Broadcast Nets, Major Papers Ignore Conservative Women Protesting Obam

As my colleagues Kristine Marsh and Katie Yoder reported earlier, hundreds of conservative, pro-life women turned out in Lafayette Park across from the White House on Thursday to protest the Obama/Sebelius contraception mandate, which was originally scheduled to take effect on August 1. You may recall that administration officials pushed back implementation of the religious freedom-infringing…
Ken Shepherd
August 2nd, 2013 5:21 PM

MSNBC's Alter Sneers: GOP the 'Suicide Caucus

MSNBC contributors Jonathan Alter and Joy Reid sound much like a good metronome: their commentary never changes, marching on at an endless, fixed pace. Alter and Reid have made a career at the Lean Forward network out of comparing Republicans to slave owners, terrorists, and drunks. Their latest assault on the GOP came on Friday’s Now, with Reid serving as guest host in place of Alex Wagner…
Andrew Lautz
August 2nd, 2013 5:15 PM

Richard Nixon's Brother Knocks the Media; 'I Watch C-SPAN to See What

The brother of former President Nixon took a shot at the media on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Live, as he defended his brother's legacy against the "prejudice" of many. "And these days, today I watch -- I watch C-SPAN to see what the news is. And then I listen to the people that try to filter what you hear," he told Piers Morgan. [Video below the break. Audio here.]
Matt Hadro
August 2nd, 2013 5:08 PM

Shocking! MSNBC Panel Agrees Congressional Exemption from High ObamaCa

It’s rare when the Morning Joe crew unanimously agrees on an issue. It’s simply extraordinary when the issue is ObamaCare. Host Joe Scarborough and a liberal panel mocked congressional Democrats on Friday for griping about high premiums under ObamaCare, after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced Thursday that the federal government would continue to subsidize health care…
Andrew Lautz
August 2nd, 2013 4:14 PM

Facebook Group Claims ‘Virgin Mary Should Have Aborted

According to Christian News Service, a Christian group is petitioning Facebook to take down a vulgar anti-Christian page which suggests the Virgin Mary should have aborted Jesus. The page’s self-description claims to “explain what really happened in biblical times, since the bible is full of lies,” refers to Jesus as “rapist’s offspring” and accuses him of having “destroyed the planet and…
Lauren Enk
August 2nd, 2013 3:45 PM

ABC's Cynthia McFadden Lectures Pro-Life Protester: You Don't Sound Ve

Nightline co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on Wednesday spent the entire show investigating the possible closing of the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. For a series that's devolved into a celebrity-obsessed tabloid, it was a surprising return to the Nightline of old. However, McFadden still tilted towards the pro-abortion side. After being bluntly told by a pro-life protester that…
Scott Whitlock
August 2nd, 2013 3:43 PM

Former NYT Columnist Rich: Weiner Scandal Won't Harm Hillary, Will Boo

Former New York Times columnist Frank Rich showed up on Joy Behar’s Current TV program Say Anything! on Wednesday to chat about some hot news topics – chief among them, the ongoing Anthony Weiner saga. Rich assured Behar that the Weiner situation would not affect Hillary Clinton’s future. On the contrary, he said, it would make people love her husband Bill Clinton even more. Rich made his…
Paul Bremmer
August 2nd, 2013 3:33 PM

Burn Notice Goes Cold on Two Plotlines

Evan Mantel
August 2nd, 2013 3:17 PM

HuffPo Live Wants to Gay Up Catholic Colleges

The Huffington Post wants to make Catholic colleges more gay. So, HuffPo Live hosted a segment called “Rainbows  for Catholic Colleges” on Thursday, and discussed how to undermine Catholic teaching and push the gay agenda on Catholic campuses. (Because Heaven forbid there be any institution left standing that hasn’t capitulated to postmodern morality.) The panel included no traditional…
Lauren Enk
August 2nd, 2013 3:06 PM

Is Ellen DeGeneres Hosting 2014 Oscars to Counter Seth MacFarlane's Mi

It was announced Friday that Ellen DeGeneres will host next year's Academy Awards. Was this in response to Seth MacFarlane's misogynistic display at this year's Oscars presentaion? For those that have forgotten, MacFarlane:
Noel Sheppard
August 2nd, 2013 3:05 PM

Gay Group Starts Petition Demanding Rachel Maddow Be NBC's 'Human Righ

Leftist bloggers like Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress are agitating for NBC Sports to make the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia yet another moment for gay-Left activism, in protest of Russia’s crackdown against freedom of speech for the gay agenda. At the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles, NBC executives were pushed to promise assertively hostile coverage of current Russian…
Tim Graham
August 2nd, 2013 2:23 PM

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Proclaims a Little ‘Empathy’ For Rapist-Kidn

Sometimes it is astonishing what the hosts at MSNBC will say with such ease that to most Americans comes across as extreme. Chris Hayes once declared on Memorial Day weekend that he felt "uncomfortable" calling our fallen military “heroes.” But on the August 1 All In w/ Chris Hayes, in which Hayes commented on kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro, “there was a tiny, slight pin prick of empathy in me…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 2nd, 2013 1:58 PM

‘Dome’ Keeps Viewers – and Characters – Guessing

Ashley Ciandella
August 2nd, 2013 1:46 PM

MSNBC's Krystal Ball Slams Limbaugh 'Racism,' 'Offensive in Every Way

Appearing on Thursday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC's Krystal Ball accused conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh of "racism" and "sexism" and charged that "He is offensive in every way you can be offensive." Host Al Sharpton had introduced the segment by marking the 25th anniversary of Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show, and, after offering congratulations, then launched into…
Brad Wilmouth
August 2nd, 2013 1:40 PM