New Yorker: 'Libtard' Is Rush's 'Favorite Epithet'; He's Never Said It

Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so." One of the things that liberals "know that isn't so" is that conservative talk radio hosts are all crude people who routinely hurl racist, sexist, homophobic and other epithets over the airwaves. This would explain why the layers of fact-checkers and editors at…
Tom Blumer
August 17th, 2016 11:44 PM

Slate: ‘Starting to Hate’ Good Sportsmanship at the Rio Olympics

“I’m starting to hate that moment when Olympic runners helped each other to the finish line,” declared Slate writer Justin Peters in a headline on Wednesday. The moment in question occurred during a 5,000 meter heat in Rio on Tuesday. Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand fell and took out American Abbey D’Agostino with her. D’Agostino help Hamlin to her feet, while Hamblin cheered on D’Agostino when she…
Nicholas Fondacaro
August 17th, 2016 11:19 PM

Reid Mocks ‘Clinton Cash’; ‘No Evidence’ Clintons Used It for Evil

Always one of the more egregious liberal pundits in dismissing Clinton scandals, MSNBC’s Joy Reid filled in for Chris Hayes on Wednesday’s All In and sought to imply that since Breitbart News chief executive and now Trump campaign chief executive Steve Bannon helped fund the organization that allowed Peter Schweizer to write Clinton Cash, the book’s claims are not just “false” but reckless. 
Curtis Houck
August 17th, 2016 10:16 PM

USA Today Notes 'Big Jump' in Health Costs on Page 1, Leaves Out Obama

USA Today put the latest troubling signs of private insurers bailing out of Obamacare on the top of the front page Wednesday. But something really obvious was missing from the text of the entire article – the name “Obama.”  The headline for this beating-around-the-bush story was “Health care costs to rise in 2017: Aetna pullout in 11 states reflects insurance industry upheaval.”
Tim Graham
August 17th, 2016 7:37 PM

'Legendary Journalist' Cokie Roberts: Trump Backers ‘Morally Tainted'

During a guest appearance on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe program, Cokie Roberts -- a political commentator for National Public Radio and ABC News -- hammered people who still support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as “morally tainted” and an example of “textbook racism.” Roberts said of the approximately 40 percent of American voters who polls say still support Trump…
Randy Hall
August 17th, 2016 6:39 PM

Bloomberg Uses Seinfeld Connection to Bash New Trump Campaign Chief

The new chief executive of the Donald Trump campaign owns a stake in Seinfeld royalties, a fact that naturally was used to make fun of Stephen Bannon on MSNBC. With All Due Respect co-host Mark Halperin admitted that “we jumped at the chance to combine Seinfeld” and Trump. The journalist then played an extended montage of reporters making fun of Bannon and clips of the comedy classic. 
Scott Whitlock
August 17th, 2016 6:03 PM

Watch Sad Matthews Cover His ‘Rising Star’ Liberal AG Being Convicted

MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews had always been a big admirer of now-former Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, so he was naturally beside himself on Tuesday night as he gave a news brief on Kane being found guilty of nine criminal charges stemming from a series of leaks to a grand jury concerning a legal and political rival.
Curtis Houck
August 17th, 2016 5:43 PM

Halperin: FBI Giving Congress Notes on Clinton Is ‘Horrible Precedent’

On Wednesday, the Morning Joe crew erupted over the revelation that notes from Hillary Clinton’s interviews with the FBI are being given to a congressional committee for review. According to guest Adam Schiff, a Democratic Congressman from California who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, this “opens a Pandora’s box of requests from Congress.” Bloomberg Politics Editor, Mark Halperin,…
Samantha Cohen
August 17th, 2016 5:20 PM

CNN Tries to Nuance Sylville Smith's Sister's Call for Violence

On CNN New Day Wednesday morning, Chris Cuomo brought up the video of Sylville Smith’s sister, calling for violence in the suburbs getting widespread attention, though the initial part of her message calling for nonviolence in their community, was. “That part of the bite was not widely used,” Cuomo said, conveniently leaving out that CNN was the one who left out the rest of the soundbite,…
Kristine Marsh
August 17th, 2016 4:36 PM

NYT Waves Away Migrant Threat: Trump Concern for Women Like Lynching

The New York Times “Interpreter” column is a recent addition to the paper’s news pages. Sold as a philosophical fact-check, it comes off as an excuse to sneak yet more liberal opinion into the paper under the guise of offering an elevated perspective on current events. Most egregious yet: Wednesday’s column by Amanda Taub, in which she goes to ludicrous lengths to wave away the problem of the…
Clay Waters
August 17th, 2016 4:02 PM

Lamont Hill: Yes, Dems Run Poor Cities, But They're Not to Blame

On Wednesday’s CNN New Day, Chris Cuomo brought on CNN commentator and host of BET News Marc Lamont Hill and former Secret Service agent and current candidate for congress in Florida Dan Bongino, to discuss Trump polling poorly with African-Americans.  While Bongino argued that democrat run cities have failed black communities, Lamont Hill claimed that poverty and Democrat machines are connected…
Kristine Marsh
August 17th, 2016 3:50 PM

NBC Hosts Finally Find a Tax Cut They Like...for Olympians

On Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and his colleagues were aghast Team USA’s Olympic champions would be forced to pay taxes on their winning medals. Lauer proclaimed: “Like other medalists, Michael [Phelps] receives a cash bonus for all the hardware. Guess what? He’s gonna have to pay taxes on every single medal and every single bonus. It's called the victory tax.”
Kyle Drennen
August 17th, 2016 3:46 PM

NBC Exec Slams ‘Demented’ Trump, Deletes Insulting Facebook Post

NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt slammed presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling him "toxic" and "demented," after his network spend more than a decade building his image. In a Facebook post he later deleted, Greenblatt lamented the “sad state of affairs” created by “pompous businessman turned reality TV star” Donald Trump. 
Sam Dorman
August 17th, 2016 3:43 PM

ABC Spotlights Conviction of Pennsylvania's 'Rising Star' Democrat

ABC became the first Big Three network to cover the felony conviction of the Democratic attorney general of Pennsylvania, Kathleen Kane, on the early Wednesday edition of Nightline. Byron Pitts spotlighted the downfall of the "rising star in Pennsylvania's Democratic Party," who went from being endorsed by Bill Clinton to being a "convicted criminal." ABC's morning and evening newscasts still…
Matthew Balan
August 17th, 2016 3:43 PM