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All Three Networks Fall for 'Meaningless’ ‘Hottest Year’ Claims
The broadcast networks hustled to report NASA and NOAA data that claimed 2014 was a record hot year. But now both government agencies are being criticized by scientists accusing them of “deception” over the statistics.
Investor’s Business Daily noted in a recent editorial that debate is over minute details. If 2014 was the hottest, it was “by no more than four-hundredths of a degree” and is…
January 19th, 2015 3:18 PM
All Three Networks Fall for ‘Meaningless’ ‘Hottest Year’ Claim
Scientists accuse NASA/NOAA of misleading public, show temperature differences within margin of error.
January 19th, 2015 2:58 PM
MSNBC Catholic? Barnicle Attacks 'A--hole' Cardinal As 'Offensive'
If the notion of an “MSNBC Catholic” sounds like a complete non sequitur, you could be thinking of Mike Barnicle. In a foam-flecked Daily Beast attack on conservative Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke -- "Catholicism’s Most Offensive Mansplainer" -- Barnicle and the Beasties highlighted how his “mother the nun” would call Burke an “a**hole” in Gaelic.
Barnicle also uncorked a completely crackpot…
January 19th, 2015 2:17 PM
MSNBC.com: GOP 'Haunted' by Anti-MLK Holiday Votes
MSNBC plays the race card 365 days a year, but on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, you can be sure they'll really ham it up. Witness MSNBC.com writer Jane Timm's pathetic attempt to bash the GOP as racist by bringing up decades-old votes on whether or not to make the civil-rights leader's birthday a federal holiday.
"GOP haunted by anti-MLK Day votes," blares a teaser headline on the msnbc.com home…
January 19th, 2015 1:08 PM
NBC Hails Obama Tax Hike Proposal As 'A Turning Point In Our Politics'
On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt touted how President Obama's plan to "propose tax hikes for wealthiest Americans" during Tuesday's State of the Union address would be "potentially putting Congress in the position of appearing to defend the highest income earners over the middle class."
January 19th, 2015 12:53 PM
ABC Thrills Over Good Numbers for Obama, Downplayed Past Polls
Good Morning America journalists on Monday eagerly promoted good news for Barack Obama. Co-host George Stephanopoulos hyped an ABC News/Washington Post survey "showing the President going to a pretty high approval ratings, going up to 50 percent, the highest he's had in 18 months."
January 19th, 2015 12:43 PM
Actor: Hollywood Awards Should Be Made Racially 'Equitable And Just'
Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released their nominations for the 87th Academy Awards and many have criticized the academy for shutting out the film “Selma” from the four biggest acting categories. With the so-called controversy over the film’s lack of nominations continuing, on Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources brought on actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, star of HBO’s “The Wire”…
January 19th, 2015 12:10 PM
Seth Rogen Compares ‘American Sniper’ to Nazi Propaganda
What is it about positive portrayals of Navy SEALs and the families that support them back home that induces liberal actors into making Nazi propaganda comparisons? On Sunday, comedic actor Seth Rogen took to twitter to say that “American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that’s showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.”
January 19th, 2015 11:12 AM
In SOTU Preview, CBS Declares Obama ‘Champion of The Middle Class'
President Obama is set to give his seventh State of the Union address on Tuesday night and on Monday, January 19, CBS This Morning did its best to give him some free publicity during their preview of the president’s annual speech. CBS reporter Bill Plante hyped President Obama’s tax increase agenda and argued that the goal of his State of the Union “is to put Republicans on the defensive as the…
January 19th, 2015 9:34 AM
Flashback: Journalists Thrilled By All of Obama’s SOTU Speeches
Tuesday night, Barack Obama delivers his second-to-last State of the Union address, this time as a lame duck President with relatively low approval ratings and facing a Congress entirely controlled by the opposition party. But if history is a guide, he can count on encouraging reviews from many in the establishment media.
January 19th, 2015 9:05 AM
WashPost Puts 'Infamous Burner of Korans' (and Fry Cook) on Page One
Five years after his 15 minutes of fame, The Washington Post put Florida minister Terry Jones -- described as an "infamous burner of Korans" -- on Page One. His "notoriety" as "America's most brazen offender of Islam" was helping him sell french fries at a mall.
The Washington Post has never used a word like "infamous" or "notorious" or "brazen" to describe late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart,…
January 19th, 2015 7:07 AM
'Sniper' Brings Out Left's Bile; Michael Moore Calls Snipers 'Cowards'
The popularity of "American Sniper," the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, has "shocked" Hollywood. Estimates are that by the time the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend ends, the Clint Eastwood-directed film will gross over $100 million and smash records in several R-rated film categories.
That such a movie has been so well received, causing long waiting lines in both red and blue America…
January 19th, 2015 1:19 AM
NBC Offers Sunday Amen to 80-Year-Old Radical 'Dynamo' 'Woman Priest'
Is there anything less newsworthy than the mostly American “womenpriest” movement protesting the Roman Catholic Church? Is there anything that’s more of a stale rerun?
On Sunday's Today, feminist NBC correspondent celebrated 80-year-old "dynamo" doing "something radical" and "sticking a well-manicured finger in the eye of the established Catholic Church."
January 18th, 2015 8:51 PM
NY Times Editorial Page Defends IRS in Tea Party Targeting Scandal
Sunday's New York Times editorial page came once again to the defense of the Internal Revenue Service against the depredations of congressional conservatives, even suggesting the IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups amounted to nothing: "...payback demanded by House Republicans to penalize the I.R.S. for daring to scrutinize Tea Party operations that tried to claim exemptions under the tax code…
January 18th, 2015 7:42 PM