MSNBC's Hayes Compares Iran's Ahmadinejad Faction to Bush, 'Neocon Cow

On Friday's All In show on MSNBC, as host Chris Hayes was joined by fellow MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow to gush over President Obama being the first American president since 1979 to speak with an Iranian president, Hayes at one point drew an analogy between former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's more radical faction and former President George W. Bush's "kind of neocon cowboy who liked to…
Brad Wilmouth
September 30th, 2013 5:15 PM

CNN Anchor Knocks 'Often Ridiculed' Tea Party

CNN's Carol Costello went full bore after the Tea Party on Monday morning, mocking the movement as "often ridiculed" and quoting The Daily Beast's John Avlon calling Tea Party members of Congress "extremists." "The Tea Party rises again orchestrating, thanks to large part to Senator Ted Cruz, a spending bill tied to defunding ObamaCare that may well lead to a government shutdown. This from a…
Matt Hadro
September 30th, 2013 5:15 PM

Twitter Allowing Terrorist Account Set-ups, Recommends 'Follows' For O

It's not yet a safe haven, but it seems that terrorist outfits are having little problem setting up Twitter accounts. It also seems that these accounts tend to stay up until someone complains, meaning that the company either has no effective mechanisms for detecting pro-terror sentiments and the gruesome pictures which sometimes accompany them, or isn't using them. The ease with which all of…
Tom Blumer
September 30th, 2013 5:00 PM

Bob Woodward: If Shutdown or Debt Ceiling Causes Economic Calamity, It

Bob Woodward broke free from the liberal media template on Monday morning, partially blaming President Obama for the current impasse over government funding and the debt ceiling. Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the veteran journalist claimed that a potential economic collapse or downturn would fall on Obama’s head. Former George W. Bush staffer Nicolle Wallace and Obama acolyte David…
Paul Bremmer
September 30th, 2013 4:45 PM

WaPo: 'Sorry, Chris Matthews: Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan Were Ter

As NewsBusters previously reported, Tea Party Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Id.) on Sunday's Meet the Press made a fool of MSNBC's Chris Matthews over his lack of knowledge regarding how many times the government shut down when his former boss Tip O'Neill was Speaker of the House. As it turns out, the Washington Post also mocked Matthews for his ignorance last Thursday in a piece deliciously…
Noel Sheppard
September 30th, 2013 4:32 PM

Time Writer Wonders of Wendy Davis 'Is She Cinderella or Joan of Arc

"Is she Cinderella or Joan of Arc?" Time.com contributor Hilary Hylton mused of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D) in the lead sentence of her Friday, September 27 story, "Wendy Davis Laces Up Her Running (for Governor) Shoes." ] "Now that she’s on the verge of announcing a run for Texas governor, everyone is wondering whether the glass slipper will fit, or will she be a martyr for her cause…
Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2013 4:17 PM

Anything You Say, Boss! George Stephanopoulos Interviews Pal Bill Clin

 George Stephanopoulos scored an interview on Sunday with his old boss, Bill Clinton. In return for this exclusive, the former Democratic operative turned journalist avoided any mention of a scandal at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), of Benghazi and how the bungled response to the terrorist attack might impact Hillary Clinton's 2016 run for president. Instead, Stephanopoulos used the ten…
Scott Whitlock
September 30th, 2013 4:00 PM

GOP Rep Blasts CNN Anchor: 'Are You Here to Give Us a Tirade

CNN's Ashleigh Banfield scolded two Republican congressmen for bringing the U.S. economy "to the brink," and one of them retorted that she was giving them a "tirade." "[W]hy connect the funding of the government, the entire U.S. economy, why bring it to this brink? Why not do it at all of the other times? All of the other 100-plus congresses have been able to fund the government," Banfield…
Matt Hadro
September 30th, 2013 2:04 PM

Angry Andrea Scolds Republican: 'Get Real', Ditch ObamaCare Delay To A

Why do Dems need Debbie Wasserman-Schultz when they've got Andrea Mitchell?  There was no mistaking Mitchell's anger on her MSNBC show today as she scolded Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz .  "Get real," reprimanded Mitchell, twice telling Chaffetz the Republican bill delaying the implementation of ObamaCare was "dead on arrival." For good measure, Mitchell put the onus on Republicans to cave…
Mark Finkelstein
September 30th, 2013 2:03 PM

Time Magazine Attacks 'Once-Esteemed' Conservative Think Tank Heritage

In its 40-year history, the liberal media never really cared for the Heritage Foundation. But now that the think tank has been more assertive in its engagement of Capitol Hill, the liberal media are rewriting history to depict the move as something that is threatening the organization's respectability inside the Beltway. In July, I noted the Wall Street Journal's stab at the concern-trolling…
Ken Shepherd
September 30th, 2013 1:05 PM

O'Reilly Dismisses Matt Lauer's 'Absurd' Notion That GOP 'Move On' Fro

In an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer urged Republicans to abandon their opposition to ObamaCare in order to avoid a government shutdown: "By the latest count, there have been something like 40 efforts in the House to either get rid of ObamaCare or defund it. And yet, as John McCain said last week...'We lost that fight.' The Supreme Court has…
Kyle Drennen
September 30th, 2013 11:55 AM

New York (Hippie) Times Crusades for Nobel Literature Prize for Bob Dy

The New York Times knows that the Nobel Prizes, like the Pulitzers, can be awarded for political advocacy. So writer Bill Wyman has decided to push for an unconventional pick for the Nobel Literature Prize: hippie favorite Bob Dylan. The headline was "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Nobel's Door." Stating the obvious, he admitted “Mr. Dylan is no Solzhenitsyn, but he is a figure who genuinely…
Tim Graham
September 30th, 2013 11:54 AM

Revenge: Fear the Literary Devices

The author's knowledge of literary devices is exposed, and many of the plot devices to move this season along are examined.
Evan Mantel
September 30th, 2013 11:22 AM

Hillary Clinton Documentary Canceled at CNN

An upcoming CNN documentary about Hillary Clinton has been canceled. The show's director, Charles Ferguson, made the announcement at the Huffington Post two hours ago.
Noel Sheppard
September 30th, 2013 10:39 AM