Piers Morgan Wants CNN Anchors to Get More 'Provocative,' 'Opinionated

Liberal CNN host Piers Morgan wants the network's anchors to be more opinionated on-air, as he told The Hollywood Reporter. "We should collectively as a network be more aggressive, more provocative, more debate-y," he opined. Morgan's gun control Twitter rant just hours after the Aurora shooting, as well as his own laughably slanted show that night points to what he'd like to see more of if…
Matt Hadro
October 31st, 2012 5:32 PM

NBC Promotes Brian Williams Gushing Over Obama During 2008 Election Ni

Hawking a new NBC Publishing ebook on Wednesday's NBC Today about the network's election night television coverage dating back to 1948, author and TV Guide business editor Steve Battaglio touted a moment featured in the book of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams during election night in 2008: "Brian knew that it was going to be a very special night....having a pretty good idea that Barack…
Kyle Drennen
October 31st, 2012 5:07 PM

CBS: Obama Has 'Huge Opportunity' in Hurricane Aftermath; Plays Up 'Ed

On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford hyped the cleanup from Hurricane Sandy as a "huge opportunity" for President Obama to display his leadership skills, as opponent Mitt Romney currently hold the advantage in that area in the latest CBS News poll of key battleground states, particularly in Florida. Crawford also touted that Obama could "build his lead on the question of which…
Matthew Balan
October 31st, 2012 3:56 PM

CNN Gives Oxygen to Dem Talking Points on Romney and FEMA

A Mitt Romney quote circulated by Democrats over the weekend has now been hyped into a "political controversy" by CNN. A liberal journalist and a Democratic strategist first brought the story to CNN on Monday morning, and by Tuesday CNN's Soledad O'Brien brought it up in an interview. "In the wake of super storm Sandy, a political controversy rages over something Mitt Romney said at a…
Matt Hadro
October 31st, 2012 3:21 PM

WaPo's Al Kamen Runs with MSNBC-Style Swipe at Romney

As the liberal media generally but MSNBC most intensely has attacked for an October 30 Ohio event in which Governor Romney spurred on rally attendees to help pack relief supplies for folks displaced by Hurricane Sandy, the Washington Post's Al Kamen (formerly a legal reporter at the paper) groused that Gov. Romney is trying hard not to look like he’s still in campaign mode, while praising…
Matt Vespa
October 31st, 2012 2:45 PM

'Robin Hood Tax' Gains Support of Soros, Moyers, Tides and Media

Proudly claiming the legendary outlaw Robin Hood as their inspiration, liberal groups and past Occupy Wall Street supporters are pushing for a “Robin Hood Tax” on corporate transactions. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Bill Moyers’s Schumann Center for Media and Democracy and the liberal Tides Foundation and Proteus Fund have given over $4 million to organizations that support the tax,…
Mike Ciandella
October 31st, 2012 2:26 PM

Remember, ‘Weather isn’t Climate’ Unless it Proves Warming

Al Gore is concerned about Mother Nature. In a statement he released on his blog on Oct. 30 2012, he hyped the imminent doom of global warming. “Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come,” the Goricle stated. No big surprise that Gore would immediately link Sandy to global warming. After all, he’s gotten very rich claiming the sky is falling. Unfortunately, Gore wasn’t the only…
Liz Thatcher
October 31st, 2012 1:09 PM

Chris Matthews Unhinged - Calls Koch Brothers 'Pigs

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday called the Koch brothers "pigs." In a Hardball segment about the connection between global warming and Hurricane Sandy, Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) for some reason took the conversation in a decidely disgusting direction (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 31st, 2012 12:44 PM

NBC's Todd Touts Polls That 'Back Up the Obama Spin' of Romney Throwin

On Wednesday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd seized on the latest CBS News/New York Times poll showing narrow leads for President Obama in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida as "evidence, potentially, to back up the Obama spin" that "Romney has run out of routes to 270 electoral votes...so they are throwing Hail Marys in new states." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump…
Kyle Drennen
October 31st, 2012 12:42 PM

CNN: 'Anti-Obama' Mailer 'Cherry-picks' Obama Speech; Yet CNN Article

Updated below | An election season mailer linked to Focus on the Family and sent out to evangelical Christian voters in Iowa unfairly quoted President Obama out of context, CNN's Political Tracker blog complained this morning. Yet in Peter Hamby's blog post -- Anti-Obama mail piece: ‘We are no longer a Christian nation’ --  the CNN.com staffer glossed over the fact that the other charges…
Ken Shepherd
October 31st, 2012 12:30 PM

Obama Twice Uses MSNBC Slogan ‘Lean Forward’ While Addressing Disa

President Obama on Tuesday twice used MSNBC’s slogan “lean forward” while addressing Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., about relief for Sandy victims. First he said this (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 31st, 2012 12:01 PM

ABC Puffs: Storm Allowed Obama to Show 'Presidential Leadership'; Hits

Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Wednesday touted Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity for Barack Obama to show "presidential leadership." During the same segment, Karl repeated liberal talking points, using the storm against Mitt Romney. He pointed out that, at an event, Tuesday, the Republican "ignored questions about his views on FEMA funding." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Karl…
Scott Whitlock
October 31st, 2012 11:34 AM

Nate Silver Goes Out on a (Left) Limb

One thing that you have to admire about Nate Silver is that he isn’t afraid to go out on a limb.  As an example of that, the New York Times political soothsayer currently projects Barack Obama winning the popular vote by 1.7%.  That would place him well on the left side of most current polling.  The below histogram shows the distribution of the spread between the two candidates in each of the…
Bob Krumm
October 31st, 2012 10:59 AM

NBC Hypes Weather Forecasters Factoring 'Global Warming' Into Hurrican

On Wednesday's NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons reported from the European Weather Center in Britain that projected Hurricane Sandy's path and touted how "Global warming could make their work more important than ever." The center's Professor Alan Thorpe explained: "If it turned out to be the case that such storms became more common, then our weather forecasting models need to factor that…
Kyle Drennen
October 31st, 2012 10:35 AM