CBS/NYT Ignore Own Poll Showing Obama Job Approval at 40%
On Wednesday, CBS and The New York Times made the point of omitting results from their own poll which show President Obama’s job approval at 40 percent and his approval on foreign policy at only 34 percent from the newscasts and print newspaper, respectively.
CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley only mentioned the latest CBS News/New York Times poll in regards to how 57…
September 17th, 2014 9:13 PM
Slate Writer: Voter Fraud One of GOP’s Favorite ‘Fake Problems’
The GOP wildly exaggerates problems like voter fraud because its solutions would move the country to the right.
September 17th, 2014 9:12 PM
Fineman: Iowa Farmers More 'Sophisticated' Because They're Liberal
Iowa's primary industry is agriculture, but Iowa farmers are more "worldly," "educated," and "sophisticated" than their counterparts elsewhere in the United States, according to the Huffington Post Media Group's Howard Fineman. While he didn't explicitly make the connection, the inference is that red-state, socially-conservative farmers were not so intelligent.
September 17th, 2014 9:04 PM
MSNBC, CNN Punt on Live Coverage of Benghazi Hearing; Fox News Covers
CNN and MSNBC viewers on Wednesday would have to switch channels if they wanted to watch the first hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. CNN aired a 15-second news brief at the top of the 10 am Eastern hour, mere minutes before the nearly three-hour meeting began, but didn't cover the proceedings live. MSNBC set aside 12 minutes worth of segments to the event, and sometimes showed…
September 17th, 2014 5:42 PM
Gallup Poll Shows All-Time Low In Public Confidence In Media
The pollsters at Gallup reported on Wednesday that Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report "the news fully, accurately, and fairly" has dropped to its previous all-time low of 40 percent. That number was at 55 percent in 1999, but hasn’t been above 50 percent since 2005. The media is really struggling among Democrats, who have “traditionally expressed much higher levels of…
September 17th, 2014 5:03 PM
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Star Attacks Right-Wing Media
Actor Viggo Mortensen hasn’t been in any big movies since he played Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but now he’s promoting his new movie with Kirsten Dunst called “The Two Faces of January.” He stopped by Huffington Post Live September 16, to talk about the movie, but if a Huffington Post reporter is interviewing, you can be sure they will find a way to bash conservative media any…
September 17th, 2014 5:02 PM
WashPost Shields Maryland Lt. Gov. by Burying Bad ObamaCare News
Last year the deeply liberal Democratic state of Maryland had an absolutely atrocious rollout of its ObamaCare website. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D), who is running this November for governor, was in charge of the ObamaCare rollout.
The website has since been completely overhauled, at the staggering cost of $40 million, but all the same, health department officials are planning "to limit access…
September 17th, 2014 4:59 PM
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Star: Right-Wing News ‘Appallingly Shallow A
Fox News is so terrible it’s ‘like a horror movie.’
September 17th, 2014 4:44 PM
Fired NBC Host David Gregory Decries Media 'Laziness'
As reported by Politico, recently dumped Meet the Press moderator David Gregory moderated a panel for the No Labels Strategic Agenda conference in Washington on Wednesday and lectured his media colleagues: "[I]n Washington political journalism the narrative gets set, and it gets set early and built on. And things that fight the narrative get harder to report out, I think, often because of…
September 17th, 2014 4:19 PM
AOL: 'Global Warming Likely to Cause Colder And Snowier Winters'
Global warming is caused by colder and snowier winters according to AOL. If the weather is warmer, the cause is global warming but if it becomes colder, global warming is also the culprit. No matter how the climate changes, the reason will always be global warming.
September 17th, 2014 4:00 PM
Former NYTimes Bureau Chief: Revolt Is the Only Option Left
Notice how when liberals say insane things, they never make the news? Former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Hedges has become open about his lunacy in recent years. Hedges went on a massive anti-Israel rant during a recent liberal event in Wisconsin where he also predicted that a “revolt” is on the way.
While Hedges claimed he didn’t support revolution, he wasn’t optimistic about…
September 17th, 2014 3:43 PM
Will Media Report How Obama Now Sees America As, Well, 'Unique'?
President Obama cited American exceptionalism at least ten times in his speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa today.
Early in his administration, Obama went out of his way to downplay the nature of U.S. exceptionalism, claiming that it was really no different than how any other nation's citizens saw their own country's uniqueness. So his speechwriters knew better than to use that word. But…
September 17th, 2014 3:29 PM
Former NYTimes Bureau Chief: ‘Revolt is the only option left
Claims conservatives have ‘retreated into Christian
fascism.’
September 17th, 2014 3:18 PM
'Heterosexual Marriage' More Oppressive Than The Burka?
Catherine Deveny is an Australian writer and comedian who has previously written for the Australian daily “The Age” and the UK daily “The Guardian.” She is also an outspoken atheist and feminist. Her strong left-wing viewpoints denouncing marriage and motherhood have garnered much criticism including a tweet she posted Sept. 16.
September 17th, 2014 3:15 PM