Matthews Stunned to Learn Obama Hamstrung Screening of S.B. Terrorist

On tonight's Tell Me Something I Don't Know"" segment wherein Hardball host Chris Matthews challenged his roundtable panelists to break some news, panelist Michelle Bernard succeeded when she informed the MSNBC anchor that Obama administration policy forbade visa-application screeners from looking at social media accounts for applicants like Tashfeen Malik, the female jihadi in the San Bernardino…
Ken Shepherd
December 14th, 2015 8:51 PM

Amanpour Blames Blair for Terrorism; ‘Do You Feel Responsibility?'

On her eponymous CNN show on Thursday night, Christiane Amanpour verbally harassed former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair over his involvement in the Iraq War and specifically whether he and former U.S. President George W. Bush “feel pain” and “a sense of responsibility” for the war having supposedly caused recent Islamic terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
Curtis Houck
December 14th, 2015 7:47 PM

Clinton 'Going Hollywood' to Win Young Voters Back From Sanders

Even though Hillary Clinton has been the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race since she declared her candidacy in April, the former U.S. secretary of state is embarking on a swing of fund-raising events this week that will be hosted by such famous stars as actress Drew Barrymore and Sting, the popular musician. This move is taking place after a recent NBC News…
Randy Hall
December 14th, 2015 7:02 PM

MSNBC Likens Paris Climate Deal to 'NASA Moonshot Kind of Moment'

MSNBC's Tony Dokoupil acted more like a left-wing environmentalist than a journalist on Saturday's Weekends With Alex Witt, as he reported on the Paris climate change talks. Dokoupil trumpeted how "it's really like a Mars lander kind of moment — a NASA moonshot moment." The correspondent later touted how "history will be made" if the talks conclude successfully, and added, "I can't wait to see…
Matthew Balan
December 14th, 2015 6:33 PM

'Rolling Stone' and 'Nation' Columnist: 'Get Rid of Private Housing'

One hesitates to give attention to Jesse A. Myerson. But it's probably worth it, if for no other reason to contend that many of his beliefs are likely shared by the mindless lemmings disguised as "journalists" who wildly cheered on Saturday when an obviously orchestrated "climate change" agreement designed ultimately to redistribute massive amounts of wealth from developed to underdeveloped…
Tom Blumer
December 14th, 2015 6:07 PM

Leftist Pundit: Will GOP Become a ‘Neo-Fascist, White-Identity Party’?

Several weeks ago, there was an Internet meme about whether it would have been ethical to kill the infant Adolf Hitler. Michael Tomasky poses a (somewhat) less-weighty back-in-time question: Could the Republican party’s current Donald Trump problem have been avoided? Tomasky suggests that it could have been, but instead, during Bill Clinton’s first term in the White House, GOPers “played footsie…
Tom Johnson
December 14th, 2015 5:25 PM

Pols Hate Ted Cruz, Will That Hurt or Help Him

As Senator Ted Cruz has become a serious contender for the Republican presidential nominating contest, he's facing greater scrutiny and opposition. That's to be expected. Some of the opposition is fairly traditional. Iowa's governor just attacked Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies. Cruz opposes the subsidies because he doesn't believe the federal government should be picking business winners and…
Scott Rasmussen
December 14th, 2015 4:41 PM

Andrea Mitchell Blames ‘The South’ for New York Gun Violence

During a segment on her Monday MSNBC show using the third anniversary of the Newtown school shooting to demand gun control, host Andrea Mitchell pleaded for national legislation: “Andrew Cuomo, the governor who passed really tough gun legislation in New York....Yet he has said that it is impossible task because you can't do it state by state.”
Kyle Drennen
December 14th, 2015 3:36 PM

Shorter BuzzFeed: When It Comes to Trump Coverage, Forget Ethics

Even though their ethics guide states, that “reporters and editors should refrain from commenting in a partisan way about candidates or policy issues,” cat-meme giant BuzzFeed is letting those ethical guidelines fall to the wayside when it comes to coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Melissa Mullins
December 14th, 2015 3:02 PM

Jerry Brown's Fondness For 'Coercive Power' Gets Little Attention

Imagine a Republican or conservative governor boasting of his or her use of "the coercive power of government" to accomplish center-right policy goals. The political and media backlash would be furious — and justified. Such statist rhetoric is becoming ever more commonplace on the left, and is rising to ever higher political levels. The establishment press is mostly ignoring this development,…
Tom Blumer
December 14th, 2015 2:42 PM

Vox's Kliff Finally Returns to Reveal Really Bad Obamacare News

Last Friday your humble correspondent noted the absence of Sarah Kliff on the topic of ObamaCare and now he is unhumble enough to believe that this put pressure on her to return to that painful topic today at Vox after nearly a month of avoiding it. As you can read, poor Sarah seems to have gone from acting like a cheerleader aboard a sinking Titanic to taking on the role of radio reporter…
P.J. Gladnick
December 14th, 2015 1:15 PM

CBS Hypes: Ted Cruz ‘Deeply Unpopular’ With GOP Leadership

On Monday’s CBS This Morning, while covering Ted Cruz’s rise in the polls, correspondent Nancy Cordes noted the Republican presidential candidate’s “outspoken opposition to ObamaCare and his willingness to take on both sides of the Washington establishment resonates with Iowa conservatives,” but warned: “That approach has made Cruz deeply unpopular with leaders in his own party, who worry that he…
Kyle Drennen
December 14th, 2015 12:41 PM

On CBS, Jane Fonda Praises Herself for Her Anti-War Activism

In the latest edition of its Note to Self series, Monday’s CBS This Morning featured left-wing actress Jane Fonda reciting a letter to herself in which she praised her own activism against the Vietnam war: “Your biggest strength will be that you won't shutdown and become cynical. You'll become an activist.”
Kyle Drennen
December 14th, 2015 11:13 AM

WaPo Rehashes Univision's Failed Rubio Drug Smear

The Washington Post joins its GOP presidential forum partner, Univision, rehashing a 2011 narco-by-association smear of Marco Rubio.
Jorge Bonilla
December 14th, 2015 10:52 AM