MRC's Notable Quotables: Can't Say If George Tilts Left or Right

This week, with George Stephanopoulos under fire for his donations to the Clinton Foundation, the BBC's Katty Kay declares it impossible to find "a partisan bent" in any of his work at ABC News. And, USA Today's Susan Page cannot fathom why the scandal-plagued Hillary Clinton would duck questions, because "she can handle any question you throw at her....She does it very well."
Rich Noyes
June 2nd, 2015 8:57 AM

Limbaugh Deciphers Schieffer's Claim That Journalism Has Gotten Harder

Amid the fanfare for CBS newsman Bob Schieffer upon his retirement, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh provided a helpful translation for some of the code in Schieffer's parting remarks. Schieffer appeared on CBS This Morning on Friday and was asked how Washington and journalism have changed since he jumped in the game back in the '60s. While Schieffer was optimistic about the future of…
Jack Coleman
June 2nd, 2015 7:16 AM

Krauthammer Rips Obama; 'You Wonder...What Planet He's Living on'

Appearing on the Monday edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer and host Bill O’Reilly tore into President Obama for stating that the U.S. is now “the most respected country on Earth” thanks to his administration with Krauthammer openly wondering “what planet he's living on.” Following a soundbite of Obama speaking earlier on Monday at the White House, O’Reilly…
Curtis Houck
June 2nd, 2015 12:35 AM

Lefty Blogger Charles Pierce Likens Dick Cheney to Pol Pot

Monday was a big day for journalists to suggest similarities between mass murderers and Republicans. Newsweek writer Nina Burleigh claimed that certain of Timothy McVeigh’s “militia ideals have gone mainstream” in the GOP, but Esquire's Pierce really put the ideological pedal to the metal when he likened Dick Cheney to one of the all-time worst genocidal maniacs, opining that Cheney’s relatively…
Tom Johnson
June 1st, 2015 10:20 PM

NYT's Tale of Two Senators: 'Sloganeering' Paul, Surging Sanders

Two U.S. Senators -- one Republican, the other a socialist who votes with the Democrats -- are outside candidates for president. Both were profiled in Monday's New York Times, but with quite different results. While Rand Paul's anti-surveillance crusade was caricatured as cynical "sloganeering," socialist Bernie Sanders' modest Iowa crowds (100 people instead of 50?) were hailed as a liberal…
Clay Waters
June 1st, 2015 10:14 PM

Cuba’s Removal from U.S. Terror List Celebrated on MundoFox

The Obama Administration's decision to remove the Castro regime from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism was the subject of an entirely favorable report on MundoFox. Unlike Spanish-language rivals Univision and Telemundo, in its coverage MundoFox ignored bipartisan criticism of the administration’s highly controversial move, and inexplicably only featured the administration’s and Cuban…
Yuri Perez
June 1st, 2015 9:56 PM

Matthews 'May Not Go That Far' to Call Jenner 'Stunning,' 'Beautiful'

Wrapping up a gushy panel segment hailing Bruce Jenner's transition to "Caitlyn," a transgendered woman, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews hailed the importance of being "good about these things" and affirming the life choices made by persons like Bruce Jenner with gender identification issues. At that, guests Eugene Robinson and Jennice Fuentes hailed Jenner as "beautiful" and "stunning" respectively…
Ken Shepherd
June 1st, 2015 9:11 PM

CBS Laments ‘Pain’ of Iran Sanctions; Kerry Injury Hurting Nuke Talks

On Monday’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Charlie Rose and foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer bemoaned the impact of international sanctions on the Iranian economy with Palmer also fretting that Secretary of State John Kerry’s leg injury could hurt the “dynamic” of nuclear talks between the U.S., its allies, and Iran on a proposed deal. Prior to Palmer’s report from Tehran, Rose noted that…
Curtis Houck
June 1st, 2015 8:50 PM

Les Moonves Stiffs Valet Because He Only Carried Huge Wad of 100s

Look at the size of that wad! It's huge! And it is all 100 dollar bills! How much you carrying there, Les? $5000? $10,000? $20,000? More? As we have seen, the networks declined to report that their CEOs including CBS CEO Les Moonves who earned over $54 million this past year were "overpaid." Perhaps they were embarrassed to report this. However, even more embarrassing is that Moonves is so cheap…
P.J. Gladnick
June 1st, 2015 7:43 PM

Newsweek: McVeigh's 'Ideals' Now Mainstream GOP Politics

Newsweek writer Nina "Kneepads" Burleigh would have her readers believe that today's Republican Party is ideological soulmates with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber: "McVeigh was executed in 2001, but since then, some of his militia ideals have gone mainstream and even been introduced as laws in many states, including Oklahoma. Legislators in dozens of states have submitted proposals to…
Ken Shepherd
June 1st, 2015 5:24 PM

HBO's Oliver Slams Catholic Church; Likens Pope to 'Breaking Bad' Thug

On Sunday, HBO's John Oliver gave the latest evidence that the last acceptable prejudice is bigotry against Christianity, especially anti-Catholicism. Oliver blasted the Vatican secretary of state's "defeat for humanity" condemnation of Ireland's vote that legalized same-sex marriage: "Okay, settle down a little, Catholic Church. Remember, you're an organization whose victories for humanity…
Matthew Balan
June 1st, 2015 4:19 PM

High Schools Partner with Planned Parenthood to Paint ‘Care’ Mural

According to local media, taxpayer-funded schools are partnering with taxpayer-funded abortion providers to create – you didn’t guess it – art. Planned Parenthood of Montana recently commissioned a painted mural for its parking lot located in Great Falls. Named after Planned Parenthood’s slogan, the “Care, No Matter What Project” is described as a “collaborative mural project” by local media…
Katie Yoder
June 1st, 2015 4:04 PM

Media Skips (Or Oozes Over) Lesbian WNBA Star's Domestic Abuse Arrest

The Washington Post put the issue of lesbian domestic violence front and center on the front of Sunday’s sports section. Or did they? The story was on WNBA (women’s pro basketball) star Brittany Griner and her “spouse” Glory Johnson, also a WNBA player...but the violence was buried under praise for Griner's "gentle giant" character.  This story is more than a month old...and this is the first…
Tim Graham
June 1st, 2015 3:54 PM

Vince Vaughn Tells British GQ Magazine He's Pro-2nd Amendment

Stepping away from his colleagues in the Hollywood left, actor Vince Vaughn strongly championed gun rights and the Second Amendment in an interview with the British edition of GQ magazine. Vaughn noted that mass shootings have “only happened in places that don’t allow guns." The actor identified the true purpose of the right to bear arms: 
Connor Williams
June 1st, 2015 3:44 PM