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Amanda Marcotte: ‘Reality Itself’ a Barrier to Growth of Conservatism
The lefty writer says conservatives are at war with reality, and they want schoolkids in the Lone Star State and elsewhere to learn illusions about American history.
Marcotte’s peg was a report from the liberal Texas Freedom Network alleging, in Marcotte’s words, “that conservatives have been able to inject a shocking number of lies and disinformation into [Texas] public school history…
September 19th, 2014 9:19 PM
Nicolle Wallace Touts Obama as 'Deadly Serious' About War on ISIS
Nicolle Wallace, the token "conservative" on "The View," went out of her way to to express her faith in the Obama administration in the war on ISIS.
Trust he was a "very reluctant warrior," she said, but now "he is deadly serious."
September 19th, 2014 8:57 PM
Levin, Limbaugh Defend NFL From Media Smear as Hotbed of Spousal Abuse
The would-be scandal of alleged widespread domestic abuse in the National Football League hit its high water mark this week. It began receding when Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, armed with empirical data, pushed back and demonstrated that it is yet another bogus issue pushed by agenda-driven media.
Both conservative talkers cited an excellent RedState post by the diarist Bill S., titled "No,…
September 19th, 2014 6:44 PM
Scarborough, Brzezinski Call for Equal Coverage if Christie's Cleared
On Friday morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski joined the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein in calling for equal news coverage if Christie is officially exonerated in numerous investigations into his involvement of the scandal known as Bridgegate to the non-stop coverage when it broke in January.
During a discussion with their panel on Friday’s Morning Joe, they discussed news that a…
September 19th, 2014 6:14 PM
CNN Promotes Rolling Stone's Tribute to 'Still Fighting' Occupy
CNN's Twitter account on Thursday boosted a Rolling Stone article that hyped the far-left Occupy Wall Street movement's latest efforts. The social media post touted, "Think #OccupyWallStreet is dead? Think again. This short-lived occupation is still fighting for five key issues," and linked to Rebecca Nathanson's Wednesday piece on the "five campaigns that OWS-inspired groups have continued to…
September 19th, 2014 4:59 PM
MSNBC: 'Damage' to Christie 'Regardless' of Being 'Cleared' by Feds
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell noted that "Chris Christie has been cleared by the federal investigators of any allegations" in the George Washington Bridge closing scandal. However, MSNBC political reporter Kasie Hunt quickly dismissed the development: "But, there's a lot of damage that's been done in the interim. And there's going to be a lot of questions still…
September 19th, 2014 4:53 PM
NPR's Toast to New Republic's 'Joyous Hit Pieces' Skips Glass Scandal
On Tuesday night’s All Things Considered, NPR anchor Robert Siegel awarded a seven-and-a-half minute interview to The New Republic and its editor, Franklin Foer. The magazine is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a new book called “Insurrections of the Mind.”
Siegel found time to ask about a Hendrik Hertzberg book review trashing Ronald Reagan as a “child monarch,” which he described as a “…
September 19th, 2014 2:42 PM
Billy Crystal Remembers When Robin Williams Knew Dukakis Was a Loser
On Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon comedian Billy Crystal reminisced about Robin Williams and recounted a hilarious moment way back in 1988 when his longtime friend and fellow Democrat realized they had a stinker on their hands with presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
September 19th, 2014 12:53 PM
NY Times Boosts Biden Extolling Dissident Catholic 'Nuns on the Bus'
Jason Horowitz spotlighted Vice President Biden's personal activism for Catholic sisters who dissent from Church teaching in a Friday article for the New York Times. Horowitz trumpeted how Biden sang the praises of "the sisters who remained the target of a Vatican crackdown for their activism on issues like poverty and health care." The writer underlined that "the nation's first Roman Catholic…
September 19th, 2014 12:41 PM
Chris Matthews Assailed Christie as New Nixon, Skips Lack of Evidence
When the Bridgegate scandal engulfed Chris Christie in January, MSNBC's Chris Matthews went wild, repeatedly comparing the controversy to Watergate. On Thursday afternoon, federal officials revealed that the New Jersey governor had no prior knowledge of the planned traffic backup. Somehow, the Hardball anchor ignored the development.
September 19th, 2014 12:40 PM
NPR Hypes "Bridgegate" Political Fallout, Ignores Christie Innocence
Talk about tone deaf at National Public Radio. On Thursday’s All Things Considered, NPR reporter Don Gonyea ran a segment on Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) traveling to New Hampshire to campaign with Scott Brown as he seeks to become the next senator from there.
Unsurprisingly, the NPR reporter did his best to play up the “Bridgegate” controversy despite the Department of Justice clearing…
September 19th, 2014 12:35 PM
NBC Reveals Latest Poll on Scandal-Plagued Administration...Of the NFL
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer brought on political director and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd to discuss the latest NBC News/Marist poll on a major American institution being rocked by scandal. It wasn't the Obama administration getting the bad press, it was the National Football League.
That's right, NBC News conducted an entire poll just on the controversies surrounding the…
September 19th, 2014 11:39 AM
The Economist Hails Crowdfunding Your Abortion on the Web
This was spotlighted on Facebook by NARAL Pro-Choice America: The Economist "Democracy in America" blog is reporting that the site GoFundMe decided it would not allow women to use their site to fund their abortions.
Then the writer Emily Bobrow proclaimed that the women requesting money for these “valuable” operations are brave to withstand pro-lifers, and their abortion funding requests “turn…
September 19th, 2014 10:12 AM
NBC Continues Miniscule Coverage of Gov. Christie Innocence
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice told NBC News that Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) was innocent of any wrong-doing relating to the closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge. Despite Governor Christie’s reported innocence, ABC and CBS have yet to cover the NBC story, but when the story originally broke in January, all three networks eagerly jumped on it. So far NBC has devoted…
September 19th, 2014 10:09 AM