Chris Matthews Takes Cheap Shot at George W. Bush

Years after President George W. Bush has left office, Chris Matthews still cannot resist taking a cheap and groundless shot at the former president. In his latest effort, Matthews has implied that the 43rd President did not write his own memoirs. On this weekend's The Chris Matthews Show (Sun., 1/15/12), Matthews began his weekly "Tell Me Something I Don't Know Segment" by turning to one of…
Dave Pierre
January 15th, 2012 4:15 PM

Stephen Colbert Calls Stephanopoulos 'A Political Operative,' Gets Twi

ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday proved once and for all what a joke he is. Not only did the This Week host give twice the airtime to faux political candidate Stephen Colbert as Texas governor Rick Perry, he did so after the Comedy Central star called him "a political operative" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2012 3:32 PM

Sean Hannity, Gingrich Remember the 'Magnetic,' 'Remarkable' Tony Bla

In Friday's Washington Times, media and political heavyweights such as Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, James Carville and others remembered the "magnetic personality" of Tony Blankley. The Times devoted four pages to honor its late editorial page editor (who passed away last weekend). Hannity enthused, "It is sad to lose him at such an integral time in our nation’s history, of which he was highly…
Scott Whitlock
January 15th, 2012 2:53 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Punching Privatizer Ryan

Political rhetoric has grown harsher over the past few decades, but it almost always stops short of advocating violence or even fantasizing about doing physical harm. This past week, however, one Kossack declared that a certain Wisconsin GOP congressman deserves a few fists to the face because he backs Medicare reform.  As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
January 15th, 2012 2:36 PM

Glenn Beck TV's Amy Holmes Schools Current's David Shuster on Bain Cap

CNN must have known that when it pitted Glenn Beck TV's Amy Holmes against the perilously liberal David Shuster of Al Gore's Current TV, sparks were going to fly. On Sunday's Reliable Sources, when the media's coverage of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Bain Capital surfaced, the pair did end up facing off with Holmes not surprisingly looking like the only adult in the room…
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2012 2:14 PM

Ayad Allawi: Obama Was Wrong - Iraq Is 'Neither Stable Nor Democratic

Iraq’s former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that President Obama was wrong when he claimed the United States left Iraq as a stable and democratic country. Appearing on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Allawi said, "It’s neither stable nor democratic, frankly speaking. The terrorists are hitting again very severely. Al Qaeda is fully operational now in Iraq" (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2012 11:39 AM

Barely News: North Korea's 'Criticism Sessions' and Reported Punishmen

Yet another episode being reported from the totalitarian nightmare that is North Korea is getting short shrift in most of the world's press, namely "criticism sessions" (i.e., rat out your neighbor, coworker, etc.) identifying North Koreans who allegedly weren't sufficiently grief-stricken over the December death of Kim Jong Il (pictured at right), weren't sufficiently demonstrative about it,…
Tom Blumer
January 15th, 2012 9:52 AM

SNL Rips Romney, Depicts Him Firing Everything - Even Food - in South

It wasn't only the press that completely misunderstood and therefore misrepresented Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claim this week that he likes being able to fire people. NBC's Saturday Night Live actually began Saturday's show with a sketch depicting the former Massachusetts governor trying to fire everything - including the food! - at a South Carolina diner (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
January 15th, 2012 9:14 AM

Newsweek Slams Liberal Reporter For Ignoring Angry Michelle Obama's 'G

Newsweek’s Allison Samuels bluntly took Michelle Obama’s side against liberal New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who somehow caused the First Lady to assert she was being painted as an angry black woman, so sad to blacks who Samuels wrote “were certain the mere presence of Michelle Obama on the international stage” would fix things. “Surely it would be impossible to ignore the grace, charm…
Tim Graham
January 15th, 2012 8:27 AM

DNC Debbie: Santorum is 'Un-American' on LGBTs

DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is an ardent advocate for the homosexual community. In an interview with the gay newspaper The Washington Blade, she called presidential candidate Rick Santorum “un-American” for supporting a federal traditional-marriage amendment. “That would be un-American, undemocratic and entirely inappropriate and unacceptable,” she insisted. At the same time,…
Tim Graham
January 15th, 2012 8:02 AM

Time Magazine: Opposing TV Profanity Is 'Misguided' and Living In a 'F

Across its listing of blogs, Time magazine is managing to achieve complete liberal harmony. While the Time Healthland blog was encouraging the broadcast of breast-feeding to pre-schoolers on "Sesame Street," the Time Ideas blog was insisting "Our Concern Over 'Indecency' Is Misguided." Don't miss the quote-marks around "indecency." Erika Christakis and her husband Nicholas Christakis have the…
Tim Graham
January 15th, 2012 7:47 AM

MSNBC Figures Out How Romney Should Sell Bain -- He Needs Bill Clinton

On the Friday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Mitchell was trying to "help" Mitt Romney with all those anti-Bain Capital attacks. "It seems to me that Mitt Romney has to figure out a way to get around the vulture capitalist, you know, we are using that phrase as it comes from Rick Perry and others on the Republican side, using that phrase in quotation marks, he has to find a better…
Tim Graham
January 14th, 2012 4:30 PM

Eleanor Clift: Romney Withholding Tax Returns Because They'd Show Offs

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has up to this point opted not to make his tax returns public. Not surprisingly, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift smells a rat and expressed her conspiratorial opinion during the predictions segment of PBS's McLaughlin Group Friday (video follows with transcript):
Noel Sheppard
January 14th, 2012 3:41 PM

McLaughlin Group Pays Tribute to Tony Blankley

Like a lot of Americans who live outside the D.C. metro area, I was first introduced to Tony Blankley by PBS's McLaughlin Group. It was therefore quite fitting that host John McLaughlin as well as panelists Michelle Bernard, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, and Clarence Page on Friday paid tribute to Blankley who sadly passed away last Saturday (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 14th, 2012 3:21 PM