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

Business Insider Says Austerity Hurts Economy

With the sequester looming, the impending budget cuts have got the left screaming the end of the world is just around the corner. In a blog published on Feb. 27, co-founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget predicted that our economy was “crappy” because of cutting back government spending. He also posed that this was the problem with European countries like Greece and England. The…
Liz Thatcher
March 1st, 2013 11:41 AM

NBC's Lauer Dismisses Woodward: 'I'm A Little Surprised You've Gone Pu

In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer belittled the veteran journalist for daring to reveal a contentious exchange with White House adviser Gene Sperling: "I'm a little surprised you've gone public with this. I mean, these kinds of high-energy, high-octane, high-emotion conversations and debates happen all the time between…
Kyle Drennen
March 1st, 2013 11:40 AM

Maddow: 'Scalia's a Troll' - 'Like the Guy in Your Blog Comment Thread

"He's a troll...He's like the guy in your blog comment threads using the N-word." So actually said MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Comedy Central's Daily Show Thursday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 1st, 2013 11:30 AM

Video: On FNC's Cavuto, NB's Graham Slams Media for Being 'Repeaters

"We have two kinds of people in Washington in the press, we have the reporters and the repeaters," NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham told Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Thursday's edition of his Your World program. "We've had the repeaters all week of panic, you know, big scoops of sequester panic ripple" from the media who were busy parroting fallacious Obama administration talking points. […
Ken Shepherd
March 1st, 2013 11:20 AM

NYT: Republican Cuccinelli Is Controversial in Virginia Gov. Race, but

In "G.O.P.'s Ideological Split Appears in Virginia Governor's Race," New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel saw a controversial candidate on one side of the Virginia governor's race -- Republican candidate Kenneth Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general, who has support in the Tea Party and social conservative wings of the party. His likely Democratic opponent? Terry McAuliffe, former chairman…
Clay Waters
March 1st, 2013 8:47 AM