Will Ann Curry Write a Nasty Tell-all Book to Cash In on Her 'Today' O

On the supermarket stands, InTouch magazine touts the possibility of an “$8 Million Tell-All” book for former Today show co-host Ann Curry. “An insider tells In Touch that Ann Curry...is being courted by top publishers to pen a tell-all book.” “The publishing industry is just dying to get their hands on Ann’s side of the story, and the figures being batted around are enormous,” claimed the…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2013 7:32 PM

'Wise' Guy? WashPost Sports Columnist Says Bryce Harper Better Than Je

Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise was obnoxious enough when he was mocking the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments, but in Sunday's paper, he tries to be humorous by suggesting how Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper at age 20 is greater than most of our greatest humans when they were 20: better than Thomas Edison, better than Albert Einstein, better than Gandhi, and better than…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2013 5:12 PM

WSJ Slams Obama's Horrible Mother's Day Gift to American Women: Veto T

Just in time for Mother's Day this year, President Obama has threatened a veto on a bill that would be of great benefit to working moms throughout the country. In the May 11-12 edition of the Wall Street Journal, the editorial board took Mr. Obama to task for pledging to kill a bill that would reform the Fair Labor Standards Act "to allow employees to swap overtime pay for compensatory time…
Ken Shepherd
May 12th, 2013 5:12 PM

WashPost Dance Critic Hails 'Haven for Gays' in Historic European Ball

The Arts section of Sunday’s Washington Post was dominated by articles analyzing the cultural importance of the Ballet Russes and its role in European modernism. For Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman, it represented “The ascent of men, the haven for gays.” This ballet troupe was a “tremendous force in modern art and modern mores” all the way back in the 1920s, as the focus on male dancers and…
Tim Graham
May 12th, 2013 5:00 PM

George Will: If Bush Had IRS Going After Progressives 'We Would Have A

Friday's revelation that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups prior to last year's elections was certainly reported but not with nearly the outrage as if a Republican administration went after liberals this way. Driving home the point, George Will just before reading from the Impeachment Articles of Richard Nixon said on ABC's This Week Sunday, "If the George W. Bush…
Noel Sheppard
May 12th, 2013 4:43 PM

George Will: Jay Carney's 'Usefulness to This Administration is Dimini

White House press secretary Jay Carney had a tough week last week concluding with an absolutely deplorable press conference wherein he continued to spin totally unbelievable yarns about the administration's talking points regarding Benghazi. This led George Will to say on ABC's This Week Sunday that Carney's "usefulness to this administration is diminishing rapidly" (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
May 12th, 2013 3:56 PM

The Hill’s Cusack Recognizes Media Failure on Benghazi; Carlson Blam

Asked on Sunday’s Reliable Sources if the wider media dismissed the Weekly Standard story, by Stephen Hayes about the Benghazi talking points getting altered to take out any references to terrorism, because of his affiliation with conservative media, The Hill newspaper Managing Editor Bob Cusack agreed. Then he turned his criticism on his colleagues: “If you look at the time line of how this…
Brent Baker
May 12th, 2013 3:53 PM

Chris Hayes' 'Easy' Solution To Poverty: Give People Money

Chris Hayes is what passes for a progressive intellectual at MSNBC. Which makes his simple-minded and manifestly mistaken proposal that much more maddening. Making a peek-a-boo video-clip appearance on today's Melissa Harris-Perry's show, which focused on finding solutions to poverty in America, Hayes was seen holding up a hand-written sign with his solution, reading "Giving people money: It…
Mark Finkelstein
May 12th, 2013 2:08 PM

Benghazi Whistleblower's Attorney Claims NBC Spiked Him Being a Democr

If you were a journalist reporting on Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, wouldn't you find it interesting that he was a Democrat who voted for Barack Obama twice? Someone at NBC News didn't according to Hicks's attorney Victoria Toensing who disclosed the spike job to NewsMax host Steve Malzberg on WMAL radio Saturday (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 12th, 2013 1:56 PM

'2016' Producer Wants Michael Moore Removed From Motion Picture Academ

Many conservatives were disgusted this year when "2016: Obama's America" didn't receive an Oscar nomination for best documentary. In a letter to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Hawk Koch obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, one of the film's producers, Gerald Molen, has asked for Michael Moore to be removed from the documentary branch of the Academy's board of governors:
Noel Sheppard
May 12th, 2013 12:05 PM

CBS's Scott Pelley at Quinnipiac Luncheon: 'We Are Getting Big Stories

Scott Pelley deserves grudging credit for recognizing something obvious at a Friday luncheon in New York. Readers tempted to go beyond that point would be advised to visit the archive of Pelley-related posts at NewsBusters on his brand of so-called journalism, a few of which will be identified later in this post. At said luncheon, Pelley received the 20th annual Fred Friendly First Amendment…
Tom Blumer
May 12th, 2013 12:03 PM

Joe Klein: Hillary's 'One of the Most Experienced Candidates We've Eve

"Everybody knows that she's one of the most experienced candidates we've ever had running for president. She practically doesn't have to say it." So said Time magazine's Joe Klein about Hillary Clinton on Sunday's syndicated Chris Matthews Show (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 12th, 2013 11:25 AM

Ed Show Sweeps IRS Conservative-Targeting Under Table: 'Much Ado About

New day and time, same old liberal slop.  Ed Schultz returned to MSNBC yesterday in his new, relegated-to-the-ratings-desert slot of weekend afternoons.   One of the topics was the targeting by the IRS of conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status.  Predictably, Schultz & Co. did all they could to sweep the scandal under the carpet.  Schultz suggested the IRS had nothing to…
Mark Finkelstein
May 12th, 2013 10:53 AM

Befuddled by Benghazi, Top Political Reporters Admit Irrelevancy to Un

My alternate headline for this item: “NBC’s Today Show on Benghazi: ‘There Are So Many Issues the Country Faces. This Is One of Them.’” That dismissive attitude came from ABC News veteran Mark Halperin, now MSNBC’s senior political analyst who also toils for Time magazine, putting the burden on Republican to make an issue of Obama administration dishonesty on Benghazi.  Failing to see any…
Brent Baker
May 12th, 2013 9:42 AM