Ed Schultz on GOP Foreign Policy: 'We Gotta Show Everybody We Got a Ha

Less than three months into 2014 and leftist loose-cannon Ed Schultz may have already provided the year's best example of projection in media. It's too much to expect Schultz to comprehend that criticism he directs at Republicans applies more accurately to himself. On his radio show Monday, Schultz lashed out at Republicans for daring to second-guess President Obama for his handling of the…
Jack Coleman
March 26th, 2014 8:58 PM

Salon: 'Sour,' Resentful Conservatives Prefer 'Crappy,' Inaccurate Boo

Believe it or not, for the past few days liberals' fascination with conservative book publishing seems to have surpassed their fascination with righty talk radio (though neither will ever come close to matching the intensity of their obsession with Fox News). Last Friday, McKay Coppins noted on BuzzFeed that while books by a few conservative electronic-media stars like Bill O'Reilly are…
Tom Johnson
March 26th, 2014 8:27 PM

NBC, ABC Ignore ObamaCare's Deadline Extension; CBS Waters Down the Co

Both ABC and NBC ignored the latest delay for ObamaCare on Wednesday evening's news casts, and CBS whitewashed any controversy until the end of its report. The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it would extend ObamaCare's enrollment deadline until mid-April for anyone who would have trouble signing up at the last minute. Not only was the administration changing its long-established…
Matt Hadro
March 26th, 2014 8:22 PM

Providence Journal Has Difficulty Describing What State Senator 'Apolo

You have to feel for the Providence Journal reporter assigned to report on an "apology" by Rhode Island state senator Joshua Miller. There was just no easy way to describe exactly what Miller was "apologizing" for but staff reporter tried his best without being explicit. You can watch the foul mouthed Miller respond to a radio host who questioned the state senator about his support for gun…
P.J. Gladnick
March 26th, 2014 7:43 PM

WashTimes's Miller: D.C. Judge Convicts Man for Possession of... Muske

A Virginia businessman has been convicted of violating Washington, D.C. gun laws for possessing what amounts to, wait for it, replica musket balls. For that he was sentenced to time served, fined $50, and forced to enroll in the District's gun-offender registry. Emily Miller has the story this afternoon at WashingtonTimes.com  (emphasis mine):
Ken Shepherd
March 26th, 2014 7:16 PM

Ed Schultz: Funding Charter Schools 'Breeds and Feeds the Next Generat

MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday slammed charter schools in America, sneering that funding them "breeds and feeds the next generation of segregation in America." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The Ed Show host talked to fellow liberal Michael Eric Dyson who complained about public schools having to compete against charter schools.  He insisted, "If you would supply money to these public…
Scott Whitlock
March 26th, 2014 6:03 PM

Colbert Promotes Jimmy Carter's Left-of-Center Take on Christianity

Stephen Colbert boosted Jimmy Carter's new book on Tuesday's Colbert Report – a mere day after the former president blamed Catholicism, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention, for the abuse of women across the globe. Carter offered a toned-down version of this eyebrow-raising argument: "If you're a male religious leader, and you want to stay in unchallenged power and not have women…
Matthew Balan
March 26th, 2014 5:46 PM

WashPost, NYT Uncritically Hail ObamaCare Delay, Omit Sebelius's Pledg

"More time for health sign-up" cheered the Washington Post front-page headline for Amy Goldstein's March 26 story on the administration's latest ObamaCare delay, this time for the individual mandate which requires Americans to be insured so as to avoid paying a "tax" penalty. In an amazing dereliction of her journalistic duty, Goldstein utterly failed to mention that just two weeks earlier HHS…
Ken Shepherd
March 26th, 2014 4:28 PM

NBC Blames Bush for 'Broken System' of Education, No Mention of Obama

Introducing a story on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted the Washington Post publishing the resignation letter of Massachusetts kindergarten teacher Suzi Sluyter, who decided to quit her job after being "frustrated by what she says is too much emphasis on test scores and testing instead of the kids themselves." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the…
Kyle Drennen
March 26th, 2014 3:41 PM

Limbaugh, Palin Defend Drudge's Payment of ObamaCare 'Liberty Tax

Ever since Friday afternoon, when Matt Drudge tweeted that he had just paid the “ObamaCare penalty for not getting covered” and called it a “Liberty Tax,” that post by the editor of the Drudge Report website has been slammed as a “flat lie” and “bad press” for the approaching March 31 enrollment deadline of the Affordable Care Act. However, during Monday's edition of Rush Limbaugh's weekday…
Randy Hall
March 26th, 2014 3:19 PM

'Happy' Pop Star Pharrell Tells GQ Hillary Will Win In '16 Because Al

The Washington Post gossips were "Happy" on Wednesday to report that hot pop star Pharrell can see into the future in an interview with GQ: “And by the way: We're about to have a female president. Hillary's gonna win.” The Post did not include Pharrell’s trippy pop-star reasoning, including the thought that no female, “no matter how staunch a supporter you are of no-abortion,” will vote…
Tim Graham
March 26th, 2014 2:59 PM

17 News Companies Support FOIA Lawsuit Against Michael Mann

A group seeking access to climate scientist Michael Mann’s emails through Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) has a surprising new group of news media allies. From wire agencies to liberal Atlantic Media, Inc., 17 news groups have supported the release of documents, according to Columbia Journalism Review.
Julia A. Seymour
March 26th, 2014 2:14 PM

Foreign Media, Fox News Cover British Prenatal Incineration Scandal; O

On Monday, The UK's Daily Telegraph spotlighted the scoop of another British media outlet, Channel 4, which discovered the beyond abhorrent practice of 10 NHS hospitals incinerating over 15,000 bodies of unborn babies from miscarriages and abortions. The investigation by the Channel 4 program Dispatches found that some of the infants' remains were even used to heat the medical facilities.…
Matthew Balan
March 26th, 2014 1:03 PM

MSNBC Devotes 16 Minutes of Coverage to 'Indefensible, ' 'Racist' Reds

With all the important things going on in the world, MSNBC on Tuesday chose to devote 16 minutes of coverage over four shows to the "indefensible," "racist" "slur" that is the Washington Redskins logo. The fight to force team owner Dan Snyder to change the name came up on Morning Joe, The Reid Report, All In With Chris Hayes and The Last Word With Lawrence O'…

Scott Whitlock
March 26th, 2014 12:46 PM