NPR Unloads: 'Very Controversial' Larry Elder Waved a Gun at a Woman?

August 26th, 2021 6:26 AM

NPR's public editor Kelly McBride confessed in 2020 that NPR was slow to address Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. But NPR wasn't slow at all to highlight an ex-fiancee's allegation that black conservative California gubernatorial candidate waved a gun at her while high on marijuana during a breakup in 2015. It dominated their segment on the California recall on…

Not News: Coal CEO Decries EPA's 'Power Grab of America's Power Grid'

July 25th, 2015 11:48 PM
In a speech at a Republican Lincoln Day dinner in West Virginia earlier this week, Murray Energy Corp. founder and CEO Robert Murray decried the Obama administration's determination to, as described at the financial news site SNL.com (to be clear, no relation to Saturday Night Live), "bypass the states and their utility commissions, the U.S. Congress and the Constitution in favor of putting the U…

AP Story on Obama Golf Trip Ignores Journos Hung Out at Shed (Updated)

March 30th, 2015 8:00 PM
UPDATE, March 31: This morning in an email, the AP's Lederman pointed me to a Saturday afternoon "Big Story" item time-stamped the day before the report to which this blog post below links. For whatever reason, that earlier "Big Story" item has more detail than what appears, despite the Sunday time stamp, to be Lederman's original report posted at the AP's national site. In that "Big Story" item…

WH-Banned West Coast Pool Reporter Gave Obama Invaluable Early 2008 As

April 29th, 2011 3:23 PM
Yesterday evening (late afternoon West Coast time), Phil Bronstein at the San Francisco Chronicle informed his readers that one of its reporters had been banned by the Obama administration: The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.   White House officials have banished one of the best…

Video of Obama's Bankrupting Coal Industry Remarks

November 3rd, 2008 10:21 AM
On Sunday, my colleague P. J. Gladnick helped break the story about Barack Obama discussing how his carbon cap and trade proposals would bankrupt coal-fired power plants.Hot Air's Ed Morrissey has found a video of that interview with the San Francisco Chronicle (embedded right).Sunday evening, the Chronicle's Carla Marinucci refuted claims that she and her paper did anything to hide this…

SF Chronicle Enthuses Over 'Hotshot' Mayor Newsom

August 28th, 2008 4:21 PM
What do you do when you are the mayor of San Francisco and your poorly timed push for gay marriages is blamed for your party's loss in a presidential election, you get yourself involved in a sleazy sex scandal where you get caught sleeping with the wife of your campaign manager, and a much criticized policy of declaring the municipality you represent a "sanctuary city" results in a multiple…

SF Chronicle Political Writer Enthuses Over Cosmetic JFK/Obama Paralle

July 13th, 2008 9:09 AM

SF Chron Paints McCain as Bad for Women

June 20th, 2008 4:21 PM
San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci dutifully dusted off the same liberal talking points we hear every four years about Republican nominees: the women in their own party hate them. In her front page article, Marinucci found no conservative Republican women to defend McCain or critique him from the right, but she found three Republican, including Obama backer Susan Eisenhower, and two…