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Washington Monthly Blogger: Thanks to Palin, Republicans Now Insist ‘The Truth Doesn’t Matter’

By Tom Johnson | November 28, 2015, 8:10 AM EST

In the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have made media bias an issue, as did Newt Gingrich during the 2012 contest. Irony alert: Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that it was one of the me ...

Cokie Roberts Praises Jorge Ramos as ‘Icon’ and ‘Very Big Deal’

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 30, 2015, 8:56 PM EDT

On Sunday’s This Week, political commentator Cokie Roberts gushed over Univision’s Jorge Ramos as an “absolute icon in the Hispanic community.”  After ABC’s Martha Raddatz interviewed Ramos about his recent confrontation with Donald Trump, Roberts swooned ...

Newt Gingrich: ‘Liberal Media’ Impact What Issues GOP Can Run On

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 29, 2015, 9:05 AM EDT

During an appearance on Meet the Press, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that as a result of the liberal media there are certain issues that Republicans cannot run on and expect to win.  Speaking to Chuck Todd, Gingrich insisted that conservatives ...

NYT's Shane: 'Illogical' to Blame US Muslims for Overseas Terror, But Anti-Islam Protests 'Bolster' Terrorism

By Clay Waters | June 17, 2015, 11:42 AM EDT

Scott Shane's front-page New York Times Tuesday on a liberal mosque in Boston, a city that's hosted a growing number of Islamic terrorists and extremists, focused on a more liberal mosque that promotes tolerance: " Muslims Work To Shed Stig ...

Lefty Robert Reich: Disclosure A ‘Key Vulnerability’ for Hillary

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 8, 2015, 2:14 AM EDT

On Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary for Bill Clinton, surprisingly criticized Hillary Clinton over her foundations’s donation issues and insisted “full disclosure is a key vulnerability” for her candidacy ...

Barnicle: No Clinton Quid Pro Quo Because Bill Bilked Bribers

By Mark Finkelstein | April 27, 2015, 10:38 AM EDT

How bad are things getting for Hillary when the best defense some supporters can muster  is that there was no corruption because Bill bilked the people who thought they were bribing her? Last week, we reported on Hillary fan Dorian Warren suggesting that ...

Gingrich: Media And Left Part of ‘Lynch Mob’ Over Indiana Law

By Jordan Ecarma | April 2, 2015, 12:50 PM EDT

Celebrities, high-profile executives and media outlets gunning for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and the state’s new religious freedom law are a “lynch mob,” Newt Gingrich said today in a HuffPost Live interview. Everyone from singer Miley Cyrus to Apple CEO Ti ...

Bob Schieffer: GOP Isn’t ‘Doing Very Much’ To ‘Appeal To Hispanics And African Americans’

By Jeffrey Meyer | January 4, 2015, 1:48 PM EST

On Sunday morning, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to discuss a variety of topics including the ongoing controversy involving Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.).  During the conversation, moderator Bob Schieffer ...

Newt Gingrich Blasts Obama’s Speech: ‘This Was a Gruber Speech’; ‘Simply Not Telling the Country the Truth’

By Curtis Houck | November 21, 2014, 12:58 AM EST

Following President Barack Obama’s speech announcing his executive order on illegal immigration, CNN political commentator and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich unloaded on the President, likening his speech to statements made by ObamaCare archite ...

Cancellations/Layoffs at CNN Claim 'Crossfire,' Other Programs

By Matthew Balan | October 15, 2014, 7:02 PM EDT

On Tuesday, Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of CNN,  started the process of cancelling several of the news network's series, including the reboot of Crossfire, and began laying off hundreds of employees. Chris Ariens at the TVNewser blog repo ...

Marc Lamont Hill Trashes Panetta: ‘Most Disgusting Example of Monday Morning Quarterbacking I Have Ever Seen’

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 13, 2014, 12:25 PM EDT

Marc Lamont Hill, liberal CNN contributor and host of HuffPost Live, appeared on Sunday’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley and did his best to smear former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for daring to criticize President Obama on foreign policy. A ...

CNN's Candy Crowley Calls Dems 'The Party of Women' In Lamenting Wasserman Schultz Hit Piece

By Tim Graham | September 22, 2014, 1:07 PM EDT

On Sunday's State of the Union, Candy Crowley teased into a commercial break: "Next, this week's jaw-dropping moment in politics.The party of women slamming the woman who is supposed to be in charge. We'll ask our political panel who i ...

David Gregory Paid $4 Million to Leave NBC News... Quietly

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

“Don't go away mad,” an old saying goes, “just go away.” That seems to be the case with David Gregory, who is receiving a grand total of $4 million to end his six-year tenure as host of the NBC News Meet the Press program. Part of the 43-year-old anc ...

Kevin Drum: Speaker Gingrich Is Long Gone, But Fox News Still Spreads ‘Toxic Rancor’

By Tom Johnson | June 16, 2014, 8:39 AM EDT

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Newt Gingrich hasn’t been an elected official in more than fifteen years, but according to Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum, Gingrich’s vitriolic approach to politics during his years in the House of Represent ...

Wash Post's Dana Milbank: The Koch Brothers Are 'Demons' With 'Pitchforks'

By Paul Bremmer | April 8, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT

MSNBC talking heads spend a lot of time demonizing Republicans and conservatives, but on Monday’s PoliticsNation, frequent contributor Dana Milbank made that connection directly and compared the Koch brothers to demons. Milbank and host Al Sharpton were d ...