MSNBC Says It Scrapped Ed Show 'Get Out the Vote' Anti-Walker Ad

On Thursday, NB's Mark Finkelstein reported that MSNBC was airing an ad for The Ed Show and its obsession with recalling Gov. Scott Walker that said “Get Out The Vote!” Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple picked up the story and lamented that MSNBC would be so baldly partisan, except – MSNBC told him it was being scrubbed. "No need to lecture too much here, because MSNBC told me…
Tim Graham
June 1st, 2012 5:03 PM

Martin Bashir Blames Bad Jobs Report on Boehner, Calls Him a Coward

MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Friday blamed today's abysmal jobs report on Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Oh.) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). Bashir also called the Speaker "a coward" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 1st, 2012 5:02 PM

NBC's Lauer to Bloomberg: Soda Ban 'Sounds Ridiculous' As NYC Celebrat

In a challenging interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer questioned whether a plan to ban large sodas in the city was hypocritical: "You announced this on a Thursday. Today is Friday and it's....National Donut Day – and your administration has come out in support of National Donut Day....It sounds ridiculous." [Listen to the audio or watch…
Kyle Drennen
June 1st, 2012 4:43 PM

Tyrrell Column: While George Will Was Calling Donald a 'Bloviating Ign

Did I waste my time last Sunday? In the morning, I was reading "The New York Times," acquainting myself with precisely how the rich and famous live. The editors of the Times chose this story for its front page, so I figured they thought it important. It involved the Romney family and someone called Jan Ebeling. It turns out I could have spent my time otherwise. On Sunday morning, the…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
June 1st, 2012 4:35 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Wisconsin Recall Is a Test Case for Democratic

The gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin next week is important as an imperfect test case to indicate how Democratic propaganda will work against facts this election year. Liberals are usually the ones who arrogantly throw around the charge that Republicans and conservatives are fact- and science-challenged and averse to reality. But their claim itself is based on nothing but their…
David Limbaugh
June 1st, 2012 3:56 PM

Editor Richard Stevenson Flops Defending New York Times's Fairness

A Thursday Politico story by Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen struck a nerve among liberal journalists by daring to suggest conservatives have a point when it comes to charges of media bias, singling out slanted coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post: On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money…
Clay Waters
June 1st, 2012 3:03 PM

CNN Anchor Ashleigh Banfield Quickly Pressed Into Apology for Saying G

CNN doesn’t understand why the Catholic Church would pick on nuns that take vows to serve it would be expected to toe the church line on certain beliefs. They insist that nuns should be more liberated women than that. Such women's lib does not apply to CNN anchors, who are subjected to mental “crackdowns” of their own from the gay speech police. On her CNN program Early Start on Thursday,…
Tim Graham
June 1st, 2012 2:46 PM

Addicted to Tobacco Stories: A One-Sided Portrayal of a Risky Product

Addicted to Tobacco Stories: A One-Sided Portrayal of a Risky Product
Timothy Lamer
June 1st, 2012 1:34 PM

Businessmen Behaving Badly: Prime Time's World of Commerce

Businessmen Behaving Badly: Prime Time's World of Commerce
Timothy Lamer and Alice Lynn O'Steen
June 1st, 2012 1:19 PM

CBS, NBC Ignore House Vote on Banning Sex-Selection Abortions; ABC Bur

Yesterday at 2:14 p.m. EDT, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the Prenatal Non-discrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2012, which would impose "criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly or knowingly attempts to... perform an abortion knowing that the abortion is sought based on the sex, gender, color or race of the child, or the race of a parent," according to congressional watchdog site…
Ken Shepherd
June 1st, 2012 1:10 PM

ABC Botches Jobs Report: Touts Incorrect, Obama-Favorable Unemployment

Good Morning America's Josh Elliott on Friday reported incorrect jobs numbers, touting stats more favorable to Barack Obama and less reflective of the dismal facts. In the 8am hour, news reader Elliott insisted that "new figures show" an unemployment rate "sitting" at 8.1 percent for May with 158,000 new jobs created. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] In fact, unemployment rose to 8.2 percent…
Scott Whitlock
June 1st, 2012 12:50 PM

The Forgotten Five

Important Economic Facts Missing in the News
Timothy Lamer
June 1st, 2012 12:49 PM

Bias in Even the Smallest Things

Sometimes it's the little things that reveal the persistent liberal Democratic bias in the elite media. Writing in the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord notes that the recent media kerfuffle over the fact that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, enjoys riding horses is actually demonstrative of how journalists seemingly cannot help themselves. You see, the media were not always so averse to presidential…
Matthew Sheffield
June 1st, 2012 12:41 PM

Facts Frozen Out: Network News and Global Warming

Network News and Global Warming
Timothy Lamer
June 1st, 2012 12:37 PM