Bill Clinton Introduces ‘Lincoln’ for Best Motion Picture at Golde

The Golden Globe Awards had a surprising guest presenter Sunday evening. To a standing ovation, former President Bill Clinton walked onto the stage to introduce “Lincoln” for 2012's best motion picture in the drama category (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 9:28 PM

TV Critic Gail Shister Compares Joe Scarborough to Chris Matthews

TVNewser's Gail Shister had some harsh words for MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Sunday. Appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources, the TV critic said, "Joe Scarborough talks when he inhales. I've never seen anybody this side of Chris Matthews who interrupts as much as he does" (video follows with CNN transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 6:23 PM

Politico's Byers Churns Out Over 2,000 Words on 'Al Jazeera America: W

Before Current TV sold itself to Al Jazeera, allowing former Vice President Al Gore to walk away with a reported $100 million, making him (according to Forbes Magazine) richer than the left's designated archvillain Mitt Romney, the network's average audience was between 25,000 and 45,000. The burning question on the mind of Dylan Byers Saturday afternoon at the Politico -- a question that…
Tom Blumer
January 13th, 2013 5:55 PM

Powell on MTP: GOP Has 'A Dark Vein of Intolerance

President Barack Obama and his administration have been on the receiving end of a great deal of leftist criticism recently for its "lack of diversity" (to be clear, I find that entire discussion tiresome, as it would be more productive to spend time on problems like John Kerry's anti-American history, Jack Lew's bankrupting budgetary intransigence, and Eric Holder's unprecedented obsession with…
Tom Blumer
January 13th, 2013 4:05 PM

Schieffer Hyperventilates Over Imaginary ‘Horrendous... Gargantuan C

Reflecting the typical Washington definition of a budget “cut” – in which a slight reduction in a projected increase is a “cut” and a measurable decrease in the rate of growth is a “draconian” cut -- on Sunday’s Face the Nation CBS’s Bob Schieffer despaired over how “to stave off these horrendous, these gargantuan cuts in defense and social programs” in the sequester? In fact, as Veronique…
Brent Baker
January 13th, 2013 3:20 PM

Politico Editor: With Gun Control 'Obama Is Risking the Opportunity to

As the gun-hating media encourage Democrats to push for tighter firearms restrictions, most of them have ignored the political realities inherent in such legislation. That's why it was surprising to see Politico editor-in-chief John Harris say on Sunday's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, "Among the dynamics that President Obama is battling is not just the NRA’s opposition but the real…
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 3:13 PM

Howard Fineman: 'Tea Party People Are Not Here To Legislate. They're H

The media's hatred of the Tea Party knows no bounds. On Sunday's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman said, "The Tea Party people are not here to legislate. They're here to demonstrate" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 2:41 PM

Andrea Mitchell: Women On Obama's Staff 'Are Not Happy' With His White

At roughly the same time CNN's Candy Crowley was asking her guests if it matters that President Obama is appointing exclusively white men to fill vacancies in his cabinet, NBC's Andrea Mitchell was saying it clearly does. Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, Mitchell said that women that she's talked to on Obama's staff "are not happy" about this (video follows with transcript and commentary…
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 1:21 PM

Candy Crowley On Lack Of Diversity In Obama White House: 'Does It Matt

It really has been amazing to watch Obama's media cover for the lack of diversity in his cabinet picks. A fine example of this hypocrisy came on CNN's State of the Union Sunday when host Candy Crowley actually began a segment on the subject by asking her guests, "Does it matter?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 11:12 AM

NRA President Schools Candy Crowley: Obama and Feinstein Are Driving G

CNN's Candy Crowley on Sunday floated the typical media nonsense about how the National Rifle Association is ginning up fear to sell more guns in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. Fortunately for State of the Union viewers, NRA President David Keene was on the set to correctly point out, "The two people who are selling so-called assault rifles are Senator Feinstein and…
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2013 10:22 AM

Miss New York, the New Miss America, Espouses Liberal Conventional Wis

Minutes before being crowned Miss America on Saturday night, Miss New York, Mallory Hytes Hagan, matched the attitude toward guns espoused by her very liberal Governor, Andrew Cuomo. Asked by judge Sam Champion, the weather-reader for ABC’s Good Morning America, about putting armed guards in schools, Hagen condemned the concept, insisting: “The answer is not to fight violence with violence…
Brent Baker
January 13th, 2013 12:31 AM

Imagine That: World Population Projected to Peak in 60 Years

Paul "The Population Bomb" Ehrlich, call your office. Oh, never mind. You've never cared about the truth anyway, or the fact that your predictions of worldwide calamity have been far off the mark, but you sure have received a lot of attention from the establishment press over the past several decades. According to Jeff Wise at Slate.com on Wednesday, "researchers at Austria’s International…
Tom Blumer
January 12th, 2013 6:39 PM

'Girls' Star Lena Dunham Compares Republicans To Nazis

Liberals really amaze me. In an interview with Vulture Friday, Girls star Lena Dunham actually compared Republicans to Nazis.
Noel Sheppard
January 12th, 2013 5:55 PM

Jerry Springer: 'I Am the Father of the Destruction of Western Civiliz

Jerry Springer made an admission Friday that Americans on both sides of the aisle might agree with. "I am the father of the destruction of Western civilization" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 12th, 2013 2:55 PM