Men Need Not Apply: Morning Joe Digs Idea of Women-Only Taxi Service

All the members of the Morning Joe panel--Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist--speak approvingly of "SheRide," a new taxi service that hires only women drivers and accepts only women passengers.
Mark Finkelstein

Even New Yorker Editor Laments Obama’s Tired, ‘Botched’ Foreign Policy

One of Obama's staunchest journalistic supporters, New Yorker editor David Remnick, lamented he "must admit that the president has sometimes been a thick-tongued steward of his own foreign policy." He's "compiling an anthology of botched pronouncements that have, at best, muddied his intentions."
Randy Hall

Even New Yorker Editor Laments Obama’s Tired, ‘Botched’ Foreign Policy

One of Obama's staunchest journalistic supporters, New Yorker editor David Remnick, lamented he "must admit that the president has sometimes been a thick-tongued steward of his own foreign policy." He's "compiling an anthology of botched pronouncements that have, at best, muddied his intentions."
Randy Hall

AP: 'Job Market Has Improved by Pretty Much Every Gauge Except Pay'

The Obama administration-prepared koolaid delivered to the Associated Press's economics writers on Monday must have been extraordinarily concentrated. How else can you explain how the AP's Christopher Rugaber could have written the following — "The U.S. job market has steadily improved by pretty much every gauge except ... Pay" — without doubling over with laughter? No, Chris. The reason pay…
Tom Blumer

ABC Ignores Start of Nagin's Prison Term; NBC Gives Story 15 Seconds

Beginning on Monday afternoon, Democrat and former Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin began a 10 year prison sentence for corruption charges that were as result of his actions following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding of the city in August 2005. When it came to reporting on the story during their evening newscasts, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir refused to cover the…
Curtis Houck

Hagerstown [Md.] Herald-Mail in the Bag for Democrat in House Race

The conservative Red Maryland Network blog detailed what it calls "a virtual news blackout" by the Hagerstown Herald-Mail for the campaign of conservative Republican and former Secret Service presidential detail agent Dan Bongino against Maryland Sixth Congressional District Rep. John Delaney.
Ken Shepherd

Charlie Crist's Boss Caught in Wild 'Choom' Rant

Be careful. Be very, very careful. When the boss of Charlie Crist  screams foul language at what appears to be a a 420 Reefer Madness rally of the Choom Gang it is okay to report it on the news. However, what is taboo is to mention Charlie Crist's connection to his own boss, John Morgan, at the law firm of Morgan & Morgan where Crist serves not only as a rainmaker but receives big campaign…
P.J. Gladnick

Daily Kos: ‘American Taliban' Push Missouri Abortion Law

The Missouri legislature may override Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a 72-hour abortion waiting period. If that happens, it's another victory for social conservatives' quest to impose religious law in America.
Tom Johnson

Democrat Sen. Feinstein: Obama 'Too Cautious' With 'Vicious' ISIS

How can you tell that President Obama is dangerously incompetent when it comes to national security?  There are many ways, but very few that actually have the capacity to get the attention of the Obama-adoring Left, including the media.
Cheri Jacobus

NOW Throwing in Towel on Wendy Davis?

On MSNBC's Ed Show, NOW President Terry O'Neill gives a glum assessment of Wendy Davis' chances of winning her race for Governor of Texas: "this has always been very much an uphill battle."
Mark Finkelstein

Media Hammered Bush Disapproval in 2006, Ignore Obama's in 2014

"When this administration is falling apart, the media should give it the exact same coverage they gave to George Bush," Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell told Fox News Channel substitute host Stuart Varney on the September 8 Your World w/Neil Cavuto. But as a new MRC study shows, they most certainly are not.
NB Staff

Salon Columnist Twists Ray Rice Beating Scandal to Blast Hobby Lobby

Left-wing columnist CJ Werleman couldn't resist using athlete Ray Rice's suspension from the NFL on Monday as a means to attack social conservatives. Werleman took to Twitter and snarked, "If Ray Rice continues to treat women like that, he'll end up running the Hobby Lobby."
Matthew Balan

CNN Guests: Obama 'Has Very Little Ability To Sway' Global 'Crises'

On Monday's New Day on CNN, Jonathan Martin of the New York Times and Bloomberg's Margaret Tavel ran to President Obama's defense over his handling of ISIS. Martin hyped that "the President is in a tough spot here....these two beheadings of journalists...have really outraged a lot of folks....and the President is forced to act. But again, there is not any appetite in this country to put ground…
Matthew Balan

Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Christian Far Right' Wants Gays Castrated

The “Christian Right” is not only “homophobic”  but also actively experiments on gays with science, according to “Sherlock” actor Benedict Cumberbatch.                                                                                    In an interview with Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast published Sept. 8, the English actor also said that the U.S. needs to have a woman president next, followed by…
Kristine Marsh