Andrea Mitchell: Obama’s Economics Is So 'in Tune With' Americans

Following President Obama’s State of the Union address, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell fawned over the President’s liberal economic proposals of tax increases as “so politically in tune with” most Americans. “[T]he economic message, also, is so politically in tune with where the broad specter of the American people are,” Mitchell proclaimed. 
Curtis Houck
January 20th, 2015 11:00 PM

ABC Touts ‘Triumphant,’ ‘I Told You So’ Obama Speech

During ABC’s preview of the State of the Union, former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos, Jon Karl and Matt Dowd pre-hyped a “triumphant” Obama and his “I told you so attitude” towards Republicans.
Scott Whitlock
January 20th, 2015 10:38 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Lame Duck Marches On

As President George W. Bush prepared to give his State of the Union address eight years ago, the news media wanted it underlined that he was a lame duck. NBC asked repeatedly if "the country stopped listening to the President." After all, Democrats had captured both houses of Congress, so this presidency was basically over. Not so, apparently, with liberal Democrats. Today, the same media…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
January 20th, 2015 9:17 PM

Bryant Gumbel: I 'Hate' the NRA, They're 'Pigs,' A 'Curse' on America

In an interview with Rolling Stone, HBO host Bryant Gumbel was asked about the National Rifle Association and a segment he did on his Real Sports show about the "Eat what you kill" movement. Gumbel said "There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they're pigs. I think they don't care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape. So we got…
Tim Graham
January 20th, 2015 8:59 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama ‘Got the Post-Election Honeymoon' and Not the GOP

While previewing President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News had on Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, who told viewers that the President will set out to “do a little victory lap about the state of the economy” and opined how Obama “got the post-election honeymoon, not the Republicans” thanks to his moves on illegal immigration and Cuba. Following the move…
Curtis Houck
January 20th, 2015 8:29 PM

FLASHBACK to January | Chris Matthews: I Am NOT Charlie Hebdo!

Railing against how Republicans want to "make it ethnic" when it comes to criticism of Islamist terrorism, Hardball host Chris Matthews this evening insisted that President Obama was correct to eschew referring to the Charlie Hebdo office massacre by al Qaeda operatives as "Islamic terrorism." What's more, Matthews made a point of insisting that he refuses to identify in solidarity with the…
Ken Shepherd
January 20th, 2015 8:25 PM

ABC Finds It Credible Barack Obama Can Be Another Reagan

Without laughing, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday’s World News Tonight advanced the White House hope that Barack Obama will be seen as Ronald Reagan was in 1987, as a President who rescued the economy and was rewarded by voters.
Rich Noyes
January 20th, 2015 7:34 PM

Boehner's SOTU Guest a Cuban Dissident; Will Media Ignore?

The State of the Union address this year falls one day after the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. So it's quite fitting that Speaker John Boehner have as his honored guest a black human-rights activist. But alas, said human-rights activist is also a Cuban dissident, a former political prisoner of the Castro regime and a critic of President Obama's push to normalize relations with Cuba…
Ken Shepherd
January 20th, 2015 6:25 PM

NYT Follows Lead of Left-Wing French Comedy Show to Pile on Fox News

The New York Times just can't stop using precious print space to attack rival news organization Fox News, based on an exaggerated claim about Muslim "no-go-zones" in England by a terrorism analyst who appeared on the channel after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Fueled by an obsessive anti-Fox crusade by a left-wing French comedy show, the latest story made Page 4.
Clay Waters
January 20th, 2015 6:02 PM

NYT: Obama Aide Reads 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to Month-Old Daughter

According to the New York Times, Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, reads "To Kill a Mockingbird" to his month-old baby daughter. I kid you not.
P.J. Gladnick
January 20th, 2015 5:10 PM

Blogger: GOPers ‘Twist’ Civil-Rights History ‘Beyond Recognition'

Esquire blogger Pierce alleges that right-wingers have turned the civil-rights movement “into a weapon against issues on which Dr. King surely would have come down on the progressive side,” and declares that the movement “no longer can be used as history's truncheon against the legitimate social, cultural, and political aspirations of the people who are its truest heirs.”
Tom Johnson
January 20th, 2015 5:05 PM

Fox's Tantaros: Kerry Should Have Used 'Send in the Clowns' in France

On Fox News's "The Five" last week, the panel had some fun coming up with alternative songs and performers U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry could have employed in his visit to France last week. The video which follows starts with Greg Gutfeld exposing how the song used — "You've Got a Friend" as delivered by James Taylor, who was having a hard time even keeping his microphone properly…
Tom Blumer
January 20th, 2015 2:49 PM

Jon Stewart's Skewering of Kerry & Taylor in Paris ... Touche!

Here's a textbook example of why Jon Stewart isn't entirely trusted on the left  -- when a big fat eephus pitch is heaved from a lumbering liberal, Stewart is swinging for the fence. And when the man connects, that ball is ... gone! On his Comedy Central show last night, Stewart demonstrated why he is more than willing to eviscerate a worthy target regardless of whether said target is…
Jack Coleman
January 20th, 2015 2:15 PM

Telemundo’s One-Sided Take on the Economics of Amnesty

The nation’s second most widely viewed Spanish-language newscast, Noticiero Telemundo, recently presented an entirely slanted report about the projected economic impact of the executive action by President Obama that lifts the threat of deportation that faced millions of immigrants who live in the United States without authorization.
Gerardo Abascal
January 20th, 2015 2:01 PM