USA Today: Obama Like Bush on Immigration, But With More Compassion

USA Today has joined The New York Times in showing their ongoing support for a president who, on Thursday, unilaterally granted amnesty to five million illegal immigrants. In an article entitled “First take: Echoes of Bush in Obama's immigration speech,” reporter Gregory Korte went out of his way to portray Obama’s actions as comparable to George Bush’s call for congressional approval of an…
Laura Flint
November 23rd, 2014 7:01 AM

Parade: Jon Stewart 'Tells the Truth and Attacks Hypocrisy' on TV

The Sunday newspaper supplement Parade magazine put Jon Stewart on the cover to provide the typical boosterism for his movie Rosewater, complete with supine praise about his role as "fake" newsman. "Jon Stewart Gets Real" was the headline. A look at the box office for the first weekend showed Stewart's film was roughly in the same category as Kirk Cameron's evangelical-Christian movie Saving…
Tim Graham
November 23rd, 2014 6:27 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Buffalo Snow Vs Conditions in Southern Cal

“The Buffalo area got slammed with more than five and a half feet of lake-effect snow early this weekend. It’s expected to get an additional three feet by tomorrow morning,” substitute FNC anchor Doug McKelway noted on Thursday night before mockingly setting up a clip by maintaining “this is nothing, though, compared to the extreme conditions that hit southern California.”
Brent Baker
November 22nd, 2014 11:52 PM

DOJ Says Governor 'Escalated' Ferguson by Calling in the Guard

On Monday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, ordered the National Guard into Ferguson, Missouri and declared a state of emergency in anticipation of a grand jury's decision about whether to criminally charge police officer Darren Wilson in the August death of Michael Brown. If only Nixon had called in the Guard, as virtually every governor of all political persuations did in response to…
Tom Blumer
November 22nd, 2014 11:24 PM

NYT Applauds Imperial Obama Move Getting Illegals 'Out of the Shadows'

Immigration is the issue where the New York Times' liberal slant is most obvious, and the paper's heavy coverage Friday and Saturday held true to form, after President Obama's prime-time Thursday announcement that he would bypass Congress and grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Obama even used the same "out of the shadows" phrase liberals -- and the Times -- use so often, while the…
Clay Waters
November 22nd, 2014 7:19 PM

Ted Cruz Bashed on NPR as Lurching As 'Far to the Right As Possible'

NPR and Sen. Ted Cruz are natural enemies. On the Friday News Roundup with national journalists on The Diane Rehm Show, Politico reporter Alex Burns mocked Cruz for acting like a stereotypical bar bully and a man who always seeks to go "as far to the right of his party as possible."
Tim Graham
November 22nd, 2014 7:04 PM

People Selects THIS Christian Athlete as One of ‘2014's Sexiest Men'

Christianity can not only survive, but thrive, in pop culture -- it just takes a little fearlessness in the face of the sneering media.  In the Dec. 1 issue, People featured former NFL quarterback and outspoken Christian Tim Tebow as one of “2014's Sexiest Men Alive.’” Tebow rose to fame for his signature “Tebowing” – going down on one knee to thank God on the football field. The move earned him…
Katie Yoder
November 22nd, 2014 5:59 PM

Jon Stewart -- Comedy's Jonathan Gruber -- Attacks Sean Hannity

Jon Stewart says Sean Hannity is a “loathsome dude.” The host of The Daily Show makes a point of saying of Hannity that he is “probably the most loathsome dude over there” -- there being, of course, Fox News. Which raise an obvious question, a question impossible to miss.
Jeffrey Lord
November 22nd, 2014 4:46 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama 'Nourishes' Me

NBC's Chuck Todd on Thursday night found a new way to compliment Barack Obama. Politicking host Larry King asked the Meet the Press anchor if he "liked" the President. Todd quickly responded "yes" and added, "I mean, he's very easy to talk to – You do – you sit there and have these off-the-record sessions with him." 
Scott Whitlock
November 22nd, 2014 4:24 PM

AP Fact Check Finds Obama Grubered Immigration Speech

The Associated Press is not known as being normally critical of Barack Obama therefore it was quite surprising that their fact check found the President's speech last Thursday taking unilateral action to halt deportations of illegals to be chock full of Gruber.
P.J. Gladnick
November 22nd, 2014 3:09 PM

Geraldo: GOP 'Would Blame Immigrants for Climate Change' if They Could

During Thursday night's edition of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel soon after the president announced that he was taking executive action regarding illegal immigration, guest Geraldo Rivera praised Barack Obama for “doing finally the right thing” and blamed Republicans as the reason legislation on the issue has failed to pass Congress. The senior correspondent for the network declared…
Randy Hall
November 22nd, 2014 2:10 PM

Blogger: ‘Brilliant’ Obama Immigration Plan Exposes Lunacy of GOP

The Mother Jones blogger contends that Obama’s immigration action “is politically pretty brilliant. It unifies Democrats; wrecks the Republican agenda in Congress; cements the loyalty of Hispanics; and presents the American public with a year of Republican candidates spitting xenophobic fury during primary season. If you're President Obama, what's not to like?”
Tom Johnson
November 22nd, 2014 11:44 AM

MSNBC's Ball: 'Authentic' Jim Webb Contrasts with 'Packaged' Hillary

Signing up at for Ready for Hillary today [wanting to receive their emails], I felt a bit guilty, having to pledge my support in order to do so.  But on reflection, indeed I might support Hillary . . . should the Republican ticket be Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders. But not every Dem or MSM member [but I repeat myself] is so eager to jump on the Hillary haywagon.  Take Krystal Ball. On today's …
Mark Finkelstein
November 22nd, 2014 10:56 AM

HHS Proposes 'Default Re-Enrollment' — Into Another Obamacare Plan

Even if you like your Obamacare insurance plan, Health and Human Services may move you by default into a different one — often with a different network of providers. In such situations, you wouldn't get to keep your doctors and other providers unless you acted. That's what HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service has indicated in a 300-page proposal dumped yesterday so it would get minimal…
Tom Blumer
November 22nd, 2014 10:09 AM