CNN to Huckabee: Are You On the 'Wrong Side of History' on Marriage?

CNN's Alisyn Camerota forwarded a liberal talking point about same-sex "marriage" on Monday's New Day as she interview former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Camerota spotlighted polls trending towards support of the left-wing cause over recent years, and wondered, "So, in terms of your stance on gay marriage, do you feel as though you're on the wrong side of history?"
Matthew Balan
February 9th, 2015 12:24 PM

NBC's Guthrie to Axelrod: You Think 'Racism Animated' Obama Critics?

In an interview with former Obama White House aide David Axelrod on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie tossed a softball on "whether racism animated some of the President's critics." She read an inflammatory quote from Axelrod's new book: "Some folks simply refused to accept the legitimacy of the first black president and are seriously discomforted by the growing diversity of our…
Kyle Drennen
February 9th, 2015 12:21 PM

After Nearly 10 Hours, NBC's Today Notices Williams' 'Stories'

After offering nothing but silence on Brian Williams, NBC's Today on Sunday finally covered the evolving scandal related to the anchor's lies about being struck by an RPG in Iraq. The morning show only allowed a scant 20 seconds, however. 
Scott Whitlock
February 9th, 2015 11:35 AM

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry Asks Eric Holder To ‘Quack’ Like A Duck

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry sat down with outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder for an exclusive interview for Essence magazine that aired on Sunday morning and the MSNBC host eagerly gushed over his tenure at the Justice Department. Speaking to Holder, Harris-Perry played up how over at MSNBC “we call you the duck” because “we say you have a very sort of placid and even way of presenting, but…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 9th, 2015 11:33 AM

Williams Snubbed Vets For 'Pressing Engagement' - Appearing on SNL

For all the revelations we've learned about NBC news anchor Brian Williams, this one could come across as among the most unflattering. The trouble for Williams began after a Jan. 30 report on NBC Nightly News in which he thanked an Army veteran for protecting him in Iraq after his military helicopter was purportedly brought down by enemy fire. After Williams was called out on this by soldiers…
Jack Coleman
February 9th, 2015 10:18 AM

NY Times Sunday Review Columnist: Everyone Lies

While its appearance at the height of the Brian Williams serial tall-tales scandal seems coincidental, a New York Times Sunday review column by Clancy Martin, a "professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City" who has been "married twice before" (!), reveals quite a bit about the kind of dreck the Old Gray Lady will tolerate in the name of advancing its personal values-free,…
Tom Blumer
February 9th, 2015 9:25 AM

Notable Quotables: Journalists Advise GOP to Ditch Conservatives

This week, journalists — no doubt trying to be helpful — tell Republicans to bypass conservatives if they want to have any hope of winning, while others in the media seize on the measles outbreak to slam conservatives as having "a problem with science." Also: an NBC correspondent slams the late Iraq war hero Chris Kyle as a "racist" who went on "killing sprees," and actress Ashley Judd…
Rich Noyes
February 9th, 2015 9:05 AM

Alabama's Largest Paper Asks: 'Is Roy Moore a Closeted Homosexual?'

The Birmingham News is the largest newspaper in Alabama (even though it only publishes a print edition three times a week now.) That could be in part due to leftist pranks. The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has defiantly ordered a halt on gay marriage licenses, prompting News commentator Kyle Whitmire to offer a Readers Poll on Sunday asking “Is Roy Moore a closeted…
Tim Graham
February 9th, 2015 7:27 AM

Scarborough Warns Media and Pols Not To Cast First Stone at Williams

Joe Scarborough's defense of Brian Williams amounts to a warning to people in the media and politics: I know a lot about many of you, too. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough ominously said: "in over a decade in this news business, it is fair to say looking straight in the camera, I've seen a lot, I know a lot, and I know that there are very few people in this industry or in politics that could…
Mark Finkelstein
February 9th, 2015 7:12 AM

Geraldo: Critics of Williams in 'Mother's Basement' Should 'Shut Up'

Friday morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo Rivera, echoing Rathergate, the 2004 scandal which put the blogosphere and New Media on the map to stay and accelerated its growth, reacted to the Brian Williams debacle by denouncing those criticizing the NBC Nightly News anchor "from the safety of their mother's basement," telling them that they should just "shut up." Saturday, in a pair of tweets…
Tom Blumer
February 8th, 2015 10:15 PM

Lefty Blogger Calls Scott Walker a ‘Republican Porn Star’

Jon Perr of Daily Kos writes that Walker, like the Republican base, “believes his Democratic foes aren't just wrong, but unambiguously evil...He talks and fights tough, which for the right wing is not a means but an end in itself.”
Tom Johnson
February 8th, 2015 9:40 PM

CNN Media Show Leaps on Brian Williams Defense from Moyers, Joe Klein

CNN’s Reliable Sources devoted most of its show Sunday to the Brian Williams scandal, but host Brian Stelter made sure that Williams defenders in the liberal elite, from Joe Klein to Bill Moyers, were quoted and discussed. Stelter didn’t have interview or quote any conservative critics of Williams. Stelter quoted Bill Moyers the PBS omnipresence to former network reporter and analyst Jeff…
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM

Brian Williams Cancels Thursday Night Appearance with David Letterman

Late Sunday afternoon, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported the latest information in the ongoing Brian Williams controversy with the news that the NBC Nightly News anchor has cancelled an appearance on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman after reports initially suggested that he was planning to use it to clear the air and answer the many questions surrounding him. The cancellation comes a day…
Curtis Houck
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM

Shields, Brooks Tag Team for Obama, Against GOP Vaccine Gaffes

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, New York Times columnist David Brooks and PBS commentator Mark Shields teamed up to praise President Obama’s controversial remarks about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast as well as to shame the GOP over two potential presidential candidates' recent vaccine gaffes. Speaking to co-host Judy Woodruff, Brooks slammed Senator Rand Paul and Governor Chris Christie…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 8th, 2015 3:32 PM