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NY Times Editorial Page Demands Not Only Clemency for Edward Snowden
On Thursday, The New York Times clearly insisted on its own Person of the Year: it lauded "whistle-blower" Edward Snowden’s allegedly heroic mass-leaking against an allegedly criminal federal government, and demanded that Snowden not only receive clemency, but that “President Obama should tell his aides to begin finding a way to end Mr. Snowden’s vilification and give him an incentive to return…
MSNBC Tries to Scare Viewers over ‘Duck Dynasty’ Line of Guns
Ever since Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” gave an interview with GQ Magazine discussing his views on gay marriage, the folks at MSNBC have been on a tirade against the reality TV star with contributors to the “Lean Forward” network going so far as to say Robertson’s comments are “part of majority white supremacist culture.”
MSNBC’s latest attempt to vilify the “Duck Dynasty” family came…
MSNBC's Roberts Gets Promoted... to 'Morning Joe' Contributor Plus
MSNBC president Phil Griffin announced this morning that 11 a.m. anchor Thomas Roberts would be getting a new year's promotion... to the 5:30 a.m. Eastern program, Way Too Early, the lead-in to Morning Joe. Roberts will vacate his present MSNBC Live gig but also be awarded a regular contributor slot on the Morning Joe panel.
“This is a very exciting opportunity and right in line with my…
NBC's Todd Excuses Democratic Fearmongering: 'What Campaigns Aren't Ab
In a taped interview with former Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich aired on Friday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd scolded the GOP for supposedly not making "any progress" in reaching out to minorities and women since the 2012 election, citing the party's defeat in the 2013 Virginia governor's race: "You lost because the Democrats were able to essentially win social issues – used…
NYT's David Brooks: 'I Smoked Marijuana. It Was Fun
Can you imagine the slightly-right of center yet seemingly always stoic New York Times columnist David Brooks smoking pot?
No, I can't either, but found his piece in Friday's Times on this subject rather bold for a supposedly conservative pundit to come out of the weed closet in order to denounce its legalization:
NBC Skips Dire New Warning: ObamaCare Will 'Make Things Worse' in the
Of the three major networks, only NBC ignored a major new study with a dire warning about ObamaCare: The President's health care law will likely make things worse in emergency rooms, not better. CBS investigated the story on Thursday's Evening News and Friday's This Morning. ABC allowed a mere 20 seconds on Good Morning America, but still beat NBC's silence.
On Evening News, Sharyl…
MSNBC’s Mitchell Cheers On Planned Parenthood, Asks Them to Take Act
As we've documented the past few years, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is notorious for her softball interviews with abortion rights absolutists like Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood. Sadly it seems Ms. Mitchell hasn't made a new year's resolution to treat those occasions as opportunities for fair and balanced interviews rather than platforms for advancing their agenda.
On her January 2 Andrea…
NYT: De Blasio Inauguration Speakers Were 'Graceless and Smug
One would have expected the folks at the New York Times to be almost orgasmic witnessing leftist after leftist bash former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at the inauguration of Bill de Blasio whilst touting income equality as the best thing since sliced bread.
Quite surprisingly, such wasn't the case Friday when the Times editorial board accused some of the speakers of being "graceless and…
CNN Congratulates Illegal Immigrant on His Receiving Law License
An illegal immigrant can now practice law in California, and CNN marginalized the controversy on Friday's New Day by giving new lawyer Sergio Garcia a soft interview with little voice from his critics.
After reporting that the state's supreme court ruled in Garcia's favor, co-host John Berman congratulated Garcia and asked him to share "what this decision means to you, personally." CNN…
MRC's Brent Bozell Reviews Our Worst Media Quotes of 2013 on FNC's 'Ha
When he revealed to Fox News Channel viewers the winner of the Media Research Center's liberal media Quote of the Year, substitute host Eric Bolling couldn't "run the actual footage" of the description of the disgusting scatalogical treatment that former MSNBC Martin Bashir wished on Sarah Palin "because it's too obscene" for television, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell noted on the…
NPR Remembers Late GOP Major Donors As 'The Texans Who Made Attack Ads
We told you about how Harold Simmons, our chairman of the board of directors at MRC and a longtime major funder, was dissed in a New York Times obituary, remembered bitterly as he “backed Swift Boat ads” against John Kerry in 2004.
NPR was worse on Thursday night’s All Things Considered. Peter Overby, NPR’s “power, money, and influence correspondent,” filed a “news story”-slash-attack ad…
The Big Bang Theory: The Hesitation Ramification
The Big Bang Theory makes a surprisingly poignent comment on society.
Self-Important NYT Columnist Drops Middle Initial From Byline, Insists
Nicholas D. Kristof (I've tended to call him "Nick" through the years) has made and implemented a momentous, course of civilization-altering decision effective 1/1/2014 (HT Twitchy): "If you look closely at my Times byline ... I’ve knocked out my middle initial for the new year."
Why oh why would Nick want to do that? "I think in the Internet age, the middle initial conveys a formality that…
Cal Thomas Column: The War on Poverty Is 50 Years Old and Has Been a H
In his State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war on poverty." Today, with roughly the same number of people below the poverty level as in 1964 and with many addicted to government "benefits," robbing them of a work ethic, it is clear that the poor have mostly lost the war.
In 1964, the poverty rate was about 19 percent. Census data from 2010…