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Jimmy Carter Claims He Raised No Money In '76 Election, Piers Morgan D
Former President Jimmy Carter claimed he didn't raise a dime of money in the 1976 general election and CNN's Piers Morgan wouldn't challenge him on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight.
"As a matter of fact, when I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None," Carter bragged to Morgan. According to election law, general election campaigns couldn't take…
February 22nd, 2013 4:54 PM
What Objectivity? Three ABC Co-Hosts to Appear at a Political Fund-Rai
Apparently, objectivity just isn't needed on some issues. On March 16th, Good Morning America's Josh Elliott, Sam Champion and Lara Spencer will co-host the 24th annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awards. The event will honor another journalist, Anderson Cooper, for being "an advocate for the LGBT community."
This isn't the first time Elliott, supposedly a neutral…
February 22nd, 2013 4:15 PM
Wolf Blitzer, Piers Morgan Give Warm Interviews to Jimmy Carter and Hi
CNN only had soft questions and praise on Thursday for Jimmy Carter's grandson who had unearthed the tape of Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remarks. Host Wolf Blitzer gave a warm interview to James Carter IV on The Situation Room and Piers Morgan later teed up former President Carter to brag about his grandson on Piers Morgan Tonight.
"How does it make you feel that your grandfather is so proud…
February 22nd, 2013 4:05 PM
Coulter Column: The Hispanicked GOP Elite
Don't anyone tell Marco Rubio, John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama, or who knows what they'll come up with.
I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap, unskilled labor through amnesty, but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign…
February 22nd, 2013 3:45 PM

CNN Money Hypes Plight Of Unemployed Transgendered Individuals
Apparently CNN’s LGBT activism has found its way onto its financial website CNN Money. In a February 22 article, writer Blake Ellis featured numerous transgendered individuals struggling to find work in America.
The article serves as a means to promote transgendered rights and Ellis claims that, “as millions of Americans struggle with unemployment, this community is being hit especially hard…
February 22nd, 2013 3:14 PM

Worse Than a Hurricane? New York Times Hypes Effect of Sequester on Ai
Worse than a hurricane? New York Times reporter Matthew Wald went a bit overboard in his Friday story on possible delays at airports because of the budget cuts due to take effect next week, known as the sequester: "Spending Cuts Threaten Delays In Air Travel."
February 22nd, 2013 1:39 PM
A Quintessential New York Times Headline: 'Why Taxes Have to Go Up
Friday's lead editorial encapsulates the liberal mindset that drives the New York Times: "Why Taxes Have to Go Up." And not just on the rich -- the Times argues that the rich must pay more first in order to build "consensus" for raising taxes on the middle class as well. In Times-land, there is no such thing as a spending problem, only a failure to sufficiently raise taxes on everyone.
February 22nd, 2013 1:10 PM
In Shift, NY Times Embraces 'Moral Dimension' Provided by Bishops -- a
Friday's lead New York Times story celebrated "G.O.P. Governors Providing a Lift For Health Law." The most notable convert: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who reversed his position this week and announced his support for expanding Medicaid.
The Times' Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear credited Scott for the embrace of Obama-care (via "proponents" who "say that doing so will not only save lives, but…
February 22nd, 2013 1:01 PM
WashPost Runs Two Stories Pushing Gun Control
On Friday February 22, the Washington Post took a double-barreled approach to pushing more gun control In a 52-paragraph front-page story, staff writer Stephanie McCrummen highlighted the efforts of anti-gun activist Susan Beehler, a North Dakota woman “going against the gun culture” in the Roughrider State. Elsewhere in the A-section, staffer Philip Rucker devoted 23 paragraphs to boosting…
February 22nd, 2013 12:38 PM

NBC's Todd: GOP 'Begging the Media to Say It's Obama That Started the
After dismissing the argument that President Obama was to blame for the sequester as "dumb" on Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd further mocked the notion on Friday's program: "Republicans have been playing, well, an inside game, the inside the Beltway game, trying to build support for their position against the cuts and begging the media to say it's Obama that…
February 22nd, 2013 12:18 PM

Panic! ABC Warns of Sequester 'Fiscal Emergency' to 'Cripple' Much of
The journalists of Good Morning America on Friday adopted White House talking points, foreseeing a "fiscal emergency" that will "cripple" flights in the United States. Jon Karl warned, "When it comes to air travel, the first thing we'll all see are longer lines at airport security. Expect ten percent fewer TSA agents on the job." An ABC graphic blared, "Seven Days to Fiscal Emergency: Air…
February 22nd, 2013 11:47 AM
Jimmy Carter: My Grandson Got Obama Re-elected
Former President Jimmy Carter claimed Thursday that his grandson James Carter - the man who brought Mitt Romney's 47 percent video to light - was responsible for getting Barack Obama re-elected last November.
Speaking with CNN's Piers Morgan, Carter also said that when Obama met his grandson last week, he "ran across the room, embraced him and thanked him."
February 22nd, 2013 11:39 AM
Mika Giggles Like Schoolgirl Over Sex In Woody Guthrie Book—Ignores
Woody Guthrie was an American original who wrote some enduring music and did a lot to publicize the plight of the people of the Dust Bowl. There's just one little inconvenient truth about Guthrie: he ran in Communist circles. Though it's reported that he never officially joined the party, he's quoted as saying that the "the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party…
February 22nd, 2013 10:48 AM
AP's Rugaber Paints Somewhat Sunny Jobless Claims Picture, 'Somehow' M
For the past six weeks combined, actual jobless claims filed nationwide have been virtually the same as the were during the six comparable weeks in early 2012.
You wouldn't know that from Christopher Rugaber's coverage at the Associated Press of the Department of Labor's unemployment claims report released yesterday. Rugaber, who described last month's jobs report showing the unemployment…
February 22nd, 2013 10:07 AM