HBO Serves Up Another Anti-Catholic Screed

Tossing aside honesty, fairness, and perspective in its desire to browbeat the Catholic Church, HBO serves up healthy doses of factual distortion, misleading claims, and bigoted sources in a new documentary scheduled to begin airing on the network on Monday. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God is the latest project from filmmaker Alex Gibney, who has received accolades in the past…
Dave Pierre
February 2nd, 2013 8:30 PM

'We Are Undocumented And Unafraid, Because This Is What We Learned In

The most disturbing thing is that she's probably right . . . On Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show this morning, Cristina Jiménez, leader of United We Dream, an organization that advocates on behalf of illegal immigrant youth, declared "we are undocumented and unafraid, because this is what we learned in school."  In American schools of today, dominated by government employee unions, she's…
Mark Finkelstein
February 2nd, 2013 6:51 PM

Economy Lost 2.84 Million Jobs in Jan., Yet Press Pretends Seasonally

Following the governmemt's Employment Situation Summary yesterday, two words were noticeably absent at the Associated Press (here, here, and here), Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and the New York Times: "seasonally adjusted." While they told their readers of the number of jobs supposedly added in total (157,000) and in other sectors, the fact remains that in the real world, before seasonal…
Tom Blumer
February 2nd, 2013 6:38 PM

Anderson Cooper Reports Larry King 'Trying To Get Katie Couric in the

The folks at CNN sure have gotten smutty this year. In the wake of Kathy Griffin kissing Anderson Cooper's crotch on New Year's Eve, and Piers Morgan having a truly raunchy discussion with Chelsea Handler earlier this week, Cooper on Friday reported a 1980s date as Larry King "trying to get Katie Couric in the sack" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 5:06 PM

Pelosi Briefs Barbra Streisand and Hollywood Elites at Norman Lear's M

Just how much more in bed can Democrats get with Hollywood elites? That question seems germane given an event held at Norman Lear's Hollywood mansion Thursday where House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) briefed attendees that included Barbra Streisand and James Brolin.
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 3:58 PM

Pelosi Called 'Jackass' Before Cameo Appearance on '30 Rock' Finale

Liberals were all atwitter a few months ago over the news that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was going to be doing a cameo role on the series finale of 30 Rock. I wonder how they felt when she was called a "jackass” right before her appearance (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 2:58 PM

Nina Totenberg: 'Conservatives Want To Take a Knife To Hillary Clinton

Remember all that talk about civility in political discourse after the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords? NPR's Nina Totenberg apparently doesn't, for on PBS's Inside Washington Friday, she said of Hillary Clinton, "Any time conservatives can they want to take a knife to her throat" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 12:51 PM

Kevin Spacey: 'I Wouldn't Mind Piers Morgan Being Deported

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Morgan tweets this to his followers. Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey took a humorous swipe at CNN’s Piers Morgan on CBS’s Late Show Friday. While impersonating the late Johnny Carson at the request of host David Letterman, Spacey said of Morgan, “I wouldn't mind him being deported” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 11:41 AM

Despite Unemployment Rate Increase, AP's Rugaber Describes Friday's Jo

Yesterday at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, Christopher Rugaber really wrote that the government's Employment Situation Summary released Friday was "mostly encouraging." The Friday morning dispatch, still present at Yahoo News but which has understandably disappeared from the wire service's national site, stuck with his smiley-faced description even as he noted, "one…
Tom Blumer
February 2nd, 2013 11:27 AM

Wanda Sykes on Super Bowl: 'I'm Gay...Not Rooting for San Francisco Is

Comedienne Wanda Sykes is having a problem deciding which football team to support on Super Bowl Sunday. She told NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno Friday that despite growing up in Maryland, "I'm gay...Me not rooting for San Francisco is like booing Africa" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 10:49 AM

Did Bill Maher Steal Jokes From Jay Leno and Jon Stewart

Bill Maher made a couple of jokes on HBO's Real Time Friday that sounded eerily similar to things NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart said earlier in the week. Here are the relevant clips (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 9:52 AM

Mayor Booker: 'Legal Gun Buyers Aren't Causing Murders in Newark and C

Newark Mayor Cory Booker made a statement on HBO's Real Time Friday that should please gun rights advocates across the fruited plain. Despite being for stronger gun laws, Booker said, "Legal gun buyers are not causing murders in Newark and Chicago and other places" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2013 9:06 AM

New York Times Op-Ed Accuses Tea Party Of 'Assaults On Public Official

Looks like liberals are still trying to peddle the discredited allegation that Tea Party members attacked black members of Congress. The op-ed page of today's New York Times contains a column by James Sleeper, a long-time left-wing activist, now a lecturer at Yale.  The gist is the grudging respect that Sleeper came to have for Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who passed away two days…
Mark Finkelstein
February 2nd, 2013 8:45 AM

Bozell Column: The Abortionist Saints of Sundance

Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival featured a documentary celebrating four “amazing” abortionists who evacuate wombs in the third trimester of pregnancy. The critics in attendance loved it. The Philadelphia Inquirer boasted it drew “two standing ovations -- one for the doctors.” Sundance attendees in Utah were greeted by police and armed sheriffs in green jumpsuits that made a show of…
Brent Bozell
February 2nd, 2013 8:07 AM