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Brian Williams: Late Sen. Baker Was 'A Republican So Moderate It Might
Following the death of former Senator Howard Baker on Tuesday, all three major broadcast networks praised the influential former White House Chief of Staff during their June 26 evening newscasts for his ability to compromise with Democrats. Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News even went so far as to describe him as “a Republican so moderate it might make him a Democrat today.” [See video below.…
Scarborough Panel Mocks NY Times for Ignoring IRS Commissioner Donatio
On Friday's Morning Joe program, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough complained about the absence of media attention to the fact that IRS commissioner John Koskinen, in charge of an organization currently embroiled in an investigation into whether it has unfairly targeted conservative groups during the Obama administration, is himself a "big Democratic donor" who has donated to President Barack Obama…
Whoopi Goldberg Plays Race Card With Conservative Guest Host: 'Spoken
Liberal comedian Whoopi Goldberg clumsily deployed the race card in an argument with conservative guest co-host Will Cain of The Blaze on Wednesday's The View about comedian Russell Brand comparing Fox News to ISIS. Cain had criticized Brand, pointing out the ludicrousness of describing a news channel he disagrees with politically to violent, predatory terrorists.
Tackling how absurd American…
Obama Claims Scandals Are 'Fabricated,' Bozell Says He's 'Most Pampere
MRC president Brent Bozell appeared on The Kelly File on Fox News Channel on Thursday night to discuss the ongoing media effort to downplay or ignore Obama scandals.
Kelly began by showing video of the president claiming in Minneapolis that the scandals are fabricated: “Sometimes the news that's being reported on is really important. I mean what's happening in Iraq is relevant. But sometimes…
'Fired'? Sherri Shepherd, Jenny McCarthy Leaving 'The View
The exodus continues from “The View” after Joy, Elisabeth, and Barbara. TV Line reports Sherri Shepherd put out a statement saying she’s leaving, too. Jenny McCarthy also hinted on Twitter that “If Sherri goes, I go too.” Newsday's Verne Gay says the two women were "fired" by ABC. TMZ calls it a "massacre" and hints that Rosie O'Donnell may be coming back.
“The View will be moving in an…
Former R.E.M. Star: I Skipped an HIV Test for Five Years for Fear of R
Does anyone remember the Reagan-Bush internment camps after the discovery of the AIDS virus? No?
Rolling Stone reported that former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe declared at a taping of a show for Viacom’s Logo channel that he was afraid to get an HIV test in the 1980s for fear of the right-wing oppression that would result. He waited five years out of progressive paranoia.
NBC, CBS Portray Unanimous SCOTUS as Limiting President's Power Rather
The evening newscasts of all three broadcast networks tonight reported on the unanimous decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that President Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in making recess appointments when the U.S. Senate was technically in session. Rather than couching the ruling as a stunning rebuke of presidential overreach by Mr. Obama,…
Unanimous Supreme Court Corrects Obama Overreach, MSNBC's Ball Downpl
Only MSNBC’s token failed congressional candidate can make Ronan Farrow seem less partisan. On the June 26 edition of Ronan Farrow Daily, guest host Kystal Ball did everything she could to downplay the latest unanimous Supreme Court decision which corrects executive overreach by President Obama while simultaneously demonizing Republicans.
When Republican strategist John Feehery called the…
CNN’s Costello: If Hobby Lobby Prevails at Supreme Court, Will It
CNN’s Carol Costello seemed unable to comprehend why Hobby Lobby opposes the federal mandate in ObamaCare to cover emergency contraceptives and abortifacients. On the June 26 edition of CNN Newsroom, the host continually suggested that such exemptions only make sense for actual churches, rather than practicing Christians.
Costello stated in her introduction of the story that critics – they…
Here We Go Again: AP Already Bringing Second-Quarter Growth Estimates
My, those "this quarter's really, really going to be great" predictions can disappear so quickly these days.
Yesterday, in the wake of the government's third revision to gross domestic product showing that the economy shrunk by an annualized 2.9 percent during the first quarter instead of the previously reported 1.0 percent, commentators, analysts, and economists fell all over themselves…
Students for Life Prez: 'If You're Pro-Choice, You're for Sidewalk Cou
Calling the Supreme Court’s June 26th buffer zone ruling a “victory for women,” Students For Life President Kristin Hawkins and other pro-life leaders celebrated the chance to give women a better choice.
Pro-lifers (by far the majority of the crowd) stood in front of the Supreme Court, awaiting the Supreme Courts decisions of the day. Young women representing Students For Life chanted…
It's Long Past Time For the Press to Compare This 'Recovery' to the Aw
The press, even in the wake of yesterday's awful reported 2.9 percent annualized first-quarter contraction, continues to regale us with noise about the economy's "recovery" during the past five years.
As P.J. Gladnick at NewsBusters noted yesterday, CNNMoney.com's Annalyn Kurtz, in giving readers "3 reasons not to freak out about -2.9% GDP," concluded her report by telling readers that "This…
Outside SCOTUS, Jubilation at ‘Buffer Zone’ Decision
Students For Life’s
Hawkins: “If you’re pro-choice, you’re for sidewalk counseling.’
Potted Plante: CBS Reporter Files Puff Piece on Obama Using Letters Th
Thursday’s edition of CBS This Morning featured the latest installment in the media’s love affair with President Barack Obama. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante switched course from a constructive work of journalism he did Tuesday to a fluff piece on how Obama uses letters Americans send to the White House “to construct his political agenda.”
The story comes as Obama is…