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CNN's Cuomo Disputes the 'Urgency' to Defund Planned Parenthood 'Before You Investigate'

By Brad Wilmouth | September 29, 2015, 12:07 PM EDT

On Monday's New Day on CNN, anchor Chris Cuomo complained about Republicans wanting to defund Planned Parenthood as he questioned the "urgency" of doing so "before you investigate the allegations," leading guest and former House M ...

Chuck Todd: Both Parties Have ‘Nuclear Bombs’ That Could Bring Gridlock

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

On Sunday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd continued to push the line that Washington is broken and despite the GOP now controlling both houses of Congress, gridlock will likely continue.  Speaking to his political panel, Todd argued that both the Rep ...

Daily Beast's Avlon Slams Tea Party on CNN; Praises GOP Establishment as 'Sanity Caucus'

By Matthew Balan | May 5, 2015, 4:10 PM EDT

On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, The Daily Beast's John Avlon and his wife, Margaret Hoover, gloated over the recent defeats of Tea Party-backed candidates in Republican primaries. Avlon strongly hinted that the grassroots conservatives movement w ...

MRC's Notable Quotables: Journalists Plead with Hillary to Run: 'If Not You, Who?'

By Rich Noyes | June 23, 2014, 8:55 AM EDT

Now online: the June 23 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, as Hillary Clinton embarks on a book tour, feminist journalists urge her to run for President. “If not you, ...

Bob Woodward Criticizes Press for Ignoring Possible Cantor Defeat But Misses Real Reason

By P.J. Gladnick | June 22, 2014, 3:22 PM EDT

Bob Woodward came close. Oh so close to discerning how much of the mainstream media were blindsided by the stunning defeat of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in his congressional primary in Virginia. In fact, Woodward came so close that your humb ...

Column: Latinos Against Lawlessness

By Miguel Prado | June 18, 2014, 3:55 PM EDT

Now that the initial shock of Dr. Dave Brat’s primary victory over outgoing House Minority Leader Eric Cantor has passed us by a bit, it is time to look at it for what it really is.   First off, it is only a primary victory. There is still the general ele ...

Donna Brazile: ‘The Tea Party Is The Energy Inside The Republican Party’

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 15, 2014, 12:10 PM EDT

Donna Brazile, who served as campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign and is the current Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, had some surprisingly kind words to say about the Tea Party during a TV appearance on Sunday, J ...

CNN’s Bash To Eric Cantor: ‘Do You Think That There was Anti-Semitism Involved In Your Defeat?’

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 18, 2014, 9:31 AM EDT

Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) made his first live television appearances on Sunday, June 15 following his primary defeat to his a Tea Party challenger David Brat. The defeat was unexpected by most in Washington and was one of the main topics of conversat ...

Paul Waldman: GOP Base’s Anger, Perpetual Dissatisfaction Are ‘Incompatible With Governing’

By Tom Johnson | June 14, 2014, 3:56 PM EDT

The term “permanent revolution” is usually associated with Marxism, but American Prospect blogger Paul Waldman believes that these days, it’s movement conservatives who are talkin’ about a permanent revolution, and that their ideal Republican pol is an “a ...

CNBC/NYT’s Harwood Blames Anti-Semitism for Cantor’s Defeat

By Brent Baker | June 15, 2014, 4:57 PM EDT

Discussing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising primary loss, on Friday’s Washington Week on PBS, John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC, a regular on NBC and MSNBC, and a political writer for the New York Times, blamed hostility ...

David Frum: GOP Needs a Tony Blair-Like Figure Who’ll Reform Party ‘By Standing Up to Its Most Extreme Elements’

By Tom Johnson | June 13, 2014, 7:57 AM EDT

In a brief Thursday post on the Atlantic’s website, "reform conservative" pundit David Frum cited Eric Cantor’s primary loss to Dave Brat as further evidence that “Republican leaders” need to emerge to confront the “the destructive leadership of ...

VIDEO: For America's Bozell Explains How Cantor Destroyed His Credibility with Conservatives

By NB Staff | June 12, 2014, 5:10 PM EDT

Rep. Eric Cantor has only himself to blame for losing the respect, trust, and votes of Tea Party conservatives, and with it, his House seat in Virginia's 7th congressional district, For America chairman Brent Bozell explained on Wednesday's Kell ...

Comedy Central's Liberal Comedians Mock David Brat's Christianity

By Laura Flint | June 12, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT

Both of Comedy Central’s favorite comedians took the time on their shows on June 11 to make fun of upstart conservative congressional nominee David Brat for his Christian faith while subtly hinting at a strain of anti-Semitism in either the Virginia Repub ...

Charles Pierce: Cantor ‘Latest Victim’ of ‘Disease…Eating Away’ at GOP’s Brain

By Tom Johnson | June 12, 2014, 6:27 AM EDT

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Early reporting on Tuesday’s Republican primary upset in Virginia’s 7 th Congressional District indicated that Dav ...

New York Times: 'Potent Voices of Conservative Media' Helped Brat Defeat Cantor

By Randy Hall | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

Like many analysts in the “mainstream media,” New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters sought to explain how David Brat-- a 49-year-old economics professor and virtually unknown candidate-- won the Republican primary in Virginia on Tuesday, unseating Eric Ca ...