Scarborough Panel Mocks NY Times for Ignoring IRS Commissioner Donatio

On Friday's Morning Joe program, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough complained about the absence of media attention to the fact that IRS commissioner John Koskinen, in charge of an organization currently embroiled in an investigation into whether it has unfairly targeted conservative groups during the Obama administration, is himself a "big Democratic donor" who has donated to President Barack Obama…
Brad Wilmouth
June 27th, 2014 8:54 AM

Whoopi Goldberg Plays Race Card With Conservative Guest Host: 'Spoken

Liberal comedian Whoopi Goldberg clumsily deployed the race card in an argument with conservative guest co-host Will Cain of The Blaze on Wednesday's The View about comedian Russell Brand comparing Fox News to ISIS. Cain had criticized Brand, pointing out the ludicrousness of describing a news channel he disagrees with politically to violent, predatory terrorists. Tackling how absurd American…
Jackie Seal
June 27th, 2014 8:52 AM

Obama Claims Scandals Are 'Fabricated,' Bozell Says He's 'Most Pampere

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared on The Kelly File on Fox News Channel on Thursday night to discuss the ongoing media effort to downplay or ignore Obama scandals. Kelly began by showing video of the president claiming in Minneapolis that the scandals are fabricated: “Sometimes the news that's being reported on is really important. I mean what's happening in Iraq is relevant. But sometimes…
NB Staff
June 27th, 2014 7:52 AM

'Fired'? Sherri Shepherd, Jenny McCarthy Leaving 'The View

The exodus continues from “The View” after Joy, Elisabeth, and Barbara. TV Line reports Sherri Shepherd put out a statement saying she’s leaving, too. Jenny McCarthy also hinted on Twitter that “If Sherri goes, I go too.” Newsday's Verne Gay says the two women were "fired" by ABC. TMZ calls it a "massacre" and hints that Rosie O'Donnell may be coming back. “The View will be moving in an…
Tim Graham
June 26th, 2014 10:39 PM

Former R.E.M. Star: I Skipped an HIV Test for Five Years for Fear of R

Does anyone remember the Reagan-Bush internment camps after the discovery of the AIDS virus? No? Rolling Stone reported that former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe declared at a taping of a show for Viacom’s Logo channel that he was afraid to get an HIV test in the 1980s for fear of the right-wing oppression that would result. He waited five years out of progressive paranoia.
Tim Graham
June 26th, 2014 10:06 PM

NBC, CBS Portray Unanimous SCOTUS as Limiting President's Power Rather

The evening newscasts of all three broadcast networks tonight reported on the unanimous decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that President Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in making recess appointments when the U.S. Senate was technically in session. Rather than couching the ruling as a stunning rebuke of presidential overreach by Mr. Obama,…
Ken Shepherd
June 26th, 2014 8:38 PM

Unanimous Supreme Court Corrects Obama Overreach, MSNBC's Ball Downpl

Only MSNBC’s token failed congressional candidate can make Ronan Farrow seem less partisan. On the June 26 edition of Ronan Farrow Daily, guest host Kystal Ball did everything she could to downplay the latest unanimous Supreme Court decision which corrects executive overreach by President Obama while simultaneously demonizing Republicans. When Republican strategist John Feehery called the…
Laura Flint
June 26th, 2014 5:15 PM

CNN’s Costello: If Hobby Lobby Prevails at Supreme Court, Will It

CNN’s Carol Costello seemed unable to comprehend why Hobby Lobby opposes the federal mandate in ObamaCare to cover emergency contraceptives and abortifacients. On the June 26 edition of CNN Newsroom, the host continually suggested that such exemptions only make sense for actual churches, rather than practicing Christians. Costello stated in her introduction of the story that critics – they…
Connor Williams
June 26th, 2014 4:54 PM

Here We Go Again: AP Already Bringing Second-Quarter Growth Estimates

My, those "this quarter's really, really going to be great" predictions can disappear so quickly these days. Yesterday, in the wake of the government's third revision to gross domestic product showing that the economy shrunk by an annualized 2.9 percent during the first quarter instead of the previously reported 1.0 percent, commentators, analysts, and economists fell all over themselves…
Tom Blumer
June 26th, 2014 4:48 PM

Students for Life Prez: 'If You're Pro-Choice, You're for Sidewalk Cou

Calling the Supreme Court’s June 26th buffer zone ruling a “victory for women,” Students For Life President Kristin Hawkins and other pro-life leaders celebrated the chance to give women a better choice. Pro-lifers (by far the majority of the crowd) stood in front of the Supreme Court, awaiting the Supreme Courts decisions of the day.  Young women representing Students For Life chanted…
June 26th, 2014 4:10 PM

It's Long Past Time For the Press to Compare This 'Recovery' to the Aw

The press, even in the wake of yesterday's awful reported 2.9 percent annualized first-quarter contraction, continues to regale us with noise about the economy's "recovery" during the past five years. As P.J. Gladnick at NewsBusters noted yesterday, CNNMoney.com's Annalyn Kurtz, in giving readers "3 reasons not to freak out about -2.9% GDP," concluded her report by telling readers that "This…
Tom Blumer
June 26th, 2014 3:47 PM

Outside SCOTUS, Jubilation at ‘Buffer Zone’ Decision

Students For Life’s Hawkins: “If you’re pro-choice, you’re for sidewalk counseling.’
Lilly Bozzone
June 26th, 2014 3:45 PM

Potted Plante: CBS Reporter Files Puff Piece on Obama Using Letters Th

Thursday’s edition of CBS This Morning featured the latest installment in the media’s love affair with President Barack Obama. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante switched course from a constructive work of journalism he did Tuesday to a fluff piece on how Obama uses letters Americans send to the White House “to construct his political agenda.” The story comes as Obama is…
Curtis Houck
June 26th, 2014 3:10 PM

CBS Finally Covers House Speaker's Lawsuit Against Obama Administratio

CBS lifted its blackout of House Speaker John Boehner's planned lawsuit against the Obama White House with a 15-second news brief on Thursday's CBS This Morning. The network follows in the footsteps of NBC, which first mentioned the story a day earlier on Wednesday's Today, and ABC on Wednesday's World News. Altogether, the Big Three networks have devoted just one minute and 18 seconds to…
Matthew Balan
June 26th, 2014 2:54 PM