Washington Free Beacon Makes Montage of Ed Schultz's Absurd Poll Quest

Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon has made a little montage of MSNBC host Ed Schultz's bat-guano crazy viewer poll questions. Although none of them asked if Republicans want to "make money off your dead corpse," they came close. To read David Rutz's witty, snark-laden post, click here. You can watch the video by clicking play on the embed that follows the page break. As a bonus we…
Ken Shepherd
May 8th, 2014 10:50 AM

Open Thread: Come November, You Could Pay More Taxes Online

"Millions of Americans could face new state taxes on their Internet access this fall, as Congress struggles with how to extend an expiring moratorium on such levies," the Wall Street Journal's John McKinnon reported in the May 6 paper, noting that the federal moratorium in the Internet Tax Freedom Act expires on November 1, 2014 and has, thus far seen Congress taking "few concrete steps to re-…
NB Staff
May 8th, 2014 10:10 AM

Fawning Robin Roberts Tosses Softballs to Hillary: ‘Are You Satisfie

ABC on Thursday morning highlighted more of Robin Roberts’ fawning interview with Hillary Clinton. On the issue of Benghazi and the revelation that the White House had a direct hand in creating false talking points about the 2012 terrorist attack, Roberts could only manage this lame effort: “Benghazi. The new investigation. Are you satisfied with the answers and are you content with what you…
Scott Whitlock
May 8th, 2014 9:17 AM

Same WashPost That Praised Cory Booker, Despite His Phony Stories, Sla

There are two black U.S. Senators, Democrat Cory Booker of New Jersey and Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina. The Washington Post demonstrated a blatant partisan tilt toward the former by cooing over Booker’s brilliance and national profile last year. The Post omitted Booker flat-out making things up, inventing a drug-dealer called “T-Bone” to tell inner-city stories. But on Thursday,…
Tim Graham
May 8th, 2014 7:59 AM

Ed Schultz is Huge Fan of Polls - Except When it Comes to Keystone Pip

Whenever I watch the live-action cartoon on MSNBC known as "The Ed Show," I particularly enjoy its most comical element, Schultz's nightly polling of his almost entirely like minded viewers to determine whether they agree with him. On Wednesday, for example, the poll question was this -- "Will Washington ever quit pushing bad trade agreements and start protecting American jobs?" The results…
Jack Coleman
May 8th, 2014 6:07 AM

MSNBC's Hayes Suggests Tea Partiers Are 'One Step Away From Cliven Bun

MSNBC efforts to link conservatives to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy continued on Wednesday, May 7, as All In host Chris Hayes suggested that endorsing Tea Party candidates was "basically one step away from endorsing Cliven Bundy." [See video below.]
Brad Wilmouth
May 7th, 2014 11:36 PM

Marvel's Vigilantes of SHIELD

Evan doubles down on the bet that Agent Ward wiill have a redemption narrative.
Evan Mantel
May 7th, 2014 11:13 PM

Absurd AP: Birth Dearth Since Financial Crisis Is Causing Slow Workfor

If I didn't know any better, I might have thought, based on an Associated Press report tonight by business writer Bernard Condon prepared with the help of four others, that governments everywhere had reinstituted child labor for those as young as six years old. That's the only way to support the claims Condon made about how the birth dearth in the developed world driven by the 2008 financial…
Tom Blumer
May 7th, 2014 11:03 PM

That's Divergent! Actress Tells Time Magazine She's Not a Feminist 'Be

Young actress Shailene Woodley is the latest celebrity to upset the leftists by saying “No” to the question “Do you consider yourself a feminist?” Her first words to Time magazine were “No, because I love men.” “Badly misinformed,” complained Nina Bahadur of The Huffington Post. “It's disappointing that Woodley believes feminism is meant to elevate women's status at the expense of men, when…
Tim Graham
May 7th, 2014 10:31 PM

Fox News Anchors Hammer Jon Stewart for Calling Them Hypocrites on Ira

During the Monday evening edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart accused the reporters at the Fox News Channel of having “hypocritical outrage and sanctimony” regarding the war in Iraq a decade ago compared to the situation in which four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. It didn't take long for Greta van Susteren -- host of the weeknight On…
Randy Hall
May 7th, 2014 9:01 PM

ABC Flatters Hillary, Asks If She'll Break 'Highest Glass Ceiling' and

In an interview that aired on Wednesday's World News, ABC's Robin Roberts flattered Hillary Clinton as she cited Clinton's popularity to ask if she was considering a presidential run.     "When I look at your Twitter page, you – the last thing you list is saying you're a glass ceiling cracker. And no one feels it would be better to crack that glass ceiling than to have a woman as president,…
Matt Hadro
May 7th, 2014 7:38 PM

New York Times Complains FAA Regs on Drones Abridge Freedom of Press

So the New York Times has found an onerous, creativity-stifling regulation it abhors. Naturally, they want a carve-out so it still impacts everyone else but, well, journalists and the corporations which hire them. Jack Nicas of the Wall Street Journal reported today that the New York Times Company is joining other journalistic enterprises like the Associated Press and Tribune Co. in "a joint…
Ken Shepherd
May 7th, 2014 4:35 PM

Politico Notices TV Meteorologists 'More Skeptical' of Climate Change

Politico's Darren Goode surprisingly highlighted the skepticism of many on-air meteorologists in a Monday item about President Obama's interviews with "some of television's most popular celebrities — weather forecasters — to ratchet up the volume on the administration's latest scientific assessment of climate change." Goode pointed out that "not all broadcast meteorologists have been conducive…
Matthew Balan
May 7th, 2014 4:20 PM

WashPost Obituary Recalls Ken Tomlinson 'Controversially Decried Liber

“Controversial” allegations of liberal bias in public broadcasting – as if accusing PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers of a left-wing tilt lacks evidence – arrived in The Washington Post obituary section on Wednesday. Post obituary writer Emily Langer began: “Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a former editor of Reader's Digest who became chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of several…
Tim Graham
May 7th, 2014 4:06 PM