NBC's Lauer Uses Oklahoma Tornado to Bash GOP Over Sandy Relief

In an interview with Congressman Tom Cole on Wednesday's NBC Today about the tornado that devastated his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma, co-host Matt Lauer saw an opportunity to hit congressional Republicans for daring to oppose pork barrel spending shoved into the Hurricane Sandy relief bill: "Back in January, you did something that a lot of your Republican colleagues did not do. You supported…
Kyle Drennen
May 22nd, 2013 4:54 PM

Actual Huffington Post Headline: 'OH NO: Fox News Is RIGHT

The perilously liberal Huffington Post just can't stand the idea that it could possibly agree with Fox News. On Wednesday, the Post published the following headline at its front page: "OH NO: Fox News Is RIGHT!"
Noel Sheppard
May 22nd, 2013 4:19 PM

HuffPo Live: Want True Love? Have Casual Sex

Want healing and satisfaction after a breakup? Then get in bed with a friend – just be sure to keep it casual.  That was the gist of the conversation when HuffPo Live contributors got together on Monday night to advocate casual sex as “the best medicine after heartbreak.” Their consensus after the half-hour promotion of hook-ups?  Sleep around enough and you’ll eventually find love. 
Lauren Enk
May 22nd, 2013 3:40 PM

New York Times: Obama Administration 'Threatening Fundamental Freedoms

"With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news." So shockingly began a New York Times editorial Wednesday.
Noel Sheppard
May 22nd, 2013 3:35 PM

Maddow Freaked Out by 'Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warned her very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very liberal audience that the Virginia Republican Party just picked a slate of "very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative" candidates to run for office this fall. On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show the host left no doubt in her viewers' minds about how "very conservative" she found…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 22nd, 2013 2:36 PM

Comedy Central's Colbert Mocks Obama Scandals, Likens Them To Game Sho

Comedy Central’s fake conservative Stephen Colbert is known for mocking conservatives by pretending to be an ignorant one. Colbert, who in real life is more liberal than his co-worker Jon Stewart, has decided to make a mockery of the plethora of scandals facing the Obama administration rather than address the seriousness of them as his colleague. On the May 20 edition of The Colbert Report on…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 22nd, 2013 2:10 PM

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Acknowledges Obama’s Contempt for the Press, B

Even ABC News’s Cokie Roberts recognizes that the Obama administration has far overstepped its constitutional boundaries in obtaining the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The political commentator denounced the Obama/Holder Justice Department’s actions on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, claiming the overreach was “appalling.” Roberts later criticized the administration’s…
Andrew Lautz
May 22nd, 2013 1:50 PM

Howard Dean Dismisses Benghazi Scandal as ‘Laughable Joke

Appearing on CNBC’s “Kudlow Report” with Larry Kudlow, former Democratic Party presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean dismissed the controversy surrounding the Benghazi terror attack as “ridiculous” and a “laughable joke,” The Blaze reported Tuesday.   “This is about issues that are important to the American people,” said RNC communications director Sean Spicer.
Joe Newby
May 22nd, 2013 1:21 PM

NYT Lawyer: Obama Worse Than Nixon, 'Worst President Ever' on Press Fr

James Goodale, the lawyer for The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case against the Nixon administration, declared in the Times on Tuesday that Obama is going to be worse than Nixon. “It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom,” he wrote.
Tim Graham
May 22nd, 2013 1:17 PM

Networks Play Promotional Video of 'Comeback Kid' Anthony Weiner Fight

All three networks on Wednesday played a promotional video of Anthony Weiner, hyping the mayoral run of the "comeback kid." On Good Morning America, former Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos showed an extended clip of the campaign video. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] But Stephanopoulos (who in his previous career defended Bill Clinton's against sexual scandals) didn't get into much…
Scott Whitlock
May 22nd, 2013 1:04 PM

NYT Devotes National News Story to Fla. Woman Finding 'Online Support

When does a textbook example of a "local crime story" become worthy of 18-paragraphs of coverage in the national news pages of the New York Times? Well, it helps if it services a socially liberal narrative. Bonus points if that narrative involves persecution for the sake of sexual orientation in some shape or form. And that's precisely why 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt's arrest for sex with her 14…
Ken Shepherd
May 22nd, 2013 12:45 PM

Another Controversy for the Obama Admin, But CNN Has Barely Reported T

Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has come under major scrutiny for bypassing Congress and soliciting donations from health executives to help support ObamaCare, yet CNN has barely mentioned the story. The Washington Post broke the news on May 10 that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had gone "hat in hand, to health industry officials" to support non-profits promoting ObamaCare.…
Matt Hadro
May 22nd, 2013 12:10 PM

Letterman: 'Obama's in So Much Trouble Politically He's Thinking of Ki

As NewsBusters reported last week, even David Letterman is now telling jokes about Barack Obama. The CBS Late Show host continued to do so Tuesday saying, "He's in so much trouble politically, the President, he's thinking about killing bin Laden again."
Noel Sheppard
May 22nd, 2013 11:53 AM

Left Defends Accused Sex Offender Because She’s Lesbian

When your 18-year-old daughter is expelled and charged with sexual battery of a child, one option is to go public and declare she’s a martyr under fire from anti-gay bias. That’s the approach taken by the parents of Kaitlyn Hunt, a Florida teen who faces two felony charges of “lewd or lascivious battery” on a child. And sure enough, the tactic has earned Hunt some high-profile left-wing media…
Matt Philbin
May 22nd, 2013 11:19 AM