Vieira to Axelrod on Tax Cut Deal: 'Why Shouldn't Americans Look At Th

NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Wednesday's Today show, hit David Axelrod repeatedly from the left as she lectured the White House senior adviser that the left is "furious" at Barack Obama for making a deal with the GOP on tax cuts as she pressed: "Why shouldn't Americans look at this as a disaster in the making?" During a segment headlined: "Tax Cut Compromise: Did President Go Too Far In…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 8th, 2010 11:40 AM

Maureen Dowd: The Caribou Palin Shot on TLC is Obama

Watching liberal media members agonize over the former governor shooting and eating a caribou on Sunday's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" is becoming a spectator sport. Consider New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who is so angered by this hunting display she's actually seeing it as a political allegory with Palin's felled prey being the current White House resident:
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2010 11:14 AM

Small-Biz Killers: Who Pays for Jobless Benefits

There is no such thing as a "free" government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits. While politicians in Washington negotiate a deal to provide welcome temporary payroll, income and estate tax relief to America's workers, struggling employers wonder how long they'll have to pay for the compassion of others — and whether they can…
Michelle Malkin
December 8th, 2010 11:00 AM

Elites Should Blame Selves, Not Obama, for Believing His Messianic Pre

Have you noticed among the Obama-supporting elite a desperate agony upon realizing that he is not quite the messiah he made himself out to be and as which they willingly embraced him? Many leftists are disgusted with Obama for supposedly betraying the cause on a number of issues, which tells us how irredeemably liberal they are. But their sense of betrayal runs deeper than ideology.
David Limbaugh
December 8th, 2010 10:36 AM

Networks Offer Scant Coverage of Liberal DREAM Act, Frothed Over Arizo

For much of the spring and summer, the big broadcast networks threw staff and airtime at covering Arizona's attempt to control its borders against rampant illegal immigration. Liberals detested Arizona's "harsh" new law, so the media elite reflexively treated it as a scandal in their coverage.   But now, Congress is debating a liberal immigration plan, the so-called "DREAM Act," that would…
Scott Whitlock
December 8th, 2010 10:18 AM

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Compares Palin to Michael Vick: She Makes Sn

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of "West Wing" and "Social Network" fame thinks Sarah Palin killing and eating a caribou in her TLC show is akin to Michael Vick promoting dog fights. In a piece published Wednesday at Huffington Post, Sorkin also wrote of the former Alaska governor, "I don't watch snuff films and you make them":
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2010 9:52 AM

Open Thread: House GOP Leaders Back Bachus, Rogers, Upton for Key Chai

Conservatives are up in arms this morning over reports that the House Republican Steering Committee have backd three moderate Congressmen for key chairmanships. In doing so, as the Daily Caller reported Wednesday, GOP leaders have bucked a number of key conservative groups who had cried foul over the three congressmen's spotty records on big issues. The Republican Steering Committee backed…
NB Staff
December 8th, 2010 9:48 AM

Rates Unchanged, Yet CBS Insists ‘Battle Over Tax Cuts’ Means ‘C

Matching the distortion documented in a MRC study posted Tuesday, though under the Obama-congressional GOP compromise income tax rates will remain unchanged for all, fill-in CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor introduced a story by characterizing a “battle over tax cuts” and how at a White House news conference President Obama “said agreeing to cuts for high-income earners was the only way to get…
Brent Baker
December 8th, 2010 8:56 AM

Rachel Maddow: 'I'm Not Here to Cheerlead for Anybody'. She's a Drum M

News organization or theater of the absurd? You decide. During an interview with her MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz on his radio show Nov. 30, broadcast from MSNBC studios in New York, Rachel Maddow said this about liberals in media (video follows after page break) --
Jack Coleman
December 8th, 2010 7:10 AM

Ed Schultz Hails Menendez Comparison of GOP to Terrorists, Says They'v

Just as Ed Schultz declared that Rep. Alan Grayson was a model for Democratic success with a TV ad calling his GOP opponent "Taliban Dan" ("This is how you fight, Democrats") before Grayson was badly defeated for re-election, on Monday night's Ed Show on MSNBC, he hailed Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey for picking up the GOP-as-terrorists line:  Senator Bob Menendez hammered the Republicans…
Tim Graham
December 8th, 2010 7:05 AM

KISS’s Gene Simmons: ‘I’m Very Conservative,’ Regrets Voting f

 Appearing as a guest on CNN’s Parker-Spitzer, rocker Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS and the TV show Family Jewels related to viewers that he is "very conservative" on fiscal and foreign policy issues, voiced his support for President Bush and the war on terrorism - including "nation building" in Iraq - and declared that he wishes he could take back his vote for President Obama from the…
Brad Wilmouth
December 8th, 2010 5:13 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell Exposes Liberal Ignorance of Tax Code

Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday surprisingly exposed how ignorant liberals are of the tax code. In a sometimes heated discussion with prominent progressives about President Obama's new compromise tax plan, "The Last Word" host aggressively challenged the knowledge of two of his guests (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2010 1:08 AM

Obama Again Says Social Security Originally for Widows and Orphans Onl

You would think after the last time President Obama incorrectly said Social Security when it was originally created was exclusively for widows and orphans, someone in his administration would have corrected him so he wouldn't do it again. Yet there he was at Tuesday's press conference making the same completely false assertion on national television (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
December 7th, 2010 11:04 PM

Bozell Column: Assange's Media Allies

On December 7, the notorious radical mastermind of “WikiLeaks,” turned himself in on a sexual assault charge in London. But in the liberal media, the condemnations are few. There are no real enemies to the media elite’s left, especially if they can be (very loosely) identified with journalism. Julian Assange may be highly motivated to cripple American “imperialism,” but his relentless efforts…
Brent Bozell
December 7th, 2010 10:52 PM