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Bill Maher Now Insists Conservatives Are 'Anti-Breather'?
At the Daily Beast, former Rachel Maddow Show guest host Ana Marie Cox reported about her participation in a Minnesota panel organized by Bill Maher to discuss the “worst Congressman in America,” conservative congressman Jon Kline. Cox claimed the event exposed “The no-contest divorce between Republican talking points and reality.”
In addition to the usual liberal list of “antis” applied to…
October 9th, 2014 8:45 AM
Thomas Roberts: Panetta Rips Obama For Bucks, Hillary Brownie Points
Elite Dems across America might be scuttling away from Barack Obama. But the president can count on at least one man to stand by him: MSNBC's Thomas Roberts. On today's Morning Joe, Roberts accused Leon Panetta of criticizing President Obama for base motives: "getting paid" off his book, and currying close ties with Hillary Clinton.
Roberts' lame attempt to undermine Panetta came after Joe…
October 9th, 2014 8:08 AM
MRC's Tim Graham Details Media Ignoring Panetta's Criticisms of Obama
Graham pointed out that when the former Secretary of Defense gave his first interview to CBS’s 60 Minutes, neither one of the other two major broadcast networks (ABC or NBC) covered it and the result was the same with O’Reilly’s interview.
Speaking on how “especially upsetting again” it was that none of the networks joined O’Reilly in asking Panetta about the Obama administration’s response to…
October 8th, 2014 10:59 PM
Jonathan Chait: Limbaugh ‘Obsessed’ With Slavery
The New York magazine blogger says that Rush not only “cannot stop talking about” slavery but “believes that, rather than a blight on white America, it should be seen, in a world-historical context, as a point in its favor.”
October 8th, 2014 9:46 PM
CBS Buries Own Poll Results Showing Poor Marks for Democrats and Obama
On Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley made no mention of the results from the latest CBS News poll that gave President Obama and Democrats poor marks ahead of the November 4 midterm elections on issues ranging from the economy to ISIS to terrorism to who voters are most likely to vote for.
Regarding the midterm elections, Republicans find themselves ahead of Democrats on…
October 8th, 2014 9:40 PM
Alan Colmes: Rush Limbaugh Says Obama Wants Ebola to Hit America
Heard the latest outrageous remark by Rush Limbaugh? No?! That's OK, neither has anyone else.
Liberal radio host Alan Colmes has become the latest in a long line of left wingers to vilify Limbaugh by claiming he said something that only they somehow managed to hear.
October 8th, 2014 8:49 PM
MSNBC Pays Tribute to LGBT Radicals Dan Savage and Larry Kramer
MSNBC's Joy Reid set aside nearly six minutes of air time on Wednesday's The Reid Report to letting homosexual activists Larry Kramer and Dan Savage boast about their longtime involvement in the far-left LGBT movement. Reid gave Kramer a platform to wax ecstatic about his founding of the radical group ACT-UP, as well as boost his play/movie The Normal Heart. Savage hyped his It Gets Better…
October 8th, 2014 8:39 PM
Obama Admin Invokes Gag Order on HealthCare.gov Testing; Nets Ignore
"The new HealthCare.gov is set to open for broad testing by insurers on Tuesday, but they’re not going to be publicly talking—or tweeting—about it," a Wall Street Journal reporter noted in a story filed October 7, citing a "new confidentiality agreement" that includes "any information describing... the performance or functionality" of the federal ObamaCare Web portal. Naturally the broadcast news…
October 8th, 2014 8:37 PM
On the Supreme Court's Non-Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
Three points need to be made about Monday's decision by the Supreme Courtnot to decide whether the equal protection clause of the Constitution grants people of the same sex the right to marry.
October 8th, 2014 5:29 PM
Report: NBC Wanted Jon Stewart as New 'Meet the Press' Anchor
According to New York magazine, NBC aggressively attempted to hire liberal comic Jon Stewart as the new anchor of the beleaguered Meet the Press. Writer Gabriel Sherman claimed, "Before choosing Todd, NBC News president Deborah Turness held negotiations with Jon Stewart about hosting Meet the Press, according to three senior television sources with knowledge of the talks."
October 8th, 2014 5:08 PM
CBS Promotes Pryor’s Selfie with Clinton, Skips Awkward Ebola Response
On Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-anchor Gayle King was charmed by Democratic Senate candidate Mark Pryor’s selfie with Bill Clinton as she effused: “Everybody likes a selfie.”
However King, nor anyone else at CBS has yet to report on the Arkansas Senator’s response to a basic question about ebola that was so bad it went viral and even caused MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski to shout: “Stop it!” four…
October 8th, 2014 4:32 PM
Networks Ignore EPA Protest by Mostly Democratic Union Members
"More than 300 union members and their families from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia gathered at the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters Tuesday to protest a proposal to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants that they said would kill jobs in Appalachia," the Washington Examiner's Zack Colman reported today. Colman also noted, that "Many of the protesters were…
October 8th, 2014 4:22 PM
CNN Graphic Demotes Panetta to 'Former Aide'; Bill Burton Smears Him
On Tuesday afternoon, a graphic at CNN described Former Obama administration Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as a "former aide."
Tuesday evening Eastern Time, the network, in video seen after the jump, also let long-time Obama loyalist Bill Burton smear Panetta as "sad," "dishonorable," and "small and petty." Burton also came within inches of accusing Panetta of betraying his country because we…
October 8th, 2014 3:26 PM
MSNBC Assured Viewers in July That Ebola 'Only Found in Africa'
Back in July when thousands of illegal aliens were flooding the US-Mexican border and conservatives were understandably concerned about the threat to public health from a porous border, MSNBC's Steve Kornacki compared this to hysteria in California in the late 19th century over Chinese immigrants.
As an example of the alleged current hysteria over illegals from Latin America, Kornacki, guest…
October 8th, 2014 2:49 PM