Gannett's Journal-News in New York Defends Publishing Gun Permit Holde

Here's another entry for the "They can dish it out but can't take it" file. Jammie Wearing Fool is reporting, with supporting links, that Editor CynDee Royle at the Journal News headquartered in White Plains, New York, which on Saturday, as noted on Monday at NewsBusters, published an interactive map showing the names and address of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2012 3:33 PM

CBS Tees Up Pollster to Chide NRA

On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, co-host Rebecca Jarvis asked a pollster for a liberal anti-gun group what he thought of the NRA's response to the Newtown shooting. CBS hosted Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist but also a pollster for Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Co-host Rebecca Jarvis asked him, "what do you make of the NRA's strategy here to say there should be someone in every school…
Matt Hadro
December 26th, 2012 2:51 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Christmas Means Nothing Without the Resurrectio

At the very core of Christianity is the historical authenticity of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. But for His resurrection, we would not be celebrating His birth. The Apostle Paul said, "And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain."
David Limbaugh
December 26th, 2012 2:35 PM

DC Police: NBC Was Denied Permission to Show High Capacity Magazine

It's pretty close to a tie, but based on time stamps, Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson, at 11:23 a.m., was 22 minutes ahead of local DC TV station WJLA in breaking an important update to the David Gregory magazine clip saga going back to Sunday's Meet the Press program. (The classless credit hogs at Politico published a related story, didn't credit Jacobson, and while citing WJLA, failed…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2012 2:29 PM

AP on Egypt's Consitution: 'A New Chapter in Egypt's Two-year Transiti

In a Wednesday morning report, the Associated Press's Sarah El Deeb certainly did her best to continue the ongoing campaign to convince the West that there's really nothing about which we should be concerned in Egypt's newly approved Constitution. She characterized it as "a new chapter in Egypt's two-year transition from authoritarian rule" and quoted a group whose Facebook page doesn't exist (…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2012 1:03 PM

'Disabled' Workers Hit New Record in December

Terry Jeffrey at CNSNews.com is breaking out the bad news: “The Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal 2012 as the program brought in $725.429 billion in cash and paid $773.247 for benefits and overhead expenses. Not only that, but “the number of workers collecting disability benefits hit a record 8,827,795 in December--up from 8,805,353 in November.” Chalk this up as…
Tim Graham
December 26th, 2012 12:55 PM

CBS Fails to Note How Much Harry Reid's Plan Would Actually Cut From t

On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, national correspondent Chip Reid glossed over proposals in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's fiscal cliff plan that would add to the deficit. "The bill would also extend long-term unemployment benefits, patch up the alternative minimum tax that threatens to hit even more middle class families and prevent a scheduled dropoff in Medicare reimbursement to…
Matt Hadro
December 26th, 2012 12:47 PM

ABC Hypes Obamas' Love Life, Barely Mentions Impending Fiscal Cliff

ABC’s Good Morning America barely talked about the upcoming fiscal cliff on Wednesday but found time for another Obama-promoting fluff piece. Previewing Barbara Walters's upcoming interview with Mr. and Mrs. Obama on Wednesday evening’s Nightline, GMA picked a clip of Walters fawning over the couple's romance. Walters touted "the most-shared photograph in the history of Twitter" of the…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 26th, 2012 12:27 PM

Heads Didn't Roll: State Department Officials Who 'Resigned' Over Beng

On December 18, in covering the aftermath of the official report on the terrorist raid on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the Associated Press reported in the first three paragraphs of its coverage that "Three State Department officials resigned under pressure," identifying those who had stepped down as "Eric…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2012 11:00 AM

HuffPo Shocker: ‘President Clinton's Policies Sent the Economy Serio

Here’s something I bet you thought you’d never see at the perilously liberal Huffington Post. In a Dean Baker article published Tuesday with the astonishing title “There Is No Santa Claus and Bill Clinton Was Not an Economic Savior,” the second sentence read, “Just as little kids have to come to grips with the fact that there is no Santa Claus, it is necessary for millions of liberals,…
Noel Sheppard
December 26th, 2012 8:26 AM

Media Turn Pope's Deep Speech on Gender Politics Into a Personal Chris

Does anyone in the media ever attempt to read and understand the speeches of Pope Benedict? The New York Daily News account of his December 21 speech to the curia (the “Vatican bureaucracy”) is being mangled by the Daily Kos into “Pope gives special holiday hate speech against gays because it's Christmas.” The Mediaite headline (off London’s Daily Mail) is “Merry Christmas? Pope Benedict XVI…
Tim Graham
December 26th, 2012 7:33 AM

NY Post: Brian Williams to Start Distancing Himself From the Strugglin

NBC’s decision to give Nightly News anchor Brian Williams his own primetime program has been tremendously unsuccessful. According to the New York Post, things are going so poorly for Rock Center that Williams is going to start distancing himself from it:
Noel Sheppard
December 26th, 2012 7:32 AM

NBC's David Gregory Under Investigation by DC PD in 'Meet the Press' M

Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart, Katie Glueck at the Politico, and William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection all reported today that NBC's David Gregory is under investigation by the Washington, DC Metro Police in connection with his apparent brandishing of "a 30-round magazine purportedly for an AR-15 or similar 'assault rifle'" on Sunday morning's "Meet the Press" program. Jacobson further…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2012 1:49 AM

Bozell Column: State-Run Broadcasting Pushes for Higher Taxes

A “serious” proposal is one that has a reasonable expectation of resolving a conflict. Anyone studying Speaker Boehner's Plan B proposal knows it wasn't serious. Why are so many defending it, and bemoaning its defeat? It tells you an awful lot about the dishonest nature of politics in America today.
Brent Bozell
December 25th, 2012 9:24 PM