MSNBC's Roberts Presents Audience with One-Sided 'Debate' on Gun Contr

Not only did MSNBC's Thomas Roberts jump on top of yesterday's deadly Oregon mall shooting to push gun control, he presented his softball interview with gun advocate Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign as a "debate." That's right, the segment's title, given in an onscreen graphic was "Gun Control Debate." Of course, Roberts failed to bring on a gun-rights advocate to balance out Gross's appearance…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 12th, 2012 3:31 PM

Corporate Money Didn't Take Over Politics Post-Citizens United, New St

Remember the hand-wringing from the Left about how the Citizens United Supreme Court decision was supposed to turn America into a corporate dystopia.  The media obligingly amplified those complaints. Well, the December 12 USA Today published an analysis showing minimal corporate participation in this year’s election cycle.  In fact, their contributions amounted to roughly 10% of the mega…
Matt Vespa
December 12th, 2012 2:44 PM

‘Global Warming’ Is Now Officially Down the Memory Hole

The man-made global warming movement has officially shifted from runaway global warming fears over to extreme weather fears. This strategic shift has been in the works for years as global average temperatures have stalled by up to 16 years. First there was a transition from “global warming” to “climate change” and now to “global climate disruption.” Some have suggested “global weirding” others…
Marc Morano
December 12th, 2012 1:14 PM

Jamie Foxx Defends SNL 'Kill All the White People' Joke on NBC's 'Toda

In an interview with actor Jamie Foxx on Wednesday's NBC Today about his upcoming movie Django Unchained, co-host Savannah Guthrie brought up offensive comments Foxx made while hosting Saturday Night Live: "You said your character gets to, quote, 'kill all the white people,' adding, 'how great is that?' I know you know about the criticism, do you think it was fair?" [Listen to the audio or…
Kyle Drennen
December 12th, 2012 1:05 PM

DC Area Sports Talk Hosts Suspended for Mocking 50-Year-Old Transgende

Two veteran DC area sports talk radio hosts, ESPN980's Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban, were suspended, on Tuesday, for making fun of Gabrielle Ludwig, a 6-6, 50-year-old former male college basketball player, who came back to play the woman's game. According to the Washington Post's Dan Steinberg, the two were suspended for engaging in a discussion last week about the fairness of a transsexual…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 12th, 2012 12:25 PM

Networks Skip Union Violence in Mich., Insist Protesters Are Simply 'V

All three networks on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning ignored the violent assaults by union protesters in Michigan, instead vaguely insisting that activists were simply "voicing their anger" at the "showdown raging in the heartland." The morning shows on Wednesday allowed little coverage of Michigan at all, a mere 72 seconds out of eight hours of programming. (On Tuesday, the nightly…
Scott Whitlock
December 12th, 2012 12:21 PM

ABC, CBS, NBC Are Censoring Footgage of Union Thug Violence in Lansing

The pro-union broadcast networks are deliberately censoring footage of thuggish union violence directed at conservatives. If a Tea Partier had physically assaulted a liberal journalist or ripped down a structure occupied by a liberal organization all on video, the footage would be broadcast on an endless loop. ABC, CBS, and NBC have a responsibility to the American people to expose what’s…
Brent Bozell
December 12th, 2012 12:13 PM

Only CBS AM Coverage of Michigan Is Stewart Mocking Term 'Right to Wor

On Wednesday, CBS This Morning shipwrecked its aim to be the hard-news alternative to ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today. Its only coverage of the passage of the right-to-work law in Michigan was a clip of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart ripping the legislation. Anchors Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell laughed on air in reaction to Stewart's shtick, with O'Donnell adding, "That's pretty…
Matthew Balan
December 12th, 2012 11:58 AM

MSNBC 'Journalists' Laugh and Sigh During Derisive Interview With Mich

Appearing on Wednesday's MSNBC Morning Joe, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was greeted with childish behavior by the show's panel of left-wing pundits, who were unable to conceal their disgust with the state's right-to-work legislation just signed into law by the Republican. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Contributor Richard Wolffe led off the disrespectful display…
Kyle Drennen
December 12th, 2012 11:26 AM

Ever So 'Helpful' AP Tells Readers That 'Right to Work' Name 'Is Misle

Demonstrating his and his employer's pro-union bias, Jeff Karoub at the Associated Press, in compiling a list of "5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MICH. RIGHT-TO-WORK BILLS," made "The Name Is Misleading" his first item. As an AP journalist, Karoub is likely a member of the Occupy Movement-supporting News Media Guild. Earlier this year, his employer's recently departed chairman, acting in an official…
Tom Blumer
December 12th, 2012 11:14 AM

Sharpton: 'People Should Think Twice Before They Invite Michigan Gov

Is wanting workers to have the right to choose if they're going to join a union racist? Apparently it is according to MSNBC commentator Al Sharpton who concluded a Huffington Post rant about Michigan's newly enacted right to work laws Wednesday, "People should think twice before they invite Gov. Snyder to a King Day celebration in three weeks."
Noel Sheppard
December 12th, 2012 10:15 AM

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NB Staff
December 12th, 2012 10:14 AM

NYT's Egan Sees 'Smothering' of Gun-Control Debate, Says Limbaugh and

Liberal New York Times reporter, now far-left Times columnist Timothy Egan ludicrously diagnoses a national squelching of debate on gun control in Thursday's post, "The Great Gun Gag." Along the way he claimed that "Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin "are to reasoned argument what salt is to a slug."
Clay Waters
December 12th, 2012 9:40 AM

Washington Post's Marcus: 'Unions Aren't Going to Survive When People

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Tuesday, liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus lashed out against passage of Michigan's right-to-work law: "Unions are reeling, and the more states that enact measures like this, the more unions will be reeling....unions aren't going to survive when people have a choice of whether to ante up the dues or to get the benefit of being free-…
Kyle Drennen
December 12th, 2012 9:32 AM