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WashPost Promotes Anita Hill Documentary, Ignores Hill's Defense of Cl
Friday’s Washington Post published an essay by its own arts writer Soraya Nadia McDonald hailing the new leftist documentary on Anita Hill. It doubles down on the alleged sainthood of Anita Hill and her still-unsubstantiated charges of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas. Nobody ever mentions that this paragon of taking sexual harassment seriously.... wrote in Bill Clinton’s defense in The New…
April 5th, 2014 7:22 AM
AP Headline Falsely Claims 'U.S. Finally Regains The Jobs Lost in the
This afternoon, in an unbylined item headlined "US BUSINESS HIRING FINALLY TOPS RECESSION LOSSES," the Associated Press showed that it deserves the nickname "Administration's Press." The story embarrassingly described the job market's return to its previous January 2008 employment peak as a "pivotal moment." Get real. Given over six additional years of growth in the adult population, that's…
April 4th, 2014 11:39 PM
Megyn Kelly Declares CAIR Is 'Not Getting' a Retraction for Covering F
On Tuesday, the host of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel discussed Honor Diaries, a documentary intended to depict the “systematic, institutionalized misogyny against Muslim women around the world.”
The first segment aired on Monday and drew a demand for an apology from the Council of American-Islamic Relations. Twenty-four hours later, Megyn Kelly told CAIR: “Well, guess what -- you’…
April 4th, 2014 10:36 PM
Business Insider and Slate 'Reporters:' 'Extremist' Mozilla CEO Akin t
Jim Edwards, the deputy editor of the Business Insider website, and Slate.com's tech reporter Will Oremus slammed former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich on the Friday edition of BBC World Service's World Have Your Say program. Edwards likened Eich's $1,000 donation in support of California's Proposition 8 to someone who "donated some money to the KKK." The editor also repeatedly accused the tech…
April 4th, 2014 10:10 PM
Blackout: 140 Days Since ABC's 'Nightline' Has Covered ObamaCare
As of April 3, 2014, it's been 140 days since the once-vaunted Nightline covered ObamaCare or any of the problems associated with it. Instead, the ABC News program has mostly avoided hard news, focusing on tabloid-heavy topics such as a city in Brazil that has become known as the "model factory." [See below for a video montage of the frivolous topics covered instead. MP3 audio here.]
On…
April 4th, 2014 5:38 PM
Obama Promoter Extraordinaire Matthews Slams Promotional Political Ads
Chris Matthews made a guest appearance Thursday on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation and showcased a hilarious lack of self-awareness regarding his network, especially his own show. The Hardball host sneered at the idea that a political campaign’s TV ads amount to free speech, insisting that they are no different than Coca-Cola commercials. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]
Matthews snarled:
April 4th, 2014 5:17 PM
Supine Press: WashPost Explains How Obama Dispenses With Tragedy Betwe
Inside Friday’s Washington Post, White House reporter David Nakamura wrote about life in the White House press pool when tragedy strikes. President Obama was in Chicago for fundraisers (ticket $32,400). But the reporters were moved from underground parking back to the fundraising venue when the new Fort Hood shooting broke.
One reporter wondered why Obama would scramble to make remarks (no…
April 4th, 2014 4:58 PM
CBS Hosts Thrilled By Prospect of 'Powerhouse Women' Like Hillary Clin
On Friday's CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O'Donnell touted Hillary Clinton attending the Women in the World summit alongside International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde: "One of the highlights, their reaction when moderator Thomas Friedman of the New York Times suggested that Lagarde would one day lead the European Union and Clinton could become President of the United States." […
April 4th, 2014 4:47 PM
USA Today Echoes Occupy Wall Street
No need for the “share the wealth” crowd to worry. USA Today is ready to step into the void and stoke class division in the absence of Occupy Wall Street.
On April 4, USA Today profiled “The $100 Million Club,” a group of wealthy corporate CEOs, and contrasted their pay with the US median wage of $40,872 in 2013. A subhead on the print edition complained: “CEOs get richer, workers get left…
April 4th, 2014 2:57 PM
Kudlow Blames Weak Recovery on ObamaCare’s ‘Incredible Uncertainty
While some argue an economic “upshift” is coming, former CNBC anchor and economist Larry Kudlow doesn’t see it.
Following the announcement that 192,000 jobs were added in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on April 4, Larry Kudlow, poured cold water on expectations of “this big surge this year.” Until his show ended a week earlier, Kudlow hosted CNBC’s “The Kudlow…
April 4th, 2014 2:17 PM
Colbert and Stewart Launch Tirades Against SCOTUS Campaign Finance Dec
Comedy Central launched a crusade against the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision on Thursday night, as both the Daily Show and Colbert Report spent a combined three segments and 20 minutes on a liberal diatribe against the decision.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart aired a lengthy 10-minute rant against the Court striking down the limit on the amount of overall political donations. That…
April 4th, 2014 12:56 PM
Networks Refused to Give President Primetime Air for ObamaCare Victory
On Thursday, BuzzFeed reported that NBC, ABC, and CBS turned down a White House request for primetime coverage of a presidential address on Tuesday to spike the football on ObamaCare reaching the seven million enrollment mark. Instead, the President was forced to settle for an afternoon pep rally in the Rose Garden which only ABC and NBC covered live.
These were the same networks that…
April 4th, 2014 12:37 PM
Kickstarter Funded ‘After Tiller’ Abortionist Documentary, Rejecte
Talk about blatant bias. Although crowdfunded site Kickstarter refused the makers of the new Gosnell movie permission to fundraise, the same company hosted the recent “After Tiller” late-term abortionist documentary.
Filmmaker Phelim McAleer along with wife Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda aimed to raise $2.1 million in 45 days via Kickstarter for their Gosnell project, a scripted drama…
April 4th, 2014 12:21 PM
Adam Carolla Defends O'Reilly, Calls Out Biased Press
Adam Carolla knows it's no accident entertainment scribes bring up his "right wing" politics at every turn.
The podcast king called out biased entertainment reports during a feisty Q&A with RollingStone.com. The interviewer stirred the pot by asking if Carolla got flak from his Hollywood pals for appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, the highly rated pundit show on Fox News.
April 4th, 2014 12:00 PM