NBC 'Today' Panel Rips Chris Hayes: 'He Looks Like a Weenie' After Ant

During a panel on Tuesday's NBC Today, liberal pundits Star Jones, Donny Deutsch and Nancy Snyderman condemned left-wing MSNBC host Chris Hayes for suggesting fallen U.S. troops are not heroes. Deutsch was the strongest in denouncing Hayes: "I hope that he doesn't get more viewers as a result of this...this guy is like a – if you've seen him...he looks like a weenie." [Listen to the audio or…
Kyle Drennen
May 29th, 2012 10:55 AM

Open Thread: Texas Standoff

Today is a big day in Texas as the race to replace retiring GOP senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is finally facing its first vote. While there is a Democratic primary today, more people are paying attention to the Republican race since the winner of that contest is heavily favored to win in November. Because the primary has so many candidates, it's likely that the top two candidates are going to…
Matthew Sheffield
May 29th, 2012 9:18 AM

Pat Buchanan: The Woodward and Bernstein Legend Is Unraveling

The Nixon-hating legends at The Washington Post are furious with author Jeff Himmelman for pulling the curtains back on their own machinations. You can see the damage in Pat Buchanan’s latest column on how Watergate was over-inflated in the history books. In a taped interview in 1990, revealed now in "Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee," the former Washington Post executive…
Tim Graham
May 29th, 2012 8:01 AM

Obama Catholics vs. Bozell

Tuesday's Washington Post carries a letter to the editor opposing Brent Bozell's Post letter to the editor on Saturday. The writer is Stephanie Niedringhaus, communications coordinator for Network, a "Catholic social justice advocacy organization." Naturally, this leftist group opposes the lawsuits against the Obama administration as a baldly political move (as if their website displays a…
Tim Graham
May 29th, 2012 6:43 AM

Schieffer Calls His Anti-Reagan Book ‘Accurate,’ But Admits ‘It

Accurate, but not true. It took 23 years, but on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer contended “everything” in his 1989 book, which provided a derogatory look from the left at the Reagan presidency, was “accurate” – yet “not entirely true.” The leading title of the book published in January of 1989, when Schieffer held the role of “Chief Washington correspondent” for CBS News,…
Brent Baker
May 29th, 2012 1:12 AM

Heilemann: Obama's a 'Brass-Knuckled, Pipe-Hitting' 'Brawler' Who'll

In 2008, Barack Obama with obedient media members such as New York magazine's John Heilemann convinced America that if they put their hope behind a junior senator from Illinois, their lives would instantly change for the better. Now that things didn't turn out as rosy as these folks claimed they would, the White House needs to scare the public into thinking things would be far worse if Mitt…
Noel Sheppard
May 29th, 2012 12:45 AM

AP Predictably Leaves Harvard's Violation of Federal Guidelines Out of

At the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, Jesse Washington's Friday evening coverage ("Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query") of the nuances involved in claiming Native American Indian heritage -- or ancestry, or biology, or allegiance, or identity, or identification, or membership (and I've probably missed a couple) -- occasioned by Democratic Senate candidate…
Tom Blumer
May 29th, 2012 12:05 AM

AP Cynically Hits Wis. Gov. Walker For 'Keeping a Safe Distance' When

Leave it to the Associated Press's Scott Bauer to take shots at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker -- in seeming orchestration with Democratic Party officials -- for limiting his public recall election appearances because of unsafe conditions leftists in the Badger State have created, "public safety" officials have too often condoned, and the establishment press has generally downplayed for well…
Tom Blumer
May 28th, 2012 10:35 PM

WashPost's King Charges GOP and FNC Painted Obama as 'Devil Incarnate

On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, regular panel member and liberal Washington Post columnist Colby King charged that Republicans and Fox News have "painted Barack Obama as the devil incarnate," and warned that, during this campaign year, "The nastiness is going to come out. The Limbaughs are just going to let it all hang out."
Brad Wilmouth
May 28th, 2012 10:31 PM

WaPo's Robinson Hypes Bogus Report on Obama's Spending His Own Paper D

NewsBusters reported Friday that the Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave a MarketWatch piece claiming President Obama's "spending binge never happened" three pinocchios for its utter falsehoods. On Monday, the Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former assistant managing editor Eugene Robinson actually misrepresented his own paper's findings to hype the thoroughly debunked…
Noel Sheppard
May 28th, 2012 9:49 PM

Ellen DeGeneres Hosts Little Redhead Who Says He Wants Obama to Win Be

Funny things that little kids say is one part of the mix of the Ellen DeGeneres show. On Thursday, she brought on young Rainer Muuss and his even younger brother Atticus to discuss presidential history. Rainer knows more about presidents than your usual kindergartner. Atticus was just on to be cute. He really loves President Martin Van Buren -- for the sideburns. But Ellen's favorite part was…
Tim Graham
May 28th, 2012 8:07 PM

MSNBC's Chris Hayes Apologizes for Anti-Fallen Military Hero Remark

NewsBusters reported Sunday that MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said on live television Memorial Day weekend he was "uncomfortable" with calling fallen military members "heroes." On Monday, Hayes issued a written apology at his MSNBC.com blog:
Noel Sheppard
May 28th, 2012 7:46 PM

Liberal FNC Analyst Powers Calls Out Media Bias After Catholic Lawsuit

Appearing as a guest just past 9:30 a.m. on FNC's America's Newsroom on Monday, liberal FNC analyst Kirsten Powers, as already recounted by Mediaite, observed that "obviously, there's a bias behind" the broadcast networks giving so little attention to the lawsuit against the Obama administration that was recently filed by numerous Catholic institutions challenging the requirement that employers…
Brad Wilmouth
May 28th, 2012 5:14 PM

NBC's Guthrie Hits Obama Admin from Right on Withdrawing from Afghanis

When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, appeared as a guest on Monday's Today show on NBC for the Memorial Day occasion, substitute co-anchor Savannah Guthrie raised concerns from the right about whether announcing the timeline of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan might benefit Taliban insurgents tactically. Guthrie:
Brad Wilmouth
May 28th, 2012 3:02 PM