MSNBC's President Trumpets Lefty Identity: Our Network Is the 'Place t

In an interview with the AP, MSNBC President Phil Griffin bragged about life after Keith Olbermann, touting the cable channel as "really the place to go for progressives." Griffin didn't bother denying the liberal bent of the network. He highlighted left-wing anchor Rachel Maddow, hyping, "She really has elevated the discussion and is in many ways the model that we want for cable news."
Scott Whitlock
June 20th, 2011 4:01 PM

Jon Stewart Slams Fox Viewers as Most Misinformed, But He's the Ignora

In his June 19 appearance on Fox News Sunday, Comedy Central's Daily Show host Jon Stewart fiercely denounced the Fox News Channel as uniquely biased, and slammed those who watch Fox News as "the most consistently misinformed media viewers....Consistently -- every poll." Unfortunately for Stewart, he was relying on a methodologically-flawed survey from the University of Maryland's Program on…
Rich Noyes
June 20th, 2011 3:56 PM

NY Times Headlines Romney's Jobless Joke, Ignored Obama's 'Shovel-Read

New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny followed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to Tampa and filed “Democrats Scowl at Romney Joke” for Friday's edition, treating as a weighty matter a harmless joke by the candidate to a group of unemployed people as one of a series of “occasionally awkward...off-the-cuff remarks.” Yet the Times has remained silent as President Obama has reeled off a…
Clay Waters
June 20th, 2011 3:34 PM

Fareed Zakaria: Today's Conservative Movement Like 'the Old Marxists

CNN's Fareed Zakaria regurgitated his conservative-bashing Time magazine piece on his Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS. He opened up his program with the same barrage against conservatives that he launched in Time on Thursday, namely that today's conservatism is woefully divorced from reality like the Marxists of the 19th century. Zakaria writes that "conservatives now resemble the old…
Matt Hadro
June 20th, 2011 2:57 PM

Washington Post Ombudsman Undermines His Claim Paper’s E-Mail Quest

Put the lie in your lead and the truth deeper into your story, Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney relayed on Sunday in passing along advice he got from his late father. A few pages away, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton seemed to take that advice as he led his Sunday column, “The truth about the Sarah Palin e-mails,” by asserting: “If you read the mail to the ombudsman last week…
Brent Baker
June 20th, 2011 2:13 PM

Sea Sick

I am so sick and tired of people defending Barack Obama and the disastrous policies of the two years the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress. If anybody ever had a reverse Midas touch, it is this president. Everything he touches turns to debt. I sincerely want anybody who wants to defend Obama to respond to this column, but I don't want to have even one response that mentions…
Charlie Daniels
June 20th, 2011 1:34 PM

War on Terrorism = 'War of Fear' According to NBC's Richard Engel

Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel worried about the cost of combating terrorism and took the opportunity to bash the effort: "You talk about money the U.S. spent fighting this global war on terrorism. I think, which is a terrible misnomer, it's like a war on fear or something like that. And I think in many ways it has been a war of fear." […
Kyle Drennen
June 20th, 2011 12:49 PM

NYT Editor Keller Confesses: Media 'Would Recoil in Horror' from Palin

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller’s latest column for the Sunday Magazine tackled what the subhead called “Sarah Palin’s codependent relationship with the press (and vice versa).” In two contradictory paragraphs, Keller bluntly revealed the liberal media mindset of Palin loathing – then dismissed the idea of liberal media slant as almost entirely mythical. Keller also stated that "a…
Clay Waters
June 20th, 2011 12:42 PM

Maddow Asks Principal if Her Teachers Will Work at Charter School - Th

It's an old saw in journalism that there's no such thing as a dumb question. On her MSNBC show June 16, Rachel Maddow demonstrated how this belief doesn't have much validity, if it ever did. Maddow was reporting on a Detroit public high school, Catherine Ferguson Academy, that narrowly missed closing due to budget cuts when a charter school company intervened at the 11th hour (video after…
Jack Coleman
June 20th, 2011 12:39 PM

MRC's Gainor to NBC: Fire Employees Responsible for Removing 'Under Go

NBC has unquestionably committed an act of religious bigotry designed to offend Christians. Removing ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance in a piece they aired yesterday during the U.S. Open – not once, but twice – was absolutely not accidental. It was brazenly deliberate.
Dan Gainor
June 20th, 2011 12:37 PM

Leno Joke about Weiner Includes Pro-life Terminology: 'Unborn Son

Tonight Show host Jay Leno demonstrated June 17 that getting a laugh is much more important than political correctness to a comedian. Although Leno is married to pro-abortion feminist Mavis, he knew “male fetus” just wouldn’t get the response “unborn son” would. Watch the clip beginning at 12:28 for Leno’s quip, “Trending tomorrow, Weiner’s unborn son tweets his sonogram picture to over…
Jill Stanek
June 20th, 2011 12:17 PM

CNN.com Offers Readers Inaccurate, Biased Take on Supreme Court Wal-Ma

Weighed in the balance and found lacking. That biblical admonition could well describe CNN.com's shoddy "breaking news" take on today's Supreme Court ruling in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes. Simply put, CNN.com gave readers a woefully inaccurate and incomplete story on the case, chalking up the Court's ruling as holding that a "sweeping class-action status that could potentially involve hundreds…
Ken Shepherd
June 20th, 2011 12:02 PM

NBC's Gregory Frets Greece-Like Rioting if U.S. Makes 'Draconian' Spen

On NBC's Sunday Meet the Press, host David Gregory took on an alarmist tone as he worried that any significant attempts to address the nation's enormous debt could lead to violence: "Look at the images that came out of Greece this week as you've got...big cuts in public spending. And this is the result, rioting in the streets....Could we have that kind of reaction here?" Gregory posed that…
Kyle Drennen
June 20th, 2011 11:21 AM

Texas Governor Sounds Like A Candidate in Speech to Republican Gatheri

A standing ovation and cries of “Run, Rick, Run” greeted Texas Gov. Rick Perry following his campaign-like speech to a gathering of conservatives in New Orleans on Saturday. Addressing the Republican Leadership Conference, Perry wasted no time in criticizing the Obama administration for believing that government is the answer to every need and is most qualified to make essential decisions for…
Susan Jones
June 20th, 2011 10:31 AM