‘True Blood’ Actress: ‘I Did Have Fun’ Making Sarah Palin Angr

Editor’s note: This story contains strong language. HBO certainly isn’t subtle in their disdain for conservatives. Last week, HBO’s “True Blood” mocked conservatives at a fictional Ted Cruz fundraiser, as “Republic**ts” and this weekend’s cast panel at Comic-Con brought up the episode again. The actress who uttered the derogatory term, Kristin Bauer van Straten was asked about the…
Kristine Marsh
July 28th, 2014 2:52 PM

NBC Omits Coverage of Agreement on VA Hospital Bill; Mentions Robots i

Over the weekend, leaders from the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees reached an agreement on legislation to reform the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs with the full details unveiled during a press conference Monday afternoon. When it came to the major broadcast networks covering this breakthrough in their Monday morning news shows, NBC’s Today decided not to inform their…
Curtis Houck
July 28th, 2014 1:50 PM

At CNN, Poll Results on Impeachment Released Friday Morning, But Romne

CNN/Opinion Research conducted a poll of "1,012 adult Americans conducted by telephone" from July 18-20. The poll contained over 40 questions. But instead of publishing all of the poll's results in one document, the network is parsing them out. Several questions relating to support for impeaching President Barack Obama and suing him in court over his unilateral executive actions were released…
Tom Blumer
July 28th, 2014 1:26 PM

NBC Reporter Frets Over Hamas Getting 'Nothing' in Cease-Fire With Isr

On Monday's NBC Today, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel worried that Hamas was not getting enough out of a temporary cease-fire agreement with Israel: "What is Hamas getting in return? So far, nothing. No deal, no immediate lifting of the closure of the Gaza Strip. Just a reprieve from Israel's assault that has flattened entire Gaza neighborhoods and killed more than a thousand…
Kyle Drennen
July 28th, 2014 12:59 PM

Possible New 'View' Host S.E. Cupp Slams 'Liberal' NYT for Pot Editori

Possible new View co-host S.E. Cupp got a tryout on Monday for the token conservative slot on the morning program. Wasting no time, the conservative commentator got in a fight with Whoopi Goldberg over the New York Times's endorsement of federally legalized marijuana. After Goldberg described herself as "very, very, very happy" with the Times, Cupp shot back, "Luckily, it is not up to the New…
Scott Whitlock
July 28th, 2014 12:35 PM

Morning Joe Panel Hits Andrew Cuomo on Corruption Scandal: ‘Evening

Following Andrew Cuomo’s decision to disband a corruption commission he created, Morning Joe hit the New York governor hard for his questionable tactics. The scandal comes after The New York Times reported that Cuomo shut down the commission when it began to go after some of the Governor’s own political allies. Cuomo was defiant in response to the allegations, asserting that “it's not a…
Connor Williams
July 28th, 2014 11:30 AM

Networks Refuse to Report Latest IRS Scandal Revelations

The saga of Lois Lerner’s missing emails took a bunch of twists and turns this past week, but you wouldn’t know that if you only got your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks. On July 21, it was reported that even more IRS officials had their hard drives crash on them, including employees who “routinely corresponded” with Lerner. What a coincidence! On that same day it was revealed…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 28th, 2014 10:55 AM

Sarah Palin Slams WashPost As 'A Bunch of Wusses' On Obama, Unlike The

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is picking up on the impending trend of Nixon-Watergate anniversaries in media coverage. On her Facebook page, Palin accused The Washington Post of being “a bunch of wusses” compared to their allegedly legendary Watergate days. Palin threw around the “impeachment” word, which the Post loves in the present days as a sign of Republican extremism.…
Tim Graham
July 28th, 2014 10:43 AM

Not So Smart: Think Progress Bites On Bachmann Satire As Real

The Think Progress blog finds retiring Rep. Michele Bachmann to be a very major enemy of “progress.” Their willingness to believe anything about her came back to bite them. They treated as real news an obvious satire that  Bachmann proposed the idea of “Americanization Facilities” where the illegal-immigrant children “would be put to work to pay off the costs of their past, present and futures…
Tim Graham
July 28th, 2014 7:52 AM

Blogger Paul Waldman: You Can’t Send In the Republican Clowns, Since

Conservatives, contended the American Prospect’s Paul Waldman on Thursday, can be highly entertaining, though usually not because they try to be. They’re more like Sideshow Bob repeatedly whacking himself in the face by stepping on one rake after another. In a post titled “How Did the GOP Turn Into Such a Bunch of Clowns?” Waldman wrote that Republicans’ central problem is that “they're…
Tom Johnson
July 28th, 2014 6:29 AM

NYT Headlines Decline in Median Net Worth Since 2003, Downplays Much S

Which is the more important statistic: A 36 percent decline in U.S. median household net worth since 2003, or a 43 percent decline in that same statistic since 2007? The average person would certainly be more concerned about the latter, which represents an annual drop of about 7 percent compared to the less than 4 percent per year seen in the past decade. But apparently if you're a reporter…
Tom Blumer
July 28th, 2014 12:20 AM

On 'This Week,' ABC's Jonathan Karl Tweaks NY Times Editor On Being An

Sitting in on ABC’s This Week, guest host Jonathan Karl brought on New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal to discuss an editorial titled “Repeal Prohibition, Again.” The unsigned piece proclaimed “It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great harm on society just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol. “…
Tim Graham
July 27th, 2014 11:00 PM

New York Times Helps Wage War on the Quakers In Transgender Dorm Strug

In the same Friday New York Times in which “conservative firebrand” Dinesh D’Souza was dissected and a “conservative script” was honed to “light fire on abortion,” the social leftists pushing transgender issues were never identified as liberal or leftist. This time, the venue for gender delusion was a Quaker college in Oregon. Forget the science. The dictatorship of relativism is bearing down…
Tim Graham
July 27th, 2014 7:56 PM

'Meet The Press' Panel Laments ‘Do-Nothing Nature’ of Republicans

A common theme among liberal journalists is to blame a “do-nothing Congress” when liberal policies fail to become law. Such was the case during a panel discussion on Sunday’s Meet the Press when moderator David Gregory and his entire panel lamented the lack of legislative action on Capitol Hill, mainly in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.  Gregory summed up the panel’s…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 27th, 2014 2:59 PM