Al Hunt On Midterms: ‘Republicans Have Been Nothing But Negative'
On election night, the PBS program Charlie Rose had an all-liberal panel to whine about the Democratic Party’s electoral losses throughout the country and complained that President Obama didn’t tout his agenda throughout the campaign season. During the discussion, Bloomberg View’s Al Hunt argued that "this is the most content free election I`ve ever seen. The Republicans basically ran totally…
November 6th, 2014 12:01 PM
NBC: GOP Broke 'Truce' With Obama By Vowing ObamaCare Repeal Vote
On Thursday's NBC Today, White House correspondent Chris Jansing blamed Republicans for upsetting the supposed conciliatory mood in Washington following Tuesday's GOP midterm wave: "Well, what looked to be at least a temporary truce between President Obama and Congress lasted less than 24 hours. Republican leaders now say the focus of the new Congress will be to repeal the President's signature…
November 6th, 2014 11:48 AM
Rush Limbaugh Predicted Huge GOP 'Wave Election' -- Back in February
Liberals are still coming to grips with the epic shellacking suffered by Democrats across the nation in this year's midterm elections.It wasn't a surprise in the least to Rush Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "Doctor of Democracy" who saw it coming last winter.
November 6th, 2014 11:41 AM
MSNBC Producer, Local Journalists Disgusted By GOP Woman's Victory
TVNewser's Mark Joyella spotlighted in a Wednesday post how MSNBC managing editor Ilyas Kirmanireacted with disgust to the reelection of the Sunshine State's attorney general, Republican Pam Bondi. Kirmani posted the word, "Gross," on a Facebook thread started by Miguel Fernandez, an executive producer at CBS's Miami affiliate, WFOR.
November 6th, 2014 10:41 AM
Chuck Todd: Obama Could Start a 'Political War' on Immigration
NBC’s Chuck Todd recognized what even the President doesn’t seem to get. That the Republican landslide on Election Day should’ve “put an end” to Barack Obama acting alone on immigration reform via an executive order.
November 6th, 2014 9:56 AM
Tim Scott Schools Roberts: Key To Future is Freedom, Not Government
If Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina isn't already on 2016 GOP VP shortlists, perhaps he should be. His appearance on today's Morning Joe could hardly have been a more impressive audition.
When Scott expressed his concern for kids growing up in poverty, MSNBC's Thomas Roberts equated such concern with supporting a laundry list of liberal agenda items, implictly faulting Scott for his…
November 6th, 2014 9:30 AM
Sour NYTimes Warns GOP on 'Reading Too Much Into Their Victories'
The New York Times greeted the GOP takeover of the Senate with a mix of honest and sour reporting, emphasizing "angry" voters while downplaying the ideological significance of an "expensive" campaign "stumbling" to a close, while insisting that the Democrats succeeded in hanging on to their voting base and warning Republicans "about reading too much into their victories."
November 6th, 2014 9:15 AM
MSNBC's Matthews Slams Obama for Being Surrounded by 'Sycophants'
President Obama’s problem is that he’s surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.
That was the post-election analysis of none other than… Chris Matthews?!
November 5th, 2014 11:46 PM
Vanden Heuvel: Some Americans Were Uneasy When Dems Dissed Obama
During MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes on Wednesday night, the show’s panel fretted over the droves of Democrats that ran campaigns against President Barack Obama in the midterm elections (instead of embracing him) and that led The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel to wonder if such a tactic affected turnout among certain demographics due to “the dissing of a President.”
Vanden Heuvel first …
November 5th, 2014 11:38 PM
NPR's Hockenberry on Youth Football: 'Are Republicans Pro-Concussion'?
Participation in youth football is down. As economic ignoramus David Leonhardt of the New York Times explained yesterday at the paper's "The Upshot" blog, this is particularly pronounced in "the highly educated Democratic-leaning areas of major metropolitan areas."
Yesterday, as he was interviewing Leonhardt about his post on NPR's "The Takeaway" program, John Hockenberry asked, "Are you…
November 5th, 2014 11:33 PM
PBS Journalist: GOP Win Means Public ‘Turned Their Backs on Planet’
The latest in the annals of hyperventilating, far-left, excessive environmental panic turned into personal demonization. When results came in Tuesday night which put Republicans into the majority in the Senate, “Americans had turned their backs on the planet,” Dan Kennedy claimed in a Wednesday post on the WGBH News site.
November 5th, 2014 7:36 PM
Who Are The Most Bitter Post-Election Celebrities on Twitter?
In honor of the late Noel Sheppard, we couldn't enjoy a Republican wave election without collecting some bitter celebrity tweets. It was fairly quiet on the celebrity-Twitter front. Some optimistic types -- John Legend, Russell Simmons, Kerry Washington -- celebrated the passage of California's Proposition 47, which will "reduce sentences in California for a handful of petty crimes — drug…
November 5th, 2014 3:07 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Latest Alarmist Film Demands 100% Renewable Power
Actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio continued to use his celebrity and skills in film to promote climate change alarmism with a recent series of shorts. His view that fossil fuels were the driver and mankind was responsible for climate change was as obvious as it was predictable.
November 5th, 2014 1:58 PM
Kos: Dems Lost Midterm Votes Because Obama ‘Sh*ts on Immigrants’
"So yes, we got spanked," wrote Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas. He bitterly claimed that many Latinos and Asians sat out the elections to punish Obama for wimping out on an executive order forcing immigration reform.
November 5th, 2014 1:38 PM