Media: Perfect Storm of Sandy, Obama Re-Election a Chance to Push Carb

The media will never let a disaster – or a favorable (to them) election – go to waste. So the last month has been propitious for them. Combine Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election with the looming fiscal cliff, and the media have the perfect opportunity to push for a carbon tax. The New York Times claimed that “economists of diverse viewpoints concur that if the international…
Liz Thatcher
November 14th, 2012 3:06 PM

Papa John's Owner Slammed by Liberals for Stating He'll Pass on ObamaC

In what is likely to become a common occurrence as ObamaCare takes effect, the owner of another nationwide business is under fire from liberals, this time for passing on the extra health care costs to customers instead of absorbing them and increasing the company's operating expenses. Papa John's Pizza CEO John Schnatter was the subject of a segment on Monday night's edition of The Ed Show on…
Randy Hall
November 14th, 2012 2:42 PM

NYT Sunday Review Contributor Finds 'Political Racism' in Long Voting

Since taking over the section, editor Andrew Rosenthal has transformed the New York Times Sunday Review from a selection of liberal-leaning political and sociological analysis into a bulletin board for the far left. From the softer end of the spectrum, an essay by Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt, who proposed liberal tax solutions to the "fiscal cliff" in "The Cliff Is a Hard Place to…
Clay Waters
November 14th, 2012 2:11 PM

ABC's Jon Karl Lectures Paul Ryan on Obama's 'Mandate' and Raising Tax

  ABC journalist Jonathan Karl on Wednesday lectured Paul Ryan about Barack Obama's reelection "mandate" and grilled the Republican about raising taxes. On Good Morning America, he declared, "If there was one issue that the President campaigned on, it was raising taxes on the wealthy." He added, "Doesn't he have a mandate there?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.] When Ryan declined to…
Scott Whitlock
November 14th, 2012 12:29 PM

NB Publisher Bozell: Media's Attack on Conservatism Attempt to Divide

We hear this from the liberal media every single time the Republicans don’t win something. They have only one solution for the Republican Party: don’t be conservative. It’s never about the failures of the candidates or a poor voter turnout effort. It’s that Republicans are too conservative – a false conclusion that ignores the successful campaigns of conservatives Ronald Reagan, George H.W.…
Brent Bozell
November 14th, 2012 11:43 AM

Sex, Violence, Anti-Catholicism – It’s an ‘American Horror Story

When the first season of Ryan Murphy’s twisted blood-and-sex fest premiered on FX in 2011 Entertainment Weekly put “American Horror Story” at the top of its “Must-Watch” list. The original “American Horror Story” pushed explicit content on cable television with voyeurism, dual masturbation, graphic sex and an unhealthy dose of murder, blood and gore. It even featured a child taking vengeance…
Lauren Thompson
November 14th, 2012 11:40 AM

Chris Matthews Claims GOP Ignorant of Science While Claiming Trees Abs

Note to Chris Matthews: when seeking to slam Republicans for their supposed ignorance of science, try not to expose your own.   On Tuesday's Hardball, Matthews—mocking the Republican congressmen vying for the chairmanship of the House Science Committee— committed this whopper: "As we all learned in grammar school—young people watching—trees absorb carbon monoxide." As even an MSNBC host…
Mark Finkelstein
November 14th, 2012 11:17 AM

NBC's Todd: White House 'Insulated' From Petraeus Scandal, 'He's More

In attempt to deflect the growing scandal surrounding former CIA director David Petreaus away from President Obama, on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd parroted administration spin on the controversy: "...they do believe they're a little insulated here, because Petraeus isn't considered an Obama guy. If anything, he's more of a Republican guy at the end of…
Kyle Drennen
November 14th, 2012 11:13 AM

Networks Blame ‘Fiscal Cliff’ On Congress, GOP 16 Times More than

 ABC, CBS, NBC rely most on liberals, Democrats for coverage of ‘looming’ crisis. 
Dan Gainor
November 14th, 2012 10:35 AM

Moderate Mitt Loses, Media Blame Conservatives

Over the past week, the media have been obsessively attributing the GOP’s election loss to the party’s embrace of conservatism. It began with a predictable assault on the standard bearer of conservative thought over the airwaves, Rush Limbaugh. On election night, NBC’s Brian Williams opined that Rush was a liability for the GOP. And it didn’t stop with Williams. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe David…
Christian Robey
November 14th, 2012 10:30 AM

Open Thread Wednesday

For general discussion and comment on the news of the day and anything else.
NB Staff
November 14th, 2012 10:29 AM

Politico Pair Goes to Pot in Listing Seven Questions It Believes the P

Unless today is a total surprise and runs contrary to most of what we've seen during the past four years, President Obama will go through another "news conference" without a great deal of difficult or aggressive questioning from the assembled press corps. Carrie Budoff Brown and Josh Gerstein at the Politico seem to think otherwise, and have produced a lame list of seven questions they think…
Tom Blumer
November 14th, 2012 9:55 AM

Madonna Strips For Hurricane Sandy Donations

The Material Girl has been showing more than a lot of love for victims of Hurricane Sandy. At her most recent concerts in Cleveland and New York, she stripped for the audience in order to get donations for storm relief (videos follow with transcribed highlights and commentary, mild vulgarity).
Noel Sheppard
November 14th, 2012 9:01 AM

'Politico' Peddles Smear Of Dick Morris

Politico is peddling a misleading liberal-media attack on Dick Morris.  Item from Politico's "Morning Score" today [emphasis added]: "DICK MORRIS, who has not been taken seriously by serious people for a very long time, confessed on Fox News yesterday that he deliberately misled viewers: 'I think that there was a period of time when the Romney campaign was falling apart, people were not…
Mark Finkelstein
November 14th, 2012 8:13 AM