WashPost Takes After Climate 'Deniers,' Compares to... Bull Connor?

Liberal arrogance about global warming led the Style section of The Washington Post on Tuesday. “Climate deniers” were singled out with the headline “BLOWING SMOKE, WITH A SMILE: Corporate baloney peddlers, especially ones who deny climate change, are the target of Robert Kenner’s latest documentary.” The online headline said it “shines light on climate-change deniers.” Post film critic Michael…
Tim Graham
March 17th, 2015 8:59 AM

Scarborough: 'More and More' Insiders Say Hillary Might Not Run

Imagine you're David Brock, James Carville or Lanny Davis.  Stop: no!  Can't do that to our Newsbusters readers. Let's just picture someone in the Hillary camp—even Herself. He/she's settled in front of the tube this morning, Grande, two-pump Vanilla, Non-Fat, Extra Hot Latte in hand, and tuned to fave show: Morning Joe. Suddenly, from an array of people, you hear these phrases: "in jail for…
Mark Finkelstein
March 17th, 2015 8:15 AM

Letterman Whines About Clinton E-Mail Scandal; Fallon Mocks Presser

In a contrast of how two network late night comedy hosts addressed the Hillary Clinton email scandal on Monday, CBS’s David Letterman whined about the attention and effort being devoted and given to the scandal while NBC’s Jimmy Fallon took to mocking Clinton’s long-winded, confusing responses during her press conference as to why she used just one account and one phone.
Curtis Houck
March 17th, 2015 12:49 AM

NYT's Krugman Accuses Netanyahu of 'Wagging the Dog' Before Election

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman found a new way to be hostile to Israel, by employing the paper's new left-wing hobby horse, "income inequality." In his column "Israel's Gilded Age," Krugman longed for the socialist 1960s ideals of the Israeli kibbutz, and had a conspiratorial take on Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress warning of the dangers posed by a nuclear…
Clay Waters
March 16th, 2015 9:49 PM

Nets Skip Clinton E-Mail Scandal; ABC, NBC Omit Foundation Controversy

On Monday night, ABC, CBS, and NBC combined to ignore the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal with zero coverage of it in their evening newscasts. ABC and NBC also failied to mention the growing controversy surrounding the millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments and individuals. The CBS Evening News, however, stood out with a report that scrutinized the…
Curtis Houck
March 16th, 2015 9:26 PM

CNN's Acosta Parrots Obama Spin Re: 47 Senators' Open Letter to Iran

Filing his report from the North Lawn of the White House on Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN's Jim Acosta uncritically parroted President Obama's falsehood regarding 47 Republican senators' open letter to the government of Iran. 
Ken Shepherd
March 16th, 2015 8:54 PM

Disarm Ferguson Cops, Urges Ed Schultz - Even After Two Officers Shot

Odd indeed that Ed Schultz is not proposing this for police where he lives. Never one to refrain from embracing a dumb idea, Schultz doubled down on one last week in response to a Justice Department report criticizing police in Ferguson, Mo., for racial bias in law enforcement -- the MSNBC action hero made the novel suggestion that Ferguson police, or at least "some" of them, should disarm.
Jack Coleman
March 16th, 2015 6:58 PM

Lisa Myers: TV Politics News Has 'All the Depth of Twitter'

Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS investigative reporter whose book Stonewalled exposed liberal bias, has been no wallflower when it comes to speaking out about the kind of standards (or lack thereof) seen in journalism today. In former NBC reporter Lisa Myers, she finds a kindred spirit. On Friday, she wrote “Lisa Myers sounds like me. She is also a former network news investigative journalist.…
Melissa Mullins
March 16th, 2015 6:08 PM

Chuck Todd 'Proud' of How NBC Handled Brian Williams Scandal

Talking to former CBS political analyst Jeff Greenfield at an event for 92Y in New York, NBC's Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd praised his network's handling of the Brian Williams scandal: "Look, I am proud of my news organization, that it proved that nobody's bigger, nobody is above integrity and credibility. Period." That declaration was prompted by Greenfield taking a shot at how Fox News…
Kyle Drennen
March 16th, 2015 5:58 PM

MSNBC's Scarborough Shifting Leftward on Rhetoric Re: 47 GOP Senators

Relax folks. The planet is back on its axis. The momentary blips of genuine journalism are over and MSNBC is back to toeing the leftist line. Case in point is the evolution of Morning Joe’s token "conservative" host Joe Scarborough. 
Bryan Ballas
March 16th, 2015 5:23 PM

Nets Hype 'Firestorm' Against Dolce & Gabbana's Defense of the Family

ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning newscasts on Monday all touted the apparent "backlash" and "firestorm" against Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana for their support for the traditional family and condemnation of in-vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood. The programs all spotlighted how homosexual musician Elton John called for a boycott of the duo's label, and how…
Matthew Balan
March 16th, 2015 4:03 PM

Vox’s Ezra Klein: ‘Al Gore Should Run For President’

Klein thinks pushing the climate-change issue might cost Gore votes, but it’s a risk that could pay off big if Gore’s elected, since “climate change is an issue where the president has real unilateral authority.” In any event, funding the campaign wouldn’t seem problematic. Klein noted that Gore himself now is “fabulously wealthy — richer, even, than Mitt Romney” and added, given super-rich…
Tom Johnson
March 16th, 2015 2:09 PM

New Yorker Editor Fears Hillary Has No Competition And a Weak Press

New Yorker editor David Remnick, formely a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, is a notable figure in the Thrill Up My Leg department for Obama, but is not much of a Hillary Clinton fan right now. In a “Talk of the Town” essay in his magazine, he expressed disgust with her 21-minute press availability at the United Nations, contrition was not in her plans. Instead, she chose a…
Tim Graham
March 16th, 2015 1:45 PM

ABC & CBS Cover Clinton Controversies, NBC Reports on Bieber Roast

While both ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Monday covered the latest developments in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal and the Clinton Foundation accepting money from foreign governments, NBC's Today didn't bother to update viewers on either of the controversies continuing to swirl around the likely 2016 contender.
Kyle Drennen
March 16th, 2015 1:14 PM