Charles Pierce Bashes GOP's ‘Lushly Funded Vandalism' Against Obama

The Obama administration is essentially over, because of both GOP obstructionism and Obama’s "painful delay in realizing the true nature" of Republicans, insists Esquire's Charles Pierce.
Tom Johnson

Maher Compares Mitt Romney to a Jellyfish; 'Spineless Glob of Goo'

Appearing on Monday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, liberal talk show host Bill Maher joked with David Letterman and the audience about the drought in California (where he lives) and after suggesting that global warming was killing off fish and allowing jellyfish to thrive, he drew laughs from the audience when he declared that “[t]he future looks bright if you’re a spineless glob of goo…
Curtis Houck

CNN Uses Maher Tweet To Revisit 'Islam is A Violent Religion' Debate

Don Lemon returned to the question of whether Islam is an inherently violent religion on Monday's CNN Tonight, as he interviewed Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison and author Reza Aslan. Lemon turned to his two Muslim guests for their take on a recent Tweet by atheist HBO host Bill Maher: "ISIS, one of thousands of Islamic militant groups beheads another. But by all means let's keep pretending all…
Matthew Balan

The McDonnell Corruption Verdict

The soap opera that played out in Richmond these last weeks and ended with the convictions of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy charges is a tragedy for them, their children and the voters of Virginia.
Cal Thomas

Joan Rivers and Me

We met by accident. How else could it have been with two people who are so different? Or are we? It was the early 1980s when a tabloid called me. They were doing a story on Joan Rivers and thought I, a conservative, would give them a quote critical of her. I said, "I won't speak to you and I don't want to be quoted as saying I won't speak to you."
Cal Thomas

Chuck Todd: Hillary 2016 Obstacle? Media is Sick of Her

On Monday, NBC’s Chuck Todd came on PBS’s Charlie Rose show and handicapped Hillary Clinton’s 2016 prospects and the new Meet the Press host stunningly predicted one of Clinton’s biggest obstacles would be the liberal media.
Geoffrey Dickens

CNBC's Mangan Spins Bad-News Obamacare Poll Into 'Obama-Who-Cares'

CNBC's Dan Mangan, last seen at NewsBusters claiming that the American people want politicians to just "shut up about Obamacare," is out with a column today reacting to the Kaiser Family Foundation's latest Affordable Care Act-related polling effort. Sarah Ferris at the Hill also reviewed the poll, and has two primary messages for readers. First, "support for ObamaCare continues to fall." Second…
Tom Blumer

NYTimes Obit: Chick-fil-A Founder a 'Symbol of Intolerance'

Leave it to the New York Times to stir up dissension in an obituary page, describing Truett Cathy as "at once a hero and a symbol of intolerance."
Ken Shepherd

Morning Joe Declares ‘The NFL Supports Domestic Violence’

In the wake of Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension from the National Football League (NFL) after new video surfaced showing him punching and knocking his wife out, the folks on MSNBC’s Morning Joe rushed to indict the entire sport of football as promoting a culture of violence. On Tuesday morning, co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that the NFL is a “culture that puts up with and…
Jeffrey Meyer

NBC's Lauer to Dem Senator: Why Not 'Call Out' Sexist Colleagues?

In an interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer asked the New York Democrat about accusations in her new memoir of male congressional colleagues making sexist remarks to her and voiced his disappointment that she had not "named names" [Listen to the audio]: A senator, this is a guy you admire, squeezed your waist from behind and told you not to lose…
Kyle Drennen

Maddow, McCaskill Blame Cops for Chaos In Ferguson, Not Looters

Ignoring the travails of the humble hard-working business owners in Ferguson, Missouri has become pronounced among MSNBC pundits and their guests.
Jack Coleman

Obsession: Media Include Gay Marriage in Chick-fil-A Founder Obits

A man starts a multi-billion dollar business that employs tens of thousands, gives millions to charity and touches innumerable lives in his near century of life. So why would every obituary of him mention something he didn’t say about a topic completely unrelated to the man’s life and legacy? Because of the media obsession with that most fashionable of victim groups – gays.
Katie Yoder

10 Million Private-Sector Jobs — and 7 Million More on Food Stamps

The press is good at putting the most positive spin possible on the monthly job-market news. But at the same time, many of its members still claim that food stamp enrollment remains as high as it is because of the lingering effects of the (Bush did it) recession. On Friday, following the release of August's employment numbers, Obama administration Labor Secretary Tom Perez celebrated how "…
Tom Blumer

Report: NBC Producer Facing Charges For Filming Sex With Girlfriend

The New York Post's Jamie Schram reported on Tuesday that NBC News digital producer Carlo Dellaverson is facing criminal charges after "for secretly making a video of his girlfriend having sex with him on Valentines Day — and posting it on a porn web site." Schram cited anonymous sources in law enforcement, and detailed the alleged sexual misconduct by Dellaverson, who was charged with "…
Matthew Balan