Chuck Todd Too Timid To Grouse About Gibbs

Call it Chuck Todd's Profile In Pusillanimity . . . Given a chance to express his personal opinion of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, Todd--NBC's chief WH correspondent--mumbled, stuttered, stumbled and ultimately punted, saying it was "an awkward thing." Chuck's duck-and-cover came during a Morning Joe segment today devoted to analyzing Gibbs in light of a GQ article about…
Mark Finkelstein
 

WaPo Loves Mother Jones, Transgender Candidate Puff Pieces

Is The Washington Post a Democratic rag? The Post's political blog "44" (named for Barack Obama, the 44th president) has a "Currently Reading" block of links -- which clearly suggest the Post's reading habits (or promoting habits) have a liberal and Democratic tilt on Friday morning. That list starts with the hard-left magazine Mother Jones pressing full steam ahead on "The Ken Buck rape case…
Tim Graham
 

DeMint: Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman Caucusing with GOP for Control of Se

U.S. Senator tells CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report' viewers Nelson will have to switch parties to win re-election and Lieberman may be 'more comfortable' with Republicans.
Jeff Poor
 

Ladies of 'The Talk' Deem Sarah Palin 'Ignorant' but 'Hot

Co-hosts of the new CBS talk show can be added to the list of Palin persecutors.
Krista West
 

Feminists Slam Gawker For Publishing Anonymous O'Donnell Sex Story

NOW calls the sleazy article 'public sexual harassment.'
Alana Goodman
 

CMI Special Analysis: Media Help Flailing Liberals Spread Message on A

In run-up to midterms, desperate lib candidates focus on divisive social issues – and media lend a helping hand.
Erin Brown
 

147,000 Rail Riders in Entire Year in Ohio Seen as 'Demand for Transpo

Buckeye State residents are supposed to be impressed with media reports like this one from WXIX in Cincinnati telling us that passenger rail ridership increased 14% last year to almost 147,000. That's just over 400 people a day. In the whole state. Spread over seven station stops in multiple cities. You've got to be kidding me. Context, people.
Tom Blumer
 

Mitchell Tags Toomey as 'Conservative' Four Times in 50 Seconds, Leave

In the span of a mere 50 seconds on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell managed to apply a conservative ideological tag four times to Pat Toomey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, yet she failed to issue even a single label for liberal Democratic candidate Joe Sestak. Sitting at the anchor desk with Brian Williams, Mitchell made clear Toomey “is a Republican…
Brent Baker
 

Zakaria: Sales Tax, More Government Spending Needed to 'Restore Americ

On Thursday's Newsroom, CNN's Fareed Zakaria endorsed a predictably liberal solution to get the American economy moving again: enact more taxes and implement new government programs. Zakaria called for a national sales tax and advocated new government spending on "research and technology" and "upgrading the infrastructure." The CNN host also labeled tax cuts "bad stuff." Anchor Ali Velshi…
Matthew Balan
 

Ed Schultz Erroneously Claims No Evidence of Leftist Violence at Kentu

While slamming Rand Paul supporters who assaulted a MoveOn.org worker in Kentucky, Ed Schultz claimed Wednesday there was simply no other side to the story – that he had not seen "any violence, anywhere, from anybody on the Left." Furthermore, Schultz blamed GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul for inciting the violence. [Click here for audio.] There's just one problem – evidence exists of a…
Matt Hadro
 

Talk Show Host Richard Bey Claims Obama Cherishes Debate and Welcomes

Sometimes the liberal media's bias is subtle and nuanced, even, dare I say, clever. This is not one of those times. On Sirius host Lynn Samuels's eponymous program yesterday, Richard Bey, a liberal talk show host, peddled the laughable assertion that, compared to former President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama has governed as an inclusive, consensus-building chief executive. "We…
Alex Fitzsimmons
 

Only CBS Notes MoveOn Protestor's Provocation at Kentucky Debate

While all three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, highlighted MoveOn.org protestor Lauren Valle being stepped on outside Monday's Kentucky senate debate, only CBS reported new video showing Valle running up to Rand Paul's car and trying to shove a sign into the Republican candidate's face. The morning and evening newscasts on Tuesday all pointed to the scuffle as evidence of the 2010…
Kyle Drennen
 

Jon Stewart Confirms His Radical Sympathies in Obama Interview

Last night's interview between Jon Stewart and President Obama was a far cry from their jovial encounter two years ago almost to the day. Instead of sounding like two kindred spirits yucking it up, there was quite a bit of tension between the two. The interview certainly cemented Stewart's role as the nation's most popular liberal kool-aid sipper. Reality may have turned the post-partisan…
Lachlan Markay
 

Obama Incorrectly Tells Jon Stewart Social Security Was Originally For

For a man who thinks Social Security is the most important social safety net we have in America, Barack Obama appears to know very little about its history. Consider that on Wednesday, the President actually told the "Daily Show's" Jon Stewart that Social Security benefits originally only applied to widows and orphans (video available here, transcript and commentary follow):
Noel Sheppard