Earth Day Special: The Media's Top 25 Wackiest Environmental Quotes

This Sunday marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day and for 25 of those years the MRC has documented the liberal media’s role in advancing the left’s green agenda. From fretting about overpopulation to scaring viewers about global warming, for over 25 years the media have championed the capitalism-killing agenda of the modern environmentalist movement. So sacrosanct the liberal media…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 19th, 2012 10:43 AM

Allen West to Soledad O'Brien: 'I Don't Care' What the Vice Chairman o

CNN's Soledad O'Brien got a much-needed education about political ideologies from Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) Thursday. When she brought up a quote from the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party refuting the Congressman's claim there are 78 to 81 Communists in Congress, West simply replied, "I don't care what he says" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 19th, 2012 10:28 AM

Senate Rejects 'Buffett Rule,' Despite Networks' Promotion of 'Tax Ref

The mainstream media rarely like the very rich, but billionaire Warren Buffett is the exception. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO remains unscathed, even adored by the liberal news media due to his liberal politics. After all, it was Buffett who called for higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires. His call for increased taxes was unsurprisingly embraced by class-warfare loving Obama…
Julia A. Seymour
April 19th, 2012 9:42 AM

AP Headline, As Past Two Weeks' Initial Unemployment Claims Soar: 'Aid

UPDATE: The headline at AP's 9:37 a.m. report now reads "US unemployment claims signal slower hiring." That's nice, but it won't what was broadcast immediately after the report's release until news outlets become aware of the revision. The games the Associated Press's Chris Rugaber and the wire service's headline writers are playing with the weekly unemployment claims from the Department of…
Tom Blumer
April 19th, 2012 9:40 AM

NBC Pounces on Ted Nugent Comments, Ignores Obama's Own History of Vio

Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News highlighted controversial comments about President Obama recently made by conservative rocker Ted Nugent, even bringing up another controversial clip from 2007. But correspondent Andrea Mitchell failed to mention that Obama has his own history of using violent metaphors, as, during the 2008 campaign, then-…
Brad Wilmouth
April 19th, 2012 9:21 AM

WashPost Promotes Obama Silver-Birther Swipe at Romney -- Then Rebuts

The Washington Post promoted Barack Obama's slam at Romney yesterday: "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth." It was a headline above an Obama picture on page A-4, with a caption noting Obama's "not-so-subtle swipe" at Romney. It was promoted in the second paragraph of a campaign roundup on A-5 by reporters Amy Gardner and Nia-Malika Henderson. But for readers who made it to…
Tim Graham
April 19th, 2012 8:32 AM

Daily Kos: Average GOP Voter Takes 'Bribes

Leftists have a stunning ability to diagnose a political malady in conservatives that they themselves have in great abundance. They denounce Fox News as more of a political organization than a news network as their remotes are stuck on MSNBC. Now the Daily Kos thinks the Republican Party is more of a "criminal organization than a political organization with any sort of ideas." On Tuesday, the…
Tim Graham
April 19th, 2012 6:42 AM

NYTimes Lead Story Sees Yet Another Victory for Occupy Wall Street, on

The left-wing Occupy Wall Street sit-in was kicked out of Zuccotti Park months ago, but the New York Times claimed to see its handprint in Wednesday's lead story, "Citigroup's Chief Rebuffed On Pay By Shareholders." Reporters Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Nelson Schwartz plugged the influence of the left-wing sit-in high up, in paragraph two:
Clay Waters
April 19th, 2012 6:40 AM

GOP Consultant Analyzes Hilary Rosen's 'Rookie Mistake' Against Mrs. R

In his web column called “Mullings,” GOP consultant and CNN regular Rich Galen insisted that what Hilary Rosen “said about Ann Romney was just plain dumb.” He thinks he knows what went wrong. “When the story about what she'd said on CNN broke I Tweeted that she made the rookie mistake of thinking she could repeat what she'd said in the Green Room at CNN on the air at CNN.” Galen explained to…
Tim Graham
April 18th, 2012 10:23 PM

CNN's Zakaria Supports Obama's Buffett Rule

CNN host Fareed Zakaria, who admitted last year that he held off-the-record conversations with President Obama even though he was covering the President's foreign policy, has now expressed his support for the Buffett Rule – legislation that Obama has pushed for in recent weeks. Zakaria is reportedly on the short list of considerations for Obama's next Secretary of State if the President is…
Matt Hadro
April 18th, 2012 6:56 PM

Chris Matthews: Montana's Sen. Tester Just 'Regular Guy,' Not Liberal

Apparently MSNBC's Chris Matthews judges the political ideology of elected officials by inconsequential cosmetic matters such as their style of clothing or haircut. During a segment handicapping the tough reelection campaigns of a handful of Senate Democrats, the Hardball host described Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) as, "another guy who's got a crew cut, looks like a regular guy... [who] works on…
Ken Shepherd
April 18th, 2012 6:35 PM

CBS's Rose Hounds Boehner on Ryan Budget, Cites Bishops; Went Easy on

Charlie Rose did his best to forward liberals' talking points about Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, during an interview of House Speaker John Boehner. Rose played up Mitt Romney's endorsement of the Ryan plan and how the former governor "talked about, perhaps, abolishing H.E.W. [sic]- I mean, HUD, as well as Department of Education." The anchor even went so…
Matthew Balan
April 18th, 2012 6:23 PM

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill To Emcee LGBT Fundraiser Hailing HHS Secretary's

In 2008, it was questionable that PBS NewsHour and Washington Week anchor Gwen Ifill could moderate the vice-presidential debate as she was writing a book called “The Breakthrough” about the rise of Barack Obama and other black liberal politicians. On Thursday night, Ifill will cross another Obama line by acting as emcee for a fundraiser for the LGBT health and advocacy group the Whitman-Walker…
Tim Graham
April 18th, 2012 5:56 PM

MSNBC's Martin Bashir, Who Compared Santorum to Stalin, Mocks Concept

MSNBC's Martin Bashir, who previously compared Rick Santorum to genocidal murderer Joseph Stalin, on Wednesday mocked the concept that MSNBC could be biased against Republicans. A network graphic dismissed, "Paranoia? Romney: More Media Should Be as 'Fair' as Fox News." After playing clips of Mitt Romney decrying liberal media bias, Bashir huffed, "This is pretty rich from a man who hasn't…
Scott Whitlock
April 18th, 2012 5:32 PM