MSNBC's Hayes: 'Super Racist' O'Reilly 'Rant' 'Gives a Cheap Crack-Lik

On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC's Chris Hayes attacked FNC's Bill O'Reilly for what he called a "super racist rant" because of a commentary the FNC host gave on Monday's The O'Reilly Factor about racial issues. Hayes charged that such commentary from O'Reilly gives a "cheap, crack-like high" to FNC's "old, fearful white audience." Hayes:
Brad Wilmouth
July 24th, 2013 3:24 PM

Chuck Todd: President ‘Made Gigantic PR Mistake Embracing ObamaCare

NBC’s Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd made a stunning statement Wednesday. Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Todd said, “I think they made a gigantic PR mistake by embracing the ObamaCare label because I think when he’s out there saying ObamaCare, it automatically politicizes something that when you want Walgreens out there telling people about healthcare, you don't want to put…
Noel Sheppard
July 24th, 2013 1:23 PM

Slate Rehashes Fallacious 'Flaming Faucet' Fixation

Yesterday, Slate promoted to their front page a July 19 article promising a look at “what fracking really looks like.”  David Rosenberg's piece about the photos taken by New York-based documentary photographer Nina Berman seems to rehash the frivolous narrative that fracking will turn your bathroom into the devil's water closet, complete with fountains of flame!  Liberals – and their allies…
Matt Vespa
July 24th, 2013 1:20 PM

Zero Air Time on CBS Evening News For Latest Weiner Sex Scandal

CBS Evening News stood out among the Big Three evening newscasts on Tuesday in their failure to cover former Rep. Anthony Weiner's admission that he sent lewd text messages even after his resignation in 2011. The CBS show apparently deemed the British royal family's new baby, the doping scandal in baseball, and whale watching to be more important news items. ABC's World News and NBC Nightly…
Matthew Balan
July 24th, 2013 1:10 PM

ABC Fails to Identify Scandal-Marred Weiner as a Democrat

Despite devoting three segments to Anthony Weiner's latest sexually explicit photos and texts, Good Morning America on Wednesday failed to identify the New York politician as a Democrat. Instead, an ABC graphic simply called him a "mayoral candidate" for office. The previous evening's World News deemed Weiner a "former congressman" and a "mayoral candidate." Reporter Jeff Zeleny delicately…
Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2013 12:51 PM

Joe Scarborough: Anthony Weiner is 'Chuck Yeager of Sex Scandals

Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough made a strange analogy while discussing the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal: "You know, let's just say he is the Chuck Yeager of sex scandals, he is constantly pushing the envelope, and breaking – I mean this is like The Right Stuff for sex scandals. Nobody has ever been here before, he is in new ground, new territory…
Kyle Drennen
July 24th, 2013 12:33 PM

'Morning Joe' Spends Hour on Weiner Scandal, Never Once Calls Him a 'D

MSNBC’s Morning Joe spent nearly half of their Wednesday program covering the latest revelations in the Anthony Weiner scandal, yet never once mentioned that the disgraced former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate is a Democrat. The panel was extremely critical of Weiner and his candidacy, but apparently did not consider the candidate’s political affiliation to be of any importance…
Andrew Lautz
July 24th, 2013 11:57 AM

CNN Scrolls 'Child Pronounced Dead On The Scene' During Royal Birth Co

Whoever was manning CNN's news ticker Monday clearly wasn't using his or her head. Moments after the Royal birth, as CNN International anchor Becky Anderson reported the news live from outside of Buckingham Palace above a chyron reading "Duchess Catherine Gives Birth To A Son," a story about a three-year-old fatally shooting himself in Arkansas scrolled at the bottom of the screen concluding…
Noel Sheppard
July 24th, 2013 11:17 AM

Samuel L. Jackson: My Character in the RoboCop Remake Could be Called

During a Comic-Con panel to promote the remake of the 1987 movie "RoboCop" actor Samuel L. Jackson revealed he plays a talk show host character that is inspired by two ideological opposites - Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh.
Geoffrey Dickens
July 24th, 2013 11:01 AM

Scarborough Scalds Carney For Calling IRS Targeting Of Conservatives A

When on today's Morning Joe, Obama spokesman Jay Carney had the chutzpah to call the IRS mess a "phony scandal,"Joe Scarborough ripped into him, calling Carney out for using "talking points," instructing him to "answer my question" and informing Carney that "I'm not somebody you talk down to from your podium." Ouch! H/t NB reader cobokat. Scarborough reminded Carney that he hadn't told the…
Mark Finkelstein
July 24th, 2013 8:58 AM

David Shuster, ABC News Executive Join Al-Jazeera America for August

David "Karl Rove Will Be Indicted" Shuster is the latest cable-news host to join the Al-Jazeera America team. CNN's Ali Velshi signed up early, and Soledad O'Brien will be a special correspondent providing documentaries. The channel launches and replaces Current TV on August 20, the channel Al Gore sold (out) to the emir of Qatar in January for a reported $500 million (and maybe more). Current…
Tim Graham
July 24th, 2013 8:02 AM

Alec Baldwin Says Nothing on Fox News Is True, But O'Reilly Is 'Rabid

Jim Romenesko reports actor Alec Baldwin appeared on the Howard Stern satellite-radio show  on Tuesday and trashed a female New York Post reporter who follows him around town. He added: “Very quickly I realized nothing that’s handled by News Corp. is true — nothing on Fox — and now I extend that to all media. I think the New York Times is — well, obviously — heads and above [other media] but…
Tim Graham
July 24th, 2013 7:19 AM

Bozell Column: Insulating Obama From His Corrupt IRS

President Obama is announcing for the umpteenth time he’s going to “pivot” to fixing the economy – as if that’s ever worked before, since it is he who broke it. That said, Obama will pivot to tiddlywinks if that’s what it takes to get out from under his mountain of scandals. On the White House website, Obama flack Dan Pfeiffer posted a blog demanding everyone pay attention to Obama’s latest…
Brent Bozell
July 23rd, 2013 10:52 PM

Zimmerman Crash Rescue Induces Derangement For Radio Lefties

A bad stretch for liberals just got worse, all because George Zimmerman decided again he needed to get out of a vehicle. This time Zimmerman helped rescue a family of four from a wrecked SUV in Florida. Turns out it was more than left-wing radio hosts Bill Press and Stephanie Miller could bear, as both expressed doubts about the incident while heaping aspersions on Zimmerman, who recently…
Jack Coleman
July 23rd, 2013 9:35 PM