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Press Definition of 'Joke': Any Statement That Insults or Threatens a Republican or Conservative

By Tom Blumer | November 11, 2015, 11:42 PM EST

Just as a reality check, I asked a friend today what his reaction would be if I said with a sincere-sounding voice that he makes me want to strangle him. He said, "Almost sounds like a threat." I said, "No, it was supposed to be a joke.&quo ...

NewsBusted: Clueless Joe Biden Confused Yet Again

By NB Staff | October 1, 2015, 3:42 PM EDT

"Pope Francis also visited the White House last week.  But his Holiness was confused by Vice President Biden, who congratulated the Pope on the Cardinals having the best record in the league."-- Jodi Miller of NewsBusted     Campaigns & Elec ...

Bloggers Say Goodbye to Scott Walker, Who Didn’t Connect With GOP’s ‘Increasingly Disreputable Base’

By Tom Johnson | September 23, 2015, 11:48 PM EDT

A few months ago, many liberals, including much of the bloggerati, were afraid that Scott Walker had a good chance to win not only the Republican presidential nomination but also the presidency. Now that Walker’s out of the GOP race, several lefty pundits ...

NYT's Horowitz Flips Off Scott Walker as He Leaves Race: Guilty of 'Tacit Racial Appeals'

By Clay Waters | September 23, 2015, 9:53 PM EDT

Jason Horowitz, one of the New York Times more colorful reporters, gave Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a gleeful finger upon his departure from the Republican presidential race, suggesting Walker has advanced his career on racist appeals in " Dismal Fin ...

Ed Schultz Gloats on Podcast over ‘Freaking Loser’ Scott Walker Dropping Out; ‘I Feel Vindicated’

By Curtis Houck | September 22, 2015, 6:21 PM EDT

Reduced to a daily podcast after his MSNBC show was cancelled in July, liberal Ed Schultz spent the first minute and a half of his Tuesday podcast basking in the departure of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from the 2016 Republican field and slamming Walk ...

CBS Only Footnotes Scott Walker’s Departure from 2016 GOP Field

By Curtis Houck | September 22, 2015, 1:40 AM EDT

On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News failed to devote a full story to Republican Governor Scott Walker (Wisc.) dropping out of the 2016 presidential campaign with the latter only giving Walker a combined 57 seconds at the beginning ...

Dem Rep: Walker Wants to 'Tighten the Noose' on Black People? Nets Yawn

By Scott Whitlock | August 26, 2015, 12:04 PM EDT

According to a new report by the Media Research Center, the three networks are minimizing every Republican presidential candidate not named Donald Trump. In addition to ignoring policy proposals from Republicans such as Scott Walker, ABC, NBC and CBS are ...

Blogger: During Obama Years, Conservatives Have Pretended to ‘Care About and Understand’ Health-Care Reform

By Tom Johnson | August 20, 2015, 11:44 AM EDT

It’s a matter of political record that since at least 2009, Republicans have talked at length about health-care reform, especially alternatives to Obamacare. Apparently almost all of them were, as Jon Lovitz’s Master Thespian would put it, “Acting!” That’ ...

ABC Rediscovers Clinton E-Mail Scandal; NBC Notes Walker Being Heckled Instead

By Curtis Houck | August 18, 2015, 9:14 AM EDT

After having ignored Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal since Saturday night, ABC emerged out of the wilderness during Monday’s World News Tonight to again cover the latest development while CBS and NBC went in the opposite direction Monday evening and igno ...

MSNBC's Sharpton: Racial Clashes Usually ‘Sparked by Police Violence’

By Randy Hall | August 13, 2015, 7:35 PM EDT

While a guest on Wednesday's edition of Tom Joyner's morning radio show, Al Sharpton-- the host of the PoliticsNation weekday program on the liberal MSNBC cable television channel – used the opportunity to declare that most instances of race-rel ...

Lawrence O'Donnell Touts Bernie Sanders, Calls Scott Walker's Stadium Subsidy 'Bad Socialism'

By Spencer Raley | August 13, 2015, 11:50 PM EDT

In his MSNBC show The Last Word Tuesday evening, Lawrence O’Donnell dedicated a segment to describing his opinion of what “good and bad socialism” looks like. Naturally his example of “good” socialism included the man and policies Bernie Sanders. It also ...

Lefty Columnist Harold Meyerson: GOP Increasingly Controlled By ‘F**k-You Republicans’

By Tom Johnson | August 9, 2015, 12:41 PM EDT

For close to a hundred and fifty years, the elephant has represented the Republican party, but The American Prospect ’s Harold Meyerson suggests that these days, a more fitting choice for the GOP’s symbol would be an extended middle finger. In his analysi ...

CBS’s O’Donnell Repeatedly Badgers Scott Walker to Condemn Donald Trump

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 7, 2015, 8:39 AM EDT

During an interview with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker after the first GOP presidential debate, CBS This Morning ’s Norah O’Donnell repeatedly badgered the Republican over Donald Trump’s performance during Thursday night’s debate.  Rather than ask Walke ...

Chris Matthews Not Amused, Seems Oddly Offended, by Cruz's 'Machine Gun Bacon' Video

By Ken Shepherd | August 4, 2015, 9:23 PM EDT

MSNBC host Chris Matthews kicked off his roundtable segment on Tuesday's Hardball by denouncing as a "clown car" moment Ted Cruz's amusing "machine gun bacon" video for conservative media outlet IJReview.com. Unfortunately fo ...

Stewart Uses Sexual Gesture to Attack Walker’s Appearance at Koch Event

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 5, 2015, 7:39 AM EDT

As Jon Stewart wraps up his final week as host of the  Daily Show, he used his Monday night show to attack a recent Koch brothers event that featured numerous Republican presidential candidates in attendance.  Stewart opened up his broadcast by making a c ...