MSNBC’s Schultz Ludicrously Compares Federal Deregulation of Busines

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz will take any and every opportunity to bash Tea Party conservatives, even if it means exploiting a terrible tragedy to do so. The bombastic host did just that on Sunday, using the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh to blast Republicans for supporting the removal of burdensome regulations on American businesses. Schultz introduced his segment with scenes from the…
Andrew Lautz
June 5th, 2013 5:17 PM

Networks Ignore Manufacturing 'Contraction

Manufacturing activity dropped to its lowest pace in four years, according to The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index for the month of May, released June 3. However, none of three broadcast networks’s evening shows made any mention of it that night.
Mike Ciandella
June 5th, 2013 5:10 PM

NBC's Todd: GOP Using Susan Rice as 'Punching Bag,' Shouldn't Be 'Beat

Reporting the breaking news on Wednesday's NBC Today that President Obama had named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be national security advisor, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd portrayed Rice as a victim of Republican attacks: "Rice, who had become a Republican punching bag during the whole Benghazi controversy....this is a bit of a defiant move by the President to his Republican…
Kyle Drennen
June 5th, 2013 5:09 PM

WashPost Keeps Burying Obama Scandals: IRS, Lesbian Hecklers, and Sebe

For the second day in a row, The Washington Post showed it was bored by the IRS scandal by putting the hearings story inside the paper. Instead, the top of Wednesday's post seized on the favorite liberal scandal du jour: "Military chiefs lament sex assaults but  reject Senate bill." Their Post Express tabloid screamed this front-page headline: "CAN THE MILITARY CURE ITS 'CANCER'?"
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2013 4:22 PM

Susan Rice's Questionable Role in Benghazi Aftermath Now a Passing Det

Wednesday's CBS This Morning minimized Susan Rice's refuted claims about the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi as they covered her appointment as national security adviser. Charlie Rose and John Dickerson dwelt more on outgoing national security adviser Tom Donilon's term, with Dickerson only vaguely mentioning how Rice was "the focus of so much controversy in the Senate."…
Matthew Balan
June 5th, 2013 4:04 PM

Where Is NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos

Judging from the silence from the NPR ombudsman, it would appear that the taxpayer-funded radio network has solved the pervasive problems of bias and ideological monoculture that have plagued it for decades. NPR's internal media critic, Edward Schumacher-Matos, has not written a blog post since May 6 and has not been seen on Twitter since May 3, despite being called out several times by…
Matthew Sheffield
June 5th, 2013 1:57 PM

The Price of Caving to Liberal Media: Komen Forced to Drop Fundraising

In early 2012, after the breast cancer charity Komen for the Cure announced it would end its relationship with Planned Parenthood, the group quickly saw a 100 percent spike in fundraising. But alas, defenders of the nation's largest abortion provider and their accomplices in the liberal media, chief among them MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, struck back with a vengeance and the group eventually…
Ken Shepherd
June 5th, 2013 11:58 AM

ABC Lauds 'Hard-Nosed,' 'No-Nonsense' Susan Rice, Obama's New Nat'l Se

After President Obama appointed U.N. ambassador Susan Rice to be his national security adviser, ABC's Good Morning America lauded Rice on Wednesday as "hard-nosed" and "no-nonsense." Rice's biggest knock against her nomination for Secretary of State was giving false information on the Benghazi attacks to no less than five different Sunday talk shows just days after the attacks. ABC, though,…
Matt Hadro
June 5th, 2013 11:49 AM

Open Thread Wednesday

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NB Staff
June 5th, 2013 11:15 AM

‘Late Late Show’ Host Ferguson to Bill Maher: You're Controlled by

This is beyond delicious. On the CBS Late Late Show Tuesday, host Craig Ferguson accused Bill Maher - to his face! - of being controlled by the Democratic Party (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2013 10:34 AM

Bozell Column: Where's Holder on Team Obama's Leakers

The national media have evinced some outrage over the Obama Justice Department’s aggressive persecution of investigative journalists. But not enough. It is more important to help President Hope and Change overcome the legacy-strangling notion of an “atmosphere of scandal” than to investigate a scandal that is strangling their very profession. On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” New York Times…
Brent Bozell
June 5th, 2013 10:31 AM

Barnicle: Women 'Better Balanced, Have Better Judgment' Than Men

Looks like Mike Barnicle's not going to let anyone get to his PC-left when it comes to women. On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle claimed that "a lot of men . . . fear the fact—and I think it's a fact—that women are better balanced than men.  They have better judgment about things than a lot of men."  Barnicle's comment during a discussion about the statement made yesterday by Mississippi…
Mark Finkelstein
June 5th, 2013 8:09 AM

Supporting a Traitor: Hollywood Releases ‘I Am Bradley Manning’ Vi

With the start of the Bradley Manning court martial, a number of famous and not-so famous Hollywood liberals have released a video in support of their hero. It includes the likes of Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moby, Tom Morello, Wallace Shawn, and the perilously liberal so-called journalists Matt Taibbi, Phil Donahue, and Chris Hedges (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
June 4th, 2013 11:42 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Scandals? So What? The Agenda Trumps All

Isn't it rich that the White House is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder's critics of being "partisans who seem more interested in launching political attacks than cooperating with him to protect the security and constitutional rights of the American people"? Partisan? Launching political attacks? Well, if the White House and Holder were not so partisan and attack-oriented themselves, we…
David Limbaugh
June 4th, 2013 6:46 PM