Neil Cavuto to Charlie Rangel: 'Your Party Lies a Lot

Conceivably the best line uttered by a member of the media this week concerning the sequester debate came from Fox News's Neil Cavuto Friday In a Your World discussion about the budget deliberations with Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), Cavuto marvelously said, "It seems that your Party lies a lot."
Noel Sheppard
March 1st, 2013 6:03 PM

NBC's Gregory: Obama Doesn't Like Washington Press Corps, Feeling is

Reacting to the contentious exchange between the Obama White House and the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, on Friday's NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator David Gregory saw the conflict as part of a "larger issue": "...the President does not particularly like the Washington press corps. And I think that feeling is mutual in a lot of respects....there's not a great relationship between that…
Kyle Drennen
March 1st, 2013 5:28 PM

Lefty Paranoia: Former Reporter Calls Supreme Court Justices ‘Neo-Co

Supreme Court justices traditionally wear black robes to hear arguments. Unless they’re hearing – and potentially agreeing with – arguments lefties don’t like. Then they’re decked out in white sheets. That’s how conservative justices were painted in former Newsweek reporter Robert Parry’s hysterical February 28 article at unhinged liberal website Alternet. In “The Neo-Confederate Supreme…
Kristine Marsh
March 1st, 2013 4:59 PM

Fan Girl Journalist Tosses Obama Softballs on Gay Marriage

President Obama held a White House press conference Friday afternoon to discuss the sequester, which takes effect officially this evening. But when reporter Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune got her chance to ask a question, she didn’t ask about the sequester at all. Instead, the Obama-friendly journalist lobbed the president a softball regarding California’s Proposition 8, which enshrines…
Paul Bremmer
March 1st, 2013 3:52 PM

Bashing Benedict Cont.: Scandalous Coverage Of Pope’s Retirement Day

The final count is in. From the day of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation announcement to the day of his retirement, the networks unabashedly attacked the pope and the Catholic Church, adding to a pope resignation coverage tally of referencing the church as troubled 157 times and using the world “scandal” 105 times in 118 reports.  A previous Culture and Media Institute tally noted the frequency…
Katie Yoder
March 1st, 2013 3:33 PM

MSNBC Conservative S.E. Cupp Doubles Down On CPAC Bashing

Updated | Ever since becoming a full-time employee of MSNBC, conservative columnist and pundit S.E. Cupp has seemed to take it upon herself to rebuke the conservative movement from time to time on air, for which, of course, she is rewarded with applause by her liberal colleagues.  Earlier this week on her program The Cycle, Cupp said that she will no longer speak at the Conservative Political…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 1st, 2013 2:58 PM

CNN's Yellin to Obama: Could You Force Congress to Stay Until Sequeste

CNN's White House correspondent asked President Obama on Friday why he couldn't just force Congress to stick around until a deal is reached to prevent the sequester cuts. Obama responded that he wasn't a "dictator." "To your question 'what could you do?' First of all, couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let them leave the room until you have a deal?" CNN's Jessica Yellin teed…
Matt Hadro
March 1st, 2013 2:56 PM

New York Times Ushers Pope Benedict Out Under Clouds of 'Scandal and I

Pope Benedict XVI served his final day as pontiff on Thursday, and the New York Times' Rome bureau chief Rachel Donadio sent him on his way from Vatican City under a dark cloud: "As Pope Departs, Discord Remains at Vatican." As the sun set on Rome and on his turbulent eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI, a shy theologian who never seemed entirely at home in the limelight, was whisked by…
Clay Waters
March 1st, 2013 2:56 PM

In Bob Woodward Dust-Up, New York Times Takes Side of White House, Not

The New York Times finally noticed what Washington has obsessed over the last few days -- the dust-up between veteran Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward and the Obama White House over an email from a White House aide (apparently Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council) who emailedhis disagreement with Woodward's characterization that the White House had moved…
Clay Waters
March 1st, 2013 2:27 PM

Lefty Paranoia: Alternet Calls Supreme Court Justices ‘Neo-Confedera

Moonbat lefty site frets Scalia and co. are ‘gearing up to restore white rule over America.’  
Kristine Marsh
March 1st, 2013 2:03 PM

Leno’s White House Sequester Ad: ‘Girl Scouts Will Be Forced To Se

It’s certainly clear to Jay Leno that the Obama administration is fearmongering the budget sequester. On NBC’s Tonight Show Thursday, Leno played a mock White House ad claiming among other things that if sequestration occurs, “Girl Scouts will be forced to sell meth" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 1st, 2013 1:59 PM

'Writing the Words That Made History': NBC's Puff Piece on Obama's Dep

One week after Politico declared President Obama to be a "puppet master" for his ability to manipulate media coverage, on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Willie Geist was a willing participant in the string pulling as he conducted a fawning interview with outgoing White House speechwriter Jon Favreau: "[Obama] calls Favreau his mind reader....the departing speechwriter takes us inside his life as…
Kyle Drennen
March 1st, 2013 1:03 PM

Harvard Paper Warns Conservatives Not to Enroll There If They Intend T

Oh those open-minded liberals. On Thursday, the Harvard Crimson cautioned conservatives about attending their fine school in an article titled "Warning: Do Not Enroll. If you might want to insult Harvard down the line, go elsewhere":
Noel Sheppard
March 1st, 2013 12:36 PM

ABC: Sequester 'Armageddon' Will Lead to 'Jobs Vaporizing' and 'Crimin

According to the journalists of Good Morning America, the end of the world is nigh. The hosts and reporters on Friday hyped the "massive" sequester cuts as leading to near panic. Josh Elliott opened the show by hyperventilating, "Jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Reporter Jon Karl intoned, "The day is upon us. Those dreaded…
Scott Whitlock
March 1st, 2013 11:53 AM