Newsweek's Gross: Apple 'Too Greedy For Its Own Good

As we've documented time and again, Newsweek global business editor Daniel Gross has a history of anti-business and pro-big government bias. Gross stayed true to form in his latest attack on a successful American business enterprise in his May 29 Newsweek feature, "Is Apple Too Clever By Half?" Gross's answer, unsurprisingly, was yes, and that the company was greedy because it has followed U.…
Ken Shepherd
May 30th, 2013 4:48 PM

CNN Claims Americans Are Saying 'To Heck' With Obama's Scandals

CNN exaggerated poll numbers on Thursday's Newsroom to claim that Americans are writing off the scandals of the Obama administration. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and Alison Kosik reported that voters were "a lot more concerned about the economy" and were saying "to heck with the scandals." Yet poll numbers showed voters did not say "to heck with" the IRS scandal, as a vast majority still wanted…
Matt Hadro
May 30th, 2013 4:46 PM

NBC's Brokaw on AG Holder Targeting Journalists: First Amendment 'Not

On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie asked special correspondent Tom Brokaw about his recent comment that the press "has to be careful about having a glass jaw" when it comes to the Obama Justice Department investigating reporters: "...you made a remark that journalists...shouldn't have what you called a 'glass jaw' when it comes to some of these investigations, citing the First…
Kyle Drennen
May 30th, 2013 4:21 PM

HuffPo Live Yucks it Up at Pope’s Expense

The talking heads at HuffPo Live must think the Pope is pretty funny, since much of their short discussion of him on Wednesday at the tail end of a religious segment – was laughs and grins. Perhaps it’s no surprise after HuffPo misrepresented the Pope’s words on atheists, but when the Vatican’s Rev. Rosica issued a clarification, HuffPo Live host Mike Sacks seemed to have trouble taking it…
Lauren Enk
May 30th, 2013 4:05 PM

NY Times: Al Jazeera America to Focus on Domestic U.S. News

Times’ Stelter puffs ‘boots-on-the-ground news coverage.’  
Matt Philbin
May 30th, 2013 4:01 PM

Liberal Activist: Democrats Can 'Decapitate' McConnell and Cause 'Chil

Sane, normal people are sickened by the jihad and the increasingly frequent atrocities committed in its name. Then there are other people -- Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green, for example -- who on some bizarre level seem to draw inspiration from it. Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, one week after an off-duty British soldier was beheaded by two Muslim…
Jack Coleman
May 30th, 2013 4:00 PM

Stephen King Shocks NPR Audience: Nature 'Suggests Intelligent Design

On Tuesday's Fresh Air on NPR stations from coast to coast, host Terry Gross interviewed author Stephen King on his new book  "Joyland," which features a young man in a wheelchair with muscular dystrophy and his grandfather, a radio evangelist named Buddy Ross, who insists the disease is divine punishment. King might have surprised the secular-left devotees of public radio -- not with the…
Tim Graham
May 30th, 2013 3:41 PM

MSNBC Panel Members Slam Bachmann and GOP 'Haters

As MSNBC's Al Sharpton hosted a panel on Wednesday's PoliticsNation to discuss Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann's retirement, MSNBC analyst Karen Finney claimed that Bachmann never had an idea "that wasn't about hate or wasn't about being against something," while MSNBC analyst and former Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell similarly charged that historians will put her "in a…
Brad Wilmouth
May 30th, 2013 3:25 PM

CNN Anchor Draws Legal Parallel Between Catholic Teacher's Firing and

Chalk this one up to the absurd. CNN's Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday tried to draw a legal parallel between a Sharia Law execution and a Catholic school firing a teacher for violating her contract by disobeying church teaching on pregnancy. Banfield argued both violated the teacher's Constitutional rights. "Well if it's an Islamic school and they decide to go with Sharia Law and they decide…
Matt Hadro
May 30th, 2013 3:09 PM

Soros-Funded News Operation Helped Build IRS Case Against Tea Party

While the IRS targeting of conservative groups was still heating up in 2012, a Soros-funded journalism nonprofit was helping fan the flames. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning ProPublica released two stories targeting conservative nonprofits including Crossroads GPS, Americans for Prosperity and the Republican Jewish Coalition. ProPublica was founded by prominent Democratic contributor and has direct…
Mike Ciandella
May 30th, 2013 2:52 PM

AP Finally Gets Around to Covering Major Problem with ObamaCare

While the Associated Press may get something wrong – and omit things on occasion – they’ve admitted one thing that the big three has yet to confirm: Obamacare will cost Americans their health care coverage.  In a story by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar that was published on May 29, he noted that Americans might find themselves stripped of coverage this fall since their current plans don’t meet the…
Matt Vespa
May 30th, 2013 2:49 PM

ABC and NBC Hype 'Stunning' Retirement of 'Lightning Rod' Michele Bach

  ABC and NBC on Wednesday night continued to hype the "stunning" retirement of "lightning rod" Michele Bachmann. World News reporter Jeff Zeleny noted that although the politician "rode the Tea Party wave," her "words often created trouble." The journalist made sure to use the words "Tea Party" and "Republican" six times in the two and a half minute segment. In contrast, when controversial,…
Scott Whitlock
May 30th, 2013 12:59 PM

Politico Panel Vilifies Bachmann on 'Morning Joe,' Calls Outgoing Cong

When Politico isn’t busy sending editors to an off-the-record chat with a potentially perjurious U.S. Attorney General, it spends its time mocking a retiring conservative legislator. A panel of reporters from the Washington tabloid ganged up on Michele Bachmann on Thursday’s Morning Joe, blasting the Minnesota congresswoman as a “celebrity politician” who will become “irrelevant to politics…
Andrew Lautz
May 30th, 2013 12:14 PM

Piers Morgan Scoffs: 'Why Would Anybody' Join NRA 'After Sandy Hook

CNN's Piers Morgan tried to resurrect his desperate push for gun control on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Live. Morgan spat on the NRA and bullied author Wayne Allen Root for joining the organization. "You joined the NRA after Sandy Hook. Why would anybody do that?" Morgan challenged Root. He also defended Britain's handgun ban: "And guess what, we don't get anybody shot dead in Britain! We have…
Matt Hadro
May 30th, 2013 11:43 AM