Not News: The Flat Big 3 and GM's (Election-Driven?) Channel-Stuffing

While it's not fair to criticize the press's coverage of November's vehicle sales as unfair or not balanced, it would be more than fair to say that the press is either ignoring or minimizing the impact of two important influences which have been at work all year. The first is the continued loss of combined market share at the industry's two US-headquartered makers, General Motors and Ford (…
Tom Blumer
December 4th, 2012 5:46 PM

Obama Consults MSNBC's Maddow, O'Donnell and Sharpton on Tax Rates

If this don't beat all. On Tuesday, President Obama met with liberals including MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Al Sharpton to "discuss importance of extending the Bush middle-class tax cut."
Noel Sheppard
December 4th, 2012 5:24 PM

Chuck Norris Column: We Need to Choke the Life out of ObamaCare

Now that Obama has been re-elected and Democrats still control the Senate, Republicans no longer have the chance to repeal Obamacare. But all is not lost. There's still an opportunity for America to stop this disaster by choking the life out of the federal monstrosity. Obama's signature legislative achievement is likely headed back to the Supreme Court.
Chuck Norris
December 4th, 2012 5:01 PM

Hall of Famer Namath to Piers Morgan: Blame Violence on the 'Animal We

Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath called out NBC's Bob Costas on Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight for gratuitously inserting his pro-gun control views into a NFL telecast: "As a football fan, I'm not up to that kind of a halftime take. There is a time and a place for it, and I wasn't pleased about that." Namath also hinted that gun control efforts were ultimately futile because of humanity's…
Matthew Balan
December 4th, 2012 4:58 PM

Cal Thomas Column: The Dark Shadows of Islamism

The opening scene-setter for the 1996 film "Independence Day" might serve as a metaphor for what Egyptians could face if a draft constitution written by a panel dominated by Islamists and based on Sharia law wins approval in a referendum: "A loud rumble is heard. Suddenly, we are covered in darkness as the shadow engulfs us. Only the image of our Earth hangs in the air, until a huge silhouetted…
Cal Thomas
December 4th, 2012 4:36 PM

Matt Damon Tells Crude 'Tossing Salad' Joke On Today Show, Lauer and G

Actor Matt Damon made a crude sexual joke about "tossing salad" on NBC's Today show Tuesday. Although the topic was food, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie both clearly understood the reference and laughed along with Damon and others on the set (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 4th, 2012 4:35 PM

NBC Gushes Over Obama's 'Very Fashionable Decision' to Possibly Name

At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie cheered the news that President Obama may make one of his major campaign donors, Anna Wintour, an ambassador: "Going Vogue? A report this morning that the President could appoint Vogue's famed editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to be his next ambassador to England or France. More on what could be a very fashionable decision." [Listen to the…
Kyle Drennen
December 4th, 2012 4:33 PM

Front-Page NYT Praise for Obama's 'Cliff' Negotiator, 'Policy Nerd' Wh

New York Times's Sheryl Gay Stolberg profiled White House chief of staff and "fiscal cliff" negotiator Jacob Lew (who may be the next Treasury secretary) on Sunday's front page, calling liberal Lew "a policy nerd" who "morphs into a warrior" when it comes to helping the poor. Yet he's also a "pragmatist," just like his boss Barack Obama, and also makes "a mean potato kugel."
Clay Waters
December 4th, 2012 4:20 PM

Time's Picture of 2013 Va. Gov's Race: 'Dyed-in-the-Wool Tea Partyer

The 2013 gubernatorial races may be in many ways a prelude of the 2014 congressional midterms. That certainly was the case in 1993 and 2009. So it's no surprise that the liberal media are doing their best to start writing the narrative about presumptive Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli, who presently serves as the commonwealth's attorney general. In a December 4…
Ken Shepherd
December 4th, 2012 3:58 PM

Jason Biggs Tweets Profanity to the Pope

Everyone’s favorite irrelevant celebrity is at it again. Jason Biggs, whose wife famously tweeted about child rape, joined an avalanche of lefties who are spewing hatred on the Pope’s new Twitter account. On December 3 Biggs tweeted to the Pope, “Hey @pontifex since u obvs like the web and shit u should totes peep christianmingle.com lots of great ass ur welcome.”
Lauren Thompson
December 4th, 2012 3:49 PM

Apocalypse Soon at the New York Times: 'Higher Seas and Greater Coasta

New York Times environmental reporters Justin Gillis and John Broder teamed up on Monday to unload some hot warming bias: "With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record high, Worries on How to Slow Warming." Gillis (pictured) in particular has a history of apocalypse-now! style climate reporting that has been ridiculed by actual scientists in the field. He and Broder certainly didn't hedge, taking as…
Clay Waters
December 4th, 2012 3:27 PM

Lawrence O’Donnell Hypes Ann Romney Crying After Election

Despite President Obama’s reelection nearly a month ago, MSNBC has continued to attack Mitt Romney and his family every chance it gets, with the latest being a vicious critique of Ann Romney on the December 3 The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell.  Mr. O’Donnell brought on Washington Post writers Jonathan Capehart and Philip Rucker to comment on recent articles they penned on the Romneys.  Mr.…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 4th, 2012 3:01 PM

CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U

Jim Axelrod filed a completely one-sided report on Tuesday's CBS This Morning linking the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide to a lack of gun control inside the NFL  – and in the country in general. Axelrod turned to only pro-gun control advocates as talking heads – Brady Center flack Marcellus Wiley, NBC's Bob Costas, and New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden. Rhoden blamed the widespread…
Matthew Balan
December 4th, 2012 2:20 PM

Politico Report: HuffPo Misrepresented Walmart

Slanted lefty “journalism” at HuffPo? Say it ain’t so! Walmart complained about an article written by the Huffington Post, according to the online news outlet Politico. Walmart spokesperson Randy Hargrove told Politico that the story, entitled “Walmart’s New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare,” was “riddled with inaccuracies.” Hardly shocking, given that it was a hit…
Mike Ciandella
December 4th, 2012 1:50 PM