Irresponsible: Old Media Outlets Release Info on Where Ferguson Office

Boy, it's a good thing that we don't have any bloggers, Twitter amateurs or Facebook fulminators going off half-cocked and helping people find out where Darren Wilson lives. Wilson is the Ferguson, Missouri police officer who reportedly shot and killed Mike Brown. I mean, if anybody knew that or could figure it out, his safety and that of any family members would be in jeopardy. Oh, wait a…
Tom Blumer
August 18th, 2014 3:01 PM

CNN Guest Who Blasted 'Bully' Limbaugh in 2009 Claims She Avoids 'Opin

On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, Dr. Gail Saltz blasted Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow for his jab at Michelle Obama's weight: "To be criticizing people, kind of, willy-nilly is – I don't think meets the Hippocratic Oath." She played up how Dr. Ablow previously hinted that Vice President Biden might have dementia, and claimed that the psychiatrist violated "American psychiatric…
Matthew Balan
August 18th, 2014 2:45 PM

In Two Days, Networks Devote 25 Minutes to Rick Perry's Indictment

In just two days, the three network morning and evening shows deluged viewers with over 25 minutes of coverage (17 stories) on the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry. These programs made sure to speculate as to whether the controversy could "end any chance" for the Republican in 2016. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The indictment came after Perry lobbied for Texas District Attorney…
Scott Whitlock
August 18th, 2014 2:29 PM

Salon: Hillary, Like Reagan, Thinks ‘Conquering “Evil” Is the Sp

It’s widely known that when Hillary Clinton was in high school, she was a big fan of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. But would Hillary, if elected POTUS, take after the 20th century’s uber-conservative, Ronald Reagan, at least in terms of a hawkish foreign policy? Elias Isquith made that case in a Saturday article in Salon. Isquith scrutinized the ideas Hillary expressed in her…
Tom Johnson
August 18th, 2014 1:55 PM

Networks Ignore that Group Behind Perry’s Indictment Got $500K from

Update, August 19: On ABC “World News with Diane Sawyer” on Aug. 18, Senior National Correspondent Jim Avila included a soundbite from Texans for Public Justice Director Craig McDonald in his story. McDonald was merely introduced as a “critic,” with no ideological label, and Avila never verbally said the name of his group. The Soros connection and the group’s involvement in Perry’s indictment…
Mike Ciandella
August 18th, 2014 12:59 PM

MSNBC’s Halperin on Perry Indictment: ‘This Is the Stupidest Thing

On Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, MSNBC contributor and managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin slammed the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) by an Austin, Texas-area grand jury for threatening to veto funding for a Democratic District Attorney’s public integrity unit after she was convicted of a DUI as “the stupidest thing I’ve seen, I think, in my entire career.”…
Curtis Houck
August 18th, 2014 12:50 PM

Group Behind Perry’s Indictment Got $500K from Soros

Networks ignore Soros connection, hype indictment charge.
Mike Ciandella
August 18th, 2014 12:46 PM

Networks Continue to Hype Perry Indictment, Ignore Prominent Liberals

All three network morning shows on Monday continued to hype the Friday indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry but none of the broadcasts mentioned prominent liberals like Obama adviser David Axelrod or Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz coming to Perry's defense and dismissing the charges as politically motivated. On NBC's Today, correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed Perry to be "the…
Kyle Drennen
August 18th, 2014 12:16 PM

Leak-Probed NYT Reporter On Obama: 'The Greatest Enemy to Press Freedo

Not every reporter in Obama's Washington likes to be seen as a soft touch. Take James Risen of The New York Times, the subject of a leak probe over his CIA reporting in a 2006 book. In a positive column by his Times colleague Maureen Dowd, she touted how at a pickup basketball game, "Risen got in a fight with a lobbyist about the rules for being out of bounds." Carl Hulse, The Times’s chief…
Tim Graham
August 18th, 2014 10:03 AM

The New York Times Has Zero Idea How the Internet Works - Or Is Lying

It takes a special man to cram so much wrong into a mere 342 words.  Or an Old Grey Lady. The New York Times’ utterly ridiculous Editorial Board recently as one addressed Title II Internet regulatory Reclassification and Network Neutrality - and they did so in utterly ridiculous fashion.  They either have absolutely no idea what any of this is - or they are lying through their printing…
Seton Motley
August 18th, 2014 8:52 AM

A 'Name That Party' Round-Up: The News Media’s Double Standard on Po

What’s the difference between a political scandal involving a Republican and one involving a Democrat? When it comes to news coverage, reporters almost always identify the political party of a Republican caught in a scandal, but when the culprit is a Democrat, the party label is usually left out of the story. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, but not many. To prove the point,…
Rich Noyes
August 18th, 2014 7:51 AM

Huff-Po's Reporter In Ferguson Asks on Twitter If Earplugs Are Rubber

Via Truth Revolt, we learned Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly, one of the reporters who were arrested without cause at a McDonald's in Ferguson, Missouri, made a fool of himself on Twitter by suggesting -- non-humorously -- that ear plugs were rubber bullets. Somehow, he didn't try Wikipedia before tweeting. Police have used rubber bullets in Ferguson against protesters. On Twitter, Katie…
Tim Graham
August 18th, 2014 7:02 AM

Joe Piscopo: I Can't Call Myself a Democrat Any More

Former “Saturday Night Live” star Joe Piscopo wrote an op-ed for The Washington Times called “Confessions of a Disillusioned Democrat.” Like Ronald Reagan, Piscopo wrote he didn’t feel like he had changed, but that the Democratic Party changed around him. Piscopo wrote that he's becoming an independent, not a Republican:
Tim Graham
August 18th, 2014 6:43 AM

Rob Reiner: Tea Party Should Be 'Eliminated' Like Hamas

Michael Chapman at our sister site CNSNews.com reported that Hollywood director Rob Reiner unleashed another anti-Tea Party rant in an interview with Larry King. He compared the Tea Party to the terrorist group Hamas, because apparently both groups are extreme and cannot be negotiated with, and the only solution is to make them go away or “eliminate” them. In Israel, “[Y]ou can’t negotiate…
Tim Graham
August 18th, 2014 6:25 AM