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Even Liberal Rosie O'Donnell Hits Obama's Absence From France
How badly did the Obama administration misjudge skipping the massive anti-terrorism rally in Paris? So severely that ardent liberal Rosie O'Donnell even attacked the administration.
January 12th, 2015 12:52 PM
Samuelson: Krugman ‘Maddeningly Wrong’ on Reagan and Inflation
Washington Post columnist rebuts New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s claim President Reagan had little to do with taming rising prices.
January 12th, 2015 12:52 PM
Nets: Obama 'Blasted' Over U.S. Absence at Anti-Terror March
On Monday, all three network morning shows surprisingly devoted full reports to President Obama being strongly criticized for not attending – or not at least sending a top official to attend – an anti-terror march in Paris on Sunday. At the top of NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer announced: "While world leaders join millions for a massive anti-terror rally in Paris, the President is under fire for…
January 12th, 2015 12:34 PM
CBS Cheers Gov. Jerry Brown’s Liberal Record As California Governor
On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning reporter John Blackstone sat down with Governor Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) for an exclusive interview aimed at promoting the long-time liberal’s political career. The nearly 9 minute interview featured Blackstone heaping praise on the California Democrat while offering no critique of his liberal record in office. Instead, the CBS reporter spun Brown’s tenure as “…
January 12th, 2015 11:32 AM
4 Of 5 Top Papers Call For Federal Gas Tax Hike
Four out of five top U.S. newspapers have called for federal gas tax hikes on the editorial page since oil and gas prices began falling significantly June 19, 2014.
In spite of polls that show most Americans oppose it, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times newspapers have all published editorials that called for increasing the gas tax. Gas prices fell from…
January 12th, 2015 11:27 AM
Jake Tapper Assails Obama Administration for Skipping France Rally
CNN anchor Jake Tapper slammed U.S. leaders, including the Obama administration, for skipping a massive rally in France against terrorism and for free expression.
January 12th, 2015 10:36 AM
Notable Quotables: Leave Influencing Elections to Biased Journalists
Now online: the January 12 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, ABC's Barbara Walters pushes conservative philanthropist David Koch to stay out of politics: “Do you think it’s fair that just because you have billions of dollars, you can influence elections?”
At the same time, NBC congressional reporter Luke…
January 12th, 2015 9:44 AM
State Radio: NPR Skips Controversy Over No U.S. Bigwig at Paris Rally
ABC, CBS, and NBC all noticed on their Monday morning programs that the Obama administration came under attack for failing to send any top U.S. leader to a “unity” rally in Paris featuring 40 global leaders. But NPR, like a government radio channel, ignored the criticism.
NPR Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley mentioned the huge rally in her story on the feelings of Jews in France. In another…
January 12th, 2015 9:08 AM
Daily Beast's Dickey Smears Jihad on Christians, Jews, and Hindus
It's not enough to read the transcript. You really need to view the video to appreciate the depths of Christopher Dickey's world-weary, dismissive, preening political correctness. Asked on today's Morning Joe to comment on Muslim preachers inciting violence from their pulpits, Dickey of The Daily Beast sniffed that the problem is "exaggerated," claimed that the number of violent Muslims is "…
January 12th, 2015 8:08 AM
U.S. High-Level Absence From Paris March Controversial — Except at AP
Thus far, the nation's de facto news gatekeepers at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, have utterly failed to address the growing worldwide controversy over the absence of U.S. representation above the ambassador level at Sunday's solidarity march in Paris in the wake of Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo massacre. Crowd estimates for the Paris march range from "hundreds of thousands"…
January 11th, 2015 11:59 PM
On the Red Carpet, Lena Dunham Trashes 'Deranged Neocons' Online
You don’t usually here denunciations of “deranged neocons” on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, but HBO star Lena Dunham uncorked this attack on her Twitter enemies to Ryan Seacrest on the E! Network.
January 11th, 2015 10:08 PM
Liberal Writer Criticizes ‘Creepy’ Biden For His ‘Gaffe-Porn’
Alana Levinson goes after Biden for his “lecherous” comments that fit “the classic definition of sexual harassment.” She admits that liberals generally overlook Biden’s boo-boos because “we like his politics. In terms of women’s issues, he’s got the gold stars…He’s pro-choice and…he introduced the Violence Against Women Act.”
January 11th, 2015 7:11 PM
David Brooks on MTP: We're at Adult Table; Coulter, Hebdo With Kiddies
Was it just coincidence that the only person consigned by purportedly conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks to the "kiddie table" on Meet the Press this morning was fearless conservative Ann Coulter?
In a panel discussion on Charlie Hebdo's unvarnished brand of political incorrectness, Brooks divided those in the commentariat to the "adult" and "kiddie" tables. As to be expected,…
January 11th, 2015 4:31 PM
NBC Reporter Blames U.S. Foreign Policy For Islamic ‘Radicalization’
On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press spent the majority of its program discussing the fallout of the terrorist attack in Paris, France and how the world should respond. While much of the program focused on the challenges associated with identifying and stopping such attacks, NBC News reporter Ayman Mohyeldin chose to partially blame American foreign policy for Islamic extremism. Speaking during a pre-…
January 11th, 2015 2:18 PM