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Media's Favorite Alleged Sex Offender Kaitlyn Hunt Repeatedly Disobeye
Back in May, liberal media outlets like Slate, the New York Times and MSNBC made a bit of a cause celebre the plight of a young Florida woman, Kaitlyn Hunt, who is charged with sex offenses for a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old classmate. Hunt's parents claim she is only being prosecuted because of the same-sex nature of the relationship, suggesting that anti-gay bigotry was motivating…
August 16th, 2013 5:35 PM
Great Grandmother Accuses Democrat of Sexual Harassment; NBC Yawns
NBC hasn't covered the ongoing Bob Filner sexual harassment scandal an almost a week, despite a fifteenth woman – a 67-year-old great grandmother – coming forward on Thursday, accusing the former congressman of making lurid comments to her. The last time that NBC's morning and evening newscasts covered the Filner story was on August 10, 2013.
On Friday, ABC and CBS's morning newscasts aired…
August 16th, 2013 5:16 PM
Hillary Would Be 'Perfect' As President, Gushes Belatedly Smitten Ed S
Hillary Clinton is so dreamy to Ed Schultz. More accurately, Hillary Clinton is so dreamy to Ed Schultz ... now.
The braying left-wing radio host and MSNBC weekend parolee is surely hoping that Clinton has a short memory. Clinton and her lesser half are many things, but they aren't possessed of short memories. With speculation already on the rise about the 2016 campaign, Schultz is wasting…
August 16th, 2013 4:25 PM
Shock: CNN Anchors Tire of 'Silly,' 'Stupid' Rodeo Clown Controversy
What's going on at CNN? On Thursday afternoon CNN's Athena Jones called the Missouri rodeo clown controversy a "firestorm," but CNN's tone changed within a matter of hours.
On Thursday night's Piers Morgan Live, Morgan admitted "it's all a bit silly" and agreed with Newt Gingrich that the outrage over the stunt "is all a bit ridiculous." Then on Friday morning, anchor Carol Costello huffed…
August 16th, 2013 3:55 PM
Dem Judge in W.Va. Attempted to Frame Rival with Drug, Theft Charges
Here's another name to add to the "name that party" file: Michael Thornsbury. The Mingo County, West Virginia circuit court judge was the subject of a federal indictment on Wednesday "after federal authorities allege he targeted his ex-lover's husband and used his position on the bench to manipulate criminal charges against the man," Kate White of the Charleston [W.V.] Gazette reported…
August 16th, 2013 3:33 PM
Krugman's Selective Outrage: Goes After Paul and Cantor on 'Deficit
One thing which is arguably worse for one's health than Obamacare is the act of reading a Paul Krugman column at the New York Times.
In his latest equivalent of a DNC press release on Thursday published in Friday's print edition, Krugman lambasted GOP Senator Rand Paul and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as "politicians who gleefully add to the misinformation" the general public allegedly…
August 16th, 2013 3:19 PM
Russell Simmons Apologizes For ‘Harriet Tubman Sex Tape
It turns out “comedy” does have limits, as Russell Simmons discovered when he allowed the outrageous “Harriet Tubman Sex Tape” to be posted to his YouTube channel.
Simmons, founder of hip-hop label Def Jam, published a “Harriet Tubman Sex Tape” parody to his “All Def Digital” YouTube channel Aug. 14. The disturbing video showed an actress playing Tubman, the historic former slave turned…
August 16th, 2013 2:58 PM
MSNBC's Wagner, Panel Conflate Boston Bombings with ObamaCare Oppositi
MSNBC host Alex Wagner appeared to tie Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to ObamaCare opposition and libertarianism on Wednesday’s Now, with liberal guests Jared Bernstein and Mark Potok taking part in the anti-conservative argument. Wagner suggested that ObamaCare “extremism would seem to be of a piece with this radicalized rhetoric” that influenced the terrorist Tsarnaev.
Bernstein, a former…
August 16th, 2013 2:34 PM
Hannity Fires Cumulus, Liberal Media Wrong Again
For weeks the liberal media have been almost orgasmic over rumors that the Cumulus radio network was dumping conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
On Friday, Inside Music Media's Jerry Del Colliano reported that it's actually Hannity that's dumping Cumulus (subscription required):
August 16th, 2013 2:28 PM
TV Critic Slams MSNBC for Chris Hayes Climate-Change Documentary Witho
Brian Lowry, a former TV critic for the Los Angeles Times who now writes for the trade paper Variety, slammed tonight's MSNBC eco-documentary by anchor and bicyclist Chris Hayes: “the editorial approach of this Chris Hayes-hosted hour continues an all-too-common trend of cable news preaching to the choir, where not a single dissenting voice is incorporated in any serious way.”
It's called "…
August 16th, 2013 1:48 PM
Media Mash: Bozell, Hannity Slam MSNBC for Still Insisting Boston Bomb
One day before the one-year anniversary of Floyd Lee Corkins's failed terror attack on the Family Research Council -- he was inspired by a "hate map" by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- MSNBC brought on SPLC's Mark Potok to mislead viewers about the nature of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, insisting that the Tsarnaev brothers were not motivated by radical Islamic ideology so much as by…
August 16th, 2013 1:29 PM
NBC Does Entire Segment on U.S. Egypt Policy Without Mentioning Obama
In an impressive display of journalistic gymnastics on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory managed to have an entire discussion about U.S. policy in Egypt without mentioning President Obama by name. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Plenty of vague substitutions were used, including "the President" "the White House" "…
August 16th, 2013 1:06 PM
MSNBC Tells Women More Ignorance Is Better
MSNBC's latest panel on "women's rights," hosted by Alex Wagner, goes a long way in explaining why the network's ratings are so low. When Americans hear "MSNBC women's rights panel," they know what they're going to get before having to watch even two seconds of it. So why bother?
The drudgery and predictability here certainly expose the abortion movement's priorities. Take Anne Davis,…
August 16th, 2013 12:24 PM
[Updated] RNC Votes: No NBC or CNN Debates If They Air Hillary Clinton
On Friday the Republican National Committee formally passed a resolution at its summer meeting to not partner with NBC or CNN on debates if they air any of the planned Hillary Clinton projects.
According to Politico.com, "RNC Chairman Reince Priebus got an extended standing ovation from cheering state chairmen during the party's summer meeting for spearheading the push." Priebus announced: "…
August 16th, 2013 12:19 PM