Serious ABC Hypes 'Real' Bigfoot for Two Minutes, Offers a Scant 23 Se

Good Morning America on Thursday allowed a scant 23 seconds to the latest on Susan Rice's possible Secretary of State nomination and her troubled role in providing false information on the Libya. Yet, the same program devoted over two minutes of the precious 7am half hour, supposedly the time for hard news, to the claim that Bigfoot is "real." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Guest co-host…
Scott Whitlock
November 29th, 2012 12:20 PM

NBC's Williams Hypes 'Optics' of House GOP Having 'All White Males' as

Following the lead of NBC political director Chuck Todd lamenting House Republican committee chairs being "all white men," on Wednesday's Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams similarly declared: "...the GOP is dealing with the issue of optics and diversity in politics. Getting a lot of coverage, of the congressional committee chairs selected thus far for the next Congress, they are all white…
Kyle Drennen
November 29th, 2012 11:34 AM

NBC’s Richard Wolffe Continues to Accuse Republicans of Being Racist

In what has been a daily and exhausting exercise, Richard Wolffe, executive editor of MSNBC.com, continues to push the slanderous claim that opposition to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is racially motivated.  Appearing on Thursday’s Martin Bashir show, Wolffe and fellow liberal journalist Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post continued to slam Republicans for their investigation of Susan Rice…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 29th, 2012 11:33 AM

Citing Charlie Sheen as Recent Precedent, Media Continues to Mock Angu

You may recall when CBS fired Charlie Sheen early last year from the popular Two and a Half Men series for a string of "felony offenses involving moral turpitude." In the weeks and months that preceded this decision, an increasingly erratic Sheen received an inordinate amount of media attention for his drug-induced rants. To this day however, Sheen's bad boy persona is received warmly by the…
Ryan Robertson
November 29th, 2012 11:06 AM

Open Thread: Americans Still Prefer ‘Merry Christmas

NB Staff
November 29th, 2012 10:06 AM

Country Singer Trace Adkins Sports Confederate Flag Earpiece During Te

Confederate flags and Christmas? Trace Adkins thinks so, as during NBC's nationally televised lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Wednesday, the country singer sported an earpiece with the flag on it.
Noel Sheppard
November 29th, 2012 9:34 AM

Five Days After Morsi's Virtually Absolute Power Grab, AP Pair Writes

In a Tuesday evening dispatch at the Associated Press (saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes) on the status of U.S. foreign policy in Egypt, Bradley Klapper and Julie Pace either displayed an amazing level of clairvoyance or indulged in a level of fantasy ordinarily reserved for trips to Disneyland. I'm betting that it's the latter, that this AP report will in short…
Tom Blumer
November 29th, 2012 8:44 AM

Howard Kurtz Can't Admit It: Tom Ricks Was Picking a Fight With Fox Ne

At the Daily Download, former Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz interviewed former Washington Post reporter Tom Ricks about his shortened interview with Fox News after he said “I think that the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party.” Claimed Ricks: “I was not picking a fight with Fox. I was answering their…
Tim Graham
November 29th, 2012 8:33 AM

Reuters Thinks Going From 100% to 35% Tax Rate Will Be a Burden for Cu

Reuters somehow can't recognize a 100% tax rate even when it is right under their noses in their own article. Reporter Marc Frank apparently thinks that going to a 35% tax rate would somehow be more of a burden for Cubans than their current tax rate which is 100%. Frank even wrote about the 100% tax rate but absurdly didn't recognize the fact that total confiscation of revenue is the same thing…
P.J. Gladnick
November 29th, 2012 8:16 AM

Dennis Miller Lambasts Sandra Fluke as 'Moan of Arc

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor for his regular "Miller Time" segment, comedian Dennis Miller dubbed Sandra Fluke as "Moan of Arc" as he lamented that the liberal activist is "perfectly emblematic of modern women," and that she would be a "perfect Time magazine 'Person of the Year' as he noted that a majority of single women voted to reelect President Barack Obama.…
Brad Wilmouth
November 29th, 2012 8:15 AM

NYT's Nagourney Credits California's Economic Recovery to Tax Hikes He

Wednesday's lead New York Times story from California-based Adam Nagourney strongly suggested that tax hikes promoted by Gov. Jerry Brown (and Nagourney himself) were paying off in economic resurgence in the already tax-high state: "California Finds Economic Gloom Starting To Lift." After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence…
Clay Waters
November 29th, 2012 7:52 AM

Government Defines Poverty Upward, Media Don’t Notice the Trick

While the reliable and original formula for the government to calculate who lives in “absolute poverty” is still in place, another measure has been introduced that enables the government to determine how many people live in “relative poverty,” a term often used to describe the concept of “income inequality.” According to Mickey Kaus of the Daily Caller website, this new “supplemental”…
Randy Hall
November 29th, 2012 1:00 AM

How Amazingly Convenient: Lefties 'Discover' That Susan Rice Has 'Conf

In what would appear to be a sure sign that the Obama administration's leftist allies, perhaps with the President's go-ahead, are preparing to throw current U.N. ambassador Susan Rice under the bus, Alex Guillen at the Politico reported at 6:14 p.m. on information that has from all appearances been public for at least three months, but which the National Resources Defense Council's On Earth…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 9:43 PM

More Out-of-Control Identity Politics: Blacks, Latinos Concerned That

In a story the New York Times appears not to have touched, Hunter Walker at Observer.com's Politicker ("about" page is here) reported on Tuesday that Thomas Lopez-Pierre, a black Harlem activist, "circulated an email" Monday night "in an attempt to plan a 'private meeting' to 'discuss the potential damage to the political empowerment of the Black and Hispanic community if Mark Levine, a White/…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 8:34 PM