Politico Pair Cry a River of Crocodile Tears Over 'Obama, the Puppet M
Instead of doing the work they were supposed to be doing last night -- i.e., following their publication's mission statement, which is (or maybe was) to "turn ... reporters (i.e., themselves) loose on the subject we love: national politics" -- Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen spent over 1,800 words whining.
Their disingenuous complaint: The Obama administration supposedly has insurmountable…
February 19th, 2013 10:23 AM

NBC’s David Gregory Thinks Republicans Are ‘Just Trying to Jam the
NBC continues to lead the way in belittling any and all Republican attempts to stand up to President Obama. On Sunday’s Today, David Gregory rehashed the common left-wing talking point that Republicans are opposing Obama at every turn merely for the sake of being obstructionist.
Commenting on Republican opposition to the Chuck Hagel nomination, Gregory said, “There’s no question that…
February 19th, 2013 9:55 AM

Dennis Rodman Cries Over Lakers Owner’s Death: ‘Like a Dad. I Neve
Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman had a tremendously emotional moment Monday evening when NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno brought up the death of Los Angeles Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss.
Fighting back tears, Rodman said, "Like a Dad. I never had a Dad."
February 19th, 2013 9:45 AM

Alec Baldwin Threatens to Murder Media That Love Him
When you are a prominent Hollywood actor – plus an outspoken liberal – you can get away with “murder.” Two days ago, actor Alec Baldwin, who is famous for both his outspoken liberal views and his ugly run-ins with reporters (and flight attendants), found himself in another scuffle with two New York Post reporters.
Baldwin supposedly grabbed the Post’s Tara Palmeri by the arm and threatened…
February 19th, 2013 9:25 AM

Suddenly Stodgy: Bruni Brands Ted Cruz A 'Whippersnapper
Wait a sec: aren't liberals supposed to be the edgy dudes who like to buck the established order? The ones who glorify guys with the guts to "speak truth to power"? So what could possibly have turned these hipsters into a bunch of suddenly stodgy sourpusses reaching for their Miss Manners? Looks like in-your-face is no longer in style when the upstart in question is—horrors!—a conservative…
February 19th, 2013 8:17 AM

NY Times Mag Cover Story on Young Repubs Battling 'Far Right, 'Extreme
Republicans, beware "help" from the New York Times. Robert Draper, a contributing writer to the magazine, threw four "far right" and two "extreme" labels into his 6,500-word profile of several young conservatives looking to revamp the Republican Party for the 21 century: "The Late Adopters." The cover introduced the story: "G.O.P. Smartphone – Can young, tech-savvy Republicans overthrow their…
February 19th, 2013 8:16 AM

Republicans Afraid of Appearing on Sunday Shows With Me, Brays Ed Schu
Ed Schultz seems chagrined that he rarely appears on the Sunday talk shows. Naturally, Republicans are to blame, at least as far as Schultz is concerned.
But buried inside this rant on his radio show Friday is what is likely the actual reason you seldom see Schultz on Sunday mornings. (audio clip after page break)
February 18th, 2013 6:30 PM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews: Is 'Great' Obama About to Equal Presidents on
Although every holiday may seem like Obama Day to Chris Matthews, the MSNBC host used the date often devoted to Lincoln and Washington as an excuse to wonder if the current President is headed to Mount Rushmore. On President's Day, Matthews thrilled, "Is Barack Obama going for it? Is he set on becoming one of the great presidents in history?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
The cable…
February 18th, 2013 6:09 PM

NY Times Suggests Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz Takes Confrontation to New L
Newly minted Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party politician, is "raising bipartisan hackles" and otherwise being a "bad boy" in the previously collegial U.S. Senate, opined political reporter Jonathan Weisman on the front page of Saturday's New York Times: "Texas Senator Goes on Attack And Raises Bipartisan Hackles."
Clearly disturbed about Cruz's treatment of Obama's nominee for defense…
February 18th, 2013 6:09 PM
NPR's Shocking Turn: A Real Conservative Frustrates E.J. Dionne
Last Friday’s All Things Considered segment on NPR was a real treat because David Brooks was absent, and therefore, couldn’t be his squishy self alongside liberal columnist E.J. Dionne. National Review’s Mona Charen, a real conservative, filled in for the New York Times pseudo-Republican, and effectively countered Dionne’s Obama cheerleading.
The two were asked by host Robert Siegel to…
February 18th, 2013 5:34 PM

This Happened: MSNBC Panel Sits Around and Tells Race Jokes On the Air
Apparently it's okay for MSNBC panels to sit around and tell race jokes on-air. Host Melissa Harris-Perry had her panel guests tell their "favorite race joke" or "best punch line" on race on her Sunday show and laughter ranged between nervous and uproarious. Harris-Perry capped it all off with a Jewish joke.
After discussing if the best way to give a "social critique" on race was through…
February 18th, 2013 5:10 PM

ABC and NBC Use Blood-Soaked Chicago to Push for Gun Control, Ignore R
All three network newscasts on Friday featured Chicago as an example of Barack Obama's call for more gun control. ABC and NBC ignored the inconvenient fact that the city already has some of the strictest gun control in the country. (It took a Supreme Court ruling to overturn Chicago's ban on handguns.) Only the CBS Evening News mentioned this point.
On the NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt…
February 18th, 2013 4:55 PM

MSNBC Contributor Talks of 'Structural Racism' and 'Racially Biased' C
Remember all that talk about a post-racial society if Barack Obama was elected president?
On the Martin Bashir show Monday, the host introduced Lehigh Professor James Peterson as a new MSNBC contributor, and virtually the first words out of Peterson's mouth were, "structural racism," "structural inequality," and "an over-aggressive criminal justice system that is racially biased" (video…
February 18th, 2013 4:43 PM
Bill Plante: Obama-Tiger Woods Photo Would Have Been GOP 'Propaganda
The irony must have been lost on Bill Plante when he reported on Monday's CBS This Morning that President Obama "did golf with Tiger [Woods], but we didn't see a picture of it. They [the Obama administration] don't like to show a picture of the President at leisure doing anything. They see this as propaganda for the Republicans."
However, exactly two weeks earlier, on February 4, 2013,…
February 18th, 2013 4:31 PM