‘End Coal’ Billionaire Steyer Made Money Off Coal in June

“Green billionaire” Tom Steyer has gone “clean.” He’s apparently kicked his coal habit – for all of 15 days. Up until June 30, 2014, Steyer was still making money off of fossil fuel investments through Farallon Capital Management (which he founded). Yet, to the media Steyer “has become the environmental hero he set out to be.” ABC World News with Diane Sawyer on April 3 portrayed Steyer as…
Mike Ciandella
July 15th, 2014 4:43 PM

Megyn Kelly Unloads on ABC for Softball Interview With Attorney Genera

Fox News's Megyn Kelly on Monday slammed the softball questions offered to Attorney General Eric Holder during an interview on ABC, Sunday. The host hammered questioner Pierre Thomas for not bringing up the ever-growing IRS scandal, the administration's losses in the Spureme Court and other contentious issues. Instead, the journalist mostly failed to press Holder, allowing him to lash out at…
Scott Whitlock
July 15th, 2014 4:27 PM

NY Times Slobbers Over Intellectual Obama & His Fabulous Dinner Chats

Breaking story from the New York Times: Obama attended a pretentious dinner party in Rome back in March, hob-nobbing with particle physicists and captains of industry. Reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis, whose articles on Obama outside the White House give the president free rein to insult the GOP, on Tuesday slobbered over Obama the intellectual, and his fabulous dinner guests from all over the…
Clay Waters
July 15th, 2014 4:00 PM

CDC: Gay Population 2.3%; Thanks to Media, Americans Think Number is

Everyone knows there are gays and lesbians in everybody’s family. And no office would be complete without a sassy gay character. And just about every other kid in high school is wresting with his sexuality. I know. I watch TV. Except it isn’t true, and the Centers for Disease Control just proved it. A new comprehensive study by the CDC with over 33,000 participants has confirmed earlier…
Kristine Marsh
July 15th, 2014 12:59 PM

NBC Ignores VA Whistle-Blower Hearing; ABC Gives News Only 23 Seconds

On Tuesday morning, NBC’s Today refused to cover the latest news in the Veterans Affairs scandal as the House Veterans Affairs Committee heard testimony Monday night from additional whistle-blowers who faced punishment from superiors for identifying allegedly manipulated response times for veterans who filed benefit and disability claims. Coverage of the latest news saw only two minutes and…
Curtis Houck
July 15th, 2014 12:40 PM

New Lean Forward Ad on MSNBC Attacks the Second Amendment: 'Make Chang

The latest MSNBC "lean forward" ad continues the network's habit of explicitly pushing for liberal legislation. This time, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pleaded for new gun control laws, rallying, "You can't get people to give up any access to guns...Get over it. Get over it. Or don't get over it. Don't get over it." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] She exhorted, "Don't believe it when they say…
Scott Whitlock
July 15th, 2014 12:25 PM

Sneering Stephen Colbert Touts Obama Administration Talking Points: Co

Rather than spending his two weeks off developing new ways to insult conservatives, Stephen Colbert returned from vacation brandishing a tired favorite: racism. According to the Comedy Central host, “conservatives, like myself, have supported a unitary executive and the use of executive orders in the past” however, there is something “shady” about Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder…
Laura Flint
July 15th, 2014 11:55 AM

Howard Stern Sees Ratings Gold for 'Today' if Savannah 'Kills Matt on

During a simulcast of NBC's Today and Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show on Tuesday, the outspoken America's Got Talent host suggested a way for the network morning show to boost its ratings: "You know, Savannah, it would be great for the ratings if you had the baby and then you had postpartum depression....a lot of women will relate to that. Matt could do a three-piece set on that." [Listen to…
Kyle Drennen
July 15th, 2014 11:55 AM

CNN's Cuomo: 'Proportionality is a Big Part' of Israeli-Palestinian Co

The ‘blame Israel’ rhetoric from the mainstream media has shown no signs of slowing down. This time, on the July 15 edition of CNN’s New Day, host Chris Cuomo and CNN contributor Peter Beinart decried the unevenness of the war, citing high casualties on the Palestinian side while pointing to virtually nonexistent casualties on the Israeli side of the conflict. Cuomo naturally led off his…
Connor Williams
July 15th, 2014 11:40 AM

Chris Matthews Forgets To Fact Check (Again

On the July 14 edition of Hardball With Chris Matthews, the left-wing MSNBC host continued his pattern of spewing convenient yet historically inaccurate facts. After playing an amusing, if not crude, clip of John Oliver poking fun at the recently unearthed love letters of former President Warren G. Harding, he joked, “is it worth noting that the presidential election of 1920 was the first in…
Laura Flint
July 15th, 2014 10:15 AM

NBC Reporter Acts As Hamas Spokesman, Denies Terror Group Uses Civilia

Reporting from the Gaza Strip during MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on July 14, NBC foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, formerly of Al Jazerra and CNN, parroted Hamas denials that it deliberately placed missile batteries in civilian buildings in Gaza [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]: They definitely reject the labeling of using civilians as human shields....Hamas…
Kyle Drennen
July 15th, 2014 9:15 AM

WashPost Profile Slams Ex-Reporter Campbell Brown, Now Fighting Teache

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi reported in Tuesday’s paper that former NBC and CNN journalist Campbell Brown found a new calling. “After years as a journalist, steeped in notions of fairness and balance, Brown has transformed into an advocate” – against tenure for teachers. Since taking on the teachers’ unions apparently makes you a public enemy, the Post and Farhi then lined up…
Tim Graham
July 15th, 2014 8:59 AM

Atheist Writer: ‘Jesus Was a Marxist Before Marxism Had a Name

Every so often a liberal pundit argues that even though Paul Ryan considers himself Catholic, his beliefs (on economics, at least) are closer to those of Ayn Rand than those of the Vatican. In a Friday piece for AlterNet, atheist writer CJ Werleman, author of books such as God Hates You. Hate Him Back, made a similar but far broader charge, claiming that Republicans in general routinely “…
Tom Johnson
July 15th, 2014 6:32 AM

Jon Stewart Viciously Mocks Hobby Lobby Decision: ‘Hobby Lobby v. Di

Jon Stewart has been on vacation for the past two weeks and he used his return on Monday, July 14 to mock the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of craft store Hobby Lobby.  Appearing on The Daily Show, Stewart slammed the Supreme Court ruling and declared the “final score Hobby Lobby 5, whores 4. Sorry whores.” [See video below.] 
Jeffrey Meyer
July 15th, 2014 1:05 AM