USA TODAY: Hollywood ‘the best man of gay marriage

Being a Hollywood liberal means getting to choose which societal developments you’re responsible for. Culture of violence? Our blood-spattered shoot-em-ups are just good fun that don’t influence anyone. Growing acceptance of gay-marriage? Put our names high in the credits for that one!  Hollywood “has for decades now chipped away at a once taboo topic,” USA Today reporter Marco della Cava …
Lauren Enk
June 27th, 2013 3:10 PM

CBS Trumpets 'Long Night of Celebrating' Over Prop 8 Ruling; Spotlight

CBS This Morning led its Thursday broadcast with overwhelmingly slanted coverage on the Supreme Court's pro-same-sex "marriage" rulings. Ben Tracy played up the "long night of celebrating in West Hollywood", after the Court paved the way for the termination of California's Proposition 8. Tracy also prominently featured a homosexual couple's informal ring ceremony, who "after being blocked by…
Matthew Balan
June 27th, 2013 2:20 PM

Rainbow Rapture: Networks Cheer Gay Marriage Rulings with 86 Percent F

It’s hard to know where yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage met with the most jubilation: West Hollywood, the Castro District, Greenwich Village? Or the newsrooms of ABC, CBS and NBC? Combined, the three broadcast networks devoted an astounding 25 minutes, 54 seconds of their evening news shows to the Supreme Court’s decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and…
Matt Philbin
June 27th, 2013 1:54 PM

WashPost Hypes Study Pushing 'Calorie Tax' to 'Reduce Obesity

"There may be an economic cure for the nation's obesity," the Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey exulted as he opened his page A17 story in today's edition. "Hike the price of food," with a tax on calories. "Raising the price of a calorie for home consumption by 10 percent might lower the percentage of body fat in youths about 8 or 9 percent," Whoriskey noted, citing "new research from the…
Ken Shepherd
June 27th, 2013 1:03 PM

NBC Cheers Gay 'Vindication': 'Day San Francisco's Castro District Has

Celebrating Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings in favor of gay marriage, on Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reported live from San Francisco city hall and announced: "In one of the country's oldest and largest gay neighborhoods, vindication. It was the day San Francisco's Castro District had been waiting for." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] A series…
Kyle Drennen
June 27th, 2013 12:22 PM

WashPost Hypes Texas Abortion Filibuster, Ignores Polling Showing Amer

Following Texas Democratic state senator Wendy Davis's successful attempt on Tuesday to block legislation that would ban abortions in the Lone Star State past 20 weeks as well as put in place other safety measures for abortion clinics, the liberal media have lionize the lawmaker, labeling her a “star.” Take, for example, today's 24-paragraph front-page puff piece by the Washington Post’s Karen…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 27th, 2013 12:14 PM

Leno: 'Clinton Thought DOMA Was Defending Marriage as if it Were Reall

Jay Leno took his sights off Barack Obama Wednesday and set them upon former President Bill Clinton. During the opening monologue of NBC’s Tonight Show, the host said, “In fairness to Clinton, see he didn't totally understand the law. When he signed the bill, he thought the Defense of Marriage Act was defending marriage as if it were really just an act.”
Noel Sheppard
June 27th, 2013 11:32 AM

No Objectivity Needed: Robin Roberts Thrilled Over 'Wonderful' 'Jubila

The journalists at Good Morning America seem to have decided that the gay marriage debate no longer has two sides. On Thursday, co-anchor Robin Roberts opened the program by spinning Wednesday's Supreme Court decision only as a good thing. She extolled, "And some wonderful pictures to show you of jubilation. People dancing in the streets in cities all around the country." [See video below. MP3…
Scott Whitlock
June 27th, 2013 11:31 AM

Letterman: ‘Rush Limbaugh’s Head Exploded’ Over DOMA Decision

Although CBS Late Show host David Letterman admitted that he had no idea what the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act meant, he still felt the need Wednesday to use the decision to bash conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. “Earlier today, Rush Limbaugh's head exploded. It's crazy!” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 27th, 2013 10:29 AM

Deceit about Senator Who Jumped Parties Comes Easy to Ed Schultz

Liberal radio host and MSNBC parolee Ed Schultz -- they let him out only on weekends -- will never face accusations that he's a stickler for accuracy. Schultz counts on those who follow his shows as too dumb or indifferent to care when he gets it wrong, as often the case. On his radio show Tuesday, for example, Schultz made a deceitful claim that bordered on nonsensical while talking about…
Jack Coleman
June 27th, 2013 9:40 AM

Capehart Hails Protest That Prevented Texas Pro-Life Vote As 'Democrac

  On Morning Joe today, Jonathan Capehart hailed the loud protest in the Texas Capitol gallery by pro-abortion rights advocates—which prevented the state senate from voting on a pro-life bill—as an example of "democracy in action." Joe Scarborough countered that if pro-life protesters had done the same, people on MSNBC and elsewhere would be calling them an "angry, unruly mob." …
Mark Finkelstein
June 27th, 2013 9:05 AM

Banned From Britain: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer

Pamela Geller announced at her Atlas Shrugs blog Wednesday morning that "the British government has banned us (herself and fellow Stop Islamization of America activist Robert Spencer) from entering the country ... In not allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de facto Islamic state. The nation that…
Tom Blumer
June 27th, 2013 1:21 AM

NYTimes Curiously Silent On Sexual Misconduct by NYC Public School Emp

In today’s New York Times, there is an analysis of former CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s new group, Parents’ Transparency Project, that was established to root out public school employees guilty of sexual misconduct. This is what it says about the ad: “Her case is helped by stark statistics and will appeal to parents who would not want anyone who had been accused of misconduct, no matter how minor…
Bill Donohue
June 26th, 2013 11:14 PM

Piers Morgan: Rush Limbaugh is ‘Too Old and Too Boring

Piers Morgan normally gets around 500,000 people to watch his pathetic show on CNN. Despite this, the man few Americans actually know by name had the nerve to say Wednesday that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is “too old and too boring” to be a regular on CNN’s revival of Crossfire (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 26th, 2013 10:30 PM