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ABC Hypes Christie's Gay Therapy Ban: NJ Governor's Brand 'All About I
ABC was the only network on both Monday night and Tuesday morning to highlight New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signing a bill banning gay conversion treatment. On Tuesday's Good Morning America, ABC News political director Rick Klein touted, "The Chris Christie brand is all about independence, a non-partisan person who leads the state of New Jersey in the best way he knows how."
An ABC…
August 20th, 2013 12:16 PM
Matthews: Obama Speaks Well and Has Charisma But Lacks Leadership and
For a brief, shining moment Tuesday, MSNBC’s Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews took off his Democratic shill hat and expressed a well-reasoned critique of President Obama.
Appearing on Morning Joe, Matthews said, “He had the speaking skill way ahead of schedule, the inspiration ability, the charisma…What he has never developed is a love - and that’s the right word for it - of politics, and…
August 20th, 2013 12:10 PM
Sorry, NYTimes, It's the Private Sector, Not Obama, Which Has Successf
The Gray Lady on Sunday packed a tremendous amount of bias into the opening sentence of their “Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren’t Plugged In.”
Brace yourself - here goes:
August 20th, 2013 11:11 AM
GOP Congressman: In Post-Benghazi Briefing, Hillary 'Screamed' at Coll
A Republican congressman is claiming that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton so vehemently denied that the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, was a terrorist strike that she "screamed" at a congressman in a private briefing just two days later.
As David Martosko of London's Daily Mail newspaper reported on Friday (h/t Doug Powers):
August 20th, 2013 11:03 AM
Liberal Blogger Learns the Hard Way What It's Like to Be Conservative
As conservatives, we know what happens every time we criticize the policies of the liberal occupant of the White House: We're instantly branded as “racist” and “intolerant” while our views are quickly and summarily dismissed.
However, Kevin Drum, a political blogger for the liberal Mother Jones website, has received similar treatment as he learned that no matter which side of an issue he…
August 20th, 2013 4:10 AM
Liberal Radio Talker Claims Limbaugh Known to 'Very Few People
You know liberals are running out of steam in criticizing Rush Limbaugh when they claim he's hardly known beyond hard-core conservatives -- seeing how there is no one who liberals obsess over more except the Benevolent One in the White House.
Making this off-the-wall claim was a left-wing radio host who you may have heard of, a real roll of the dice on that one, named Randi Rhodes. (Audio…
August 19th, 2013 11:15 PM
MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Hypocrisy
On Friday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton reacted to FNC's Bill O'Reilly criticizing him the night before, as the FNC host had called out Sharpton for taking out of context his contention that some who receive food stamps are "parasites" who take advantage of the system, and divulged that he had made a donation to one of Sharpton's charities in the past.
After having tagged O'…
August 19th, 2013 6:32 PM
NPR's 'Non-Partisan' Talking Head Served in the Obama and Clinton Admi
On Monday's Morning Edition on NPR, Minnesota Public Radio correspondent Elizabeth Stawicki featured Karen Pollitz of the Kaiser Family Foundation during a report about ObamaCare, but failed to mention the left-leaning political affiliation of the organization. Stawicki merely labeled the foundation "non-partisan".
The public radio journalist also failed to mention that Pollitz is an alumna…
August 19th, 2013 6:14 PM
Hot Air's Pavlich: Mayor Bloomberg Violates Cardinal Rules of Gun Safe
You'd think Mayor Mike Bloomberg would have learned his lesson after his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group was caught earlier this year running ads with an actor violating the cardinal rules of gun safety. But today's NYPD press conference announcing a major gun-trafficking bust proves otherwise.
For her "photo of the day" entry, Hot Air Green Room blogger Katie Pavlich noted how, "[d]uring…
August 19th, 2013 6:05 PM
RNC Blasts CNN Films Over 'Puff Piece' Hillary Doc
The RNC's communications director slammed CNN Films on Monday over its hiring of producer Courtney Sexton, who worked on liberal documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Climate of Change.
The RNC had already voted to keep CNN and NBC from hosting any 2016 GOP primary debate because of planned productions on Hillary Clinton by CNN Films and NBC Entertainment. Since Sexton would be working on…
August 19th, 2013 5:41 PM
Chris Matthews Congratulates DNC Chair for Uniting Democratic Party
Filling in for Andrea Mitchell on her 1 p.m. et MSNBC show on Monday, Hardball host Chris Matthews wrapped up an interview with Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz by adorning her with praise: "Congresswoman, I want to congratulate you on one thing that nobody ever gives you credit for, which is uniting the Democratic Party as it's never been united." [Listen to the…
August 19th, 2013 5:33 PM
MSNBC Deceptively Edits Bloomberg to Change Meaning of Statement on St
The folks at MSNBC were at it again Monday.
During a segment on the Martin Bashir show, the producers chose to air only five seconds of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 65-second answer at a press conference Monday to make it appear that he would have a completely different view of Stop and Frisk if he had a son (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 19th, 2013 5:26 PM
Walter E. Williams Column: Energy Manipulation
Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet. That translates into more than a 100-year supply of natural gas at current…
August 19th, 2013 5:01 PM