NBC's Williams Inaugurates 'Post-Newtown Era' of Gun Restrictions

For three consecutive nights on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams proclaimed the country to now be in the "post-Newtown era," as he and reporters promoted how "the White House prepares its battle plan" to push for more gun control following the school shooting. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On Tuesday, Williams kicked off the…
Kyle Drennen
January 11th, 2013 5:27 PM

WashPost Editorial to Obama: Clamp Down on Gun-running; Fast & Furious

Today's Washington Post editorial clings to the liberal anti-gun rights view that only the government should have access to "military weapons," by which of course they mean semiautomatic "assault rifles" like the AR-15. Of course, government corruption and incompetence has long been an avenue by which criminals have obtained weapons, the Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal being an…
Matt Vespa
January 11th, 2013 4:55 PM

WaPo's Kamen Dutifully Defends Pal Obama As Other Libs in Media Lament

As my NewsBusters colleague Scott Whitlock pointed out on January 9, networks such as ABC and CBS, slammed the president for a lack of diversity in his second term administration, particularly with women.  Whitlock wrote the “correspondent Jon Karl chided, ‘Well, some critics are looking at that emerging second-term cabinet and wondering, where are the women?’ He touted a New York Times article…
Matt Vespa
January 11th, 2013 4:41 PM

'Girls' Star: Brian Williams On Set So Much We Want 'BriWi-Cam' to See

If your daughter was an actress doing a sex scene in a movie or television show, would you want to watch? On the CBS Late Show Thursday, Girls star Lena Dunham said that not only is NBC's Brian Williams often on the set for the filming of this sex-packed HBO program, the cast jokes about having a "BriWi-cam" on him to gauge his reactions to his daughter Allison's sex scenes (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
January 11th, 2013 4:40 PM

CBS Actually Covers Gun Self-Defense Case Promoted By NRA; ABC, NBC Pu

On Friday's CBS This Morning, Bill Plante refreshingly spotlighted how firearms are used to protect the lives of ordinary Americans. Plante noted how the National Rifle Association "Tweeted a story...about Melinda Herman, a Georgia woman who shot an intruder in self-defense as she waited with her two children in a closet....She fired at the man multiple times with a .38 caliber handgun." The…
Matthew Balan
January 11th, 2013 4:20 PM

CNN Report Tilts 4 to 1 Towards Gun Control Advocates

CNN keeps giving oxygen to the gun control movement. Correspondent Jason Carroll touted the push by New York City and Philadelphia for stricter gun laws and loaded his report with pro-gun control statements on Friday. Carroll quoted four guests in favor of stricter gun laws and provided only one statement to the contrary, from Pennsylvania's governor explaining why the state court struck…
Matt Hadro
January 11th, 2013 3:59 PM

Krugman Coins Another Insult: GOP Acting Like Someone With 'Bomb Strap

Paul Krugman's Friday column for the New York Times, "Coins Against Crazies," announced his support of a bizarre-sounding budget solution taken up mostly on the left: A trillion-dollar platinum coin that would supposedly avoid the looming problem of the debt ceiling. But more offensive than Krugman's nodding along with this unlikely idea is his referring to Republicans as terrorists. PIMCO…
Clay Waters
January 11th, 2013 2:49 PM

George Clooney Beds Cindy Crawford In New Tequila Ad, Then Beds Her Hu

There really is no end to the moral depravity media are tossing at the nation. A new tequila ad features George Clooney in bed with Cindy Crawford, then Crawford in bed with Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler, and finally Clooney in bed with Crawford's husband Rande Gerber (video follows with commentary).
Noel Sheppard
January 11th, 2013 2:27 PM

Liberal Cliche Alert: NYTimes Gears Up for Immigration 'Reform' for 'U

The New York Times's starkly one-sided treatment of illegal immigration promises only to get worse in 2013. A preview: Thursday's edition of the paper's political podcast was solely devoted to immigration, or what the paper called "A Closer Look at Immigration Reform," in anticipation of amnesty proposals being pushed by illegal immigration activists.
Clay Waters
January 11th, 2013 2:12 PM

Ed Rendell on MSNBC: Boosting Gun Control is the 'Good Thing' About Sa

Former Democratic Governor Ed Rendell channeled Piers Morgan on Friday's Now with Alex Wagner program on MSNBC. Rendell even upped the ante, claiming that there was a positive side to the Newtown, Connecticut massacre – that it boosts liberal efforts for stricter gun control [audio available here; video below the jump]:
Matthew Balan
January 11th, 2013 1:13 PM

No Oxygen, Please, for this Show

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L. Brent Bozell III
January 11th, 2013 12:53 PM

MSNBC's Wagner Insists 'No One, Anywhere' Wants to Scrap 2nd Amendment

"No one, anywhere, is talking about doing away with the Second Amendment, and no one, anywhere is advocating stripping away gun ownership," MSNBC's Alex Wagner insisted on the January 11 edition of her eponymous noontime program. Nice try, Ms. Wagner, but exactly two years ago to the day, your colleague Richard Lui suggested it was time to "revisit the Second Amendment" following the shooting…
Ken Shepherd
January 11th, 2013 12:51 PM

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Sneers: Congressman Steve King Is a Bigot

Chris Matthews on Thursday smeared Congressman Steve King as a racist, declaring that the Republican representative is "prejudiced against Latinos." The liberal cable anchor came to the conclusion while discussing King's attempts to change the 14th Amendment to exclude so-called "anchor babies." Matthews played a 2011 clip of the congressman asserting that illegals "sneak into the United…
Scott Whitlock
January 11th, 2013 11:43 AM

NBC's Lauer Grills NRA President: Has 'Monumental' Power of Gun Rights

In an interview with National Rifle Association president David Keene on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "Do you have the support in Congress to block any federal ban on assault weapons in the coming year?...How close do you think Congress can get on that?" He then speculated: "People talk about the power of the NRA. They look at it almost, you know, in monumental terms. Do you…
Kyle Drennen
January 11th, 2013 11:37 AM