Big Three Hype Social Media Sending Pro-Abortion Filibuster Into 'Stra

Since Wednesday, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have all played up the social media frenzy over Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' multi-hour filibuster on Tuesday against a pro-life bill. On Friday's Today, NBC's Tamron Hall claimed that the Davis story is "another example of how social media can turn a story into a whole other stratosphere. I think without Twitter and…
Matthew Balan
June 28th, 2013 6:02 PM

Networks Slam Rick Perry Getting 'Very Personal' With 'Folk Hero' Wend

In the wake of her filibuster in the Texas state senate on Tuesday, NBC, ABC, and CBS all expressed their outrage at Texas Governor Rick Perry daring to criticize their anointed abortion "folk hero" Wendy Davis. On Friday, Today co-host Matt Lauer announced: "The battle over abortion gets very personal as Governor Rick Perry takes on a female senator whose filibuster helped block a…
Kyle Drennen
June 28th, 2013 5:45 PM

CNN (Again) Hails Pro-Choice Filibuster of 'Rising Star

CNN once again hyped a Texas legislator's stand against a pro-life bill, this time highlighting the "very personal war of words" between the "rising star" and Republican Governor Rick Perry. "Cheered on by supporters, the mother of two and her now-famous pink shoes filibustered her way onto the world stage this week," touted correspondent Athena Jones who anointed Senator Wendy Davis a "…
Matt Hadro
June 28th, 2013 5:28 PM

Pelosi On Affordable Care Act: ‘Captures the Spirit of our Founders

Pelosi praises Obamacare while new poll shows most Americans disapprove. 
Kristine Marsh
June 28th, 2013 5:27 PM

ABC, NBC Skip Announcement That IRS Aggressively Targeted Conservative

ABC and NBC on Thursday night and Friday morning ignored an announcement by the Internal Revenue Service inspector general that liberal organizations were not forced to endure the same invasive investigations as conservative, Tea Party groups. Only CBS This Morning covered the development. This contradicted earlier claims.  This Morning co-anchor Norah O'Donnell explained, "The IRS said this…
Scott Whitlock
June 28th, 2013 5:14 PM

Roseanne Barr Rumored to be Getting New NBC Sitcom

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your TV set again, Roseanne Barr is rumored to be returning to NBC in a primetime family sitcom. Deadline Hollywood reported moments ago:
Noel Sheppard
June 28th, 2013 5:13 PM

TIME Trumpets Mock Amazon Reviews of Wendy Davis's Sneakers

Unwritten but widely understood rule among left wingers for media coverage of filibusters: when done by conservatives, death knell of democracy, obstruction for obstruction's sake, close cousin to fascism; when done by liberals, heroism personified, this is what democracy looks like, cue Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." It wasn't enough for leftward media types to enthuse this…
Jack Coleman
June 28th, 2013 5:00 PM

ABC, CBS & NBC Too Excited by Wendy Davis to Recognize Her Side is Los

The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks were so excited by Democratic Texas state senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster they failed to notice she is on the losing side of the abortion debate. Anchors like NBC’s Brian Williams and ABC’s Diane Sawyer were so busy hailing Davis’s “epic” filibuster and her rise to “folk hero” status that they failed to report the findings of a National Journal poll…
Geoffrey Dickens
June 28th, 2013 4:36 PM

Explaining Downward Revision of Economic Growth, AP Ignores Damage Fro

Before the government released its first estimate of first-quarter economic growth in late April, the establishment press, particularly Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, salivated at the chance to report the then-predicted "robust" annualized growth of 3 percent and to describe how the economy had "accelerated" from the previous quarter's pathetic 0.4 percent. When that first estimate…
Tom Blumer
June 28th, 2013 4:27 PM

MSNBC's Hayes Frets Over 500th Execution in Texas, But Sees 'Draconian

On Thursday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes suggested that Texas Governor Rick Perry should feel a "burden" because he has presided over the execution of more death row inmates than any other governor in modern history, and then seemed to mock the Texas Republican for being both pro-life and pro-capital punishment as he noted that Perry had addressed the National Right to Life Conference…
Brad Wilmouth
June 28th, 2013 3:59 PM

Walter E. Williams Column: Bit by Bit Strategy

There's a move on to prohibit Washington's football team from calling itself "Redskins," even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of North Dakota from calling its football team the "Fighting Sioux." This is the classic method of…
Walter E. Williams
June 28th, 2013 3:53 PM

Scarborough Blasts Media 'Lap Dogs' on Obama's 'Voter Suppression' Mem

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough scolded the media on Friday’s Morning Joe, claiming mainstream outlets acted as “lap dogs” to the Obama administration’s messaging on voter ID proposals during the 2012 election. Scarborough also pushed back against his liberal panel’s repeated attempts to connect voter ID laws to actual instances of racist voter suppression in the 1960s Jim Crow South. The…
Andrew Lautz
June 28th, 2013 3:51 PM

MSNBC’s Roberts Literally ‘Leans Forward’ to Push Ohio Dem to Ma

When certain liberal politicians appear on MSNBC, Thomas Roberts tends to act less like a so-called journalist and more like a Democrat fan boy. Take for instance a June 28th interview with frequent MSNBC guest Nina Turner, Democratic state senator from Ohio, brought on to discuss a myriad of liberal pet issues. Following a typical MSNBC interview in which Roberts and Turner tag-teamed to…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 28th, 2013 3:31 PM

Nothing to See Here: CNN Ignores New Accusations That IRS Singled Out

In the ongoing controversy of the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, CNN jumped all over breaking news that helped the Democratic narrative but was silent when developments occurred that boosted the Republican criticism of the agency. When news broke Tuesday that liberal groups, not just conservative groups, were flagged by the IRS for potential scrutiny, CNN hammered the story and proclaimed…
Matt Hadro
June 28th, 2013 3:04 PM