Day After Bush Blackout, NYT Shows Its Version of Front-Page Balance

After former President George W. Bush failed to make the cut in the New York Times' photo collection of the march commemorating Selma, the Times on Monday showed its idea of political balance. It led the paper with yet another hammering of an incompetent, ultraconservative Republican Congress, while another front-page report critical of Hillary Clinton was hidden under a mild headline and…
Clay Waters

NBC Nightly News: Senate GOP Letter ‘Patronizes Iranian Leaders'

On Monday, NBC Nightly News featured a full report on the letter signed by 47 Republican Senators to the leaders of Iran concerning its negotiations with the Obama administration over its nuclear program, but took the step of describing the letter as one that “patronizes Iranian leaders.” In addition, the report by NBC's Peter Alexander gave three times the airtime to Iranian Foreign Minister…
Curtis Houck

Chris Matthews Charges GOP Senators with 'Sedition' Over Iran Letter

In a sign that the liberal media is deathly afraid of the American public coming around to Republican criticisms of President Obama vis-a-vis Iran, Hardball host Chris Matthews tonight suggested Republican senators may be guilty of sedition by violating the 1799 Logan Act. 

Ken Shepherd

New York Times Channels How Feminists Feel 'Left Out' by Pope Francis

Pope Francis will be celebrating his second anniversary to the papacy on March 13.  What started off as a liberal media lovefest with the newly elected pope has now tapered off with the media realizing he’s “just another pope” (that’s code for “liberals are upset that he’s not going to change anything in the structure of the Catholic Church.”) Once plastered on the pages of The New York Times in…
Melissa Mullins

'Hobby Lobby Strikes Again,' MSNBC.com Whines

"Hobby Lobby Strikes Again" wailed the teaser headline for Emma Margolin's March 9 story on the Supreme Court delivering a temporary victory for the University of Notre Dame. 
Ken Shepherd

Campbell Brown Nixes Dennis Miller for Daily Show: 'Right Wing'

Did Campbell Brown just give away a dirty little secret: that conservatives are blacklisted in the entertainment business?     On today's With All Due Respect, Brown and John Heilemann were kicking around the results of a poll as to whom Americans prefer to replace Jon Stewart as Daily Show host.   Tina Fey came in first, with Dennis Miller a close second.  Said Brown: "I can't imagine Dennis…
Mark Finkelstein

Rush Limbaugh: If Obama Sought Third Term, Would Anyone Stop Him?

Prompted by a listener's call, Rush Limbaugh made what initially sounds exceedingly unlikely come across instead as still unlikely but not beyond the realm of possibility. The listener's question -- even though the 22nd Amendment prevents President Obama from seeking a third term, what if he decided to remain in office after January 2017?
Jack Coleman

Ben Stein: Would Clinton Foundation Have Accepted Money from 'Pimps?'

Actor Ben Stein absolutely nailed the hypocrisy of Bill and Hillary Clinton standing up for women’s rights while at the same time their foundation had accepted donations from oppressive countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.   
Geoffrey Dickens

Martin Bashir Doubles His CBS Airtime...to Six Seconds

A week after getting his face on screen for three seconds as host of a cable TV program showing on a TV in a restaurant in a scene on CBS’s Madame Secretary, Bashir earned six seconds on Sunday night’s episode. Bashir is infamous for charging that Sarah Palin deserved to be punished by having someone defecate into her mouth, a vile diatribe which forced him off of MSNBC in late 2013.
Brent Baker

Carville Slams 'Right-Wing' NYT for Covering Clinton E-Mail Scandal

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, longtime Democratic operative and Clinton adviser James Carville bizarrely claimed press coverage of the Hillary Clinton email scandal was just part of some right-wing plot: "All of this is just the same cockamamie stuff that we go through. The [New York] Times gets something from some right-wing talking points, they print the story....It's…
Kyle Drennen

CNN to Jerusalem Mayor: Isn't Netanyahu 'Being Used' By Republicans?

CNN's Carol Costello badgered Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Monday's CNN Newsroom over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress. Costello played up how "some say the relationship between Israel and the United States has become partisan for the first time ever," and asked Mayor Barkat if he agreed. The anchor later asked her guest, "Couldn't you argue that Benjamin Netanyahu…
Matthew Balan

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: Today’s Selma March Is For ‘Reproductive Rights’

Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” is now about “reproductive rights” according to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. Her view directly contradicted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece, who has made her pro-life views public. While covering the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Ala. live for MSNBC on March 8, Harris-Perry proclaimed that this year’s march stood for issues “on the table right…
Katie Yoder

Venezuela Isn’t ‘Socialist’ in More Than 87% of Network Stories

Socialism has been blamed for turning Venezuela “into an authoritarian basket case,” but the broadcast news networks rarely admit that. In fact, the networks have even generally avoided identifying the country as socialist. This is especially important since the Obama administration just declared the nation a “national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven officials,” according to …
Joseph Rossell

CNN Hires 'Frank Underwood' (and Real-Life Dem) Kevin Spacey for 2016

CNN has hired Kevin Spacey to produce and narrate Race for the White House, a six-part six documentary about various 2016 presidential candidates. Spacey, the star of House of Cards, is a long-time Democratic activist and donor. CNN President Jeff Zucker enthused, "'Race for the White House' will be the perfect complement to our coverage of the 2016 campaigns and election." 
Scott Whitlock