Jake Tapper Assails Obama Administration for Skipping France Rally

CNN anchor Jake Tapper slammed U.S. leaders, including the Obama administration, for skipping a massive rally in France against terrorism and for free expression.
Scott Whitlock
January 12th, 2015 10:36 AM

Notable Quotables: Leave Influencing Elections to Biased Journalists

Now online: the January 12 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, ABC's Barbara Walters pushes conservative philanthropist David Koch to stay out of politics: “Do you think it’s fair that just because you have billions of dollars, you can influence elections?” At the same time, NBC congressional reporter Luke…
Rich Noyes
January 12th, 2015 9:44 AM

State Radio: NPR Skips Controversy Over No U.S. Bigwig at Paris Rally

ABC, CBS, and NBC all noticed on their Monday morning programs that the Obama administration came under attack for failing to send any top U.S. leader to a “unity” rally in Paris featuring 40 global leaders. But NPR, like a government radio channel, ignored the criticism. NPR Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley mentioned the huge rally in her story on the feelings of Jews in France. In another…
Tim Graham
January 12th, 2015 9:08 AM

Daily Beast's Dickey Smears Jihad on Christians, Jews, and Hindus

It's not enough to read the transcript.  You really need to view the video to appreciate the depths of Christopher Dickey's world-weary, dismissive, preening political correctness. Asked on today's Morning Joe to comment on Muslim preachers inciting violence from their pulpits, Dickey of The Daily Beast sniffed that the problem is "exaggerated," claimed that the number of violent Muslims is "…
Mark Finkelstein
January 12th, 2015 8:08 AM

U.S. High-Level Absence From Paris March Controversial — Except at AP

Thus far, the nation's de facto news gatekeepers at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, have utterly failed to address the growing worldwide controversy over the absence of U.S. representation above the ambassador level at Sunday's solidarity march in Paris in the wake of Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo massacre. Crowd estimates for the Paris march range from "hundreds of thousands"…
Tom Blumer
January 11th, 2015 11:59 PM

On the Red Carpet, Lena Dunham Trashes 'Deranged Neocons' Online

You don’t usually here denunciations of “deranged neocons” on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, but HBO star Lena Dunham uncorked this attack on her Twitter enemies to Ryan Seacrest on the E! Network.
Tim Graham
January 11th, 2015 10:08 PM

Liberal Writer Criticizes ‘Creepy’ Biden For His ‘Gaffe-Porn’

Alana Levinson goes after Biden for his “lecherous” comments that fit “the classic definition of sexual harassment.” She admits that liberals generally overlook Biden’s boo-boos because “we like his politics. In terms of women’s issues, he’s got the gold stars…He’s pro-choice and…he introduced the Violence Against Women Act.”
Tom Johnson
January 11th, 2015 7:11 PM

David Brooks on MTP: We're at Adult Table; Coulter, Hebdo With Kiddies

Was it just coincidence that the only person consigned by purportedly conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks to the "kiddie table" on Meet the Press this morning was fearless conservative Ann Coulter? In a panel discussion on Charlie Hebdo's unvarnished brand of political incorrectness, Brooks divided those in the commentariat to the "adult" and "kiddie" tables. As to be expected,…
Jack Coleman
January 11th, 2015 4:31 PM

NBC Reporter Blames U.S. Foreign Policy For Islamic ‘Radicalization’

On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press spent the majority of its program discussing the fallout of the terrorist attack in Paris, France and how the world should respond. While much of the program focused on the challenges associated with identifying and stopping such attacks, NBC News reporter Ayman Mohyeldin chose to partially blame American foreign policy for Islamic extremism. Speaking during a pre-…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 11th, 2015 2:18 PM

ABC’s 'This Week' Insists GOP Shouldn’t ‘Run Against Obama’ In 2016

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week took some time away from discussing the horrific terrorist attack in France to examine the 2016 presidential landscape. The panel featured Robert Reich, liberal economist and former Labor Secretary under President Clinton, former Clinton official James Carville, and liberal GOP strategists Nicolle Wallace and Ana Navarro, all four of whom warned the GOP against running…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 11th, 2015 1:09 PM

ABC, NBC Eagerly Promote Governor Christie’s ‘Football Controversy’

On Sunday, Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) will attend the Green Bay Packers/Dallas Cowboys playoff game with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Christie’s decision has drawn the ire of many football fans in New Jersey for not supporting either the Philadelphia Eagles or New York Giants, both of which have large fan bases in New Jersey. During their Sunday morning broadcasts, ABC’s Good Morning America…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 11th, 2015 10:10 AM

Code Pink Gets Reuters Coverage — For a Protest Group of 20

The ability of tiny numbers of far-left fringe group demonstrators to get undue press attention virtually any time they want continues to be intensely annoying. In mid-2007, Barack Obama made closing the prison at Guantanmo Bay a core promise of his 2008 campaign. That was 7-1/2 years ago. Obama has been in office six years. Gitmo is still open. So naturally, the aggrieved professional…
Tom Blumer
January 11th, 2015 10:02 AM

Leaked E-mails Show Al-Jazeera Hates the Post-Hedbo Attack Spin

Brendan Bordelon at National Review has published some internal e-mails at al-Jazeera after the Charlie Hebdo attack that show how the Qatar-based network shows a real hostility to Western values of free speech – especially when that speech is mocking and insulting religion. What followed Saturday was an online commentary at al-Jazeera from an American professor insisting the murders weren't…
Tim Graham
January 11th, 2015 8:21 AM

Eugene Robinson: Paris-Style Attack Would Be Worse in US Due to Guns

Not sure how he manages to pull this off, but Eugene Robinson comes across as churlish, naive and inane at the same time. During one of his annoyingly frequent and unfailingly predictable appearances on MSNBC, when he was among the guests on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on Friday, the Washington Post columnist weighed in with his thoughts on the differences between France and the US in fighting…
Jack Coleman
January 11th, 2015 6:42 AM