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Terry Moran to Karl Rove: 'You're Scaring People' Into Thinking Govern
Former President Bush adviser Karl Rove had a heated exchange about gun control with ABC's Terry Moran on This Week Sunday.
At one point Moran told Rove, "You're scaring people with this Orwellian sense that black helicopters and the government if we register guns are going to confiscate Americans’ guns" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
March 24th, 2013 11:45 AM

Holder 'Averts' Furloughs? More Like He Was Under Pressure to 'Find' t
The headline at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, seems to make Attorney General Eric Holder look heroic: "Holder averts furloughs of prison staffers." No, all he did was get forced into prioritizing how he should allocate resources in a department where spending grew from $26.54 billion in fiscal 2008 to $31.16 billion in fiscal 2012, a 17% increase.
The AP's Pete Yost…
March 24th, 2013 10:38 AM

Politico Avoids Explaining Why Republican Senators Stopped Halligan Ci
In a brief item Friday at Politico, Donovan Slack reported that President Obama has withdrawn his nomination of Caitlin Halligan for the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Concerning Republican senators' opposition to her nomination, Slack said it was "because they said she had a record of advocacy and an activist view of the judiciary" without citing specifics. It's almost…
March 24th, 2013 9:33 AM

Not News: Wasserman Schultz and Moran Whine About Staff Budget Cuts
As hard as the establishment press has worked over the years to make certain politicians appear to be somehow out of touch with the situation of average Americans, you might think that two legislative leaders complaining about cuts in their Congressional offices' allowance might be news. One whined that her aides, some of whom "earn" in excess of $100,000 per year, are being "priced out" of a…
March 24th, 2013 8:03 AM

Daily Kos: Fox News Is a 'Clear And Present Danger to America
You would think if Barack Obama were the centrist that liberal reporters pretend he is, he wouldn't have such a devoted following at the Daily Kos. But a man named Egberto Willies (or "progressiveliberal," to use his Kos handle) is furious that Fox News didn't join CNN and MSNBC in offering live coverage when the Israelis gave Obama a Presidential Medal of Distinction. "This should have been a…
March 23rd, 2013 11:43 PM

Espo's Pathetic AP 'Analysis' Attempts to Redefine 'Balanced Budget' A
Silly me. I thought a "balanced budget" was defined as one where receipts equal outlays and there is no surplus or deficit during the period involved.
Not to David Espo, who is chief congressional correspondent at the Associated Press. In an "analysis" piece which looks more like a tool to begin reframing the language of "balance" to mean what Barack Obama and his Democratic Party really want…
March 23rd, 2013 7:46 PM

Maddow Causes Rep. Tammy Duckworth to Decry 'Hostage Situation' of Pat
The left-wing righteousness was heavy in the air on Tuesday, the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war starting in Iraq. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow booked Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to decry all the lies told to Congress and the American people about the intelligence out of Iraq. Conservatives aren't just hostage-takers on taxes or the sequester.
Duckworth called the run-up to war a "hostage…
March 23rd, 2013 4:29 PM

PBS Panel Nominates Charles Krauthammer Over Rush Limbaugh as Voice of
In the midst of a segment bashing Rush Limbaugh Friday, PBS's Inside Washington panel nominated Charles Krauthammer over the talk radio host for voice of the Republican Party.
Playing along with the joke, Krauthammer replied, "If nominated, I will not run. But if elected, I’ll serve" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
March 23rd, 2013 3:06 PM

Krauthammer Schools Totenberg on Israeli Peace Offers: ‘You Are Simp
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday once again demonstrated how liberal media members often make statements about issues they know nothing about.
On this occasion, it was NPR's Nina Totenberg making unfounded claims about past Israel peace offers on PBS's Inside Washington that led Krauthammer to scold, "You’re simply factually wrong" (video follows with transcript and…
March 23rd, 2013 2:12 PM

NPR Host Presses Jake Tapper to Describe Horror of 'So Many Lies' by S
Pardon the age of this item, but it's on an issue of campaign history. On March 13, NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewed new CNN host Jake Tapper about politics and journalism, and whether there was blowback from presidents and candidates over tough questions. But Gross felt compelled to bring up the "lies" told about John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign -- without expressing…
March 23rd, 2013 2:12 PM

Krauthammer: Senate Democrats Budget 'Marches Us Off a Cliff Into Gree
Senate Democrats on Saturday narrowly passed their first budget in four years.
Appearing on PBS's Inside Washington Friday before the vote, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer called it "the most appalling document you have ever seen" claiming, "It marches us off a cliff into Greece and perhaps into Cyprus" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
March 23rd, 2013 1:19 PM

Maher Calls Americans 'Morons' Moments Before Blaming Senate Weapons B
NewsBusters readers know that one of my guilty pleasures is demonstrating virtually every Saturday how intellectually challenged the high and mighty Bill Maher is.
On HBO's Real Time Friday, the host perfectly demonstrated this himself by blaming gerrymandering for the Senate's failure to implement an assault weapons ban moments after he called Americans "morons" and "complete idiots" that "…
March 23rd, 2013 11:37 AM

Harris-Perry's Fetal Indifference: What It Costs To Have 'This Thing
UPDATE: For a brilliant, clear and concise takedown of Harris-Perry's comments, have a listen to the analysis of Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in this podcast. The discussion comes about 8:25 in and lasts about five minutes.
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. Melissa Harris-Perry is clearly a member of the "blob of cells" brigade when it comes to her…
March 23rd, 2013 10:57 AM

Press Ignores, Minimizes Concerns in Fed's Beige Book About ObamaCare
Today, on the third anniversary of the enactment of state-managed healthcare, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka ObamaCare, it's worth noting a precursor of what we can expect from the establishment press as the law's implementation presses on. It can be summed up in eight words: "Hype the alleged good. Ignore the obviously bad." Distilled in four words: "Toe the…
March 23rd, 2013 10:27 AM