ABC Wants to Move on From IRS Scandal: 'White House Firing Back' and

The journalists at Good Morning America on Thursday floated the idea that Barack Obama is poised to move on from the Internal Revenue Service scandal. One day after the President announced the resignation of the acting IRS commissioner, co-host George Stephanopoulos trumpeted, "The White House firing back. The President's team firing on all fronts, promising immediate action as the scandals…
Scott Whitlock
May 16th, 2013 12:09 PM

NYT's Peters Hits 'Waste of Time' Obama-Care Repeal Votes and GOP's 'M

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters let the Republicans in Congress know he was tired of their silly and "waste of time" attempts to repeal Obamacare in Wednesday's "House to Vote Yet Again On Health Care Repeal." (Peters was last seen helping Chuck Hagel, Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, limp across the confirmation finish line.) He wrote on Wednesday:
Clay Waters
May 16th, 2013 11:59 AM

Reality Shows Trump Fiction Showing What Businessmen Are Like

With the entertainment industry pumping out a different crop of reality shows every season, a new phenomenon had occurred. Business, success, and making money are suddenly portrayed positively. Reality shows depict business as a positive thing because, in reality, average Americans don’t see business and money as an inherently bad thing. That’s a complete turn-around from how businessmen have…
Liz Thatcher
May 16th, 2013 11:54 AM

NYT's Parker Grouses Obama 'Wined and Dined' the 'Bad Date' GOP Congre

As multiple scandals engulfed the presidency, "Watching Washington This Week," a nytimes.com video featuring New York Times congressional reporters Jeremy Peters and Ashley Parker having a pseudo-informal chat outside the White House, managed to place President Obama as the victim of a cold Republican Congress.
Clay Waters
May 16th, 2013 11:16 AM

Morning Joe's Mika Laments GOP Being Right On IRS Targeting Conservati

MSNBC brews up a fresh pot of liberal talking points every morning with Morning Joe and its liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski. Brzezinski lets it known every day that she is not only extremely liberal, but looks for every opportunity she can to criticize conservatives on a regular basis. But as a result of her fervent partisanship, Mika has trouble admitting when conservatives are right on an…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 16th, 2013 11:14 AM

Dan Rather: 'The Republicans Must Be Slapping High Five Behind Closed

Dan Rather said something on MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday that is likely giving liberal media members across the fruited plain serious heartburn. In a discussion about the various scandals now plaguing the White House, Rather said, "The Republicans must be slapping high five behind closed doors" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 16th, 2013 10:14 AM

The PBS Fall Season: Black History, Latino History, Streisand, and Pil

PBS has announced its new fall schedule, and it unfolds like a reinforced liberal stereotype. It includes a "landmark" six-hour series on Latino-American history narrated by Benjamin Bratt, and a six-hour series on African-American history narrated by Henry Louis “Beer Summit” Gates, from America's colonial period "up to the present day — when America has a black president yet remains a nation…
Tim Graham
May 16th, 2013 8:07 AM

ACLU Demands a Big Gay Wedding on ABC's 'Modern Family

ACLU Action, a new initiative of the American Civil Liberties Union, has launched a campaign pressuring ABC and the producers of the sitcom "Modern Family" to make a gay-wedding episode for the characters Cam and Mitchell.  They created a website at ModernFamilyWedding.com. "The freedom to marry is being advanced in American living rooms as much as in court rooms," said ACLU Executive…
Tim Graham
May 16th, 2013 6:53 AM

Jon Stewart Slams Obama Claim He Learned About IRS Scandal 'Last Frida

It's easy to tell that President Obama is going through a scandal-ridden “tough time” since he's even under fire from Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show” on the Comedy Central cable channel, who said on Tuesday that the Democratic occupant of the White House “can't keep saying you found out about news at the same time as us!” The liberal comedian said he found it strange that the president…
Randy Hall
May 15th, 2013 10:50 PM

Coulter Column: Sorry, Sen. Rubio, But Your Immigration Plan Is Still

The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio's plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation's budget deficits over the next 50 years. Heritage assumed there are 11.5 million illegals, but other estimates put the number at 33 million, which would mean adding another $18 trillion to the deficit. To…
Ann Coulter
May 15th, 2013 6:45 PM

Want Approval from IRS for Your 501(c)3? A Liberal-sounding Name Helps

Chris Moody of Yahoo! News has a great story this afternoon about the saga the conservative media watchdogs at MediaTrackers had with the Obama IRS. The long and short of it is that after after waiting for more than a year for IRS to approve his 501(c)3 application for the group, conservative activist Drew Ryun  "determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit…
Ken Shepherd
May 15th, 2013 6:26 PM

CNN's Keilar Admits Benghazi Accusations Morphed From 'Right-Wing Obse

On Wednesday's Starting Point, CNN's Brianna Keilar twice noted that accusations that the White House "downplayed the role of terrorism" in the Benghazi attacks went from being a "right-wing obsession" to "mainstream news." "The White House has also been plagued recently by questions about whether it downplayed the role of terrorism in that September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…
Matt Hadro
May 15th, 2013 6:04 PM

Chris Matthews: Media Are 'Pro-Obama'; If President Disagrees, He's 'C

Even Chris Matthews admits it. Talking to the liberal Alex Wagner on Wednesday's Hardball about the IRS scandal, the cable host came clean on the press and their love for Barack Obama. After Wagner insisted that the President was tired of an "unfair media," Matthews scoffed, "Let me tell you something. The press has generally been pro-Obama. That's a fact." If the President disagrees, "he's…
Scott Whitlock
May 15th, 2013 5:56 PM

NBC's Gregory Can Only Muster Critique of Obama's 'Passivity' Amid Sca

With a headline on screen lamenting "Obama's Second-Term Blues" on Wednesday's NBC Today, the worst criticism Meet the Press moderator David Gregory could muster against the President amid growing scandals was this: "And there is a passivity about the President and the White House that even his aides and allies on the outside acknowledge is a problem. Why there has not been a faster, more…
Kyle Drennen
May 15th, 2013 5:41 PM