Daily Show Mocks 'Cheney's Old Heart': Warn Your Children 'Not to Get

Comedy Central's Daily Show took the news of Dick Cheney's heart transplant as another opportunity to attack the former Vice President. On Monday, whoever is responsible for the show's Twitter account posted a series of supposedly comical messages about the recovering patient including "Please warn your children not to accept candy from or get into a car with #CheneysOldHeart":
Noel Sheppard
March 27th, 2012 7:33 AM

Daily Kos Unglued About Trayvon, Smears Republicans as Racist Paranoid

As the media coverage of Trayvon Martin's death turns more political, with President Obama calling for national "soul-searching" and Newt Gingrich and others on the right calling his remarks "disgraceful," the politicizers at the Daily Kos are upset their preferred Racist America narrative is being questioned. Jesse "Ministry of Truth" LaGreca is once again coming unglued with hatred: "The…
Tim Graham
March 27th, 2012 6:50 AM

AP National Headline: 'Pa. GOP senator convicted,' But Dem Former Pa

That the Associated Press gives stories about corrupt and scandalous politicians disparate treatment depending on their party affiliation is not exactly breaking news. But it's ordinarily difficult to point to situations involving fairly similar sets of facts occurring at roughly the same time which make the disparity between the wire service's treatment of Republicans and Democrats so obvious…
Tom Blumer
March 27th, 2012 1:07 AM

Wanda Sykes: GOP Field's So Weak It Should Surrender, South Is Toothle

Wanda Sykes is still whacking away at Republicans -- even if it's not quite wishing Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail. In an interview with Nikki Schwab of  the Washington Examiner, she said Republicans should pack it in, Obama is going to win hands down, forget about it. "I tell people who are just like normal Republicans that I feel sorry for them, I want to give them a hug and a lollipop…
Tim Graham
March 26th, 2012 10:55 PM

CNN's Erin Burnett on Obama's Mic Gaffe: 'Better Than Being in the Bat

CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday made a stunning observation about President Obama's open mic gaffe with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev. Without specifically mentioning fellow CNNer Kyra Phillips by name, Burnett hysterically said, "I guess it's better than being in the bathroom with your open microphone" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 26th, 2012 10:52 PM

Only the NYT Gives Former Dem. Gov. Jon Corzine Benefit of the Doubt o

Has the New York Times Business section gone soft on former New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, now under the scandal spotlight for his service as chief executive of the failed financial services firm MF Global? Saturday's Business Day story by Azam Ahmed and Ben Protess buried intriguing details that reflect suspiciously on Corzine under the bland headline, "Congressional Memo Sheds New…
Clay Waters
March 26th, 2012 7:23 PM

AP Searches on Trayvon Martin: One Vague Quote About Bounty, No Mentio

A search on Travyvon Martin's name (not in quotes) at the Associated Press's main national site at 7 p.m. returned 37 items. A search on "Trayvon Martin bounty" (also not in quotes) returned one item. Here is the relevant section of the related story by Jennifer Kay and Errin Haines, way down in Paragraphs 13 and 14:
Tom Blumer
March 26th, 2012 7:20 PM

CNN Educates Viewers on Benefits of ObamaCare

According to CNN host Carol Costello, the White House failed to sell a health care bill that could have been embraced by the American people, many of whom "simply don't understand" the bill. So during Monday morning's coverage of the Supreme Court hearings on ObamaCare's constitutionality, CNN explained some benefits the bill provides and gave the reason for the individual insurance mandate.…
Matt Hadro
March 26th, 2012 5:41 PM

Screw Objectivity! ABC's Josh Elliott: 'I'm Proud to Work at a Place T

Sometimes journalists just come right out and say it: Appearing at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Awards, Saturday, ABC News anchor Josh Elliott gushed over media subjectivity: "I'm proud to work at a place that believes in advocacy journalism!" Elliott, who reads the news for Good Morning America, fawned over the liberal gay rights group: "I will never be in a…
Scott Whitlock
March 26th, 2012 5:04 PM

NBC Sees Nuclear Plant as Job Creator for Vets...After Hyping It As Da

On Monday's NBC Today, Tom Brokaw reported on veteran Mike Wright returning from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to continue work at New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant: "Entergy, Wright's employer, supported his deployments. Veteran hiring is a priority for the company, not out of sympathy, but as an investment in the bottom line....Mike Wright and Entergy, that's how it's supposed to…
Kyle Drennen
March 26th, 2012 4:51 PM

Even Good Episode for ‘GCB’ Has 20 Attacks on Christianity

“GCB” managed to dial down its cheap dialogue in March 25’s episode, but only barely. A “good” day for the “Good Christian” show still fired up to 20 shots on Christians along with attacks on Texans, and all of them were laden with malice and contempt. The entire show lives up to its newest episode’s name, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” and per usual there is a lot of sex and Bible-bashing in…
Lauren Thompson
March 26th, 2012 4:34 PM

MSNBC Contributor Derides Conservative Argument Against ObamaCare Mand

Taking the Constitution's limits on federal power seriously is just, well, backwards to liberal journalists. Take Ari Melber of The Nation. Sitting on the panel on the March 26 edition of Now with Alex Wagner, the MSNBC contributor dismissed as "retrograde" the notion that the ObamaCare individual mandate -- the provision forcing Americans to buy private health insurance or else pay a fine to…
Ken Shepherd
March 26th, 2012 3:54 PM

Flashback: Pelosi Responds with 'Are You Serious?' to Question about O

When Nancy Pelosi was asked in a 2009 press conference about where in the Constitution Congress has the authority to order Americans to buy health insurance, she responded: “Are you serious?” That week, none of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network news programs deemed Pelosi’s ludicrous response to the question from CNSNews.com worthy of coverage. The news blackout of the then House Speaker’s…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 26th, 2012 3:40 PM

ABC Hypes Ex-Bush Aide: Hypocritical States Push God While Touting Gun

Which This Week analyst used the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida as an excuse to slam religious conservative? It wasn't liberal host George Stephanopoulos. Instead,  Matt Dowd on Sunday said this: "We want to be a Christian nation and we want to act in a Christian manner, but, oh, by the way, we don't believe in turn the other cheek." The former George W. Bush pollster mocked, "And we don…
Scott Whitlock
March 26th, 2012 3:39 PM