Tilt! NPR Answers 'Your' Fiscal Cliff Questions, and 'You' Favor More

On NPR’s All Things Considered on Friday, the network devoted a segment to "Answering Your Questions On the Fiscal Cliff." Audie Cornish declared: “It turns out many of you are confounded as well by a debate that has quickly devolved into a jumble of numbers and half truths.” It also turns out "many of you" were liberals, and none were conservative. The listener questions that NPR picked…
Tim Graham
December 10th, 2012 7:48 AM

Another UK Health Care Horror Story Which U.S. Press Will Ignore

The UK's National Health Service has been around since the late 1940s. Despite over 60 years of trying to get health care right, it still doesn't come anywhere close. This long-term failure has done nothing to deter the Obama administration and Democrats from attempting to replicate the horror here in the U.S. The latest example of scandlous neglect comes from a Labor MP, carried in the…
Tom Blumer
December 9th, 2012 11:23 PM

Newt Gingrich Schools Lawrence O'Donnell On Clinton Tax Hikes

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Sunday gave Lawrence O'Donnell a much-needed education on the economic impact of the Bill Clinton tax hikes in the '90s. As O'Donnell precipitated the exchange, he perfectly demonstrated why MSNBC commentators are far too liberally biased to be invited on NBC's Meet the Press (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2012 4:33 PM

Will To Krugman: You Think Everyone Who Disagrees With You 'Is a Knave

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took a lot of heat from conservatives on ABC's This Week Sunday. Shortly after Republican strategist Mary Matalin derogatorily asked him if he was an economist or a polemicist, George Will said, "I have yet to encounter someone who disagrees with you who you don't think is a knave or corrupt or a corrupt knave" (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2012 1:55 PM

George Will: 'Opposition To Gay Marriage Is Dying - It's Old People

George Will made a comment on ABC's This Week Sunday that is guaranteed to anger conservatives while delighting liberals in and out of the media across the fruited plan. "Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It's old people" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2012 12:47 PM

OH SNAP: Mary Matalin Asks Paul Krugman 'Are You An Economist or a Pol

Republican strategist Mary Matalin on Sunday asked New York Times columnist Paul Krugman an absolutely marvelous question. As Krugman spewed typical Democrat talking points about the fiscal cliff negotiations on ABC's This Week, Matalin interjected, "Are you an economist or a polemicist? Just make up your mind" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2012 12:07 PM

WashPost Humorist Winds Up Feminist Pal to Rip Romney As a 'Terrible

On Saturday, The Washington Post published several letters from readers who were upset by Philip Rucker's report last week on how Mitt Romney was tending his loser wounds in his "moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego." Even when Republicans crawl away and stop criticizing Heroic Barack, they can't lay off. On Sunday, Washington Post humorist (and former Style section editor) Gene Weingarten…
Tim Graham
December 9th, 2012 7:58 AM

Pro-Military T-Shirt Company Posts Vulgar Photoshop of Pope on Faceboo

[Update, Saturday, 9 pm Eastern: Ranger Up also promoted the vulgar image on their Twitter account.] On Friday, Ranger Up, an apparel company that sells "shirts for the military and the patriotic Americans who love the men and women of the Armed Forces", inexplicably posted a crude rendition of Pope Benedict XVI on their Facebook page, which has over 82,000 fans. The graphic invokes a famous…
Matthew Balan
December 8th, 2012 6:54 PM

NPR's Diane Rehm Cites Limbaugh Show, Then Implies DeMint's Heritage M

NPR talk show host Diane Rehm mentioned listening to Rush Limbaugh on Friday -- this is a bit of a shock, since she's written several editorials against Limbaugh and other "hot button" commercial radio hosts. The subject was Sen. Jim DeMint leaving the Senate to run the Heritage Foundation. Rehm, of course, chose to imply this might mean that the Tea Party is "losing its power" in Washington:
Tim Graham
December 8th, 2012 4:05 PM

Leno: 'More Bad News For Republicans' - 'Latinos Live Longer Than Non

Jay Leno took a poke at the GOP on Friday. During the opening monologue of NBC's Tonight Show, the host said, "According to a new study at UCLA, Latinos live longer than non-Latinos. More bad news for Republicans" (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2012 1:44 PM

Mike Malloy: Boehner Should 'Drown Himself In a Vat of Wine

While  Speaker John Boehner has been sharply criticized from the right over the last week, it might not be as sharp or as personal as the leftists on the radio. Try bile-spewing Mike Malloy, who claimed Boehner was drunk most of the time he's on Capitol Hill, and he should just "drown himself in a vat of wine" and "gurgle himself right into the great bar in the sky":
Tim Graham
December 8th, 2012 1:39 PM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen S

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War." This occurred during an online video interview with the Huffington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2012 11:13 AM

Former Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist Becomes A Democrat

Charlie Crist, the Obama-supporting former Republican governor of Florida announced Friday that he has officially registered as a Democrat. He did so by tweeting the following:
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2012 10:26 AM

Days After NYT's Kirkpatrick Calls Brotherhood 'Moderate Political For

This one comes straight from the "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see" Department. On Wednesday, in an interview with talk show host Hugh Hewitt (HT Daily Caller), New York Times Cairo Bureau Chief David D. Kilpatrick characterized Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as "not violent by nature," and as "a moderate, conservative but religious, but moderate, regular old political force." (…
Tom Blumer
December 8th, 2012 9:58 AM