Scarborough Calls 'Preposterous' Sullivan's Claim Obama Intentionally

Newsweek's Andrew Sullivan published another gooey, sycophantic article about Barack Obama Sunday this one claiming the object of his affection intentionally inflamed today's contraception controversy to trap his opponents on the right. When the subject was raised on NBC's Meet the Press, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough quickly set the record straight calling Sullivan's piece "preposterous" (video…
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2012 2:54 PM

Entire Chris Matthews Panel Says New JFK Sex Revelations Are Totally I

The double standard by which the media view presidential sex scandals is nothing less than stunning. On this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the entire panel - which included two women, one being the supposedly conservative syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker - said the new revelations regarding former President John F. Kennedy having sex with a 19-year-old White House intern will…
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2012 1:00 PM

Santorum Doesn't Fall For Gregory's Bait On Banning Working Mothers Fr

On today's Meet The Press, "moderator" David Gregory gave a good preview of how the MSM/Obama industrial complex will try to cariacture and demonize Rick Santorum should he become the Republican presidential candidate. Gregory asked Santorum whether, if elected president, he would only permit single women without children to work in his administration.  That's right: Gregory was actually…
Mark Finkelstein
February 12th, 2012 12:27 PM

Sarah Palin Totally Rocks Conservative Conference

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin tore down the house at Saturday's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Videos of her full keynote address follow in four parts:
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2012 12:03 PM

Fareed Zakaria Asks George Soros 'Will You Create a Super PAC to Help

As hard as it may be to believe, CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday actually tried to raise money for the reelection of the current White House resident. Speaking with billionaire George Soros on the program bearing his name, Zakaria asked, "Will you create a Super PAC to help President Obama?" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2012 11:39 AM

Yahoo! Blames 'Subversive' 'Star Wars' Prequel Trilogy on 'Dangerously

In the previous decade, liberals loved making parallels between Bush administration policies and the power-seeking villains in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy. With the 3D release of the first episode "The Phantom Menace," Yahoo! contributor Timothy Sexton took to his keyboard Friday to tell his readers, "[T]he original trilogy appealed directly to the simplistic moral perspective of an…
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2012 9:41 AM

NY Times Book Reviewer Janet Maslin Protects JFK, Slams Mistress Mimi

The New York Times deeply loves the Kennedy family. Media critics of a certain age recall  how the Times sent a reporter in 1991 to peek in the windows of a woman accusing William Kennedy Smith of raping her. Fox Butterfield demeaned the accuser for having “a little wild streak” and reported she had poor high-school grades and 17 traffic tickets. It was in that defend-the-reckless-Kennedy…
Tim Graham
February 12th, 2012 9:19 AM

CBS Highlights Catholic Democrat Alienated by Obama Contraception Mand

Saturday's CBS Evening News ran a piece highlighting the complaints of a Catholic Democrat - Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter, recounting his opposition to President Obama's attempt to force Catholic employers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Winters asserted that he is "very angry about this," and substitute anchor Elaine Quijano noted that, although…
Brad Wilmouth
February 12th, 2012 7:49 AM

Epic Fail: Whitney Houston Dies, and Tony Bennett Calls for Drug Legal

Is there something toxic in the hair piece? Singer Tony Bennett isn't just a liberal, he's an embarrassing liberal who says the wrong thing at the wrong time. The Hollywood Reporter passes along that at the pre-Grammy bash of record producer Clive Davis, Bennett took the news of Whitney Houston's untimely death as an occasion for a political statement demanding America legalize drugs like the…
Tim Graham
February 12th, 2012 7:19 AM

FNC's Monica Crowley Cites MRC on Media Coverage of Obama Contraceptio

On Saturday's Fox News Watch, FNC contributor and conservative talk radio host Monica Crowley cited a letter released last Monday by NewsBusters publisher and  Media Research Center president Brent Bozell which called on the media to give more attention to President Obama's attempt to force religious institutions to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, even if these institutions…
Brad Wilmouth
February 12th, 2012 5:18 AM

Liberal Senators Miffed 'Morning Joe' Wasn't Toeing Party Line on Cont

When it comes to culturally liberal policy positions, MSNBC has been repeatedly eager to portray conservatives as engaged in a "war on women" with Democrats and the Obama White House being the white knights riding to the defense of damsels in distress everywhere. But when one program dared to deviate a little from the party line earlier this week to voice concerns about the Obama…
Ken Shepherd
February 11th, 2012 11:20 PM

WashPost Humorist Whacks Rick Perry as 'Idiot Politician' and 'Squinty

Washington Post Magazine humorist Gene Weingarten is letting his liberal politics fly in his “Below the Beltway” humor column again. On Sunday, abortion was funny – or to be precise, the Texas legislature passing a bill that requires a doctor to show a patient seeking an abortion  a sonogram of her fetus, "describe its features," and make her hear its heartbeat. Weingarten wrapped up his…
Tim Graham
February 11th, 2012 9:42 PM

Pew: Record High 67% See Political Bias in News Media

The downward slide of media credibility continues. A Pew survey released a few days ago found 67 percent of Americans see “a great deal” or “fair amount” of “political bias” in the news media, a record high for the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press which pegged the level at 63 percent just four months ago. Specifically: Currently, 37 percent of Americans say…
Brent Baker
February 11th, 2012 5:50 PM

Politico's Poll on HHS Mandate: Obama the Reasonable Centrist, or Too

Politico's online poll question of the day is "Do you think the president’s decision to compromise on his birth-control policy was the right call?" The question is a bit vague, but it wasn't in any way as tilted as the answers. You could either say Obama was a fair and reasonable centrist, or he was too willing to make concessions to the Catholic bishops. You couldn't check a box that says "…
Tim Graham
February 11th, 2012 1:31 PM