Shame On NewsBusters! A Screenwriter's Rebuttal on 'House of Cards'
After reading “Shame on Netflix,” I immediately emailed NewsBusters to defend it: “How dare you besmirch quality television like House of Cards! Your words are LIES!” But instead of kidnapping me for enhanced interrogations, NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham offered to post my rebuttal. Which puts me in a jam…I have to tell my liberal-Nazi neighbors some conservatives really are fair and…
March 25th, 2015 11:27 AM
Mika: Netanyahu's a Desperate Race-Baiter, But Dick Durbin Was Not
Joe Scarborough, MSNBC’s solitary leaner toward the center-right, was unavailable for Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe. Without him to restrain her, Mika Brzezinski proceeded to make a piñata out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election comments, repeatedly accusing him of “race-baiting.”
This is odd, considering Mika insisted just a few days before that Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin…
March 25th, 2015 10:18 AM
Monica Lewinsky: New Feminist Media Icon
Feminists who bashed Lewinsky in the 90s are now doing a 180.
March 25th, 2015 10:02 AM
Larry Wilmore: Ted Cruz Candidacy is ‘Blacklash at its Finest’
On Tuesday night, Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore viciously attacked Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and deemed his 2016 presidential campaign "'Backlash 2016: The unblackening' begins tonight. It is time for America to say f*** you to the notion that once you go black you never go back." The Nightly Show host opened his broadcast by shamelessly proclaiming "we ask the question can a foreign-born half-…
March 25th, 2015 9:28 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: The Washington Post's Obama Deniers
It's as if they were waiting, breathlessly. The moment Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign, the national media proclaimed their horror. He was “brash,” a “hardliner,” an “uncompromising conservative,” they warned. ABC anchor David Muir announced his agenda was the usual No list: “Promising no abortion, no gay marriage, no gun control, no IRS.”
Apparently there's no room for hope and…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
March 24th, 2015 11:20 PM
What's Gone Wrong with Democracy?
The Economist magazine recently published "What's gone wrong with Democracy ... and what can be done to revive it?" The suggestion is that democracy is some kind of ideal for organizing human conduct. That's a popular misconception.
March 24th, 2015 11:16 PM
Bob Costas: Gun-Rights Backers Want Ability to Buy Cop-Killer Bullets
This past Friday, sportscaster (and anti-gun advocate) Bob Costas was on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, where he scoffed at the criticism he’s received for making many anti-gun statements: “Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind? … That private citizens should be able to purchase cop-killer, armor piercing bullets? That you should be able to have a AK-47?”
March 24th, 2015 10:59 PM
Krauthammer Slams Obama, WH on Reaction to Israeli Spying Story
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer appeared on the panel for Fox News’s Special Report on Tuesday evening and blasted President Barack Obama for refusing to directly comment on the Wall Street Journal report that Israel has been spying on the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear deal as well as the administration for acting as if Israel’s actions are unprecedented.
March 24th, 2015 10:17 PM
New Republic Writer 'Endorses' Obscure Republican Candidate
A writer for The New Republic has "endorsed" a Republican candidate for the presidency. Of course, to receive such an endorsement, such a candidate much have sufficiently liberal credentials to pass muster as well as have absolutely no chance of winning. Such a candidate is one Mark Everson who you probably never heard of since he is pretty much indistinguishable from a department store mannequin…
March 24th, 2015 10:01 PM
Nation Columnist: Right-Wing Pundits Seek to ‘Undermine Our Democracy'
The left-liberal magazine The Nation has just published its 150th-anniversary issue, which includes Alterman’s piece on the state of American conservatism. Alterman makes two main points. One is that conservatives are ideologues, whereas liberals are pragmatists. The other is that prominent righty pundits routinely spew nonsense not because they’re dumb, but because extremist plutocrats control…
March 24th, 2015 9:40 PM
Matthews Falsely Charges Sen. Cruz Voted Against Every Obama Appointee
Hardball host Chris Matthews was at it again tonight, comparing Sen. Ted Cruz to Joe McCarthy and prattling on with his usual hyperbolic bluster. But Matthews also misinformed his audience by insisting, twice, that the Texas Republican has never voted for an Obama appointee. That's demonstrably false.
March 24th, 2015 9:05 PM
Liberal Journos Applaud Hillary As She Jokes About Her Press Avoidance
Hillary Clinton keynoted an event stuffed with political journalists on Monday night, for the Robin Toner Prize, handed out by Syracuse University and named for a liberal New York Times reporter who died in 2008. Mrs. Clinton spoke for 20 minutes, and refused to take any questions. She won a standing ovation anyway.
The prize was awarded to Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz, but the…
March 24th, 2015 8:04 PM
Eureka! Univision Discovers Cruz Has Latino Support
Lo and behold, there are Latinos who support Senator Ted Cruz's candidacy for President of the United States. That was the discovery Univision made while covering the Texas Senator's presidential campaign announcement at Liberty University.
March 24th, 2015 6:14 PM
NPR Finds Expert to Hint Cruz Eligibility Not an 'Open-and-Shut Case'
The birther issue is back. No, not the Obama birther crazies; the Ted Cruz birther crazies. In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) on Monday's All Things Considered, Sarah Duggin of the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law claimed that Ted Cruz’s eligibility for the Presidency is not “an open-and-shut case” because “we don’t know precisely what the framers of the…
March 24th, 2015 4:22 PM