Ryan’s Not the First: Media’s History of Trashing GOP Vice Preside

Almost as soon as word leaked that Mitt Romney had chosen Paul Ryan as his running mate, liberal reporters stepped forward to help define the Wisconsin congressman as too conservative, a heartless budget-slasher who might repel as many votes as he might attract to the GOP ticket. Chris Matthews, for example, on Saturday derided Ryan as someone whose plan “really screws the people who…
Rich Noyes
August 13th, 2012 10:36 AM

Walter Williams Column: Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative

President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. It proposes "to identify evidence-based best practices" to improve black achievement in school and college. Though black education is in desperate straits, the president's executive order will…
Walter E. Williams
August 13th, 2012 10:31 AM

Glee's Jane Lynch Says 'F--k Chick-fil-A' at Roseanne Roast

Glee star Jane Lynch began Comedy Central's Roseanne Barr Roast Sunday with a vulgar attack on Chick-fil-A. Not surprisingly, the liberal crowd along with the other presenters thought this was the funniest thing they’d ever heard (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2012 10:29 AM

Open Thread: What Ryan Actually Says About Medicare

The far left has already started a campaign to misinform the public about Paul Ryan's views about Medicare and how he supposedly wants to destroy the program. (The irony, of course, is that President Obama actually reduced funding of the program by $700 billion as part of his healthcare law.) Be that as it may, for those wondering what Ryan actually says about Medicare, National Review…
Matthew Sheffield
August 13th, 2012 10:03 AM

Media Repeatedly Ignore Violent Attacks Against Pro-Lifers

Lila Rose the 24-year-old founder and CEO of LiveAction told liberal website Jezebel she would sacrifice her own life to stop abortion. “I’d die to protect another life. I’m all in for this cause,” she stated in an interview with Katie Baker. Oozing condescension, Baker confessed herself a “little taken aback because this is the first fanatical statement I've heard from Rose since I hopped…
Lauren Thompson
August 13th, 2012 9:55 AM

Katey Sagal AKA Peggy Bundy Trashes Ann Romney: Mom That Doesn't Cook

Katey Sagal is the actress best known for her role as Al Bundy's wife Peggy in the highly-successful Fox sitcom Married With Children. On Comedy Central's Roseanne Barr Roast Sunday, Sagal mocked Ann Romney as a mom that doesn't cook, clean, or "make any money" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2012 9:28 AM

Media Repeatedly Ignores Violent Attacks Against Pro-Lifers

Networks silent on harassment of conservatives, instead devote coverage to Tom Cruise’s divorce.
Lauren Thompson
August 13th, 2012 9:16 AM

Comedian Wayne Brady Booed for Telling Trig Palin Joke at Roseanne Roa

Comedian Wayne Brady was booed on Comedy Central's Roseanne Barr Roast Sunday when he made a truly tasteless joke about Sarah Palin's Down Syndrome son Trig. When this occurred, Brady actually defended himself by mentioning that during the roast, other people were mocking him (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, serious vulgarity warning):
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2012 8:54 AM

ABC, NBC Press Axelrod on Anti-Romney Cancer Ad as CBS Skips

As she substitute-hosted CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Nancy Cordes managed to avoid bringing up the controversial Obama super PAC ad that blames Mitt Romney for the death of a man's wife, even though Obama advisor Stephanie Cutter was a guest in the first segment. By contrast, George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week and and David Gregory on NBC's Meet the Press both raised the issue as…
Brad Wilmouth
August 13th, 2012 8:25 AM

Time Rebuts Team Obama: Paul Ryan Was 'Seven Years Ahead of the Tea Pa

On Monday's Today on NBC, Obama spinner Stephanie Cutter claimed Paul Ryan's never bucked the Republican Party line in the Bush years. But at Time magazine's Swampland blog, reporter Jay Newton-Small describes the reality: Ryan didn't like the Bush trend. "I quickly learned Ryan was the go-to person for a fiscal conservative quote – a Republican disgusted with his own party’s profligate…
Tim Graham
August 13th, 2012 8:04 AM

Halperin: Press Corps Biggies Are Pro-Obama, But Like Paul Ryan

An interesting—encouraging?—comment and admission from Mark Halperin on today's Morning Joe. The MSNBC political analyst said that "almost every national political reporter knows Paul Ryan, likes Paul Ryan, more than they do Mitt Romney.  And that gives Romney a little bit of an edge that he was missing, which is pro-Obama in the press corps." Halperin's comment came immediately after Joe…
Mark Finkelstein
August 13th, 2012 7:14 AM

Schieffer Presses Romney and Ryan With Myth That Wealthy Pay Low Tax R

Advancing a false narrative about how the wealthy are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class, CBS Bob Schieffer used his 60 Minutes session with the Republican ticket to push Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to agree “fairness” means the rich should pay higher taxes. “A lot of people,” Schieffer contended, “think corporations and rich people are getting all these breaks and they’re getting…
Brent Baker
August 13th, 2012 2:12 AM

USAT: Companies Reducing Training Costs Are 'Pushing Up Unemployment R

In an apparent attempt to pin blame anywhere but on the Obama administration for the rising unemployment rate, a USA Today item currently carried at Newsmax's MoneyNews.com web site opens by claiming that "Companies across the country are cutting training programs for new employees, broadening the divide between workers with skills needed to compete in today's economy and those left out,…
Tom Blumer
August 12th, 2012 11:55 PM

Bob Schieffer Asks Ryan 'Do You Think Romney's Been Too Defensive Abou

For months now the Obama-loving media have been tearing Mitt Romney to pieces over his involvement with the private equity firm he founded and once led. Despite this, during an interview with the presumptive Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, host Bob Schieffer actually had the gall to ask Paul Ryan, "Do you think [Romney's] been too…
Noel Sheppard
August 12th, 2012 9:00 PM