Networks Hype 'History-Making Moment for the NBA' After Jason Collins

Despite openly gay NBA player Jason Collins only spending 10 minutes on the court during a game Sunday night, all three network morning shows on Monday hailed his non-scoring time off the bench as a momentous occasion. On ABC's Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos proclaimed: "A history-making moment in the NBA. Jason Collins broke through a big barrier last night when he suited…
Kyle Drennen
February 24th, 2014 11:43 AM

MSNBC’s ‘Reid Report’ Set To Debut Today: Joy Reid’s 10 Worst

MSNBC is slated to undergo a major shakeup in its daytime lineup on Monday February 24, and one of its newest hosts is the network’s own Joy-Ann Reid. The former press aide to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign in Florida claims that her new show will not be an “hour of why Republicans suck” but given her long history of making disparaging comments towards conservatives it’s hard to take…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 24th, 2014 11:31 AM

Chris Wallace Calls Out Susan Rice For Skipping Fox, Not Wanting ‘To

National Security Advisor Susan Rice gave her first televised Sunday interview since her infamous Benghazi interview in 2012 on February 23, and rather than answer tough questions on the terrorist attack, she chose instead to give a softball interview to David Gregory of NBC’s Meet the Press. For his part, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called out Ms. Rice for her refusal to appear on his…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 24th, 2014 8:53 AM

NPR Media Reporter Announces He's On the Fox News 'Blacklist' Again fo

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik was given the chance to promote his book “Murdoch’s World” in an interview for the latest edition of The Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists. He tried the usual line that Rupert Murdoch deserved a whole book on his scandals because he’s so “unique.” (Read: somewhat conservative tycoon in a liberal media.) Folkenflik said he was…
Tim Graham
February 24th, 2014 6:55 AM

Alec Baldwin, at NY Mag's Vulture.com: 'It’s Good-bye to Public Life

In a lengthy item "as told to Joe Hagan" at NYMag.com's The Vulture, actor, commercial pitchman, and brief MSNBC host Alec Baldwin makes it very clear that he is fed up with a lot of things. There is plenty of material for discussion in his writeup. I want to focus on what he sees as his mistreatment at the hands of MSNBC and the self-described "progressive" community. Unfortunately, after…
Tom Blumer
February 23rd, 2014 11:58 PM

CNN Cancels 'Piers Morgan Live

Saying that the British journalist's show had "run its course," CNN president Jeff Zucker told the New York Times earlier today that he was pulling the plug on Piers Morgan's eponymous primetime news program (h/t Politico's Dylan Byers). The staunchly leftist anti-gun Brit is, of course, a frequent target of our criticism and he's still on our radar whether or not he remains with the network…
NB Staff
February 23rd, 2014 8:41 PM

Atheist Mocks Right-Wing Jesus by Denying an Unborn Child Is A 'Real B

Leftist “funny man” Jamie Kilstein posted a YouTube video titled “Recuiting Tools for Atheists” that travels pretty much to where you would expect a repeat guest of Melissa Harris-Perry’s on MSNBC. After mocking conservative Christians for wanting a Jesus as white as “Kenny G and Macklemore,” Kilstein bizarrely claimed abortions kill a “terrifying blog of not-a-real a baby,” and adds…
Tim Graham
February 23rd, 2014 8:32 PM

NY Times Cartoon Suggests 'Climate-Change Deniers' Should Be Stabbed t

Editorial cartoons often aren't pretty, to paraphrase Steve Martin's observation about the perils of comedy. But one found in the Opinion section of today's New York Times is downright ugly. The cartoon, alluding to this year's brutal winter, suggests U.S. Department of Commerce "Strategies for Dealing With the 2014 Icicle Surplus." Among them are using icicles as "locally sourced hydration…
Jack Coleman
February 23rd, 2014 7:54 PM

Joy Reid: Calling Liberals Racist Is 'Like A Weapon That They've Attem

In an interview with the black website TheRoot, incoming MSNBC host Joy Reid repeated the usual network mantra that “Everyone at MSNBC has a different, unique perspective," and she hopes her new 2pm Eastern show will be a “table-setter for prime time.” Translation: whatever "War on Women" or Bridgegate segment I’m doing at 2 will be repeated at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.....by one "unique perspective"…
Tim Graham
February 23rd, 2014 7:30 PM

Schieffer Aghast McCain Called Obama ‘the Most Naive President in Hi

President Barack Obama naive on foreign policy? Perish the thought! CBS’s Bob Schieffer seemed appalled that Senator John McCain dared to describe Obama as the “most naive President in history.” On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Schieffer demanded: “Senator I want to ask you about something you said the other day, you said that President Obama, and I believe these are your words, ‘the most naive…
Brent Baker
February 23rd, 2014 3:00 PM

Chris Matthews: ‘Can I Defend’ Susan Rice

Following Meet the Press host David Gregory’s softball interview with former Ambassador Susan Rice, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews rushed to defend Ms. Rice from criticism surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi.   Appearing as a panelist on the Sunday show, Matthews eagerly asked Gregory if he could defend Ambassador Rice before pushing the White House talking point that “it was a copycat…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 23rd, 2014 2:06 PM

MSNBC.com Asks ‘Can Homophobia Kill You

MSNBC.com continues to show that it is more of a liberal blog designed to peddle extreme talking points than an actual news website. Take for example their newest article with the headline that screams “Can Homophobia Kill You.” Author Emma Margolin began her February 23 piece by huffing that “it comes as no surprise that anti-gay prejudice carries with it a wide range of damaging effects,…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 23rd, 2014 12:59 PM

NBC’s David Gregory Plays Nice With Susan Rice On Benghazi

For the first time since her infamous 2012 interview, National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday February 23 to discuss a variety of foreign policy issues, most noticeably Benghazi. Throughout the interview, which focused primarily on the recent violent protests in Ukraine, host David Gregory provided Rice with a variety of softball questions on Benghazi, and…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 23rd, 2014 11:32 AM

CNN Declares No Two Sides to Climate Change Debate

Have you ever seen a four year old kid who is completely closed to any type of reasoning? Typically his hands will cover his ears and he will scream loudly to block out any arguments others might give to the contrary. Well, CNN has become that unreasoning four year old kid. And what type of reasoning is CNN attempting to block out? Anything that might contradict their blind faith in global…
P.J. Gladnick
February 23rd, 2014 10:31 AM