After Terrible Storm, ABC Devotes 10 Minutes to Crime, Botox and Enter

Despite the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday, ABC's Good Morning America still found time to devote several segments to stunningly superficial topics, including getting Botox injections at age 20 and Matt Damon's gay love scenes with Michael Douglas in a new movie. Additionally, the network morning show offered yet another segment to the tabloid details of the Jodi Arias…
Scott Whitlock
May 21st, 2013 12:10 PM

Politico: Benghazi-focused CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's 'Computers

Dylan Byers of Politico reports “Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.” "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months. But I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've…
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2013 12:07 PM

ABC and CBS Ignore Obama Administration Investigating FNC's James Rose

While much of the news coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning was dominated by coverage of the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, Tuesday's NBC Today did manage to provide two news briefs, totaling a minute and fourteen seconds, to the stunning revelation that the Obama administration searched through the private emails of Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen,…
Kyle Drennen
May 21st, 2013 11:57 AM

MSNBC's Ratings Fall to Seven Year Lows

As NewsBusters has been reporting, Americans are tiring of MSNBC. Deadline reported Monday the liberal so-called "news" network's ratings last week dropped to levels not seen since 2006:
Noel Sheppard
May 21st, 2013 11:00 AM

CNN Anchor Hits Tom Coburn for Wanting Offsetting Cuts to Emergency Ai

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants any federal disaster relief sent to his tornado-ravaged state to be offset by other spending cuts, but CNN's Carol Costello thinks his stand to be either "extreme" or very untimely. "This is either extreme fiscal responsibility or a raging case of 'this is not the time,'" Costello mocked on Facebook and Twitter. The Senator is sticking to his fiscal principles…
Matt Hadro
May 21st, 2013 10:29 AM

Open Thread Tuesday

Discuss the news of the day and anything else you'd like.
NB Staff
May 21st, 2013 10:24 AM

Mediaite Writer Furthers MSNBC Spin On IRS Scandal: 'They Have To Pin

You just knew this was bound to happen. Some on the left are trying to blame George W. Bush for Obama's IRS fiasco.  Take for example Mediaite's resident Obama apologist Tommy Christopher, who wrote a much ado about nothing post on May 16 insinuating that this egregious abuse of government power stems from former Bush appointed IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman – and that credit for clearing…
Matt Vespa
May 21st, 2013 10:13 AM

Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc

In remarks which will more than likely be ignored by the establishment press, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in essence blamed yesterday's deadly tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma on Republicans who have "run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings." Whitehouse was intensely upset because, in his view these red state ignoramuses who are allowing ever more intense,…
Tom Blumer
May 21st, 2013 10:08 AM

HuffPo Live: Gender Bending a ‘Benefit’ for Children

Panel decries gender ‘myths.’
Lauren Enk
May 21st, 2013 10:06 AM

NBC's Gregory Scolds GOP for Comparing Obama to Nixon

On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama administration and those that occurred under President Nixon: "Would you call on Republicans who talk about impeaching the President or who talk about this as a Nixonian-style cover-up with regard to…
Kyle Drennen
May 21st, 2013 10:05 AM

On Leno: Kids Ask Obama the Darndest Questions

Ever since he announced he was stepping down as Tonight Show host Jay Leno has seemingly been harder on Barack Obama. Well on Monday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno that trend continued as Leno featured a clip of schoolchildren peppering the President with the tough questions that the press should be hammering him with on a daily basis. Watch and laugh. (Video after the jump)
Geoffrey Dickens
May 21st, 2013 9:47 AM

CBS Highlights Ex-IRS Staffer Who Declares There Were No Politics at C

Monday’s CBS Evening News took one break from Oklahoma tornado coverage – to run a piece on how an IRS manager who recently retired from the Cincinnati office, where 501 (c)(4) applications were processed, declared “politics and religion were things that people generally didn’t talk about at work.” Reporter Dean Reynolds focused on the assurances by Bonnie Esrig, who was also featured in a…
Brent Baker
May 21st, 2013 8:47 AM

MSNBC's Hayes Gang: Media Is Too White, Headed for 'GOP-Style Problems

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is getting credit from liberals for having an explicit racial-quota system of guest selection. That quota mentality extended to the Hayes show’s website, where producer Collier Meyerson complained that the percentage of minorities in the media is declining. She interviewed MSM veteran Farai Chideya, who said  the media "may be creating for itself GOP-style problems.” An…
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2013 8:12 AM

Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only

As NewsBusters reported, a deadly tornado stroke Oklahoma Monday. At approximately the same time it was bearing down to kill innocent people, Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of Comedy Central's Daily Show, commented on Twitter, "This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives":
Noel Sheppard
May 21st, 2013 1:00 AM