Grimm News: OFA Touts Climate Change 'Breakthrough': A Republican Cong

A Friday afternoon email I received from Organizing For Action, aka BarackObama.com, aka the group whose mission in life is to support whatever President Obama wants them to support, took me by surprise. The email, which is replicated at an OFA post, told readers that "There's one fewer climate change denier in Congress." I figured that the congressman who flipped almost had to be a…
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2014 10:37 PM

MSNBC's Melber Seems Unaware of Infamous Clinton Cattle Futures Scanda

MSNBC's Ari Melber may want to brush up on his Clinton scandal history in preparation for a Hillary Clinton White House run. As he substitute hosted Tuesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Melber mistook a reference to the infamous cattle futures deal for a criticism of the former First Family making money since leaving office.
Brad Wilmouth
April 27th, 2014 9:21 PM

NY Times Described Western View of Hamas As 'The Devil,' Then Changed

Zack Beauchamp at Vox.com suggested “New York Times news articles aren't exactly known for their colorful prose.” But Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren raised eybrows by “describing the Palestinian militant faction Hamas as a ‘militant Islamic group widely seen in the West as the devil.’” Beauchamp argued that the language was “actively misleading,” not because the West is too heavily…
Tim Graham
April 27th, 2014 7:56 PM

GurbakSHHHH! HuffPo Fails to Mention That CEO Convicted in Brutal Dome

Have you noticed how the mainstream media is hiding the fact the CEO of a big tech firm who was convicted of brutally beating his girlfriend was also a major Republican donor? If you are scratching your heads in disbelief, you have every right to do so. You know for sure that if such a thing took place, the very first paragraph if not the headline would have declared him to be a Republican…
P.J. Gladnick
April 27th, 2014 6:35 PM

Michelle Obama: Our White House Sundays Are For 'Downtime,' 'Lounging

Barbara Boland at CNSNews.com noticed that Michelle Obama explained in a Monday interview with TV talk show host Michael Strahan that most Sundays, the Obamas are just “lounging and napping” or plotting out the girls’ activities, like rehearsals or birthday parties. Their church attendance is very sparse. Strahan asked “Easter was yesterday, so how did you spend the day?” After church, "We…
Tim Graham
April 27th, 2014 5:48 PM

George Stephanopoulos Doubles-Down on ABC’s Promotion of Elizabeth W

Following a glowing profile of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, sat down with the liberal senator on the Sunday April 27th This Week with George Stephanopoulos and heaped praise on his guest. The ABC host hyped how Warren’s book was “The first step about having ideas drive the agenda right now in Washington now and in the future. How do you build on it?
Jeffrey Meyer
April 27th, 2014 2:11 PM

NY Times' Calmes: GOP Preying on Poor West Virginians With Hostile Oba

New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes, a reliable defender of President Obama, placed the blame on the cynical GOP for depriving poor West Virginians of health care for electoral advantage, in Sunday's "Political Stigma Is Depressing Participation in Health Law." The text box read: "Misconceptions are common as attack ads fill airwaves in West Virginia." Calmes pitted a cynical, misleading,…
Clay Waters
April 27th, 2014 2:07 PM

Barbara Walters Suggests 'The View' Will Get Some Political Balance Ag

MRC's Scott Whitlock found a newsy tidbit from an April article in Variety magazine. Former Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh reported from a Barbara Walters interview that "The View" lost both its edgier political personalities -- right-leaning Elisabeth Hasselbeck and leftist insult comedienne Joy Behar -- due to network pressure on her and the show's producer Bill Geddie. “These are not…
Tim Graham
April 27th, 2014 1:43 PM

Al Gore Answers Charge of Causing Global Warming Mockery With Mockable

Al Gore! Come on. Admit it. Just reading the name of Al Gore put a smile on your face. Why is that? Because after years of Gore's over the top rantings about global warming, he has turned himself into a laughingstock. That added to his blatantly greedy hypocrisy of selling carbon credit "indulgences" to fellow liberals to assuage their guilt as well as leaving a huge carbon footprint of his…
P.J. Gladnick
April 27th, 2014 1:15 PM

ABC Touts Elizabeth Warren's 'Middle-Class Manifesto,' While Channelin

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been making the rounds on television promoting her new book “A Fighting Chance” and ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos was the latest to promote the liberal senator on Sunday April 27. Prior to her interview with host George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s Jeff Zeleny narrated a report on Warren in which he gushed over how “Warren’s tough take on Wall Street…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 27th, 2014 12:52 PM

NAACP-LA Names Clippers' Owner Donald Sterling 2014 Lifetime Achieveme

Last night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that Donald Sterling, owner of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers, was allegedly caught on tape chiding a person who is apparently his girlfriend for "taking pictures with minorities" and "associating with black people." He also tells her that she is a "delicate" "Latina or white girl," and because of that doesn't…
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2014 9:46 AM

Garry Wills: Opposing Obamacare a 'Sacred' Cause for a Hateful 'Cult

The scholar and author Garry Wills, a onetime idiosyncratic conservative (he wrote regularly for National Review in its early years) who in the 1960s and '70s turned into an idiosyncratic liberal, blogged this past Tuesday on the New York Review of Books website that many opponents of Obamacare constitute an irrational "cult" that has "a religious commitment" to "certitude about [the law's]…
Tom Johnson
April 27th, 2014 8:16 AM

Media Ignoring Dem Donations of LA Clippers' Owner, Allegedly Caught o

In stunning audio posted at TMZ, Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling chides a person who is apparently his girlfriend for "taking pictures with minorities" and "associating with black people." Sterling sees her as a "delicate" "Latina or white girl," and as such doesn't understand why she should "associate with black people." He doesn't want her bringing black people to games, including…
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2014 12:25 AM

On MSNBC, Salon's Walsh Invokes Timothy McVeigh While Trashing FNC's H

On the Friday, April 25, PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during a discussion of FNC host Sean Hannity's reaction to racist comments by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, MSNBC host Al Sharpton went after Hannity's decision to reiterate some of his complaints about the Obama administration on his Hannity show after condemning Bundy's racism. Guest Joan Walsh of Salon magazine ended up comparing Hannity's anti…
Brad Wilmouth
April 26th, 2014 11:28 PM