Jon Stewart: Wimpy White House Won’t ID Islam in Hebdo Shootings

Even some on the left are starting to call out the ridiculous, distorting nature of the politically correct White House. Following the Charlie Hebdo shootings a few weeks ago, White House officials and President Obama were “reticent” to even mention the word “Islam,” said liberal Jon Stewart. Last week, after reporters pressed White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest to identify the obvious nature of…
Kristine Marsh

ABC’s Jim Avila Promotes Obama’s New Cuba Policy Ahead of SOTU

On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America previewed President Obama’s 7th State of the Union address and the network did its best to play up President Obama’s recent unilateral actions aimed at normalizing American relations with Cuba. During a brief report that sounded more like a White House press release, ABC’s Jim Avila insisted that “tonight at the State of the Union President Obama will tell…
Jeffrey Meyer

Joy Behar Slams Huckabee And His ‘Mental Midgetness’ On Beyonce

On Tuesday, Joy Behar, former co-host on ABC’s The View, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss a variety of political issues as the 2016 presidential field takes shape and decided to take a cheap shot at Mike Huckabee for his comments directed at pop singer Beyonce. Speaking to co-host Mika Brzezinski, Behar proclaimed “the overriding thing about this conversation with Huckabee is, you know…
Jeffrey Meyer

Moore, Rogen Now Claim Their Tweets Didn't Criticize 'American Sniper'

Your truly noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) how Michael Moore tweeted, in part, that "We were taught snipers were cowards." Earlier today, Geoffrey Dickens at NewsBusters observed that Seth Rogen, whose "The Interview" movie was at least partially salvaged financially by freedom-of-speech supporters on the left and right who watched it online and in person in select areas, tweeted…
Tom Blumer

Mike Huckabee Calls Media 'Laughable,' Out of Touch with 'Bubbaville'

Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner reported that potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee finds the media “laughable” and sometimes playing the “idiot” role when covering America and his probable campaign. The media are out of touch with "Bubbaville." His new book God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy comes out on Tuesday. He recalled charged conversations on guns with an AP reporter and with…
Tim Graham

ABC, NBC Cheer Obama’s Liberal Proposals, Poll Numbers Before SOTU

Ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the networks offered previews of his speech during their Monday evening newscasts with ABC and NBC working particularly hard to paint a rosy picture for Obama with rising poll numbers and having “redefined” the “model of how to sell the State of the Union.”
Curtis Houck

Lefty Blogger: Increasingly Conservative GOP = Crazier GOP

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait says reform conservatives such as Peter Wehner are “trying to coax the Republican Party back toward sanity” but argues that Wehner undervalues the “apocalyptic strain” in right-wing rhetoric.
Tom Johnson

How Lena Dunham Is Hurting Girls

The poker-faced NBC News anchor Brian Williams has viewed, with apparent dispassion and even amusement, scenes of his actress daughter Allison committing bizarre and debasing sexual acts on the HBO series “Girls.” "She's always been an actress,” says the evidently unmoved and unmovable journalist.  “For us, watching her is the family occupation, and everybody has to remember it's acting, no…
Rob Schwarzwalder

'Hardball' Guest Charles Ellison Wants Scalise's 'Head on a Platter'

Nothing says celebrating nonviolent civil-rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Day than calling for someone's "head on a platter," either literally or figuratively. Enter Charles Ellison of the Philadelphia Tribune. In a panel discussion on the January 19 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, the liberal journalist lamented how the Congressional Black Caucus was not demanding the resignation of  Steve…
Ken Shepherd

Protesters Who Shut Down Highway Whine Over Media ... Harassment

Isn't it sad when those willing to inconvenience thousands of people for hours at a time are asked to sacrifice to moment or two answering questions from pesky reporters? Oh the humanity! The biggest story coming out of Boston this past Thursday involved a major highway getting shut down during the morning commute in two locations by protesters alleging to profess abiding empathy for black…
Jack Coleman

On PBS and NPR, David Brooks Mocks 'Foxification' of the House GOP

New York Times columnist David Brooks shows up every Friday on NPR and PBS to sound very moderate in the microphones, which usually means taking an immoderate swipe at conservatives. On both All Things Considered and the NewsHour on Friday, he slammed House conservatives by associating them with Fox News and their fans. On PBS, Brooks compared to the House vote to block funding for Obama’s…
Tim Graham

Republicans MUST Unify On Major Issues

If we can't have a wholly unified Republican Party, can the GOP at least agree on some major issues that are essential to the Republican brand and, more importantly, help to get this country back on the right track? If we can't come together on some of the basic issues that have always defined us, how do we effectively oppose President Obama's ongoing destructive agenda? How do we sell ourselves…
David Limbaugh

Schultz 'Disturbed' By American Sniper and Normalizing of Islamophobia

Ed Schultz on Monday bashed American Sniper as "disturbing" and contributing to the culture of "normalizing Islamophobia." The MSNBC anchor warned that the late Chris Kyle was "far more complicated than the hero portrayed in Eastwood's movie." 
Scott Whitlock

MSNBC's Pathetic Promo Video for State of the Union Coverage

Let's face it, watching MSNBC coverage of the State of the Union is not all that exciting. It's going to be a predictable slobbery love-fest for President Obama and lack any serious consideration of conservative critiques of the president's left-wing laundry list. So maybe that's why network producers whipped up a promo video featuring a montage of MSNBC anchor over top a hard-rocking music bed…
Ken Shepherd