Brian Williams Slams Limbaugh, and Michael Brown's 'Largest Domestic H

***Updated with video*** NBC anchor Brian Williams went deep into the floodwaters of bias at the end of Rock Center on Thursday night, ripping into Michael Brown and Rush Limbaugh about Hurricane Sandy and then bizarrely claiming these men were playing politics – as if he wasn’t. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Williams boiled over: “In a related story, ‘Brownie’ is…
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2012 11:32 PM

CNN's Morgan Raises Bloomberg's Global Warming Concerns

On Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, host Morgan treated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's endorsement of President Barack Obama as a significant threat to Mitt Romney, and ended up bolstering Bloomberg's concerns about Hurricane Sandy being the result of manmade global warming. Without noting Bloomberg's liberal record, Morgan highlighted the mayor's complaints about Romney's "…
Brad Wilmouth
November 1st, 2012 11:17 PM

Andrew Sullivan Swings and Misses Rebutting NewsBusters

On Thursday, I wrote a piece exposing several factual errors in Andrew Sullivan's recent love letter to President Obama. Sullivan responded hours later:
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2012 10:59 PM

NY Times Takes Sandy By Storm to Boost Obama-Christie Partnership and

As Election Day loomed, the New York Times made the most of Chris Christie bonding with President Obama over the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Thursday's front page featured Mark Landler and Michael Barbaro on the new political storm-buddy team of New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie and President Obama, "An Unlikely Political Pair, United by a Disaster." Reporter Kate Zernike filed a…
Clay Waters
November 1st, 2012 10:54 PM

Media Malpractice: Where Are The 2008 Perpetrators Now

Very early on in the 2008 presidential election cycle I decided that I needed to produce a documentary film called “Media Malpractice” about the unprecedented media bias that I was sure would result in Barack Obama’s election. In May of that year I purchased the website URL HowObamaGotElected.com for that purpose.   In addition to the successful and very well received film, we put out two…
John Ziegler
November 1st, 2012 10:22 PM

Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams Gore's 'Stunningly Ignorant' Statement

Appearing as a guest on FNC's The O'Reilly Factor, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics -- and formerly of AccuWeather -- debunked a recent statement by Al Gore linking Hurricane Sandy to global warming. Bastardi asserted that the former Vice President's statement is either "stunningly ignorant or stunningly deceptive," and argued that hurricane seasons go through cyclical…
Brad Wilmouth
November 1st, 2012 10:05 PM

No Time for Benghazi, But ABC Has Time to Trumpet Bloomberg’s ‘Big

ABC’s World News on Thursday continued its week-plus blackout of any of the new revelations about the Obama administration’s dissembling on what occurred before and after the Benghazi terrorist attacks, yet made time to tout Michael Bloomberg’s endorsement of President Obama and for an excerpt of Diane Sawyer’s gauzy “Portrait of a Candidate” interview with Obama from early October. “Our…
Brent Baker
November 1st, 2012 7:49 PM

Chris Matthews Mocks Rush Limbaugh as the 'Guy From Deliverance

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday lashed out at Rush Limbaugh and his criticism of Chris Christie, deriding the conservative radio host as "the guy from Deliverance." Matthews played a clip of Limbaugh joking, "New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided to play the role of a Greek column today for President Obama." Matthews fumed, "He reminds me more of the guy from Deliverance– 'Squeal…
Scott Whitlock
November 1st, 2012 6:17 PM

CNN, PBS Fans More Likely to Vote Obama

CNN and PBS claim to be impartial and non-partisan networks, but guess who their audiences are voting for? According to BuzzFeed, a significant majority of Facebook fans of those networks are likely Obama voters. On a graph titled "What does your favorite TV channel say about your politics?", CNN falls well to the left of center, with almost 30 percent more fans likely voting for Obama over…
Matt Hadro
November 1st, 2012 5:27 PM

4 Out of 5 Investors Say Romney Presidency Would Be Better for Market

Barron’s: Despite left’s predications of end of world if GOP candidate wins, investors hopeful new prez could turn things around.
Liz Thatcher
November 1st, 2012 5:26 PM

MSNBC's Martin Bashir Slanders Mike Huckabee: Says Huckabee Hints Obam

Back in April, MSNBC's Martin Bashir charged Gov. Mitt Romney with being a liar, went on to quote Mormon doctrinal texts, and strongly hinted that the Republican presidential candidate was in danger of hellfire. In early December 2011, Bashir hinted at a similar pronouncement of anathema on GOP candidate Herman Cain. But now with just five days left until the election, Bashir is infuriated by…
Ken Shepherd
November 1st, 2012 5:24 PM

Romney Accused of Lacking Transparency & Reticence on MSNBC

Forget about Benghazi, Fast & Furious, Solyndra, etc. -- it's Mitt Romney who has serious problems with transparency if you're to believe the talking heads at MSNBC. He hasn't taken questions from reporters for three whole weeks, groused Ed Schultz on the Halloween edition of his program. Of course, President Obama hasn't exactly been willing to talk to the press corps either. As we've…
Ryan Robertson
November 1st, 2012 4:58 PM

Left-Wing Salon Writer Blames Romney for Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

The left has gone from criticizing Mitt Romney on his views of FEMA to blaming him for a meningitis outbreak. Salon.writer Craig Unger pinned the recent spike in meningitis, which resulted in the deaths of 29 people, on Mitt Romney, in an article entitled “Romney’s lax regulation may have fueled meningitis outbreak.” Unger cited the attorney representing the victims of the outbreak, who…
Mike Ciandella
November 1st, 2012 4:58 PM

Gay XM Radio Host Tells Pro-Romney Caller to Buy Arsenic And Drink It

Via the blogger Gay Patriot, we learn about some hate speech from Sirius XM "Out Q 108" radio host and gay-left activist Michelangelo Signorile. He told off a self-proclaimed gay man from Utah who said he voted for Romney in early voting. Signorile recognized the caller as a repeat caller, and insulted him: "You are the epitome of a low-information voter, Wes. You should not be allowed to vote…
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2012 4:07 PM