PBS NewsHour Fails To Press Left-Wing Activist on Entitlement Inaccura

The PBS NewsHour has yet to invite a strong conservative on the program to talk about the fiscal cliff.  Tuesday night they had New York Times columnist, left-wing economist, and Obama cheerleader Paul Krugman to detail his view.  Wednesday night they had moderately-conservative Sen. Bob Corker ( R-Tenn), but last night was the most interesting. PBS invited the Norquist of the left, Max…
Matt Vespa
December 7th, 2012 6:47 PM

Newsweek Lays Off Dozens, Just in Time for Christmas

Things have really come full circle for the perpetually troubled liberal magazine Newsweek, since it infamously smeared Newt Gingrich on its cover as "the Gingrich who stole Christmas." Eighteen years later, Newsweek is literally doing that to more than 50 employees it fired on Friday. The pink-slipped staff for the Newsweek/Daily Beast Company received a letter from Editor-in-Chief Tina…
Randy Hall
December 7th, 2012 6:30 PM

Reuters Offers Readers Heavily-Slanted Story on Right-to-Work Bill in

Reuters correspondent Andrea King Collier offered readers a heavily-slanted 27-paragraph story last evening about Michigan Republican lawmakers pushing a right-to-work bill in the state legislature. King Collier quoted only one proponent of the legislation -- Gov. Rick Snyder -- who was described as a "reluctant supporter of the measure," unlike "other Republican governors who have championed…
Ken Shepherd
December 7th, 2012 6:03 PM

Maher: Obama Should Implement Carbon Tax As A 'Personal F--k You to th

Bill Maher's HBO program might be on hiatus, but that doesn't stop the Obama-supporter from making inflammatory remarks about other Americans. At his blog Friday, Maher wrote that the President should use the current budget crisis to implement a carbon tax as a "personal f--k you to the Koch brothers":
Noel Sheppard
December 7th, 2012 5:46 PM

Liberals Love Costas Mixing Sports and Politics, Hated It When Limbaug

Salon magazine this afternoon is asking the silly question, Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas? It is Rush Limbaugh who is banned from speaking, not Bob Costas.Salon’s David Sirota has a long introduction to his argument (which you can read here) that boils down to this:
Amy Ridenour
December 7th, 2012 5:31 PM

Romney Turned Down One Hour Primetime Fox News Interview Night Before

If you were a Republican presidential candidate, wouldn't you jump at the chance to do a one hour primetime interview on Fox News Channel the night before Election Day? According to Bill O'Reilly who appeared on NBC's Tonight Show Thursday, that's what Mitt Romney was offered and he turned it down (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 7th, 2012 4:52 PM

NBC's 'Today' Touts 'Rock Star' Colbert Looking to Replace DeMint in S

After gushing on Wednesday over left-wing actress Ashley Judd possibly running for Senate in Kentucky, on Friday's NBC Today, the cast applauded liberal comedian Stephen Colbert suggesting in jest that he might replace outgoing South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, with co-host Willie Geist proclaiming: "I can tell you, having done a show with him [Colbert] in Charleston, he is an absolute rock…
Kyle Drennen
December 7th, 2012 4:45 PM

Rasmussen Column: Republicans Are Missing the Point in the Fiscal Clif

President Obama is winning the messaging wars in the "fiscal cliff" debate largely because Republicans aren't even in the game. The GOP leadership in Washington keeps talking as if the issue is deficit reduction, while the president is talking about fairness. Consider the numbers. Sixty-one percent of voters want to see a deal reached to avoid the big Jan. 1 tax hikes and across-the-board…
Scott Rasmussen
December 7th, 2012 4:41 PM

Bob Costas Dug Himself in Deeper on O’Reilly Factor

Bob Costas appeared on the O’Reilly Factor Wednesday night in an effort to explain his ill-informed comments about guns that he made over the weekend. Quoting a local sport’s writer, Costas said that the Kansas City linebacker who killed himself and his girlfriend this past weekend would still be alive today “if Javon Belcher didn’t possess a gun.” Bill O’Reilly invited Costas onto his show…
Erich Pratt
December 7th, 2012 4:30 PM

Politico Disparages Heritage as 'Uninspiring' & Discredits DeMint as a

Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced Thursday that he will be trading his Senate seat in January to assume the helm of the Heritage Foundation. Covering the surprising development in its Friday edition, Politico dismissed DeMint as a mediocre politician with an undistinguished record who is moving on to captain a conservative think tank that has become "predictable, uninspiring, and often lacking in…
Ryan Robertson
December 7th, 2012 3:58 PM

MSNBC Anchor Sneers: 'Is the South Ready for a Black Senator

Following Senator Jim DeMint’s abrupt resignation to run The Heritage Foundation, much has been made over who South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley might name to replace him.  One name mentioned is that of African American Congressman Tim Scott,  a prospect which prompted MSNBC anchor Richard Lui to sneer: "... Is the South ready for a black Senator?" On Friday’s MSNBC Live, Lui baited fellow…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 7th, 2012 3:35 PM

CBS: 'Most Conservative' DeMint Backed 'Far-Right' Republicans; Fails

Nancy Cordes couldn't have made outgoing Senator Jim DeMint's conservative credentials clearer on Friday's CBS This Morning, labeling the South Carolina Republican "one of the most conservative members of the Senate." Cordes outlined that DeMint was a "Tea Party hero, who has raised more than $15 million...to help elect Tea Party senators...But he has also backed a series of losing far-right…
Matthew Balan
December 7th, 2012 3:14 PM

NYT's Steinhauer Treats House Conservatives as Childish, Shows Strange

On Friday's front page, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer relayed the shock retirement of leading conservative Sen. Jim Demint of South Carolina, "Tea Party Hero Leaving Senate For New Pulpit." Steinhauer used her full allotment of "conservative" labels. Meanwhile, another Steinhauer story bolstered Republican House leader John Boehner against those childish conservatives in his…
Clay Waters
December 7th, 2012 2:54 PM

NYT's Conservative vs. Liberal Contrast: 'Clashes Over Curbs on Labor

On Friday, New York Times reporters Steven Yaccino and Monica Davey sourly greeted landmark conservative right-to-work legislation from Michigan in "Bills Placing Limits on Unions Advance in Michigan Legislature," The paper ran four paragraphs of quotes from the losing side, compared to three from the winners. By comparison, the introduction of two liberal laws in Washington State, on gay…
Clay Waters
December 7th, 2012 2:21 PM