Navy SEAL Refutes Brian Williams' Claim He Was Embedded With Them

On Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources hosted former SEAL Team Six member Don Mann to discuss NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams’ questionable claim that he was embedded with them at the start of the Iraq war. Speaking to host Brian Stelter, Mann resoundingly refuted Williams’ story and said “For a reporter to be embedded with SEAL Team Six or any tier one unit, that just doesn't happen…The last…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 16th, 2015 10:31 AM

NY Times Corrects Column Which Blamed Walker For 2010 Layoffs

It took well over 24 hours, but the New York Times finally corrected (HT Instapundit) op-ed columnist Gail Collins's ignorant Saturday contention about how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker caused teacher layoff in 2010: "As well as the fact that those layoffs happened because Walker cut state aid to education." Collins was so sure of herself that she emphasized how Walker's 2010 state aid-caused…
Tom Blumer
February 16th, 2015 10:25 AM

Scarborough: Radical Christianity Could Also Lead to Violence

Joe Scarborough says he doesn't want to be "torn to shreds online" for analogizing the threat of radical Christianity to that of radical Islam.  Simple solution: stop analogizing the threat of radical Christianity to that of radical Islam. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough twice suggested such parallels, analogizing radical Islamists to "ultrafundamentalist Christians who believe every single…
Mark Finkelstein
February 16th, 2015 8:01 AM

Walker Refuses to Answer Off-Topic Evolution Query; AP, Time Pounce

In London, England earlier this week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker delivered a speech about global trade at the Chatham House think tank. Given that the group's mission is "to help build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world," and that it encourages "open debate and confidential discussion on the most significant developments in international affairs," it seemed a reasonable…
Tom Blumer
February 15th, 2015 11:41 PM

Martin Short on SNL: ‘Roof Collapse Would Be Least of NBC's Problems'

Appearing on the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special Sunday night, comedian Martin Short mocked NBC for the ongoing scandal surrounding Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, declaring to the audience of A-list celebrities: “Do you realize that if this roof were to collapse right now, it would be the least of NBC’s problems?”
Kyle Drennen
February 15th, 2015 10:57 PM

Jim Carrey to Today Hosts: ‘Where Are You Hiding Brian Williams?'

During the red carpet show leading up to the 40th anniversary special of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, actor Jim Carrey ended his interview with Today co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie on a rather awkward note by suddenly asking them where NBC is “hiding” suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Carrey interjected with: “Can I ask you guys a question? Where are you hiding Brian…
Curtis Houck
February 15th, 2015 8:58 PM

NPR Star Diane Rehm Moonlighting As 'Right to Die' Fundraiser

Last July, we reported that NPR talk-show host Diane Rehm helped her husband John commit suicide by choosing not to eat or drink, then agitated for “right to die” laws in an NBC News story, where she suggested we euthanize “little animals,” so why not our family members? Rehm’s crusade made the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post, under the headline “Rehm’s topic: Death with self-…
Tim Graham
February 15th, 2015 6:02 PM

Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Invokes Redskins When Discussing Klan

On Sunday, CBS’s Face the Nation discussed the upcoming 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in which civil rights activists attempted to march 54-miles across Alabama in demand of voting rights but were met with a violent police response as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Jeffrey Meyer
February 15th, 2015 3:00 PM

Professor Blasts Conservatives’ ‘50-Year War’ on News Media

Nicole Hemmer argues that right-wingers trash the so-called objective media with an eye toward “making room for their own explicitly ideological” outlets “like Fox News, Breitbart, and talk radio…In an era when ideologues increasingly choose their own facts, the partisan policing of accuracy threatens to do in factuality altogether.” And where is the Media Research Center in this article?
Tom Johnson
February 15th, 2015 2:10 PM

Kathleen Parker: Unlike Liberals ‘Conservatives Put Politics First'

On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press discussed liberal comedian Jon Stewart’s announcement that he will be departing the Daily Show after 17 years. During the program’s panel discussion, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker eagerly championed Stewart and insisted that he has been successful because “liberals put funny first. And I think conservatives put politics first.”
Jeffrey Meyer
February 15th, 2015 12:36 PM

ABC Touts Biden's Iowa Visit, Ignores His 'Butt Buddy' Comments

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week promoted Vice President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Iowa, fueling speculation that he might seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. While the Sunday show was quick to play up Biden’s Iowa trip, fill-in host Jonathan Karl and his panel ignored a gaffe he made during a speech at Drake University on Thursday in which he referred to former Iowa Democratic…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 15th, 2015 11:11 AM

NY Times Bemoans Libya's Implosion; No Mention of Obama or U.S.

Libya's descent into chaos troubles the New York Times editorial board. Naturally, the Old Gray Lady's Sunday editorial, even as it referenced the 2011 "civil war," didn't even try to make any association between the current mess and the administration which initiated it. The editorial's recitation of the current situation, without any mention of President Obama, NATO, or the United States…
Tom Blumer
February 15th, 2015 9:56 AM

In Big Sunday Story, WashPost Finds More Brian Williams Myths

A team of Washington Post reporters did more myth-busting in the claims of Brian Williams in a Sunday front-page story that continued to two whole pages inside the paper. The headline was “Williams undone by his gift of storytelling: Anchor’s love of a good yarn played a role in his downfall.” Wild exaggerations? “That’s Brian being Brian” was the “newsroom shorthand.” Reporters Manuel Roig-…
Tim Graham
February 15th, 2015 9:31 AM

Reporters Mock Walker Punting Science Questions, But Not Nancy Pelosi

T. Becket Adams at The Washington Examiner drew up a list of people shocked, shocked, that Scott Walker punted on a “gotcha” evolution question at a London Q&A. Adams noted that these same liberal journalists don’t blink when liberal politicians punt on gotcha abortion questions. Conservatives are "climate deniers" or Darwin deniers, but when liberals are baby deniers? The media can only…
Tim Graham
February 15th, 2015 8:25 AM