'Dirty Jobs' Host Mike Rowe Zings Ed Schultz: I Can Get You a Truck Be

 Viewers who watched Ed Schultz on Wednesday witnessed something rare on the liberal host's show: a guest who voted for Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. Dirty Jobs star Mike Rowe appeared and even got in a dig at Schultz's expense. After the MSNBC anchor touted his working class background and love for trucks, Rowe quipped, "I can make a call. I can have [a truck] in your driveway before you say…
Scott Whitlock
October 9th, 2013 6:24 PM

Networks Look the Other Way on Fast and Furious Whistleblower

[UPDATED BELOW] CNN aired an exclusive interview with a Fast and Furious whistleblower on Monday morning, but NBC, CBS, and ABC all ignored the story and failed to interview the whistleblower, ATF agent John Dodson. The government is blocking publication of Dodson's new book, his insider account of the failed gun sting Operation Fast and Furious. In addition, CNN dropped its own interview…
Matt Hadro
October 9th, 2013 5:54 PM

Daily Beast Slams GOP Debt-Ceiling ‘Denialists’ and ‘Truthers

The Daily Beast is ramping up the attacks on conservatives who don’t believe a catastrophe would result if the United States reaches its debt limit. On Monday, the Beast churned out a story ripping debt-ceiling “denialists,” and on Tuesday, another article slammed debt-ceiling “truthers.” Patricia Murphy’s Monday article, titled “The GOP’s Top 10 Debt Ceiling Denialists,” was a sort of…
Paul Bremmer
October 9th, 2013 5:50 PM

MSNBC's Roberts Cheers Illinois Dem for Getting Arrested for 'Great Ca

Shortly before the conclusion of the October 9 edition of his MSNBC Live program, anchor Thomas Roberts treated Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) to a softball interview regarding the pro-amnesty Camino Americano rally held Tuesday on the National Mall, which she attended. Roberts failed to pose any tough policy-oriented questions to Schakowsky on the matter of immigration reform, nor did he bring…
Ken Shepherd
October 9th, 2013 5:35 PM

AP: 'Temperatures Go Off the Charts Around

With egg all over the faces of global warming alarmists given the halt in temperature increases the past fifteen years, you would think media outlets would be a little gun-shy concerning "studies" predicting environmental doom with the help of climate models. Not the Associated Press's Seth Borenstein who actually published a piece Wednesday about a study having the gall to predict the exact…
Noel Sheppard
October 9th, 2013 5:34 PM

Jesse Jackson: Tea Party-Led GOP is 'Resurrection of the Confederacy

The Vietnam War is beloved by liberals, Ann Coulter once observed, because it's the only war America lost. Looks like the Civil War could become the left's new fave, if it hasn't already. Not only have left wingers deluded themselves that Barack Obama is the second coming of the Great Emancipator (Steven Spielberg's unstated motive for filming "Lincoln"), they now view the partial government…
Jack Coleman
October 9th, 2013 5:10 PM

Fox News Hires Dr. Ben Carson

Although he's been appearing on Fox News sporadically since he broke unto the scene at February's National Prayer Breakfast, the network made it official Wednesday. According to TVNewser, Dr. Ben Carson has been hired by Fox as a regular contributor:
Noel Sheppard
October 9th, 2013 4:56 PM

Wolf Blitzer: Obama Should 'Accept' GOP Proposal and Delay ObamaCare O

[UPDATED BELOW] Highlighting "major problems" with the website of ObamaCare's federal exchange, CNN's Wolf Blitzer said the administration should have accepted the Republican proposal and delayed implementation of the health care law for a year. "Yeah. If they had three years to get this ready, if they weren't fully ready, they should accept the advice that a lot of Republicans are giving…
Matt Hadro
October 9th, 2013 4:41 PM

Jake Tapper Acknowledges Media Bias, Says 'White House Press Briefings

One of the things many conservatives admire about CNN's Jake Tapper is his willingness to speak truths typically too inconvenient for most in his industry. During an "Ask Me Anything" discussion on Reddit Wednesday, Tapper not only acknowledged the existence of media bias, he also said "White House press briefings are quite often useless":
Noel Sheppard
October 9th, 2013 4:36 PM

Salon Lets Former Occupier Rant Against 'Sexist' Video Game 'Legend of

Salon.com, which attacked Disney earlier in 2013 for its apparent lack of LGBT characters, plunged into a new depth of left-wing wackiness in a Saturday post that targeted a 15-year-old video game. Writer Jon Hochschartner unleashed against "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" for its supposedly "deeply problematic" handling of "class, race, gender and animal rights". The website…
Matthew Balan
October 9th, 2013 4:26 PM

On Shutdown, Chris Matthews Snarls at 'Troglodyte,' 'Planet of the Ape

 Chris Matthews, who has publicly insisted that he doesn't like "cheap shots," on Tuesday trashed conservatives in the House as "troglodytes" from the movie Planet of the Apes. According to the Hardball anchor, Republicans opposing the President in the government shutdown believe that "if the country goes down, the economy goes down, the world comes apart, 'hey, we get an extra inch of flesh off…
Scott Whitlock
October 9th, 2013 4:10 PM

The Worst Bias of Departing CNN Reporter Jessica Yellin

Jessica Yellin is leaving CNN after six years at the network. Yellin was CNN's White House correspondent for two years before moving to chief domestic affairs correspondent.      Yellin's history of liberal student activism at Harvard certainly seeped through in her CNN reporting as she gushed over "candidate of hope" Obama while whacking Mitt Romney for sounding out of touch with women.…
Matt Hadro
October 9th, 2013 3:54 PM

Jezebel: ‘Many’ Told to Save Virginity for Jesus, ‘Married Penis

Bravo to Jezebel, the ultra-liberal feminist site, for addressing the ongoing virginity epidemic. When there are reports of girls graduating high school and even entering college without having had sex, only Jezebel’s Laura Beck has had the courage to stand up and scream, “Stop the Madness!”  Beck’s latest piece, “New Documentary Explores WTF Is Up With the Virginity Obsession,” publicized a…
Katie Yoder
October 9th, 2013 3:05 PM

Miss America More Important to Media than Fed Nominee

The next Federal Reserve Chairman will be Janet Yellen. President Barack Obama plans to nominate her on Oct. 9. Ahead of the announcement, Yellen, the liberal Fed vice chairman, was considered the most likely candidate to replace Ben Bernanke ever since Larry Summers, her chief rival for the nomination, bowed out of the race on Sept. 16. She was a frontrunner even before Summers’ withdrawal.…
Sean Long
October 9th, 2013 2:22 PM