Chris Matthews Links Gay Marriage Opponents to Supporters of Slavery

Minutes after Barack Obama came out for gay marriage, Wednesday, Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC to compare opponents of such unions to "wolves" and to link them to supporters of slavery. Warning of political danger to the President, Matthews spewed, "The dens are opening. The gates are opening of wolves coming out for this, the Karl Roves." After describing liberalism as the force that…
Scott Whitlock
May 9th, 2012 5:02 PM

NBC: Obesity 'No Longer A Question of Individual Responsibility,' Gove

Touting new recommendations from an Institute of Medicine panel on obesity on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, science correspondent Robert Bazell proclaimed to viewers: "...a sea change in how we perceive obesity. No longer a question of individual responsibility, but a need to change what's called an 'obesity-promoting environment.' Calling on corporations, government and individuals to act."…
Kyle Drennen
May 9th, 2012 4:30 PM

Washington Examiner: Obama-backing Labor Union Bankrolling Occupy DC

"A labor union with strong ties to President Obama is helping make the Occupy Wall Street movement a more permanent fixture in the nation's capital, moving Occupy DC into office space the group can use to organize and grow through the presidential election," Aubrey Whelan of the Washington Examiner reported last night.  "The Service Employees International Union [SEIU], one of Obama's most…
Ken Shepherd
May 9th, 2012 4:16 PM

Morning Joe’s Brzezinski Fondly Recalls Her Mother Mouthing Off to P

While appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman, Mika Brzezinski took time to share her fondest memories growing up in a liberal household with father Zbignew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter.  Brzezinski described the upheaval in her life when her father was appointed to Carter’s staff, saying that, “It happened overnight, and all of a sudden we were going to the…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 9th, 2012 4:01 PM

Open Thread: Obama Officially Admits He Supports Gay Marriage

After vice president Joe Biden stated that he supported gay marriage and provoked a media and public firestorm, President Obama just moments ago made it official that he supports the idea as well. Do you see his announcement as having any bearing on the presidential election due to black or Hispanic socially conservative Democrats being disenchanted with Obama or would such individuals vote…
Matthew Sheffield
May 9th, 2012 3:17 PM

Media Mourns Lugar Loss as a 'Tragic' Blow to 'Bipartisanship

ABC’s Good Morning America treated last night’s loss of long-time serving Republican Senator Richard Lugar, to the more conservative Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock, as a sad sign of the end of bi-partisanship. In the 7am half-hour of Wednesday’s show, ABC’s Josh Elliott declared Lugar’s loss was an “earthquake of great degree” and eulogized Lugar as a senator who was “well-known for his…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 9th, 2012 2:53 PM

So Much for Civil Liberties: Communist Cuba's Mandatory AIDS Quarantin

New York Times "global health correspondent" Donald McNeil Jr. made a rare trip to Cuba and filed a report praising the Communist island's handling of the AIDS epidemic for Tuesday's "A Regime's Tight Grip on AIDS – In Cuba, rigorous testing, education, and free condoms help keep the epidemic in check." Conspiciously absent from that headline, especially for a newspaper that prides itself on…
Clay Waters
May 9th, 2012 2:49 PM

Jonah Goldberg Fires Back at Piers Morgan, Accuses Him of Double Stand

After his recent bout with CNN's Piers Morgan, Jonah Goldberg came back for more fireworks on Tuesday's Piers Morgan Tonight. He accused Morgan of a double standard and took him to task over his lack of journalistic integrity, and Morgan fired back in defense. Goldberg took to his blog after the April 30 interview to rip Morgan as a partisan hack who was "carrying water for the Democrats."…
Matt Hadro
May 9th, 2012 2:42 PM

Mike Malloy Whacks Mormonism, 'Senile' Billy Graham

Rabid left-wing talk show host Mike Malloy (heard across the nation on Sirius XM Left) not only insisted on Tuesday that Mitt Romney is suggesting Mormonism taught him to be a lying “SOB..not worth the power to blow you to hell.” Malloy expressed wonder a mob didn’t “string him up right there” as he spoke in Cleveland. In that same first hour of Tuesday night’s show, Malloy verbally…
Tim Graham
May 9th, 2012 2:34 PM

ABC Gushes Over 'Cool,' Popular Hillary Who 'Doesn't Care What People

Good Morning America's Martha Raddatz on Wednesday turned the program into something out of Entertainment Tonight, fawning over the "cool," popular Hillary Clinton who "doesn't care what people think." Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos enthused, "The Secretary of State has been sporting a new look these days. No makeup. No contacts. No blowouts."…
Scott Whitlock
May 9th, 2012 1:23 PM

Network Morning Shows Ignore Federal Prison Inmate's Strong Showing Ag

If you had any doubts that the liberal media are doing their level best this year to shield the public from embarrassing news developments pertaining to President Obama, you need look no further than the strange tale of federal prison inmate #11593-051, Keith Judd, who gave President Obama a run for his money in yesterday's West Virginia Democratic presidential primary. The quadrennial…
Ken Shepherd
May 9th, 2012 1:08 PM

CNN's Piers Morgan Attacks Tony Perkins for Supporting Traditional Mar

Following the overwhelming passage of Amendment 1 in North Carolina on Tuesday night, Piers Morgan brought on the president of the Family Research Council to attack him over his stance on same-sex marriage.  In typical Morgan fashion, Piers chose not to conduct a fair interview but instead attack Perkins. The interview started out with Morgan asking Tony why he is, "so implacably opposed to…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 9th, 2012 12:28 PM

Laura Ingraham Rips NBC's Lauer and Media For Wanting to 'Avoid' Obama

As Matt Lauer went after Mitt Romney over comments about the auto bailout on Wednesday's NBC Today, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham took the morning show host and his colleagues to task: "Matt, as much as the Democrats, and maybe even you at times, want to turn this into a referendum on Romney, this is Romney running against an incumbent president who has a record that the media ought to…
Kyle Drennen
May 9th, 2012 11:54 AM

Bozell Applauds Sen. DeMint's Call to 'Permanently Defund Corporation

Today NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell applauded Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) for calling for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB) to be permanently defunded of taxpayer subsidies. Said Bozell in a statement released today:
Brent Bozell
May 9th, 2012 11:19 AM