NPR Hates Fox: After CAIR Demand for Action, NPR Fires Juan Williams f
It shouldn't be shocking that as many NPR stations are conducting pledge drives of their liberal audiences, NPR has found a pretext to fire its longtime analyst Juan Williams for an appearance on Fox News. NPR listeners have complained loud and long that NPR analysts should not dignify that right-wing media outlet with their presence. Williams admitted on The O'Reilly Factor "when I get on the…
Tim Graham
ABC Notes Bill Clinton Lost Nuclear Codes While President, Maybe Jimmy
Among Wednesday’s broadcast network evening newscasts, ABC’s World News uniquely informed viewers of revelations that former President Bill Clinton lost the nuclear codes required for the commander in chief to set in motion any use of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Noting that similar accusations had been made seven years ago in the book of retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert Patterson – who…
Brad Wilmouth
PBS's New Government-Funded Eco-Indoctrination Cartoon for Kids
Show warns children about hazards of juice boxes, magazines, too many toys.
Alana Goodman
Walters Defends Risqué Glee/GQ Photo Shoot
'The View' host sees no problem with sexualized photo shoot of 'family-friendly' television characters
Krista West
Shocking: Maria Shriver's Daughter Excited Over Jon Stewart-Stephen Co
The pile of liberal guests (and guest hosts) on ABC's The View Tuesday led to breathless admiration and excitement all around. Washington Post TV writer Lisa de Moraes noticed that guest host Maria Shriver cooed to comedian Stephen Colbert about the liberal Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on October 30: "My daughter [Christina Schwarzenegger] goes to Georgetown and she's so excited to come…
Tim Graham
Nets Use Ginni Thomas' Apology Request to Scold Her Conservative Polit
In broadcast network stories on how Ginni Thomas left a phone message for Anita Hill (“I would love you to consider an apology sometimes and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband”) , a revelation which ABC and NBC decided merited their lead slot, the network journalists couldn't resist scolding her for her conservative political activity. “Ginni Thomas has long…
Brent Baker
Man Up? More Like Man (and Party) Overboard
Left is bringing out its best and brightest complete with clown cars.
Dan Gainor
Obama the Tax Cutter: A Network Fairy Tale
Despite Obama's tax hikes and campaign against 'tax cuts' for the wealthy, broadcast evening news shows portray president as taxcutters' champion.
Julia A. Seymour
Local News That Shows us ObamaCare Writ Small
A Texas medical dispute lights the future of economic centralization.
Dan Kennedy
Baltimore Sun Notes Spending by Democratic 'Super PAC' But Doesn't See
When it comes to so-called Super PACs spending money on TV ads targeting swing House districts, the Baltimore Sun seems to care a lot more about who's behind Republican ones than Democratic operations.
Yesterday I noted how Sun staffer Paul West wrote about a PAC running ads against freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil (Md.).
West portrayed the PAC's ads as a clever end-run around…
Ken Shepherd
AP Lowers the Housing Recovery Bar By At Least
In a report so riddled with errors, inconsistencies, incompleteness and sloppiness that it's really hard to know where to begin, Associated Press real estate writer Alan Zibel couldn't even keep his housing recovery benchmark remotely consistent with what it was only a month ago.
The Census Bureau's September release of information about August housing starts and building permits informed the…
Tom Blumer
High School 'Glee' Stars Sex it Up for GQ; Will Media Ignore
The Emmy-winning Fox television show “Glee” has quickly produced some of the most recognizable faces in American pop culture. As of this week, three of these high school role models are revealing a lot more about themselves than just their faces. Posing in threesomes and straddling locker room benches, actors Lea Michele, Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith appear in a racy 13-photo spread in the…
Erin R. Brown
Video: What Do Average People Think of ObamaCare and the Individual Ma
For this week's (our second!) installment of "Eyeblast Hits The Street" we asked the folks of Alexandria, Va., what they thought about Obamacare and the individual mandate.
Enjoy:
EyeBlast.tv Staff
MSNBC Disguises Left-Wing Organization as a 'Human Rights Group,' Tout
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts on Wednesday hyped an attack on the "racist" Tea Party by the left-wing Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR). Roberts never once mentioned the liberal slant of the group, instead passing it off as a "human rights group."
The News Live host interviewed Ben Jealous, the President of the NAACP, who wrote the forward to the report. Roberts parroted…