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On Friday morning’s Varney & Co program on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney passed along the Rich Noyes study numbers that the network evening news shows blamed the Republicans or conservatives in 41 news stories, but blamed Obama and the Democrats in zero stories. (There were 17 stories that blamed both sides.) MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham appeared to describe how the MRC…

Hours after President Obama lectured Republicans about governing, CNN boosted his agenda by ordering conservatives and the Tea Party to "lighten up" on Thursday's The Situation Room. "So while the President is calling for a change in behavior and tone here in Washington, listen to this from CNN's Fareed Zakaria writing in today's Washington Post. He takes direct aim at what he calls the…

You probably didn't know that Friday, October 18, is the 25th anniversary of the first episode of Roseanne. To commemorate the event, Roseanne Barr took to the Huffington Post to congratulate herself - as only she can! - with some truly hysterical commentary including, "The show was my attempt to move the left to the middle."

It was enough to make a conservative yearn for the good old Bush-era days of "Dissent Is Patriotic" . . . For there on Morning Joe today was former Obama official Melody Barnes, warning Americans to "back off" their Reagan-inspired opposition to big government in general and Obamacare in particular.  Instead, instructed Barnes, Americans should focus on making Obamacare work. View the video…

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The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty is trying to help the Republicans on the front page of Friday’s paper. It's not labeled "Analysis," but "Politics Debrief." The alliance between the “agreeable” GOP and the media is getting more transparent. “What will it take to save the Republicans from the self-destructive impulses of the tea party movement? That the government shutdown was a political…

The relationship between Sheldon and Amy is questioned for whether Sheldon is emotionally abusive to Amy.

Last Friday, NewsBusters had the privilege of being the first organization to interview New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter about her new book, “Never Trust a Liberal Over Three - Especially a Republican.” Brace yourselves for part II (video follows with transcript):

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC.com Executive Editor Richard Wolffe asserted that Republicans like Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert "should never have been elected [to] office in the first place," as he joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting several Republicans who have talked about impeaching President Obama. Wolffe, who was a regular on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and other MSNBC shows during…

The New York Times is always selling its favorite Democrats, like this gooey introduction from Kate Zernike on Thursday’s front page: “Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark easily won New Jersey’s special Senate election on Wednesday, finally rising to an office that measures up to his national profile.“ Who is it, precisely, who has built this expansive national profile? The politician, surely,…

After yet another contentious debate with CNN’s bombastic anti-gun talk host Piers Morgan this Monday, he demonstrated to the entire nation during a subsequent interview on CBS that he doesn’t even know which constitutional amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. This is yet another reason neither I nor anyone else can take him seriously about guns. On CBS This Morning, Morgan…

Wow! Just wow! The following is an actual headline at Gawker currently on its front page: What If Dick Cheney's First Heart Attack Had Killed Him?

After slamming the "Tea Party radicals" who he said initiated the shutdown, CNN's Michael Holmes was admonished by his colleague Jim Acosta on Thursday. "I mean, first of all, let's be careful about using the term 'radical,' because a lot of those folks feel like they're standing on principle today, even though they didn't come out on top in this," Acosta lectured Holmes. [Video below the…