Obama Czar Rattner Decries 'Climate-Change Deniers'—But Flies Big Pr

I hate to criticize a fellow pilot, but when one engages in such sky-high hypocrisy, well . . . On Morning Joe today, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner, a very successful hedge fund manager, decried "climate-change denier[s]." This is the same Rattner who, at last report, owned a "15,000-square-foot mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, to which [he] flies regularly on a Dassault Falcon 2000 jet […
Mark Finkelstein
January 29th, 2013 11:53 AM

NBC's Gregory Grills DeMint on GOP 'Intolerance' and 'Racist Comments

Talking to Heritage Foundation president and former Republican Senator Jim DeMint on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory eagerly cited recent criticism of the GOP: "Colin Powell on this program a couple of weeks ago talking about a deep vein of intolerance within the Republican Party. How do you respond to that as you take a look at where the party needs to go?" [Listen to the…
Kyle Drennen
January 29th, 2013 11:39 AM

Kirsten Powers Rips Obama and His Administration For Its 'Strategy to

In a column which went up this morning, Fox News Political Analyst Kirsten Powers, whose political positions certainly lean left and is a self-described liberal, ripped into President Obama and his administration for what she correctly characterizes as their "strategy to delegitimize a news organization" -- hers. Her column is about far more than Obama's recent complaint to the New Republic's…
Tom Blumer
January 29th, 2013 11:32 AM

Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon 'Slow Jam' Sexually-Charged Attacks on

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams joined Jimmy Fallon Monday in another "Slow Jam the News" segment on NBC's Late Night. This time the subject was the fight over the debt ceiling with the target of course being Republicans who were repeatedly hit with sexually-charged attacks (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 29th, 2013 11:22 AM

New York Times Blames GOP for Making Obama Violate Constitution: 'Repu

What gall. A Saturday New York Times editorial actually managed to blamed the Republican Party for forcing Obama to violate the constitution: "A Court Upholds Republican Chicanery." For most of President Obama’s first term, Republicans used legislative trickery to try to prevent the functioning of two federal agencies they hate, the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial…
Clay Waters
January 29th, 2013 11:13 AM

NBC Hits Gore From Left on Climate 'Hypocrisy'; Ignores Al Jazeera's A

In an interview with former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday's Today, co-host Matt Lauer fretted over the "hypocrisy" of the global warming crusader selling his news channel Current TV to the oil-funded Al Jazeera network. However, Lauer completely ignored the Arab news organization's history of anti-Americanism and promotion of Islamic fundamentalism. [Listen to the audio or watch the video…
Kyle Drennen
January 29th, 2013 10:41 AM

Virtual Reality! Networks Cover Manti Te’o 521 Times More than March

Fact usually triumphs over fiction – except on TV news. The major networks have been obsessed with Manti Te’o’s fantasy football story of a fictional girlfriend. But when 500,000 people showed up in Washington to speak out for the unborn, it was barely a footnote. ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted close to two-and-a-half hours (147 minutes and 43 seconds) to the Te’o fiasco and just 17 seconds to the…
Katie Yoder
January 29th, 2013 10:27 AM

Robert Reich: Walmart, McDonalds and Every Hospital in America Should

Former Clinton labor secretary turned MSNBC contributor Robert Reich has a truly nutty solution for America's current economic woes. Writing at the perilously liberal Huffington Post Tuesday, Reich called for some of the top employers in the nation to unionize.
Noel Sheppard
January 29th, 2013 10:11 AM

Open Thread: The Continued Steep Decline of Unions

Writing at National Review, John Fund has an important piece on the declining power and influence of labor unions. Given their significant contribution to aiding and funding the growth of government, this is a positive trend that deserves to be highlighted amidst much of the negative news that conservatives have faced recently, especially considering that this is truly a historic slide to…
Matthew Sheffield
January 29th, 2013 9:55 AM

Politico: Amnesty 'Right Thing To Do', But Easy to 'Demagogue

It's a classic MSM tactic: delegitimize opposition to a liberal proposal.  Suggest that there can be no principled objections, only base motives.   Take the current proposals on "the pathway to citizenship"—AKA amnesty—being floated.  On today's Morning Joe, Politico co-founder and executive editor Jim VandeHei proclaimed that it was probably "the right thing to do," but fretted that it…
Mark Finkelstein
January 29th, 2013 8:32 AM

Seven Millionaire Journalists who Cheer For Higher Taxes

100 years after the income tax liberal anchors still support tax increases.
Julia A. Seymour
January 29th, 2013 7:00 AM

Lindsey Graham: 'In 2007 When We Tried To Do Immigration Reform, Obama

As America's media predictably fall in line behind any attempts President Obama makes to reform immigration policy, one has to wonder if they're going to recall how he cast the pivotal vote in the Senate in 2007 to block such legislation. Keeping the press on their toes, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Fox New's On the Record Monday, "In 2007 when we tried to do immigration reform, he…
Noel Sheppard
January 29th, 2013 1:13 AM

Politico's 'Quiet Liberal Plans for Entitlements' Are Predominantly Ta

The front-page title at the Politico for David Nather's lengthy write-up on Democrats' alleged ideas for doing something about runaway entitlement programs is "The quiet liberal plan for entitlements; There are some ideas for reining in spending that have been blessed by the left." That gives readers the impression that the left might actually have something specific and potentially palatable…
Tom Blumer
January 29th, 2013 12:23 AM

CBS's Kroft on Why Obama Does 60 Minutes: 'He Knows We're Not Going To

CBS's Steve Kroft made a statement Monday that totally epitomizes liberal media bias in the modern era. Speaking to CNN's Piers Morgan about his interview with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the previous evening's 60 Minutes, Kroft said the President likes doing his show because "he knows that we're not going to play gotcha with him" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 11:56 PM