OIL, Still Hollywood’s Favorite Villain

Trailer for fall 2015 ABC TV lineup shows drillers and aspiring oil millionaires as corrupt, ‘dirty.’
Julia A. Seymour
May 14th, 2015 9:17 AM

Krauthammer Blasts ‘Greek God’ Obama for Attacking Fox Over Poverty

On Wednesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, FNC’s Charles Krauthammer slammed President Obama for attacking Fox News’ at an event on poverty at Georgetown University.
Jeffrey Meyer
May 14th, 2015 8:57 AM

Howard Dean: Jesus Probably to Left of Democratic Party

Is Jesus a Bernie Sanders fan?  Could be, if you believe Howard Dean.  On today's Morning Joe, Dean claimed that "if you look at the red-letter version of the Bible, Jesus was probably to the left of the Democratic party." Dean's declaration came in the context of a discussion of yesterday's forum on poverty in which President Obama and AEI President Arthur Brooks participated.  Question: is…
Mark Finkelstein
May 14th, 2015 7:57 AM

House Passes Pro-Life Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions; Networks Yawn

On Wednesday night, the top English and Spanish networks showed no interest in covering the news that the House of Representatives approved pro-life legislation that would largely ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy that will now move over to the Republican-led Senate. While English-language networks ABC, CBS, and NBC combined with Spanish-language networks MundoFox, Telemundo, and…
Curtis Houck
May 14th, 2015 1:04 AM

CBS, NBC Ignore Female NYPD Officer Attacked by Man Wielding a Hammer

The Wednesday editions of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News failed to cover the latest attack on law enforcement as a man charged at a female New York City police officer with a hammer before being shot by a fellow officer. While CBS and NBC ignored this story, ABC’s World News Tonight did cover it and did so with a full report from correspondent Linsey Davis. Anchor David Muir set the…
Curtis Houck
May 13th, 2015 11:51 PM

NYT's Michael Shear Praises Obama's Big Spending, Religion-Bashing

New York Times White House correspondent Michael Shear specializes in one-sided fawn-a-thons over President Obama, and Wednesday's report on a panel discussion at Georgetown University featuring Obama talking race and poverty, was the work of a master of the craft: "Obama Urges Unity in Poverty Fight." Shear, who carried Obama's water over the President's anti-business "you didn't build that"…
Clay Waters
May 13th, 2015 10:21 PM

Nets Continue to Shamelessly Push Need for More Infrastructure Funding

Despite now knowing that the Amtrak train that derailed outside of Philadelphia on Tuesday night was going more than double the speed limit, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued pushing the need for more infrastructure funding and an increase in Amtrak’s budget on their Wednesday evening newscasts. In addition, CBS and NBC failed to mention the fact that train engine in…
Curtis Houck
May 13th, 2015 9:50 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Liberalism 'Nothing More Than Comedy Today'

A newly released Reuters online poll places left-wing court jesters Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert atop "the peak of American punditry." While this will presumably come as welcome news for Stewart and Colbert, since the poll puts them ahead of pre-eminent conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, it also reveals an unfortunate aspect of contemporary liberalism.
Jack Coleman
May 13th, 2015 9:20 PM

Chris Matthews Blames Lack of 'Straight Lines' for Train Crash

In two separate segments on his May 13 Hardball program,  MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews blamed "turns" on the Amtrak passenger rail route for Tuesday night's train crash. Matthews lamented that Amtrak rights-of-way must respect private property and that it's so much more difficult in the United States than say China for the government to muscle its way into providing as straight a shot as possible…
Ken Shepherd
May 13th, 2015 8:50 PM

Jon Stewart Slams Jeb Bush for Agreeing With Brother's Iraq Invasion

During a segment called “Democalypse 2016" on Tuesday night's edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart hammered former Florida governor and likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for supporting the decision made by former GOP president George W. Bush -- his older brother -- to invade Iraq “even knowing what we know now.” “Long term, mentioning his brother's name is like wearing an…
Randy Hall
May 13th, 2015 5:55 PM

Mika Brzezinski: Hard for Media to Get Past Clinton 'Moat'

Liberal MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday bemoaned the "moat" around Hillary Clinton and the difficulty to get the Democrat to answer questions. Appearing on The View, Brzezinski blamed others for Clinton's silence: "She's capable of answering the questions. Get out of her way. Bill, get out of her way. Staff, get out of her way. Let the woman talk." 
Scott Whitlock
May 13th, 2015 5:36 PM

Russert Hints GOP Congressmen Don't Care If Staffers Die on Metrorail

Republican Congressmen are so wedded to slashing federal infrastructure spending that they don't care that their own staffers are riding around on unsafe Metrorail subway cars. That, essentially, was the charge that MSNBC's Luke Russert made at the close of a segment on Now with Alex Wagner devoted to bashing Republicans for proposed cuts to Amtrak and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit…
Ken Shepherd
May 13th, 2015 5:04 PM

Larry Wilmore Show Cheers Zimmerman Shooting

Yesterday, it was reported that George Zimmerman was injured in another road rage incident. Reports showed he was shot at by the same driver with whom he had an incident with in 2014. As of last night, a confirmed account of who was to blame hadn’t been established but the fact that Zimmerman had a bullet aimed at his head was confirmed. Instead of waiting to hear more, The Nightly Show with…
Kristine Marsh
May 13th, 2015 2:59 PM

John Oliver Echoes Hillary in Politicizing Mother's Day with Mandates

This past Sunday,  John Oliver thrilled liberals again with his HBO show Last Week Tonight when he decided to politicize Mother’s Day as another way to bring up the “war on women.” There’s a reason he doesn’t say he’s a “journalist.” He’s a televised activist. He "slams Mother's Day hypocrisy," oozed the Daily Beast. This was his topic sentence: “You can’t go on and on about how much you support…
Melissa Mullins
May 13th, 2015 2:49 PM