Disgraced Rolling Stone Writer Trashed Bachmann for 'War on Gay Teens'

Fox News “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz reports yet another tilted article by disgraced Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely is getting scrutinized, an article obnoxiously titled “One Town's War on Gay Teens: In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.” A local conservative activist recalled…
Tim Graham
December 8th, 2014 11:06 PM

Heilemann Mocks 'Undereducated' Royals, Touts Beyoncé, Jay-Z, & LeBron

Has John Heilemann ever gotten this riled up over the commies ruling Cuba? If so, I missed it. But on his Bloomberg TV show tonight, Heilemann got on his populist high horse to blast the British monarchy on the occasion of the visit to the US of Prince William and Princess Kate, mocking them as "undereducated" and calling for the British monarchy to be "done away with tomorrow." In Heilemann's…
Mark Finkelstein
December 8th, 2014 9:20 PM

Don't Forget to Honor America's Fallen Police Officers

While many in the nation, from Oakland to New York, rally in protest over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, I keep wondering: What about the good cops? As with our military personnel, we are often quick to hang the allegedly corrupt but slow to honor those who serve honestly to protect. According to the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, there are more than 900…
Chuck Norris
December 8th, 2014 9:09 PM

Chris Rock Argues Hollywood's a 'White Industry' Like The NBA Is Black

Well, we know Chris Rock has a movie coming out next week.  He’s been making the rounds on different media outlets, talking about the issues of the day – recently talking race relations, the Ferguson verdict, even sharing his views about race in Hollywood in an article for the December 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. In what The Hollywood Reporter calls a “Blistering Essay on Hollywood's…
Melissa Mullins
December 8th, 2014 7:18 PM

CNN Highlights Pro-Hillary Ad With 'Worst Political Song Ever'

On Monday's CNN Newsroom, Jeanne Moos zeroed in on the largely-negative response to a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC's music video-style ad, which features a country music song about the former First Lady. Moos wasted little time before reporting that "at least one website warns, 'This pro-Hillary cowboy anthem will make your ears bleed.'"
Matthew Balan
December 8th, 2014 6:12 PM

Media Myth Exposed! Greg Orman Was No Independent

The campaign's worst-kept secret was uncovered when the Kansas City Star, on Sunday, reported that Democrats had financially backed so-called independent candidate Greg Orman in his race to unseat Republican incumbent Senator Pat Roberts. The facade that Orman was an independent was kept up, throughout the campaign, by supposedly skeptical political reporters at ABC, CBS and NBC, even after…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 8th, 2014 6:07 PM

Obama Uses BET Interview to Contradict Limbaugh's Comments on Race

During an interview airing Monday evening on the Black Entertainment Television cable channel, president Barack Obama attempted to contradict remarks on race relations made by radio icon Rush Limbaugh during a rare appearance on Fox News Sunday, which is hosted by Chris Wallace. “There’s no acknowledgement of any of the progress,” the conservative host said while discussing the results in…
Randy Hall
December 8th, 2014 5:37 PM

Shorter TIME Piece: Landrieu Should Have Hyped Liberal Issues

Democrat Mary Landrieu might have stood a better chance of victory had she run on touchstone liberal Democratic issues.  That was the argument of a Louisiana political science professor whom Time magazine turned to for comment in its post-mortem of the senior Louisiana senator's landslide loss on Saturday to Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy.
Ken Shepherd
December 8th, 2014 5:24 PM

As Gas Prices Tumble, Former Dem Governor Rendell Calls for Tax Hikes

The dramatic fall of gas and oil prices meant relief for holiday travelers and more money in the pockets of shoppers. MarketWatch reported one estimate of the savings that equated it to a $75 billion tax cut for households. But rather than let drivers enjoy the much needed respite from years of gas prices above $3-a-gallon, former governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Ed Rendell said it was the…
Julia A. Seymour
December 8th, 2014 5:16 PM

Chuck Todd Worries About Media Bias...When the Left Complains

On NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, moderator Chuck Todd fretted that after the show he would be inundated with complaints about his news coverage, but not from conservatives: "I'm going to get a ton of emails today, 'Gosh darn you, Meet the Press, great news on the economy, and you haven't done anything giving President Obama praise.'"
Kyle Drennen
December 8th, 2014 4:31 PM

ABC, NBC Hype 'Explosive' 'Torture' Report; Omit Its Partisan Origin

On Monday, ABC and NBC's morning newscasts both touted the upcoming congressional report on the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation techniques as "explosive" and "damning." However, neither network pointed out that it was Democratic members on the Senate Intelligence Committee that commissioned the document. By contrast, CBS This Morning reported that "Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are…
Matthew Balan
December 8th, 2014 4:30 PM

Worst Liberal Reactions to Rolling Stone Apology

When the news broke Friday that Rolling Stone Magazine (sort of) recanted it’s scandalous story of a brutal rape on the UVA campus, now thought to be based on a false account, conservatives blamed Rolling Stone for not vetting its sources well while Liberals trashed Rolling Stone too but for a different reason: “victim blaming.” To the left, this wasn’t a case of a magazine writing up a story…
Kristine Marsh
December 8th, 2014 4:06 PM

As Gas Prices Tumble, Ed Rendell Calls for Tax Hikes

Democratic former governor tells CNBC it is time to raise federal gas tax.
Julia A. Seymour
December 8th, 2014 3:32 PM

Thin Gruel: AP Hypes How 'Job Market Hits a Turning Point'

Friday's Employment Situation Summary contained one strong element: In November, the economy added 321,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs. That's not insignificant, but that news, especially in the report's full context, certainly didn't justify the level of elation seen in much of the press. Predictably, the Associated Press found a specious reason to characterize the government's report as…
Tom Blumer
December 8th, 2014 2:41 PM