Surprise: Sunday's NYT Lead Slot Warns High Gas Prices May Hurt Obama

Sunday’s New York Times front page brought a rare focus on a trend favorable to the GOP, high gasoline prices under the Obama administration (and in the lead slot no less): Michael Shear’s “High Gas Prices Give GOP Issue To Attack Obama – New Peril To Recovery – Candidates and Boehner Plan to Capitalize on Anger at Pump.” The Times tends to soft-pedal such dangers during Democratic…
Clay Waters
February 20th, 2012 5:22 PM

Liberal Comedian Slams Santorum, 'Jesus Never Condemned Birth Control

Liberal actor and comedian John Fugelsang was a guest on Monday's Starting Point and took the opportunity to bash Republican candidates and spew liberal talking points. Apparently CNN thought the comedian had some serious commentary to offer on the news of the day. At the very end of the show, Fugelsang launched parting shots at Republican front-runners Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. He…
Matt Hadro
February 20th, 2012 4:55 PM

On Three Occasions In Two Weeks, WashPost Staffers Attacked Homeschool

Sheesh! What have taxpaying homeschooling parents ever done to the Washington Post? There's a bill working its way through the Virginia General Assembly that would, if passed, require that public high schools in the Old Dominion allow homeschooled children to try out for athletic teams for the school which they would attend  were they enrolled in the public school system. Post staffer Anita…
Ken Shepherd
February 20th, 2012 4:43 PM

NBC's Gregory Spins For Obama: Dems 'Plenty Energized' by Fear of GOP

Appearing on Sunday's NBC Today, Meet the Press host David Gregory recited Obama campaign talking points perfectly as he predicted: "...Well, he's going to raise plenty of money.... even if people are disappointed with the President, they're going to focus on the alternative. They're going to say, 'Do you really want to hand it over to Republicans?' I think Democrats will be plenty energized…
Kyle Drennen
February 20th, 2012 4:33 PM

It's Time for Newt to Go

There is a grisly pallor that has beset former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Then, too, there is a lumpiness — to his face, to his features, to his ... well, to his lump. When he walks into a room, I feel rather sorry for him, but then I feel rather sorry for Bill Clinton, too, and for Hillary. No longer do I call her "Bill's lovely wife Bruno." She looks grandmotherly rather than tough…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
February 20th, 2012 3:51 PM

Conservatives Must Remain United

A strong move is on to demonize and marginalize social conservatives, a move that originates from the political left but is being aided by some on the right, a move that is based on assumptions that better describe the leftist accusers than they do their targets. Obama, by rewriting the Bush rules to protect health care providers who objected on moral grounds to abortion, has breached his…
David Limbaugh
February 20th, 2012 3:32 PM

NYTimes Reporter Oppel Misleads on Santorum's 'Phony Theology' Quote

New York Times reporter Richard Oppel Jr. got emotional in defense of Obama while trailing GOP candidate Rick Santorum through the Midwest: “Santorum Questions Education And Obama.” Oppel pounced on a Santorum comment on Obama’s “phony theology,” and falsely conflated the remark with rumors that Obama was a Muslim or not American, saying that such talk “got so bad at one point” during the…
Clay Waters
February 20th, 2012 3:15 PM

SI's Peter King 'Amazed' That Jeremy Lin Was 'Peppered With Slurs' By

During his first hour today, Rush mentioned the reaction of Peter King at Sports illustrated in King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" collection to a paragraph in the magazine's cover story on Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks' point guard who has broken through from obscurity to phenom during the past two weeks. What King wrote is indeed an interesting giveaway of what I believe is a common but…
Tom Blumer
February 20th, 2012 2:54 PM

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Responds to NewsBusters Catching Her 'Obama Bump

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, CNN's Piers Morgan and Soledad O'Brien accepted an "Obama bump" from singer Roberta Flack at Whitney Houston's funeral. O'Brien took to Twitter shortly after the incident to defend herself:
Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2012 1:58 PM

WashPost's 'Conservative' Blogger Rubin Scolds Santorum to 'Grow Up" a

The Washington Post's "conservative" blogger is now telling Republicans to shut up and move on from their complaints of a liberal media double standard. The Post's Jennifer Rubin told all the GOP candidates to "grow up" on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday. "These candidates should grow up, get their message out," she ranted, emphasizing that conservative candidates have grown "obsessed" over…
Matt Hadro
February 20th, 2012 1:15 PM

NBC Piles on Santorum, Claims He Wants to 'Reignite the Culture Wars i

On Sunday, NBC's David Gregory spent much of Meet the Press blasting Rick Santorum for criticizing President Obama's "phony theology" of liberalism. Earlier that morning, he appeared on the Today show to wonder if the GOP was "comfortable" with that line of criticism and warned: "Does it want to reignite culture wars in America over these kinds of issues?" On Monday's Today, fill-in co-host…
Kyle Drennen
February 20th, 2012 1:12 PM

Media Cherry Pick 41-Minute Santorum Speech to Misrepresent Obama's

By now you’ve likely read or seen Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum talking about Barack Obama’s “phony theology.” Unfortunately, in their attempt to accuse the former Pennsylvania Senator of impugning the President’s religious beliefs, America's media collectively cherry-picked from a 41 minute speech to completely misrepresent what Santorum actually said (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2012 1:11 PM

WashPost's February 18 'On Faith' Section Evangelizes for Obama Contra

Campaign advice for President Obama on how to defend his contraceptive mandate. A nun offering a "Catholic" defense of same-sex marriage. Both items from this Saturday's paper constitute the latest example of how the Washington Post's "On Faith" feature is a printed bully pulpit for both liberal theology and a liberal political agenda. In "How Obama should fight the ‘war on religion,’" Post…
Ken Shepherd
February 20th, 2012 12:53 PM

With Liberal Stephanopoulos Taking the Day Off, ABC Shuts Robin Robert

Despite there being numerous presidential news stories developing on Monday, including Rick Santorum and abortion, ABC's Good Morning America skipped all political topics. Not coincidentally, former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos was off for the day. Since Stephanopoulos became a co-host on December 14, 2009, ABC has marginalized incumbent anchor Robin Roberts's…
Scott Whitlock
February 20th, 2012 11:58 AM