Louis CK's Vulgar Rant Against ISIS Devolves Into Attack Against Bush

Comedian Louis CK’s Twitter rant against ISIS started well, even if it was full of vulgarities, but it quickly descended into weirdness when he connected the terrorists to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. 
Geoffrey Dickens
October 13th, 2014 12:48 PM

CNN's Hill: Panetta 'Most Disgusting Example of Monday Morning QBing'

Marc Lamont Hill, liberal CNN contributor and host of HuffPost Live, appeared on Sunday’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley and did his best to smear former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for daring to criticize President Obama on foreign policy. Appearing alongside Neera Tanden, Newt Gingrich and S.E. Cupp, Hill proclaimed that Panetta’s criticism of Obama was “the most disgusting example…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 13th, 2014 12:20 PM

NBC: Getting Dem Candidate's Name Wrong Gives Him 'Name Recognition'

On Monday's NBC Today, 9 a.m. ET hour co-host Willie Geist actually tried to spin top Democratic Party surrogates like Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton mispronouncing the name of Iowa Senate candidate Bruce Braley as a boost to Braley's campaign: "But now he's getting a lot of name recognition. Maybe it was like evil genius move, who knows?" So his biggest supporters not knowing his name helps…
Kyle Drennen
October 13th, 2014 12:07 PM

All? Michelle O Ad for Davis: 'Give All Kids' Chance for Better Life

"All our kids"—well, except for the ones who won't have a chance to build a life at all, thanks to Wendy Davis' ardent support of abortion . . . As a loyal member of the Wendy Davis email list, I just received today's fundraising message from the campaign, touting the fact that First Lady Michelle Obama has cut a radio ad for Davis. The email highlights the portion of the ad in which Mrs. Obama…
Mark Finkelstein
October 13th, 2014 11:21 AM

Tom Brokaw Appears Unhappy on 'Meet The Chuck'

Tom Brokaw was the NBC news anchor for over 20 years yet "Meet The Chuck" aka "Meet The Press" had him sit at the table with the other panelists while Chuck Todd conducted solo interviews with the guests at a separate desk. As you can imagine, Brokaw was not pleased with that format and he visibly displayed his irritation when Todd returned to the panelists sitting uselessly at the "kiddies table…
P.J. Gladnick
October 13th, 2014 9:12 AM

NY Times Offers Pricey Reporter-Guided Tour of 'Once-Forbidden' Iran

Ira Stoll at Smartertimes.com reports that “For the price of $6,995, the New York Times is offering 13-day tours of Iran guided by Times journalist Elaine Sciolino.” It’s a pretty hard sell, but the Times tries to sell Tehran as a party town with “joie de vivre.” "Tehran is an interesting fusion of old meeting new; conservative elders uphold the traditions of the illustrious Persian past while…
Tim Graham
October 13th, 2014 8:27 AM

Letterman Mocks Obama's ISIS Strategy: ‘Operation Hillary’s Problem’

On Friday night, liberal late night host David Letterman mocked President Obama over is handling of ISIS. The CBS comedian joked “the administration now has a name for the war against ISIS. Have you heard the name?" The CBS host continued by pointing out that "every military operation has to have a name so people can get behind it and they now have a name for the war against ISIS: “Operation…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 12th, 2014 9:57 PM

NYTimes Tries 'Occupy'-Style Makeover of Leftist Ferguson Protests

New York Times reporters Monica Davey and Alan Blinder used protests over the weekend in St. Louis, which targeted the controversial shooting death of a young black man by a police officer in nearby Ferguson, to recreate its fawning coverage of the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement.
Clay Waters
October 12th, 2014 9:49 PM

Dem Spokesman Threatens Reporter With Arrest for Tax Returns Request

The Democrats are looking desperate in Colorado. Chuck Plunkett of the Denver Post reported that “Arthur Kane, an award-winning journalist, posted a first-person account Friday of an encounter with the [Gov. John] Hickenlooper campaign in which he says he was threatened with arrest.” Kane is a former Denver Post reporter and former local investigative TV producer now working for Watchdog.org. He…
Tim Graham
October 12th, 2014 8:08 PM

ABC Buries the Lede: ISIS Was 25 KM From Baghdad Airport

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey's told Marth Raddatz on ABC's "This Week" that ISIS fighters got to within 16 miles of Baghdad's airport in Iraq earlier this week. Framing that distance in a way those in the nation's out of touch Beltway political class will understand, that's the driving distance from the U.S. Capitol Building to Tysons Corner Mall in Northern Virginia. The U.S.…
Tom Blumer
October 12th, 2014 6:06 PM

Lewis Black Joins Campaign to 'F@&* Voter IDs'

Hot-tempered comedian Lewis Black has never been shy when it comes to taking on controversial topics, and his latest crusade has paired the foul-mouthed performer with the American Civil Liberties Union in an attempt to “F@&* Voter Suppression,” particularly through requiring voters to have IDs with their picture on them. In a fake “photo shoot” with Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting…
Randy Hall
October 12th, 2014 4:11 PM

Top Gov't Doc on 2nd Diagnosis of Ebola in US: 'The System is Working'

The ominously growing Ebola outbreak has taken a turn for the Orwellian. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a ubiquitous media presence of late, made the talk show rounds again this morning to ease public anxiety about the possibility of the outbreak getting worse.
Jack Coleman
October 12th, 2014 4:03 PM

O’Reilly Mocks MSNBC: ‘Their Ratings Cannot Really Get Much Lower’

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly sat down with Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz for an interview that aired on Sunday morning had some harsh words for the liberal media, specifically MSNBC. When asked about MSNBC’s coverage of Leon Panetta’s criticism of President Obama, O’Reilly mocked the “Lean Forward” network and argued, “they basically said, oh, every administration has people who disagree. And, you…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 12th, 2014 4:01 PM

Chuck Todd: Should Conservatives ‘Surrender In the Culture Wars?’

Last week, the Supreme Court declined to hear several Appeals Court cases on gay marriages, which resulted in bans on gay marriage being struck down in numerous states across the country. Following the Supreme Court’s decision to punt on the issue of gay marriage, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd saw this as a sign that social conservatism was declining and obnoxiously asked “is it time for…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 12th, 2014 2:44 PM