Matthews: Palin 'Talking About God,' is 'Troubling

After airing an interview clip of Sarah Palin telling Fox News' Greta Van Susteren that she was looking for guidance from God about running for national office again, an appalled Chris Matthews called it "troubling," when he let loose this rant on Tuesday's "Hardball":Is, is this commentary about theocracy and going to God for approval? We've been through that with President Bush who said he, "…
Geoffrey Dickens

Maddow: Conservative Governing's Odd, Like a Vegetarian Butcher

On Monday night’s edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, radical MSNBC/Air America talk show host Rachel Maddow rehashed the antiquated argument that since conservatives do not believe in the existence of government, they should not be allowed to run the government: "I like vegans, but it’s like letting a vegan be your butcher. If you have somebody that is really against the idea of…
Tim Graham

GM Bailout Only Way to Stave Off Great Depression II, Says Cramer

'Mad Money' host tells viewers letting a bad business fail, putting the labor elsewhere would never work.
Jeff Poor

Sex and Aggression: The Media Impact on Children

CMI Senior Writer Kristen Fyfe reports on two profoundly important studies that link childrens media consumption to teen pregnancy and hostile behavior.
Kristen Fyfe

ABC's Terry Moran Gushes Over 'Obama Cool on Display

"Nightline" co-host Terry Moran on Monday fawned over every detail of Barack Obama's White House meeting with President Bush and insisted that that since the President-elect arrived in Washington D.C. wearing sunglasses, this was an example of the "Obama cool on display." Moran, who has regularly gushed over every aspect of Obama's election and transition, narrated the Democrat's interactions…
Scott Whitlock

Sen. Sessions Slams 'Investment Banker' Paulson

Alabama Republican says fear, time pressure being used to push GM bailout; warns against advocating George Soros-type economic policy.
Jeff Poor

Anonymous Gossip, Newsworthy? One Standard for Palin, Another for Cour

Tim Graham

AP Poll Report Claims Confidence That Obama Will 'Fix' Economy; Actual

Now that Barack Obama has won the presidency, the poll cookers at the Associated Press have dutifully generated a barely-disguised press release for him.A report this afternoon on the results of an AP GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media Poll is headlined "Most in AP poll confident Obama will fix economy " at Yahoo!, Google (shorter report), and the wire service's home site (all are dynamic links…
Tom Blumer

ABC Hit Piece Again Mischaracterizes AIG Gathering

'Good Morning America' hidden camera caught executives 'living high on the hog' at a junket that wasn't.
Matt Philbin

Softball Spotlight: Lee Cowan, Still Infected

This is the debut video in an occasional series called "Softball Spotlight," which will showcase the softball questions that Barack Obama-loving reporters ask the future president. E-mail your tips to me: dglover-at-mediaresearch-dot-org. Or upload your own videos to Eyeblast.tv. NBC reporter Lee Cowan was quite infatuated with Democrat Barack Obama on the campaign trail.Cowan went so far as to…
Danny Glover

BaltSun: 'Bishop Denounces U.S. Abortion Rights

A lot of liberal media bias boils down to word choice and the loaded connotations they can bring in service of a liberal slant. The headline for a November 11 Baltimore Sun story about the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was no different."Bishop denounces U.S. abortion rights" read the loaded headline, which evokes in readers the sense of a stern cleric inveighing against a "woman's right to…
Ken Shepherd

CBS Poll: 71% of Americans ‘Optimistic’ After Obama Win

At the top of Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen declared: "Breaking news. A new CBS poll out this morning shows the change in mood in America after Barack Obama's election." Co-host Maggie Rodriguez later touted the poll results: "A changing of the guard in Washington is changing American attitudes. A CBS News poll out this morning shows that most Americans have good feelings about…
Kyle Drennen

Ed Schultz Says More Than Intended About Unions' Hold on Democrats

Jack Coleman

CBS ‘Early Show’ Promotes Obama’s Foreign Policy

On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez discussed Barack Obama’s foreign policy goals with foreign correspondent Lara Logan and asked about Logan’s July interview with the president-elect: "...he said many times during the campaign, that Afghanistan, and not Iraq, needs to be our central focus in this war on terrorism. And this morning in the Washington Post we're seeing that's he's…
Kyle Drennen