Gullible Wolf Blitzer: I 'Sort of Believed' Weiner's Lie

CNN's Wolf Blitzer admitted Monday that he believed Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) when the congressman told him in an interview that he did not send a lewd photo of himself over Twitter. Blitzer related to CNN's Piers Morgan Monday evening his thoughts immediately after the interview. "I'm saying to myself, you know what, it sounds to me like it may have been his picture, but it was out there…
Matt Hadro
June 7th, 2011 6:41 PM

NYT Gives Breitbart His Due, Admits Media Hold Him at Arm's Length

New York Times media reporters Jeremy Peters and Jennifer Preston recognized conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart (pictured below) for breaking the Weiner-gate scandal that resulted in a dramatic press conference Monday afternoon where both Brietbart and Rep. Weiner spoke. "Conservative Blogger, a Go-To Source for Political Scandal, Looks for Legitimacy" was printed in Tuesday's Metro…
Clay Waters
June 7th, 2011 5:53 PM

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Demands Weiner Resign; Other Ladies on The View D

MRC’s Scott Whitlock last week called to light Joy Behar’s suggestion on The View that Congressman Anthony Weiner’s social media scandal was part of a conspiracy by political opponents, a view repudiated by fellow panelist Barbara Walters.  “Somebody is out to get him, apparently, 'cause they don't like his politics,” Behar said on the ABC daytime talk show on Tuesday. Despite Monday’s…
Eric Ames
June 7th, 2011 5:39 PM

Video Flashback: Liberal Media Defended Weiner by Slashing Andrew Brei

As NewsBusters' Lachlan Markay pointed out, the Weinergate scandal showcased a variety of liberal media conspiracy theories. One of the most prevalent theories focused on besmirching conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who broke the story wide open Monday with a series of posts on BigGovernment.com featuring lewd photos of Rep. Anthony Weiner. "Look, Breitbart is a proven liar, okay?"…
Alex Fitzsimmons
June 7th, 2011 5:36 PM

As Britain Goes, So Goes America

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The extinct political slogan "As Maine goes, so goes the nation," may be supplanted by what is happening in the United Kingdom. There is a form of functional political illiteracy here that does not bode well for the United States should it follow Britain's very bad example, particularly on matters involving immigration and health care. For several years, the…
Cal Thomas
June 7th, 2011 5:19 PM

Who Says History Isn't Confusing

The liberal media's most recent effort to turn Sarah Palin into a dolt over her version of Paul Revere, on which historians are now defending her, has prompted me to share with you some confusing points of European history I have recently re-encountered in my lay study of the subject. With apologies in advance to professional and amateur historians, here are a few fun "facts."
David Limbaugh
June 7th, 2011 4:49 PM

CNN's Phillips: 'Hillary Clinton Went Through a Sex Scandal of Sorts

This morning on CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips examined another aspect of the Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) story.  Noting that Weiner's wife is a very close friend of and former aide to Hillary Clinton, Phillips said:
Mike Bates
June 7th, 2011 4:45 PM

Deport California's Illegal Immigrant Prisoners

In the classic movie "The Great Escape," a cluster of Hollywood manly men from yesteryear (including my friend Steve McQueen) played Allied POWs who escape from a German camp during World War II. Today the great escape may be played out by more than 33,000 incarcerated inmates in California who don't escape the state's 33 prisons but are released by a computer error and the U.S. Supreme Court…
Chuck Norris
June 7th, 2011 4:39 PM

Recap: The Most Ridiculous Leftist Defenses of Anthony Weiner

UPDATE: Check out reaction from some of the chief Weiner-defenders below the break. The so-called Weinergate scandal provided a true spectacle of media bias and conspiracy theorizing. While there was certainly plenty of good reporting throughout, many opted to take Rep. Anthony Weiner's claims at face value and search for other culprits or scapegoats. Others devised more malicious theories…
Lachlan Markay
June 7th, 2011 4:10 PM

WaPo Fact-Checker on Obama's Auto Bailout Claims: 'One of the Most Mis

The educated guess here is that Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler is currently not the most popular person in the White House. On Saturday, in a relatively rare rebuke originating from what G. Gordon Liddy has mockingly derided as "Washington's quaint little alternative newspaper" (daily circulation 741,000 in March 2005, 551,000 in March 2011), Kessler ripped into the President's…
Tom Blumer
June 7th, 2011 3:33 PM

WaPo Articles Omit Arab Provocations for 1948 and 1967 Wars with Israe

In the June 5 Washington Post article, "Palestinian Protesters Attempt to Cross at Golan Heights, Israeli Troops Open Fire," co-writers Samuel Sockol and Joel Greenberg managed not to fill in viewers on significant background from the Six-Day War from 1967, namely that Egypt, Syria and Jordan provoked an attack from Israel by amassing troops next to the tiny Jewish state along the 1949…
Brad Wilmouth
June 7th, 2011 3:32 PM

NYT's James Dao Hails Anti-War GOP on Front Page, Latest Snipe Against

New York Times reporter James Dao has filed his second story in nine days critical of the Afghanistan war. First came the 3,000-word Sunday front-page story on May 29, "After Combat, the Unexpected Perils of Coming Home," emphasizing the negative from the start: Capt. Adrian Bonenberger made plans for his final patrol to Imam Sahib. But inside, he was sweating the details of a different…
Clay Waters
June 7th, 2011 3:31 PM

Stephanopoulos Combats Ann Coulter on Historical Events In Her New Boo

ABC's George Stephanopoulos went beyond challenging assumptions from Ann Coulter's newest book "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America" on Tuesday, as he repeatedly attempted to correct her on historical facts. The former Clinton advisor interrupted her multiple times on Tuesday's Good Morning America to make a point that she was either wrong or lying about history. You are…
Matt Hadro
June 7th, 2011 2:47 PM

On the Networks, its Gender Optional

MSNBC profile of transgender prom queen latest in long string of articles promoting transgender issues.
Paul Wilson
June 7th, 2011 2:21 PM