Clift Resolution Fail: I Will Treat Clownish Republicans Respectfully

On the January 3 edition of the McLaughlin Group, the Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift laughably broke her 2015 New Year's resolution to treat Republicans running for president respectfully within a few seconds.
Geoffrey Dickens
January 5th, 2015 1:15 PM

NPR Scare! Ebola Destroying Prostitution

Forget death – there’s another reason why Ebola is dangerous, according to NPR: the virus is destroying the sex market.  In a recent piece for taxpayer-funded NPR, Nurith Aizenman and Graham Smith reported on “Sex, Love And Ebola” in a piece highlighting how “The Prostitutes Are Not Happy” in west Africa. Due to Ebola, “Wedding dress rentals are way down. Condoms are no longer a hot item. And…
Katie Yoder
January 5th, 2015 1:11 PM

Alarming: A Calif. County Govt. Gives Church the Boot

My wife, Gena, and I discovered this past week that in her small mountain hometown in Plumas County, California, our pastor's church was kicked out of the county building it had been renting for Sunday church services. What's disgusting is that the eviction is engulfed in political moves to stop the church from meeting there.
Chuck Norris
January 5th, 2015 1:01 PM

'View' Crew Reminisces Over 'Smoking Hot' Cuomos: 'End of an Era'

The women of The View returned on Monday to reminisce about the legacy of the late Mario Cuomo and to praise the "cute" Cuomo family
Scott Whitlock
January 5th, 2015 12:25 PM

ABC, NBC Seize on Palin 'Sparking New Controversy' in 'Feud' With PETA

On Monday, both ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today hyped a supposed "controversy" between Sarah Palin and radical animal rights group PETA, after Palin shared a touching photo of her Down Syndrome son using his service dog as a step stool to reach the kitchen sink. During a news brief on GMA, anchor Amy Robach announced: "Sarah Palin sparking new controversy, this time among animal…
Kyle Drennen
January 5th, 2015 12:04 PM

CBS Guest: Under ObamaCare ‘Everybody Is Happy Except The Taxpayer’

For the past several months, CBS This Morning has been promoting the fact that unlike Good Morning America and Today they actually cover “real news.” This trend seems to have continued into 2015 with a segment exposing the increased problems with ObamaCare. On Monday morning, CBS interviewed Steven Brill, author of the book America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, And The Fight To…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 5th, 2015 10:39 AM

WashPost: McConnell Pledges to Avoid 'Scary' Excesses of 'Far Right'

The Washington Post is positioning the Senate conservatives as “scary” in Monday’s editions. Online, the headline was “New Senate majority leader’s main goal for GOP: Don’t be scary.” Liberal congressional reporter Paul Kane relayed that Democrats think that appeasing “far-right conservatives” will lead to Republican defeats in 2016:
Tim Graham
January 5th, 2015 8:39 AM

At LA Times, Pearce Joins Parade of Brown-Wilson Evidence Distorters

In the final three paragraphs of a "Year in Review" item at the Los Angeles Times on December 31 (HT Patterico), reporter Matt Pearce joined the long list of journalists who have failed to properly characterize the evidence in Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri in August. You had to know that distortions were coming based on the rest of the article content which preceded it. The most…
Tom Blumer
January 4th, 2015 11:59 PM

New York Times Starts 2015 With 'Golfer in Chief' Obama Puff Piece

While the liberal media elite crows that the Republicans face this problem and that in the new year, they are still kissing up to Obama’s golf game. The New York Times ran an article on Sunday titled “Obama Is the Nation’s Private Golfer in Chief.”     Obama never leaks his scores to the media and rarely lets anyone film his game, but Times reporter Michael Schmidt dwelled on how Obama’s golf…
Tim Graham
January 4th, 2015 7:52 PM

Lefty Professor: GOP Now ‘Out of the Closet as Openly Racist’

Ed Kilgore (at Talking Points Memo) and Mark Kleiman (at the Washington Monthly) agree that the Republican party has a serious racism problem but differ on what the GOP could or will do about it.
Tom Johnson
January 4th, 2015 6:01 PM

Bob Schieffer: GOP Isn’t ‘Doing Very Much’ To ‘Appeal' To Minorities

On Sunday morning, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to discuss a variety of topics including the ongoing controversy involving Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.). During the conversation, moderator Bob Schieffer did his best to tie Scalise’s 2002 speech to the entire Republican brand. The CBS host suggested that “aren’t Republicans going to have to find…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 4th, 2015 1:48 PM

NY Times Labors Mightily to Paint Cop Shooter as 'Accidental' Killer

In the interest of getting all supposedly relevant information out there for the public to see, the New York Times amassed an extraordinary array of journalistic resources — three reporters, three who "contributed reporting," and two others who "contributed research" — to what they must have thought was an important, underappreciated element of the saga which ended with the brutal ambush murders…
Tom Blumer
January 4th, 2015 1:36 PM

GOP Rep: ‘Mainstream Media’ ‘Look For Any Opportunity’ To Destroy GOP

On Sunday, freshman Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and slammed the liberal media in the wake of the controversy surrounding Steve Scalise (R-La.) and his alleged speech at a white supremacist conference in 2002. Speaking to Wallace, Zeldin called out the “mainstream media who look for any opportunity to try to tear down Republicans to help back up…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 4th, 2015 10:53 AM

Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley Compares Obama To FDR

President Obama’s annual Christmas vacation wraps up this weekend and on Saturday CBS Evening News did its best to promote the president’s 2015 agenda. CBS reporter Chip Reid filed a report from Hawaii that offered no soundbites from Republicans opposing Obama and instead found time to quote liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley who argued that Obama’s “starting to learn that he could…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 4th, 2015 9:53 AM