Veteran NYT Supreme Court Reporter Hits Its 'Regression on Race'
New York Times former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse held a dubious celebration of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in her nytimes.com column, while attacking the Court’s "steady regression on race and its deregulatory hijacking of the First Amendment" and Justice Clarence Thomas's "full-steam-back-to-the-18th-century" approach to constitutional interpretation.
October 3rd, 2014 8:32 AM
Krystal Ball ‘Wins’ ‘#obamacarefail Award,’ Accepted by Cleta Mitchell
At the Media Research Center’s annual gala, featuring the “DisHonors Awards” – a week ago tonight – MSNBC’s Krystal Ball “won” the “#obamacarefail Award” for declaring conservative opposition to ObamaCare “a national disgrace” by those okay with people dying so long as it serves the goal “of hurting this President and denying him a victory.”
October 2nd, 2014 11:04 PM
PBS Parrots Obama Claim Country Is Better ‘By Every Economic Measure'
Following President Obama’s speech on the economy on Thursday, the PBS NewsHour offered a 48-second news brief on the subject, in which co-anchor Gwen Ifill offered no opposing viewpoint to the President’s claim in his speech that “by every measure, the country is better off than when he took office.”
The show then played a soundbite of the President, in which he lamented that “millions of…
October 2nd, 2014 10:43 PM
Obama Slams Fox for Painting Obamacare as 'Fanged Threat to Freedom'
President Obama tried desperately to talk up the economy in a speech at Northwestern University on Thursday, but he still ended up denouncing his own term in office. “When nearly all the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent, I find that a little hard to swallow," he said. Doesn’t that reflect on him?
Obama made a petulant attack on Fox News for presenting Obamacare as a “fanged…
October 2nd, 2014 10:22 PM
Maddow: Republican Urging Generals to Quit Engaging in 'Coup' Attempt
Well, it's official -- outspoken opposition to the commander in chief during wartime is no longer the supreme expression of patriotism. Even though this was all the rage a decade ago, while an earlier conflict raged in Iraq and a Republican named Bush was at the helm, anyone engaging in it today will face accusations of treason.
With the midterm elections only weeks away, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow…
October 2nd, 2014 9:30 PM
Don Lemon Confronts Homosexual Suing Sperm Bank For Mixed-Race Child
Wednesday's CNN Tonight spotlighted the lawsuit of a homosexual woman, who mistakenly received sperm from an African-American man – instead of a "blond-haired, blue-eyed [man]...resembling my partner," as guest Jennifer Cramblett put it. Hosts Don Lemon and Alisyn Camerota gave Cramblett a platform to promote her case. Camerota underlined that the plaintiff "live[s] in eastern Ohio, in a town…
October 2nd, 2014 6:36 PM
Williams Defends Softball Ben Affleck Interview During Facebook Q&A
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams conducted a question and answer session on Facebook following Wednesday night’s program and defended his over 4-minute-long interview with actor and activist Ben Affleck that aired on Tuesday night after a woman asked him why such an interview would air “promoting his new movie on a hard news show.”
Williams responded by equating his show to a newspaper in…
October 2nd, 2014 6:29 PM
MSNBC's Ed Schultz Praises Germany: 'Here's Some Good Socialism!'
Liberal MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz could barely contain himself on Thursday as he gushed over Germany's "socialism." The country officially scrapped tuition fees and this sent Schultz into a fit of envy: " We need to take a page out of the country Germany. Here's some good socialism for you!"
October 2nd, 2014 6:17 PM
Bitter Piers Morgan Slams Anderson Cooper, Preps Gun Control Doc
Piers Morgan, who was forced out at CNN due to low ratings, gave an interview to Politico where he lashed out at his former colleague, Anderson Cooper. The journalist also discussed plans for a new documentary pushing gun control. Regarding Cooper, Morgan complained, "Could I have done with a better lead-in? Yes...Anderson is a great field reporter, but does he drive big ratings at CNN, outside…
October 2nd, 2014 3:51 PM
Ebola Crisis: Nets Ignore CDC Failures in 98 Percent of Reports
In spite of revelations in recent months the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mishandled strains of deadly bird flu, anthrax and botulism, the broadcast networks remained confident the government’s “disease detectives” could handle the Ebola outbreak. On Sept. 30, the CDC announced that a patient in Texas was the first instance of Ebola in the U.S. But from the very beginning of the Ebola…
October 2nd, 2014 3:51 PM
Networks Blame Climate Change for ‘Record’ Walrus Haulout
Ignoring information contrary to the claims of
climate alarmists. ABC, NBC, and CBS
all aired stories on October 1 claiming large gatherings of walruses were
the result of less ice and were connected to climate change.
October 2nd, 2014 3:02 PM
Montel Williams Slams Obama for Not Helping Marine Jailed in Mexico
Appearing on MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart on Thursday, former talk show host and retired Marine Montel Williams scolded the Obama administration for not taking action to free Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi, held in a Mexican prison for six months on a trumped up weapons charge: "...what I found out was extremely disturbing....Jill Tahmooressi has had a son in prison for six months who is ill. No…
October 2nd, 2014 2:52 PM
New York Times Tackles Catholic Wrestling Policies In Pennsylvania
The New York Times has a story today about the Diocese of Harrisburg's decision to ban high school boys from competing against girls in school wrestling. This is the second day in a row that the Times has covered this story, and there is nothing new of any substance in today's piece.
Today's news story on the Pennsylvania Catholic high school wrestling policy merited 978 words. By contrast,…
October 2nd, 2014 2:05 PM
Huckabee, CWA Host ‘Stand with Israel Rally’ to Combat ‘Radical Islam’
Given the media’s recent fascination with rallies, let’s see how they (don’t) cover this one.
On Sunday, Oct. 5, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Concerned Women for America CEO and President Penny Nance will host a “Stand with Israel Rally” in Washington D.C. In support of the Jewish State, the event will feature national speakers to “encourage sound defense of Israel" and decry "the…
October 2nd, 2014 1:30 PM