MSNBC Gives Platform for Tebow-bashing, This Time by Leftist Writer Da

"I have lost the debate on Tim Tebow’s skill as a quarterback. But I’ll still challenge Tim Tebow’s politics for as long as necessary. And in that battle, the fight continues." That's how leftist sportswriter Dave Zirin concluded a January 8 column at EdgeofSports.com. So naturally Zirin was the perfect guest for MSNBC to bring on today to discuss the "polarizing" Tim Tebow. [MP3 audio…
Ken Shepherd
January 13th, 2012 3:45 PM

NBC's Today Turns 60: Top 5 Silliest Moments on Today

This week NBC’s Today show has been celebrating 60 years on the air, and for over 20 of those years the MRC has been documenting that show’s morning show’s liberal agenda. Earlier this week, Newsbusters took a look at that show’s Top 10 Most Obnoxiously Liberal Quotes, today it’s time to review some of the silly moments on Today. From former anchor and millionaire Katie Couric fretting about…
Geoffrey Dickens
January 13th, 2012 3:24 PM

Michael Moore: Older Whites That Didn't Vote for Obama Are Racist

Schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore believes that the older generations of white people are all racist because they didn't vote for Barack Obama in 2008. In his warped view - sadly espoused at Thursday's Symposium on Poverty hosted by PBS's Tavis Smiley and aired on C-SPAN - because "the only white age group that President Obama won was 18 to 29 year olds," all older Caucasians must be…
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2012 2:32 PM

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Joy Behar's 'A Closet Republican - She's Just No

The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck said Thursday that co-host Joy Behar is a closet Republican. Such occurred after NBC Late Night's Jimmy Fallon asked her, "Is it hard to be the only conservative on The View? I mean, basically you're getting into arguments every single day" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2012 12:50 PM

The Obamas Wish NBC's Today a Happy 60th Anniversary

Amid the 60th Anniversary celebrations on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: "Remember the ad campaign over the years that called us, 'America's First Family'? Well, we are honored this morning to have a message of congratulations from America's real First Family." A clip played of Barack and Michelle Obama praising the morning show as "part of American culture." [Audio available…
Kyle Drennen
January 13th, 2012 12:47 PM

CNN's O'Brien Grills 'The Obamas' Author Over 'Controversial' Portrait

In a testy interview Friday morning on CNN's Starting Point, host Soledad O'Brien gave Times reporter Jodi Kantor the third degree over the credibility of her new book "The Obamas." O'Brien repeatedly hit Kantor for not having interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama since 2009, despite Kantor having used Obama's own aides as sources for her material. In addition, Kantor responded to O'Brien…
Matt Hadro
January 13th, 2012 12:45 PM

WashPost Columnist Holmes Levels Screed Against Social Conservatives O

Conservatives' calls for taking away taxpayer funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood and ensuring that religious organizations are not forced to pay for abortions and birth control through their health insurance plans proves we are not a "sane society," complains Jezebel founding editor and Washington Post columnist Anna Holmes in a Style section column today, blandly titled "The…
Ken Shepherd
January 13th, 2012 12:26 PM

Washington Post Veteran Disparages Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin as ‘R

Another bit of evidence emerged Thursday about how deeply ingrained anti-conservative hatred is inside America’s newspapers, even amongst those who don’t cover politics. John Kelly, a Washington Post lifestyle columnist inside the “Metro” section best-known for raising money for Children’s National Medical Center and Sunday “Answer Man” columns about DC-area history, used the passing of a…
Brent Baker
January 13th, 2012 12:15 PM

WaPo Gives Romney Smear Video 'King of Bain' Four Pinocchios

For the past several days, much of the Obama-loving media have been gushing and fawning over an anti-Mitt Romney video created by a pro-Newt Gingrich PAC. Count the Washington Post out of the list of gooey sycophants on this one as the paper's Glenn Kessler on Friday actually gave "King of Bain" four Pinocchios:
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2012 12:11 PM

CNBC Posts, Retracts 'Bain Advised Obama/GM' Report

UPDATE: James Pethokoukis at the American Enterprise Institute's blog has more, including the possibility that the original story misidentified "Bain Consulting," as well as a theory as to the story's original source. It looks like someone ran with something they thought was too good to check. A retraction described as a "Correction" currently on CNBC's web site tells readers: "A previous…
Tom Blumer
January 13th, 2012 12:02 PM

Martin Bashir Cheers Obama's Fundraising, Bashes GOP PAC Money

MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Thursday perfectly demonstrated the liberal media's hypocrisy concerning campaign finances. After beginning his program gushing and fawning over all the money Barack Obama raised in the fourth quarter, Bashir proceeded to carp and whine about the funds GOP PACs are spending, even calling for campaign finance reform to curb it (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
January 13th, 2012 10:52 AM

Will PBS's Supposedly 'Harsh' Clinton Documentary Equal Its Nasty Take

PBS will air a "harsh" documentary in Febuary heavily focusing on Bill Clinton's serial infidelities and scandal, according to Politico. The "American Experience" episode will devote 40 minutes to the Monica Lewinsky controversy and include lines such as this: "Millions had responded to his campaign message of change, but millions of others feared where the country was heading and didn’t trust…
Scott Whitlock
January 13th, 2012 9:49 AM

Joan Walsh - The Most Bigoted Journalist in Media

Well, she’s certainly making a case for the title. In a piece titled, When white people lack “bourgeois values”, the Salon Editor at Large manages a race and class-baiting exacta, covering an alleged economic disdain shown by Republicans towards African-Americans, and charging the GOP with promoting policies which “shackle women to the home”. In attacking a Rick Santorum speech on family…
Rusty Weiss
January 13th, 2012 9:00 AM

Maher Declares 'Hate' for Gingrich's 'F------ Guts,' Santorum 'Obsesse

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Chelsea Lately show on the E! network, HBO comedian Bill Maher declared that he recently told former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who will be appearing as a guest on tonight's Real Time show on HBO, that "I don't, like, hate your f------ guts,"  soon adding, "like I hate Newt Gingrich," inspiring agreement on hating the former House Speaker from…
Brad Wilmouth
January 13th, 2012 8:51 AM