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After Promoting Colorado's 'Costco of Weed,' NBC Notices Surge in Ston
While NBC eagerly touted Colorado legalizing marijuana at the start of the year, even promoting one Denver store that hoped to become the "Costco of weed," on Monday's Today, correspondent Miguel Almaguer finally noticed a downside to legalized drug use: "More than half of Colorado's 61 arrests made in January for impaired driving involved someone who was high." [Listen to the audio or watch…
March 10th, 2014 12:53 PM
NBC and ABC Skip News That Prisons Will Now Be Enrolling Inmates Under
If you like your jail cell plan, you can keep it? In a front page story for Monday's New York Times, writer Erica Goode revealed that prisons all across the country are enrolling inmates to ObamaCare. Despite the fact that many media outlets consider the Times to be the "paper of record," NBC and ABC ignored the news that taxpayer-funded money would be going to the health care of convicted…
March 10th, 2014 12:01 PM
NBC’s David Gregory Pushes Cardinal Dolan For Catholic Church To Acc
This week marks the one year anniversary of Pope Francis being elected to lead the Catholic Church. To honor the event, Meet the Press host David Gregory sat down with Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and proceeded to berate him with numerous leftist questions about “changes” within the Catholic Church.
From the beginning, Gregory pressed Cardinal Dolan on the issue of gay marriage, and…
March 10th, 2014 10:36 AM
NBC's Gregory: 'Thank God the Media's Still Here' for CPAC to 'Kick Ar
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory wondered if New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's 2016 presidential chances were "done" following the Bridgegate scandal. In response, National Journal's Ron Fournier cited Christie's Friday CPAC address: "Ironically, he might have done himself some good with the Republican primary audience because he now can beat up on the media." [Listen to…
March 10th, 2014 10:20 AM
LA Times Columnist Proclaims The 'Study of Ignorance' Leads to Big Tob
Longtime Los Angeles Times reporter-turned-business columnist Michael Hiltzik let his liberal flag fly on the front of Sunday’s Business section. The online headline was “Cultural production of ignorance provides rich field for study.”
The protagonist of this story was academic Robert Proctor of Stanford, touted as “one of the world's leading experts in agnotology, a neologism signifying the…
March 10th, 2014 8:35 AM
Mike Barnicle Calls Palin a 'Moron
Here was the Morning Joe panel bemoaning Ted Cruz's supposed incivility at CPAC in allegedly insulting war hero Bob Dole, when up pops Mike Barnicle to ask "what does it say about CPAC, where the most popular speaker they had, the one who received the most rousing reception is a moron, Sarah Palin?"
A bit later, Mika Brzezinski piled on, calling Palin a "multi-million dollar moron." When…
March 10th, 2014 8:11 AM
Palin's CPAC Speech Brings Out the Liberal Haters
The organizers of CPAC let left-wing crazy man Charles Pierce of Esquire wander the halls and “report” his findings.
Pierce poured out an entire bucket of contempt on Sarah Palin: “McCain should pay a heavy price for unleashing this ignorant, two-wheeled bilewagon on the country's politics. If you think she's a legitimate political leader, you're an idiot and a sucker and I feel sorry for…
March 10th, 2014 7:20 AM
National Press Virtually Ignores Ala. Legislator's Racist Rant, Grilli
Alabama Democratic State Representative Alvin Holmes, who recently created a firestorm by calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "a very prolific Uncle Tom," was at it again on Tuesday.
This time, the issue at hand was a "fetal heartbeat" bill restricting abortions. Holmes, who apparently needs no help seeing racism in just about anything, claimed, in the words of Kala Kachmar at the…
March 9th, 2014 11:56 PM
NPR Surprise: Two Media-Elite Reporters Make a Pro-Romney Point
NPR’s Diane Rehm show had a little bit of Mitt Romney on the brain on Friday. Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post felt compelled to point out that if President Romney had implemented all these delays in Obamacare mandates, the Democrats would be having fits.
In the show’s second hour, James Kitfield of National Journal was even more generous. He suggested “maybe Romney was right” about…
March 9th, 2014 7:43 PM
Peggy Noonan on Latest ObamaCare Delay: ‘Is There Still An ObamaCare
ABC’s This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos was the only Sunday show that bothered to cover the latest ObamaCare delay and with it came some interesting insight from the panel of political experts.
Appearing on Sunday’s program, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan mocked the latest delay and hilariously asked her fellow panelists if “there still a law? Is there still an ObamaCare law? It'…
March 9th, 2014 3:08 PM
George Will: Obama Donor Investigating IRS Scandal ‘Kind Of A Sham
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, conservative columnist George Will had some harsh words for the Obama Administration’s handling of the IRS scandal.
In response to a question from host Chris Wallace about how little is known about the IRS scandal, Will observed that Obama’s “appointed an employee of his who is also a donor of his to investigate him and before the thing starts he says, oh, by the…
March 9th, 2014 1:50 PM
ABC’s Jonathan Karl Mocks Ted Cruz, Calls Repealing ObamaCare A ‘B
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) sat down for an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl following his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and from the beginning was met with a barrage of questions over his outspoken criticism of President Obama.
The interview, which aired on Sunday’s This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos, featured a myriad of topics including…
March 9th, 2014 11:37 AM
SNL: Bad Guys Shut Down Planned Parenthood Clinics
Saturday Night Live this week included a skit that portrayed people who shut down Planned Parenthood Clinics as bad men who had their heart broken by some girl when they were 18 and never got over it.
During the skit, protesting against Planned Parenthood was used as an example of how out of touch a dorky guy was. The actor, with slicked down hair and an emphasized nasal voice, argued that…
March 9th, 2014 1:28 AM