Networks Promote White House PR Video of Obama and Biden Jogging for L

On Friday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all happily touted a White-House-produced video of President Obama and Vice President Biden jogging through the executive mansion to promote the fourth anniversary of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. This was the same week that the networks refused to cover an Obama administration report showing two-thirds of small business…
Kyle Drennen
February 28th, 2014 4:00 PM

The Daily Show Vilifies Opponents of Medicaid Expansion; 'Hard Not to

Once again, The Daily Show rolled out its conservative-hating schtick and mocked opponents of ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion in a simplistic liberal attack on Thursday. Correspondent Al Madrigal put it point-blank to Ashley Landess, who opposes the expansion in South Carolina: "It's hard not to seem like a total [bleep] when you're saying this stuff to people. When this guy has asthma, and…
Matt Hadro
February 28th, 2014 3:45 PM

Michelle Obama Guest Stars on 'Parks and Recreation' Season Finale

She’s made more than 100 television appearances. Her next one will be on “Parks and Recreation’s” season finale, April 24. But she’s not an actress. She’s the first lady of the United States, and she’s Hollywood royalty.  Mrs. Obama clearly enjoys the spotlight, and the liberal TV industry is happy to give her the attention. She has been a frequent guest on “The Late Show,” “The Daily Show…
Kristine Marsh
February 28th, 2014 3:30 PM

Michelle Obama Guest Stars on Parks and Recreation Season Finale

Kristine Marsh
February 28th, 2014 2:53 PM

Feckless Farrow Frets: Does Black Director Count Toward 'Diversity' Gi

Reading the transcript isn't enough. Roll the video, listen carefully, and at the end you'll catch Ronan Farrow's nervous little laugh as he asks an African-American guest whether, in assessing movie-industry diversity, it "matters" that Steve McQueen, the black director whose film has been nominated for an Oscar, is British. Such are the PC pitfalls once one wades into the bog of diversity…
Mark Finkelstein
February 28th, 2014 2:51 PM

Former Greenpeace Official to Senate Panel: 'No Scientific Proof' of H

Patrick Moore is one of the early members of Greenpeace, and was an important official in that organization from 1971 to 1986. Moore is among the last people one might expect to be a "climate change denier," as those who irritate us with the idea that human-caused global warming is "settled science" like to characterize people who disagree with them. But he is, as seen in Congressional…
Tom Blumer
February 28th, 2014 1:48 PM

'Today' Show Only Network News Program to Mention Tea Party on Anniver

The limited government, anti-bailout Tea Party movement party turned five years old on Feb. 27. They marked the occasion with an event in Washington, D.C. including speakers Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. Sen. Rand Paul, R- Ky., and Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas. But after the five years of the media painting tea partiers as “wingnuts” and “racist” time and again, ABC, CBS and NBC went virtually…
Julia A. Seymour
February 28th, 2014 1:31 PM

Bipartisan Group of Legal Scholars: Critics 'Egregiously Misrepresente

The nature of Arizona's SB 1062 -- a bill to expand the parameters of the state's religious freedom protections -- was "egregiously misrepresented by many of its critics," according to a bipartisan group of constitutional law experts who wrote to Gov. Jan Brewer (R) prior to her Wednesday veto of the bill. By extension, as we've noted in our reporting, the liberal media glommed onto the bill'…
Ken Shepherd
February 28th, 2014 1:01 PM

O'Reilly Welcomes Obama Aide Valerie Jarrett, Goes Right After Obamas

Team Obama is so desperate to change the subject from Obamacare that they sent top presidential aide Valerie Jarrett into “The O’Reilly Factor” to talk up Obama’s sudden distraction -- ahem, lifelong campaign to help young black men in rough neighborhoods. O’Reilly took the conversation in a direction where no one in the PC media has dared to go: Obama’s failure to call out rappers like Jay-Z…
Tim Graham
February 28th, 2014 12:28 PM

CNN Slams Republican for 'Racist Roast,' But Ignores Democrat's Racial

In a clear double standard, CNN was in an uproar on Thursday and Friday over an Arizona GOP legislator's racist jokes about Latinos but has yet to report a Florida Democrat's gaffe about immigrants. "As if lawmakers in the state of Arizona didn't already have enough negative national attention, there is this," Anderson Cooper piled on. He played state representative John Kavanagh's "racist…
Matt Hadro
February 28th, 2014 12:14 PM

Clueless Brian Williams: An 'Outrage' That Congress Didn't Rhapsodize

According to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, It's an "outrage" that members of Congress didn't sit in rapt attention to every word of self-admitted "pothead" Seth Rogen. The comedian and actor appeared on Capitol Hill, Thursday, to testify on the issue of Alzheimer's disease. As is common, senators filtered in and out of the hearing. Later, Rogen took to Twitter, railing against the…
Scott Whitlock
February 28th, 2014 11:48 AM

Networks Nearly Silent on Tea Party Anniversary

Only NBC’s ‘Today’ mentions 5 year celebration in D.C., gives 10 seconds to topic.
Julia A. Seymour
February 28th, 2014 11:44 AM

To the Re-education Camp! How Dare a Straight Actor Play Transgender

Few spectacles are more satisfying than watching the left eat its own. That’s especially true when conscientious liberals find that speech or actions that were common-place weeks or months ago are suddenly taboo among other lefties. Witness what happened when poor, hapless Piers Morgan recently fawned over a transgender guest but was crucified for not slavishly memorizing the latest acceptable…
Katie Yoder
February 28th, 2014 10:43 AM

WashPost Notes Tea Party's Fifth Birthday By Wondering 'Whether the Mo

Unlike the networks, The Washington Post marked the fifth anniversary of the Tea Party movement – by suggesting their might not be a tenth. This has not been the way the Post has marked Occupy Wall Street. They glorified that even as it crumbled and blew away. The headline on the front of the Style section Friday was “For tea party faithful, a muted 5th birthday.” Post reporter Ben Terris,…
Tim Graham
February 28th, 2014 9:42 AM