On Miss USA Pageant, Miss Louisiana Gets Bowe Bergdahl Hardball -- And

June 9th, 2014 7:51 AM
Often, the climactic question-and-answer round of beauty pageants is a recipe for loaded questions (take Perez Hilton) or uneducated answers. On Sunday night’s Miss USA broadcast, The Right Scoop points out that Miss Louisiana, Brittany Guidry, was put on the spot about the Obama administration’s swap of Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban terrorists. Like a politician, Guidry said she was glad…

Freed Taliban 'Pretty Old Guy' Says He'll Fight Again the Day After LA

June 7th, 2014 10:00 AM
Los Angeles Times reporter Shashank Bengali clearly put a great deal of energy and time into trying to persuade readers on Thursday that the five Gitmo terrorists released in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl "may not live up to (that) description." It only took a day for Bengali's work to be discredited. The person he seemed to believe would be among the least likely to become a threat — after all…

NBC's Williams Skips V.A. Scandal in Obama Interview; Omits Reid's Cla

June 6th, 2014 11:32 PM
Brian Williams glossed over the V.A. scandal during his interview of President Obama on Friday's NBC Nightly News. Williams did devote time to the ongoing controversy surrounding the release of senior Taliban leaders in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl – specifically the White House failing to inform Congress 30 days before the Islamists were let go from Guantanamo Bay, as required by federal law…

'Today' Hosts Imagine Bill Clinton Playing Kenny G as Hillary and Obam

June 6th, 2014 4:42 PM
At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour on Friday's NBC Today, co-hosts Al Roker, Tamron Hall, and Natalie Morales came up with an odd imaging of a 2008 meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama following the bruising Democratic primary. Roker joked: "Well, during that date, they did play Kenny G. That really helped." Hall added: "No, no, they played Kenny G. Bill Clinton came in with the sax…

NBC Hails Hillary Clinton Book as 'Opening Argument for Her Next Presi

June 6th, 2014 3:45 PM
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie gushed over the network getting an advanced copy of Hillary Clinton's new book: "Well, here it is. It's the memoir that a lot of people are talking about, waiting to read, Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton. We happened to find this copy actually at a bookstore in Los Angeles just days ahead of the official release." [Listen to the audio or watch the…

Friday Funny: NBC's Fallon Pokes Fun at Obama Dumbbell Workout

June 6th, 2014 12:34 PM
It was a tale of two slow-jam-the-news partners last night on NBC. Nightly News host Brian Williams offered some very serious reporting on the video circulating of President Obama pumping iron. On the other hand,Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon offered a more humorous take on the video. Williams simply couldn’t fathom the privacy breach of such a video as the president’s work out regime is now…

Giving Obama a Helping Hand: Only Two Minutes of VA Scandal Coverage T

June 6th, 2014 11:24 AM
While this week’s coverage of the Obama administration’s exchange of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban officials has been generally critical, the broadcast networks have helped Team Obama out on another front — since Monday, coverage of the Veterans Affairs waiting list scandal has been virtually nonexistent. Despite the continuously unfolding developments on the scandal, the…

O'Reilly on NBC: Obama Has 'Blind Spot' on Trading Taliban 'Monsters

June 6th, 2014 10:47 AM
In an interview with the Fox News host on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if "President Bill O'Reilly" would have made the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange with the Taliban. O'Reilly replied: "I would not make the deal....These are not prisoners of war, these Taliban guys, they're war criminals. We ran down last night the atrocities that the Taliban has committed over the past…

NBC: Testifying on Benghazi 'The Most Important Thing' to Hillary Clin

June 5th, 2014 12:04 PM
During a fawning segment on Thursday's NBC Today promoting Hillary Clinton's People magazine interview, co-host Savannah Guthrie parroted the former Secretary of State's spin on the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya: "On Benghazi, Clinton said the chance to testify was the most important thing to her, despite a fall and concussion that's brought some Republican hard knocks on her health." [Listen…

Networks Blame Wildfires, Droughts on Climate Change, Despite Fact The

June 5th, 2014 11:46 AM
Hot-headed climate alarmists continue to make wilder and wilder claims about the effects of global warming, but they often desert the actual evidence. On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new plan to restrict carbon emissions in an attempt to combat climate change. This move came less than a month after the White House released a high-profile report fear-mongering over…

NBC Hypes 'Often-Scrutinized' Hillary's 'Uncharacteristically Revealin

June 4th, 2014 9:36 PM
Ann Curry trumpeted that Hillary Clinton supposedly gave a "uncharacteristically revealing interview" to People magazine on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News. Kelly O'Donnell filed a gushing report about how Mrs. Clinton apparently "has plenty to say," and spotlighted the former secretary of state's new book. O'Donnell later zeroed-in on the upcoming arrival of Clinton's grandchild and asserted…

NBC, CBS Skip Latest Developments in VA Scandal as It Explodes to New

June 4th, 2014 12:00 PM
The Veterans Affairs scandal engulfing the Obama administration has spread into Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, but only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday found time to cover the latest developments. GMA news reader Amy Robach revealed, "We're learning those secret waiting lists were also kept at ten facilities in these four Midwestern western states with nearly 100 veterans…

NBC's Chuck Todd: White House Didn't Expect Critics to 'Swift Boat' Be

June 4th, 2014 11:48 AM
Acting as a stenographer on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd parroted the Obama administration's new attack against critics of the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange: "They did not expect this backlash on Bergdahl himself. I've had a few aides describe it to me as, 'We didn't know that they were going to swift boat Bergdahl'....a reference to that political fight…

Dennis Miller Tells Seth Meyers ‘America is Built on Busting Your A

June 4th, 2014 11:11 AM
Dennis Miller has a response for those liberals who think this country is full of people who can't better their lives with new jobs: America "is built on busting your a**." Late Night host Seth Meyers on Tuesday night hosted his fellow Saturday Night Live alum. The radio host and comic was promoting his new stand up act, “America 180.” Meyers asked Dennis Miller to explain a little bit about…