Judge Smacks Ed Schultz in D.C. Court For Being a Diva

Daily Caller gossip Betsy Rothstein wrote that MSNBC host Ed Schultz drew hostile remarks from an Obama-appointed judge in federal court in the nation's capital. Schultz is being sued by NBC producer Michael Queen for breach of partnership. Queen claims he helped Big Ed get his MSNBC show. Judge Beryl Howell began proceeding by "giving Schultz a spanking" for being rude to her courtroom staff: 
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2015 9:24 AM

Jessica Valenti Terrorized on Subway by Stranger's Sexist Twitter Feed

If you take public transportation and use social media on a mobile device, beware of rubbernecking feminists.  Specifically, beware Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti. Some poor guy had the misfortune to be sitting next to her while checking his Twitter feed on the subway in New York yesterday. And just like that, average straphanger became “passive sexist.”
Kristine Marsh
May 13th, 2015 8:49 AM

Josh Earnest: Sherrod Brown Should 'Apologize' To Obama

If you love the smell of liberal infighting in the morning, today's Morning Joe was must-see TV. The MSM is reluctant to report it, but you might say that a trade war has broken out among liberal Dems, and it's getting personal. A few days ago, criticizing Elizabeth Warren for opposing his TPP trade bill, President Obama said that “the truth of the matter is that Elizabeth is, you know, a…
Mark Finkelstein
May 13th, 2015 8:38 AM

ABC and CBS Ignore Senate Democrats Voting to Block Obama on Trade

On Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News chose to ignore news that Senate Democrats voted to block debate on a series of trade measures pushed by President Barack Obama as part of a push to eventually approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. NBC Nightly News did cover the story with a news brief by Lester Holt who billed the failed vote as “[a] major setback…
Curtis Houck
May 12th, 2015 11:20 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Eating Crow After the British Elections

The media elite have a preeminent place in our politics, allegedly with the knowledge to declare what is politically feasible and what is not, including which candidates have a chance at winning and which do not. Before we head into a presidential primary season, it’s time to insist that these “experts” don’t know any better than the rest of us. And sometimes their biases shade their predictions…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
May 12th, 2015 10:52 PM

A British Election Postmortem

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- "Shocked," "surprised," "stunned" were some of the words used by broadcasters, columnists, political "experts" and pollsters when a Conservative Party victory was forecast by exit polls on election night.
Cal Thomas
May 12th, 2015 9:58 PM

NewsBusted: Why Hollywood's Not Head-Over-Heels for Hillary

"Politico reports there is a stunning lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton in Hollywood.  It seems celebrities have finally realized that Hillary is as phony as they are." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller.
NB Staff
May 12th, 2015 9:52 PM

NBC Touts Jeb 'In Damage Control' on Iraq; Skips Hillary Ducking Press

NBC News continued hitting possible Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush as being “in damage control mode” on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News regarding comments he made to the Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly in an interview that aired on Monday night. In a change from a similar segment that aired earlier Tuesday on Today, correspondent Kristen Welker made no mention of Democratic presidential…
Curtis Houck
May 12th, 2015 9:44 PM

London Liberal Claims 'It's OK to Cry' After Conservatives Win Big

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, a freelance writer and self-proclaimed liberal, wrote a column for the Guardian newspaper website entitled “Why It's OK to Cry About This Election,” when candidates in the conservative Tory Party scored a significant victory on May 7 over the liberal Labour Party without losing any of its seats in Parliament. “'Don’t despair,' came the resounding cry from the earnest,…
Randy Hall
May 12th, 2015 7:27 PM

Comedian: White House Wrote Fox/CNN-Bashing Dinner Routine

Via Mediaite, we learn comedian Keegan-Michael Key – who performed with President Obama as his character “Luther the Anger Translator” – was merely acting out with attack lines given to him by the White House writers shop. So it really was Team Obama unloading on CNN and Fox and Chuck Todd in the routine. “They wrote it, the White House wrote the piece,” Key told an interviewer from TMZ. “He…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2015 5:06 PM

Analyst Cites Human Rights Abuses in Cuba, Andrea Mitchell Blames U.S.

On her Monday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell gushed over Cuba's Communist dictator possibly heading "back to Church" and returning to "his Jesuit roots" after a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican: "Cuba's president Raul Castro is praising Pope Francis for helping to thaw relations between U.S. and Cuba....he said that the Pontiff inspired him to consider returning to the Catholic Church."
Kyle Drennen
May 12th, 2015 4:31 PM

Thomas Roberts: Will U.S. 'Markets' 'Ruin' Cuba's Cancer Treatment?

A Cuban cancer treatment is coming to the United States and all MSNBC's Thomas Roberts could worry about is if America will "ruin" the drug. On Tuesday, Roberts hyped the possibilities of Cimavax, which fights lung cancer. Talking to Dr. Kelvin Lee of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Roberts fretted, "...The Cubans have created a drug that costs the government about a dollar per shot, which is…
Scott Whitlock
May 12th, 2015 4:21 PM

CNN's Fareed Zakaria Hypes: 'Fox News is a Favorite of ISIS'

CNN's Fareed Zakaria inserted a thinly-veiled shot at Fox News Channel during his Monday special on ISIS. Zakaria underlined that "the angry rhetoric of cable news fits right into the script [of ISIS]."  He continued that "CNN makes an occasional appearance" in the Islamist terrorist group's propaganda, but then played up that "Fox News is a favorite of ISIS, with commentators who demand boots on…
Matthew Balan
May 12th, 2015 4:09 PM

Larry Wilmore: ‘Muslim’ Is the New ‘Black,’ ‘Gay’

As some words are losing their “bad” meanings, others are rising to take their place, according to comedian Larry Wilmore.  During Comedy Central’s May 11 The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the host proclaimed that the once-bad connotations associated with the words “black” and “gay” now apply to the word “Muslim.”
Katie Yoder
May 12th, 2015 3:12 PM