Oops: New York Mag's John Heilemann on 'Why...Susan Rice Will Be the N

New York magazine's political writer and frequent MSNBC guest John Heilemann confidently predicted in the December 3 issue that United Nations ambassador Susan Rice would be the next Secretary of State. That issue's table of contents put it starkly: "John Heilemann on why, John McCain be damned, Susan Rice will be the next secretary of State." Or perhaps not. On Thursday afternoon, NBC…
Clay Waters
December 13th, 2012 6:31 PM

New York Times' Weisman Hits 'Far Right' Conservatives in Congress for

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman threw around hostile labels in his Thursday piece on the ongoing tactical fight in Washington, pitting the "far right" against responsible "pragmatists" in the tactical battle over fiscal policy in "Boehner Tries to Contain Defections on Fiscal Unity." Speaker John A. Boehner moved Wednesday to maintain Republican unity on deficit reduction talks as…
Clay Waters
December 13th, 2012 5:58 PM

NBC's Todd Labels Susan Rice 'Victim' of 'Conservative Media' Attacks

Moments after news broke of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrawing her name from consideration to be secretary of state, NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC's Martin Bashir to denounce those he deemed responsible: "It was all driven, in many cases, by some conservative outlets who were making her the center of the Benghazi story....[which] never made a lot of sense…
Kyle Drennen
December 13th, 2012 5:34 PM

MSNBC & Others Hype PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year' Award For One of Ro

There has been no shortage of deceptive ads, factually-distorted statements, and outright fabrications from the political left over the campaign year to choose from, but leave it to the Tampa Bay Times's PolitiFact to give its "Lie of the Year" award to the Romney campaign. The now infamous "falsehood" in question was Romney's claim that Jeep was planning on moving production of some of its…
Ryan Robertson
December 13th, 2012 5:21 PM

Cal Thomas Column: Entitlement Reform We Can Believe In -- No Entitlem

SINGAPORE -- While the U.S. unemployment rate "dropped" to 7.7 percent last month -- a figure even The Washington Post acknowledged was due "...in large part because the labor force fell by 350,000..." -- here in this modern and prosperous city-state of slightly more than 5 million people, unemployment is practically nonexistent. A taxi driver tells me, "Everyone here works." With…
Cal Thomas
December 13th, 2012 5:08 PM

Ted Turner, Prodded by CNN, Calls for Nuclear Disarmament, Says 'War I

CNN founder Ted Turner is well-known for his outlandish liberal views, and CNN's Suzanne Malveaux teed him up on Thursday to rant against nuclear weapons, call for higher taxes on the wealthy, and announce that "the big, intelligent, well-educated countries have already quit war." "President Obama, he says in his second term he wants to make climate change and protecting the environment a…
Matt Hadro
December 13th, 2012 5:01 PM

Where's the Media Outrage? L.A. School Sex Abuse Shocker: 189 Abuse Cl

Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode, but the national media does not seem too interested - at all. On the heels of other local reports involving child sex abuse in L.A. schools, NBC4 in Los Angeles has reported: "On the same day that attorneys for students at Miramonte Elementary School announced that four additional…
Dave Pierre
December 13th, 2012 4:41 PM

New York Times's Shane Calls Waterboarding 'Torture' on Front Page Whi

New York Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane made Thursday's front-page with a quasi-movie review of "Zero Dark Thirty," the critically acclaimed new release about the Bin Laden raid that suggests "enhanced interrogation" like waterboarding aided in finding him. The headline, "Portrayal of C.I.A. Torture in Bin Laden Film Reopens a Debate," shows the Times comfortable using the loaded word…
Clay Waters
December 13th, 2012 4:27 PM

Wires Ignore Bad News in Raw Unemployment Claims Data

Today's news from the Department of Labor on initial weekly unemployment claims was supposedly good -- as long as one doesn't scratch beneath the surface. Journalists used to do that. Today they didn't. All one had to do is reach the third paragraph of DOL's release to realize that today's seasonally adjusted claims number of 343,000, touted as the lowest in two months in several news reports…
Tom Blumer
December 13th, 2012 4:24 PM

Liberal Fox-Hating Reporter Imagines Rift Between Rove, FNC Prez Roger

After Karl Rove disagreed with other Fox News Channel contributors that President Obama had won re-election on the night of Nov. 6, a reporter for the New York Magazine website has claimed that network president Roger Ailes was “angry” at the GOP strategist's “tantrum,” which led to Rove being “benched” from the cable channel for 27 days. In a story on the subject, Gabriel Sherman relied on…
Randy Hall
December 13th, 2012 4:00 PM

Statutory Rape 'On The Road

The film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s famous 1957 beat generation novel “On the Road” hits theaters on Dec. 21, and audiences will be treated to a variety of sex scenes involving Kristen Stewart’s 15 year-old-character Marylou.  “Kristen Stewart goes to bed with two men at the same time, gives both of them simultaneous hand jobs in the front seat of a car and performs oral sex on one of them…
Lauren Thompson
December 13th, 2012 3:48 PM

Statutory Rape On The Road

Kristen Stewart plays promiscuous 15-year -old (threesome and all) in film adaptation Kerouac book.
Lauren Thompson
December 13th, 2012 3:32 PM

PBS NewsHour Finally Interviews Norquist On Fiscal Cliff; Anchor Woodr

Finally, Grover Norquist was the featured guest on the PBS NewsHour’s segment on the fiscal cliff.  After previous editions of the program featured softball interviews with Paul Krugman and Max Richtman -- two members of the far left who oppose entitlement reform -- as well as moderate conservative Republican Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the NewsHour saw it fit to give time to the anti-tax…
Matt Vespa
December 13th, 2012 3:30 PM

CBS to DeMint: Why Can't the GOP Just Cave to Obama's Tax Hike Demand

Charlie Rose and Gayle King pressed outgoing Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday's CBS This Morning over congressional Republicans resistance to tax hikes. When DeMint stated that President Obama will "probably eventually get his tax increases one way or another", Rose replied, "So, if he will get them, why not get them now and compromise and avoid going off the fiscal cliff?" Open Obama booster…
Matthew Balan
December 13th, 2012 3:03 PM