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Credit Where It’s Due: Tapper Segment Slams Racist Smear of Haley

Curtis Houck
February 22nd, 2023 12:11 PM

The good Jake Tapper made an appearance Tuesday in the second hour of CNN’s The Lead as he did a segment with his panel calling out New York Times opinion writer and MSNBC guest Wajahat Ali for his racist and sexist smear Sunday of 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as “us[ing] her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points.” At one point, Tapper said it…

 

On NPR, Ramesh Ponnuru Goes Full David Brooks on Collusion, Spygate

Tim Graham
May 26th, 2019 6:47 AM
National Public Radio has rotated some other pundits to sit in the "conservative" chair of David Brooks on their Week in Politics review on Fridays, often leading to a better, stronger representation of the conservative viewpoint. Sadly, on Friday, Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review was very Brooks-ish, throwing scorn on the declassification of intelligence that might explain the Russian collusion…
 
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NYT’s Gay Incensed Trump Would ‘Graphically’ Mention Abortion in SOTU

Curtis Houck
February 6th, 2019 6:08 PM

MSNBC’s midnight edition of Hardball was a trainwreck following Tuesday’s State of the Union address by President Trump, so it was only natural for the fun (or whatever you want to call it) to continue into the final hour of coverage. For that, MSNBC turned things over to The Beat host Ari Melber, who oversaw plenty of nonsense on abortion, the President, and Stacey Abrams from guests Mara Gay…

 
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Primetime CNN, MSNBC Ignore VA Dems Supporting Late-Term Abortions

Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2019 1:25 AM
In contrast to the broadcast networks, CNN, and MSNBC ignoring radical pro-abortion comments by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D), a look at the Fox News Channel programs in that span (The Story, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, and Fox News @ Night) yielded 67 minutes and 23 seconds of coverage on not only Northam’s comments, unsuccessful attempts by Virginia Democrats to…
 
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Scarborough On Obama’s Foreign Policy: ‘Conservative With A Small C'

Jeffrey Meyer
September 25th, 2014 9:56 AM
Leave it to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough to eagerly defend President Obama following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. Appearing on Thursday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough insisted that on foreign policy Obama’s "been criticized from a lot of, you could say conservative circles, mainly neo-con circles for not doing enough and going into Syria a year or two ago. But he…
 

Liberal PBS Analyst Mark Shields Talks Trash: Boehner Lawsuit Is 'Bogu

Tim Graham
June 28th, 2014 11:12 PM
In the Friday PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff lamented the current impasse in Washington: "I don’t know what else to call it, war between congressional Republicans and the president." She sounded shocked that Speaker John Boehner filed suit to protest the president's constant end-runs around Congress and legislating from the White House on Obamacare, immigration, and other issues. Shields…
 

WaPo Editors Insert Error Into National Review Writer's Submission, Th

Tom Blumer
May 13th, 2014 9:58 AM
File this under "Epic Fails: Layers of Editors." National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru submitted a requested column to the Washington Post’s Outlook section. After several rounds of mutually agreed-upon edits, the geniuses at WaPo made a final change without consulting Ponnuru. That change inserted erroneous information into what had been an otherwise clean column. The Post then published two…
 

National Review Eviscerates Racist Smears of Conservatives by NY Times

Clay Waters
March 13th, 2013 4:44 PM
National Review magazine has published an excellent and comprehensive response to New York Times Book Editor Sam Tanenhaus's dishonest smear of conservative thought in a cover story for The New Republic. The article by National Review contributors Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg appears in the March 25 issue. After first explaining that for the left, "The explanation for conservatives’…
 

Ramesh Ponnuru Tells CNN's Roland Martin Don't 'Just Be a Political Ha

Noel Sheppard
August 4th, 2012 12:02 PM
Roland Martin and National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru had a heated debate Friday about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) unsubstantiated claims regarding Mitt Romney's taxes. Toward the end of the battle on CNN's OutFront, Ponnuru marvelously told his opponent, "You've got to call these things as you see them, not just be a political hack for your team" (video follows with transcript…
 

National Review's Ponnuru: Stephanopoulos Shares Blame for Ross's Fals

Noel Sheppard
July 22nd, 2012 5:55 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, ABC's Brian Ross on Friday falsely accused a Tea Party member of being the "James Holmes" that orchestrated the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado. On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru said Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos shares some of the blame for not challenging Ross about his "awfully thin"…
 

Newsweek's Adler Doubles Down on Complaint About GOP Pledge's Constitu

Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2010 12:27 PM
In their "Pledge to America," House Republicans have promised to "require each bill moving through Congress to include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority upon which the bill is justified." On September 22, Newsweek's Ben Adler denounced that simple pledge as "dangerous even as a mere suggestion," complaining that it intrudes on the constitutional prerogative of the courts to…
 

CNN’s Drew Griffin Warps Quote From National Review in Palin Intervi

Matthew Balan
October 22nd, 2008 1:22 PM
During an interview with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Drew Griffin ripped a phrase out of a recent article by National Review’s Byron York which criticized the media’s coverage of Palin and characterized it as an attack on the Alaska governor. Griffin pointed out how "[t]he press has been pretty hard on you. The Democrats have been pretty…
 

CNN’s Rick Sanchez Highlights ‘Defecting’ Conservatives Against

Matthew Balan
October 15th, 2008 8:05 PM
During Wednesday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tried to portray that there were many so-called conservatives who were "defecting," in his words, from John McCain over his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. His list of conservatives, which he read prior to an interview of National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru, included homosexual activist Andrew…