PBS’s Woodruff Lectures Gates, Asks Him If He’s Worried About Hurt

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been facing criticism and scorn from some media members for having the audacity to mildly criticize President Obama and some administration officials while Obama is still in office. On Tuesday, Gates appeared on the PBS NewsHour to face another round of questioning about his newly released memoir. Midway through the interview, anchor Judy Woodruff…
Paul Bremmer

Network Coverage of 'Scathing' Benghazi Report Doesn't Mention Obama's

While NBC, ABC, and CBS all covered the new Senate Intelligence Committee report blaming the Obama administration for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, none of the coverage on Wednesday's evening newscasts or Thursday's morning shows mentioned President Obama by name. At the top of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams announced: "...a scathing…
Kyle Drennen

Disgusting: Katty Kay Blames 'Fallible' Ambassador Stevens For Own Dea

In a disgusting display of just how far the liberal media will go to preserve Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects, Katty Kay has blamed Ambassador Chris Stevens for his own death, while letting Hillary off the hook. On today's Morning Joe, the BBC's Kay called the newly-released Senate report on the Benghazi attack "sad" because it showed that Stevens was "fallible." Kay claimed that "…
Mark Finkelstein

Arianna and Mika Teach You 'Wonder and Compassion' for

Ryan Faughnder of The Los Angeles Times cracked: “Want to have lunch with Arianna Huffington and learn why success should mean more than money and power? It'll only cost a thousand dollars.” Huffington and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski are headlining a motivational speaking tour called “Third Metric Live.” Tickets start at $300 for the events that will take place in New York City, Washington, D.C…
Tim Graham

Scott Walker's Jury Duty Is National News at AP; Judge's Rejection of

A search at the national web site of the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, on the name of Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker (not in quotes) returns only two recent relevant items. One relates to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, where Walker is described as saying, in AP's words, "that (last week) he didn't know enough about the situation to comment ... (and) has…
Tom Blumer

Ann Coulter Challenges Ed Schultz: 'Invite Me on Your Show, You Lying

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Coulter elaborates! Conservative author Ann Coulter threw down quite the gauntlet Wednesday. After MSNBC's Ed Schultz said on his show, "Republicans, they’re afraid of me. They don’t want to talk to me," Coulter responded via Twitter, "Invite me on your show, you lying p--sy" (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard

Column: Hey, MSNBC, Chris Christie Is More Believable Than Tawana Braw

I agree with MSNBC. I find it hard to believe that Gov. Chris Christie knew nothing about his staff's plotting a massive traffic jam on the ramp to the George Washington Bridge for political retribution. On the other hand, I also find it hard to believe that Obama didn't know his own IRS was auditing his political enemies. And I find it hard to believe that Obama didn't know you wouldn't be…
Ann Coulter

New York Times Story from Texas Repeatedly Drops the F-Bomb: 'Fetus

The New York Times spent months debating before deciding not to ban the term “illegal immigrant” entirely (it’s simply discouraged), but the word “fetus” is used without any alarm. At the top of page A-14 on Wednesday is the headline “Suing to End Life Support for Woman and Fetus.” It’s an update on the sad story of Marlise Munoz, who is on life support and whose family wants her and her…
Tim Graham

HBO Renews 'Real Time With Bill Maher' For 13th Season

It appears that no matter what disgusting things Bill Maher says about conservatives - especially conservative women! - HBO is going to continue to reward him. On Wednesday, the cable network announced that it was renewing Real Time with Bill Maher for a 13th season (press release via TV By The Numbers):
Noel Sheppard

Daily Beast: Cheat Your Way to True Love

You have to wonder if every time their sophisticated post-modern sex lives don’t live up to the “if it feels good, do it” ideal or they can't overcome that whole icky morality thing, The Daily Beast’s authors are driven to rationalize it in prose. It is, after all the website that brought you “If Sexting is so Wrong, Why Does It Feel So Good?” And now comes the latest bizarre ethical self-…
Katie Yoder

It's the End of the World as ABC Knows It, Spinning Another Story as

 Spinning liberal-friendly stories as the end of the world is a popular thing at ABC. Good Morning America's Jim Avila on Wednesday hyped the scandal involving Chris Christie as "traffic armageddon," a hyperbolic term the network loves. On Saturday, Avila mentioned the "four-day traffic armageddon." [See video of both below. MP3 audio here.] As the sequester set in on April 22, 2013, co-…
Scott Whitlock

Bill Maher Compares Disgraced Christie Aide to...Pope-Emeritus Benedic

Comedian Bill Maher compared Bridget Kelly, the former Christie aide connected to "Bridge-gate," to the Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI on Tuesday's Hardball. Both persons carried out the shady business ordered by a higher authority, Maher explained: "Remember when Benedict was the 'god's rottweiler' or the 'pope's rottweiler' they called him before he got the pope job? Well, she [Kelly] is blob's…
Matt Hadro

NBC's Brokaw Scolds Media Fixation on Christie: Country's Saying, 'You

Appearing on Wednesday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw warned his media colleagues about their excessive coverage of the Chris Christie bridge controversy: "I do think, across the country, however, when they're looking at long-term unemployment, and they're looking at the uncertainty of the ObamaCare, they're saying, 'You've got to move on, guys.'" [Listen to the…
Kyle Drennen

MSNBC's Hayes Dismisses Value of Marriage in Helping Women Escape Pove

On the Monday, January 13, All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, host Hayes laughed off the view that encouraging marriage can help some women out of poverty as he spoke to a guest, Shenita Simon-Toussaint, who argued that she has found that being married is more expensive. Hayes posed:
Brad Wilmouth