CNN Touts Hillary Clinton's Twitter Account; Barely Reports Accusation

[UPDATED BELOW] For hours on Monday and Tuesday, CNN hyped a positive Hillary Clinton story while ignoring a negative Clinton story. While both stories broke on Monday morning, CNN only touted one of them on Monday: Clinton joining Twitter. And the network spent almost 10 minutes discussing it on Tuesday morning. In contrast, it took until 11 a.m. on Tuesday for CNN to even mention serious…
Matt Hadro
June 11th, 2013 3:43 PM

PBS NewsHour Plans First Layoffs in Two Decades as Revenues Decline

After being able to avoid ups and downs in the economy, the PBS NewsHour nightly newscast is laying off employees for the first time in nearly 20 years. According to the New York Times, the show's production company will close its two offices outside of the Washington, DC area. The show is facing a significant budgetary shortfall of almost one-fourth of its $28 million annual budget:
Matthew Sheffield
June 11th, 2013 3:22 PM

FNC's Goldberg: 'I Don't Understand' Why Obama 'Doesn't Like the Press

Appearing on Monday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC contributor Bernie Goldberg commented on the dominant news media ignoring or downplaying congressional hearings on the Obama administration IRS scandal, and wondered why President Obama is so critical of the media as he asserted that the President's approval rating would be 20 points lower if the media covered Obama scandals "honestly." Goldberg:
Brad Wilmouth
June 11th, 2013 2:40 PM

Tebow Joins ‘Bluest of Blue State’ Patriots

And Rabbi Joshua Hammerman thought he had a “Tebow Problem” before. Back in 2011, the columnist at The Jewish Week fretted that the Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos might beat his “beloved” New England Patriots in the upcoming AFC championship game. But his wasn’t a fan’s normal pre-game nervousness. It was the hand-wringing of a liberal bigot. Hammerman imagined that the rubes in fly-over…
Matt Philbin
June 11th, 2013 2:18 PM

Tebow Goes to ‘Bluest of Blue State’ Patriots

QB’s anti-Christian attackers will no doubt follow.
Matt Philbin
June 11th, 2013 2:04 PM

WashPost Runs Front Page Story On Jury Selection In George Zimmerman M

Everyone remembers the extensive front-page coverage The Washington Post devoted to the jury selection and subsequent murder trial of infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell right? Oh wait, that never happened, but another “local crime story” that occurred well outside the Post's home delivery area seems to be getting much better coverage than the Gosnell trial. The Tuesday June 11 edition of The…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 11th, 2013 1:24 PM

CNN's Cooper Interviews Transgendered Ex-SEAL ‘Warrior Princess

Openly gay CNN anchor Anderson Cooper devoted a full quarter of his Thursday, June 6 program to the story of a transgender ex-Navy SEAL who laments that he could not serve in the military now as a man who identifies as a woman. [Listen to the audio here] Cooper chronicled the adult life of Christopher Beck, who now goes by Kristin, who first enlisted in the Navy in 1990 and would eventually…
Nathan Roush
June 11th, 2013 12:55 PM

Malkin Column: Anthony Weiner's Underage Girl Problem

Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner's best efforts at political rehabilitation, there's just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with underage girls. Chris Owens, the Dems' state committee member in northwest Brooklyn, called out the skeezy…
Michelle Malkin
June 11th, 2013 12:45 PM

David Limbaugh Column: You'd Better Believe This Is Obama's America

Isn't it ironic that President Obama, having acquired the highest office in the land by agitating — all his political life — against privilege and discrimination, is now systematically wielding his executive power lawlessly to favor his friends and punish his enemies? We are witnessing an unmistakable pattern from Obama and those under his command of establishing different rules for different…
David Limbaugh
June 11th, 2013 12:24 PM

Andrew Breitbart Documentary Poised to Set Record Thanks to Liberal Cr

Hating Breitbart, a documentary filmed during the last several years of the late Andrew Breitbart’s life, is about one man’s struggle against the left-dominated media. How perfect that the film about the man is about to set a record in and of itself thanks to liberal media bias? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hating Breitbart will soon set a record on the movie ratings site Rotten…
Matthew Sheffield
June 11th, 2013 12:16 PM

George Stephanopoulos Spouts Obama's IRS Talking Points to John Boehne

  Acting as though he were Barack Obama's lawyer, George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday's Good Morning America repeatedly pressed John Boehner as to why he doesn't believe the President's explanation about the IRS scandal. After the Speaker of the House marveled, "How can your chief of staff, your general counsel know and you not know," the GMA co-host lectured, "That's a pretty serious charge…
Scott Whitlock
June 11th, 2013 11:55 AM

WashPost Devotes 26-Paragraph Front Page Puff Piece to Hillary Clinton

Another day, another Hillary Clinton for president story by the Washington Post. On Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially joined Twitter. Today, the Post devoted a 26-paragraph puff piece to this development and on the front page no less. Staff writer Philip Rucker all but begged Hillary to run for president in his story headlined “One-tweet wonder draws followers, and…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 11th, 2013 10:40 AM

HBO Executive Said to Be Top Candidate for Ambassador Post

He's not involved in the content production side but it's still worth noting that there is quite a bit of discussion about how HBO executive James Costos has been angling for an appointment to be President Obama's ambassador to Spain. According to the Associated Press, Costos and his boyfriend were some of the most successful "bundlers" for Obama, people who combine their donations with…
Matthew Sheffield
June 11th, 2013 9:58 AM

Dan Savage: Vatican Doesn’t Cover Birth Control 'Because Altar Boys

Dan Savage really is a disgusting human being. On Comedy Central’s Colbert Report Monday, the anti-bullying advocate said that Vatican City’s healthcare plan doesn’t include birth control “because altar boys can’t get pregnant” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 11th, 2013 9:55 AM