Politico Claims Dems Conceded Love's Win 'Long Before Election Day'

On Tuesday, former Saratoga Springs, Utah mayor Mia Love become the first black Republican woman in Congress. Politico, overdoing its apparent grief at Tuesday's national results, is acting as if Love won in a walkaway. Alex Isenstadt's pity party post-election report on the Democrats' substantial House losses claimed that Love's was a seat "Democrats conceded long before Election Day." The…
Tom Blumer

Is Matthew McConaughey Taking a 'Bold Stand for Biblical Marriage'?

It’s a new trend for the media: celebrating marriage – between a man and woman. In an interview for November’s GQ cover story, actor Matthew McConaughey, 44, revealed how seriously he views marriage. He and his wife talked to divorcees and happily married couples to come to the conclusion: “'Let's go make a covenant, with you, me, and God.”
Katie Yoder

Only NBC Notices Rand Paul's Midterm Meme #HillarysLosers

Of the three network morning shows on Thursday, only NBC's Today highlighted Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's viral social media meme, #HillarysLosers, which pointed out that every Democratic candidate that would-be 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton campaigned for in 2014 lost in Tuesday's midterm election.     
Kyle Drennen

Alternet Freak-out: Bruised, Bloodied by GOP Bully Brigade

Oh the poor victims of electoral politics!
Matt Philbin

AlterNet Midterm Freakout: Bruised, Bloodied by GOP Bully Brigade

Politics is a sinister playground and conservatives want to take away liberal candy.
Matt Philbin

Nancy Cordes Badgers Speaker Boehner On ‘Hell No’ Part Of GOP Caucus

During his post-election news conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was repeatedly pressed by CBS News reporter Nancy Cordes about “a new crop of conservatives coming into the House” who she implied Boehner would have trouble managing. The CBS reporter asked Boehner “so the hell no caucus as you’ve put it is getting bigger and some of them don’t think you’re conservative enough. How do…
Jeffrey Meyer

Utah's Mia Love: 'I Wasn't Elected' Because of My Race or Gender

On Wednesday morning's edition of This Hour on the Cable News Network, co-hosts John Berman and Michaela Pereira spoke with Mia Love, the Utah Republican who became the party's first black woman to win a seat in the House of Representatives as part of the midterm elections on Tuesday. During the interview, Love asserted that race and gender “had nothing to do with” her victory over Democrat Doug…
Randy Hall

Ex-CBS Reporter: 'I've Been Told' Obama Has An Enemies' List

Sharyl Attkisson, the ex-CBS investigative reporter, whistleblower, and author recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her book Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. They discussed her computer hacking, the struggles she experienced getting her stories televised,  media bias, and the existence of an Obama “…
Melissa Mullins

Country Music Stars Joke About Obama's Reaction to Election Loss

Barack Obama's reaction to Tuesday's big election loss for the Democrats was mocked at the Country Music Awards by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley. If their act looks somewhat familiar, they were the same duo who mocked ObamaCare last year at the same show.  
P.J. Gladnick

CNN: 'Democrats Probably Rightly' Blame McConnell For Gridlock in DC

On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Dana Bash pointed the finger at Senator Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans for the "dysfunction" in the federal government. Bash asserted that "Democrats probably rightly have a complaint that the reason the Senate isn't working is because Mitch McConnell and the opposition made it so."
Matthew Balan

ABC Spins Obama as 'Taking His Medicine' on Midterms

The journalists at Good Morning America on Thursday spun Barack Obama's post-midterm press conference as "taking his medicine," hyping a jokey response by the President about having a drink with Mitch McConnell. On Wednesday night's World News, Jon Karl highlighted Obama's confrontational style, noting, "But [the President] offered no sign that he has a mea culpa or a desire to change course. No…
Scott Whitlock

Esquire Blogger: New GOP Senators ‘Like a Murder of Angry Crows’

The Esquire blogger contends that the GOP won the upper chamber because hard-right Tea Party candidates masqueraded as traditional conservatives.  "What the Republicans managed to do was to teach the Tea Party to wear shoes, mind its language, and use the proper knife while amputating the social safety net."

Tom Johnson

Al Hunt On Midterms: ‘Republicans Have Been Nothing But Negative'

On election night, the PBS program Charlie Rose had an all-liberal panel to whine about the Democratic Party’s electoral losses throughout the country and complained that President Obama didn’t tout his agenda throughout the campaign season. During the discussion, Bloomberg View’s Al Hunt argued that "this is the most content free election I`ve ever seen. The Republicans basically ran totally…
Jeffrey Meyer

NBC: GOP Broke 'Truce' With Obama By Vowing ObamaCare Repeal Vote

On Thursday's NBC Today, White House correspondent Chris Jansing blamed Republicans for upsetting the supposed conciliatory mood in Washington following Tuesday's GOP midterm wave: "Well, what looked to be at least a temporary truce between President Obama and Congress lasted less than 24 hours. Republican leaders now say the focus of the new Congress will be to repeal the President's signature…
Kyle Drennen