MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, Ari Melber Smear Republicans Over Benghazi

In what has become a daily occurrence on MSNBC, liberal hosts and pundits on the network continue to attack the GOP for their scrutiny of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s post-Benghazi spin for the White House on September 16 editions of the network Sunday interview programs.  Appearing on Wednesday’sMSNBC Live, network contributors Joy-Ann Reid of TheGrio.com and Ari Melber of The Nation…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 28th, 2012 4:12 PM

Oct. New Home Sales Flat; AP's Crutsinger Insists on Tagging Sandy; Ne

The real news in today's new-home sales information published by the Census Bureau is that September's previously reported 389,000 in seasonally adjusted annual sales was written down by over 5 percent to 369,000. Hmm -- The higher figure, aggressively touted as the highest in 2-1/2 years by the Associated Press and other establishment media outlets, was reported on October 24, just 13 days…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 3:54 PM

Washington Post Mag Finds ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Harmed Demolition De

Cash for Clunkers, the failed Obama scheme to try to save the auto industry, is still wreaking havoc. This time on a an American pastime: demolition derby. Many in the news media applauded the clunker of a program, including The Washington Post which repeatedly praised this program in 2009, trumpeting and increase in consumer spending. But many of those stories also ignored the problems of…
Liz Thatcher
November 28th, 2012 2:06 PM

CBSNews.com's Montopoli Says GOP Held Hostage by Tax Interests; Ignore

It’s the Republicans who are in a bind.  They’re beholden to the will of the evil genius Grover Norquist.  They’re scared to death of The Club for Growth. That's the trite liberal media narrative that CBSNews.com's  Brian Montopoli furthered earlier this morning in a piece in which he forecast that the Republicans, and only Republicans, are in for a bruising in the coming weeks should a "fiscal…
Matt Vespa
November 28th, 2012 1:51 PM

ABC Continues to Spin for Susan Rice: She Ran Into a GOP 'Buzz Saw' on

Good Morning America's reporters on Wednesday continued to fret about the fate of Susan Rice, lamenting the GOP "buzz saw" the UN Ambassador ran into on Tuesday. ABC's Martha Raddatz hyped all the pressing issues in the world as a possible reason to just confirm the potential Secretary of State nominee quickly. Martha Raddatz worried, "You have got Iran that is trying to acquire a nuclear…
Scott Whitlock
November 28th, 2012 12:21 PM

Environmentalists Push for Downsizing … to 200-Sq. Ft. Homes

The environmental movement had an idea on how to cut down your carbon footprint – live in a little house. This movement, often called the Tiny House Movement or micro living, is not new but had picked up steam recently, and not without some media support. However, the media have consistently left out that this idea of living small and downsizing had been pushed by environmentalists long…
Liz Thatcher
November 28th, 2012 11:56 AM

Fat Chance: Van Susteren Demands Apologies for Reckless 'Racism' Charg

Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren has reached her boiling point after seeing yet another person at MSNBC hurl a gratuitous, objectively false charge of "racism" at Arizona Senator John McCain for having the gall to believe that Susan Rice would not be a good choice to be the next Secretary of State. She let it rip in a blog post Monday afternoon:
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 11:45 AM

MSNBC Host Sharpton Reportedly Owes Minority Trade Group $28K in Back

If  former Baptist minister turned former presidential candidate turned Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee ran a non-profit organization that was a) deeply in debt b) owed Uncle Sam years in back taxes and c) was in dispute with a conservative trade organization in D.C. over unpaid rent, it's hard to imagine Huck's competitors at MSNBC wouldn't gleefully note those financial woes from time to…
Ken Shepherd
November 28th, 2012 11:40 AM

NBC's Todd Laments House GOP Having 'All White Men' as Committee Chair

Taking a gratuitous shot at Republicans at the end of his Wednesday MSNBC show, The Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd insisted on making this declaration: "By the way, though, all of the committee chairs in the House Republican conference....All white men....Picture of the party's potential problems." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Todd, who is himself…
Kyle Drennen
November 28th, 2012 11:10 AM

CNN's Costello Thinks Hobby Lobby 'Imposing Its Will' on Employees

The owners of Hobby Lobby Stores object on religious grounds to the HHS mandate that they cover abortion-inducing drugs for employees, but CNN's Carol Costello thinks the objection itself is an imposition of will. "So isn't Hobby Lobby imposing its will on those workers?" she asked on Wednesday. "I think that when it's left up to companies to decide which drug is right for women, then…
Matt Hadro
November 28th, 2012 10:54 AM

Chris Matthews and Alan Simpson Joke About Grover Norquist Drowning

As the media push Republicans to raise taxes, anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist has been taking a pounding. This may have reached a high point Tuesday when MSNBC's Chris Matthews and former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY.) actually joked about Norquist drowning (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 28th, 2012 10:37 AM

At National Journal, Fournier's New Role Involves 'Moving the Needle

Well, at least he isn't shy about it. According to Dylan Byers at Politico, the National Journal's Ron Fournier is going to "step down as editor-in-chief" and moving to "a role as editorial director." Before joining that publication in June 2010, Fournier worked at the Associated Press for a total of over 20 years in two different stints. In an email response to Politico yesterday, Fournier…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 10:32 AM

Note to Media: Income Inequality Isn't the Same as Wealth Inequality

For quite a while now, there has been a media focus (ironic considering the TV reporters and anchors are mostly 1 percenters) on an allegedly growing gap between the wealthiest Americans and those of more modest means. Unfortunately, this is only a partial picture since income is much more predicated on stock market growth and not related to many other facets of the economy. Writing at the…
Matthew Sheffield
November 28th, 2012 9:42 AM

Open Thread: People Without Guns Kill More Than People With Guns

Today's starter topic: Just in case the far left tries to resurrect its anti-gun rights agenda, here's an inconvenient fact: According to the FBI, murder victims are more likely to be killed by assailants using parts of their bodies than firearms.
NB Staff
November 28th, 2012 9:41 AM