Enraged Scarborough and Brzezinski Whip Up Viewer Hatred With ‘Faces

Proving once again that MSNBC is less of a cable news channel and more of a platform for liberal activism, the “Morning Joe” crew today lashed out at members of the U.S. Senate who decided to vote against a gun bill backed by President Obama. Taking his cue from the fiery and petulant speech the president delivered yesterday, self-described conservative Republican Joe Scarborough lashed out…
Matthew Sheffield
April 18th, 2013 6:42 PM

Ifill Doesn't Ask Democrat If Gun Control Bill Would've Stopped Newtow

With the monumental collapse of the president’s anti-gun agenda, many are wondering if both sides will “go back into their corners” on gun control.  Every single measure in this new bill failed, which elicited the wrath of the president yesterday in the Rose Garden.  During the April 17 broadcast of the PBS NewsHour, Gwen Ifill asked why these measures failed to pass, mentioned the popularity…
Matt Vespa
April 18th, 2013 6:15 PM

Still Only 12–15 Reporters at Gosnell Trial

When it comes to the trial of abortionist doctor Kermit Gosnell, the media play a “now you see me, now you don't” game. Earlier this week, reports surfaced of big media names rushing in to finally cover the Gosnell case. Yet, besides the Media Research Center, an average of only 12 – 15 reporters appeared in the courtroom at a time on Wednesday, April 17. While a few outlets like The…
Katie Yoder
April 18th, 2013 6:00 PM

Harrison Ford: I Never Believed Anything George Bush Said

Harrison Ford took a cheap shot at former President George W. Bush Wednesday evening. Appearing on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor claimed he never believed anything Bush said (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 18th, 2013 5:51 PM

Lack of Expanded Background Checks Makes Tavis Smiley Want to ‘Throw

This week, the Senate voted down the proposed Manchin-Toomey gun control bill that would have expanded background checks for potential gun buyers. Somewhere in Los Angeles, Tavis Smiley is cleaning up the mess he made. On his PBS talk show two days before the Senate vote, Smiley was grilling socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about the likelihood that gun control legislation would pass.…
Paul Bremmer
April 18th, 2013 5:44 PM

MSNBC's Hayes: 'Bizarre and Perverse Mismatch' In Battling Terrorism V

On Wednesday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes devoting a segment to fretting over what he viewed as a "bizarre and perverse mismatch" at the country's willingness to act aggressively in response to deaths from terrorist acts, but the difficulty to get a response to the many gun deaths. He also described the 30,000 people who die from gun shots each year as "martyrs on the altar of the…
Brad Wilmouth
April 18th, 2013 5:29 PM

Ohio Nun Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud; Voted Absentee On Behalf of Dec

Updated (14:37 EDT, April 22) below. Imagine if you will that in last fall's presidential election -- in a crucial swing state no less -- that the widow of an evangelical pastor voted for her late husband via absentee ballot, committing voter fraud and arguably also violating federal mail offenses in the process. While the story of her prosecution would probably not be headline news, it's…
Ken Shepherd
April 18th, 2013 5:28 PM

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Blames NRA For Slowing Down Investigati

Lawrence O’Donnell apparently has absolutely no shame. Speaking on his MSNBC program The Last Word w/ Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday night, O’Donnell asserted that the National Rifle Association's (NRA) successful lobbying efforts in Congress were hindering the federal criminal investigation in the Boston Marathon bombing. In his opening monologue, O’Donnell absurdly thundered that the “NRA'…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 18th, 2013 4:45 PM

NPR Heavily Hints Boston Was Bombed by 'Anti-Government Right-Wing Ind

Our taxpayer dollars seem to be at work finding the culprit of the Boston terror attack last Monday. But on taxpayer-funded NPR, counterterrorism reporter Dina Temple-Raston was already guessing this was domestic not foreign.  “The thinking, as we've been reporting, is that this is a domestic or extremist attack,” Temple-Raston declared on the April 16 All Things Considered. So, besides the…
Matt Vespa
April 18th, 2013 4:43 PM

NBC Touts 'Cries of Shame' and 'Obama's Outrage' Over Gun Control Defe

Following gun background check legislation being voted down in the Senate on Wednesday, anchor Brian Williams led off NBC Nightly News that evening by proclaiming: "There are cries of 'shame' from victims of gun violence watching from the Senate gallery and the President reacts with anger." Williams later touted how Obama "called it 'a pretty shameful day for Washington'" when ranting about the…
Kyle Drennen
April 18th, 2013 4:31 PM

NY Times Follows Up Front-Page Accusations of NYPD Racial Profiling Wi

The New York Times' claims of racially motivated "stop and frisk" procedures by the NYPD are disintegrating, but casual Times readers would never know it. Thursday's paper brought a followup by reporter Joseph Goldstein's to his accusatory front-page story of March 21 suggesting that racial profiling plays a major part of the police's "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactics in unsafe…
Clay Waters
April 18th, 2013 4:29 PM

CBS Overwhelmingly Sides With Pro-Gun Control Voices 11-2 After Senate

CBS lined up gun control supporters on Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning. Chip Reid and Major Garrett played 11 soundbites from President Obama and other Democrats, as well as family members of the Newtown massacre victims. The only gun rights supporter that the two correspondents could find was Chuck Grassley. Reid played two clips from the Republican senator during…
Matthew Balan
April 18th, 2013 3:55 PM

'Law & Order: SUV' Surprising Plot Twist

Rape 'victim' turned mastermind.
Andrew Collins
April 18th, 2013 2:33 PM

NY Times, Not Taking Defeat of 'Gun Safety' Well, Faults 'Gun Lobby's

The New York Times led Thursday's edition with the Senate defeat of President Obama's gun control proposals in a series of procedural votes, including one on expanding background checks that Democrats had hoped would pass. The front page featured a photo of an angry Obama in the Rose Garden after his quest for more gun control laws in the wake of Sandy Hook came up short: "Gun Control Drive…
Clay Waters
April 18th, 2013 2:27 PM