NPR Begs for Donations By Pushing Al Gore 'Wonky' Audio Clips

On the D.C. NPR station WAMU this morning, they were promoting Al Gore in their winter membership drive. It was from a year-old interview with Diane Rehm. She said “And one of the words that has been applied to you for years and years has been the word, wonky.” Gore said “Well, I was afraid you were going to say, creepy...No, I plead guilty to being a wonky, wannabe geek.” They literally…
Tim Graham
February 11th, 2014 4:10 PM

Daily Beast's Tomasky Declares ‘The Era of Republican Hostage-Taking

The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky has no qualms about his dislike, if not outright hatred, for Republicans especially the Tea Party. In a February 11 piece, Tomasky gleefully cheered that the “GOP caves on debt limit.” Tomasky, who frequents MSNBC to rant about Republicans cheered the “huge Obama win” on a "clean" debt-ceiling vote, and proceeded to shame the GOP for demanding in the past…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 11th, 2014 4:00 PM

CNBC Host: Al Gore a ‘Charlatan,’ and a ‘Villain

Most of the media may be convinced by Al Gore-style climate alarmism, but CNBC’s Joe Kernen isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Joe Kernen, co-host of  “Squawk Box” called the inclusion of Former Vice President Al Gore on CNBC’s list of “Top Leaders, Icons and Rebels” both “stupid” and “ludicrous.” His Feb. 11, comments came after fellow co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin suggested that CNBC ought to…
Sean Long
February 11th, 2014 3:32 PM

Hillary-Shielding MSNBCer Mitchell: Hasn't 'Statute of Limitations' Ru

During her MSNBC show on Monday, host Andrea Mitchell tried to dismiss unflattering revelations about Bill and Hillary Clinton found in a series of documents from a close confidante: "...they're some of the same headlines we read fifteen years ago. The latest 'breaking news,' quote, excerpts from an archive belonging to a close friend of Hillary Clinton, Diane Blair....So what is new here?" […
Kyle Drennen
February 11th, 2014 3:12 PM

Tebow vs. Sam: A Tale of Two Draft Picks

Feel that? Something “historic” and “important” just happened. It might even be a “teachable moment,” and it’s certainly therapeutic. Why, liberals will be able to like their country just little bit more. Come on people, feel the love!  A potential fourth round NFL draft pick has declared his “own truth,” and come out as gay. Having taken the “courageous” step of joining society’s most trendy…
Matt Philbin
February 11th, 2014 3:02 PM

Obama-Supporter, MSNBC Alum Smerconish Gets CNN Show; Network Plays Up

CNN president Jeff Zucker praised MSNBC guest host Michael Smerconish on Tuesday as he announced that the the cable news network would be giving the radio talk show host a weekly program: "We are thrilled to have Michael join CNN...At a time when the cable news landscape has become increasingly polarized, his independence and passion for reasoned dialogue makes him the perfect fit for CNN."…
Matthew Balan
February 11th, 2014 2:39 PM

NAACP's War on Women: Regional Prez Defends Mass. Rep Convicted of Sex

It may be that we can finally identify the type of criminal conviction which might cause the New England conference of the National Associations for the Advancement of Colored People to call for the removal of a state legislator. Based on a conversation Boston Herald columnist and radio talk host Michael Graham had with the group's president, it appears that some form of felony conviction…
Tom Blumer
February 11th, 2014 2:08 PM

MSNBC Completely Ignores Latest ObamaCare Delay in Prime Time, Spends

At 4:57 on Monday afternoon, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner hyped “Breaking news from the Treasury Department. The White House has announced a second delay to part of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. Details on that are next.”  But the next “details” did not come for 12 and a half hours at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning during MSNBC’s Way Too Early broadcast. In between, MSNBC ran 9 full stories…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 11th, 2014 1:54 PM

CBSNews.com: Obama/Kerry State Dept.Took 13 Months to Tell Us Cost of

"How much do state dinners cost? They ain't cheap" teased a headline on CBSNews.com this morning. But wait, as they say in the infomercials, there's more. In his February 11 story, longtime CBS Radio White House correspondent Mark Knoller reported not only the pretty penny the U.S. taxpayer foots for state dinners in the Obama era, but how the Obama State Department -- first under Clinton and…
Ken Shepherd
February 11th, 2014 12:40 PM

MSNBC's Mitchell Badgers RNC Chief Priebus on Immigration, Hillary Opp

On her Monday afternoon MSNBC program, Andrea Mitchell brought on RNC chairman Reince Priebus and beat him over the head on his party’s supposed need to sign on to a generous immigration reform which sets millions of illegal immigrants on the proverbial path to citizenship. Feigning concern for the GOP, Mitchell set up the interview by asking her audience a rhetorical question: “[D]oesn’t the…
Paul Bremmer
February 11th, 2014 12:20 PM

ABC's Jon Karl Swears: New Hillary Documents Are 'Positive' and Not 'P

  Nothing to see here, according to ABC's Jon Karl. The Good Morning America correspondent on Tuesday told viewers that the so-called "Hillary papers," a treasure trove of quotes and documents, are a "positive portrayal" and "none of this appears to be politically damaging." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] In contrast, Monday's NBC Nightly News worried that the papers are "brutal" and include…
Scott Whitlock
February 11th, 2014 12:02 PM

Comcast Goes Further Left, Helps Fund JournoLister Ezra Klein’s $10M

Apparently MSNBC wasn’t liberal enough for Comcast. Its division Comcast Ventures is funding liberal blogger Ezra Klein’s new startup. Klein, the boy wonder of left-wing journalism, is famous for creating a list of liberal media who planned how to spin the news called JournoList. Klein has hired fellow liberal Matthew Yglesias from Slate as executive editor, and two fellow Washington Post…
Mike Ciandella
February 11th, 2014 10:52 AM

Networks Give Little Coverage to 'Another Hiccup' for ObamaCare

Between Monday's network evening newscasts and Tuesday's morning shows, NBC, ABC and CBS failed to provide a single full report on President Obama unilaterally issuing another ObamaCare mandate delay for businesses. In addition, only a single sentence on Tuesday's CBS This Morning described the controversial move as the President "rewriting the law." On Tuesday's NBC Today, Natalie Morales…
Kyle Drennen
February 11th, 2014 10:20 AM

As Expected, AP Scrubs Admin's 'Political Angling' in Latest Coverage

As I noted Monday night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, displayed rare candor when he opened his 8:28 p.m. report on the latest unilateral changes to Obamacare by describing their motivation as "Angling to avoid political peril." I wrote last night that "I’ll be surprised if it (the "political" characterization)…
Tom Blumer
February 11th, 2014 10:17 AM