WashPost Runs 20 Paragraph Puff Piece on Keystone Pipeline Protestors

On Sunday, 35,000 protestors marched on the Washington Mall urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, giving the Washington Post’s Steven Mufson ample space to hype the march.  In the 20 paragraph expose, the Post fails to label the protestors as liberal once and does not include any quotes from supporters of the pipeline, instead choosing to hype their global warming hysteria…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 18th, 2013 11:47 AM

Scarborough: Ted Cruz Acting 'Like Carnival Barker

The trashing of Ted Cruz continues apace in the bien-pensant MSM. From the New York Times, to the Washington Post, to Politico and elsewhere, the liberal media has the new Republican Senator from Texas in its sights. Joe Scarborough is clearly camped out on the Cruz-bashing bandwagon.  Earlier this month, so offended by Cruz was the sensitive Scarborough that he wouldn't deign to mention him…
Mark Finkelstein
February 18th, 2013 10:14 AM

Police Found Thousands of Dollars of Graphically Violent Video Games a

America's media are always quick to discount the impact violence in movies, television, and video games has on society. It therefore will be interesting to see what the response will be to a Hartford Courant report Sunday that police found thousands of dollars of graphically violent video games in the home of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza:
Noel Sheppard
February 18th, 2013 9:41 AM

Rand Paul Story AP Supposedly 'Killed' Is Still Out There -- At an AP

Sunday afternoon, the Associated Press issued a supposedly comprehensive "kill" order to all subscribers relating to an erroneous story claiming that Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Fox News Sunday's that "he sees voters wanting, quote, 'somebody who wants to round people up, put in camps and send them back to Mexico.'" I'm questioning whether the AP is really interested in making sure the story…
Tom Blumer
February 18th, 2013 9:10 AM

Actress Rosario Dawson Argues Keystone Pipeline's for China, Not for t

MRCTV's Joe Schoffstall caught up with liberal actress Rosario Dawson yesterday at the Washington rally against the Keystone XL pipeline. Dawson insisted President Obama "could and should do more" for green energy, and the old "brown" kind somehow doesn't create jobs. "This pipeline is not for the benefit of the American people," she said. "This pipeline is so that we can start selling to…
Tim Graham
February 18th, 2013 7:50 AM

ABC: Are Some Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Pictures Racist

Talk about your phony controversies. On ABC's Good Morning America Sunday, they actually did a segment addressing whether or not some of the pictures taken during the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue photo shoots were - wait for it! - racist (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2013 8:05 PM

NBC Elevates Matthews’ Mendacity to Meet the Press, Right Wing Has M

It’s bad enough that Chris Matthews gets two hours a day on MSNBC to showcase his anti-conservative rants, but why does host David Gregory undermine any pretense that NBC News is not the same as MSNBC by bringing Matthews aboard Meet the Press? Worse, Gregory prompted Matthews to repeat his Hardball diatribe about how, in freshman Senator Ted Cruz, “I saw Joe McCarthy.” Seconds later,…
Brent Baker
February 17th, 2013 6:59 PM

AP Withdraws Bogus Article Claiming Rand Paul Said Voters Want To Roun

The folks at the Associated Press have a lot of egg on their faces Sunday. Politico hours ago released a Bulletin Kill from the wire service withdrawing an article published earlier in the day with the inflammatory headline "Sen. Paul: Voters Want to Round Up Immigrants":
Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2013 6:18 PM

Politico: Jesse Jackson Jr. and His Wife 'Lost Track of the Line Betwe

In anticipation of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s indictment on Friday afternoon, Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan at the Politico seemed all too willing to hand out sympathy cards to Jackson and his wife, both of whom stand to do time in prison for offenses relating to their raid of the congressman's campaign funds. Specifically, the Politico pair wrote: "It’s a story of a Chicago power couple that…
Tom Blumer
February 17th, 2013 5:48 PM

George Will: Sequester Needed to Curb Washington's Contemptuous Treatm

Syndicated columnist George Will appears all for Congress allowing sequestration to reduce spending on March 1. Appearing on ABC's This Week Sunday, Will said it would be appropriate given the "utter contempt with which Washington treats taxpayers' money."
Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2013 5:28 PM

Angry PBS Anchor Judy Woodruff on Hagel Delay: 'Does Someone Pay the P

PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff had a rough night on Friday, putting her outrage at Republicans ahead of the facts. In her "Shields and Brooks" segment with liberal Mark Shields and former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson (subbing for David Brooks), she guessed "The Republicans, I gather, we're told, it is unprecedented, blocking the nomination -- or the confirmation so far of the man…
Tim Graham
February 17th, 2013 4:51 PM

The True National Average Gas Price Is Likely Higher Than the Press Is

Here's something to keep in mind in the context of the past several years, as well as during the current runup in gas prices: They're more than likely higher than the press's reported "national averages." On Friday, the Associated Press reported the following concerning gas prices: "The national average is $3.64 a gallon, up a cent and a half from Thursday, with the highest prices in…
Tom Blumer
February 17th, 2013 4:34 PM

John McCain Asks NBC's David Gregory 'Do You Care Whether Four America

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked NBC's David Gregory a question Sunday that should be asked of virtually every media member in this country. During a heated exchange about the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year, McCain said to his Meet the Press host, "Do you care whether four Americans died?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2013 2:56 PM

Newt Gingrich Smacks Down WaPo's Ruth Marcus: 'This Is Just Such Washi

Newt Gingrich had a fabulous exchange with the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus on ABC's This Week Sunday that really speaks volumes about the media's reaction to Republican Senators filibustering Chuck Hagel's confirmation as Defense Secretary. When Marcus spouted the typical liberal commentator line "Republicans just want to make themselves look even more obstructionist with a country that’s…
Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2013 1:56 PM