Establishment Press Virtually Silent as Left-Driven Controversy Over D

Based on searches at their respective sites at 9:40 a.m. ET this morning, the Associated Press, the New York Times and the Politico do not have stories on the fever-swamp left's two-days-old attempts to force storage company DropBox to reverse its appointment of Condoleezza Rice to its board of directors. The three outlets just cited, and the rest of the national establishment press, with the…
Tom Blumer
April 12th, 2014 10:17 AM

Kiss Singer Shocks Journalist: Why Don't You Go 'Spend the Night With

You don't often hear interview subjects challenging prominent journalists on their ex-wives. But that's what happened on Monday's CBS This Morning. Reporter Anthony Mason interviewed Kiss singer and guitarist Paul Stanley on the band's entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Mason quizzed, "And when the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame asked the original members to perform together again,…
Scott Whitlock
April 12th, 2014 9:35 AM

PBS Analyst Mark Shields Says Sebelius 'Stepped Up Manfully' to Take O

While HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius was getting a polite shove out the door, PBS NewsHour analyst Mark Shields offered a note of disclosure: “Well, first of all, let me just admit up front, Kathleen Sebelius has been a personal friend. For 46 years, I have known her.” He even oddly said she “stepped up manfully, to use a bad adverb” in taking the blame for Obamacare. But Shields and his…
Tim Graham
April 12th, 2014 9:13 AM

NBC's 'Meet the Press' Makes, Breaks Promise to Inspiring Marathon Bom

Adrianne Haslet-Davis is a Boston Marathon bombing survivor who insists that she not be called a "victim" ("I am not defined by what happened in my life. I am a survivor, defined by how I live my life"). The Boston Herald writes that "Haslet-Davis became a symbol of Boston Strong when she made good on her vow to dance again in a front-page Herald story last year. This past month she performed…
Tom Blumer
April 12th, 2014 12:47 AM

NewsBusted: Is the Bong the Dems' Only Hope at the Ballot Box in

"George Soros is spending $80 million dollars to legalize marijuana across America. He's hoping that if he can get enough stoned voters, the Democrats might actually have a chance in November." Common Core, ObamaCare, and Starbucks also came in for mockery in the latest episode of NewsBusted, starring Jodi Miller. Watch the April 11 episode below the page break, and be sure to sign up for…
NB Staff
April 12th, 2014 12:27 AM

ABC Hypes IRS's Help Line Wait Times, Smaller Budget; Had No Time for

On Friday's World News, ABC's David Kerley pressed I.R.S. Commissioner John Koskinen about taxpayers who are unable to "get an answer as to how much they're supposed to pay," due to long wait times on the agency' help line. However, Kerley didn't bother to ask Koskinen about the House Ways and Means Committee's Wednesday vote to refer former IRS official Lois Lerner to the Justice Department…
Matthew Balan
April 11th, 2014 11:49 PM

Jay Carney Sneers at Reporter's Question About Obama's Treatment of Se

White House spokesman Jay Carney was sneering at reporters again Friday. The Washington Free Beacon reports that Jared Rizzi, a reporter with Sirius XM Radio, was accused of being “pretty lame” by Carney in questioning how resigning HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was absent from the podium and went unmentioned in the president’s April 1 “victory lap” for Obamacare signups. (Video below.)
Tim Graham
April 11th, 2014 10:25 PM

Actress Under Fire for Praising 'Valuable' Role of Women as Nurturers

Actress Kirsten Dunst came under attack from nasty feminists on the Internet for remarks she made in the U.K. edition of Harpers Bazaar magazine. "I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued," Dunst said. "We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking – it’s a valuable thing my mum created. And sometimes, you need…
Tim Graham
April 11th, 2014 8:30 PM

Virtually Unreported: Mortgage Loan Market’s 2013-2014 Collapse

Associated Press stories today on the quarterly earnings releases of Wells Fargo (unbylined) and JPMorgan Chase (by Steve Rothwell) essentially mocked the nearly continuous monthly stream of reports the wire service's economics writers, particularly Martin Crutsinger and Chris Rugaber, have generated about the "housing recovery" during at least the past year. The Wells Fargo story disclosed…
Tom Blumer
April 11th, 2014 5:48 PM

Column: The Legacy of Obama's Illegal Alien Aunt

Zeituni Onyango, President Obama's illegal alien aunt, died this week of cancer and other complications. I hope she rests in peace. America, however, should be up in arms. Auntie Zeituni is an enduring symbol of all that is wrong with this country's immigration "policy" — or rather, its complete lack of a coherent, enforceable system of laws and rules that puts the national interest first.…
Michelle Malkin
April 11th, 2014 5:34 PM

MSNBC’s Hayes: Racism to Blame for States’ Lack of Medicaid Expans

MSNBC personalities frequently turn to race to explain away society’s ills, and on Thursday’s All In, host Chris Hayes cried racism on the topic of state Medicaid expansion under ObamaCare. Hayes started by admitting what many people have probably guessed about him and many of his fellow MSNBC hosts – that he sees American politics through a racial lens. He proclaimed: “The racial prism I…
Paul Bremmer
April 11th, 2014 5:31 PM

Networks Ignore Report Claiming Most ObamaCare Enrollees Were Not Prev

New numbers from a report on ObamaCare estimate that only just over a third of enrollees were previously uninsured, and that 5.2 million have lost their health coverage since it began. Although Fox News has covered the report, the networks have ignored it so far. "A report by the RAND corporation this week said 5.2 million people have lost health coverage since ObamaCare started," said Fox…
Matt Hadro
April 11th, 2014 4:32 PM

WashPost's Henderson Says Sebelius Is Like 'Coach of the Year' for Oba

On Friday's New Day, the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson said outgoing HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be "coach of the year" if she were a basketball coach. "I do think if she were a basketball coach, right, she would probably be coach of the year, right? Because she was able to turn this thing around, had good news yesterday that 7.5 million people, you know, signed up for…
Matt Hadro
April 11th, 2014 3:01 PM

Joan Walsh: Colbert's 'Jaunty Spoof' Nailed O'Reilly's 'Faulty Logic a

After Stephen Colbert takes over from David Letterman on CBS's "Late Show," he'll host as himself, not as a parody of a conservative pundit. That may disappoint Salon's Joan Walsh, who in a Wednesday article called Colbert "an ally to progressive causes" and lauded him for "calmly and brilliantly inhabit[ing] a persona [on 'The Colbert Report'] that puts him in the psyche of delusional,…
Tom Johnson
April 11th, 2014 2:37 PM