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Gene Robinson Curiously Incurious About Cause of Mizzou Prez Resignation

By Mark Finkelstein | November 10, 2015, 9:01 AM EST

President Tim Wolfe to be driven from office. Asked by Joe Scarborough as to the reasons for the prez's ...

Peter King: New York Times Smearing of Police Helps Inspire Lone Wolf Jihadists

By Mark Finkelstein | October 24, 2014, 9:58 AM EDT

Asked to comment on the recent ax attack in NYC by an apparent lone wolf jihadist that left a rookie cop critically injured, Republican congressman Peter King had some very tough words for the New York Times. Appearing on today's Morning Joe, King condemned the Times for having ...

Mika: Issa Calling Carney 'Liar' Makes Us Want to Ignore White House Scandals

By Mark Finkelstein | June 3, 2013, 3:23 PM EDT

that cries wolf... By Darrell Issa doing what he is doing he is bailing out the White House... he is ...

David Gregory's Long Tall Smooch To Obama

By Mark Finkelstein | May 1, 2011, 10:25 AM EDT

his appearance on this morning's Today Show. Speaking with weekend Today co-host Jenna Wolfe ... laughing appreciatively at the president's lines. When Wolfe suggested that Trump took the many jabs ...

Alter: With Ryan Plan, Republicans Voted 'To Throw Granny Into The Snow'

By Mark Finkelstein | April 17, 2011, 8:33 AM EDT

ALTER: After many years where Democrats kind of cried wolf about Republicans wanting to throw granny into ...

Beck 'On Crack, Taking Stupid Pills' Say Mika, Joe

By Mark Finkelstein | August 27, 2010, 8:14 AM EDT

BRZEZINSKI: It's like the boy who cried wolf in drama form, on crack. SCARBOROUGH: On crack?  That's ...

Supposedly Apolitical 'Today' Guest Is HuffPo Blogger Who Urged Readers To Lobby Congress For ObamaCare

By Mark Finkelstein | March 21, 2010, 9:54 AM EDT

Jenna Wolfe's introduction of her guest on health-care on this morning's Today would surely have led viewers to believe he was an objective, apolitical voice.  What Wolfe didn't tell ... readers to call Congress to lobby for it. Here was Wolfe's intro: "The politics surrounding the ...

NWA: NBC Plays D For O

By Mark Finkelstein | December 27, 2009, 12:39 PM EST

dots.  Right now it appears there weren't enough dots to connect. And a bit later... JENNA WOLFE ...

Trump On Madoff Mess: Millionaires of the World, Unite!

By Mark Finkelstein | December 18, 2008, 5:19 PM EST

Poor schlumps out there know how to get along with next to nothing.  But these were multi-millionaires that Bernard Madoff wiped out: show some sympathy!  That was The Donald's daffy drift in speaking to Wolf Blitzer on this afternoon's Situation Room on CNN. View video here. DONALD TRUMP: ...

Olbermann's Violent Palin Fantasy

By Mark Finkelstein | November 5, 2008, 10:23 PM EST

plumbed those noisesome depths weeks ago, imagining Palin being "shot from a plane" like a wolf ...

Maher 'Jokes' About Palin Being Shot As Reincarnated Wolf

By Mark Finkelstein | October 20, 2008, 10:06 PM EDT

karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot from a plane. This is what passes ...

WaPo's Cohen: Palin Pick Like Caligula Naming His Horse a Consul

By Mark Finkelstein | September 2, 2008, 9:47 AM EDT

Imagine the outrage in feminist circles if a conservative columnist had mockingly analogized a sitting Dem governor to an animal.  But Richard Cohen has said as much of Sarah Palin.  And I predict you won't hear a peep from the Kim Gandys or Naomi Wolffs of the world—much less from their allies in the ...

As Anbar Returns to Iraqi Control, Will MSM Cite Surge Cynics?

By Mark Finkelstein | September 1, 2008, 3:53 PM EDT

Michael Ware: "Wolf, it's absolutely nightmarish and the Washington Post story is an old one. ... there that are needed to even begin to make a dent in al Qaeda – Wolf." (CNN's "The ...

Wolf Rides to Ridge's Defense

By Mark Finkelstein | August 19, 2008, 5:31 PM EDT

Wolf Blitzer for one apparently doesn't think Tom Ridge's pro-choice position should ... is needed now as president of the United States in this perilous time." That's when Wolf made a more muscular case on Ridge's behalf. WOLF BLITZER: And if he did pick you, he, the ...

In Race Debate, Media Point Finger at McCain

By Mark Finkelstein | August 1, 2008, 1:03 PM EDT

where CNN's Wolf Blitzer stood on the matter on yesterday's "Situation Room." ... campaign, they're the one injecting race in this." Full transcript below: WOLF BLITZER: Right now, ... Suzanne Malveaux, she's covering the Obama campaign for us. [...] BASH: Now Wolf, he's saying ...