NPR Tries to Rehab Van Jones By Claiming 9-11 Truther Signature Was 'M

Van Jones has received a dramatic rehabilitation from the liberal media after conservative outlets dug out that Jones called himself a communist and signed a 9/11 truther petition, among other radical-left stands. (He also called President Bush a “crackhead” and Republicans “a–holes.”) He’s been reinvented like Sharpton. But on NPR’s “Tell Me More” on Tuesday, NPR host Michel Martin gave…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2012 8:20 AM

NYTimes' Media Reporter Brian Stelter Takes Up Lefty Climate Cause

New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter put on his climatologist coat in his Saturday Business Section story on a controversy ginned up by left-wing climate change activists, who are complaining a new Discovery Channel documentary isn't alarmist enough: "No Place for Heated Opinions – Discovery's 'Frozen Planet' Is Conspicuously Silent on Causes of Climate Change." Stelter insisted that "…
Clay Waters
April 24th, 2012 7:52 AM

Mika Sticks Up For Mitt

Come November, there's no way Mika Brzezinski will be pulling the lever for Mitt Romney.  But the MSNBC co-host had some sincere praise for the Republican standard-bearer this morning. Expressing frustration with Rudy Giuliani--the latest in a string of Republicans to have offered only a  tepid endorsement of Romney--Brzezinski said that when she meets with Mitt and Ann, she comes away "…
Mark Finkelstein
April 24th, 2012 7:07 AM

Bloomberg Business Week Misleads in Headline and Opening in Covering S

At Bloomberg Business Week, the distortion of what the Social Security system's trustees told the public on Monday began with its headline and opening sentence. The headline: "Social Security Fund to Run Out in '35: Trustees." Any reader would assume that the reference is to the situation with the retirement and disability programs combined, as both are collectively referred to as "Social…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2012 12:44 AM

Sean Penn: Rick Santorum Is 'Anti-American' - 'Did Not Read the Consti

Sean Penn on Monday said former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is "anti-American" and "did not read the Constitution." Rather hysterically, the Oscar-winning actor also told CNN's Piers Morgan, "I am very pro-American in the sense of a Constitutional America" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 23rd, 2012 10:14 PM

NBC News President: Network Should 'Probably' Apologize On-Air for Rep

It's been several weeks since NBC disgraced itself by repeatedly airing doctored audio of George Zimmerman talking to a 9-1-1 dispatcher but the network has yet to apologize on the air, hoping instead that its paltry efforts of firing a lone producer and conducting an investigation into the matter but not releasing a report to the public would be sufficient. Incredibly, it was a New York Times…

Matthew Sheffield
April 23rd, 2012 8:50 PM

Bret Baier Gets NPR's Mara Liasson to Admit Medicare 'Ends As We Know

For over a year, the Left and their media minions have dishonestly claimed Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) proposed budgets would "end Medicare as we know it." At the end of a discussion about Monday's report from the Medicare trustees predicting the program goes bankrupt in 2024, Special Report host Bret Baier got NPR's Mara Liasson to admit Medicare will end as we know it even if Congress…
Noel Sheppard
April 23rd, 2012 7:54 PM

Rachel Maddow Seeks Dismissal of $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit Filed

Claiming that her criticism of Bradlee Dean consisted of "classic opinion and rhetorical hyperbole," MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow is seeking dismissal of a $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by Dean last year. Dean, a Christian ministry founder, online radio host and rock drummer, alleged in his lawsuit that Maddow defamed him by falsely claiming he wants gays to be executed. (video and…
Jack Coleman
April 23rd, 2012 6:43 PM

Unhinged Chris Matthews Smears GOP Base as the 'Grand Wizard Crowd'; S

An unhinged Chris Matthews on Monday excoriated Republican primary voters as racist, deriding them as the "Grand Wizard crowd." Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele fought back,  slamming "this Grand Wizard nonsense." "Don't go there with me," he warned. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] After Steele informed the Hardball anchor that subjects such as climate change…
Scott Whitlock
April 23rd, 2012 6:41 PM

Dopey 'Martin Bashir' Panelists: 'Can't Blame' Obama for Gas Prices; O

You "can't blame" President Barack Obama for high gas prices. "Desperate" Republicans are hoping for the scandal-free Obama to have a scandal. When a conservative woman denounces absurd gender politics it's simply "a ventriloquist act" for "patriarchal ideas." Those were the gems which stumbled out of the mouths, respectively, of conservative columnist S.E. Cupp, Democratic strategist Krystal…
Ken Shepherd
April 23rd, 2012 5:30 PM

Journalist Grandson of Socialist Presidential Candidate Admits: 'We Ca

Even liberal journalist and Politico contributor Evan Thomas has finally figured out that socialism is an unsustainable system, as he boldly proclaimed on this weekend’s syndicated Inside Washington:  “The welfare state is something we can’t pay for any more.” The admission by the one-time Newsweek managing editor and co-author of the infamous Feb. 16, 2009 cover story, “We Are All Socialists…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 23rd, 2012 5:19 PM

CBS Minimizes Case Against John Edwards; Omits Experts' Liberal Ideolo

On Monday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Erin Moriarty and legal analyst Jack Ford wrote off the campaign finance case against former Democratic V.P. candidate John Edwards. Moriarty and Ford agreed that "even if [Edwards is] convicted, it will be overturned on appeal; that he'll never spend a day in prison." The network did devote 12 minutes total to the upcoming Edwards trial on Sunday and…
Matthew Balan
April 23rd, 2012 5:09 PM

CNN Barely Covered March for Life, But Hypes Much Smaller Earth Day Ra

Over the last few decades, the liberal media have celebrated Earth Day and used it to spread the gospel of green liberalism. CNN's Sunday reporting was no exception as the network touted public figures headlining an Earth Day rally in Washington, D.C., like the city's Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray and the rock band Cheap Trick. However, for the March for Life rally in January that was…
Matt Hadro
April 23rd, 2012 4:46 PM

On PBS, 'GCB' Actress Claims Her Show Aims to 'Disinfect' Christianity

On Thursday’s Tavis Smiley show on PBS, actress Annie Potts tried to claim that her ABC show “GCB” isn’t a vindictive anti-Christian Hollywood slam on red-state Texas. Potts claims it is designed by Christian creators to “disinfect” the hypocrisy out of Christianity. “I’m getting a lot of letters and tweets and things from people who are Christian people who are happy to see the hypocrites…
Tim Graham
April 23rd, 2012 4:27 PM