ABC Berates GOP Candidates for 'Equivocating' and Not Condemning Rush

The apology wasn't good enough. Journalists on Monday's Good Morning America chided the Republican presidential candidates for "equivocating" and not strongly condemning Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke. Analyst Matt Dowd appeared to deride Mitt Romney for "missing a huge opportunity" to slam Limbaugh. John Berman focused on the fact that the conservative radio host called his own…
Scott Whitlock
March 5th, 2012 12:09 PM

Actual Joan Walsh Salon Headline: 'What’s The Matter With White Peop

Can you imagine the media outrage if a conservative author published a piece entitled "What's the Matter With Black People?" On Sunday, just days after she told MSNBC's Chris Matthews the GOP is "The party of old white men," Salon's editor-at-large Joan Walsh offered her readers "What's the Matter With White People?":
Noel Sheppard
March 5th, 2012 11:12 AM

Liberal Media Wage War Against ‘Act of Valor

Daily, American soldiers defend the freedom of speech the left loves to exercise to repeatedly condemn the American military. As soon as “Act of Valor” was released, lefty outlets wasted no time in crying the newest military flick is nothing more than glorified Pentagon “propaganda,” while savaging the acting of the active duty Navy Seals who comprise most of the cast. “Valor” has topped the…
Lauren Thompson
March 5th, 2012 10:49 AM

Open Thread: Does 'Super Tuesday' Matter

Today's starter topic of discussion is "Super Tuesday," a day when many states hold their primary elections simultaneously. In the past, the large number of primaries has been important in presidential campaigns. Not this year, according to Washington Times columnist Joseph Curl:
NB Staff
March 5th, 2012 10:29 AM

The Lorax Not Just For Trees, Against Plastics

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.” But not just the trees! With the help of Universal Studios, “The Lorax” drank the left-wing kool-aid and has entered the fight against plastics, and anything artificial. To top it off, The New York Times is upset that the movie doesn’t promote environmentalism enough. Really. In this adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss book, the screenwriters took a…
Iris Somberg
March 5th, 2012 9:04 AM

NPR's Ombudsman Seeks Listener Reaction on Liberal Bias -- From Ralph

NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos is just making a cartoon out of himself in trying to be responsive after the Juan Williams firing and the Meet-a-Radical-Muslim-for-Lunch scandal. He went to discuss the idea of liberal bias on NPR with....Ralph Nader. "Nader, a five-time presidential candidate, has been calling me in recent months to hold my feet to the fire, and so I went to meet with him…
Tim Graham
March 5th, 2012 6:27 AM

Attention Media: Walmart and Target Have Been Offering $9 Birth Contro

For over two months the Left and their media minions have been making a big stink about the need for mandatory health insurance coverage of contraceptives. In all this fuss and distraction from the real problems this nation is facing, nobody noticed that since 2007 Walmart has been offering a month's worth of birth control pills for only $9 (emphasis added):
Noel Sheppard
March 5th, 2012 12:18 AM

Ex-Newsweek's Wolffe: Bush Had 'Worst Jobs Record of Any President in

Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's The Ed Show, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe - formerly of Newsweek - complained that the economic policies of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum "are a repeat of the Bush years," and asserted that President Bush had the "worst jobs record of any President in modern times." After host Ed Schultz asked "how does Romney and Santorum…
Brad Wilmouth
March 4th, 2012 11:58 PM

Joe Klein Shocker: Requiring Insurers to Cover Birth Control 'Major Ov

Time's Joe Klein on Sunday took a position that is likely to shock people on both sides of the aisle. In a discussion about birth control on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Klein surprisingly said, "Why, in a country where we don't require employers to provide health insurance should we require them to - those who do provide health insurance - to provide contraception? Now, I'm all in favor of…
Noel Sheppard
March 4th, 2012 9:45 PM

National Review's Salam Schools Klein, Vanden Heuvel and Zakaria on Te

National Review's Reihan Salam on Sunday proved once again that liberal media members no matter what their number are no match for one well-informed conservative. On CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Salam took on the host, Time magazine's Joe Klein, and the Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel on a far-ranging discussion about how both sides of the aisle view taxes, the Tea Party, and social change with…
Noel Sheppard
March 4th, 2012 8:57 PM

Wasserman Schultz Says Calling Women Sluts Isn't Funny - Two Months Af

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in response to the Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy, told the host of Meet the Press Sunday, "I don't know any woman in America, David, that thinks that being called a slut is funny." This hysterically comes less than two months after the Florida Congresswoman appeared on vulgarian Bill Maher's HBO program Real…
Noel Sheppard
March 4th, 2012 7:14 PM

Randi Rhodes: Mitt Romney Would Set Fire to His Hair and the Hair of H

Liberal talker Randi Rhodes on Wednesday insisted Mitt Romney would be desperate enough to do anything to be president, despite his claim that he wouldn't light his hair on fire to be president. "Mitt Romney would light his hair on fire if it meant he could win the presidency, okay," said Rhodes. He'd torch the whole family. "He would light his hair on fire, set fire to his opponents' hair,…
Tim Graham
March 4th, 2012 6:01 PM

NBC’s Gregory Frets Romney Missed ‘Sister Souljah Moment’ to Den

No love on the Sunday morning television talk shows for Rush Limbaugh, not even a mild defense as the unifying theme was disappointment in Mitt Romney for not denouncing the leading national conservative talk radio host. “The problem with Rush Limbaugh,” NBC News White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie complained in pretending to care about the fate of Republicans, “is that he re-framed the…
Brent Baker
March 4th, 2012 5:08 PM

Rachel Maddow Huffs: GOPers Skip My Show Because It's 'Unimpeachable i

According to Rachel Maddow, Republicans skip her MSNBC show because she is so insistent on being "unimpeachable in the facts." In a brief interview for the March 2 Entertainment Weekly, the liberal anchor huffed about her personal integrity. Maddow insisted she'd "love" to host a Republican presidential debate, but cautioned, "[On my show] our responsibility is to be unimpeachable in the…
Scott Whitlock
March 4th, 2012 4:38 PM