National Journal's Report on Missing Workers Misstates History of Labo

Give Nancy Cook at NationalJournal.com credit for a generally well-written though somewhat naive report ("Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of 'Missing Workers'") on the unprecedented plight of the millions of adults who have dropped out of the labor force. But in discussing the "glaring caveat" in Friday's employment report from the government, namely that "the '…
Tom Blumer
May 4th, 2013 9:12 PM

Pat Buchanan: ‘Amnesty and Path to Citizenship Lead to Erasure of So

“If you get amnesty and a path to citizenship, what the Mexican president wants, that will lead to the erasure of the southern border of the United States.” So ominously stated syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan on PBS’s McLaughlin Group Friday.
Noel Sheppard
May 4th, 2013 6:13 PM

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Joe 'Big F-ing Deal' Biden an 'Elegant Guy' Who

Do liberal media members actually pay attention to what's happening in the world, or do their opinions just come out of thin air? Consider actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus who appearing on TBS's Conan Thursday actually said Vice President Joe Biden - he of the "This is a big f--king deal" crowd - is an "elegant guy" who wouldn't swear (video follows with transcribed lowlights and commentary":
Noel Sheppard
May 4th, 2013 5:02 PM

NPR Exaggerates How the Dixie Chicks Were 'Effectively Blacklisted' Un

When Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks said on stage in London days before the Iraq War began in 2003  that she was ashamed to be from the same state as President Bush, it caused a firestorm of protest among country music fans. But among the liberal media, they became the hottest property going. Their tour continued, they were naked on the cover of Entertainment Weekly to mark the protest and…
Tim Graham
May 4th, 2013 4:36 PM

Thom Hartmann Finds the Real Terrorists: Ronald McDonald and the Burge

Thom Hartmann was talking about political violence on his show on Thursday. A poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University showed 44 percent of Republicans believed political revolution would be necessary. Hartmann remarked: “Do you think that the Republicans are gonna mount an armed revolution? Didn't they try that in 1860 or '61?” Then he talked terrorism. Hartmann argued that Christianity and…
Tim Graham
May 4th, 2013 1:39 PM

Lawrence O’Donnell: Obama’s Tax Rate ‘In the High Twenties’; N

It really is amazing how liberal media members regularly make false statements on national television with total impunity. Consider MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell who twice on HBO's Real Time Friday arrogantly claimed that the Obamas' federal income tax rate was "in the high twenties" (video follows with transcribed lowlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 4th, 2013 12:45 PM

Maher: Obama Would Still Be a Community Organizer If He’d Been Buste

Bill Maher said something on HBO's Real Time Friday that Barack Obama's fans in the media didn't consider when they promoted the former junior senator from Illinois to the White House. "This president wouldn't be president if they had caught him" smoking pot. "He'd still be a community organizer" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 4th, 2013 12:01 PM

Bozell Column: P.C. and the NBA

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III started tongues wagging when he posted this cryptic message on Twitter: “In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.” This was in response to liberal activists showing their rabid intolerance by demanding, so obnoxiously, that the Washington Redskins be renamed the “Redtails.” But the sentiment absolutely…
Brent Bozell
May 4th, 2013 8:11 AM

NPR Wants to Make America Safe for Sixth-Grade Sex

NPR has a seriously bad habit of running “news” stories that are stuffed with liberals...who then aren’t called liberals. On Thursday’s All Things Considered, NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner reported on how Team Obama is queasy about letting girls under 15 – middle-school girls -- get access to “emergency contraceptives,” even after a federal judge mandated they be sold to all ages…
Tim Graham
May 4th, 2013 7:24 AM

Democratic Activist James Carville Denies MSNBC Hosts Are 'Far Left

What's the difference between someone with a “far-left” philosophy and a person who's a “liberal?” Bill O'Reilly received an interesting answer to that question while interviewing Democratic strategist James Carville during Thursday night's edition of “The O'Reilly Factor.” Carville said that far-left people, including the protesters who clashed with police in Seattle on May 1, are criminals…
Randy Hall
May 4th, 2013 6:12 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Pink Flag on the Play

To many, Jason Collins's coming-out was a major sociocultural breakthrough. To one Kossack, however, true progress will wait for the day when an NFL franchise fields "an entire team of ass-kicking gays" who defeat homophobia one touchdown at a time.   As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
May 3rd, 2013 11:10 PM

WashPost Laments School System 'Shortfall', Hints Scaled-back Tax Hike

Government bureaucrats often spend the taxpayers' money on the basis of rosy assumptions from tax revenue. Of course, in doing so, they sometimes get burned. But when they are, have no fear, because the Washington Post will lament their plight. Such was the case recently with the Fairfax County, Va., school board, which the Washington Post gripes is left "with a $30 million shortfall" because…
Ken Shepherd
May 3rd, 2013 8:00 PM

MSNBC Host Harris-Perry Blames NRA for Airport Shooting in Houston

Coming up next on MSNBC, further evidence of the link between global warming and the National Rifle Association, which the gun lobby inexplicably continues to deny ... How reassuring it is for liberals to trot out their various all-purpose boogeymen to blame for whatever frustrates liberals at any given moment.
Jack Coleman
May 3rd, 2013 7:40 PM

WashPost Media Blogger Slices and Dices NARAL Leader's Claim They Were

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple spends a lot of time picking apart Fox broadcasts, but he was stunned by a Thomas Roberts interview on MSNBC with the new leader of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Ilyse Hogue. She claimed “we were the first out of the gate to call attention to this case.” Like a news butler, Roberts set her up to make that bizarre claim and then moved on to the next…
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2013 7:16 PM