Showtime’s New Climate Documentary Barely Looks at Science

Masquerading as a scientific documentary, Showtime’s new climate change series is actually just more alarmist propaganda. The first episode of “Years of Living Dangerously,” actually gave precious little time to discussing scientific data of climate. Ninety-five percent of the show wasn’t about actual climate science (a mere 3 minutes 5 seconds of the 57 minute 10 second program discussed…
Sean Long
April 10th, 2014 12:34 PM

CBS Hypes Eric Holder 'Lashing Out' at GOP's 'Ugly' Capitol Hill 'Cult

CBS This Morning co-anchor Charlie Rose on Thursday uncritically hyped an attack by Eric Holder that implied racism as the motive for Republican opposition to him and Barack Obama. Before playing a clip of the Attorney General speaking at Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) conference, Rose promoted, "Attorney General Eric Holder is lashing out at the culture on Capitol Hill. Holder…
Scott Whitlock
April 10th, 2014 11:54 AM

Matt Lauer Aghast at Bill O'Reilly Wanting Schools to Teach Historical

In an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer fretted over the Killing Jesus author wanting the historical life of Christ to be taught in schools: "[In] public schools these days, you go sit in one of those classes and you're surrounded by kids of four or five, six different faiths. Why should they sit there and listen to the story of Jesus Christ…
Kyle Drennen
April 10th, 2014 11:09 AM

Networks Declare ‘Victory’ for Obamacare Enrollment; Ignore Questi

The big issue for Obamacare has long been how many people would enroll. When the deadline finally hit, broadcast news networks parroted the administration’s claims and raised few concerns about heavily spun results. Breaking from a long silence over Obamacare, ABC, CBS and NBC declared “victory” for the now “unrepealable” Affordable Care Act but ignored problems with enrollment numbers 90…
Sean Long
April 10th, 2014 10:41 AM

Column: How to Assist Evil

"Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis (http://tinyurl.com/6duny9). Though the Holocaust ranks high among the great human tragedies, most people never consider the most important…
Walter E. Williams
April 10th, 2014 10:32 AM

ABC, NBC Continue Blackout Of GOP’s Criminal Referral for Lois Lerne

On Wednesday April 9, the House Oversight Committee voted to send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for former IRS official Lois Lerner. Despite the severity of this most recent revelations into the IRS’ targeting of Tea Party organizations, ABC and NBC continue to ignore the story. After all three networks failed to cover the story on their nightly news broadcasts on Wednesday…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 10th, 2014 10:18 AM

Mika: Gender Pay Gap 'Far Worse' Than

Democrats have clung to the claim that women earn 77% of what men do with religious fervor, as evidenced by the "religious revival, Praise Jesus" atmosphere at President Obama's equal pay event at the White House earlier this week. But although the 77% figure has been thoroughly debunked, on today's Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski alleged that the real gap is actually "far worse." Mika made her…
Mark Finkelstein
April 10th, 2014 8:40 AM

Rolling Stone Gets An F In U.S. History

Rolling Stone's latest issue is designed to start a buzz again. It's Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (at age 53) in the nude, with an image of the Constitution on her back to promote her HBO series "Veep." We know it's unlikely most Veeps would jump at the chance to pose naked for Rolling Stone. Maybe Joe Biden. Anyway, the nudity hasn't been as scandalous as the cheeky decision to have John Hancock's…
Tim Graham
April 10th, 2014 6:59 AM

Ron Fournier Thinks Harry Reid's 'Lying' Ads Will Cause Dems to 'Pay a

The National Journal's Ron Fournier appeared on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show on Tuesday and blasted Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for "making facts up" and "lying" in his non-stop campaign against the eeeeevil Koch Brothers. Bless his naive little heart, Fournier even actually said: "Shame on us if we in the media let him get away with this." "If"? What's all of a sudden…
Tom Blumer
April 10th, 2014 1:03 AM

Daily Kos Blogger: I'm 'Tolerant,' But I 'Draw the Line' at Tea Party

Should one tolerate intolerance? What is intolerance? Daily Kos writer Mark E Andersen implicitly asked those questions in a front-page post this past Sunday, and answered them in the manner you'd expect of a blogger for the lefty site.   Apropos of the flap over former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's backing of Proposition 8, Andersen declared that he, like "the vast majority of us on the left,"…
Tom Johnson
April 9th, 2014 10:53 PM

AP Keeps Lois Lerner's Name Out of Headline and Opening Paragraph in T

I suspect that many readers who do their best to keep up with the news at a detailed level have a hard time understanding how many of their friends, acquaintances and neighbors — even many who they know put some effort into keeping up with current events — can be so unaware of many objectively important news developments. There are two answers to that question. One is that the establishment…
Tom Blumer
April 9th, 2014 10:34 PM

MSNBC.com Declares ‘GOP Panel Keeps Fake IRS ‘Scandal’ Rolling

Doing its best to follow the narrative being peddled by MSNBC’s liberal hosts, MSNBC.com decided to double-down in its attempt to minimize the severity of the IRS’ targeting of Tea Party groups. In an April 9 piece, MSNBC.com writer Amanda Sakuma blared in her headline “GOP panel keeps fake IRS ‘scandal rolling” before pushing the talking point that “Democrats accused a House committee of…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 9th, 2014 9:35 PM

Evening Newscasts Ignore House GOP's Criminal Referral for Lois Lerner

In a major new development in the IRS scandal, House Republicans voted on Wednesday to send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for former IRS chief Lois Lerner. FNC's Special Report with Bret Baier devoted a full story to the vote by the committee chaired by Congressman Dave Camp, but none of the three broadcast network evening newscasts covered the vote. The letter sent to…
Matt Hadro
April 9th, 2014 8:51 PM

MSNBC’s Reid: Holding Lois Lerner In Contempt ‘Really Does Ratchet

The folks at MSNBC seem to be doing their best to try and minimize the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups. Ever since the initial reports broke in 2013, liberals have characterized conservative outrage as nothing more than a political stunt and one of many “faux scandals and conspiracy theories.” The most recent example came from Obama activist turned MSNBC host Joy Reid, who on Wednesday…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 9th, 2014 7:51 PM