MRC Study: Ed's Obsession, Anti-Scott Walker Guests Dominate The Ed Sh

Tuesday’s recall election in Wisconsin marks the end point of MSNBC’s Ed Schultz’s 15 month-long mission to destroy Scott Walker. The conservative Republican governor’s attempt to fix that state’s budget crisis, by reigning in the public unions’ influence, sent Schultz on a rampage. The liberal talk show host turned his self-titled program, The Ed Show, into a hyper-partisan platform from which…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 31st, 2012 9:33 AM

Open Thread: Obama's Money Problem

John Heilemann's lengthy reported chronicle of the campaign strategies of the presidential campaigns has been out for a few days and is must-reading if you haven't checked it out yet. One key portion of the article concerns President Obama's money problem. After campaign aides boasted that they would raise near $1 billion in support of their candidate, reality has proven their predictions to be…
Matthew Sheffield
May 31st, 2012 9:31 AM

Surprise! Broadcast Networks Ignore Abortion Investigation

There is nothing more predictable than networks burying negative news about Planned Parenthood. Pro-life organization Live Action recently came out with a disturbing video showing a Planned Parenthood staffer in Texas assisting a Live Action actor to obtain a sex-selection abortion. That practice is where a fetus is aborted if the child is discovered to be of a certain gender (usually…
Paul Wilson
May 31st, 2012 9:10 AM

Politico: Liberal Media Bias 'Often Rings True, Even to People Who Don

NewsBusters reported Thursday disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather said the idea of liberal media bias "is a sham." Hours later, Politico surprisingly took a different position saying the presence of such bias "often rings true, even to people who don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh":
Noel Sheppard
May 31st, 2012 9:04 AM

Schultz and MSNBC Launch 'Get Out The Vote' Effort Against Scott Walke

Fox News has come under "withering criticism" after Fox & Friends yesterday aired what's been described as a campaign-style video, created by an associate producer, contrasting President Obama's words with his job performance. A top Fox exec said the video "was not authorized at the network's senior level" that "senior executives would not have approved it and the matter was addressed with…
Mark Finkelstein
May 31st, 2012 8:28 AM

NBC's Mitchell Contradicts Herself on Romney's Criticism of Obama's Sy

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, a piece by correspondent Andrea Mitchell incorrectly claimed that Mitt Romney "doesn't say how" he believes the Obama administration should assist rebels who are fighting against Bashar Assad's rule of Syria, giving the impression that the GOP presidential candidate was criticizing President Obama without offering constructive ideas. She even hinted that Romney…
Brad Wilmouth
May 31st, 2012 8:03 AM

USAT's Ben Jones Also Ignores Massive Union Funding of Wis. Recall Ele

On May 27, going to the same theme Scott Bauer employed at the Associated Press yesterday, USA Today's Ben Jones did his level best to cast Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as the richly funded perpetual campaigner, while portraying Walker's recall challenger, former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, as the underfunded man of the people underdog. Of course, as was the with Bauer's bombast, there's not…
Tom Blumer
May 31st, 2012 7:33 AM

AP Demands 'Prostitution-Free Zone' In Front of Its DC Bureau

Jim Romenesko's media-news site  is inspiring today's round of jokes about servile reporters by noting the Associated Press is trying to get the street space in front of its Washington bureau declared a "prostitution-free zone." 'I’ve been in touch with the commander of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District about the resurgence of the prostitution problem in front of our bureau…
Tim Graham
May 31st, 2012 7:01 AM

Dan Rather: Most Journalists Aren't Liberal - 'This Is a Sham

Dan Rather told Jon Stewart Wednesday evening that most journalists aren't liberal. Although one would think the disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor fired for presenting forged documents about President George W. Bush months before the 2004 elections was kidding given the venue being Comedy Central's Daily Show, Rather was actually serious (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 31st, 2012 1:17 AM

NBC's Today Interviews Mexican Actor Who Stars in Religious-Liberty Fi

NBC's Today on Monday featured an interview in its fourth hour with Mexican actor Eduardo Verastegui, a star in the film "For Greater Glory" which chronicles Mexico's persecution of Catholics in the 1920s. Brent Bozell has urged people to see it when it debuts this weekend. Verastegui, who also starred in the pro-life film "Bella," explained “This film is an action epic film about the men and…
Tim Graham
May 30th, 2012 10:56 PM

Psst, Don't Tell Anyone: Four-term Former Congressman and Obama 2008 C

You might think that the news of an African-American former Congressman switching his publicly declared party loyalty from Democrat to Republican would a national story. Well, it isn't at the Associated Press, as a search returning no results at the wire service's national site on the full name of former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis (not in quotes) done at about 9 p.m. indicates.…
Tom Blumer
May 30th, 2012 9:40 PM

Gayle King Scolds Country Music Industry For 'Rejecting' Lesbian Singe

Gayle King forwarded the agenda of the cultural left on Wednesday's CBS This Morning as she interviewed country music artist Chely Wright, an open homosexual. The Obama-supporting anchor targeted the country music industry for supposedly giving Wright the cold shoulder: "I'm a little disappointed and surprised by the reaction of the country music industry....they do seem, Chely, to have…
Matthew Balan
May 30th, 2012 7:28 PM

AP's Bauer Obsesses Over Walker Fundraising, Ignores Union Money and R

Though he hasn't been alone in his applying the campaign fundraisng double standard in Wisconsin's recall election, Scott Bauer at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, has a particularly odious item today about the dollars raised by each side. It's particularly odious because the word "unions" appears only once -- as the target of Walker, who has, as Bauer sees it, "rocketed to…
Tom Blumer
May 30th, 2012 6:27 PM

Coulter Column: The GOP's Whistling Past the End of America

An election almost as important as the presidential election will be held next Tuesday, and conservatives aren't making a big deal of it, just as they didn't make a fuss over the 2008 Minnesota Senate election as Al Franken stole it from under their noses. (Gov. Tim Pawlenty: "Minnesota has a reputation for clean and fair and good elections. We've got 4,100 precincts run by volunteers. They…
Ann Coulter
May 30th, 2012 6:18 PM