Networks Fret Over Burger King 'Defecting' to Canada to Pay Lower Taxe

As news broke on Tuesday of Burger King buying Tim Hortons and moving its corporate headquarters to Canada, the broadcast networks quickly adopted the liberal talking point that the fast food chain was being unpatriotic by avoiding high U.S. tax rates. On Tuesday's ABC World News, anchor Diane Sawyer proclaimed: "Burger King, home of the Whopper, accused of doing something a lot of Americans…

Kyle Drennen
August 27th, 2014 2:24 PM

Gutfeld Calls out Russell Brand for Lecturing Black Conservative on

FNChost terms Brit a ‘racist’ and ‘coward.’
Kristine Marsh
August 27th, 2014 2:01 PM

Sharyl Attkisson Schools ABC, CBS, NBC on How to Cover the IRS Scandal

Unlike her colleagues at the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, on Tuesday night, actually dug into the finer points behind the big bombshells revealed in the IRS scandal this week. Invited on Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss the revelations of a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer confirming the existence of Lois Lerner’s “missing…
Geoffrey Dickens
August 27th, 2014 1:50 PM

Ferguson Shooting Audio: Was CNN Pranked by Howard Stern Fan

BABABOOEY!!! Was CNN pranked yet again by that infamous Howard Stern show fan, Captain Janks aka Tom Cipriano, when they played an audio of a sexy online chat with ten shots going off in the background  supposedly in Ferguson, MO at the same time as the Michael Brown shooting? If so, it would be far from the first time that Captain Janks easily pranked CNN which is so desperate for ratings…
P.J. Gladnick
August 27th, 2014 1:10 PM

ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Hits Bob Costas For Pushing His Political Age

During an appearance on Fox and Friends, ESPN football announcer Kirk Herbstreit criticized NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas for talking politics while announcing a game when most Americans just want to watch the game.  Speaking to co-host Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday, August 26, Herbstreit insisted that “when I'm calling a game, the way Al Michaels would do and the way I do on Saturday night, I'm…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 27th, 2014 12:41 PM

Stewart Attacks FNC, Claims ‘Every Person of Color’ Has Experience

Editor's Note: Quotes contain explicit language Just back from his summer hiatus on Aug. 26, Jon Stewart had a lot of hate to unload on Fox News, and a lot of sanctimonious posturing on race. After lamenting the death of the 18-year-old black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of white police officer, Stewart went on to bash Fox News for suggesting that the mainstream media was…
Kristine Marsh
August 27th, 2014 12:29 PM

ABC, NBC Ignore Possible Obstruction of Justice in Growing VA Scandal

Wednesday's morning shows on ABC and NBC ignored the latest details of the growing scandal engulfing the Veterans Affairs department. Only CBS bothered to report on the story, allowing a scant 20 seconds. This Morning co-anchor Gayle King revealed, "USA Today says the VA scandal now includes obstruction of justice allegations. Ninety three health care facilities are being investigated by the VA…
Scott Whitlock
August 27th, 2014 12:15 PM

Stewart Attacks FNC; Claims ‘Every Person of Color’ has Experience

A lecture on racism from The Daily Show.
Kristine Marsh
August 27th, 2014 11:49 AM

Washington Monthly Blogger: ‘Gun-Toting…Anti-Feminist, Anti-Modern

Lumping one’s political adversaries with the vicious jihadists of ISIS seems to be the new new thing. Last Thursday, Dinesh D’Souza alleged that “the common thread between ISIS and [the looters] in Ferguson is you have these people who basically believe that to correct a perceived injustice, it's perfectly OK to inflict all kinds of new injustices...And all of this is then licensed by the left…
Tom Johnson
August 27th, 2014 11:40 AM

Ethical Conflict Doesn’t Stop Al Jazeera from Attacking Chicken Indu

Anti-factory farming rhetoric is all the rage on the left, so when the USDA announced changes to its inspection for the first time since 1957, liberal outrage was sure to follow. Al Jazeera America devoted most of an episode of “The Stream” to criticism of the changes on Aug. 20. And the left-wing slant of that episode about USDA changes to poultry inspections was predictable, given the…
Julia A. Seymour
August 27th, 2014 11:18 AM

CBS Hits Warren Buffett From Left Over Burger King Deal: ‘Capitalist

Ever since fast food chain Burger King announced its desire to purchase Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons, CBS has done its best to play up the supposed backlash the company will face as it moves its headquarters overseas to lower its tax burden.  On Wednesday morning, following the news that billionaire investor Warren Buffett is helping finance the merger, CBS This Morning made…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 27th, 2014 10:55 AM

PBS to Broadcast Documentary With 'Deeply Humanizing' Portrayals of La

On Monday, the PBS series "POV" will air "After Tiller." The show's web page promoting the film describes it as "a deeply humanizing and probing portrait of the only four doctors in the United States still openly performing third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas." Who knew that these murderers of late-term pre-born babies — Dr.…
Tom Blumer
August 27th, 2014 9:42 AM

O'Reilly: Al Sharpton 'Almost Single-Handedly Has Corrupted NBC News

On his show Monday night, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly declared that MSNBC host and Ferguson, Missouri activist Al Sharpton "has become so controversial in America that it's hard to explain how a news agency, NBC, can even have him on the payroll." Mediabuzz host Howard Kurtz agreed, labeling Sharpton's employment with the network "a travesty." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the…
Kyle Drennen
August 27th, 2014 8:58 AM

Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Back to School: 'Tossing the First Lady's

While most national-media reporting on Michelle Obama’s push for strict school-lunch standards has been delivered with unhealthy amounts of promotional syrup, some outlets have grown more blunt. The latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek (Aug. 25-31) carried this line in the table of contents: “Michelle Obama’s plan to rethink school lunches hits a snag: Kids.”The headline over the story…
Tim Graham
August 27th, 2014 6:15 AM