WaPo Hits Obama For Peddling False 40% Background Check Myth on Gun Sa

Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler decided to not to be a lapdog for the Obama administration with his Pinocchio test concerning background checks for firearm purchases. On April 2, he awarded President Obama’s claim that 40 percent of gun sales don’t require a background check, which earned him three -- out of four possible -- Pinocchios from Kessler.  Kessler explained that "…
Matt Vespa
April 3rd, 2013 4:40 PM

NY Times Spreads Obama's Bad '40 Percent' Figure on Background Checks

The New York Times's Michael Shear passed along the Obama administration's unsubstantiated claim that 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check, in Wednesday's "Background Checks Are Still Stumbling Block in Gun Law Overhaul." Since the existing background-check system began, in 1994, officials have screened more than 108 million people before they could buy a gun, according…
Clay Waters
April 3rd, 2013 4:34 PM

Higher Gas Prices the ‘Price of Cleaner Air

New EPA regulations could increase the price of gas by nine cents or more when they take effect in the next four years, American Petroleum Institute (API) scientists say. However, ABC, CBS and NBC  news programs gave little credence to those concerns, and hyped EPA’s claims of “significant health benefits” instead. ABC was the worst of the three. Diane Sawyer and Jim Avila on the March 29 “…
Mike Ciandella
April 3rd, 2013 4:28 PM

Herman Cain: 'Maybe Chris Matthews Doesn't Have Enough Black Friends T

As NewsBusters reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday actually said, “Racism is the belief that one race - whites - should rule all others.” Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain responded to this nonsense on Fox News's Hannity Tuesday stating, "It's laughable what Chris Matthews is saying...Maybe he doesn't have enough black friends who's telling him the truth" (video…
Noel Sheppard
April 3rd, 2013 4:25 PM

‘Hannibal’ the Cannibal Comes to TV with TV-14 rating

NBC embraces serial killer show geared for 14-year-olds.
Kristine Marsh
April 3rd, 2013 3:56 PM

Pro-Democrat Labeling: Fewer Illegal Immigrants, More 'Undocumented' O

The New York Times's politically correct evolution on immigration issues continues apace. Public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged Tuesday afternoon on the paper reconsidering the use of term "illegal immigrant," in the wake of the Associated Press's announcement that it would cease using it. The Associated Press made a bold move on Tuesday in dropping the term “illegal immigrant” from its…
Clay Waters
April 3rd, 2013 2:33 PM

WaPo Catches Obama Recycling Policies That Sunk Housing Market

To his credit, the Washington Post's Zachary A. Goldfarb reported yesterday that the Obama administration is possibly repeating the same policy mistakes that sank the housing market.   To get to the heart of the matter, our national housing bubble quickly inflated as a result of too many people with poor credit buying homes that they couldn’t afford.  As that number multiplied, banks created…
Matt Vespa
April 3rd, 2013 2:25 PM

Al Roker Appalled by Poll Showing 37 Percent Believe Global Warming is

NBC's Al Roker was appalled by a poll of conspiracy theories that showed 37 percent of those surveyed believed global warming was a hoax. During a discussion, on Wednesday's Today show, of a Public Policy Polling survey that included respondents' views on everything from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the existence of Bigfoot, co-host Willie Geist reported: "Global warming is a hoax. Thirty…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 3rd, 2013 2:03 PM

CDC Exonerates Vaccines Years After Media Stirred Up Fears

Dr. Frank DeStefano studied over 1,000 children; found no vaccine-autism connection.
Julia A. Seymour
April 3rd, 2013 1:59 PM

Bill Moyers: ‘The Pledge of Allegiance is a Lie

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers told his viewers on March 29 that the next time they say the Pledge of Allegiance, they should “remember: it’s a lie. A whopper of a lie.” Bill Moyers’s “Moyers & Company,” which included the snippet, airs on taxpayer funded PBS. “We coax it from the mouths of babes for the same reason our politicians wear those flag pins in their lapels – it makes the…
Mike Ciandella
April 3rd, 2013 1:54 PM

CBS Asserts Biden's Gaffes Are 'Almost Endearing' To Voters

On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford played up how voters supposedly find Vice President Joe Biden's "gaffes almost endearing", as she reported on the potential face-off between President Obama's running mate and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Crawford played clips of Biden's most infamous gaffes, and later added that these verbal slip-ups "may not be so funny for the…
Matthew Balan
April 3rd, 2013 1:38 PM

Washington Post's Chris Cillizza Calls Mark Sanford 'Turd In Political

I find that the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza usually plays things pretty much down the middle, and subscribe to his Fix email blast. So it came as an unpleasant surprise to find in my inbox a little while ago a Cillizza email, linking to his current Fix column, tthat referred to Mark Sanford as "the turd in the political punch bowl."  Cillizza repeated the line in the column itself. View…
Mark Finkelstein
April 3rd, 2013 1:25 PM

MSNBC's Jansing Promotes National Action Network Conference, Omits Sha

Aside from his daily MSNBC hosting duties, Al Sharpton founded and serves as president of the tax-delinquest liberal National Action Network (NAN), which is at present heavily involved in a push for new federal gun control legislation. This morning, MSNBC dutifully dispatched reporter Richard Lui to cover the NAN conference in New York City, from which Lui reported during the 10 a.m. Eastern…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 3rd, 2013 1:15 PM

On Today: 'Rock Star' Hillary Clinton a Democratic 'Field Clearing Can

The Iowa Democratic caucus is a full thirty-three months away but that didn't stop NBC's Today show from promoting a possible Hillary Clinton candidacy. NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Wednesday's show, once again hyped a potential Hillary Clinton run for president as she proclaimed the former Secretary of State was a "rock star." Her colleague Savannah Guthrie declared the former Secretary of…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 3rd, 2013 11:50 AM