After Ignoring Attacks Against Conservative Women, Liberals Get Upset

Last week was filled with Chris Christie fat jokes. This week, Sen. Scott Brown was the target of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's joke about Brown's nude photos from college. Brown posed for the pictures to help pay for his schooling, but during the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, the moderator reminded everyone of the issue, and asked Warren what she had done to pay for…
Aubrey Vaughan
October 7th, 2011 2:00 PM

Media Celebrate 'Good' September Jobs Number, But Obama's Still 6.2 Mi

The media said there was "good" but "not great" news on the unemployment front in September with 103,000 jobs added, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate remained 9.1 percent. But even with that growth, Obama's jobs promises have fallen far short. His economic policies were supposed to create 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Now, ten months later the economy…
Julia A. Seymour
October 7th, 2011 1:28 PM

Some Good GOP Flip-flops

William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable. Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to support the most conservative policies only when they are understood to be conservative and are plausibly supportable by the…
Tony Blankley
October 7th, 2011 1:25 PM

NBC's 'Today' Frets Scott Brown Getting 'Nasty' and 'Personal' in Mass

At the top of Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if a joke by Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown in response to a jab by Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was a "comeback or insult" and noted that "women's groups are giving him a big dressing down today." In a later tease of the story, fellow co-host Ann Curry proclaimed: "A senate race in Massachusetts has…
Kyle Drennen
October 7th, 2011 12:14 PM

ABC Hits 'Billionaire Boosters' of Tea Party, Uses Liberal Film to Sla

ABC's Brian Ross on Friday investigated the alleged misdeeds of "billionaire boosters" to the Tea Party and even used a liberal documentary to attack the conservative group. Appearing on "Good Morning America," Ross touted a Bloomberg report hitting the "secret sins" of Koch Industries and whether the corporation traded with Iran. An ABC graphic linked, "Billionaire Boosters of the Tea Party…
Scott Whitlock
October 7th, 2011 11:46 AM

Is Occupy Wall St. Getting Big Name Lefty Media Help

Occupy Wall Street might not just be for smelly hippies any more. Major unions and some high-priced Hollywood stars and starlets are throwing their support to the protest. But that’s not enough. During the live video feed of the protest Thursday afternoon, a woman who identified herself as “Beth Bogart,” stopped by the media table and expressed concern they would get “overwhelmed.” She…
Dan Gainor
October 7th, 2011 10:17 AM

MSNBC's O'Donnell Accuses Herman Cain -- Who Worked for the Navy -- of

UPDATE AT END OF POST: O'Donnell evaded draft with college deferment. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell had quite a heated battle on Thursday's "The Last Word." During one segment, after O'Donnell besmirched his guest for not enlisting for military service during the Vietnam War despite having worked for the Department of Navy as a ballistics…
Noel Sheppard
October 7th, 2011 10:05 AM

Ed Schultz -- Who Called Laura Ingraham a 'Slut' -- Complains Sen. Sco

During the "Psycho Talk" segment of The Ed Show on Thursday, MSNBC host Ed Schultz complained that Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown "has degraded women" as he highlighted liberal criticism of Senator Brown for a joke he recently made about Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. [Yes, the same  Ed Schultz who was briefly suspended earlier this year by MSNBC for calling…
Brad Wilmouth
October 7th, 2011 8:59 AM

Kal Penn: GOP Debates 'Broke My Heart

Strangely claiming to still be an "independent," actor-slash-Obama-advisor Kal Penn wrote for the God's Politics blog on September 29 that his heart was broken by the crowds at Republican debates, but urged  Obama's young voters it's "time to re-engage!" That doesn't sound very "independent" of Obama at all. But, then "Kumar" of the marijuana-addled "Harold and Kumar" movies has only donated…
Tim Graham
October 7th, 2011 8:52 AM

WaPo's Hearts and Flowers for Anita Hill and the 'Hearing That Never A

Twenty years ago, Senate Democrats and National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg colluded to try and ruin the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas by promoting the never-substantiated sexual harassment allegations of Anita Hill. If a woman ever claimed Barack Obama talked up Long Dong Silver porn films to her, you can bet it would be seen as an ugly, racist right-wing smear promoted…
Tim Graham
October 7th, 2011 7:57 AM

LAT’s Oliphant Lets Joe Biden Babble Away, Part 3 of 3: How TARP Rea

In a report filed at the Los Angeles Times's Politics Now blog earlier today, Washington Bureau reporter James Oliphant relayed a number of whoppers delivered by Vice President Joe Biden without anything resembling a challenge. In Part 1, I noted how Biden, who in August described Tea Party sympathizers as "terrorists" and in September as "barbarians," today spoke in complimentary terms of how…
Tom Blumer
October 6th, 2011 11:59 PM

NBC Highlights Anita Hill Speech at Georgetown University

Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, the NBC Nightly News on Thursday took a moment to recount an appearance by Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill commemorating the 20th anniversary of her Senate testimony making unsubstantiated accusations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her in the 1980s. Anchor Brian Williams relayed Hill's…
Brad Wilmouth
October 6th, 2011 9:35 PM

LAT's Oliphant Lets Joe Biden Babble Away, Part 2 of 3: The VP's Ignor

In a report filed at the Los Angeles Times's Politics Now blog earlier today, Washington Bureau reporter James Oliphant relayed a number of whoppers delivered by Vice President Joe Biden without anything resembling a challenge. In Part 1, I noted how Biden, who in August described Tea Party sympathizers as "terrorists" and in September as "barbarians," today spoke in complimentary terms of how…
Tom Blumer
October 6th, 2011 7:58 PM

Matthews Compares Obama to a Clunker: Would You Buy This 'Lousy' Car A

MSNBC's Chris Matthews used to get a thrill up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak. After Thursday's pathetic presidential press conference, the "Hardball" host compared Obama to a "lousy" new car that ended up being  a "clunker," and then asked the Huffington Post's Jennifer Donahue, "Are you going to buy one next year?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 6th, 2011 7:19 PM