Scarborough: No Republican Hosted Sunday Show or Newscast in 50 Years

In the wake of the CNBC debate debacle, Joe Scarborough went on an epic rant on liberal media bias on today's Morning Joe. He summed things up this way, in challenging the panel: "you can't do it and nobody here can do it: name the single Republican that has hosted a Sunday show, that has been an anchor of a news network for the big three networks over the past 50 years: you can not do it." …
Mark Finkelstein
November 2nd, 2015 8:24 AM

‘Madam Secretary’ Informs Hollywood of Propaganda 'Patriotic Duty'

CBS’ Madam Secretary took to the airwaves on Sunday night, apparently with the expressed intent of letting Hollywood know that a Hillary presidency would be a very, very Hollywood-friendly presidency.
Dylan Gwinn
November 1st, 2015 11:48 PM

Gasp! Rachel Maddow Actually Admits Money Can't Buy Elections

At long last, irrefutable proof -- not only can pigs fly, that they did on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show when its namesake host opined about Jeb Bush's flailing campaign this past Thursday. In the process, Maddow refuted one of the central tenets of contemporary liberalism, a belief so dear to its adherents that they want to amend the Constitution to legitimize their delusion.
Jack Coleman
November 1st, 2015 5:07 PM

CBS Skips Email Dump...Except Hillary's 'Quirky' Notes on Lady Gaga

CBS had no time on Friday night for the latest dump of Hillary Clinton e-mails, but they played cute on their website with a slide show about “7 quirky emails on Hillary Clinton's server.” In the introduction, they reported: “The latest release contained over 7,000 pages of emails with about 200 to 300 of those emails marked as classified.” CBS didn't find it worth mentioning Hillary told the…
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2015 4:41 PM

Lefty Professor: ‘Transparency Threatens’ the Power of Conservatives

In the week when a new James Bond film is coming out, it’s fitting that two lefty writers are both shaken and stirred by recent Republican blasts at media bias. In a Sunday article for Salon, Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson charged that “since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy…
Tom Johnson
November 1st, 2015 2:16 PM

Dan Rather Deflects Criticism of CNBC Debate, Blames GOP Instead

During an appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday, disgraced CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather did his best to excuse the criticism of CNBC’s Republican presidential debate and instead chose to blame Republicans for fueling such hatred towards the press. While Rather briefly admitted that CNBC “didn’t do it perfectly” the liberal journalist quickly blamed the GOP presidential candidates…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 1st, 2015 1:14 PM

David Brooks: Jeb Should Become the ‘Laxative’ Candidate

During a panel discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press about the state of Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, liberal New York Times columnist David Brooks used a crude analogy to explain how Bush should turn around his struggling candidacy. 
Jeffrey Meyer
November 1st, 2015 11:59 AM

Bernie Sanders: Abortion Is 'Choice' But Death Penalty is 'Murder'

I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked to see Sanders—not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor—flatly call the death penalty "murder." On his MSNBC show this morning, Al Sharpton played the clip to illustrate how Sanders is working to differentiate his policy…
Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2015 11:12 AM

CNN’s Bash to Paul Ryan: How Can You ‘Control’ the Freedom Caucus?

On Sunday’s State of the Union, fill-in host Dana Bash sat down with newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his goals for the new job but did her best to play up the supposed dysfunction among House GOPers. The CNN host played up the liberal line that members of the House Freedom Caucus are a major problem for Republican leadership and asked Ryan “How are you going to control the 40…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 1st, 2015 10:04 AM

Cruz Declares War on 'Media Agenda,' Columnist Declares War on Cruz

The Dallas Morning News reports Ted Cruz’s campaign “raised $1.1 million in 22 hours” after the CNBC debate by “declaring war on the liberal media agenda.” It’s the third straight million-dollar post-debate fundraising haul for the campaign. This led Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke to write an allegedly humorous column declaring war on Ted Cruz:
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2015 7:29 AM

Obama-Clinton Emails Make His Related Kroft Interview Statements False

A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." In it, reporters Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt demonstrated that President Obama undoubtedly did not tell the truth in his interview with CBS News's Steve Kroft in a 60…
Tom Blumer
October 31st, 2015 11:58 PM

Not News: Mediocre Economy Has Cost Americans Thousands Each

On Thursday, the government reported that the nation's economy turned in yet another quarter of poor economic performance, estimating that its gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the third quarter. The business press almost universally downplayed the news, and told readers that the fourth quarter will be better. No one talked about how much the tepid growth of the…
Tom Blumer
October 31st, 2015 10:47 PM

NYT Throws 'Far-Right...Hard-Right...Hard-Line' Labels at GOP

The election of a new Speaker of the House had the New York Times firing up its reliably crooked labeling machine. On Thursday, reporter and repeat offender David Herszenhorn lamented that "Many Republicans, including members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus who had hounded Mr. Boehner from the speakership, accused him and other party leaders of betraying them with a late-hour deal that was…
Clay Waters
October 31st, 2015 10:21 PM

Study: NY Times Calls Jill Biden 'Dr.' Much More Often Than Ben Carson

R.J. Lehmann at the R Street Institute tired a little searching on the Nexis news database and discovered that Jill Biden is more than three times more likely to be called “Dr.” by The New York Times as Ben Carson is! Ben Carson was a neurosurgeon. Jill Biden has a doctorate in education.
Tim Graham
October 31st, 2015 9:46 PM