Anonymous Dem Tells New York Times That Obama's 'Poisonous' to 2014 Ca

The New York Times is allowing anonymous sources in politics to slime a political leader. But this time it’s Barack Obama. In a Saturday story by Jonathan Martin and Ashley Parker on “new urgency about the need to address” Democratic prospects, an anonymous “Democratic lawmaker” said Obama was becoming “poisonous” to the party’s candidates.
Tim Graham
March 17th, 2014 10:51 PM

Networks Ignore Latest North Korean Missile Launches; Cover Fashion De

As of Monday evening, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover North Korea's firing of 25 short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Sunday. NBCNews.com did post an unsigned article from Reuters on Sunday about how the "missiles flew for 45 miles before splashing into the sea," and ABC News' website went with AP's write-up on the development, but neither outlet…
Matthew Balan
March 17th, 2014 9:50 PM

Not News: Unrepentant UC-Santa Barbara Prof Who Destroyed Pro-Life Sig

Did you catch the story about the pro-abortion demonstration at the religious college where a pro-life professor grabbed a protester's sign and destroyed it? Of course not, because there's no such story. If it had happened, it would be news, and garner significant attention. The same thing happened earlier this month at the University of California-Santa Barbara — if you switch the players.…
Tom Blumer
March 17th, 2014 7:32 PM

MSNBC Contributor Touts Obama’s ‘Justin Bieber Numbers’ on Funny

On Saturday’s Weekends with Alex Witt on MSNBC, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times showed that she is one of the many liberal media members entranced by President Obama’s appearance on the Web series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Witt asked about those who criticized the president for demeaning the office by going on the show, and Sweet let it be known that she didn’t agree with…
Paul Bremmer
March 17th, 2014 5:53 PM

Thom Hartmann Unearths Long-Discredited October Surprise Crackpottery

As he was rushed into the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital, a grievously wounded President Ronald Reagan prayed for John Hinckley, the man who had just tried to kill him. "He was a mixed-up young man from a fine family," Reagan wrote in his memoirs, "An American Life." "That day, I asked the Lord to heal him, and to this day, I still do." (Audio after the jump)
Jack Coleman
March 17th, 2014 5:27 PM

Chuck Norris Column: Living Beyond Limits

At 15 years of age, Amy Purdy took up snowboarding and quickly advanced in the sport she came to love and master. At 19, Amy contracted meningococcal meningitis. She had less than a 2 percent chance of living.
Chuck Norris
March 17th, 2014 4:58 PM

Networks Yawn as Obama Administration Gives Away the Internet

The United States government announced on Friday that it would give up control of the internet to a global organization. Fox News extensively covered this development, but the network morning and evening shows ignored the monumental decision.  Former Republican Governor Mike Huckabee appeared on Saturday's Fox and Friends to blast the decision, arguing, "I'm an old fashioned guy that believes…
Scott Whitlock
March 17th, 2014 4:40 PM

NPR: Time to ‘Get Lucky’ for St. Paddy’s Day

OK, try to follow this: It’s St. Patrick’s Day. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. There’s a silly old saying about “the luck of the Irish.” “Getting lucky” is a term for having sex. So of course NPR had a “Get Lucky” promotion featuring R&B songs about sex. How else would you logically celebrate St. Patrick’s day?  Government-funded National Public Radio (NPR) touted, “Get Lucky On…
Katie Yoder
March 17th, 2014 4:38 PM

MSNBC's Farrow Uses Lame 'Drunk' Joke to Kick Off St. Paddy's Day Show

"Welcome, everyone to a special St. Paddy's Day edition of RF Daily. Special in the sense that the control room may be drunk." That's how MSNBC's Ronan Farrow opened the March 17 edition of his eponymous 1 p.m. Eastern program. [see video below page break; click here for audio] While we doubt many Americans of Irish descent will be outraged by such a lame joke, isn't Farrow's opening line…
Ken Shepherd
March 17th, 2014 3:41 PM

Kennedy Center Delights Liberals By Importing Play Bashing Rupert Murd

Liberals love to hate Rupert Murdoch. The federally funded Kennedy Center in D.C. even imported an Australian play that fervently imagines Murdoch’s powerful life on stage. Andrew Beaujon at Poynter Media Wire reported at the Thursday performance he attended, “applause broke out on my right and left when one character criticized Republicans.” For all of the ardor liberals muster against…
Tim Graham
March 17th, 2014 3:02 PM

WashPost's Chris Cillizza: Popular Conservative Sites on Facebook Reve

Do conservatives overrate their popularity and, consequently, their power? Quite possibly, suggested Washington Post blogger-reporter Chris Cillizza in a Saturday post on the Washington Post's web site. The peg for Cillizza's item was a recent Pew Research Center finding that five right-leaning online outlets, including The Washington Times, The Blaze, and Breitbart.com, were "among the most…
Tom Johnson
March 17th, 2014 2:49 PM

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball Screams ‘The NRA Shoots Down a Qualified Obam

MSNBC’s anti-gun agenda has made its way to its online site MSNBC.com when Krystal Ball, co-host of “The Cycle” penned a piece on Monday March 17 bemoaning how the NRA supposedly “shoots down a qualified Obama nominee.” The nominee in question is Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama’s pick to be the nation’s next surgeon general, and far from just a doctor. Despite his questionable credentials ,…

Jeffrey Meyer
March 17th, 2014 2:25 PM

CBS Ignores Local Affiliate's Story of Public School Censoring Pro-lif

The liberal media love to highlight instances when politically-conscious teenagers end up being censored by their school administrators. But when the students in question are pro-lifers and the censorship involves advocacy of the unborn, well, that's a different story. CBS Connecticut yesterday picked up on a WWLP story about a Branford, Conn., high school which forbade a pro-life student…
Ken Shepherd
March 17th, 2014 2:07 PM

NBC Today Show Co-Host Guthrie Marries a Clinton-Gore Operative

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is married to ABC News Washington correspondent Claire Shipman and now there’s another cozy media-Democratic political world power couple with the marriage, in Arizona over the weekend, of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie to Clinton-Gore political operative Michael Feldman, founder of a Democratic PR/lobbying firm. Guthrie was a White House…
Brent Baker
March 17th, 2014 1:35 PM