Shocker on CBS: Earth 'Not As Warm...As the Climate Models Predicted'

On Friday's CBS Evening News, a NASA scientist made a surprising admission about climate change during a report about an erupting volcano in South America. Correspondent Michelle Miller turned to Dr. Allegra LeGrande, who detailed how the gases from a volcanic eruption can lead to a reduction in the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth. Le Grande added that "this is a small component of why…
Matthew Balan
April 24th, 2015 8:07 PM

Josh Earnest Badly Dodges Pile of Pesky Clinton Foundation Queries

Alex Griswold of the Daily Caller reports that on Thursday, “Press secretary Josh Earnest dodged no less [sic] than ten consecutive questions in a span of five minutes. Nine of the 10 questions came from ABC’s Jonathan Karl, the 10th from CNN’s Jim Acosta. Karl demanded transparency – a very belated request – for the 2009 memorandum that somehow made the Clintons responsive to the administration…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2015 5:21 PM

MSNBC: 'Holes' in 'Clinton Cash'; 'Hard to Prove' Without E-Mail Trail

On her Friday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell dismissed the upcoming Clinton Cash book as having "a lot of holes" in its corruption allegations against Bill and Hillary Clinton: "There is the question of, how do you connect the policy that she was pursuing as a Secretary of State with the allegation that money was being contributed to the charity or speeches were being booked for Bill Clinton…
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2015 4:16 PM

Ed Schultz Slams Obama on TPP: 'You're Wrong' About 'Phony Trade Deal'

A common occurrence on MSNBC's The Ed Show is the liberal host venting all the bluster he can muster against someone who disagrees with him. However, on Thursday's edition of the afternoon program, Ed Schultz didn't try to hammer conservative Republicans, his usual targets. Instead, his vitriol was aimed at Barack Obama. While interviewing Bernie Sanders, a far-left senator from Vermont, Schultz…
Randy Hall
April 24th, 2015 3:54 PM

NBC's Seth Meyers Defends Hillary from Clinton Cash Allegations

On the Thursday edition of NBC’s Late Night, host Seth Meyers jumped aboard the Clinton campaign’s push to discredit the upcoming book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer by mocking Schweizer’s background, previous book titles, and chalking the book up to be nothing more than the latest work from “the cottage industry of anti-Clinton books that come out every year.”
Curtis Houck
April 24th, 2015 3:54 PM

Media Decry Science-Based NFL Ruling

Liberals love science. Except when they come face-to-face with science that lacks a political agenda. That occurred this week when Judge Anita Brody handed down her ruling in the NFL’s concussion settlement that only deceased NFL players whose brains show evidence of CTE will automatically qualify for benefits from the fund. Not living retired players. It was a victory for science over the…
Dylan Gwinn
April 24th, 2015 3:32 PM

Professors: Media Enable Republicans to ‘Cripple’ Government

For liberals, the great mystery of the last few decades is how Republicans usually have won enough votes to control one or both houses of Congress even as the party moves increasingly to the right. As political-science profs Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson put it in their 5,500-word article in the spring issue of The American Prospect, “In a 50-50 nation, Republicans have learned how to have their…
Tom Johnson
April 24th, 2015 3:02 PM

Rush Wonders How CNN and MSNBC Can Still Be on the Air; Here's How

Rush Limbaugh posted an interesting pair of questions at his web site yesterday: "How can CNN still be on the air with no audience? How can MSNBC have been on the air with no audience? In the old days, they're gone, kaput. Something else is tried. But they stay. And they double down on what they're doing that's losing audience." A large part of the answer, as I noted on March 30, is that those…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2015 2:36 PM

Daily Beast's Daly: Mexican Pimps Rejoiced When GOP Held Up Lynch Vote

Mexican human traffickers were positively giddy when Republicans held up the Loretta Lynch confirmation vote, Daily Beast writer Michael Daly insisted in his April 24 story "New Attorney General Loretta Lynch Is Sex Traffickers’ Worst Nightmare."
Ken Shepherd
April 24th, 2015 1:44 PM

Tapper Named 'State of the Union' Host as CNN Avoids Clinton Scandals

Congratulations to Jake Tapper! The host of CNN's The Lead has today been named as the new host of the Sunday morning news show, State of the Union. Whatever his personal political proclivities might be, Tapper has proven himself to be a generally honest reporter. It is hard to imagine him acting in such a blatantly political manner as previous State of the Union host, Candy Crowley, did when she…
P.J. Gladnick
April 24th, 2015 1:42 PM

Report: NBC DC Bureau Pushed Hard Against Brian Williams Return

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi reported on Friday that employees in the Washington bureau of NBC News strongly pushed against the return of Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams in a February meeting with NBC executive Deborah Turness. They expressed angry embarrassment that “Williams’s embellished statements about his reporting exploits had damaged NBC’s credibility and that he…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2015 1:41 PM

GMA Allows No Coverage on Clinton Donations; 12 Minutes on Avengers

ABC's Good Morning America, hosted by former Bill Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos, on Friday skipped any mention of the growing scandal involving foreign donations to the foundation of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Yet, the lengthy program found plenty of time for superficial topics. 
Scott Whitlock
April 24th, 2015 12:37 PM

CNN: GOP Already ‘Overplayed Their Hand' on Clinton Foundation Scandal

On two occasions during CNN’s New Day on Friday, CNN personalities raised the often-used liberal argument that Republicans have “overplayed their hand” on a scandal with the latest being their handling of the allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation. The first person to raise the point was CNN political commentator and NY1 host Errol Louis. Jeff Zeleny parroted a Clinton campaign talking…
Curtis Houck
April 24th, 2015 12:27 PM

NBC Keeps Trying to Dismiss Clinton Scandal With Soros 'Ethics Expert'

After using an "ethics expert" from the Sunlight Foundation – an organization funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros – to dismiss the Clinton Foundation scandal on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell appeared on Friday's Today using the same so-called expert and a statement from airplane manufacturer Boeing to reject corruption allegations against Bill and Hillary…
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2015 12:09 PM