
Howard Kurtz: David Gregory Was Far Tougher on NRA's LaPierre Than Oba
CNN media analyst Howard Kurtz was impressed last Sunday with how Meet the Press host David Gregory hammered the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre during their interview.
One week later, Kurtz wondered why Gregory "didn’t brandish any weapons or show much firepower" during this Sunday's interview with President Obama.
December 30th, 2012 10:29 AM

Media Bias Year-in-Review: The Biggest Obamagasms of
As 2012 winds down, we're reliving some of the worst media bias of the year with our Best Notable Quotables of 2012. Yesterday, I recounted some of the nastiest barbs journalists threw at the GOP ticket; today, a look at some of the most egregious favors committed on behalf of Barack Obama's campaign.
While conservatives like Rick Santorum were often cast as radical or weird, journalists…
December 30th, 2012 9:34 AM

Charlie Sheen Parties With LA Mayor in Cabo
If you were the mayor of Los Angeles, would you want to be caught partying with Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen?
That’s apparently what happened Friday according to a tweet by Sheen featuring a picture of him with his arm around Antonio Villaraigosa that was captioned, “Antonio Villaraigosa knows how to party!”
December 30th, 2012 8:36 AM

Brent Bozell Hammers Juan Williams on Hannity: When Will We Get Seriou
MRC founder and president Brent Bozell appeared on Hannity on Thursday night to debate the “fiscal cliff” morass with liberal Fox analyst Juan Williams.
"The issue has been, will continue to be, spending. And that's what no one wants to talk about," Bozell insisted. He hammered away at the idea that politicians speak in vague terms about cuts, but nothing ever gets reduced. "This is insanity…
December 30th, 2012 7:42 AM

Aspiring Bolshevik Thom Hartmann Wants US to 'Outlaw Billionaires
Libtalker Thom Hartmann sees "billionaire" as synonymous with "criminal" and would prohibit any person in America from owning more than $1 billion in wealth.
Hartmann uncorked his fanciful wish on his radio show Thursday while citing a letter by Thomas Jefferson to justify his views. (audio clips after page break)
December 29th, 2012 10:32 PM

FNC’s Fox NewsWatch Showcases MRC’s Awards for the Year’s Worst
“Every year a conservative watchdog organization, the Media Research Center, names the worst reporters of the year,” Fox NewsWatch host Jon Scott announced, ending Saturday afternoon’s show with clips from the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.”
He explained “votes were cast by some of the best and brightest in the business,…
December 29th, 2012 8:58 PM

NBC Washington Anchor Jim Vance Suggests Grisly Crime Scene Photos fro
Just as the open casket for Emmett Till's funeral in 1955 was a grisly wake-up call to Americans about the need to seriously tackle civil rights issues in America, so grisly photos of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting crime scene could be a "transformational" moment in the gun control debate. Or so mused Jim Vance of NBC's Washington station WRC-TV the other night, passing on the suggestion…
December 29th, 2012 8:39 PM
Walter E. Williams Column: Mid East Democracy
Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible":
"After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and 'experts' in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the beginning of democracy in Libya. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Gadhafi's death…
December 29th, 2012 5:16 PM

Politico: 'When Will the (Stupid) Right Start Hating Hillary Clinton A
Two days before Christmas, Politico’s Maggie Haberman baked up a gooey marshmallow piece about Chelsea Clinton, lamenting that as Hillary steps away from government service, “the nation will have to go cold turkey from two-plus decades of a Clinton speaking out on the issues of the day. Or maybe not.”
Two days after Christmas, Haberman picked up the hack work where she left off with an anti-…
December 29th, 2012 4:59 PM

Boston Globe Critic Compares Tarantino's New 'House Negro' Character t
One reason, I'm guessing, for still subscribing to The Boston Globe is to laugh at "self-loathing" black conservatives...even in Quentin Tarantino movie reviews. Globe film critic Wesley Morris is at is again. On NPR in May 2011, Morris hailed "The Fast and The Furious" movies as very "progressive" and "equal-opportunity shallow." When challenged on it, Morris shot darts instead at "The Blind…
December 29th, 2012 12:55 PM

NPR Host Tweets That al-Qaeda Can't Compete with How (GOP) Congress
The NPR crowd’s hatred for conservative Republicans came through on Twitter. Dave Davies, a fill-in host for Terry Gross on the nationally distributed “Fresh Air” program, tweeted on the fiscal cliff: “Al Qaeda isn't the same league as Congress when it comes to terrorizing Americans.”
Davies, who like Gross originates at taxpayer-funded WHYY in Philadelphia, linked to a New Yorker humor…
December 29th, 2012 10:48 AM

Evan Thomas: 'White Men Dropping Out of the Workforce' - 'Not Doing An
Former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas made a bizarre statement on PBS's Inside Washington Friday.
"Unexplored story of the year: white men dropping out - dropping out of the workforce, dropping out of elections, just plain dropping out, getting social security, not doing anything, going hunting, fishing, just not in the game" (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):
December 29th, 2012 10:40 AM

Media Bias Year-in-Review: The Most Partisan Potshots of Campaign
As 2012 winds down, it's time to look back at some of the year's most egregious media bias, as documented by the Media Research Center's "Best Notable Quotables of 2012."
Much of what made this year unique was how the so-called "mainstream media" linked arms with the Obama campaign to denigrate and demonize conservatives and Republicans, even those as mild and moderate as GOP nominee Mitt…
December 29th, 2012 10:04 AM

Rockland County, NY Paper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Map
Turnabout is fair play.
A week ago, Gannett's White Plains, New York-based Journal News published an interactive map containing " the addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties" (previous related posts are here, here, and here). Like so many others throughout the U.S. and even throughout the world, Dylan Skriloff, Editor-in-Chief at the Rockland County Times,…
December 29th, 2012 9:27 AM