Better Late Than Never - Ed Schultz Finally Grasps That Bush Tax Cuts

Sometimes the obvious stops being elusive even to a liberal. For most of the young millennium, use of the term "Bush tax cuts" by anyone left of center has more often than not been accompanied by the words "for the rich." The pair have been joined at the hip so often that a Google search for them yields more than 5 million hits. (audio clips after page break)
Jack Coleman
December 6th, 2012 5:00 PM

NBC's Lauer Cites CIA 'Torture' Scenes in Bin Laden Movie, Asks Whethe

During a segment on Thursday's NBC Today on the upcoming film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if scenes depicting "brutal interrogations" of terror suspects would make movie-goers feel guilty: "It's inevitable people are going to sit in the movie theater...and when they see the scenes of torture, they're going to ask themselves if they think it…
Kyle Drennen
December 6th, 2012 4:45 PM

ABC Journalists, Who Mocked the Loss of 18,000 Hostess Jobs, Now Worry

ABC News, which previously mocked the loss of 18,000 jobs at Hostess, now has concern for the unemployed, worrying about those who will lose benefits if a deal on the fiscal cliff cannot be found. Reporter Jon Karl on Wednesday's World News fretted, "Without a deal, unemployment compensation will end for more than two million people who've been out of work more than 26 weeks." Karl…
Scott Whitlock
December 6th, 2012 4:34 PM

Nets, WashPost, NYT All Fail to Report Harry Reid Refused to Allow Sen

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) a golden opportunity to prove just how popular President Obama's plan to avert the fiscal cliff is with his member of his own party. But, true to form, Sen. Reid refused to schedule the vote. "Not a single Senate Democrat has stepped forward to support it, and if you look at it you can see why.... It…
Ken Shepherd
December 6th, 2012 4:12 PM

New York Times' Preston Ditches Balance to Identify With Illegal 'Drea

You know there's something afoot when the New York Times portrays former President George W. Bush as a fount of wisdom. Julia Preston, the paper's most slanted-immigration reporter, reported from D.C. on Wednesday, "Praising Immigrants, Bush Leads Conservative Appeal for G.O.P. to Soften Tone." Preston, who is unabashedly pro-amnesty, doesn't actually name these "conservatives" supporting…
Clay Waters
December 6th, 2012 4:00 PM

CBS: 'Self-Evident' Middle Class Will Spend More If Taxes Stay Same; P

"Militantly non-partisan" Major Garrett sounded more like an Obama administration flack on Thursday's CBS This Morning as he spotlighted the President's latest P.R. stunt. Garrett noted Obama's plan to visit a northern Virginia middle-class family and claimed that the Democrat was underlining the "self-evident point that if the there is a deal and their taxes aren't raised by about $2,000, they…
Matthew Balan
December 6th, 2012 3:20 PM

Atlantic Editor Wonders If Morsi Wants to Be Dictator or Abe Lincoln

Does Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi desire to become a dictator...or another Abraham Lincoln? Did that question make you burst out laughing? If so, please be prepared for an even bigger laugh when you watch Atlantic editor Steve Clemons expend brain cells while struggling to figure out the answer to that question in his column. So laughable are the efforts of Clemons trying to come up with…
P.J. Gladnick
December 6th, 2012 2:26 PM

Sam Donaldson: Fox's Ed Henry 'One of the Best' on the White House Bea

In an AP profile of Fox News White House reporter Ed Henry, longtime ABC News vet Sam Donaldson said he considers Henry "one of the best" on the beat now. "It's not that they are all afraid and cringe, because they don't," Donaldson said. "But it's so much tougher to do it in every way." As a young reporter, Henry said, he looked up to Donaldson, best known for shouting questions at Ronald…
Tim Graham
December 6th, 2012 1:29 PM

WashPost's Pershing Pushes Biased Narrative on 2013 Va. Gov's Race: 'C

As the 2013 Virginia governor's race is already underway, the Washington Post is determined to set the narrative early on for its readers, and it goes a little something like this: Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a hard-right conservative who's too extreme for the Old Dominion, especially in contrast to job-creating businessman Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe, you may recall, served as…
Ken Shepherd
December 6th, 2012 12:46 PM

Chris Matthews: Bill Clinton Is the Best Person to Help Get You Into H

Chris Matthews' affinity for Bill Clinton is well known. But on Wednesday's Hardball, Mathews argued that the Democrat would be the best lobbyist to get one into heaven. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Talking to journalist Joe Klein and GOP strategist David Winston, Matthews lauded the former president's campaigning for Barack Obama. The liberal host enthused, "...I have to tell you, who…
Scott Whitlock
December 6th, 2012 11:56 AM

NYTimes' Alarmist Climate Reporter Hails Lefty College Divestment Push

The New York Times's alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis made the front of Business Day Wednesday with a left-wing protest movement at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, which is apparently "at the vanguard of a national movement": "The Divestment Brigade." A group of Swarthmore College students is asking the school administration to take a seemingly simple step to combat pollution…
Clay Waters
December 6th, 2012 11:34 AM

Joe Scarborough: President Obama's Been Treated Like a Second-Class Ci

MSNBC's resident RINO Joe Scarborough has resumed his regularly-scheduled conservative bashing on Morning Joe.  While discussing the impending fiscal cliff on Thursday, co-host Scarborough said that following President Obama’s “great victory” in November, it will be very hard for the president, who, “for four years, was told that he was an illegitimate president, that he was a socialist” to…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 6th, 2012 11:20 AM

NBC: Republicans Make Disabled People Cry on 'One of the Saddest Days

Employing sanctimonious rhetoric to paint Senate Republicans as cruel and heartless for opposing a U.N. treaty on disabled rights completely redundant to the Americans With Disabilities Act, on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams lectured: "If you want to know how broken, how partisan our Congress and our government has become, all you need to look at is this one day in Washington…
Kyle Drennen
December 6th, 2012 11:10 AM

Piers Morgan Renews Gun Debate With Twitter Foe On His Show

When CNN's Piers Morgan ranted about gun control on Twitter the other day, business strategist Carol Roth educated him about the Second Amendment in an exchange that made headlines. Roth then appeared on Morgan's Wednesday night show for more gun debate. "I think what it boils down to is the ability to protect yourself, Piers," she told Morgan. "As a gun owner, you want to be able to protect…
Matt Hadro
December 6th, 2012 11:00 AM