
PBS Glossed Over Pro-Life March, But Hyped 'Biggest Climate Rally in U
On January 25, the PBS NewsHour gave the annual “March for Life” a perfunctory 56-word news brief. But on Monday night, the leftist protests against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada drew a full story about nine times that long.
Anchor Judy Woodruff somehow ignored the large crowds of Earth Day 1970, Earth Day 1990 (stood there myself), and Earth Day 2000 to echo the Left: “…
February 19th, 2013 10:39 PM

MSNBC's 'Cycle' Gives Daschle Platform to Bash Hagel Filibuster; No Me
Ten years ago, then-Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) held together a Democratic filibuster of President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Tom Curry of NBCNews.com notes that Republicans tried to end debate and proceed to an up-or-down vote seven times before eventually giving up. Frustrated with Daschle's obstructionism,…
February 19th, 2013 8:12 PM

Matthews: Republicans Are Using 'Cold War CIA Tactics To Destabilize O
MSNBC's Chris Matthews is starting to get completely unhinged.
On Tuesday's Hardball, he accused Republicans of using "Cold War CIA tactics to destabilize our own country" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
February 19th, 2013 6:37 PM

NYT's Lowrey Again Uses Favorite Unlabeled Left-Wing Economist to Clai
On the front of Saturday's Business section, New York Times economics reporter Annie Lowrey flatteringly quoted unlabeled left-wing French economist Emmanuel Saez, who may be the Times' favorite economist, in yet another hang-wringer on the evils of income inequality and the dreaded 1%: "Incomes Flat In Recovery, But Not For the 1%."
In an October 2012 article Lowrey termed Saez, who favors…
February 19th, 2013 6:36 PM

MSNBC, Which Mocked Karl Rove for Signing Up With 'Home Team' Fox, to
In 2008, a then-MSNBC host mocked George W. Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, for signing up with the "home team" of Fox News. Yet, on Tuesday it was announced that Barack Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, will be joining NBC and MSNBC as an analyst. A NBC press release hyped that Axelrod "will contribute frequently across all broadcasts and platforms of both networks." (There was no…
February 19th, 2013 6:36 PM

Letterman Trashes Mary Todd Lincoln’s Looks On Presidents’ Day
You would think that Abraham Lincoln’s wife is sacred, especially on the national holiday known as Presidents’ Day.
That’s clearly not the case at the CBS Late Show where one of the jokes during the evening’s Top Ten list trashed Mary Todd Lincoln’s looks (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
February 19th, 2013 5:52 PM

LAT's Hennessey: 'Obama's Vacations Have Been Rare, Brief and Regularl
My nominee for Media Puppet of the Day (we should consider making such an award a daily or weekly event) is Kathleen Hennessey at the Los Angeles Times.
From her perch at the paper's Washington bureau, she wrote a pathetic story today about how President Obama is so much more relaxed now that he's in his second term. Among other howlers, Hennessey claims that "Obama's vacations have been rare…
February 19th, 2013 5:40 PM
Dan Savage Bashes Pope and Media Ignore It
Foul, anti-Catholic comment greets pope’s retirement.
February 19th, 2013 5:02 PM

NPR Fans Bash Mona Charen: 'Spare Us Any More Wingnuts
Matt Vespa reported yesterday that NPR listeners received a very different "Week In Review" segment last Friday night on All Things Considered, with conservative columnist Mona Charen sitting in for pseudo-conservative columnist David Brooks. Liberal NPR devotees are some of the most closed-minded people you will ever come across. They don't want any feisty conservatives on the taxpayer-…
February 19th, 2013 3:28 PM

NYT's Trip Gabriel Warns GOP: Don't Rule Out Hollywood Star Judd
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel promoted movie star and aspiring liberal politician Ashley Judd on Saturday: "Kentuckians Don’t Rule Out a Star as a Senator." Gabriel wrote: "How serious could such a candidacy be? Plenty, it turns out."
February 19th, 2013 2:26 PM

NBCNews.com Hypes Danger of Moderate Drinking
Both NBCNews.com and CBS Boston recently touted study linking even 1.5 drinks a day, or less to certain types of cancer. That study has been criticized for “questionable assumptions,” but neither story pointed that out.
NBC’s JoNel Aleccia wrote that “booze can be blamed for nearly 20,000 deaths a year -- and it’s not just the heavy drinkers.” Aleccia was touting a study published in the…
February 19th, 2013 2:15 PM

48 Hours After 'Kill' Order, Bogus AP Rand Paul Item Is Still at Sever
Following up on an item posted yesterday -- 48 hours after it issued an order to subscribing publications and outlets to "kill" a story it filed on Sunday ("Sen. Paul: Voters want to round up immigrants") claiming that Kentucky Republican Senator Rand "sees voters wanting, quote, 'somebody who wants to round people up, put in camps and send them back to Mexico,'" the story is still present on…
February 19th, 2013 1:53 PM

NBC Seizes on Mark Sanford Congressional Run and Dredges Up Scandal
Amid all of the news breaking in Washington, from the upcoming sequester cuts to President Obama's second term agenda, NBC's Today decided to focus its Tuesday political coverage on a scandal that plagued former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford four years ago. The news hook was Sanford running in a GOP primary for the congressional seat left open by newly appointed Senator Tim Scott.
Co-…
February 19th, 2013 1:14 PM

CNN Freaks Out Over 'Draconian' Sequester Cuts, Like the 'Asteroid
Even though the upcoming sequester cuts amount to only $85 billion, compared to $16 trillion of U.S. debt, CNN hyped the deleterious effects of the cuts to the economy by comparing them to the recent asteroid that just missed earth.
"Watch out. Like the asteroid headed to earth, they're coming. $86 billion in automatic budget cuts," anchor Carol Costello warned. And "draconian" was in the…
February 19th, 2013 1:13 PM