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NBC and CBS Ignore Dem Hypocrisy on Anti-Filibuster Nuclear Option
While NBC and CBS covered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell having a "war of words" over GOP opposition to some of President Obama's nominees, neither network detailed the hypocrisy of Reid considering the so-called "nuclear option" to eliminate the filibustering of such nominees.
On Thursday, Time's Michael Scherer cited numerous quotes from Reid…
‘American Atlantis’: Rolling Stone Imagines End of Miami Due to Cl
Contributing editor uses outlandish predictions to say ‘Goodbye Miami’ from 24-foot storm surge.
Barack Hollywood Obama: How The Media Sold the President As Populist
[Excerpted from Collusion, by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham]
The most effortless dirty trick in the liberal-media playbook in 2012 was painting Mitt Romney anywhere and everywhere as an uptight white gazillionaire, a man who was running for president to boost the profits and ego of his own social class. What really took chutzpah was the other half of the equation: boosting Barack Obama as a…
Scarborough: 'I Love Hillary'; Frets Media Might Not Give Her Fair
On today's Morning Joe, after proclaiming "I love Hillary," Joe Scarborough fretted that the media might not give her a fair shake in 2016.
Scarborough claimed that although the media has been biased against Republicans, "I've never seen the media more biased against any single candidate than they were Hillary Clinton in 2007 and 2008." Howard Dean chimed in to predict that the media will…
MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Summarizes GOP on Immigration: 'Blah Blah Blah
With the ratings for his new show “All In” tanking, MSNBC host Chris Hayes has been trying desperately to be more assertive and populist in the hopes it will get viewers to stop tuning him out.
Instead he is just coming across as a petulant brat. On Wednesday’s edition of of his program, Hayes paraphrased the GOP statement on the Senate immigration bill in a way that can only be described as…
Open Thread Friday
For general discussion and comment. Today's starter topic: The defense in the George Zimmerman is scheduled to make its closing argument and the prosecution is scheduled for its rebuttal. In all likelihood, the case will go to the jury this evening.
Pew Poll: 27 Percent Say Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to S
The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life find that the military are still highly esteemed by the American public. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78 percent) agreed that employees of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84 percent years ago,
Not so for journalists. About as many U.S.…
Updated: Schwartz Has Apologized | NYT Reporter John Schwartz Mocks NB
Updated below | In a bizarre tweet, John Schwartz, a national reporter for the New York Times decided to attack NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard for celebrating his son’s upcoming wedding.
After Sheppard had noted how he was going to be “crying more than bride’s father...but for different reasons,” an apparently bitter Schwartz shot back with an insult: “Because you’ve been renting…
Time Columnist Blasts Preparations for Zimmerman Verdict Riots as ‘R
As the trial to determine if George Zimmerman committed a crime when he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, draws to a close, hundreds of people have threatened to riot over the verdict, and law-enforcement organizations in and around Broward County, Fla., have been coordinating efforts to have “a proper response plan” in case their worst fears are realized.
However, Time…
MSNBC's Hayes: FNC and Conservatives Treating Black Americans Like Zim
On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained of a "right-wing trope about the specter of racial violence" if George Zimmerman is acquitted, and suggested that FNC hosts like Bill O'Reilly are trying to manipulate their audience by frightening them, cracking that "a good Fox News audience is a fearful Fox News audience." As he interviewed University of Connecticut Professor…
Bachmanns Elicit Revealing Fantasy from Radio Libtalker
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers," Flannery O'Connor once said. "My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Put another way, there's a novel in everyone and most of them should stay there. Much the same can be said for the fantasies of left-wing radio host Mike Malloy,…
Coulter Column | Zimmerman Trial: This Year's Duke Lacrosse Case
This week, instead of attacking a Hispanic senator, Marco Rubio, I will defend a Hispanic citizen, George Zimmerman, on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman would make a better senator.)
It's becoming painfully obvious why no charges were brought against Zimmerman in this case -- until Al Sharpton got involved. All the eyewitness accounts, testimony, ballistics and forensics…
MSNBC's Reid Fumes: Republicans 'Don't Want to Add More Brown People
Appearing on Thursday’s Now with Alex Wagner, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid accused Republicans of racial motivations in their opposition to the Senate immigration bill, claiming GOP lawmakers “don’t want to add more brown people to the population.” She also compared a legalization option – which some Republicans support – to “indentured servitude.”
Reid, a frequent guest on the Lean Forward…
Forget Scandals or Egypt, NBC Discusses Obama's Favorite Food
Rather than update viewers on the latest details of the scandals plaguing the Obama administration, or the President's foreign policy failures in the Middle East, the hosts of NBC's Today devoted over a minute of air time Wednesday to discussing whether broccoli was really Obama's favorite food. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
News reader Natalie Morales sparked the…