NYT's Sam Tanenhaus Schools CBS's Lesley Stahl on Tea Party Women

CBS reporter Lesley Stahl was very confused on Monday's "Morning Joe". She just couldn't figure out why there are so many women involved with the Tea Party. Stahl received a basic civics lesson from two unlikely personalities: columnist Mike Barnicle, and Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review and author of "The Death of Conservatism". Tanenhaus noted that economic issues…
Lachlan Markay
October 19th, 2010 9:59 AM

NY Times Editor Jill Abramson Links 2010 GOP Giving to Nixon, Watergat

On the front of the New York Times Sunday Week in Review, Managing Editor Jill Abramson tried to link anonymous pro-Republican donors of the 2010 election cycle to  illegal campaign donations made to Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign: “Return of the Secret Donors -- In 2010, corporate cash, anonymous contributions and other echoes of Watergate.” Enforcing the link, the top half of the…
Clay Waters
October 19th, 2010 8:12 AM

N.Y. Times Reporters Shouldn't 'Contaminate' Their 'Impartial' Reputat

After layoffs cost him his job as a media reporter for socialist editor and author Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher magazine, Joe Strupp landed at Media Matters for America, where he can ask the liberal media elite why on Earth any of them would ever appear on that unethical Republican swamp known as Fox News (or Fox affiliates on Sundays). In this case, Strupp went looking for former…
Tim Graham
October 19th, 2010 7:26 AM

Olbermann Mocks Bachmann Over U.S. Constitution, Wanting to Dine with

 On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann mocked Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, tagging her as "Worst Person in the World," for her recent declaration in an interview with World Net Daily that she would like to dine with Jesus Christ, Ann Coulter and a number of other historical and public figures. In addition to cracking that Coulter would accuse Jesus of…
Brad Wilmouth
October 19th, 2010 6:10 AM

Eight Steps to Rebuild America's Economy

The White House's wish almost came true last week. It was hoping most of us and even the mainstream media would miss the release of the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary report on the 2010 federal fiscal year. And most did. The Wall Street Journal, however, exposed why the White House was being so secretive about its results: The CBO concluded that federal government spending has…
Chuck Norris
October 19th, 2010 12:00 AM

Schultz's Class-Warfare 'Lean Forward': Why Are We Letting Top 2% Win

In August, Ed Schultz reportedly erupted in the MSNBC newsroom over being excluded from the network's election night promos.  According to the NY Post, network honchos threatened to fire Schultz if he pulled a similar stunt again. Could there be some kiss-and-make-up going on at 30 Rock?  Of all the MSNBC personages, the network apparently selected Schultz first to have his own spot in…
Mark Finkelstein
October 18th, 2010 6:43 PM

Where Is the Love For President Obama? 'Morning Joe' Panel Wonders

President Obama has accomplished so much during his tenure with so little gratitude from the American people, lamented the Monday panel for MSNBC's "Morning Joe." What is to blame? Poor marketing by the White House, the panelists answered. "Where is the celebration over what has been done and accomplished in the face of all this anger and vitriol in Washington?" complained co-host Mika…
Matt Hadro
October 18th, 2010 5:46 PM

CNN's Chetry Worried Public is Taking Steps Backward on Global Warming

American Morning host interviews explorer attempting to draw attention to global warming and expresses concern over an increasingly skeptical public.
Jeff Poor
October 18th, 2010 5:37 PM

Cuckoos for Daily Kos: Now the GOP Is 'Openly and Militantly Totalitar

With the Democrats losing so badly in the polls, the bloggers of the Daily Kos are coming more unglued than usual. The diarist going by the name "Troubadour" predicted on Monday "This Could Get Ugly." In other words, the GOP are going to start killing liberals: The difficult thing about dealing with a frenzied totalitarian movement like today's Republican Party is not only do they not take "…
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2010 4:59 PM

CBS Story on 'Fighter' Alan Grayson Ignores False 'Taliban Dan' Ad

In a story on Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson's bid for reelection on Sunday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller described the left-wing bomb thrower this way: "Freshman Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson considers himself a fighter....Whether taking on the foreclosure mess or the Republican Party." Miller briefly referred to Grayson's history of controversial…
Kyle Drennen
October 18th, 2010 4:43 PM

HuffPo Writer Gives Christians a Fair Hearing in Embryonic Stem Cell R

In a surprisingly balanced piece, Huffington Post columnist John Lundberg demonstrated sensitivity to Christians outraged by the sacrilege committed in a controversial poem written to promote stem cell awareness. Tyson Anderson wrote winning verse for the October 13 Stem Cell Awareness Day contest sponsored by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. “This is my body, which is…
Erin R. Brown
October 18th, 2010 4:14 PM

LA Times: 'Jim DeMint Relishes Life On the Republican Fringe

Conservative Republican Senator "Jim DeMint relishes life on the Republican fringe," a teaser headline on the website for the Los Angeles Times noted this afternoon (see screen capture below at right). "The South Carolina senator's refusal to compromise has made him a conservative hero. He showers cash on 'tea party' candidates like Sharron Angle and Rand Paul, but he's winning few friends in…
Ken Shepherd
October 18th, 2010 3:52 PM

In CNN's America, We're Heavily Black and Muslim

CNN, like many liberal media outlets, is very interested in diversity -- in race, creed, sexual preference, everything but ideology.  But check out this image today, as CNN launched a new marketing gimmick asking viewers to fill in the sentence "My America Is...." If we're going to get into bean-counting here, judging from the graphic behind anchorman Tony Harris today, America is majority-…
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2010 3:29 PM

GLAAD Rejects Comedic Actor Vince Vaughn's Defense of 'Gay' Joke

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation isn't backing down when it comes to bullying its way into protected-class status. The gay advocacy group has rejected actor Vince Vaughn’s defense of using the term “gay” to describe electric cars in his yet-to-be released movie, “The Dilemma.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, a post on the official GLAAD website rebutted, “Vince is right.…
Erin R. Brown
October 18th, 2010 2:12 PM