PBS's Smiley Laughably Insists the Media Always Favors Whoever is Pres

Remember the media’s love affair with George W. Bush during his first term? Me neither. But PBS’s Tavis Smiley and Rolling Stone journalist and author Michael Hastings recall such a scenario. According to Hastings, the media loved President Bush from 2001 to 2005, just as they love President Obama now: “...if you look back at the first four years of the Bush administration, the media – same…
Paul Bremmer
January 31st, 2013 12:16 PM

Fairness: Gun Control Advocates Get Five Times More Coverage on CNN's

Viewers who tuned in to Wednesday's The Situation Room were bombarded with over five times as much coverage of gun control advocates than of the lone gun rights advocate Newt Gingrich. Host Wolf Blitzer tossed plenty of softball questions to gun control advocates Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mark Kelly, husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), but he grilled Gingrich…
Matt Hadro
January 31st, 2013 11:44 AM

Chelsea Handler Tells Piers Morgan 'You Can Suck My A

CNN's Piers Morgan had a rather vulgar exchange with E! Entertainment's Chelsea Handler Wednesday night. After the host of Chelsea Lately told her guest, "You can suck my a--," he responded, "That was exactly what I was going to suggest" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2013 11:04 AM

Now That GDP Is Contracting, Bloomberg's Editors Decide That It's 'An

This is so pathetic and predictable, you could almost set your watch to it. Just ten hours after a government report showed that the economy went into contraction for the first time in three years during 2012's fourth quarter, an item penned "by the editors" at Bloomberg News appeared which scolded us that the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) is an "imperfect measure of progress," and…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2013 10:17 AM

Leno: Kerry Breaks Glass Ceiling - First White Male Secretary of State

Jay Leno made a very interesting observation Wednesday night regarding the confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State. Commenting during his Tonight Show monologue, the host said, "John Kerry is the first white male to hold that job since 1997."
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2013 9:38 AM

NFL Hall of Famer Dan Marino Has Love Child With Former CBS Employee

He's one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the NFL, and has become a distinguished analyst for CBS Sports. Unfortunately, Dan Marino's squeaky clean reputation took a pounding Thursday when the New York Post revealed that he had a love child with a CBS employee back in 2005.
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2013 8:53 AM

Scarborough: Woman Testifying In Support Of Assault Rifles Looked Like

On today's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said that a Senior Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum testifying in favor of assault rifles looked "like a jackass." Gayle Trotter, who holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia and is the co-founder of a D.C. law firm, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.  She argued that having an assault…
Mark Finkelstein
January 31st, 2013 7:11 AM

NYTimes' Monica Davey Stumbles Onto the Case Against Gun Control, But

Wednesday's front-page report by New York Times reporter Monica Davey, "Strict Chicago Gun Laws Can’t Stem Fatal Shots," at first seemed to demonstrate the uselessness of the strict gun control measures in place in high-crime cities like Chicago. Yet Davey missed that obvious conclusion, instead quoting anti-gun activists who claim that gun control will only work if the entire nation becomes a…
Clay Waters
January 31st, 2013 6:36 AM

Rush Roasts AP As It Ramps Up the Excuse-Making in Report on GDP Cont

Yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), reacting to a disgracefully biased January 27 report by Andrew Taylor at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, on the "no budget, no pay" provision in debt-ceiling legislation passed by the House, I wrote that "Taylor’s report is historically bad ... Sadly, I believe AP can do much worse during the next several years — and probably will…
Tom Blumer
January 30th, 2013 10:20 PM

ABC, Which Spiked Tim Scott’s Senate Appointment, Highlights New Sen

Last month, when the Republican Governor of South Carolina named GOP U.S. Representative Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate, the “first African American U.S. Senator from the South since Blanche Bruce of Mississippi in 1881” according to The State newspaper, thus becoming the only black -- Democrat or Republican -- in the Senate, ABC’s World News didn’t mention it. Fast-forward to Wednesday night…
Brent Baker
January 30th, 2013 8:42 PM

Awww ... 'No One Listens to Me,' Laments Libtalker Stephanie Miller

Don't be misled -- she doesn't actually mean it. False modesty is not one of Stephanie Miller's strong suits. On her radio show yesterday, Miller did her part to parrot President Obama's demonization of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh while also claiming she lacks influence among liberals.  (audio clip after page break)
Jack Coleman
January 30th, 2013 6:50 PM

MSNBC.com Takes Lincoln Out of Context to Present Him As 'Living Const

It's a perilous proposition to insist that a long-dead historical figure would share your politics. It's doubly so when your documentary evidence is thin and you are twisting the proper meaning of the words in that supposed evidence. Take the case of MSNBC.com's Nick Ramsey, who insists that Abraham Lincoln would strongly disagreed with Justice Antonin Scalia that the U.S. Constitution is a…
Ken Shepherd
January 30th, 2013 6:33 PM

MSNBC's Morning Joe Allows Ex- Playboy CEO to Peddle Climate Change Li

Hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee held Newtown-inspired gun control hearings, MSNBC's Morning Joe program brought on former Playboy chairwoman and CEO Christie Hefner to warn that warmer weather in Chicago has been a contributing factor in the number of gun deaths in the Windy City.  "[W]e are having this climate change effect that is driving" young men in Chicago to commit 500…
Matt Vespa
January 30th, 2013 6:10 PM

MSNBC Fails to Apologize for Deceptive Video of ‘Hecklers’ of New

For the third time in the past year, NBC News has been caught selectively editing video for political gain, with the most recent instance coming on the Monday, January 28 Martin Bashir program.  Bashir ran heavily edited video showing Neil Helsin, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the Newtown shooting, appearing to be heckled by audience members during a legislative hearing on gun control. The…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 30th, 2013 5:07 PM