ABC, NBC Ignore Economy as Voters' Top Issue in Post-Election Analysis

The Republican “wave” in the November 4, 2014, midterm elections had many reasons, but at least one was dissatisfaction with the economy. While, the three broadcast networks acknowledged the elections were bad for Democrats, they mostly ignored the economy and its impact on the election. Instead, now that Republicans hold a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, the…
Joseph Rossell

ABC, NBC Ignore Economy as Voters’ Top Concern in Post-Election Anal

Exit polls showed economy weighing on voters' minds, but networks ignored it in 84 percent of stories.
Joseph Rossell

NBC's Today Ignores GOP Winning 53rd Senate Seat

Early Wednesday morning, Republican Dan Sullivan officially defeated incumbent Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) more than a week after Election Day. With the victory, the GOP now has 53 Senate seats and could pick up a 54th seat if Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) defeats incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) in December’s runoff election. Despite the GOP victory, NBC’s Today ignored the story…
Jeffrey Meyer

Former Purity Ring-Wearer Jonas: ‘Sex an Important Part of a Healthy

We get it Nick, you’re all grown up now.
Tianna DiMartino

Mika Admits: If Gruber Were Republican, MSM 'Would Be Exploding'

Kudos to Mika Brzezinski for admitting the truth: if Jonathan Gruber were a Republican, the MSM "would be exploding."  Instead, noted Mika on today's Morning Joe, the MSM has been silent on the Gruber story, with only conservative sites covering it.  Mika contrasted the current quietness on the MSM-Gruber front with the media "firestorm" that erupted when David Stockman made his infamous…
Mark Finkelstein

HuffPo Writer: GOP Won by ‘Treason’

Disagreeing with liberals is not traitorous.
Matt Philbin

WashPost Promotes Ferguson Protesters With No Focus on Actual Evidence

The Washington Post has appointed a “social change reporter,” Sandhya Somashekar, and her front-page story on Wednesday promoted black protesters surrounding the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. The subhead was “Protesters aim to keep pricking the consciousness of whites and the political establishment.” Somashekar made absolutely zero reference to the Post’s earlier reporting that…
Tim Graham

ANOTHER Gruber 'Stupid Voters' Vid Appears; Fox's Megyn Kelly Goes Off

If Jonathan Gruber, the Obama administration and the establishment press thought that Gruber's faux mea culpa appearance on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon would get them off the hook and avoid the need to deal with and cover the Obamacare architect's exposure of the left's mendacity, they were sadly mistaken. There's yet another damning "stupid voters" video. Megyn Kelly was all over it Tuesday night,…
Tom Blumer

NBC Channels Obama & Points to Low Turnout for GOP 'Wave' in Midterms

On Tuesday, NBC Nightly News channeled President Barack Obama from the day after the midterm elections and pointed to the low voter turnout for the election that saw Republicans gain control of the United States Senate as well as make additional gains in the House of Representatives. In a news brief, anchor Brian Williams highlighted the latest turnout estimate for “last week’s wave election for…
Curtis Houck

Bozell & Graham Column: Sharyl Attkisson vs. Cynical Liberals

Sharyl Attkisson worked for CBS News for more than 20 years, and now she has turned her spotlight on her network in a new book called "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington." It's a sad chronicle of how the press corps has largely walked away from investigative journalism about their beloved president. Obama's…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

CBS’s Cordes Again Bemoans Spending by 'Dark Money Groups' in Midterms

Following a story on campaign spending ahead of the midterm elections on October 30, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes filed a similar report on Tuesday night’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley with the topic focusing specifically on the “dark money groups” that are not required to disclose their donors. In setting up Cordes’s story, anchor Scott Pelley pivoted from a report on…
Curtis Houck

Atlantic Columnist: Progressives 'Have Every Reason to Be Celebrating'

Far be it from me to talk a leftist columnist out of an ignorant, self-satisfied position which might, if anything, cause his fellow travelers to hit the accelerator a little less aggressively in future political campaigns. At the Atlantic on Monday afternoon, Richard Reeves, policy director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, claimed that the left shouldn't be …
Tom Blumer

Sharpton Guest Defends Hillary Private-Jet Travel: 'American Royalty'

Note to Hillary: hire Chris Witherspoon of theGrio as your presidential campaign spokesman--please! He could help set up a 50-state sweep . . . for the Republican candidate. Appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show this evening, Witherspoon defended Hillary against an RNC email criticizing her for expensive private-jet travel billed to the campaigns of candidates for whom she made appearances.  …
Mark Finkelstein

Jonathan Gruber Delivers Obamacare Deception Excuses to Ronan Farrow

Jonathan Gruber declined to be interviewed on Fox News by Megyn Kelly yesterday. Instead he appeared on a complete pushover today in the form of Ronan Farrow. Gruber actually made less of an attempt to defend his video remarks about deceiving the public about Obamacare than Ronan Farrow who claimed that Gruber was being "nuanced." After that Ronan delivered convincing proof that he is a horrible…
P.J. Gladnick