Does MSNBC's Martin Bashir Not Get the Concept of 'Innocent Until Prov

The presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of Anglo-American jurisprudence, so surely well-educated British citizen Martin Bashir knows better than to declare in his closing "Clear the Air" commentary on his April 11 MSNBC program that with charges pending against Sanford, Florida resident "George Zimmerman will have to justify his actions in a court of law." "From the very outset, virtually…
Ken Shepherd
April 11th, 2012 5:34 PM

The View's Behar Groans At Notion Santorum May Run for President In

Discussing Rick Santorum's suspension of his presidential campaign on the April 11 program, most members of the panel, including Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, noted that it was a difficult decision for him and his family. But leave it to hyper-partisan liberal comedian Joy Behar to kick the former senator when he's down. [Audio here, video below the jump]
Josh St. Louis
April 11th, 2012 5:19 PM

Networks Offer Skimpy Coverage of the President's Call for Higher Taxe

The President on Tuesday made a major campaign offensive against his likely Republican opponent, but four out of the six network evening news and morning shows ignored it. Barack Obama's call to raise taxes only appeared on Tuesday's CBS Evening News and a brief sentence on Wednesday's Today. CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell parroted, "Mr. Obama says making wealthier Americans pay more in taxes…
Scott Whitlock
April 11th, 2012 3:46 PM

Networks Obsessed with Labeling Romney ‘Mormon

With nearly 200 mentions in just 15 months, nets making faith an issue.
Matt Philbin
April 11th, 2012 3:37 PM

Hollywood Reporter Leaves Limbaugh Off '35 Most Powerful People in Med

How can you tell The Hollywood Reporter isn’t serious about drawing up a  "35 Most Powerful People in Media” list ? When it leaves out Rush Limbaugh. (Perhaps they composed this when they thought Sandra Fluke and her censorious enablers would ruin his radio show?) Then check out who did make this list, and therefore is more powerful than Rush: Howard Stern? Kelly Ripa? Jimmy Fallon? Wendy…
Tim Graham
April 11th, 2012 3:27 PM

NYT SCOTUS Reporter Greenhouse Still Insists Obama-Care Opponents Don

New York Times former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse appeared on the CBS morning show Saturday to defend Barack Obama's unprecedented attack on the "unelected" Supreme Court and hold to her much-mocked belief, first presented in her March 21 column for nytimes.com, that ObamaCare opponents are "simply wrong" and their argument "analytically so weak that it dissolves on close inspection…
Clay Waters
April 11th, 2012 3:02 PM

NYT's Peters Notes Gov. Nikki Haley Once Hit With 'Unfounded Blog Repo

New York Times media reporter Jeremy Peters on Tuesday defended Republican Gov Nikki Haley of South Carolina from a phony scandal story that made the rounds of the media via Twitter last week, in "A Lie Races On Twitter Before Truth Can Boot Up." Peters reminded readers that Haley had previously been hit with an "unfounded blog report of marital infidelity." So why did the Times eagerly make…
Clay Waters
April 11th, 2012 2:10 PM

WashPost Columnist Rips at Liberal Media Caricature of 'Virtuous' Abor

It's a little surprising that The Washington Post's "She the People" blogger/columnist Melinda Henneberger would suggest a former New York Times colleague (Frank Bruni) may have bought an implausibly formulaic story from an abortion doctor friend about a rabid pro-lifer getting an abortion in the same clinic she protested. She noted even the lefty gossip site Gawker is failing Bruni on this…
Tim Graham
April 11th, 2012 1:47 PM

Cal Thomas Column: Titanic Story Far Different In Reality Than Cameron

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Here, where Titanic, the massive White Star Line luxury liner, was built -- the joke for years has been, "It was fine when it left here." This year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship "Not even God himself could sink...." and the centenary is being observed in diverse ways. There are solemn remembrances. A "Requiem for the Lost Souls of the…
Cal Thomas
April 11th, 2012 1:11 PM

CNN Asks If Romney Is 'Kissing Off' Black Voters

The media is beginning to investigate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith and its racial history, and CNN continued the race narrative on Wednesday morning when it wondered if Romney is simply writing off the African-American vote. Apparently, CNN never got the memo that Herman Cain all but officially endorsed Romney on Tuesday. Citing a Daily Beast report that Romney has no high-profile African-…
Matt Hadro
April 11th, 2012 12:53 PM

Dayton Daily News Reporters Try to Pin Child's Death by Neglect on 'La

On March 1, 2011, 14 year-old Makayla Norman of Dayton died of neglect at the hands of adults (her mother and three others) who were responsible for her care and safety. Makayla weighed 28 pounds when she died, and was found "covered in bedsores, living in filth and starved to the point the she looked more like a skeleton than a teenager." On Friday, her mother pled guilty to involuntary…
Tom Blumer
April 11th, 2012 12:51 PM

RNC Chair Reince Priebus Mocks the Liberal Bias of MSNBC: 'I Don't Buy

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday mocked the liberal, pro-abortion bias of MSNBC, educating anchor Thomas Roberts about the so-called "war on women." After Priebus denied such an attack on females existed, Roberts dismissed, "But Chairman, how can you say that it's a fiction if you stand on the record on what the Republican Party has said and done? " Priebus…
Scott Whitlock
April 11th, 2012 12:30 PM

NBC's Parting Shot to Santorum: 'A Campaign Filled With Highly-Publici

Reporting on Rick Santorum leaving the Republican presidential race on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Ron Mott proclaimed: "It was a campaign filled with highly-publicized gaffes....From calling President Obama out on education, to President Kennedy's famed speech on the separation of church and state....Just two of a number of comments he eventually walked back or was pushed to…
Kyle Drennen
April 11th, 2012 12:04 PM

Spin Cycle: MSNBC Excuses Bad March Jobs Report

Anchors and guests cover for Obama’s dismal data.
Julia A. Seymour
April 11th, 2012 11:37 AM