NYT Book Review Front Dominated by Anti-Conservative Hostility
The New York Times often uses its book review to make liberal political statements under the cover of criticism, whether by praising books by liberals that bash conservatives, or eviscerating books by conservatives that attack the left. Sunday brought the first kind, summed up by this online teaser: "Dark Money argues that the Koch brothers and a small number of allied plutocrats have essentially…
January 25th, 2016 3:56 PM
CBS Uncritically Touts Bernie Sanders Making College ‘Free’
CBS This Morning journalists on Monday uncritically promoted Bernie Sanders’s plan to make college “free” and that his contention that such an idea isn’t “radical.” The segment allowed no contrasting voices. Instead, co-host Norah O’Donnell hyped, “In Iowa, Sunday, he highlighted his plan to lower student loan interest rates and make public colleges tuition free.”
January 25th, 2016 3:40 PM
MSNBC Uses Blizzard Aftermath to Attack Chris Christie
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Monday, host Andrea Mitchell teed up correspondent Rehema Ellis to blast New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the blizzard clean-up effort in the state: “Tell us about the clean-up, because Rehema, we've already seen that Chris Christie, the governor, flew out early yesterday saying all was fine there. How is it in New Jersey?”
January 25th, 2016 2:35 PM
In Endorsing Hillary, Des Moines Register Ignores Email 'Smoking Guns'
The Des Moines Register likely broke new ground when it endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday. The Register may be the first major newspaper to endorse a major-party presidential candidate under investigation by the FBI at the time of the endorsement.
The time stamp at the editorial's link is currently and inexplicably this morning, but pundits and…
January 25th, 2016 2:29 PM
Climatologist: Current Weather is 'Business as Usual,' Not 'Extreme'
Calm down, climate alarmists; the weather events taking place are nothing new.
Climatologist Patrick Michaels said that recent droughts, warmer temperatures because of El Nino, and the blizzard of 2016 were “business as usual.”
January 25th, 2016 1:53 PM
Mayor de Blasio Is a Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash
Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple taxpayers: Racial quotas in Hollywood.
January 25th, 2016 12:57 PM
Super Bowl Lessons for the Next President
What the Super Bowl can teach us about the primary election process, and the guy or gal we root for in the big game in November.
January 25th, 2016 12:50 PM
Nets Tout Possible Bloomberg Run, Only NBC Notes His Anti-Gun Crusade
On Monday, all three network morning shows hyped the possibility of former New York City mayor and liberal activist Michael Bloomberg entering the 2016 presidential race. However, only NBC’s Today made any mention of Bloomberg’s nationwide anti-gun crusade as a stumbling block for him.
January 25th, 2016 12:07 PM
Salon: Blame Everyone’s ‘Sexual Hangups’ on Catholic Church
Salon hates Catholicism the way vegans hate meat – loudly and ad nauseum. It’s latest anti-Catholic screed comes courtesy of one Valerie Tarico, who lists “15 Sexual Hangups we can Blame on the Catholic Church.”
January 25th, 2016 11:51 AM
Politico's Thrush to Obama: I Had 'Candidate Envy,' Wanted On Your Bus
Politico’s Glenn Thrush was granted a 30-minute interview with President Obama, perhaps because the dominant issue was gauzy nostalgia over how awesome Obama was on the trail in 2008. It carried the flavor of the “Chris Farley Show” skit on Saturday Night Live. “Remember when you said you were Hope and Change. That was awesome.”
Thrush told the president that covering Hillary Clinton wasn’t…
January 25th, 2016 11:50 AM
The Most Outrageous Liberal Outbursts from Town Hall Anchor Cuomo
Given CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s long history of liberal spin, viewers of Monday’s town hall forum with the Democratic candidates shouldn’t have high hopes. After all, this is the same man who admitted that reporters “encouraged” socialist Bernie Sanders to enter the race. Cuomo, the brother of New York’s current Democratic governor and the son of another Democratic governor, has also acted as a…
January 25th, 2016 10:52 AM
5 Ways the Liberal Media Devoted a Decade to Gore’s Climate Apocalypse
2016 was supposedly the “point of no return” for taking action on global warming, according to former Vice President Al Gore. His tipping point received widespread scorn on the right, resulting in an “Armageddon” clock posted on Rush Limbaugh’s site -- that turns zero Jan. 27.
But don’t expect the liberal news media to remind anyone of Gore’s hyperbolic claim 10 years later.
After all, the…
January 25th, 2016 9:42 AM
Notable Quotables: Oozing Over Obama's 'Keen, Analytical Intelligence'
This week, as President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address, PBS's panel oozes over his "keen, analytical intelligence," with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin saying Obama's speech "reminded me of George Washington's Farewell Address." Meanwhile, PBS's Tavis Smiley slams GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as a "racial arsonist," CNN's Erin Burnett thinks today's Republicans are so…
Scott Whitlock and Rich Noyes
January 25th, 2016 9:11 AM
Cruz on Media: 'Partisan Liberal Democrats, Almost Without Exception'
Sen. Ted Cruz was interviewed Sunday on the Fox News program Mediabuzz, and host Howard Kurtz suggested that Cruz bashes the media to gain favor with his conservative base. Cruz stunned Kurtz a little by insisting that the "mainstream media" is a pile of "partisan liberal Democrats...almost without exception."
"Any Republican who is running should not be confused and think that the mainstream…
January 25th, 2016 8:30 AM