Irate Lady Gaga Fans Get WaPo Front Page; Angry Vets Calling for Shins

"The nation’s largest veterans group called Monday for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and two top administrators due over alleged issues with quality of care and cover-ups at some VA medical centers," staff writer Josh Hicks reported in the May 6 edition of the Washington Post. "His patriotism and sacrifice for this nation are above reproach....However, his record…
Ken Shepherd
May 6th, 2014 4:30 PM

CNN Documentary on Kent State, Vietnam War Airbrushes Away LBJ

Ask a conservative to name the American leader who comes to mind when they think of the Vietnam War, he or she will almost surely cite Lyndon Baines Johnson. Ask a liberal and you may also hear LBJ in response -- but more likely you'll hear Richard Milhous Nixon instead. Long before the left began blaming George W. Bush for everything, Nixon filled that role. Nearly four decades since it…
Jack Coleman
May 6th, 2014 4:00 PM

Oops! MSNBC Apologizes to Latino Reporter Lobby for Bad Cinco de Mayo

In a quick trip from NewsBusters to the doghouse, MSNBC executive Alec Korson, who’s in charge of Morning Joe and its lead-in Way Too Early, apologized to angry Latinos at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for mocking Mexicans by having a producer drink tequila in a sombrero in front of anchor Thomas Roberts. He sent a note to NAHJ president Hugo Balta: “On Monday, Cinco De…
Tim Graham
May 6th, 2014 3:42 PM

CNN's King, Panelists Hit Obama From Left on Climate Change: 'Why Did

CNN's John King, along with the AP's Julie Pace and National Journal's Ron Fournier, targeted President Obama from the left on Tuesday's New Day over the issue of climate change. King highlighted Obama's interviews with meteorologists in order to "push his agenda for climate change," and wondered, "If the President has this power...through executive authority, and this issue is so important to…
Matthew Balan
May 6th, 2014 3:12 PM

Lib Radio Host: ‘God Performs Abortions

Here’s a sign the pro-choice side is running out of arguments: praising God as an abortionist.  RH Reality Check, a “reproductive health blog” with strong ties to Planned Parenthood, recently argued that the Bible supports abortion, tweeting “The Bible Is #ProChoice” and “Most anti-choicers claim obedience to the divinely inspired word of God. Does the Bible support that?” on May 6. In the …
Katie Yoder
May 6th, 2014 2:11 PM

Dem. Strategist: GOP Will Prosecute Hillary Right Into The White House

Appearing as a guest on The Steve Malzberg Show, Democratic strategist and Newsmax contributor Hank Sheinkopf critized the GOP investigation of Benghazi claiming it will actually help Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president in 2016.  Sheinkopf argued that the GOP will “commit electoral suicide” by “pillaring her [Hillary Clinton] now” on Benghazi before asserting “setting her up…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 6th, 2014 1:26 PM

Larry King Rips CNN: 'How Many Times Can You Cover A Plane?' It's 'Emb

Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, former CNN talk show host Larry King ridiculed his former employer when asked if he would ever return to the cable channel: "The tough time I would have at CNN now, I think, would be doing this airplane story. Because I think I'd crack up laughing. I think I would have – you know, how many times can you cover a plane? Six weeks and all we know is it made a left…
Kyle Drennen
May 6th, 2014 1:06 PM

D.C. Council Considering a New ObamaCare Tax; WashPost Buries Story on

Claiming that the District of Columbia's ObamaCare exchange is just too darn small in size to pay for itself, Mayor Vince Gray (D) is proposing the city council "approve legislation granting the District's exchange board broad new power to tax any health-related insurance product sold in the city -- regardless of whether it's offered on the exchange," Washington Post staffer Aaron Davis…
Ken Shepherd
May 6th, 2014 12:52 PM

Censorship: NBC Continues to Hide Obama's Scandal Impacting Veterans

In another example of censoring a Barack Obama scandal, NBC has ignored the brewing controversy impacting American veterans and a shocking lack of access to hospital care. Though the news of up to 40 patients dying in Arizona has been going on for months, ABC finally covered the story on Tuesday's Good Morning America, offering a scant 29 seconds. Reporter Amy Robach informed that the President…
Scott Whitlock
May 6th, 2014 12:25 PM

New Movie on Reagan To Be Sold at Cannes Film Festival

A new biopic about Ronald Reagan is in pre-production, and Paul Bond at The Hollywood Reporter relayed that Manifest Film Sales has picked up international sales rights and will introduce the project to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival. The producers of the $25 million film, simply called Reagan, "inked a deal for a U.S. release on 3,000 screens and $35 million in prints and advertising."…
Tim Graham
May 6th, 2014 12:12 PM

Networks Eagerly Push White House Climate Change Agenda Ahead of Obama

On Tuesday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all seized on a new climate change report being released by the White House ahead of a slate of interviews with President Obama conducted by network meteorologists. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On NBC's Today, weatherman Al Roker stood in front of the White House holding up a draft copy of the report and proclaimed: "…
Kyle Drennen
May 6th, 2014 11:46 AM

WashPost Hypes N.C. Dem’s ‘Attack Ad’, Buries Its Lie on Page A

Tuesday, May 6 is primary day for the North Carolina race for U.S. Senate, and The Washington Post ran a misleading front-page story declaring “In N.C., Hagan’s attack ad flips script on health law.”  Reporter Rosalind Helderman began the piece by hyping how “Thom Tillis, the Republican front-runner for a U.S. Senate seat, once called President Obama’s health-care law “a great idea” yet the…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 6th, 2014 11:13 AM

Despite Mockery, CNN Continues Flight 370 Overcoverage

“Watching CNN continue to breathe life into this thing is like watching a doctor on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ pounding on a patient's chest until another doctor has to pull him off and say, ‘Derek it’s over!’ That’s what I want to say to Wolf Blitzer. Wolf, it’s over! Time to move on! There will be other ocean disasters. We will always have Atlantis.” That was Bill Maher joking about CNN's obsession…
P.J. Gladnick
May 6th, 2014 10:21 AM

Scarborough To Guest: Being Interviewed By Me, Not Mika, Was 'Sloppy S

Has Morning Joe sunk to a new vulgarity low? On today's show, Joe Scarborough told a guest that being interviewed by himself rather than Mika Brzezinski represented "sloppy seconds." Scarborough's crude comment was made in response to Walter Isaacson's complaint, after his previous appearance on the show, that Mika had not been present and he had to content himself with Joe.  "Sloppy seconds…
Mark Finkelstein
May 6th, 2014 9:14 AM