Andrea Mitchell Bemoans 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' as 'Sad Episode

On her Wednesday program, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell helped a homosexual filmmaker promote his documentary on what she labeled the "sad episode" of the passage of the military's soon-to-be lifted "don't ask, don't tell" policy in 1993. Mitchell touted how she questioned then-President-Elect Bill Clinton in 1992 on his campaign promise to allow open homosexuals to serve in the military, and let her…
Matthew Balan
September 15th, 2011 9:42 AM

NYT's Calmes Sees Obama's Plan as Job Creator, Warns Stubborn GOP 'Cou

New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes and Binyamin Appelbaum reported Wednesday on Obama’s latest big-spending “stimulus” proposal, “Bigger Economic Role for Washington,” enthused that the chance of some of it coming law “could have a substantial effect on economic growth and unemployment....could add 100,000 to 150,000 jobs a month over the next year, according to estimates from…
Clay Waters
September 15th, 2011 9:31 AM

Michael Moore Describes Himself as 'Bigot' Against Wall Street

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Colbert Report on Comedy Central to plug his memoir, Here Comes Trouble, left-wing film maker Michael Moore used a provocative choice of words to describe his feelings toward Wall Street and conservatives who oppose regulations against businesses as he declared that "I'm a bigot against people like you that support Wall Street and corporations..." Moore…
Brad Wilmouth
September 15th, 2011 8:43 AM

NBC's Engel Is Adamant on NPR: Iraq's Liberation Set Back 'Arab Spring

George W. Bush spoke out repeatedly during his term for the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East. He said it was insulting to assume that Arabs or Muslims were incapable of democratic reforms. Bush overthrew dictators in Iraq and Afghanistan and allowed elections to proceed. But NBC's chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, was adamant on National Public Radio on Friday: You…
Tim Graham
September 15th, 2011 8:27 AM

CBS Shows Who Won NY 9th in the ‘1920 Republican Landslide

Andrew Petersen. That’s the last Republican to win New York’s 9th Congressional District. CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley provided that bit of trivia, and displayed a picture of him, on Wednesday night as he relayed how Petersen was “swept into office in the 1920 Republican landslide...”
Brent Baker
September 15th, 2011 2:18 AM

White House Aide Compares Illegal Immigration to Jaywalking

Cecilia Munoz, the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, compared the federal crime of being in the country illegally to jaywalking. "If you were running the police department of any urban area in this country, you would spend more resources going after serious criminals than after jaywalkers. DHS (the Department of Homeland Security) is doing the immigration equivalent of the…
Edwin Mora
September 14th, 2011 10:09 PM

Liberal Radio Talks of Killing Rumsfeld, 'Prehistoric Reptiles' of Tea

It's been a nasty week, just in the hours since "National Unity Day" on 9/11, for the liberal and hard-left talkers. Talk of killing right-wingers is in the air, as is talk of the Tea Party loving "the taste of blood in their mouths." What is this,a Twilight movie? On Tuesday's Randi Rhodes show, Randi complained about the backwardness of Florida, where she lives: "This place is full of…
Tim Graham
September 14th, 2011 8:55 PM

AP Touts President Obama's Openness to Compromise, Ignores Campaign Ob

Darlene Superville's Associated Press report earlier this evening on President Obama's visit to North Carolina ("Obama touts jobs bill benefits for small business") had an interesting final paragraph. Concerning Obama's openness to compromise on his "jobs plan" (otherwise known as "spend now, pay for with taxes later"), she wrote: "President Obama has made clear he'd sign a portion of the…
Tom Blumer
September 14th, 2011 8:26 PM

Chris Matthews Blames 'Robots' at CVS, MSNBC for Poverty in America

On the September 14 edition of MSNBC's "Hardball," host Chris Matthews admitted to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that it "sounds Marxist" but he truly believes that automation in the economy has killed jobs by replacing human clerks in CVS and camera operators at MSNBC with "robots" [video follows page break; click here for MP3 audio]:
Ken Shepherd
September 14th, 2011 6:50 PM

Media Mess with Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Who cares if journalists spin the news, as long as they get their man.
Dan Gainor
September 14th, 2011 6:15 PM

CNN Brings On Former Democratic Strategist to Analyze GOP Victory in N

For analysis of the special election in New York's 9th Congressional District, CNN hosted Hilary Rosen – a former Democratic strategist and former interim head of the Human Rights Campaign, a leading LGBT civil rights organization. The network simply listed Rosen as a "CNN political contributor," failing to disclose her past as a Democratic strategist. Not surprisingly, Rosen downplayed the…
Matt Hadro
September 14th, 2011 6:08 PM

Gov. Perry Makes Light of Poor Grades in College, WaPo Tags Him 'Anti

Covering Gov. Rick Perry's Wednesday morning speech to Liberty University students, Washington Post's Philip Rucker painted the Texas Republican as "anti-intellectual" for what amounts to a self-deprecating jokes about his grades in college:
Ken Shepherd
September 14th, 2011 5:46 PM

NYT Book Critic: Michael Moore Belongs on Same Shelf With Thomas Paine

The front of Wednesday’s New York Times Arts section featured Dwight Garner’s review of the new book by left-wing documentary film-maker Michael Moore, “Here Comes Trouble -- Stories From My Life.” Garner, a fan, called Moore (infamous for his anti-conservative conspiracy theories and vicious, purposely misleading mockery of Republicans) a “necessary irritant,” and in one nauseating paragraph…
Clay Waters
September 14th, 2011 4:45 PM

Comedy Gold: In NY-09, AP's Fouhy Casts Weprin as Presumptive Front-Ru

Last night at 11:31 p.m., as shown here at the Columbus Dispatch, the Associated Press's Beth Fouhy was treating the special congressional electoral contest in NY-09 as if Democrat David Weprin would likely fend off the challenge from Republican Bob Turner. The 11:31 p.m. time stamp appears to be accurate, since only about a half-hour earlier, at 10:56 p.m., Fouhy put up a brief item at an AP…
Tom Blumer
September 14th, 2011 2:28 PM