Bill Maher Uses Trayvon Martin Issue to Attack...Michele Bachmann

Bill Maher on Friday actually used the Trayvon Martin issue to attack Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn). In his HBO Real Time opening monologue, the host said of Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) wearing a hoodie on the House floor, "Too scary? Have you ever looked into Michele Bachmann's eyes?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 31st, 2012 5:52 AM

Heads It Rose, Tails It's Rosy: Up or Down, Press Treated This Month's

On Tuesday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the Associated Press's headlined assessments at Anne D'Innocenzio's reports throughout the day on the Conference Board's monthly consumer confidence survey went from "falls" to "dips slightly" to "roughly flat" before ending up at "rosy" -- an evaluation the AP reporter also included in the verbiage of her final dispatch. For the record,…
Tom Blumer
March 30th, 2012 11:41 PM

Krauthammer: Overturning ObamaCare Could Energize Left Like Roe v. Wad

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday said the Supreme Court striking down ObamaCare could energize the Left in this nation in much the same way 1973's Roe v. Wade decision galvanized the Right. Such was said on PBS's Inside Washington (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 30th, 2012 10:13 PM

Current Drowns Olbermann, Mercurial Leftist Anchor Booted from Al Gore

"Current TV said Friday afternoon that it had terminated the contract of its lead anchor, Keith Olbermann, scarcely a year after he was hired to reboot the fledgling channel in his progressive political image. Current indicated that he had failed to honor the terms of his five-year, $50 million contract, giving the channel the right to terminate it," New York Times's Brian Stelter reported this…
Ken Shepherd
March 30th, 2012 6:04 PM

Piers Morgan Encourages Arlen Specter to Take Out Some Tea Party 'Cann

As former Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) railed against political extremists whom he termed "cannibals," CNN's Piers Morgan actually encouraged him to "start taking a few of them out for us" and "Bury a few more bodies." Specter had specifically referenced the Tea Party and the Club for Growth as "cannibals" he wrote about in his new book "Life Among the Cannibals" and repeatedly took shots at…
Matt Hadro
March 30th, 2012 4:41 PM

MSNBC's Scarborough: Conservatives Hinted Trayvon Martin Deserved To B

Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell are not the only ones on MSNBC cynically exploiting the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. On his Morning Joe program today, Joe Scarborough said that conservatives are “somehow suggesting that he deserved getting shot in the chestwith a 9 millimeter." [Video after the jump. Audio here.]
Josh St. Louis
March 30th, 2012 4:15 PM

NBC: Skittles Now 'A Symbol of Racial Injustice

Filling in for Matt Lauer on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Hoda Kotb made a bizarre proclamation about race relations in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting: "Skittles obviously has become really kind of a symbol in the whole Trayvon Martin case. A symbol of racial injustice. You see people holding up the bags of Skittles in their hands and it clearly means something."
Kyle Drennen
March 30th, 2012 4:10 PM

MSNBC Anchor Roberts Admits 'Booking Error' Two Days After Petulantly

Openly gay MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts wore his bias on his sleeve on Wednesday during a segment in which a conservative guest, Maggie Gallagher, failed to show up to defend the National Organization for Marriage in a segment entitled "Anti-Equality Agenda Exposed." "Documents expose ugly anti-LGBT marriage plot," blared the on-screen graphic. Roberts groused about Gallagher's no-show, showing…
Ken Shepherd
March 30th, 2012 3:32 PM

MSNBC Fixes False Report Which Made Zimmerman Look Racist, Doesn't Ack

Following in line with their broadcast television colleagues who deliberately edited the audio of a 9-1-1 call of George Zimmerman, the Florida community watch volunteer who shot teenager Trayvon Martin, to falsely impute racist motives to him, MSNBC.com, in an unbylined piece did the exact same thing in text form, stripping out vital information which made Zimmerman appear to be racially…
Randy Hall
March 30th, 2012 2:20 PM

Jobs Lost in Best Buy HQ Layoffs, Store Closures: Several Thousand, No

From what I can tell, no one in the establishment press yesterday attempted to quantify the total employment impact of yesterday's announcement by Best Buy that it will reduce its headquarters headcount by 400 and close 50 stores. One thing is certain: It's not just 400, as the headlines and verbiage in certain media reports might lead readers to believe -- and it's not excusable to say that…
Tom Blumer
March 30th, 2012 1:43 PM

NYTimes White House Reporter Shoehorns Defense of Obama 'Stimulus' Int

Jackie Calmes, White House reporter for the New York Times, made a surprise appearance in the Friday Weekend Arts pages to talk about cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C.: "A Fleeting Beauty, Shared With the Multitudes." What was unsurprising was Calmes shoehorning in yet another defense of Obama's economic "stimulus" and a chiding of conservative Republican Rep. Eric Cantor. (The article…
Clay Waters
March 30th, 2012 1:23 PM

Christian NASCAR Driver Blake Koch Loses Sponsor after ESPN Pulls Ad

The liberal media are again attempting to silence another Christian voice in their crusade for “tolerance.” ESPN refused to air NASCAR driver Blake Koch's advertisement, which encourages American youth to vote, because of Koch’s Christian faith. Koch partnered with "Rise Up and Register" to produce the voting advertisement. After ESPN’s refusal, the non-religion based campaign pulled its…
Lauren Thompson
March 30th, 2012 12:07 PM

Breaking News on NBC's 'Today': Obama's Chili Recipe Sparks Online Deb

While supposedly updating viewers on important news of the day on Friday's NBC Today, fill-in news anchor Savannah Guthrie touted an Obama campaign public relations effort: "Well, just days after joining Pinterest, that online scrapbook, President Obama's catching some good-natured heat. He posted a family recipe for chili, always a topic of culinary debate." [Listen to the audio or watch the…
Kyle Drennen
March 30th, 2012 11:49 AM

Mike Tyson: Bigoted Tea Party Can't Stand Seeing Obama as 'Strongest M

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson believes America has become more racist since Barack Obama was elected president, and that groups like the Tea Party have surfaced through that racism. Tyson's interview by CNN's Piers Morgan aired on Thursday night's Piers Morgan Tonight. Tyson professed that "there's a great possibility" that America has become more racist since Obama's…
Matt Hadro
March 30th, 2012 11:00 AM