CBS: Vice President Biden Among 'Most Popular Surrogates' of Obama

On Monday, CBSNews.com's Lucy Madison bizarrely included Vice President Biden as one of the Obama campaign's "most popular surrogates" as she highlighted First Lady Michelle Obama's 69 percent approval rating, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. However, Madison didn't point out that Biden's approval ratings in two polls earlier in 2012 lag far behind Mrs. Obama. The online…
Matthew Balan
May 1st, 2012 6:48 PM

Equal Pay for Equal Work at MSNBC? Liberal Network Refuses to Say

In a much-ballyhooed exchange with GOP consultant Alex Castellanos on "Meet the Press," Rachel Maddow parroted the liberal trope that women receive 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in America. Castellanos added sorely needed nuance to the conversation, as liberals are so fond of doing, pointing out that men work longer hours and in higher paying jobs and women want more flexibility in…
Jack Coleman
May 1st, 2012 6:25 PM

Newsweek's Tomasky Spews Anger at GOP: 'Party of Whiners' over Bin La

Now that Tina Brown's Daily Beast has merged with Newsweek, the magazine's liberal tilt is even more apparent. In a posting, Tuesday, "Newsweek/Daily Beast special correspondent" Michael Tomasky assailed the Republican Party as a "party of whiners" over the killing of Osama bin Laden. The article's headline mocked, "Republicans love to act like tough guys. Yet it’s the Democrat in the White…
Scott Whitlock
May 1st, 2012 6:17 PM

Flashback: Network TV Uproar In 2004 At 'Poor Taste' of Brief 9-11 Ima

As the networks come to the defense of the idea that the Obama re-election campaign would devote a 30-second chunk of its new "Forward" video spiking the football that Osama bin Laden was killed at Obama's orders, it's worth remembering these same networks were all busy on March 4, 2004 lamenting that the Bush campaign aired two ads that had a few seconds of 9/11 images. On MSNBC, Countdown's…
Tim Graham
May 1st, 2012 5:42 PM

Headline of the Year? 'Maureen Dowd Is an Idiot

More than a few writers have chimed in on the New York Times' recent obsession with the Vatican's efforts to align the dissident leadership of an organization of nuns with Catholic doctrine. Real Clear Religion's Rod Dreher, however, should get special notice for his blistering and deadly accurate column with the unforgettable headline, "Maureen Dowd Is an Idiot."
Dave Pierre
May 1st, 2012 5:38 PM

Jonah Goldberg Slams 'Niggling Pedant' Piers Morgan After Monday's Int

After CNN's Piers Morgan belittled conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg for upwards of 11 minutes on Monday night, Goldberg fired back Tuesday on his National Review blog and called it a "shameful spectacle." He accused Morgan of being a partisan hack while claiming journalistic impartiality. "Liberal journalists don't think they have any biases, which makes it very hard for them to…
Matt Hadro
May 1st, 2012 5:20 PM

ESPN Columnist Agitates for Coach's Firing for Proclaiming His Religio

ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowski wouldn't mind seeing Nebraska Cornhuskers assistant coach Ron Brown sacked, but for a reason that has nothing to do with his performance coaching from the sidelines and everything to do with Brown's religious faith. In his April 27 column, Wojciechowski managed both to demonize and misrepresent Brown's religious convictions on homosexuality,  by saying that…
Ken Shepherd
May 1st, 2012 5:00 PM

Cal Thomas Column: Give 'Em 'L', Mitt

In the 1993 movie "Dave" the faux president (played by Kevin Kline) calls in his best friend (played by Charles Grodin) and they stay up all night balancing the federal budget, not by raising taxes, but by cutting unnecessary and wasteful spending. If only it were that easy. Most presidents have talked about cutting spending, but few succeed because Congress holds the power of the purse and…
Cal Thomas
May 1st, 2012 4:03 PM

MSNBC Promotes Admitted Radical, Anarchist, Anti-Capitalist OWS Organi

Americans are destined this day to by bludgeoned by liberal media members gushing and fawning over the May Day and Occupy protests all over the country. The farce of a so-called “news network” MSNBC certainly did its part Tuesday by promoting Harrison Schultz, one of the original Occupy Wall Street organizers who right from the top admitted to being an anarchist while later expressing his…
Noel Sheppard
May 1st, 2012 3:37 PM

Gillis of NYTimes Again Discredits Warming Skeptics Who 'Plaster the I

The New York Times's confessed climate activist (and journalist) Justin Gillis made Tuesday's front page with a 2,500-word story on what he called the last line of defense for climate change skeptics: "Clouds' Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters." Gillis, a true believer, proudly told the Columbia Journalism Review in April that it was a "scandal" the media was failing to…
Clay Waters
May 1st, 2012 3:13 PM

Andrea To Daschle: Republicans Saying 'We', Uh, I Mean, White House, P

A brief but telling episode from As The MSM Mask Slips . . . On her MSNBC show this afternoon, chatting with chum and fellow Obama fan Tom Daschle about the anniversary of the killing of OBL, Andrea Mitchell said: "What do you think of the Republican criticism that we are politicizing it, that the White House, I should say, is politicizing it"?  View the video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
May 1st, 2012 2:46 PM

Parker Finds Rap on Romney as 'Dull and Vanilla' Unfair, But She Contr

New York Times campaign reporter Ashley Parker looks back semi-fondly at Mitt Romney's apparently successful run for the Republican nomination in her Sunday "news analysis," "A Romney Rambler Looks Back." The people who said that this race was boring and that it couldn’t possibly compete with the excitement and stature of 2008 may yet be right. But they, too, will be back out on the trail.…
Clay Waters
May 1st, 2012 2:44 PM

Dr. Drew Mistakes Jon Lovitz's Critique of Class Warfare for Violent T

Former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz is learning the hard way that despite liberals' claims to love humor and comedy, they can't stand it when their own side is being criticized. The liberal comic is facing a huge amount of criticism on Twitter for taking exception to President Obama's continual assertions that wealthy Americans don't pay a "fair" amount of taxes. While Lovitz has been…
Matthew Sheffield
May 1st, 2012 2:04 PM

NBC's Gregory Defends Obama Exploiting Bin Laden Killing: Bush Did 'Sa

In an interview with senior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie on Sunday's Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory noted how President Obama was "certainly using" the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden "against Governor Romney" and quickly justified the crass political move by claiming "the same sort of tactics that were used in a lot of people's eyes" by President…
Kyle Drennen
May 1st, 2012 1:45 PM