MSNBC's Hayes Slams 'Shameful Spectacle' of 'Anti-Food Stamp Jihad' by

On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained about an "anti-food stamp jihad" by House Republicans, and attacked the GOP for putting on a "shameful spectacle" in trying to cut the food stamp program. With the words "War on the Poor" and an image of House Speaker John Boehner displayed on screen behind him, Hayes railed:
Brad Wilmouth
June 19th, 2013 2:59 PM

‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Perpetuates Negative Stereotype of Wall Stre

Apparently, three movies attacking Wall Street wasn’t enough. Hollywood’s made another anti-capitalist film to be released November 15. The biopic of former Wall Street stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, who is also a conman, stars known liberal actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The “Titanic” star is a well-known environmental activist and has donated more than $40,000 to Obama’s two presidential campaigns…
Kristine Marsh
June 19th, 2013 2:44 PM

Two Fox News Hosts Pick up MRC’s Exposé of College Student Liberali

Thursday night, both Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity showed and commented on a new video done by the Media Research Center that showed a disturbing trend among some college students at George Mason University. In the video, MRCTV reporter Dan Joseph posed as a liberal hater of Fox News to try to get students to sign a petition urging the Obama administration to spy on Fox News employees and…
Nathan Roush
June 19th, 2013 2:35 PM

Facebook Photo Shows Kennedy Girl Shooting Baby Seals

Strange enough to see a photograph of a Kennedy firing a rifle, one with a telescopic sight no less, as the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination approaches. Stranger still to learn that the Kennedy firing the rifle, a 14-year-old granddaughter of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is killing seal pups in Canada, according a caption for the photo written by her father.
Jack Coleman
June 19th, 2013 12:43 PM

Liberal Nightline to Lose Host Terry Moran; Once-Prestigious Program R

Terry Moran, co-host of the liberal Nightline, will be leaving the show this summer, according to TV Newser. The program, which lost half its audience since being demoted to 12:35 at night, has downplayed and minimized Barack Obama recent scandals in favor of superficial, light-weight segments. Moran has relegated much of his serious journalism to Twitter. On May 10, the reporter used the…
Scott Whitlock
June 19th, 2013 12:26 PM

The Inconvenient Suffering of China’s Laogai Prisoners

Over at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin notes that the New York Times finally published a story about woman in Oregon finding a note inside some Halloween decorations which told the tale of China’s system of forced labor prisons. These facilities—formerly called laogai or “reform through labor” but now simply referred to as prisons to avoid negative connotations—have been in use for decades as a…
Matthew Sheffield
June 19th, 2013 11:27 AM

Slate Says Lack Of Emotionalism Sunk Gun Control Bill

As the six-month half-anniversary of Newtown was observed, some families of the victims are renewing their push for more gun control measures and liberal scribes in the media are on board, hoping to help the cause by lambasting gun rights advocates in print. Take Justin Peters of Slate, who dismisses gun rights advocates as full of "inarticulate rage" before suggesting that gun control…
Matt Vespa
June 19th, 2013 10:54 AM

Slate Writer Thinks Drunk Driving Is LESS Dangerous Than Tweeting

To Slate’s Jeremy Stahl, the drunk-driving kid of a Democratic politician is far less scandalous than offensive tweets from the progeny of a conservative Republican. There really isn’t much point to Stahl's June 14 piece, "Hereditary Traits: Bigoted taunts by the children of GOP honchos have everything to do with politics." In fact, it’s abjectly stupid.  But Stahl runs completely off the…
Matt Vespa
June 19th, 2013 10:45 AM

HuffPo Blog: Religion to Blame for Overpopulation, Environmental Ruin

A Muslim, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew walk into a bar … this could be the set-up for a good joke, but you better not tell it at the Huffington Post. Those four thirsty monotheists and others like them are destroying the human race by fostering overpopulation according to HuffPo, and there’s nothing funny about that. In a piece titled “Don’t Be Fruitful and Multiply,” contributor Roy…
Katie Yoder
June 19th, 2013 10:34 AM

Open Thread Wednesday

Today's starter topic: The city of Los Angeles just voted to completely ban "the scourge" of plastic shopping bags. What's next, a tax on toilet paper?
NB Staff
June 19th, 2013 10:29 AM

Daily Kos: The 'Myth' of Liberal Media Bias Is 'Killing Journalism

At the Daily Kos, Mark E. Andersen stumbled through an attack on the “myth of liberal bias in the media,” propagated by the Media Research Center. This “myth” only “makes our nation weaker and creates a nation of dunces—which is just what the right wants.” The MRC is apparently one factor in “what's killing journalism” in America, because it thinks that surveys showing journalists vote for…
Tim Graham
June 19th, 2013 8:27 AM

Morning Joe Bleeps The Late Michael Hastings Calling Out Hillary Spox

Who was Morning Joe protecting: the sensitive ears of its viewers, or Hillary Clinton? During a discussion of the death of the feisty and fearless reporter Michael Hastings, Morning Joe bleeped out Joe Scarborough's reading from an email from Hastings to Philippe Reines, Hillary's personal spokesman during her Secretary of State tenure.  Hastings had accused Reines of "b---s---" answers on…
Mark Finkelstein
June 19th, 2013 7:39 AM

'Glock Block' in Oregon Neighborhood 10 Miles From Portland Gets Natio

Odds are that the ultraliberal, Occupy movement-supporting crowd in Portland, Oregon, which includes its mayor in late 2011, who told the Los Angeles Times that "I support a lot of what the movement stands for, as a political leader" -- are already trying to figure out how to stop what they surely see as a dangerous idea which has sprung up about 10 miles to the south: fed-up citizens arming…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2013 12:59 AM

Press Ignores Record Number of Food Stamp Households, But Frequently C

A search at Google News on "households food stamps record" done at 9 p.m. ET (not in quotes, sorted by date, with duplicates and similar items) returned three items. Two are at the Daily Caller (here and here); and the other is at Reason.com. Program statistics for March, the latest month available, show that a record 23.12 million households -- one in every five in the U.S. -- received food…
Tom Blumer
June 18th, 2013 11:23 PM