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Via MRCTV: Cornel West Flirts With 9-11 Truthers at 'Million Muslim Ma
MRCTV's Dan Joseph attended the very sparsely attended "Million Muslim March" on the mall in Washington on September 11 and found most of the people there were 9-11 truthers. Left-wing professor (and alongside Tavis Smiley, public radio talk show co-host) Cornel West was there, so Joseph asked him, "Do you believe personally that it was Muslims that attacked us on 9/11?"
West replied, "That’s…
September 12th, 2013 4:06 PM
Piers Morgan Suggests Gun Advocates Stand In Front of Blind Firing Squ
In a Twitter war with conservative radio hosts Ben Ferguson and Dana Loesch, CNN's Piers Morgan pitched the idea that they stand as targets for blind shooters.
The argument was over allowing the legally blind to own guns. Morgan railed against the idea and tweeted, "An idea @Dloesch @benfergusonshow > you guys stand at the end of a range and I'll get 100 blind people to fire away at…
September 12th, 2013 3:50 PM
Consider Yourself Warned, Apple, Sharpton Wants Bite Out of You
File under predictable news -- peerless grievance-monger Al Sharpton has found another target to shake down for insufficient diversity in hiring and upper management.
Sharpton is turning his easily aroused wrath toward high-tech giant Apple. After all, if you're looking for cash, go where there's lots of it, to paraphrase the comparatively more honest Willie Sutton. (Audio after the jump)
September 12th, 2013 3:35 PM
FNC's Shep Smith Losing 7 p.m. Slot; Will Anchor Breaking News Stories
Updated below page break | Shepard Smith is losing his 7 p.m. Eastern Fox Report slot, but will gain the post of managing editor of the network's breaking news division, Mediaite is reporting. Presumably this opens that time slot for Sean Hannity, who is losing his 9 p.m. slot to Megyn Kelly.
Smith will still retain his 3 p..m. Eastern Studio B program. The Mississippi native is no stranger…
September 12th, 2013 3:34 PM
NBC Airs 'Special Message' From Michelle Obama Telling People to Drink
NBC's Today behaved like the White House press office on Thursday as co-host Matt Lauer announced: "By the way, the White House is coming out with a brand new initiative today and the First Lady, Michelle Obama, sent us a special message about it. Take a look." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
In the White House-produced video that followed, the First Lady declared: "…
September 12th, 2013 3:18 PM
MSNBC's O'Donnell Sees 'NRA Versus the Voters' in Colorado, 'In Awe of
On Wednesday's The Last Word on MSNBC, host Lawrence O'Donnell declared himself to be "in awe of" the two Democratic state senators who lost recall elections in Colorado this week as the MSNBC host lauded as "legislative heroism" their votes in favor of gun control and praised them as "willing to lose their jobs to do the right thing."
Even though the National Rifle Association was on the…
September 12th, 2013 2:33 PM
NBC’s Chuck Todd: Bad PR To Blame For ObamaCare’s Unpopularity
President Obama’s signature health care law continues to lose support, but NBC’s Chuck Todd sees no problem with the law itself. On Thursday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, he chalked up the declining support to bad messaging by ObamaCare supporters.
Host Joe Scarborough announced that 57 percent of Americans now oppose most or all of the law, according to a recent CNN poll. In addition, the AFL-CIO…
September 12th, 2013 2:32 PM
Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Syria Plan 'Not Likely to Reduce Humanitaria
Roughly ten days ago, CNN's Fareed Zakaria said, "[T]he administration's handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to do foreign policy."
On Wednesday, Zakaria wrote a piece for the Washington Post in which he conceded, "Obama’s proposals are also not likely to reduce the humanitarian crisis" in Syria, but yet in his view, the new plan involving Russia "is a…
September 12th, 2013 1:41 PM
CBS Omits Attkisson's Scoop on Kerry's Refusal to Let Benghazi Survivo
As of Thursday morning, CBS's morning and evening newscasts have yet to mention a revelation made by their own investigative correspondent, Sharyl Attkisson, on Tuesday – that Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress "he will not honor the request to make Benghazi survivors available for questioning."
Wednesday's CBS Evening News aired a full report on the State Department's slow progress…
September 12th, 2013 12:42 PM
Joe Klein on Syria: 'The Consequences of Obama’s Amateur Display Rip
While many in the media are actually crediting Barack Obama for Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed Syrian chemical weapons "solution," TIME magazine's Joe Klein isn't one of them.
Far from it, Klein penned a scathing rebuke of Obama's handling of Syria Wednesday calling it "one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I’ve ever witnessed...The…
September 12th, 2013 12:32 PM
One Year After Benghazi, No Arrests Made; CNN Largely Mum
On the one-year anniversary of the Benghazi attacks, only three CNN shows bothered to hold the Obama administration accountable for not having made any arrests of suspects. Hosts Jake Tapper and Erin Burnett, and anchor Michael Holmes were the three CNN figures to point at the administration for not having made any arrests.
For the rest of CNN's 18-hour news day, any mentions of Benghazi…
September 12th, 2013 12:26 PM
Editorials on Popes Dominated by Focus on Gays, Women
Let’s look at the way the print media reacted to Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis after their first six months as pontiff.
We looked at the editorials in 15 of the nation’s largest newspapers to see what they said about the current pope, and his predecessor, after their first six months in office (Pope Francis will celebrate his first six months on September 13).
September 12th, 2013 12:11 PM
NBC, CBS Fail to Cover AFL-CIO's 'Impassioned' Rejection of ObamaCare
NBC and CBS on Wednesday night and Thursday morning failed to cover the "impassioned" demand by big labor unions to reject large portions of ObamaCare. Only ABC's Good Morning America, allowing just a 24-second news brief, covered the complaints that the law will spike the cost of health care. At a convention in Los Angeles, the AFL-CIO adopted an angry resolution in opposition. [See video…
September 12th, 2013 12:05 PM
NewsBusters Interview: Dr. Wayne Grudem Discusses Biblical, Moral Case
To lift themselves out of poverty, developing nations would do well to pursue a free market economic model. What's more, free markets are actually biblically justifiable and ultimately of greatest moral and material benefit to human beings compared with centrally-planned or socialistic models. In other words, there is a Christian case for free markets and free enterprise. That's the argument…
September 12th, 2013 11:55 AM