WSJ’s Riley Tears Into Obama, Sharpton on Race Relations

On the most recent edition of Fox News Sunday, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley blasted President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and activist/MSNBC host Al Sharpton for having “a vested interest in pushing a false narrative, which is that racism is an all-purpose explanation of what drives what's wrong in black America.” When asked by host Chris Wallace to explain why there…
Curtis Houck
December 29th, 2014 3:43 PM

NBC Ignores NFL Coaches Honoring NYPD; Hyped Rams’ Ferguson Protest

Professional sports is becoming increasingly political, thanks to the media. Journalists love to praise players who flaunt that they fall into a sexual minority or bash players and coaches if they happen to mention their Christianity or politics. But NBC completely forgot to mention how the NFL showed support to the two NYPD officers who were targeted and killed last week. Both New York Jets…
Kristine Marsh
December 29th, 2014 3:06 PM

Glenn Kessler: Both Parties Believe In ‘The Myth of The Liberal Media'

On Sunday, Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler sat down with CSPAN’s Brian Lamb for a Q&A about the year’s worst political lies. While much of the hour-long interview focused on numerous statements made by Democrats and Republicans throughout 2014, Kessler claimed that both Republicans and Democrats have bought into the "myth of the liberal media." The Post fact checker argued that “…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 29th, 2014 2:07 PM

Feminists Hail Obama the Elf Destroying 'Gender Stereotypes'

On Christmas Eve, the Planned Parenthood Action Facebook page proclaimed “Bravo President Obama!” and linked to the leftist website Addicting Info, and the blog post headlined “When Asked To Sort ‘Girls’ And ‘Boys’ Gifts, Obama Destroys Toy Gender Stereotypes.” At a photo op distributing Toys for Tots with Mrs. Obama, the president made the progressive hearts go pitter-patter by putting sporting…
Tim Graham
December 29th, 2014 1:46 PM

NPR’s Steve Inskeep To Obama: Have The 2014 Midterms ‘Liberated You?’

President Obama sat down with Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, for an interview that aired on Monday, December 29 and was repeatedly tossed softball questions from the lefty reporter throughout their conversation. Inskeep began the discussion by asking President Obama “Since your party's defeat in the election, you have made two major executive actions — one on immigration, one on…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 29th, 2014 12:30 PM

Pathetic: WashPost Hails 100 Anti-Redskins Leftists As a Big 'Moment'

If Tea Party activists staged a repeal-Obamacare rally and about 100 people showed up, would The Washington Post consider it newsworthy? If they did, it might be to suggest their crusade was drying up. But on Monday morning, the Post treated about 100 protesters of the Washington Redskins name as an achievement, a “significant moment,” as local reporter John Woodrow Cox lovingly chronicled the…
Tim Graham
December 29th, 2014 11:42 AM

Fox News Gets to ‘Bark’ While Old Media Have 'Reasonable' Talk?

On the December 28 edition of Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd moderated a discussion on the intersection of politics and comedy in American culture. Par for the course, the panel could not make it through the segment without taking a cheap shot at Fox News. W. Kamau Bell, formerly the host of the FX comedy series “Totally Biased,” argued that the comedy shows and Fox News get to “bark” while…
Connor Williams
December 29th, 2014 10:35 AM

Year-End Awards: The Dopiest News Media Quotes of 2014

Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2014,” as selected by our 40 expert judges, the “The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year.”
Rich Noyes
December 29th, 2014 10:16 AM

NY Times Openly Feels De Blasio's Pain As Cops Turn Their Backs

While The New York Post devoted its December 27 cover to the point that the police turned their backs as Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke ("TO SERVE & REJECT"), The New York Times employed the sappier headline “De Blasio Delivers Quiet Eulogy to Crowd of Unfriendly Faces, and Many Backs.”  
Melissa Mullins
December 28th, 2014 10:15 PM

Humorist Mocks Invasions, Scandals End In 'Strongly Worded Reports'

Every year, The Washington Post Magazine is one of many newspapers that run humor columnist Dave Barry's long Year In Review humor article. It was fairly sedate toward Republicans in 2014, except for the usual fat joke: "In politics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, responding to a radio interviewer’s questions about his alleged role in the 2013 'Bridgegate' lane-closure scandal, eats the…
Tim Graham
December 28th, 2014 4:13 PM

WashPost Critic Hails Liberal Democrat's Cheney-Mocking Novel

The Washington Post never, ever tires of mocking Dick Cheney. They proved it again on Wednesday, when book editor Ron Charles oozed praise over a neocon-bashing by liberal Congressman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). The headline waas “Spirited, funny satire of war on terror’s effect on civil rights.” Charles said “The bar is low for a novel by a member of Congress. One feels grateful if the book doesn’t…
Tim Graham
December 28th, 2014 2:35 PM

Lefty Blogger: Tax Cuts Fail, But Right Backs Them For ‘Moral’ Reasons

The American Prospect’s Paul Waldman claims that right-wingers’ “belief in tax cuts doesn't rest on the practical effects. That's an argument that's meant to appeal to everyone, since it concerns something (growth) that just about everyone thinks is good. But the real source of the conservative support for tax cuts is moral, not practical. They believe that taxes are inherently immoral.”
Tom Johnson
December 28th, 2014 1:14 PM

Year-End Awards: The Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award

Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2014,” as selected by our 40 expert judges, the “MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award.”
Rich Noyes
December 28th, 2014 10:04 AM

Media Embarrassment: Lionized Ferguson Protester Confesses to Crimes

In St. Louis County, police have arrested 19 year-old Joshua Williams and charged him (HT Gateway Pundit) with committing "1st degree arson, 2nd degree burglary and misdemeanor theft" at the QuikTrip convenience store in Berkeley, Missouri on Christmas Eve. Williams "has confessed to the crimes." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch gets today's prize for most absurd headline, as seen after the jump (…
Tom Blumer
December 28th, 2014 9:52 AM