'Just Shut Up': Scarborough Shouts Down RNC Chairman's Words On Weiner

When on today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski tried to report the comments of RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on Weinergate, Joe Scarborough shut her down and shut the comments out.  "It's just stupid.  Just shut up," said Scarborough of Priebus. Joe's point was that both parties hypocritically seek to exploit sex scandals in which their opponents become involved.  But Morning Joe had already…
Mark Finkelstein
June 13th, 2011 7:43 AM

People Mag Provides Obama Five Pages for Photo Spread and Essay on Fat

People magazine loves Obama. In the top right corner of the June 20 issue is a picture of the president tenderly sitting with younger daughter Sasha on the White House lawn and the words “President Obama On Being a Good Father: Plus Exclusive Family Photos.” Inside are five pages of pictures of adoring daughters getting moments with Daddy...by Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza. The…
Tim Graham
June 13th, 2011 7:13 AM

Juan Williams Spars With Chris Wallace Over Public Support For Afghani

Fox News haters love to advance the myth that the network pushes exclusively conservative views and the anchors surround themselves with right-leaning yes men who never question them. On the latest installment of "Fox News Sunday," liberal political analyst Juan Williams challenged host Chris Wallace's view of the public's support for the war in Afghanistan leading to a humorous exchange (…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2011 10:49 PM

When PC Gets Ridiculous: AP Says 'She' Tried to Saw Off Her Genitals I

The Associated Press is just like any other "prestige media" outlet in utterly failing the accuracy test when it comes to "transgender" stories. A man is a woman as long as he says he's a she. Take this stark prison story from  AP's Dena Potter on Tuesday: DILLWYN, VA. -- Crouched in her cell, Ophelia De'lonta hoped three green disposable razors from the prison commissary would give her what…
Tim Graham
June 12th, 2011 9:52 PM

AP Waffles on Calling Source of European E. Coli an 'Organic' Farm

On Wednesday evening in Europe (12:31 p.m. Eastern Time), in what it was already describing as "the world's deadliest known outbreak of E. coli," the Associated Press reported that "No cause for the outbreak has yet been found," while farmers on the continent were petitioning the EU for hundreds of million of dollars in compensation. By midday European time (6:27 a.m. ET) on Friday, June 10,…
Tom Blumer
June 12th, 2011 6:40 PM

Kurtz Tells WaPo's Milbank 'You're Just Annoyed Because Breitbart' Got

The Andrew Breitbart-hating media certainly got its comeuppance Monday when Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) finally admitted that he had indeed been sending lewd pictures to young women via his Twitter account. Sensing that he was seated with one such press member, CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" told a mopey Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, "You're just annoyed…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2011 6:01 PM

ABC's Claire Shipman: 'A Group of All White Men Are Not Going to Reach

ABC's "This Week" actually used the occasion of Congressman Anthony Weiner's (D-N.Y.) sex scandal to discuss whether this was "a good moment for women." During a lengthy segment, host Christiane Amanpour along with her exclusively white female guests proceeded to bash members of the opposite sex with ABC's Claire Shipman actually saying, "A group of all white men are not going to reach the…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2011 4:51 PM

Ann Coulter Smacks Down Arrogant Eliot Spitzer: 'What Business Have Yo

CNN's Eliot Spitzer arrogantly lectured about the benefits of Keynesian economics Sunday while accusing fellow panelists on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" of not knowing what they were talking about because they weren't business owners. This led British historian Andrew Roberts to point out that President Obama's administration are mostly academics, and Ann Coulter to ask Spitzer, "What business have…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2011 3:32 PM

Amy Holmes: 'Media Needs to Go to Rehab With Weiner and Get Over Obses

Amy Holmes of America's Radio News Network made a fabulous observation Sunday concerning the New York Times and the Washington Post asking readers to go through Sarah Palin's email messages to assist them in finding dirt on the former governor. Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Holmes marvelously concluded, "The media it seemed to me it was like they were putting out an 'America’s Most…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2011 2:02 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Hammering the Hermanator

This was the week when Kossacks discovered Herman Cain in a big way...and by "discovered" I mean "singled out for venomous condescension." Another Kossack asserted that cable-news  coverage of Weinergate was designed not to inform and enlighten, but rather to sexually arouse the numerous "zombie[s]" in the audience. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
June 12th, 2011 2:02 PM

Palin's E-Mails 'Too Darn Irresistible' to Read, But WaPo Ombudsman Ta

The Washington Post and The New York Times  "crowdsourcing" the stash Sarah Palin's gubernatorial e-mails is wildly controversial, but here is the "hot topic" the Post ombudsman is tackling instead today in the paper: "Is women's sports coverage lacking?" As if that can't be addressed in another week? New Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton did explore the rush to judge Palin's pile in an "Omblog"…
Tim Graham
June 12th, 2011 9:15 AM

On NPR, David Brooks Slams Talk Radio: 'They Do Not Deliver Votes

On Friday night’s All Things Considered, NPR’s “conservative” analyst David Brooks appeared with liberal E.J. Dionne and sounded all his typical notes. He repeated against after the mass staff exodus that Newt Gingrich “couldn’t run a 7-Eleven,” with this amendment: " I think I said on the show a couple of weeks ago the guy couldn't manage a 7-Eleven. I don't think he could manage an ATM…
Tim Graham
June 12th, 2011 8:07 AM

Bill Maher Takes Racist Swipe At Herman Cain: Gingrich is Republican

HBO's Bill Maher on Friday took a racist swipe at Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. During the New Rules segment of "Real Time," the host said pretending that he was speaking to Newt Gingrich, "Let me put your unpopularity in context for you - you're a Republican and you're polling behind a black guy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 11th, 2011 11:49 AM

Janeane Garofalo: Weinergate Isn't Weiner's Fault - It's the Media and

Liberal lunatic Janeane Garofalo doesn't think Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is responsible for the sex scandal that is currently threatening his career. Appearing on HBO's "Real Time," the so-called comedian and actress claimed Weinergate is caused by the media and "hypocrite Republicans" (video follows with transcript and commentary, vulgarity warning):
Noel Sheppard
June 11th, 2011 11:08 AM