Networks Rush to Label Former Governor Bob McDonnell a Republican

Less than 24-hours after former Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA) was indicted on 14 charges including conspiracy and fraud, all three network morning shows immediately identified McDonnell as a Republican. While McDonnell’s potential crimes are serious, the media failed to uphold the same party ID standard when it involved a scandal plagued Democratic governor. NBC led their January 22 coverage…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 22nd, 2014 10:53 AM

Escalation: After Cuomo's 'No Place in New York' Remarks, His Counsel

On Friday, as I noted on Saturday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told public radio's Susan Arbetter that "extreme conservatives" – that is, people who are pro-life, understand the clear meaning of the Second Amendment, or wish to keep marriage as it has traditionally been defined – "have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are." Note well that Cuomo's remarks…
Tom Blumer
January 22nd, 2014 8:54 AM

Wendy Davis, Whose Rival Is Paraplegic, Issues Statement Saying Oppone

This is a "Can't Make This Up" item on two levels. The more obvious of the two is an incredibly tone-deaf statement issued by Texas Democratic guberatorial candidate Wendy Davis, whose Republican opponent is paraplegic Greg Abbott, that "I am proud of what I’ve been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day…
Tom Blumer
January 21st, 2014 11:30 PM

Bozell Column: You're Right to Choose This Movie

What happens when a teenager who came into the world as an unplanned teenage pregnancy ends up with an unplanned pregnancy of her own? Will she bend to all the “helpful” insistence that she needs to exercise her “right to choose” before she is, as one callous presidential contender put it, “punished with a baby”? This is the plot of “Gimme Shelter,” a new movie that departs from the feminist…
Brent Bozell
January 21st, 2014 10:48 PM

Supernatural: Carlton vs Crowley

Mike Ciandella
January 21st, 2014 10:09 PM

Will the Press Ignore Wendy Davis's Truth-Free Twitter and Blog Meltdo

Wow, I'd better get this post done quickly, because Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has been tweeting up a storm and has posted "an open letter" at her web site. If I blink, I might miss a half-dozen more tweets. Davis apparently thinks that if she accuses Republican candidate Greg Abbott and his campaign of being behind the Sunday Dallas Morning News story which poked…
Tom Blumer
January 21st, 2014 8:07 PM

Daily Kos Boss: Bridgegate Causes Christie 'Collapse,' But 'Fake Bengh

On Tuesday, Daily Kos founder and publisher Markos Moulitsas noted a new Quinnipiac survey finding that only 35 percent of Americans believe that New Jersey governor Chris Christie would make a good president -- down from 49 percent in November -- and that Christie trails Hillary Clinton by eight points in a hypothetical presidential contest (he led her by one point in November and December…
Tom Johnson
January 21st, 2014 7:30 PM

Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein Leaves WaPo Same Day Libertarians Join Up

Tuesday was a big day over at the Washington Post with the announcement of the departure of one blogger and the bringing in of another. Left-wing blogger Ezra Klein who had been overseeing a supposedly ideologically neutral section of the paper’s website called “Wonkblog” will no longer be working with the Post. Supposedly, he was in a dispute with the paper’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, over some…
Matthew Sheffield
January 21st, 2014 6:40 PM

Gloria In Extremis: WashPost Gushes Over 'Vocal Commander' Steinem's R

Gloria Steinem's almost 80, and The Washington Post never tires of boosting her as one of the greatest Americans walking the planet. On the front of the Style section on Tuesday, former Post reporter Annie Groer freelanced from the Jaipur Literary Festival in India to promote how "Steinem goes back to her activist roots." The Post thinks Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are fringy weirdos,…
Tim Graham
January 21st, 2014 5:06 PM

On PBS, David Remnick Praises Obama Administration As Scandal-Free, Pr

David Remnick of The New Yorker showed up on PBS’s Charlie Rose Monday night to discuss his long, mostly sympathetic profile of Barack Obama from the January 27 issue of the magazine. Near the end of the interview, Rose focused in on the president’s reported desire to be “big.” The host wondered, “[W]hat's his definition of 'big,' and does he believe in his deep recesses of his own mind that…
Paul Bremmer
January 21st, 2014 3:50 PM

CBS Repeats the False Wendy Davis Bio Meme: 'Blurred' Lines

To be fair, it started with the original story broken at the Dallas Morning News, where Wayne Slater's substantive story about Wendy Davis's problems with the truth was headlined "As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key facts blurred." "Blurred" is clearly a popular word with an establishment press which is determined to try to make this problem with Davis's basic…
Tom Blumer
January 21st, 2014 3:45 PM

Five Cool Ways to Remind Senators How Biased Media Are on Climate

Two liberal senators that claim news networks don’t cover climate change enough are pressuring them to do more, even as a winter deep freeze kept much of the country shivering. But as the Media Research Center and others have already found, much of the news media have spent years working hard to convince the public that climate change is a global threat. According to National Journal, Sen.…
Sean Long
January 21st, 2014 3:27 PM

5 Cool Ways to Remind Senators How Biased Media Are on Climate

CEI’s Horner provides three key questions for journalists if they want a more detailed debate.
Sean Long
January 21st, 2014 2:58 PM

‘Extreme Conservative’ Hating NY Gov Goes Panhandling in Hollywood

Left-Coast entertainment moguls fund Cuomo’s radical agenda.
Kristine Marsh
January 21st, 2014 2:14 PM