Lawrence O'Donnell: Bill O'Reilly is 'Bullying Nuts' and 'Freaks' Like

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday cherry-picked an "O'Reilly Factor" segment to drum up a feud between Fox News's top prime time host and the former Alaska governor. Five sentences about Sarah Palin pulled from a six and a half minute segment ridiculing President Obama for not scheduling Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates as guests on last weekend's "Fox News Sunday" led "The Last Word"…
Noel Sheppard
March 29th, 2011 10:42 PM

Ed Schultz Flip-Flops on Libya in Span of Single Sentence

Look at the bright side when it comes to Libya, Ed Schultz said yesterday, "we haven't invaded anybody." Come to think of it, we have, Schultz quickly spun -- and I'm gung ho for the invasion! Here is Schultz on his radio show Monday doing a pirouette worthy of Nureyev while defending President Obama's decision to intervene in Libya (audio) --
Jack Coleman
March 29th, 2011 4:49 PM

Jon Stewart Abandons Civility (Again) and Lashes Out at Corporate Amer

Once again, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart sacrificed "civility" in order to sharpen his liberal arguments – this time attacking corporations for greed. The liberal comedian, who time and again has used his national podium to cry out for civility in the nation's political discourse, resorted to vulgar name calling Monday during a four-minute tirade against big-business. During the segment full…
Matt Hadro
March 29th, 2011 4:41 PM

Brokaw Feels for Obama: No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to

Tom Brokaw appeared on Tuesday's Today show to offer his analysis of Barack Obama's Libya policy, as well as his sympathy for a president who has experienced more "unexpected circumstances" than any Oval Office occupant has seen in his "adult lifetime." Today co-host Matt Lauer prompted the former NBC Nightly News anchor to tell the audience what he told him right before going on air - that he…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 29th, 2011 4:12 PM

NY Times Vs. State Spending Cuts: Michigan's 6-Week Cut in Jobless Ben

More New York Times' s crusading against state spending cuts in Tuesday's edition. Reporter Michael Cooper’s “Michigan, With Persistent Unemployment, Cuts Jobless Benefit by Six Weeks” raised quite a grand commotion out of a small cut in Michigan’s unemployment benefit plan: The state will now pay only 20 weeks of benefits to the jobless, instead of the standard 26 weeks (and even those come…
Clay Waters
March 29th, 2011 3:58 PM

Buttering Up California's Budget Director (?) Fighting 'Draconian' Spe

New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina’s Sunday story from Sacramento focused on the state’s cute political couple, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and his young budget director Ana Matosantos: “Political Odd Couple, United by Crisis In California Budget.” They are a constant if unlikely pair these days: the oldest man elected governor of California and the woman who is its youngest budget…
Clay Waters
March 29th, 2011 3:50 PM

NBC, CBS Morning Shows Gloss Over Low Support for Obama's Libya Attack

Only Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Tuesday pointed out the relatively low public support for Barack Obama's military actions in Libya and the harsh criticism from both the right and the left. On NBC's Today, Chuck Todd parroted, "[Obama] also took the opportunity to rebut critics on the left and the right about how and whether to target Qadhafi with the military. In total the…
Scott Whitlock
March 29th, 2011 3:26 PM

NPR Uses 'The China Syndrome,' 'On the Beach' to Hype Radiation Threat

On Monday's All Things Considered, NPR's Bob Mondello used movies about fictional nuclear disasters, such as "The China Syndrome" and "Silkwood," to play up atomic energy's hazards. Mondello especially highlighted the 1959 movie "On the Beach" as supposedly coming the closest to the portraying a real-life radiation catastrophe, such as the ongoing crisis at the Japanese nuclear plant. Host…
Matthew Balan
March 29th, 2011 2:50 PM

NY Times Reporter Gets Rewrite After Editor Trashes 'Cringe-Making' St

A New York Times reporter who came under fire from the paper’s executive editor for his “cringe-making” and “ham-handed” reporting on a young rape victim in Texas returned to the story for Tuesday's front page: “3-Month Nightmare Emerges in Rape Inquiry.” Keller criticized Houston Bureau Chief James McKinley’s March 9 story in his March 27 column for the Times Sunday magazine, giving it…
Clay Waters
March 29th, 2011 1:47 PM

There Is a Method to Obama's Libya Madness

President Obama's decision to bomb Libya is not even so multilateral as President George W. Bush's decision to attack Iraq. Nor is it ultimately driven by humanitarian concerns — and certainly not by any vital U.S. national interest. Despite Obama's vilification of Bush for his alleged unilateralism, "Obama's 'coalition of the willing,'" according to foreign policy reporter Josh Rogin, "is…
David Limbaugh
March 29th, 2011 11:38 AM

Yahoo! Finance's Daniel Gross: Roberts Court 'Hostile to Workers

Handicapping a case heading to oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court today, Yahoo! Finance's Daniel Gross insisted that "Wal-Mart has to like its chances" because "[t]he Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has generally been pro-business and hostile to the cause of workers." Gross, who is also a senior editor for Newsweek, cited the 2007 ruling -- erroneously writing that the…
Ken Shepherd
March 29th, 2011 10:38 AM

Obama Triangulates on Gun Control

Loyal readers will recall that I warned last year of the perfect storm approaching on gun control. Now, with the Tucson, Ariz., tragedy as a steppingstone and with eyes firmly focused on his re-election, President Barack Obama has opened a campaign to appease his base on the polarizing issue. Let me completely disclose my position: I am a strong Second Amendment advocate. I believe in…
Chuck Norris
March 29th, 2011 9:49 AM

Bill Maher Ups Ante on Vulgar Palin Attacks

After comedian Bill Maher referred to Sarah Palin as a derogatory term for a vagina a little over week a ago, NewsBusters asked, "Can the dreaded C-word be far behind?" According to the Dallas Voice, this happened on Sunday while Maher was "performing" at the Winspear Opera House (photo courtesy Reuters):
Noel Sheppard
March 29th, 2011 9:48 AM

Distorted Valerie Plame Flick Bombed at the Box Office

You might think that given the abysmal box office record of left-wing movies about the Iraq war that "Fair Game," a highly distorted version of the tired controversy surrounding former CIA non-agent Valerie Plame Wilson, would never have been made. Of course, since Hollywood is dominated by leftists, economic sanity did not prevail. Economic reality did prevail, though, as "Fair Game" ended…
Matthew Sheffield
March 29th, 2011 9:43 AM