Dean and Skinner on CNBC: Mass. Vote Close Because Health Care Bill La

We don’t yet know the outcome of the Jan. 19 Massachusetts Senate special election. But the very fact that the Democrats could lose the seat formerly held by Sen. Ted Kennedy to a conservative who’s made blocking healthcare reform a centerpiece of his campaign, has liberals sputtering implausible explanations.On Jan. 19, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and liberal radio host Nancy Skinner…
Matt Philbin
 

Another Backlash Against Press from Coakley Campaign

Lachlan Markay
 

MSNBC Claims Deceased Auto Tycoon Henry Ford Polling Poorly in NY Sena

Kyle Drennen
 

Matthews Blares: A Vote for Scott Brown is 'Premeditated Murder for He

Chris Matthews left no doubt for Massachusetts voters what was at stake with their vote in today's Senate election as the MSNBC host, on Tuesday's Hardball, underlined, in graphic terms, that a vote for Republican Scott Brown was a vote to kill health care. Matthews, on the 5pm edition of his show, blared: "If they go for Republican Scott Brown it's deliberate, premeditated murder for health…

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Eleanor Clift: Coakley's Problem Was She Wasn't a 'Kennedy Person From

As a probable Coakley loss became apparent over the past few days, the liberal excuse machine has been gearing up to spin away as much as it can to dismiss a Scott Brown victory as inconsequential to the national political climate, despite the crucial nature of the seat to a Democratic super-majority.Not one to disappoint, liberal apologist-cum-journalist Eleanor Clift offers a fresh excuse at…
Ken Shepherd
 

ABC’s Brian Ross Hyperventilates Over ‘Secret Bible Codes’ on Mi

Nightline’s Brian Ross on Monday filed a hyperbolic report on "secret Jesus codes" that are on the sights of rifles used by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Ross featured two voices highly critical of the fact that Bible versus can be found on these weapons, but no clip of the opposing side. Ross repeated, "Michael Weinstein runs the Military Religious Freedom Foundation which claims thousands…
Scott Whitlock
 

MSNBC's Brzezinski Talks Media Bias, Blames Lib Media for Starting Fox

TVNewser has a transcript par excellence, for your reading pleasure.  In sum, Mika Brzezinski has gone off the Big Media reservation again, in a good way. Let’s just say she unwittingly (?) offers praise for a cable news network with much better ratings.In an interview for her new book, Brzezinski spoke with Julie Menin about the partisan nature of today’s American media:BRZEZINSKI: "I've worked…
Mike Sargent
 

Mass. Bias in NYT: Voter 'Advocate' Coakley vs. G.O.P.'s Brown, a 'Con

New York Times reporter Liz Robbins provided an excellent case study of liberal bias Tuesday, profiling both candidates on the eve of the special U.S. Senate election in the deep-blue state of Massachusetts. Robbins's stories appeared side-by-side on page A22 of Tuesday morning's newspaper, and Democrat candidate Martha Coakley clearly got the better of the deal.A headline portrayed Coakley as a…
Clay Waters
 

CNN's Yellin : 'Angry and Scared' People Caused Scott Brown's Rise

On Monday’s AC360, CNN’s Jessica Yellin spun the rise of Republican candidate Scott Brown as coming from “folks here in Massachusetts [who] are feeling angry and scared. They’re angry and scared about the economy, about jobs...and especially in this state, about health-care reform....[Brown] has tapped into that fear and sold himself essentially as a man of the people who will fight big…
Matthew Balan
 

Shuster: Fire Department Should Let Glenn Beck's House Burn Down If It

MSNBC's David Shuster on Monday said that if Fox News host Glenn Beck's house were to catch fire, the fire department should let it burn down.Such was discussed on Stephanie Miller's radio program in a segment hysterically about so-called crazy things said by conservatives.After Shuster characteristically demeaned the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney, Miller noted, "Glenn Beck actually said…
Noel Sheppard
 

NBC Reporter Accuses Scott Brown of Ducking GOP Label

On Tuesday's Today show NBC's Kelly O'Donnell -- apparently reaching to find something negative to say about the surging Scott Brown --  accused the Republican Massachusetts Senate candidate of running away from his own party as she questioned: "You don't mention the Republican Party much in your campaign. Why is that?" To which Brown quickly asserted: "I think people know I'm a Republican. That'…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

Sour Grapes and the Fox

And the whine will flow down the left side of the aisle.
Glenn Foden
 

No Media Objections As Dems Raced to Swear In New Members Two Months A

There has been something of a debate over whether the Senate can properly delay seating Republican Scott Brown if he wins today’s special election, giving the Democrats time to ram through their unpopular health care bill. The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes has neatly summarized the arguments of GOP lawyers that the temporary Senator Paul Kirk’s term expires today with the election of a successor…
Rich Noyes
 

CBS’s Rodriguez Excuses Possible Dem Delay On Seating Scott Brown; A

Appearing on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele criticized potential Democratic efforts to delay seating Republican Scott Brown as the Senator from Massachusetts as “unseemly,” but co-host Maggie Rodriguez replied: “Is that fair? Because wouldn’t your party do the exact same thing?”Rodriguez went on to argue: “Isn’t it true that when the GOP had the…
Kyle Drennen