CNN Goes After Arizona's Gun Laws as Major Factor in Shooting

January 10th, 2011 7:32 PM
On Monday's Newsroom, CNN treated Arizona's gun laws as a significant contributor to the shootings in Tucson. Correspondent Jessica Yellin prompted the local prosecutor to spout her pro-gun control views. Anchor Brooke Baldwin highlighted a local Republican's gun-toting ad and the infamous clip of an anti-Obama protester carrying a semi-automatic rifle outside a 2009 presidential event in…

CBS's Cordes: 'Increasingly Angry Tone in Politics' May Have Led to 'C

January 10th, 2011 12:21 PM
Reporting on the political fallout of the Tucson shooting on Monday's CBS Early Show, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes declared: "Now some are questioning whether the increasingly angry tone in politics could have contributed to a culture of violence." Cordes noted how "members of Congress took their soul searching public, Sunday," followed by sound bites of two Democrats lamenting…

Wash Post Columnist Who Wanted to Bash Tea Partiers' Teeth In Trashes

January 10th, 2011 12:02 PM
"I know how the "tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads." That's how leftist Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy calmly and civilly…

Daily Kos Campaign Director Uses 'Target Lists' Frequently

January 10th, 2011 7:22 AM
With the founder of the Daily Kos deliberately trying to tie Sarah Palin's target list to yesterday's shooting in Tucson, perhaps it's time Markos Moulitsas took this opportunity to look at his own people in regards to using incendiary rhetoric.  Markos took the time to send a message to his followers yesterday tweeting, “Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin”.  But if target lists are considered…

Olbermann Suggests Palin & Other Conservatives ‘Slightly Less Madmen

January 9th, 2011 6:05 AM
 As he hosted a special two-hour edition of Countdown on Saturday night to cover the violent attack on Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann ended up delivering a "Special Comment" in which he called for an end to the use of violent imagery by political figures of all ideologies, even apologizing for his own history, but he also at one point seemed to describe…

One-Sided CBS Report Paints Palin as Responsible for Giffords Shooting

January 8th, 2011 8:55 PM
Capitalizing on the shooting in Tucson this afternoon, CBS furthered the lunatic left rhetoric that Sarah Palin was somehow responsible for this heinous crime.  The theory being that the shooter was inspired by Palin’s midterm election map, which featured Gabrielle Giffords as a potential target.  “…critics of Sarah Palin have already drawn a link between the shooting and the fact that the…

Video: Media Bash Repealing ObamaCare As A Waste Of Time

January 8th, 2011 12:00 PM
With Republicans taking control of Congress, those in the media suddenly feel that proposing legislation, such as repealing ObamaCare, is a waste of time. From CBS's Harry Smith referring to it as "a fool's errand" to MSNBC's Chuck Todd fretting over the GOP "relitigating health care," here is a video compilation of the slanted coverage this proposal has received. View video below   

WaPo’s Ezra Klein: Obamacare is ‘Best Thing’ Dems Have Done ‘I

January 7th, 2011 10:59 PM
 Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, Washington Post staff writer and Newsweek columnist Ezra Klein defended Obamacare and warned Republicans against attempting to repeal the law as he contended that some provisions are popular with the public. After host Keith Olbermann asked if Democrats should "relish rejoining the fight over health care reform" because it could hurt…

CBS 'Early Show': 'Centrist' Bill Daley Means White House 'Open for Bu

January 7th, 2011 4:33 PM
Friday's CBS Early Show praised the pick of former Commerce Secretary William Daley as the new chief of staff for the Obama White House, with senior White House correspondent Bill Plante proclaiming: "While Daley has long ties to the Democratic Party, he's viewed as a centrist whose Wall Street connections should help him with the newly divided Congress." Following Plante's report, co-host…

CNN's Spitzer Calls Tea Party 'Vapid, Puerile;' Parker Applauds Obama

January 7th, 2011 1:34 PM
On Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Eliot Spitzer lashed out at President Obama from the left, going so far as to accuse him of forfeiting his campaign promises, simultaneously attacking the Tea Party movement in the process: "He...let the Tea Party- one of the most vapid, puerile groups out there, without meaningful ideas- take over those voices for transformation, and now, he is embracing…

Media Mash: Bozell and Hannity Take On Slanted Media Coverage of GOP C

January 7th, 2011 12:33 PM
Appearing on FNC's Hannity on Thursday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell slammed left-wing media coverage of the incoming Republican Congress, from ABC's Good Morning America bashing John Boehner while praising Nancy Pelosi, to all three networks dismissing a scheduled vote to repeal ObamaCare as simply "a fool's errand." In 2007, Good Morning America…

On Fox & Friends, MRC's Bozell Blasts NPR As Part of 'Intolerant Left

January 7th, 2011 11:07 AM
Appearing on FNC's Fox & Friends on Friday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reacted to the resignation of National Public Radio executive Ellen Weiss and credited the incoming Republican Congress: "NPR is hearing footsteps, their hearing the footsteps of Republicans, who are saying...what in the world are we doing spending hundreds of millions of…

Nineteen Democrats Scorn Pelosi in Speaker Vote, WaPo Buries Story on

January 6th, 2011 4:02 PM
The first vote cast by the 110th Congress on January 4, 2007 was for election of Speaker of the House. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won all 233 Democratic votes (including her own). All 202 Republicans voted for Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio. Two years later Pelosi secured 255 (including her own), and there was only one Democrat, one Rep. Gutierrez who did not vote. Minority Leader Boehner received…

Ed Schultz Tells Listeners He 'Almost Got Arrested' New Year's Day

January 6th, 2011 3:22 PM
I doubt it came as much of a surprise to anyone listening when Ed Schultz described how he broke the law by knowingly driving on a highway closed by police. Schultz's New Year's Day jaunt caught the attention of Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer who asked yesterday, "Do road closures apply to MSNBC talkers?" --