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HuffPo Writer: We Should Unplug Our Energy-Burning Christmas Decorations

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 11:30 PM EST

In the annual competition between leftist media outlets for the screwiest (or most Scrooge-like) criticism of Christmas traditions, a Huffingon Post  item published Thursday morning by Michael McLaughlin (HT Breitbart) was a formidable entry. After the Hu ...

Part of a Real AP Headline: 'Emissions Need To Drop Below Zero'

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 11:34 AM EST

The detachment from reality of those who actually believe that the recent international climate agreement in Paris is anything but a dangerous and potentially expensive charade has become especially irritating. The goals identified in Paris are obviously ...

Kerry: 'For The Most Part' We Know Who's Coming Into Our Country

By Mark Finkelstein | December 13, 2015, 2:41 PM EST

Ain't that reassuring?... On today's  Meet the Press,  John Kerry told Chuck Todd that  "for the most part"   we know who's entering our country.  Kerry's statement came after he boasted about  the Obama admin's "hu ...

NBC’s Guthrie Fails to Ask John Kerry About His Charlie Hebdo Comments

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 23, 2015, 10:34 AM EST

On Monday’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled Secretary of State John Kerry on the United States’ strategy to defeat ISIS yet the NBC host failed to question Kerry on his recent inflammatory comments in which he suggested a rationale existed for the ...

Two Days Later, NBC Finally Mentions Kerry Seeing ‘Rationale’ Behind Charlie Hebdo Attack

By Kyle Drennen | November 19, 2015, 10:29 AM EST

On Thursday, nearly 48 hours after Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that there was a “legitimacy” or a “rationale” behind the January terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, NBC’s Today finally noticed the highly controversial ...

Halperin: Kerry 'Tired' When Speaking of 'Legitimacy' of Charlie Hebdo Attack

By Mark Finkelstein | November 18, 2015, 8:43 AM EST

Suggestion for John Kerry: if traveling makes you so tired that you say things undermining the war against radical Islamic terrorism,  do us all a favor—stay home on Nantucket and conduct your diplomacy by Skype...  On today's Morning Joe, here' ...

Networks Ignore John Kerry’s Suggestion of a ‘Rationale’ for Charlie Hebdo Terror Attacks

By Curtis Houck | November 17, 2015, 8:57 PM EST

On Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC saw no reason to inform their viewers of Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that he could recognize there having been a “rationale” and “particularized focus” for Islamic terrorists to ...

MSNBC's Matthews Ignores John Kerry Seeing 'Rationale' In Charlie Hebdo Terror Attack

By Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2015, 8:57 PM EST

As Politico reported earlier today, Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to see a "rationale" in the deadly terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office back in January, as opposed to the coordinated but seemingly random terror strike ...

Andrea Mitchell Tees Up John Kerry to Blast GOP ‘Climate Deniers’

By Kyle Drennen | October 21, 2015, 9:53 AM EDT

During an interview with Secretary of State John Kerry at a State Department climate forum on Tuesday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell urged the Secretary to slam the GOP: “Republican candidates are not only silent on the subject, ...

CNN's Sciutto Frets Israelis Using 'Excessive Force,' Shooting 'Unarmed Protesters'

By Brad Wilmouth | October 19, 2015, 12:37 AM EDT

On Friday's Wolf show on CNN, during an interview with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, substitute host Jim Sciutto cited a quote from State Department Spokesman John Kirby accusing Israeli security forces of using "excessive force&quo ...

AP, NY Times Fail to Report Absence of Power, Kerry From Netanyahu UN Speech

By Tom Blumer | October 3, 2015, 10:04 PM EDT

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations. As described by George Jahn at the Associated Press, it was "an impassioned speech interspersed with bouts of dramatic silence." Jahn failed to report the absenc ...

Colbert Wishes John Kerry 'Congratulations on the Iran Deal'

By Michael McKinney | October 2, 2015, 5:55 PM EDT

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night, Secretary of State John Kerry came on to explain how wonderful the Iran deal is. Colbert began by saying “Congratulations for the Iran deal,” as the New York crowd cheered and clapped. After that, C ...

Morning Joe Crew Rips Hillary Apology: 'Hostage Video...Lie...Freakish'

By Mark Finkelstein | September 9, 2015, 9:30 AM EDT

My mother had a saying about heeding warnings from others: "if one person tells you you're drunk, ignore him.  If two people tell you you're drunk, lie down."  So what should Hillary Clinton do when the entire Morning Joe panel tells h ...

Networks Cheer ‘Unstoppable’ Iran Deal Despite Public Opposition; ‘a Done Deal’

By Curtis Houck | September 2, 2015, 10:31 PM EDT

On the heels of President Obama and Senate Democrats achieving the minimum threshold on Wednesday to preserve the Iran nuclear deal, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC applauded during their evening newscasts the “unstoppable” “done deal” that ...

NY Times Finds Dem Who Thinks Hillary's Email Scandal is GOP's 'Swift Boat Issue of 2015'

By Tom Blumer | August 24, 2015, 4:03 PM EDT

You can tell that the left is getting nervous about a scandal when they invoke the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth campaign of 2004 against John Kerry. As I noted on Saturday, Maria L. La Ganga at the Los Angeles Times did that as she described Planned ...