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New York Times Dumps Texas Tribune: Halloween Trick, No Treat
The New York Times had a Halloween trick but no treat for the Texas Tribune. Today the Texas Tribune has announced that its partnership with the Times will be terminated with extreme prejudice. Is this just a coincidence that this is happening just before the election in which it appears that the campaign of Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Wendy Davis, appears to have imploded?
October 31st, 2014 3:53 PM
LOL: Lizz Winstead Blames Wendy Davis Defeat on . . . 'Redistricting'
Comedy gold! As the co-founder of the Daily Show, Lizz Winstead might be a funny lady. But what she came up with today was surely an unintentional laugh line. Appearing on Joy Reid's MSNBC show this afternoon, Winstead blamed Wendy Davis' impending thrashing in her race for Governor of Texas on . . . "redistricting."
Lizz, last time we looked, there is no districting—"re" or otherwise—when it…
October 31st, 2014 3:35 PM
On PBS: 'The Year After He's Out People Are Going to Miss Obama'
When Charlie Rose, on his Thursday PBS show, asked the current Bloomberg View columnist why Obama had become “such a liability” to the Democratic Party in this 2014 election cycle, Lewis responded that it was “unfair” and then predicted: “I think history is going to be very kind to him...the year after he’s out people are going to miss him.
October 31st, 2014 1:30 PM
Not a Halloween Trick: ABC's News Department Takes Over 'The View'
ABC's The View, a show featuring a woman who believes the United States government may have been involved in the September 11th, 2001 attacks, will now be overseen by the network's news division, according to Variety. ABC News President James Goldston announced, "Moving ‘The View’ to our non-fiction programming group now allows it to fully draw on the vast resources of ABC News and our team in…
October 31st, 2014 12:00 PM
MSNBC Celebrates Morning Joe’s Ratings ‘Winning Streak’ Over…CNN
MSNBC loves to run ads promoting its liberal “Lean Forward” programs but its latest celebratory commercial championing Morning Joe’s ratings “success” seems a bit odd. Over the last few days a new MSNBC ad hilariously has been running proclaiming that “2014 marks the fifth straight year Morning Joe continues to beat CNN. Since 2010 Morning Joe has out-delivered CNN as the place to get the top…
October 31st, 2014 11:07 AM
Politico Discovers 'The Return of Mean John McCain'
Politico isn't holding back its tilt at the end of this campaign. Here's a headline: "The return of mean John McCain." Reporter Burgess Everett began: "Mean John McCain is back on the campaign trail." Return to mean? Everett dug up AP bias from 2008: "He’s called fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa a 'f——- jerk' and former Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, also of the GOP, an…
October 31st, 2014 10:02 AM
NBC: Possible Republican Midterm Wave = 'Hold-Your-Nose Election'
As the chances of Republicans gaining control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm election remained high, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared on Friday's NBC Today to pour cold water on the possibility: "...definitely feels like a hold-your-nose election....talking to voters that I did, they'd like to punish the President's party without rewarding the Republicans. And in many cases,…
October 31st, 2014 9:59 AM
Bob Beckel Makes Sexist Comment In Response To Catcall Video
On Wednesday, the Fox News show The Five tackled the controversial video showing a New York City woman repeatedly receiving catcalls from random men over a 10-hour period. While most of the Fox hosts felt that as long as the men weren’t being obnoxious and following the woman for a long period of time the comments were harmless, liberal Bob Beckel predictably took things to a whole new level. …
October 31st, 2014 9:57 AM
Media Bashes For-Profit Education, Obama's New Regs 'Unfairly Target'
Media outlets spent years bashing for-profit colleges and universities, calling for regulation, claiming they provided “woefully inadequate education,” all while ignoring these institutions’ efforts to educate underprivileged students.
On Oct. 30, 2014, the Department of Education announced new regulations on for-profit colleges that would strip them of financial aid unless these institutions…
October 31st, 2014 9:49 AM
Dems Want to Switch Focus to 2016, and Politico Complies
Did the editor of Politico's Daily Digest notice that the arrangement of the two top stories this morning played directly into the Dem playbook? We sure did.
The first headline is "Democratic donors prepare for disappointment," and the sub-headline reads "The plan is to shift focus to 2016, when Democrats face a much more hospitable Senate map." And sure enough, Politico's very next story…
October 31st, 2014 7:24 AM
Media Whining Begins: 'Civil War Looms for the GOP'
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air ably announced that liberal reporters and analysts are breaking out the latest spin – that victory will be terrible for Republicans. I’d call it the Mary Tillotson special: after the GOP took the house in 1994, CNN’s Tillotson suggested this 52-seat landslide was bad news for 1996.
Morrissey calls it “the media’s Sour Grapes Index, in which analysts posit that a big win…
October 31st, 2014 7:23 AM
Esquire Blogger: Americans Too Clueless to Appreciate Elizabeth Warren
The Esquire blogger Charles Pierce says Elizabeth Warren’s economic message is popular, but, for reasons that include a Republican “campaign of vandalism” and Democratic ineptitude, she doesn’t get the credit she deserves for it.
October 31st, 2014 1:14 AM
NYT Still Puzzled By 'Paradox' of Low Crime Rate, Overstuffed Prisons
James Taranto's Opinion Journal page features a long-running gag, "Fox Butterfield, Is That You?" an homage to former New York Times crime reporter Fox Butterfield, who wrote an article under a now-notorious headline: "Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling." Yet the paper's liberal confusion had a straightforward explanation: Crime was down at least partially because more criminals…
October 31st, 2014 12:23 AM
AP Wants Readers to Believe Fed's Easing 'Is Over'
An unbylined "Q&A" column at the Associated Press yesterday began with the following false declaration: "The $4 trillion experiment is over." That just isn't so.
Maybe the Federal Reserve is done building up its debt holdings — that is by no means certain — but the "experiment" known as "quantitative easing," or "QE," won't be over until the Fed fully unwinds those balances. In the meantime…
October 30th, 2014 11:51 PM