MSNBC's Alex Wagner Hints O'Reilly Believes Obama's a Secret Muslim

Ultra-liberal MSNBC host Alex Wagner may have hit a new low on the Wednesday edition of her program, Now.  Discussing the response to the Boston bombing, Wagner absurdly hinted that Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer's criticism of Barack Obama are "a precursor" to saying that "the president [is] actually secretly a Muslim."  Speaking directly to Politico’s Maggie Haberman, who…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 24th, 2013 3:01 PM

New York Times Finally Notices Gosnell Trial...When a Development In H

The trial in Philadelphia of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, on trial for infanticide, continues to be mostly ignored by the mainstream press. After public outcry. there was a bump in coverage, and the New York Times finally sent a reporter to cover the trial. But Trip Gabriel only filed a single story from Philadelphia, and that focused not on the trial but on the "online furor" that forced the…
Clay Waters
April 24th, 2013 2:51 PM

CBS Devotes A Mere 13 Seconds to Gosnell Trial Development; ABC, NBC P

For the first time in over a week, CBS covered the murder trial of abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell on Wednesday's CBS This Morning. But instead of a full report, as on April 15, Norah O'Donnell read a news brief that lasted just 13 seconds on the trial judge dismissing three of the murder charges against the Philadelphia physician [audio available here; video below the jump]. ABC's Good…
Matthew Balan
April 24th, 2013 2:01 PM

Benghazi Report Critical of Hillary Buried in Graf 17 of NY Times Stor

Wednesday's New York Times story by Cairo correspondent David Kirkpatrick about a car-bombing in Libya buried an important new development in the Benghazi scandal. A report from House Republicans accused then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of rejecting a call for additional security for U.S. diplomats in Libya before the Benghazi terror attack that killed four Americans last year on the…
Clay Waters
April 24th, 2013 1:34 PM

CMI On TV – ‘Bates Motel’ Big Reveal

Is Norman already a killer?  
Andrew Collins
April 24th, 2013 1:22 PM

'Religion News Service' Hails 'Moving' Anti-Catholic Play

The Huffington Post is promoting a positive review of Colm Toibin’s blasphemous play “The Testament of Mary” by Religion News Service reporter Charles Austin, who bizarrely claimed the bitterly anti-Catholic Irish writer is just like a preacher in imagining how “biblical heroes” acted between the lines. “Preachers do it every Sunday in their sermons.” Which preachers echo Toibin in…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2013 12:59 PM

In Friendly 'Chat' With Obama, NBC's Guthrie Asks About His Dance Skil

After initially airing more substantive portions of her April 15 interview with President Obama, on Wednesday, NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie made time to show a third part of the exchange: "...because of breaking news, we weren't able to show you yet our brief chat after that interview..." The "chat" that followed covered such hard-hitting topics as the First Lady's "mom dancing" on  Jimmy…
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2013 12:47 PM

NBC, ABC Ignore a Blistering House Report Placing Blame for Benghazi o

NBC and ABC completely skipped a scathing new report that singles out Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for blame after the September 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. CBS, in contrast, offered full reports on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Evening News anchor Scott Pelley announced, "House Republicans fired off a blistering report today criticizing former Secretary of State Hillary…
Scott Whitlock
April 24th, 2013 12:21 PM

Despite CNN's Gun Control Advocacy, Poll Shows Less Than Half of Publi

Despite CNN pushing Congress to enact new gun laws, a new poll shows less than half of Americans are "angry" or "disappointed" that last week's gun bill failed in the Senate. In its advocacy, CNN had touted 90 percent of Americans supporting universal background checks. CNN wanted action taken on guns. Host Piers Morgan led a one-man crusade for gun control since the Newtown shooting, and…
Matt Hadro
April 24th, 2013 12:17 PM

PBS's Tavis Smiley Fumes Over Failure of Gun Control Legislation

  Last week, before the Senate voted on the Manchin-Toomey gun control bill, Tavis Smiley declared that the idea that expanded background checks might not pass made him want to throw up. Well, the Senate has voted down the measure, and Smiley didn’t throw up on-camera. But he did hack up an angry rant on his PBS talk show Monday night. The host focused on the idea that the overwhelming…
Paul Bremmer
April 24th, 2013 11:49 AM

Politico's Byers Writes a Tome on NYT's Baquet-Abramson Conflict, Omit

In a 1,700-word report on conflict and office politics at the New York Times, the Politico's Dylan Byers omitted critical context about the apparent personality clash between Jill Abramson, the paper's executive editor, and Dean Baquet, its managing editor. Byers could have remedied the situation by including these seven words at an appropriate point: "Baquet, who has a history of…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2013 10:57 AM

MSNBC Finally Covers Gosnell Trial in Primetime Five Weeks After it Be

The murder trial of abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell began on March 18. On April 23, more than five weeks after it started, the folks at the so-called "news network" MSNBC decided it was time they reported it in primetime. Hardball's Chris Matthews surprisingly ended the blackout Tuesday:
Noel Sheppard
April 24th, 2013 10:08 AM

Bombing the Hand That Fed Them: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Family Received

The Boston Herald has broken the story -- a scoop even the Boston Globe has acknowledged -- that "Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism." A responsible national establishment press would treat this as an important story, because, as the Herald's Chris Cassidy noted in the…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2013 8:23 AM

Time.com: Boy Scouts 'Stoop to a New Low' by Announcing Possible Cave

Time.com offered a viewpoint from gay publicist  Howard Bragman (sorry, “one of America's leading crisis communications counselors”) accusing “The Boy Scouts Stoop to a New Low.” The new low? Announcing that they might be surrendering on gay Boy Scouts during the media’s heavy focus on the Boston Marathon bombing. What if liberals inside the organization want to "soften the blow" to tradition…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2013 6:45 AM