Leno: 'Petraeus's Mistress Had More Information About Benghazi Than Su

Jay Leno continued his comedic assault on the White House Tuesday. During the opening monologue of NBC's Tonight Show, the host said David Petraeus's mistress Paula Broadwell had more information about Benghazi than United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 21st, 2012 10:38 AM

News Guild, Soros-Funded Group Encourage Walmart Strike

MoveOn.org encouraging members to join workers’ protest.
Mike Ciandella
November 21st, 2012 10:07 AM

What's Obamacare Cost? Obama Small Biz Chief: 'I Bought Jam For My Fri

Hector Camacho might be in tough shape in hospital, but someone is out there bobbing and weaving like a champ.  Meet Karen Mills, President Obama's head of the Small Business Administration. When Joe Scarborough asked her straight-up to state the cost per worker of Obamacare, Mills ducked like a pro, switched the subject, and wound up describing . . . how last year, she bought blueberry jam…
Mark Finkelstein
November 21st, 2012 9:52 AM

Pennsylvania College Cuts Teachers Hours To Avoid Obamacare Costs

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Community College Of Allegheny County announced last week that it will be cutting the hours of some adjunct faculty members to avoid the costs of Obamacare. According to InsideHigherEd.com, the move will save the school $6 million when the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in January 2014.
Noel Sheppard
November 21st, 2012 9:51 AM

Brian Williams Mocks Romney For...Pumping His Own Gas

A picture of Mitt Romney pumping his own gas in La Jolla was a big hit on the internet Tuesday after getting posted at Reddit. For some reason NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams decided to do a story on it Tuesday evening specifically designed to mock the former presidential candidate (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 21st, 2012 9:13 AM

Post-Election Myths: Team Obama Thought Jon Huntsman Would Be 'Trouble

Peter Nicholas of The Wall Street Journal is playing dumb. He played it straight when When Politico’s Mike Allen asked Obama campaign manager Jim Messina “which Republican would have had the best shot at beating your boss?” and Messina said Jon Huntsman. “We were honest about our concerns about Huntsman,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said at a Politico breakfast event Tuesday. “I think…
Tim Graham
November 21st, 2012 8:37 AM

ABC Relays More Terrorist Spin: 'Gazans Simply Defending Themselves

On Tuesday's World News, ABC correspondent Alex Marquardt again forwarded terrorist propaganda rationalizing the firing of rockets into Israel as he repeated claims -- which he attributed vaguely to "Gazans" -- that the rocket attacks represent Gazans "simply defending themselves." He then repeated without question their contention that "true peace" will not happen "until Israel stops targeting…
Brad Wilmouth
November 21st, 2012 8:27 AM

Rush Limbaugh Fights Back Against Failed GOP Consultants

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh responded on Monday to comments from Republican strategists Mike Murphy and Steve Schmidt, who have called on the party to “stray away from a vision” that is right out of the conservative commentator's “dream journal.” The radio personality deflected the criticism, noting that the moderate GOP consultants got the candidate they wanted -- former…
Randy Hall
November 21st, 2012 5:38 AM

Alec Baldwin Grew Fat While Watching Rachel Maddow

A fun nugget buried inside Tuesday’s USA Today “Life” section profile of Alec Baldwin: The left-wing actor attributed his former girth to eating a lot of ice cream while watching MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.
Brent Baker
November 21st, 2012 3:33 AM

AP Story on Bridge Bomb Plotters' Sentencing Fails to Note Their Occup

Continuing his wire service's sadly predictable kid-glove treatment of the Occupy movement which sometimes verges on open romance, Chuck Murr's Tuesday evening story at the Associated Press on the sentencing of three of the five participants in the foiled plot to bomb a major bridge in a Cleveland suburb utterly failed to note the active involvement of the convicted domestic terrorists (the…
Tom Blumer
November 20th, 2012 10:52 PM

Bozell Column: The Message Romney Missed

The post mortems on the presidential campaign continue to pour in, the ones on the botched Romney effort the more interesting (and more depressing for those of us who supported him). President Obama was clearly vulnerable and Mitt Romney clearly positioned to defeat him. So what went wrong? Let me add my analysis. Three words: Message. Messenger. Messaging.
Brent Bozell
November 20th, 2012 10:30 PM

Alex Wagner Worships at the Holy Burmese Shrine of Her Beloved Barack

Alex Wagner worships no other god before her Lord Barack. Think that statement is over the top? Not after you watch this worshipful video of MSNBC's Alex Wagner in which, among her other hallelujahs to her personal god who assumed earthly form in Burma, is this gem: “A man who is better at stagecraft than almost any leader in US history.” This is but one of several gushing praises of Obama…
P.J. Gladnick
November 20th, 2012 8:56 PM

Press Virtually Ignoring Lisa Jackson's Use of 'Alias' Email Accounts

It's been over a week since the Michael Bastasch at the Daily Caller exposed EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's use of alias email accounts to conduct official business. A Monday evening Investor's Business Daily editorial noted that this practice is more than likely illegal, because "Federal law prohibits the government from using private emails for official communications unless they are…
Tom Blumer
November 20th, 2012 8:12 PM

Media Pre-Thanksgiving References to 'Christmas' in Describing Shoppin

This is the eighth year I have looked into how the media treats these two topics: The use of "Christmas shopping season" vs. "holiday shopping season," and the frequency of Christmas and holiday layoff references.   I have done three sets of simple Google News searches each year -- the first in late November, followed by identical searches roughly two and four weeks later. I will wait until…
Tom Blumer
November 20th, 2012 6:28 PM