FNC Calls Out Democratic Hypocrisy Over Fundraising Off Benghazi

On Monday, May 12, FNC's Fox and Friends exposed Democratic hypocrisy in accusing Republicans of trying to raise money off the deaths of Americans from the Benghazi attack, when Democrats themselves have a history of linking fundraising to deadly events. Referring to Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy explaining this hypocrisy on the previous day's Fox News Sunday, FNC co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck…
Brad Wilmouth
May 12th, 2014 9:56 AM

Bye-Bye Barbara! The Top 20 Worst of Walters Countdown

Friday marks Barbara Walters’ retirement from ABC’s The View. On that show, and throughout her forty-year career at ABC News, the longtime reporter has shown an inclination to suck-up to liberal heroes like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (“His bold actions on issues like gun safety...has inspired many”) and ask silly softball questions to the likes of Barack Obama (“If you were a…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 12th, 2014 9:39 AM

Law-Flouting David Gregory of NBC Parks Illegally Outside Fancy D.C. J

NBC's David Gregory drew special treatment from the District of Columbia for illegally possessing a high-capacity magazine and displaying it on national TV. There must be an exemption for "educational" media-bias reasons. So he won't worry about any fine for illegally parking his SUV the other day outside the "upscale bauble shop" Tiny Jewel Box, whose website advertises items for "Above $5000…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2014 8:01 AM

Over-Honoring Barbara Walters: NY Daily News Claims 'The View' Was Fai

In the last week of Barbara Walters appearing regularly on "The View" on ABC, beware of those who badly keep tabs on Babs. Start with the New York Daily News and TV writer David Hinckley, who unleashed this whopper. "You hope people can feel comfortable when they go on ‘The View’,” says Walters. “It’s a show that should let you relax and be yourself.” Hinckley added: "That seemed to work for…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2014 6:58 AM

RNC Spokesman: It's Time for Conservative Journalists to Moderate Some

Someone in the GOP is starting to listen to our refrain of "Say No to Feisty Liberal Moderators."  On Friday, RNC spokesman Sean Spicer talked to Newsmax TV host Steve Malzberg after the RNC voted to change the rules to include more conservative moderators in the primaries. Spicer noted the obvious: “ For too long, it’s been the media that’s decided when we’re going to debate, who is going to…
Tim Graham
May 11th, 2014 5:33 PM

Lefty Blogger: GOP, Romney Should Have Had 'The Taste Slapped Out of

The right has directed most of its anger over the handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack at President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice, but when lefty blogger Martin Longman reflects on reactions to Benghazi, he thinks of a different villain: Mitt Romney. In a Saturday post for the Washington Monthly web site, Longman recalls that a few days after the attack, he was "seething about…
Tom Johnson
May 11th, 2014 4:57 PM

On MSNBC, Ex-NYTimes Writer Bob Herbert Slams GOP As 'Hostile to the I

Appearing as a guest on the Saturday edition of Disrupt with Karen Finney on MSNBC, former NBC News man and New York Times columnist Bob Herbert asserted that Republicans are "hostile to the interests of African-Americans" and suggested that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul would not have a problem with a hotel or restaurant barring black customers from entering. Herbert's comments came during a…
Brad Wilmouth
May 11th, 2014 3:39 PM

UK Guardian Writer Blames Boko Haram Rise on Global Warming

Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that poverty is a recruitment tool for Boko Haram. However, Kerry might have met his match in absurdity by Nafeez Ahmed of the U.K. Guardian who claimed that global warming was responsible for the rise of that organization. Yes, if poverty does not absolve Boko Haram terrorists of responsibility then global warming now called climate change which has…
P.J. Gladnick
May 11th, 2014 2:54 PM

CNN's Smerconish: Benghazi is the Abortion of

CNN host Michael Smerconish did his best to diminish the House Select Committee investigating Benghazi during an appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, May 11.  Appearing as a panelist, Smerconish claimed that "I think nothing from Benghazi has received traction apart from the GOP base. It’s really the abortion of the 2014 cycle." [See video below.]
Jeffrey Meyer
May 11th, 2014 12:19 PM

Sen. Marco Rubio Gives Hillary Clinton a Grade of F as Secretary of St

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) had some harsh words for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she plans to run for president in 2016. Appearing for a pre-taped interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl which aired on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, May 11, Senator Rubio gave Secretary Clinton a grade of “F” for her time at the State Department and stated “I don’t think she has a…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 11th, 2014 11:08 AM

LAT Buries the Lede: Calif. Rail Authority Tried to Intimidate Consult

The estimated cost of the initial segment of California's bullet train, Golden State Governor Jerry Brown's pet project, has (excuse the pun) just shot up from $6.19 billion to $7.13 billion. If this is the only overrun encountered in this opening phase, which would be atypical, and if the California High Speed Rail Authority has similar experiences during the remainder of the project, assuming…
Tom Blumer
May 11th, 2014 10:33 AM

Whacking Tim Scott At Bloomberg View: 'Do Republicans Lower the Bar f

Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg View used to write on politics for Rolling Stone, and it shows. He went on the warpath against Sen. Tim Scott in a column titled “Do Republicans Lower the Bar for Blacks?” This is not a serious question from the Democrats who wouldn’t call it “lowering the bar” to give race-baiting huckster Al Sharpton an hour each night on MSNBC to mangle the English language…
Tim Graham
May 11th, 2014 9:18 AM

At AP, Wis. Dem's Plan to Pass Out Klan Hoods at GOP Gathering Was a

While I was aware that a fever-swamp Democrat in Wisconsin was planning to pass out Ku Klux Klan hoods at some kind of Wisconsin Republican gathering, I had no idea until this morning that the Associated Press actually considered it a national story back on May 1. It was really even more than a national story at the self-described "essential global news network." It was so vital that the nation…
Tom Blumer
May 11th, 2014 8:48 AM

Happy Mother's Day Open Thread

NB Staff
May 11th, 2014 8:21 AM