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HuffPo's Stein: Clintons Need to Win Lotto to Compete With Koch Bros
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday, Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein worried that the Clinton political machine would be unable to compete with funding from Charles and David Koch during the 2016 presidential campaign: "I mean, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton will be scratching lotto tickets, I think, for the next week just trying to catch up with the $889 million that the Koch…
January 27th, 2015 3:12 PM
Once Again, Nicolle Wallace Shows She’s Obsessed With Attacking Palin
On Monday night, Nicolle Wallace, former Communications Director for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, appeared on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman and proved once and for all that she loves to criticize Sarah Palin. During her discussion with the liberal comic, Wallace mocked Palin’s intelligence and insisted that she “gave a speech this weekend…
January 27th, 2015 1:54 PM
Daily Beast Cites SPLC to Assert Jindal, AFA Embrace ‘Hate’
The religious fundamentalists are coming! The religious fundamentalists are coming! Daily Beast writer Dean Obeidallah frantically warns, in his Jan. 27 piece “Bobby Jindal Wants to Fistfight Your God." Obeidallah clearly imagines himself some kind of Paul Revere warning America of the impending doom at the hands of ISIS-like Christians and the rest of the media is locking step in his mission to…
January 27th, 2015 1:53 PM
New Poll Throws Cold Water on Charge That Oscar Voters Are Racist
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reports “A new Ipsos/Reuters poll throws cold water on the racially-charged #OscarsSoWhite trend and other campaigns suggesting that the overly liberal Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was biased this year against blacks and other minorities in picking Oscar nominees.”
January 27th, 2015 1:19 PM
AP Plays Up 'Staunchly Religious' Opposition to Pro-LGBT Bill in Idaho
In her Tuesday item, the AP's Kimberlee Kruesi repeatedly emphasized the ideology of opponents of proposed legislation in Idaho that would "create protections for gay and lesbian people." Kruesi underlined that the state legislative committee that held the heading was "made up some of the Statehouse's most conservative lawmakers and only a handful of Democrats." However, she failed to give…
January 27th, 2015 1:03 PM
SEAL Who Trained Chris Kyle: Michael Moore Is 'Shameful' and 'Shallow'
The man who trained Navy S.E.A.L Chris Kyle appeared on Fox Business, Monday, to slam liberal filmmaker Michael Moore for his repeated attacks on the movie American Sniper and its subject, Chris Kyle.
January 27th, 2015 12:20 PM
Lefty Professor: ‘American Sniper’ Delusional, Just Like the GOP
In an article for Salon, Penn State professor Sophia McClennen claims the box-office blockbuster has “no nuance, no context and no subtlety” and that its director, Clint Eastwood, “represents a dark, disturbing feature of the GOP mind-set.”
January 27th, 2015 11:25 AM
CNN Host Kisses Ultra-Liberal NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio
Following Monday’s severe blizzard that pummeled the Northeast, on Tuesday morning, CNN’s New Day hosted liberal New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio to discuss the city’s handling of the snowstorm. After DeBlasio briefly spoke with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, brother of New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota greeted DeBlasio with a friendly kiss and embrace before…
January 27th, 2015 10:51 AM
Rush Limbaugh: Success of 'American Sniper' Mirrors Midterm Landslide
A tidal-wave election that Republicans rode to victory in 2014 and the roaring success of American Sniper, a film that many liberals loathe -- yes, they're related, Rush Limbaugh pointed out to his radio listeners today.
Bad enough for Democrats to suffer epic losses in the midterms, but when their power and influence are on the wane in Hollywood too -- that's a problem.
January 26th, 2015 8:35 PM
Don't MSNBC Graphics Guys Know How to Tell Time?
See if you can spot the typos on this map, which depict mandatory travel bans in Northeastern states for the overnight of January 26-27.
January 26th, 2015 8:16 PM
MSNBC Guest Uses Blizzard to Complain about the GOP and 'Big Oil'
During her MSNBC show Now on Monday, Alex Wagner had on guest Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, who took advantage of the blizzard set to strike New York City and New England to invoke climate change and blame the “big oil industry” and Republicans for “voting down science” in a Senate vote last week.
Not to be outdone, Wagner took her own swipe at those who don’t subscribe…
January 26th, 2015 7:43 PM
Only 1.1% of Americans Live in Unemployment Rate-Recovering Counties
This post follows up on Friday morning's entry (at BizzyBlog; at NewsBusters) showing that "Fewer Than 0.5% of Americans Live in Fully Recovered Counties." This is the kind of news which would be front and center with the nation's establishment press if such a report came out during a Republican or conservative presidential administration. With Team Obama in place, NACo's work has been virtually…
January 26th, 2015 6:11 PM
Comedian Jim Gaffigan Mocks Hollywood Hatred of 'American Sniper'
Comedian Jim Gaffigan got off a great zinger on Twitter yesterday aimed straight at Hollywood folks who look down on the average American who has given American Sniper their vote at the box office.
January 26th, 2015 5:33 PM
CNN's Avlon Bashes 'Far-Right' Meeting of 'Crazy Caucus' in Iowa
John Avlon unsurprisingly bashed conservatives on Monday's New Day on CNN during a panel discussion on potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. Avlon labeled the recent Iowa Freedom Summit "the dean of the crazy caucus, Steve King's, cattle call," and asserted that the media covered the conference because "it's the place most likely for a Republican aspirant to say something incredibly…
January 26th, 2015 5:32 PM