Gwen Ifill and the Decline and Fall of ‘PBS NewsHour

Over the years, we’ve written a lot about long, slow ratings collapse of broadcast news. But ABC, CBS, and NBC aren’t the only ones experiencing this decline. As reported by David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun, the ratings for PBS NewsHour show are almost in a freefall, even compared to their commercial competitors. By its own count, NewsHour had 2.5 million viewers in 2005. This year the show…
Matthew Sheffield
November 2nd, 2013 7:00 AM

Rob Reiner aka Meathead: Hillary Would Be ‘Most Qualified Person Eve

The media drumbeat for Hillary Clinton to be the next president is truly nauseating. Consider Rob Reiner, aka Meathead in the famed sitcom All in the Family, saying on HBO’s Real Time Friday, “If she decides to run, you will have the single most qualified person ever to run for President of the United States” (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2013 12:07 AM

MSNBC Tweets 'Flashback' Segment on Obama's 2008 Election Is 'Absolute

The blog Inside Cable News reports that the MSNBC late-morning show "Jansing & Co." routinely has a "Flashback Friday" feature, but it really stepped Into the Obama Tank on November 1...since it gave the Leg Thrill Network its first chance to flash back to Obama's election five years ago. On the Jansing show Twitter account, there was this gooey tweet: "The absolute best Flashback Friday…
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2013 11:25 PM

Bill Press's Lame Spin on Obamacare Debacle - Bush Lied, People Died

Liberals really ought to thank the heavens above for George W. Bush, he comes in so handy for them. Whenever anything goes wrong in their hermetically-sealed reality, as everything connected to them eventually does, their Pavlovian response is to misdirect attention toward Bush. Latest example -- rollout of the misnomer of a track wreck known as the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, which…
Jack Coleman
November 1st, 2013 7:45 PM

Breaking News at CNN: Senate Democrats Voted to Kill Other Health Plan

It's always interesting when people in the “mainstream” press catch up to something conservatives and Republicans have known for a long time. That was the case when Chris Frates, an investigative correspondent at the Cable News Network, reported on Friday that "Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the ObamaCare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health…
Randy Hall
November 1st, 2013 5:58 PM

Mother Jones Shocker: 'New Poll Shows Democratic Incumbents in Big Tro

Since the government shutdown, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some media member claiming Republicans are in a lot of trouble heading into next year's midterm elections. Breaking with the trend rather surprisingly Wednesday was the perilously liberal Mother Jones with a piece titled "New Poll Shows Democratic Incumbents in Big Trouble."
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2013 1:12 PM

'Healthy Ho's Party': ObamaCare Registration Drive For Prostitutes

Just when you thought you've seen everything, along comes what's called a "Healthy Ho's Party." As reported by CNN Money, this is what a "sex worker" in San Francisco called her effort to register others in her "profession" in ObamaCare (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2013 11:47 AM

New Yorker Mag Cover Slams Obama and Sebelius

Don't look now, but even New Yorker magazine is piling on the disaster that is ObamaCare. Take a gander at the cover for the issue to hit newstands Monday:
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2013 11:10 AM

CNN's Toobin Says Benghazi Is Not a Scandal; 'There Is Nothing There

CNN's senior legal analyst thinks that any further investigation into Benghazi is looking at a "non-story" since "there is nothing there, in terms of a scandal." On Thursday's AC360 Later, Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Republican efforts to gain access to more Benghazi witnesses and CIA operatives. "This is a non-story. Benghazi was a tragedy. It's not a scandal. Republicans are going to…
Matt Hadro
November 1st, 2013 10:43 AM

Shock: Piers Morgan Slams Obama Promise on Health Care Coverage as

During Wednesday night's edition of CNN's Piers Morgan Live program, the liberal host and a conservative Republican congresswoman teamed up to put pressure on Democratic representative Frank Pallone to defend president Barack Obama's repeated promise that people could keep their own physician and insurance plan if they chose to be part of ObamaCare. “When the president repeatedly stood up…
Randy Hall
November 1st, 2013 10:16 AM

Pro-Life Groups: ObamaCare Will ‘Make Planned Parenthood a $2B Indus

915: the number of pink crosses pro-lifers staked into the lawn of the Capitol on the morning of Oct. 31. 915: also the number of babies aborted daily in the U.S. by Planned Parenthood. And according to a pro-life organizer, that number could double under ObamaCare. Students for Life of America (SFLA) along with the Christian Defense Coalition (CDC) hosted an event titled “Exposing the…
Katie Yoder
November 1st, 2013 10:15 AM

Brent Bozell Tells Hannity to Get Medication Over to MSNBC for Their

On Thursday night’s edition of “Media Mash” on the Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell discussed how you should “bring a laugh meter” to the coverage of desperate media liberals who are trying to insist against all the mounting evidence that Obamacare is not a debacle, and Obama never misled anyone about it. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz even insisted the media are too…
NB Staff
November 1st, 2013 9:51 AM

Todd Purdum In Politico: Republicans 'Sabotaged' Obamacare Like Segreg

What an odious piece of garbage.  Today's Politico, in an article by Todd Purdum, accuses Republicans of "calculated sabotage" of Obamacare, comparing their opposition to the "pattern of 'massive resistance' not seen since the Southern states’ defiance of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954." Purdum himself seems to recognize just how loony he comes off, writing…
Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2013 9:42 AM

The Crazy Ones Take Cheap Shots

Lauren Laster
November 1st, 2013 9:33 AM