered to the real estate mogul if he proved that he wasn't the product of his mother having sex with an orangutan. With the suit having been filed in California court hours ago, NewsBusters has obtained a statement from Trump via his EVP and Special Counsel:
Noel Sheppard
February 4th, 2013 3:47 PM

Sunday New York Times Full of 'Far Right' Labels for Congressional Rep

The headline and lead story in Sunday's New York Times warned of "far right" Republicans. Jeff Zeleny (pictured) is more balanced than most Times political reporters, but has a bad habit of "far right" labeling. The headline: "Top G.O.P. Donors Seek Greater Say In Senate Races – Bid To Cull Challenges -- Taking Aim at hopefuls Viewed as Too Far Right to Win." Zeleny included the unflattering…
Clay Waters
February 4th, 2013 3:10 PM

Andrea Mitchell: Storms Show U.S. Needs To Go It Alone If Necessary On

Andrea Mitchell isn't about to let a good hurricane go to waste in her push for economy-wrecking climate change regulations. On her MSNBC show today, Andrea Mitchell claimed that recent weather events including Superstorm Sandy have "taught us if nothing else, that we have a real climate problem and that we have to deal with this here even if the rest of the world isn't going to deal with it…
Mark Finkelstein
February 4th, 2013 3:09 PM

New York Times: Late Ed Koch Fostered Racist Assaults, But 'Redeemed

Joseph Berger's long tribute to the late, legendary former New York City mayor Ed Koch made the front of the New York Times Sunday Metro section -- "So, How'd He Do?" But Berger stained Koch's memory by citing the irresponsible, inflammatory voices of Rev. Calvin Butts and Al Sharpton and bizarrely suggesting Koch's rhetoric played a part in racist assaults against blacks: "Despite his…
Clay Waters
February 4th, 2013 2:21 PM

MSNBC's Wagner Falsely Claims House Held 'All-Male Hearings' on Birth

Opening a segment today on the Obama administration's latest overture to assuage concerns of religious organizations about the ObamaCare contraception mandate, MSNBC host Alex Wagner came out swinging with a patently false assertion that survives as a liberal meme to this day.  "The great 2012 debate over women's health concerns begot all-male hearings on contraception and a national smear…
Ken Shepherd
February 4th, 2013 1:31 PM

Ed Koch Spoke Out Forcefully Against Federal Mandates He Passed As Con

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who has been given and deserves a great deal of credit for bringing the city back to stability and prominence after 12 awful and nearly bankrupt years under John Lindsay and Abe Beame, passed away on Friday at age 88. Koch was not a party-line Democrat in several obvious ways. He supported George W. Bush's reelection in 2004. He first made a name for…
Tom Blumer
February 4th, 2013 1:14 PM

NBC Bids Hillary Fawning Farewell: Secretary of State's Departure Had

Marking Hillary Clinton's final day as Secretary of State on Friday's NBC Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell gushed: "Clinton's State Department farewell was bittersweet. She took time to tour the building, saying goodbye to cafeteria workers....[her] departure had the energy of a campaign rally. As she left, some women were shouting, '2016.'" [Listen to the audio…
Kyle Drennen
February 4th, 2013 12:58 PM

Why Is Sandy Hook Father Bill Stevens Not a Household Name? Perhaps Be

Last week while MSNBC was busy deceptively editing a video of Neil Heslin, the father of a child murdered in the Newtown, Connecticut mass shooting, the "Lean Forward" network and the rest of the liberal media failed to notice the pro-gun rights testimony of another Newtown father, Bill Stevens. While he was fortunate enough to not have lost a child that day, Mr. Stevens has a daughter in 5th…
Ken Shepherd
February 4th, 2013 12:54 PM

As Andrew Cuomo's Poll Numbers 'Crumble,' Chris Matthews Frets: 'Is An

An exasperated Chris Matthews on Sunday highlighted Governor Andrew Cuomo's plummeting poll numbers in the wake of New York's new gun control legislation. Singling out the National Rifle Association as the villain, he fretted "...Is anybody safe from the NRA?" The host of the Chris Matthews Show lamented the inability of many states to pass gun control laws. Matthews told his guests that,…
Scott Whitlock
February 4th, 2013 12:36 PM