New Yorker Magazine Cover: White House With Rainbow Columns

The media's victory lap for President Obama's flipflop on same-sex marriage is starting to get downright disgraceful. The cover of Monday's issue of New Yorker magazine features an animated picture of the White House with rainbow columns:
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 4:29 PM

On NPR, Garrison Keillor Mocks Newt Gingrich By Imagining Him Kidnappe

In February, we reported that Garrison Keillor mocked Newt Gingrich as a "polygamist" on his NPR show "A Prairie Home Companion" -- even though Keillor has also had three wives. On Saturday, Keillor returned to mocking Gingrich as he folded his presidential campaign. Using his "Guy Noir, Private Eye" schtick, Keillor satirically imagined that Gingrich was kidnapped by several public-radio…
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2012 4:23 PM

Happy Mother's Gay From Parade

Two weeks ago, the national Sunday newspaper supplement Parade Magazine had a cover story featuring three leading chefs, and two were gay, as they supportively reported. The same thing happened on Mother's Day: the cover featured gay TV host/Bravo executive Andy Cohen, and his mother Evelyn. This is becoming a trend. Perhaps Clay Aiken will be up next if he wins "Celebrity Apprentice." In…
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2012 3:57 PM

Disgraced Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Discusses Sanctity of Marri

Is Eliot Spitzer - a man who had to resign as New York's governor due to a sex scandal involving hookers - someone that should be invited on a serious political talk show to discuss the sanctity of marriage? As the answer is certainly "No," consider the delicious irony of Spitzer appearing on ABC's This Week Sunday avowing as it pertains to same-sex marriage, "The president is saying, as I…
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 2:41 PM

Newsweek Obama Cover: 'The First Gay President

Bill Clinton was the first black president. And now, according to Newsweek, we have the first gay president. Yes, all the speculation over what cover Tina Brown would choose for Newsweek is over. Despite several suggestions from The New Republic on this crucial subject, Brown refrained from taking their kindly advice and chose a picture of President Obama with a rainbow halo over his head.
P.J. Gladnick
May 13th, 2012 1:56 PM

CNN's Howard Kurtz Slams MSNBC's Tamron Hall for 'Insulting' Treatment

As NewsBusters reported Friday, MSNBC's Tamron Hall threw a hissy fit when her conservative guest, the Washington Examiner's Tim Carney, called her network's coverage of the Washington Post's hit piece on Mitt Romney "ridiculous" and "absurd." On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, host Howard Kurtz came down strongly on her asking, "Does Hall only want guests who agree with her handling of every…
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 1:45 PM

Howard Fineman: Most Powerful and 'Unifying' Media Figures Are 'Oprah

This is a really scary thought. On this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman actually said the most powerful and "unifying" media figures in the country today are "the daytime women talk show hosts. It's Oprah, Ellen and The View" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 12:51 PM

Only One 'Chris Matthews Show' Regular Thinks Obama's Gay Marriage Fli

As NewsBusters reported last week, eleven out of twelve regular contributors to the syndicated Chris Matthews Show thought Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won't be able to take control and drive the political debate in the next six months leading to Election Day. On this weekend's program, only one of the twelve regulars thought President Obama's recent flipflop on same-sex…
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 12:13 PM

Howard Fineman: Obama Campaign Strategy Reason for Federal Lawsuit Aga

Did you know that one of the reasons for the federal lawsuit against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was Obama political campaign strategy? Don't take my word for it. This assertion has been made by the Huffington Post editorial director Howard Fineman in his story excusing negative Obama campaign strategy by claiming they are merely taking pages from the GOP playbook:
P.J. Gladnick
May 13th, 2012 11:28 AM

AP Writers Seem Stunned That Romney Didn't Deliver 'A Red-meat Conserv

The headline at the Associated Press's Sunday morning story primarily about GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney's commencement address at Liberty University ("Romney urges grads to honor family commitments") was at least acceptable. It went downhill from there, betraying what appear to be deeply-held biases held by writers Kasie Hunt and Rachel Zoll against Republicans,…
Tom Blumer
May 13th, 2012 11:09 AM

Fareed Zakaria Asks 'Is Democracy Part of Europe's Economic Problems

CNN's Fareed Zakaria asked a question this weekend guaranteed to raise some eyebrows not only on both sides of the aisle but also on both sides of the Atlantic. On the program bearing his name, Zakaria amazingly asked Sunday if the economic problems in Europe are caused by democracy and not austerity (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 13th, 2012 10:44 AM

MSNBC Guest Calls Ann Romney 'Insufferable', Her Mother's Day Op-Ed 'C

Snark on, Michelle!  On the MSNBC show "Up With Chris Hayes" this morning, feminist author Michelle Goldberg attacked Ann Romney as "insufferable" and derided a phrase in Ann's op-ed on the subject of motherhood as "creepy." Goldberg's "insufferable" shot drew approving laughter from the all-feminist panel.  And surely the attacks on the Romneys for their traditional family values will play…
Mark Finkelstein
May 13th, 2012 10:29 AM

Ed Schultz Wants Canadian Citizenship

Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer reports that after mocking Michele Bachmann for having dual citizenship in Switzerland through her husband, MSNBC star Ed "Buy American" Schultz proclaimed on his daily radio show that he's going to apply for Canadian citizenship. "I'm going to go down the road of being a Canadian," he proclaimed.  "I'm going to do that, because I want to. It's not 'cause I…
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2012 6:47 AM

Publix Super Market’s Pro-life Mother’s Day Ad Celebrates Pregnanc

Bravo, Publix. I watched the following ad and was saddened to think how much pro-abortion feminists are throwing away by their “choice.” They can’t embrace pregnancy, motherhood, or Mother’s Day without darkening it with a reminder that still and all they advocate mothers killing their own children.
Jill Stanek
May 13th, 2012 6:10 AM