Networks Blamed Feds For Katrina Failure, Credit Them for Sandy

When it comes to natural disasters, ABC, CBS, NBC coverage reveals double standard.
Julia A. Seymour
November 27th, 2012 4:39 PM

Jesse Jackson Jr. Could Be Faking Bipolar to Dodge Feds, Says BuzzFeed

Don't be surprised if you hear less from John Stanton out of left-wing media in the foreseeable future. Why? Stanton's penchant for speaking candidly, as he did yesterday on Bill Press's radio show about embattled former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation from Congress only weeks after winning re-election. (video after page break)
Jack Coleman
November 27th, 2012 4:35 PM

Obama Gets a Fish Named After Him

A new species of fish was recently discovered, and it's been named after Barack Obama. The Bulletin of Alabama Museum of Natural History revealed four presidents and a vice president have had their names given to recently identified fish.
Noel Sheppard
November 27th, 2012 4:33 PM

Here We Go Again; NBC's Wolffe Claims GOP Criticism of Susan Rice Raci

It’s one thing for a leftist pundit to appear on MSNBC and smear Republicans as racist and bigoted.  It’s another when the editor of MSNBC.com, a supposedly professional journalist, joins the ranks of liberal pundits slamming the GOP for its criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s comments following the attack on our Embassy in Benghazi.  Appearing on Tuesday’s NOW with Alex Wagner, Wolffe…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 27th, 2012 4:18 PM

Laura Ingraham Dumps Her Talk Radio Network In Search of a New Home

Popular conservative radio talker Laura Ingraham posted a note on her website Tuesday that she's going off the air temporarily, in search of a new radio syndicator:  "After more than 9 years with the distributor Talk Radio Network, I decided it was time to move on. After much thought and reflection, I have decided to pursue my first loves--modern dance and the xylophone. In the highly unlikely…
Tim Graham
November 27th, 2012 3:09 PM

NBC Scare Tactics: Climate Change May Put Statue of Liberty Underwater

In yet another example of climate change fearmongering following Hurricane Sandy, on Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams hyped a fantasy illustration from the New York Times: "...an artist's depiction of the Statue of Liberty submerged in New York Harbor, a kind of what-if warning about climate change and our new coastlines up and down the east coast." [Listen to the audio or watch…
Kyle Drennen
November 27th, 2012 2:42 PM

Weekly Standard Mocks Columbia Journalism Puffs

The "Scrapbook" writers at The Weekly Standard mocked the Columbia Journalism Review for its clubby praise of the media elite. The magazine counted up its own "Darts" and "Laurels" for 2012 election coverage. Thirteen laurels were awarded and just three darts. "Gallup reported in late September that 60 percent of Americans 'have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully,…
Tim Graham
November 27th, 2012 2:38 PM

Piers Morgan Belittles Grover Norquist: 'Everyone Laughing at You From

CNN kept pushing for Republicans to abandon Grover Norquist and his anti-tax hike pledge on Monday evening. Piers Morgan belittled Norquist and ostracized him from the debate over tax hikes. "Why are you so concerned about protecting the vast wealth of America's small percentage of increasingly rich people? Why do you care?" Morgan pressed Norquist, adding, "Everyone laughing at you from…
Matt Hadro
November 27th, 2012 1:31 PM

On MSNBC, HuffPo's Ryan Grim Puts All the Fiscal Cliff Pressure on Hou

Throughout the liberal media's ceaseless coverage of the impending fiscal cliff debacle, they have fixated on hiking taxes on the "rich," even though doing so would come nowhere close to solving America's fiscal woes. Whatever short term gain in revenue from tax hikes will not last the federal government for very long, and another credit downgrade is inevitable if entitlement reform continues…
Ryan Robertson
November 27th, 2012 1:01 PM

New York Times: 'No Place in a Democracy' for Anti-Tax 'Purists' Like

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has suddenly become liberal Public Enemy #1 as the media pressures Republicans to accede to rising taxes. Frank Bruni devoted one of his excessively personal New York Times columns Tuesday to demonizing Norquist: "Is Grover Finally Over?" The text box: "Pledges are for purists, who have no place in a democracy." Is that how the paper feels about regulatory…
Clay Waters
November 27th, 2012 12:56 PM

NBC's Lauer Tees Up Warren Buffett to Demand Tax Hikes and Dismiss GOP

In an interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer was puzzled by GOP opposition to the billionaire investor's call for higher taxes: "One of the ideas being pushed out there by the Right is that if you raise taxes on the wealthy it will have a chilling effect on hiring and investment in this country....Why do you think Republicans are clinging…
Kyle Drennen
November 27th, 2012 11:55 AM

ABC Continues to Hype GOP Compromise on Taxes, Abandonment of 'Anti-Ta

For the second time in less than 24 hours, ABC's Jon Karl on Tuesday hyped a "newfound willingness" by Republicans to compromise on raising taxes and a possible abandonment of "anti-tax enforcer" Grover Norquist. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Yet, this didn't appear enough for Karl who lamented that "even Republicans who say they are willing to violate the pledge say they will only do so…
Scott Whitlock
November 27th, 2012 11:38 AM

Chuck Norris Column: Embrace a Thankful and Giving Heart

This holiday season, while we enjoy delicious food and visiting family and friends, let's take a moment to give thanks for our many blessings. It's easy to get lost in all the bad news today — whether it be unfavorable election results, financial troubles, a struggling economy, an overreaching federal government, crisis in the Middle East or personal struggles. Our growing list of problems…
Chuck Norris
November 27th, 2012 11:01 AM

New York Times: 'There Is a Good Chance New York City Will Sink Beneat

It was Apocalypse Now, or at least Fairly Soon, on the front page of the Sunday Review in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Contributing opinion writer James Atlas asked, in poetical fashion, "Is This the End?" (Graphic by Owen Freeman.) The subhead saw a dire fate for the city as inevitable: "Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there is a good chance New York City will sink beneath the sea."…
Clay Waters
November 27th, 2012 11:01 AM