NBC Fawns Over 'White House Christmas,' But Ignores Cost of Obama Vaca

Missing from NBC's rosy Wednesday interview of Michelle Obama is her family vacation's cost to taxpayers. Reports are that the taxpayer bill for the Hawaii vacation will top $4 million. "Come Christmas the First Family, Bo included, will head some 5,000 miles away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Today contributing correspondent Jenna Bush Hager said during NBC's "A White House Christmas"…
Matt Hadro
December 19th, 2012 4:23 PM

Video: MRCTV's Bob Parks Discusses Robert Griffin III and Liberal Raci

Our friend Bob Parks, the senior video producer for our sister site MRCTV.org, was invited on Canada's Sun News recently to discuss ESPN's Rob Parker smearing Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. Parker was skeptical of RG3, wondering if he was possibly a "cornball brother" who wasn't "down with the cause" because Griffin has a white fiancee and is rumored by some to be a Republican. "…
Ken Shepherd
December 19th, 2012 4:03 PM

Fox's Andrea Tantaros Picks Up Radio Gig

Andrea Tantaros of Fox's talk show "The Five" has been signed to do a national radio talk show by Talk Radio Network. Starting on January 2, Andrea's new show will air in the 9 am to noon slot where TRN had produced Laura Ingraham's show until a few weeks ago. (Ingraham just signed with a new distributor, Courtside, and will also be back on the air that day.) Joining Tantaros in the studio…
Tim Graham
December 19th, 2012 3:45 PM

NYTimes Op-ed Celebrates Sole African-American Senator as 'Token,' Hum

After a decent story by political reporter Jeff Zeleny Tuesday, the New York Times expressed in an op-ed a racially charged, far-left view on the appointment of African-American Republican Rep. Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate: as a "token," the GOP's human equivalent of the racist poll tax and literacy test. Besides offensively decrying in his op-ed Wednesday the appointment of Scott, the first…
Clay Waters
December 19th, 2012 3:26 PM

Broadcast Nets Cover ‘Devastating’ Benghazi Report, But ABC Ignore

News of the State Department report on the U.S. government’s failures surrounding the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, broke too late last night for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, but all three broadcast networks had full reports on their Wednesday morning shows. Of the three, ABC’s Good Morning America was the most perfunctory, with a less-than 90 second…
Rich Noyes
December 19th, 2012 2:58 PM

Some Obama Voters Didn't Care About Politics, But Today Show Won't Que

Although Time magazine revealed that 15 percent of Obama voters didn't even care about politics, NBC's Today show still wouldn't challenge the President's supposed mandate from the public to raise taxes when Time's Richard Stengel was on Wednesday. "And one of the things they found out is that there's about 15 percent of voters who actually don't care about politics," Stengel referred to…
Matt Hadro
December 19th, 2012 2:42 PM

Five Reasons The Networks Have No Business Covering Business (Or the E

For many Americans, ABC, NBC and CBS are the major source of news on business and the economy. Unfortunately, this is like depending on the middle school student newspaper for information about important local school board deliberations. Network reporters are either ill-prepared to discuss complex issues of economics, finance and business or choose to be advocates for viewpoints rather than…
Julia A. Seymour
December 19th, 2012 2:22 PM

CEO Lampoons NY Times in CNBC Appearance

When University of California at Santa Barbara professor Nelson Lichtenstein came onto CNBC to discuss bribery allegations against Wal-Mart De Mexico (a subsidiary of Wal-Mart), he got more than he bargained for. Kenneth Langone, an investor who helped found Home Depot, had joined Maria Bartiromo for the full hour of “Closing Bell” on Dec. 18. Langone, who is also the CEO of Geeknet and…
Mike Ciandella
December 19th, 2012 1:40 PM

GMA Doubles Down on Gun Control Advocacy

For the third day in a row, ABC's Good Morning America used the horrific Newtown tragedy to push its gun control agenda.  On Wednesday morning, both ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas and Pierre Thomas hyped that now is a "watershed moment" and a "tipping point" as stores halted sales of some guns and Democratic NRA member Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) considered changing his views on gun laws. "Big-city…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 19th, 2012 12:52 PM

ABC News Blames Daily Caller for Torrent of Spam After Producer Tweete

A spokesman for ABC News has accused The Daily Caller of provoking “400 horrible, pornographic messages” to an editorial producer who tweeted public requests for interviews from people closely connected to the victims of the Newton, Conn. school shooting. The accusation came despite the fact that a number of other websites had reported on the producer's trolling for victims.
Randy Hall
December 19th, 2012 11:56 AM

Reporter Wonders if Matt Damon’s Anti-Fracking Film Will Have Any Ef

If Hollywood doesn’t like something, then clearly state legislators should react. At least that’s what Dave Fehling, NPR’s StateImpact Texas reporter suggested. StateImpact is a “reporting project of local public media and NPR,” and has many financial backers including George Soros (through his Open Society Foundations). “Chances may be better this time around that the Texas legislature…
Liz Thatcher
December 19th, 2012 11:15 AM

Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous

CNN's Piers Morgan has been on a rabid anti-gun rant since July's Aurora, Colorado, shootings that has gotten even more venomous after Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. On Tuesday, he rudely and disgracefully tore into guest Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, calling him "an unbelievably stupid man" who's "dangerous," concluding the…
Noel Sheppard
December 19th, 2012 8:42 AM

Pacifica Broadcasted Michael Moore's Anti-America Rant Hours After New

On Tuesday morning, the taxpayer-subsidized Pacifica Radio network broadcast a Friday night speech from leftist filmmaker Michael Moore trashing America just  hours after the Newtown school shooting. He began by trashing our warlike culture, and then claimed "all the wrong people are in prison in this country." "Democracy Now" anchor Amy Goodman found zero irony in the fact that Moore spoke…
Tim Graham
December 19th, 2012 8:12 AM

NYTimes's Helene Cooper: Choose Between 2nd Amendment Rights or 'Kids

Sunday's episode of The Chris Matthews Show featured an exchange between host Pete Williams and New York Times White House reporter Helene Cooper on President Obama pushing for stronger gun control legislation the day of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. Cooper laid out the issue in emotional terms, suggesting people must choose between the protection of the Second Amendment and the safety…
Clay Waters
December 19th, 2012 7:09 AM