MSNBC, CNN Punt on Live Coverage of Benghazi Hearing; Fox News Covers
CNN and MSNBC viewers on Wednesday would have to switch channels if they wanted to watch the first hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. CNN aired a 15-second news brief at the top of the 10 am Eastern hour, mere minutes before the nearly three-hour meeting began, but didn't cover the proceedings live. MSNBC set aside 12 minutes worth of segments to the event, and sometimes showed…
September 17th, 2014 5:42 PM
Gallup Poll Shows All-Time Low In Public Confidence In Media
The pollsters at Gallup reported on Wednesday that Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report "the news fully, accurately, and fairly" has dropped to its previous all-time low of 40 percent. That number was at 55 percent in 1999, but hasn’t been above 50 percent since 2005. The media is really struggling among Democrats, who have “traditionally expressed much higher levels of…
September 17th, 2014 5:03 PM
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Star Attacks Right-Wing Media
Actor Viggo Mortensen hasn’t been in any big movies since he played Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but now he’s promoting his new movie with Kirsten Dunst called “The Two Faces of January.” He stopped by Huffington Post Live September 16, to talk about the movie, but if a Huffington Post reporter is interviewing, you can be sure they will find a way to bash conservative media any…
September 17th, 2014 5:02 PM
WashPost Shields Maryland Lt. Gov. by Burying Bad ObamaCare News
Last year the deeply liberal Democratic state of Maryland had an absolutely atrocious rollout of its ObamaCare website. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D), who is running this November for governor, was in charge of the ObamaCare rollout.
The website has since been completely overhauled, at the staggering cost of $40 million, but all the same, health department officials are planning "to limit access…
September 17th, 2014 4:59 PM
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Star: Right-Wing News ‘Appallingly Shallow A
Fox News is so terrible it’s ‘like a horror movie.’
September 17th, 2014 4:44 PM
Fired NBC Host David Gregory Decries Media 'Laziness'
As reported by Politico, recently dumped Meet the Press moderator David Gregory moderated a panel for the No Labels Strategic Agenda conference in Washington on Wednesday and lectured his media colleagues: "[I]n Washington political journalism the narrative gets set, and it gets set early and built on. And things that fight the narrative get harder to report out, I think, often because of…
September 17th, 2014 4:19 PM
AOL: 'Global Warming Likely to Cause Colder And Snowier Winters'
Global warming is caused by colder and snowier winters according to AOL. If the weather is warmer, the cause is global warming but if it becomes colder, global warming is also the culprit. No matter how the climate changes, the reason will always be global warming.
September 17th, 2014 4:00 PM
Former NYTimes Bureau Chief: Revolt Is the Only Option Left
Notice how when liberals say insane things, they never make the news? Former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Hedges has become open about his lunacy in recent years. Hedges went on a massive anti-Israel rant during a recent liberal event in Wisconsin where he also predicted that a “revolt” is on the way.
While Hedges claimed he didn’t support revolution, he wasn’t optimistic about…
September 17th, 2014 3:43 PM
Will Media Report How Obama Now Sees America As, Well, 'Unique'?
President Obama cited American exceptionalism at least ten times in his speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa today.
Early in his administration, Obama went out of his way to downplay the nature of U.S. exceptionalism, claiming that it was really no different than how any other nation's citizens saw their own country's uniqueness. So his speechwriters knew better than to use that word. But…
September 17th, 2014 3:29 PM
Former NYTimes Bureau Chief: ‘Revolt is the only option left
Claims conservatives have ‘retreated into Christian
fascism.’
September 17th, 2014 3:18 PM
'Heterosexual Marriage' More Oppressive Than The Burka?
Catherine Deveny is an Australian writer and comedian who has previously written for the Australian daily “The Age” and the UK daily “The Guardian.” She is also an outspoken atheist and feminist. Her strong left-wing viewpoints denouncing marriage and motherhood have garnered much criticism including a tweet she posted Sept. 16.
September 17th, 2014 3:15 PM
Sotloff Family Tells CBS They Were 'Bullied' By Obama Administration
Appearing on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Barak Barfi, spokesman for the family of beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff, ripped the Obama administration over it's handling of the kidnapping of Sotloff and fellow journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorists: "We never really believed that the administration was doing anything to help us. We had very, very limited contact with senior officials..."…
September 17th, 2014 3:00 PM
From Promise Rings to Sex Scenes: Nick Jonas Grows Up
To say that Nick Jonas lives by a double standard is an understatement. His views on faith, family, sex and homosexuality are so convoluted it makes one’s head spin trying to comprehend them. One need only consider his latest project, a DirecTV show called “Kingdom,” to see just how far Nick has fallen from his time on Disney’s “Jonas,” show as a respectable role model for younger kids in regards…
September 17th, 2014 2:46 PM
WashPost Lists Horrors of 'Tea Party' Tilt at DC ABC Station
The Washington Post demonstrated a sudden interest in the political bias of local TV news on Wednesday. WJLA-TV, the ABC station in D.C., was purchased by Sinclair Broadcasting, which is now airing its conservative commentator Mark Hyman in Washington. They warned in a headline, "Under new owner, WJLA airs more conservative content."
Media reporter Paul Farhi organized a parade of horrified…
September 17th, 2014 2:36 PM