Al Gore Tells Time Magazine Global Warming Skeptics Just As Dim As Bir

Former vice president Al Gore is as eager as your average liberal on the street in wanting to explore resistance to the persuasiveness of global warming theories. The first problem? If conservatives are so thick in the head, why does the rest of the public need pictures, not just mere words? In a supportive interview with Bryan Walsh in Time magazine, Gore explained "Years ago I shifted from…
Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2011 10:49 PM

Suddenly, Cenk Wants People To Chant 'USA, USA

What does it take to make a lefty MSMer go all Chuck Norris?  A war-on-terrorism success during a Dem presidency, of course. On his MSNBC show tonight, Cenk Uygur, of all people, regretted that more Americans aren't chanting "USA, USA!" View video after the break.
Mark Finkelstein
May 2nd, 2011 9:26 PM

Mainstream Media Try to Pour Cold Water on John Paul II Beatification

Several media outlets on Sunday did their best to cast doubt on the legacy of Pope John Paul II as the Catholic Church beatified the late pontiff. NPR highlighted how the pope apparently "alienated many Catholics who began leaving the church in droves." CNN brought on a liberal theologian who claimed that John Paul II "led us backwards rather than forward." NBC played up the "avalanche of…
Matthew Balan
May 2nd, 2011 7:04 PM

On Osama's Death Day, Chris Matthews Waits Just 43 Seconds to Launch I

Chris Matthews' obsession with birthers didn't take a break on the day after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Only 43 seconds into Monday's show on the terrorist, the Hardball anchor connected, "Barack Obama. The cool hand directs the operation step by step. All this time, the crazies were talking birth certificates, he was working." Politicizing the death of the man who murdered 3000 people…
Scott Whitlock
May 2nd, 2011 6:13 PM

Joe Klein: President Bush 'Deserves Both Credit and Blame' for bin Lad

In his May 2 Swampland blog post "Osama Gone, and Now...", Time's Joe Klein makes some arguably contradictory assertions in his thoughts on the role former President Bush played in ultimately finding and killing Osama bin Laden:
Ken Shepherd
May 2nd, 2011 4:50 PM

AP: Secret Prisons and Harsh Interrogation Techniques Worked; Will TV

Update (17:38 EDT on May 4): Rush Limbaugh mentioned this post on his May 3 program. You can listen to that by clicking here. Well, this should be interesting. The AP is reporting (preserved here in case the report devolves, as such things very often do) that "secret prisons" and "harsh interrogation techniques" were involved in getting the "first strands of information" that ultimately led…
Tom Blumer
May 2nd, 2011 4:43 PM

CNN In 2002: 'Al Qaeda Leader Is Dead or Alive

CNN is finally vindicated, sort of. Nearly nine years ago, the network emphatically declared of Osama bin Laden: "Experts Agree: Al Qaeda Leader Is Dead or Alive." Which would pretty much cover all of the available possibilities. Now we know -- he was alive back then, and he's dead today. Here's the item from the September 4, 2002 CyberAlert (as written at the time by MRC's Brent Baker)…
Rich Noyes
May 2nd, 2011 4:35 PM

NYT's John Broder Provides Obama Political Cover Over High Gas Prices

New York Times environmental reporter John Broder, who writes like a firm believer in human-induced global warming, provided a little political cover for Obama in his front-page story Saturday on rising gas prices, "Gas Cost Spurs Fight Over End Of a Tax Break." The problem is more than perception. As Julia Seymour of the Business and Media Institute reported, on April 25 the average price…
Clay Waters
May 2nd, 2011 4:33 PM

Richard Clarke on ABC: bin Laden Killing 'Doesn't Mean Much' for U.S

The day after terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. military action, Good Morning America brought on consultant Richard Clarke to downplay the death as a "propaganda victory" that will "make us feel good," but won't "mean much" for U.S. security." GMA co-anchor George Stephanopoulos on Monday interviewed Clarke, who worked for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. After…
Scott Whitlock
May 2nd, 2011 3:40 PM

Your Tax Dollars at CPB: Pacifica Radio Airs Radical Saying 'bin-Laden

Taxpayer-funded Pacifica Radio receives around $1.5 million a year in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It has a nasty habit of being especially radical on conventionally patriotic occasions. On Memorial Day 2010, Pacifica brought on radical Noam Chomsky to denounce "the great killer and torturer" and "grand criminal" Ronald Reagan. The morning after Independence Day in 2010…
Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2011 2:40 PM

NY Times Critic Dargis Laments Lack of Women in Summer Movies and "the

New York Times movie critics Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott spray the new crop of summer flicks with a dose of liberal guilt in Sunday’s “Gosh, Sweetie, That’s a Big Gun.” Dargis in particular just can’t be pleased with how women are portrayed by Hollywood. Three years ago she greeted the summer season with "Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex?”  On Sunday she lamented that the women on…
Clay Waters
May 2nd, 2011 2:15 PM

NBC's Gregory Frets Over 'Purist' Tea Party, Urges Sen. Rubio to 'Comp

In an interview with Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, host David Gregory worried: "There's a purist streak to the Tea Party, right? Don't compromise....As you think about yourself, are you here to legislate? Are you here to compromise?" Rubio countered: "...we are dealing with major issues in our country, big issues that deserve big solutions....if we…
Kyle Drennen
May 2nd, 2011 2:12 PM

NYT's Zernike Finds Political Conspiracy Theories Driven by Conservati

New York Times Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike made the front of the Sunday Week in Review with “Conspiracies Are Us – The endless debate over Obama’s birth certificate and the paranoid style in American politics.” While mentioning in passing the left-wing conspiracy theory that 9-11 was plotted by the Bush administration, Zernike used her selected sources to point toward historical…
Clay Waters
May 2nd, 2011 12:47 PM

Joy Behar and Barbara Walters Politicize bin Laden Death: Just Cancel

View co-hosts Joy Behar and Barbara Walters on Monday immediately politicized the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. After giving credit to Barack Obama for the successful strike, supposedly straight journalist Walters giddily announced, "I would hate now to be a Republican candidate thinking of running." Liberal comedienne Joy Behar played off a months-old comment by token…
Scott Whitlock
May 2nd, 2011 12:34 PM