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Juan Williams Returns to Scene of Firing at NPR, But Only to Laud Hill
Fox News analyst Juan Williams re-appeared on the radio network that fired him (NPR) on Friday. Halfway through the domestic-politics hour on the Diane Rehm show, they discussed the hullaballoo Karl Rove started by questioning Hillary Clinton’s transparency on her health.
While former Fox reporter Major Garrett said Democrats railed against Rove for "a completely illegitimate and, you know,…
May 18th, 2014 9:21 PM
Sarah Kliff Reports Latest Excuse for Obamacare Failure: Lousy Managem
At first liberals were blaming Republican governors for "sabotaging" Obamacare as an excuse for its failure. However as Obamacare failure reports poured in from liberal states with liberal governors such as Oregon, Massachusetts, and Maryland, a new excuse was desperately needed. And now Sarah Kliff of General Electric Vox reports on the latest Obamacare failure excuse: lousy management.…
May 18th, 2014 5:22 PM
CNN’s Brian Stelter to ABC’s Robin Roberts: Will Michael Sam Be a
ABC’s Robin Roberts sat down with CNN’s Brian Stelter, host of Reliable Sources, to discuss her newest book “Everybody's Got Something” and was treated to softball question after softball question.
Appearing in an interview that aired on Sunday, May 18, Stelter asked Roberts “Michael Sam talks about thinking that maybe he will be a beacon for others. Do you think about it in the same way?” […
May 18th, 2014 4:55 PM
CBS’s ‘Good Wife’ Ridicules Ayn Rand’s Books as ‘Awful’ wi
The season finale of The Good Wife will air tonight (Sunday) on CBS. Last week’s episode included a quick pot-shot, from lead character “Alicia Florrick” played by Julianna Margulies, at legendary libertarian author Ayn Rand.
She declared Rand’s books are “awful,” snidely asserting: “A guy bombs a building, the rich go out on strike. It’s a 12-year-old’s view of the world. It’s like basing…
May 18th, 2014 3:54 PM
Bill Kristol Slams New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger: ‘Mr
Appearing as a guest on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative publication the Weekly Standard, mocked liberals’ outrage over the firing of Jill Abramson as editor of The New York Times.
Speaking on Sunday, May 18, Kristol remarked that liberals should be angry at one person, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times: “Who is the they…
May 18th, 2014 3:31 PM
Vanden Heuvel on Face the Nation: ‘Congress Has Cut Funding, Has Sla
Katrina vanden Huevel, editor and publisher of The Nation, participated in today’s Face the Nation panel. The first topic of discussion was the scandal at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs:
May 18th, 2014 2:33 PM
NBC’s David Gregory to Reince Priebus: Is Hillary Clinton ‘The Can
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, sat down with David Gregory, moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press and was immediately met with a barrage of questions on Hillary Clinton ranging from Karl Rove’s questioning of Clinton health to her tenure as Secretary of State.
Appearing on Sunday, May 18, Gregory did his best to defend Ms. Clinton from her legacy and asked Priebus…
May 18th, 2014 2:05 PM
Amid MSM Julian Castro Frenzy, Henry Cisneros Becomes Nonperson
The similarities between the two politicians are absolutely eerie.
Both are Mexican Americans from San Antonio who at age 27 became the youngest city councilmen in their city's history at the time of their elections. They both went on to serve as mayors of that city. While mayor both were prominent speakers at the Democrat national convention and were touted as future vice-presidential…
May 18th, 2014 1:25 PM
NY Times Publisher Issues Statement: Jill Abramson Firing Was Due to H
Via Mediaite, we learned New York Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. issued a new statement Saturday on the controversy over the dumping of executive editor Jill Abramson. He said the issue wasn’t pay, but Abramson’s management style causing a loss of “the support of her masthead colleagues.”
“Equal pay for women is an important issue in our country — one that The New York Times…
May 18th, 2014 1:13 PM
CBS’s Schieffer Fails to Challenge Timothy Geithner’s Claim That
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, May 18 to promote his new memoir Stress Test, yet host Bob Schieffer barely touched on the most controversial aspect, that the Obama Administration had directed him to spin negative aspects of Obama’s policies.
Schieffer briefly asked his guest “Did the administration ever try to get you to put a more…
May 18th, 2014 12:28 PM
ABC, NBC Promote ‘Rising Star’ Julian Castro Being Tapped for Obam
On Sunday, May 18, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today hyped President Obama’s selection of Julian Castro, Democratic Mayor of San Antonio, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Both NBC’s Jenna Wolfe and ABC’s Ron Claiborne beamed at how Castro is a “rising star in the Democratic Party” with Wolfe praising how “there’s been speculation that he could be vice…
May 18th, 2014 10:29 AM
Jake Tapper Dodges on CNN Coverage of Benghazi Hearings: 'I'd Have to
CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Thursday to discuss his hardball interview with White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough on the poor treatment of some veterans at VA hospitals, and Hewitt raised Tapper’s book on our armed forces in Afghanistan, The Outpost.
But Tapper carefully dodged offering a guess or an opinion on whether his network would devote a lot…
May 18th, 2014 8:52 AM
Liberal Blogger: If Ben Carson Runs for President, He'll Play the Role
In a textbook case of damning with faint praise, the Washington Monthly's Ed Kilgore asserted on Thursday that of all the "dramatically underqualified people" who may run for president in 2016, Ben Carson is the frontrunner.
Kilgore opines that since Carson is black, his popularity with white conservatives "absolve[s] them of any racist motives when they complain about those people on…
May 18th, 2014 7:20 AM
NewsBusted: Did Aliens Abduct CNN's News Judgment
"A new poll from CNN asked if aliens captured Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But another theory says CNN captured the plane and hid it themselves, so they’d have something to talk about 24 hours a day rather than Benghazi."
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May 18th, 2014 1:11 AM