MSNBC Slams 'Voter Purge' in Va. That Scrubbed Some 38,000 Registered

Just behind the "war on women" and charges of racism, MSNBC's third favorite bogeyman is the specter of "voter suppression." The network was obsessed with that meme in 2012 and will doubtless pound the pulpit on it in the congressional midterms, but it's been relatively quiet about it in 2013. That changed today when MSNBC Live anchor Thomas Roberts brought on Kathy Culliton-Gonzalez of The…
Ken Shepherd
October 21st, 2013 4:32 PM

ROFL! Keith Olbermann: 'I'll Always Deliver What an Employer Wants

He's been fired by virtually every television network he's worked for, but Keith Olbermann recently told GQ, "I'll always deliver what an employer wants." Try not damage your computer and/or keyboard as you read Olbermann talking about the wonders of himself:
Noel Sheppard
October 21st, 2013 4:07 PM

Actual Huffington Post Headline: '6 Reasons Never To Get Married

Isn't it fascinating that as liberals push for same-sex marriage many of their ilk are always trying to destroy or defame the very institution itself? Consider author Leah Hager Cohen who actually published a piece at the Huffington Post titled "6 Reasons Never To Get Married":
Noel Sheppard
October 21st, 2013 3:23 PM

Tina Fey Bashes Ted Cruz at Carol Burnett Honors

Uh-oh, Tina Fey is going for laughs as funny as "rape kit" jokes again at a supposedly staid PBS event. Just as she bashed pro-life Sarah Palin when she won the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010 (which PBS edited out), Lisa de Moraes at Deadline Hollywood reports Fey whacked at Ted Cruz when Carol Burnett was awarded the same prize. Fey cracked: “Enough politics.…
Tim Graham
October 21st, 2013 2:52 PM

NBC's Guthrie Tells Cheney: 'You're A Living, Breathing Example of Gov

In part two of an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday's NBC Today, focused on his new book about his struggle with heart disease, co-host Savannah Guthrie couldn't resist the chance use Cheney's health problems to promote big government: "...some of this technology that ultimately lead to the pump that kept you alive before you could have the [heart] transplant started in…
Kyle Drennen
October 21st, 2013 2:42 PM

Surprise – NY Times Picks David Frum to Hail NY Times Reporter’s B

"The Bush administration opened with a second Pearl Harbor, ended with a second Great Crash and contained a second Vietnam in the middle." That sounds like a liberal. Guess what? It is. David Frum was selected by the New York Times to review a new book on Bush by New York Times reporter Peter Baker. This arrangement is so cozy that Frum admits that Baker interviewed him for this masterpiece…
Tim Graham
October 21st, 2013 2:06 PM

NBC's Guthrie Grills Cheney on Tea Party; Cheney Calls Obama 'Most Rad

In an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed a "civil war" in the Republican Party and persistently urged him to blame it on the Tea Party. Instead, Cheney began the exchange by explaining: "I think the most radical operator in Washington today is the President. I think he's trying to take the country in a direction that is…
Kyle Drennen
October 21st, 2013 12:34 PM

Time Magazine Urges President Obama to 'Get Mad' About ObamaCare Websi

Moments earlier, President Obama wrapped up a petulant, whiney Rose Garden harangue in which he defended ObamaCare while insisting no one was more frustrated by the botched roll-out than he was. Earlier this morning, Time magazine took it upon itself to counsel that the chief executive "has to get mad" about the failures of the ObamaCare web portal. "Political reality, unlike actual reality,…
Ken Shepherd
October 21st, 2013 12:10 PM

Sarah Kliff Forced to Perform Another ObamaCare 'Oops

Oops! Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post has been forced to perform yet another ObamaCare Oops! When last we encountered the Polyanna ObamaCare cheerleader Kliff she was claiming that young people were among the more enthusiastic ObamaCare shoppers based on evidence that ranged from nil to none. This empty claim came on the heels of her previous ObamaCare Oops when Kliff, after hailing one…
P.J. Gladnick
October 21st, 2013 12:03 PM

ABC Wakes Up to 'Massive Technical Glitches' on ObamaCare Website: 'It

  The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday woke up to the "massive technical glitches" "plaguing millions" of Americans trying to use the ObamaCare website. The morning show, which has largely minimized the troubled debut of HealthCare.gov, featured reporter Rebecca Jarvis to lament, "It was supposed to be an easy way for Americans to sign up for health care online. But this morning…
Scott Whitlock
October 21st, 2013 11:59 AM

CBS's Dickerson: White House Risks 'Credibility Death Spiral' Over 'To

John Dickerson could not have been more blunt on Monday's CBS This Morning about the political damage HealthCare.gov's well-established technical difficulties is already causing President Obama: "It's been far worse than a glitch. It's been a total fiasco, as Senator McCain said. And the problem here is that the administration could get into, sort of, a credibility death spiral." The liberal…
Matthew Balan
October 21st, 2013 11:04 AM

Open Thread Monday

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NB Staff
October 21st, 2013 10:05 AM

Morning Joe: In Off-Record Briefing, White House Was 'Extraordinarily

So, were they lying, or merely clueless?   On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough disclosed that in off-the-record briefings prior to the rollout of the Obamacare website, Obama administration officials were "extraordinarily confident" of success.  They displayed a site that Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said looked "great," "very user friendly" and "very simple." View the video after the…
Mark Finkelstein
October 21st, 2013 8:25 AM

Geraldo Rivera Wants to Send Ted Cruz a Bill for $23 Billion for Shutd

Like many a liberal blowhard, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera grabbed estimates from financial analysts that the government shutdown cost the economy billions of dollars. On his radio show Thursday, Geraldo decided he wanted to send the entire bill to Sen. Ted Cruz. Geraldo also hosted CNN anchor Don Lemon who claimed to disavow “any political affiliation,” and then trashed the Republicans for holding…
Tim Graham
October 21st, 2013 8:00 AM