NYT's Liptak Leads With Dissent in Supreme's 6-2 Race Ruling, Laments

Even though the Supreme Court voted 6-2 to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action, New York Times's Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak in his lead story in Wednesday's paper first quoted Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent, the "most passionate and most significant dissent of her career." Liptak also promoted liberal ex-Justice John Paul Stevens's tirade against money in politics in a Tuesday…
Clay Waters
April 23rd, 2014 8:31 AM

Mea Culpa! 'Newsroom' Creator Aaron Sorkin Confesses He Knows Nothing

When Aaron Sorkin’s leftist series “The Newsroom” debuted on HBO in 2012, then-ABC reporter Jake Tapper trashed it in The New Republic, writing “though “The Newsroom” intends to lecture its viewers on the higher virtues of capital-J journalism, Professor Sorkin soon reveals he isn’t much of an expert on the subject.” Via Buzzfeed, we learned that on Monday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New…
Tim Graham
April 23rd, 2014 6:55 AM

NewsBusted: So Comrade Carney Takes His Work Home

"Photos from a magazine article about White House spokesman Jay Carney show he has Soviet propaganda posters in his house. Which proves that Carney takes his work home with him." ObamaCare, the Keystone pipeline, and the White House Easter Egg Roll were other topics of the April 22 NewsBusted, which you can watch by clicking play on the embedded video below the page break. To get the original…
NB Staff
April 22nd, 2014 11:27 PM

Daily Kos: Today's Conservatives Guilty of 'Fake Patriotism' and 'Ti

Many consider "America -- love it or leave it" one of the quintessential conservative slogans. These days, however, according to Daily Kos writer Mark E Andersen, right-wingers don't seem to love America, but that doesn't mean they're leaving. They're still here, fearful and angry about a changing America, just like they were a few decades ago when they fought against racial desegregation.  …
Tom Johnson
April 22nd, 2014 11:03 PM

Surprise! MSNBC's Joy Reid Compares Affirmative Action Bans to Jim Cro

On Tuesday's Hardball, fill-in host Joy Reid compared the Supreme Court upholding Michigan's ban on affirmative action to upholding white supremacy. "If this court has a central narrative, it could be that those who have held the advantage for most of this country's history deserve to have it back if they can find the legislative or political means to take it back. If they do, the Court won'…
Matt Hadro
April 22nd, 2014 10:44 PM

NBC and ABC Feature Same Teenage Activist Supporting Affirmative Actio

Reporting on Tuesday's Supreme Court decision that enabled states' voters to ban affirmative action, the NBC and ABC evening newscasts featured a soundbite from the same teenage activist who called the ruling "disgusting" and charged it is "creating a new Jim Crow." Both networks simply labeled Markeith Jones a high school student without disclosing he is an activist who recently marched…
Matt Hadro
April 22nd, 2014 9:27 PM

Ed Schultz Likes Big Money Being Spent on Politics -- When It Comes Fr

The host of MSNBC's weekday afternoon program The Ed Show has often hammered the donations to GOP candidates and projects made by wealthy conservative brothers David and Charles Koch, but does he feel the same when rich Democrats enter the political fray? We got our answer on Monday, when Schultz happily interviewed Tom Steyer, a prolific Democratic donor who has pledged $50 million of his…
Randy Hall
April 22nd, 2014 8:46 PM

MSNBC.com Paints Hillary Clinton As Hapless Victim of 'Ageism,' 'Sexi

One minute the liberal media will tell you that Hillary Clinton is a tough-as-nails politician and stateswoman who is eminently qualified for the White House and in the next the same folks are in high dudgeon about how the former secretary of state is the target of mean ol' "sexist" and "ageist" Republicans.  Witness msnbc.com's Aliyah Frumin riding valiantly to the rescue of the poor…
Ken Shepherd
April 22nd, 2014 6:22 PM

Christian Film Critic for Wash Post: Trust Me, I Won't Let My Faith In

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday authored an op-ed on April 12 declaring herself a Christian. However, the journalist made sure to stress that she would keep her religion out of Post reviews. She also reiterated her dislike for movies such as The Passion, Son of God and Noah.  According to Hornaday, the reason for removing open expressions of faith from her work is "the journalistic…
Scott Whitlock
April 22nd, 2014 5:17 PM

MSNBC's Schultz Slams FBN's John Stossel as 'Fossil Fool,' 'Poverty an

On the Friday, April 18, The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz trashed John Stossel's appearance on FNC's Fox and Friends in which the FBN host defended fossil fuels as making it easier for people to exit poverty than other more expensive options. After calling Stossel a "fossil fool" as he began the show's regular "Pretenders" segment, the MSNBC host parroted doom and gloom global warming…
Brad Wilmouth
April 22nd, 2014 5:16 PM

Dancing With the Stars Candace Cameron-Bure Emerges From Her Shell in

Lauren Levy
April 22nd, 2014 4:56 PM

NYT Executive Editor Denies Liberal Bias; Paper Has 'Very Cosmopolitan

Jill Abramson of the New York Times denied that her newspaper has a liberal bias during a Monday interview with Marlo Thomas of Huffington Post. Abramson asserted that the Times "reflects a very cosmopolitan, inclusive outlook, which can strike some readers as liberal," and later claimed that "the news pages are not ideological." The executive editor zeroed in on the issue of gun control as…
Matthew Balan
April 22nd, 2014 4:52 PM

Do Conservative Justices Have a Partisan Agenda, PBS's Woodruff Asks L

On Monday’s PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff sat down for a conversation with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and she tried to get the amiable, elderly jurist to criticize his more conservative former colleagues. Stevens, to his credit, didn’t take the bait. [Video below. MP3 audio here.] The interview focused on Stevens’ new book about six amendments he would like to…
Paul Bremmer
April 22nd, 2014 4:17 PM

52 People Shot in Rahm Emanuel's Bloody Chicago; CBS Ignores

Fifty-two people were shot, eight fatally, over the last three days in a bloody epidemic sweeping Rahm Emanuel's Chicago. Yet, CBS has, thus far, completely ignored the crime wave while NBC's Today on Monday and ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday gave only a few seconds each to the violence in the city run by Barack Obama's former chief of staff.  GMA news reader Dan Abrams explained, "…
Scott Whitlock
April 22nd, 2014 4:00 PM