NYT Fuels 'Furious Backlash' to WI Gov. Scott Walker's College Cuts

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a reformist conservative and Republican presidential hopeful for 2016, has become a media target, from making a stink of Walker evading an evolution question to obsessing over his college years. Next up: Ripping Walker's proposed cuts to the state university system's operating budget. New York Times reporter Julie Bosman took advantage of Tuesday's front page to…
Clay Waters
February 17th, 2015 4:28 PM

Only NBC Notes Criticism of Obama Following ISIS Expansion Into Libya

Of all the broadcast network coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning of ISIS terrorists beheading twenty-one Christians in Libya, only one reference was made on NBC's Today to President Obama's failed policy in Libya providing an opening to the Islamic extremists.
Kyle Drennen
February 17th, 2015 3:42 PM

Only CBS Mentions Arguments Against Obama's Immigration Action

On Monday night, U.S. Federal Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas blocked the implementation of President Obama’s controversial executive action on immigration. Following the announcement, on Tuesday, the “big three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) morning shows all covered the setback for the Obama administration but only CBS This Morning provided a detailed account of the arguments against the administration's…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 17th, 2015 3:33 PM

Greta on Fox: Why'd NY Times Put ISIS Beheading 21 Christians on A-6?

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren expressed outrage on Monday that The New York Times couldn’t put the massacre of 21 Christians in Libya on the front page of the paper. It came on A-6, under the headline “Islamic State Video Shows Beheadings of Egyptian Christians in Libya.” On her Fox website, she wrote: “Something is seriously wrong with The New York Times... 21 Christians beheaded by ISIS in…
Tim Graham
February 17th, 2015 2:07 PM

Donald Trump Mocks Brian Williams: ‘I Think He’s Absolutely Finished’

Businessman and TV host Donald Trump appeared on Access Hollywood, Monday night, to bash his old rival Brian Williams. On election night 2012, the now-disgraced anchor mocked Trump for some of his tweets. On Monday night, Trump gloated, “But I think [Williams is] finished, or he’s finished as we know him.”
Scott Whitlock
February 17th, 2015 1:59 PM

Jose Diaz-Balart Insists Immigration Reform ‘Toxic’ Among GOP Voters

On Tuesday, MSNBC host Jose Diaz-Balart featured back-to-back segments on immigration in the wake of a federal judge in Texas blocking implementation of President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform. Throughout the two segments, the Rundown host played up how the Texas judge’s ruling “reignites the debate within the GOP” and repeatedly insisted that any discussion of immigration reform…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 17th, 2015 1:11 PM

'Atlantic Piece Explains Just How Islamic ISIS Is: Very Much So

The president and his acolytes in the Democratic Party and the liberal media love to rehash the trite, politically correct nonsense that ISIS is fundamentally un-Islamic because its horrendous actions are beyond the pale of what the vast majority of peaceful Muslims worldwide would ever countenance. But in a piece for the March edition of The Atlantic, hardly a right-wing publication, Graeme Wood…
Ken Shepherd
February 17th, 2015 12:32 PM

Soros Gave $10 Million to Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia’

A liberal group funded by billionaire George Soros is accusing conservatives and the “religious right” of fear-mongering and slandering Islam. According to the Center for American Progress, the right has been coordinating to push “Sharia hysteria” which “mischaracterizes Sharia as a totalitarian ideology of hate and triumphalism committed to replacing the U.S. Constitution with a radical Islamic…
Mike Ciandella
February 17th, 2015 12:20 PM

Soros’ $10 Million Funds Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia

Center for American Progress also received money from Steyer, Ford Foundation.
Mike Ciandella
February 17th, 2015 12:11 PM

Rush Limbaugh Reveals He Was Invited on SNL to Play Santa Claus

His instincts told him to be wary. Turns out that Rush Limbaugh's suspicions were well-founded. On his radio broadcast Monday, the day after Saturday Night Live's 40th anniversary special on NBC, Limbaugh said SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels invited him on the show in the 1990s for a specific role -- to play Santa Claus.
Jack Coleman
February 17th, 2015 11:33 AM

Chris Hayes: Global Warming Is ‘Single Most Important Thing We Face'

According to MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, global warming apparently trumps terror concerns such as ISIS. While much of the country is covered with snow and facing brutal cold, Hayes appeared on the February 17 edition of Last Call to warn: “The single most important thing we face globally is the fact that we are heating the planet to a level that is never before been tried, while also trying to have…
Scott Whitlock
February 17th, 2015 11:20 AM

Snowbound Networks Devote 17+ Minutes to Climate Change

Just a year after The New York Times Sunday Review piece warned of “The End of Snow?,” the East Coast was once again bracing for frigid temperatures and a major snowfall. The winter storm that struck on President’s Day dumped a foot of snow in parts of Virginia, 4.1 inches near the White House, and 7 inches in Cape May, N.J. Boston braced for more snow, on top of its “snowiest February on record…
Julia A. Seymour
February 17th, 2015 10:02 AM

MSNBC Hosts Worry: Will Obama Get to Replace Aging, Liberal Ginsburg?

The liberal journalists at MSNBC used much of an exclusive interview with Supreme Court Justice Rather Bader Ginsburg to fixate on whether the elderly judge will retire and let Barack Obama name her replacement.  Anchor Rachel Maddow referred to it as the “awkward question that has lingered over the final two years” of Obama’s presidency.
Scott Whitlock
February 17th, 2015 9:43 AM

LA Times Starts 'Immigration and Identity' Site With Illegal Alien

CNN’s Brian Stelter reports “Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and undocumented immigrant, is joining forces with the Los Angeles Times to create a new section of the Times web site devoted to race, immigration and multiculturalism.” In other words, the Times seems to be creating a lobbying site for illegal immigrants, headed by an illegal immigrant and amnesty lobbyist.
Tim Graham
February 17th, 2015 9:39 AM