Daily Beast's Goldberg Lauds Pope As 'Voice Against the Tyranny' of 'G

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, the Daily Beast's Michelle Goldberg praised Pope Francis as a "voice against the tyranny or the hegemony of global capitalism" during a discussion of whether the Pope should be chosen Time's "Person of the Year." Goldberg:
Brad Wilmouth
December 12th, 2013 2:26 PM

CNN Cheerleads Budget Deal; Rebukes 'Fringe' Tea Party Dissenters

CNN hosts and analysts actively cheered the House budget deal and scoffed at Tea Party conservatives who opposed it, on Wednesday and Thursday. "I think this is great, what we're hearing here. You've got Boehner saying the fringe types, back off. We're here to do a job. We have to compromise," New Day co-host Chris Cuomo relished the Speaker's rebuke of the Tea Party on Thursday morning. […
Matt Hadro
December 12th, 2013 1:18 PM

Shorter Slate: Mark Levin Inspiring 'Secretive' Cabal to 'Rewrite the

His book The Liberty Amendments made the New York Times bestseller list for weeks, and radio host Mark Levin has repeatedly discussed his proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution via a state legislature-called convention on his nationally syndicated program. But to the folks at Slate, the push to make Levin's call for an Article V amendment convention a reality is a "secretive campaign" to "…
Ken Shepherd
December 12th, 2013 1:03 PM

CBS's O'Donnell Slams Paul Ryan For 'Cut' in Veterans' Benefits

Norah O'Donnell unsurprisingly took aim at Rep. Paul Ryan on Thursday's CBS This Morning over part of his bipartisan budget proposal that he presented with Democratic Senator Patty Murray: "Military members want to know why you asked them to take a cut, in terms of cost [of] living increases...the men and women in this country, who fight and die for this country, want to know why they should not…
Matthew Balan
December 12th, 2013 12:32 PM

Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky: ObamaCare Will be ‘Net Plus’ For De

The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky seems to have an obsession with using his column to provide cover for Democrats and President Obama, especially over the failed healthcare law known as ObamaCare.  In his most recent piece published this morning, Tomasky desperately tried to convince his readers that, “Obamacare’s Back” and that he “[t]old you so.” During his weak attempt to sell the…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 12th, 2013 12:08 PM

Maddow's First Washington Post Piece: 'How George W. Bush Failed The G

Boy, that didn't take long, did it? The Washington Post announced Wednesday that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow would be writing a column for the paper once a month, and on Thursday, there was her first piece. Any guesses on the topic? Bashing George. W. Bush, of course. What would you expect from this unapologetic liberal shill?
Noel Sheppard
December 12th, 2013 11:47 AM

Five Years of H8 from NOH

It takes a lot of h8 to be a NOH8er. As The Huffington Post has begun touting the fifth anniversary of the NoH8 Campaign, a movement created in response to by Jeff Parshley and his partner Adam Bouska California’s Proposition 8 referendum on gay marriage, it’s worth examining all the non-hate that supposedly flows from the group’s members. The NOH8 Campaign, a self-described “photographic…
Katie Yoder
December 12th, 2013 11:24 AM

Networks Rush to Defend Obama Selfie: Refusing Photo Would Have Caused

All three networks on Wednesday engaged in damage control for the White House following criticism of President Obama's selfie during Tuesday's Mandela memorial service. On CBS This Morning, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante even made this absurd assertion: "The President might have caused a diplomatic incident if he had declined the invitation to be in a photo with two long-time…
Kyle Drennen
December 12th, 2013 10:36 AM

Celebrities Resume Campaign to Promote Obamacare to Young

Now that some of the problems with the Obamacare website have been fixed, the administration is resuming prior efforts to recruit younger, healthier Americans to purchase insurance in the federal and state exchanges. This is a critical part to the president's health insurance law because based on the few statistics that have been provided, the majority of the people who have successfully…
Matthew Sheffield
December 12th, 2013 10:28 AM

Open Thread Friday

Discuss the news of the day and anything else you'd like...
NB Staff
December 12th, 2013 9:44 AM

'Correction of the Year': HuffPo Item Originally Called Hawaii an 'Isl

The due diligence at the intractably liberal Huffington Post is apparently far, far less than perfect. The following correction currently appears at a HuffPo puff piece (HT Twitchy) by Hillary Miller about actor Bill Murray and actress Emma Stone paying a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Hawaii: "CORRECTION: A previous version of this article referred incorrectly to Hawaii as an independent…
Tom Blumer
December 12th, 2013 9:38 AM

Today's Liberal In Trouble: WashPost Writer Dan Zak Pens Positive Prof

Liberals are going to be mad at Dan Zak today. The Washington Post Style section writer who nastily dismissed the Biden-Ryan debate last year as “a man debating a boy” sounded like he went head over heels for Megyn Kelly in a Thursday profile. The Post headline even oozed: “The Essential Megyn Kelly: Her new prime-time show is a swift hit. Buoyed by intelligence and intensity, is she poised to…
Tim Graham
December 12th, 2013 8:28 AM

Bernie Goldberg: MSNBC's Afraid to Fire Sharpton for Deceptive Editing

As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, Bill O’Reilly once again exposed MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for deceptively editing a video to blatantly misrepresent what the Fox News host said. On the O’Reilly Factor Wednesday, media analyst and political commentator Bernie Goldberg claimed MSNBC is afraid to fire Sharpton; Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz said he’d start by canning the producer (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
December 11th, 2013 11:03 PM

NYT's Maureen Dowd Puts Her Own Lamely Anti-Catholic Words in John Boe

On Wednesday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd decided to invent a running commentary from House Speaker John Boehner on how Republicans stink at talking to women. “Some of these punks and losers in the Tea Party who have joined up with us do not have a clue how to smooth talk dolls,” she imagined him saying at an Italian restaurant. Some could argue it's a little rich for Dowd to mock…
Tim Graham
December 11th, 2013 10:48 PM