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

Two-Thirds of Americans Want ObamaCare Gutted by Court; WashPost Hype

A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 2/3rds of Americans want at least a part of the ObamaCare overhaul tossed by the Supreme Court when it decides HHS v. Florida in June. Thirty-eight percent of respondents in the poll want the entire law thrown out while 29 percent say just a part of it being thrown out would suffice. Yet rather than lead with these numbers in their story today…
Ken Shepherd
April 11th, 2012 11:25 AM

NYTimes Tries to Make Hay Out of High CEO Pay, Admits Its Example is

The front of the New York Times Sunday Business section featured Natasha Singer article under the headline "A Rich Game of Thrones – C.E.O. Pay Gains May Have Slowed, But the Numbers Are Still Numbing," which hit the reliably liberal crowdpleaser, the pay of chief executives. The issue has long been an awkward topic at the New York Times Co.Publisher Arthur Sulzberger earned bonus pay in the…
Clay Waters
April 11th, 2012 11:02 AM

Open Thread: No, You Can't

In his column today, Fox Business Network host John Stossel makes an interesting observation: Americans are suspicious of government and yet they seem unable to resist the impulse to grow it. This despite the manifest record of failure that Big Government has racked up for itself:
Matthew Sheffield
April 11th, 2012 9:10 AM

T. Boone Pickens: 'I've Lost My A--' in Wind Power - 'The Jobs Are in

Oilman T. Boone Pickens made a statement on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday that should make every green jobs advocate including Barack Obama, Al Gore, and Van Jones sit up and take notice. "I've lost my a--" in wind power. This came moments after he said, "The jobs are in the oil and gas industry in the United States" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 11th, 2012 9:07 AM

Bubba Watson Tells Piers Morgan 'You Were a Pr--k' on 'America's Got T

CNN's Piers Morgan scored a huge get Tuesday night with the first major television interview with Masters Champion Bubba Watson. When Morgan asked his guest why he was granted this honor, Watson marvelously answered, “Because when you were on this other show ‘America’s Got Talent,’ you were a pr--k!" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 10th, 2012 11:11 PM

Bozell Column: Some Very Political Science

The news is stuffed with “studies” in which “experts” tell us how we should behave. One recently found that conservatives have lost their trust in science over the last 40 years. That’s probably because the very political academics of “Science” are routinely summoned to prove the right-wingers are not only wrong, but dangerously wrong, andnot just dangerously wrong, but evil, too. These “…
Brent Bozell
April 10th, 2012 10:34 PM

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Inaccurately Describes Zimmerman as 'White

On Monday night’s PBS Newshour, anchor Gwen Ifill mangled the Trayvon Martin story by describing the shooter, George Zimmerman, as simply “white,” when he has a white father and a Latino mother. By that one-white-parent standard, you could call President Obama “white.” Ifill announced "Martin, who was black, was on his way to a convenience store in a mostly white gated community when George…
Tim Graham
April 10th, 2012 9:58 PM

Hayes Scolds Media for Shoddy Journalism on Buffett Rule: ‘Reporters

“It’ll probably work politically,” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes observed of President Obama’s “fairness”-based “Buffett Rule” tax hike quest, “but don’t reporters have a job to do here?” On FNC’s Special Report on Tuesday night he noted the 30 percent income tax rate on capital gains “would raise less than six percent of the total cost of the stimulus” and “would raise roughly the same…
Brent Baker
April 10th, 2012 9:10 PM

YouTube: New Channels Cater to Lefties

  YouTube released 100 new channels in April, and there’s not a conservative voice to be found. The site embraced lefty culture with a vengeance, and liberal voices rule the social realm. From former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur to lefty new age author Deepak Chopra, liberals are commonplace figures in the new content. YouTube’s new channels make it an ideal video platform for the left. While…
Lauren Thompson
April 10th, 2012 8:37 PM

Whoopi Goldberg Bleeped for Saying N-word While Advocating Reporters B

Oh the delicious irony. On ABC's The View Tuesday, as co-host Whoopi Goldberg supported Saturday's call by CNN's Don Lemon for reporters to say the N-word when quoting folks that have, the censors actually bleeped her when she said the word herself (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 10th, 2012 6:41 PM