One-Sided WashPost: Pelosi 'Heaping Praise' on Obama in Havana

On Saturday, The Washington Post published what can only be read as a Nancy Pelosi press release on the back page of the front section. The former speaker was in Havana with a bunch of other liberals “heaping praise” on Obama for softening up on the Castro dictatorship. There was nothing resembling a critic of Obama, Pelosi, or the Castros.
Tim Graham
February 22nd, 2015 7:24 AM

Saturday Night Humor: Cavuto Admits That It's All Fox News's Fault

Thursday on his Your World show, host Neil Cavuto went after the Obama administration's near obsession with the coverage it gets on Fox News. While Team Obama can count on the Big Three triumvirate of ABC, CBS and NBC to toe the line, promoting its points while generally avoiding damning information, Fox has generally remained fair and balanced, an approach which has clearly gotten under their…
Tom Blumer
February 21st, 2015 11:59 PM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Top Ten Things Said By a Handsy Biden

Bret Baier ended his Thursday show by playing the best items from the Late Show’s “Top Ten Things Joe Biden Said at This Moment” – the moment, a lengthy one, when Biden used both hands to grasp the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, wife of incoming Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, as he leaned in to whisper in her ear during her husband’s Tuesday swearing-in ceremony.  
Brent Baker
February 21st, 2015 11:48 PM

NYT: Giuliani Aligns With 'Hard Right' With Racial Anti-Obama Outburst

The New York Times kept on its old Rudy the Racist beat, using the former New York City mayor's recent remarks suggesting President Obama doesn't love America to attack him in a front-page story on Saturday: "His remarks this week mostly drew derision and outrage, and seemed to further distance Mr. Giuliani from the heroic, above-the-fray image he carefully burnished after the Sept. 11 attacks,…
Clay Waters
February 21st, 2015 8:24 PM

Despite NY Times, Networks Skip Sex-Abuse Charges Against Chicago Imam

Since the story hit The Boston Globe and The New York Times in 2002, the network newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have been aggressive watchdogs of the Catholic Church in America and the accusations and lawsuits filed about sexually abusive priests. But on Monday, the front page of The New York Times was utterly ignored by the networks, even the cable news networks (according to transcripts…
Tim Graham
February 21st, 2015 6:18 PM

Wash. Examiner: Obama Kept Reformist Muslims From Extremism Summit

President Obama is so wedded to his faulty notion that ISIS has absolutely nothing at all to do with Islamic theology that he banned a group of reform-minded Muslims from the just-concluded Countering Violent Extremism summit, the Washington Examiner is reporting today.
Ken Shepherd
February 21st, 2015 2:40 PM

Bloggers: Jeb Not In Sync With Angry, Self-Pitying GOP Base

Bush seems not to share what Ed Kilgore calls the “vengeful rage about the alleged persecution of good conservative Christian folk” and what Peter Beinart describes as “the sense of Christian victimhood and superiority that lurks just below the surface in today’s GOP.”
Tom Johnson
February 21st, 2015 12:56 PM

Rudy Giuliani and Flagrant Morning Joe Hypocrisy

Here is Joe Scarborough, a guy who blithely plays the co-host of a morning show on a network that has a god-awful record for living in the sewers of racial politics. This is the network that gives the possibly-soon-to-be-removed-to-the weekend lineup Al Sharpton an entire show. But Joe is concerned about Rudy Giuliani - a guy whose political heroes include those vociferous racists Robert Kennedy…
Jeffrey Lord
February 21st, 2015 12:22 PM

Shhh! Looks Like Economy Didn't Grow That Fast at End of 2014

On February 12, in a report on inventories, the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger referred to an economist who believed, in Crutsinger's words, "that the economy expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the final three months of the year (2014)." That result would be a fairly significant downward revision to the 2.6 percent rate the government estimated in late January. The next day,…
Tom Blumer
February 21st, 2015 10:28 AM

Mark Shields: Walker's Idea of Foreign Policy Is 'Beat Ohio State'

Anyone who thinks the PBS NewsHour is a calm, rather nonpartisan forum on politics where no one does any trash-talking hasn’t seen Mark Shields on Fridays. On Friday, Shields trashed Jeb Bush as a bumbler, and then just insulted governors Scott Walker and Chris Christie as “total novices” on foreign policy, like he’s a standup comedian. But eight years ago, Shields said only "serious candidates…
Tim Graham
February 21st, 2015 9:58 AM

Capehart: Obama Doesn't Think Differently About America Than Reagan

From a shining city on a hill and Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, to terrible deeds in the name of Christ and terrorists' legitimate grievances. The chasm between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama when it comes to their views of America and the world could hardly be wider. But on today's Up With Steve Kornacki, when the host asked the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart whether President Obama…
Mark Finkelstein
February 21st, 2015 9:47 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Fifty Shades of Sickness

Here’s one obvious sign that we live in a profane world. Fifty Shades of Grey, the “mommy-porn” book turned into a movie, complete with its whips and chains and erotic punishment, debuted to far less controversy than The Passion of the Christ in 2004. The media toasted Fifty Shades as the biggest February movie opening weekend ever at $83.8 million, just a shade more than The Passion. But Mel…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
February 21st, 2015 7:45 AM

FBI: Arrested Colorado Springs Bomber Did Not Target NAACP

Earlier today, Thaddeus Murphy was charged in U.S. District Court in Colorado in connection with an attempted January bombing in Colorado Springs. The targeted building houses that city's chapter of the NAACP, a barber shop — and, apparently at one time, a tax accountant's office. Quite a few people leaped to the conclusion that the bomb had to be meant for the NAACP, even though, as syndicated…
Tom Blumer
February 20th, 2015 11:32 PM

CBS, ABC Notice New ObamaCare 'Glitch;' NBC Omits

Julianna Goldman spotlighted the latest ObamaCare glitch on Friday's CBS Evening News. The same evening, ABC's World News Tonight aired a ten-second news brief on the "outrage over another glitch to the ObamaCare website – nearly 800,000 people received inaccurate forms from the site." However, Friday's NBC Nightly News ignored this story completely. Instead, the evening newscast hyped Rudy…
Matthew Balan
February 20th, 2015 11:12 PM