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NBC: Weiner Resignation Announcement 'Showed Much of His Strength as a
During Thursday NBC News special coverage of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner announcing his resignation, congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell remarked to Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: "Anthony Weiner showed much of his strength as a Congressman in what he talked about just now in trying to talk about a message that was something other than this scandal." [Audio available here…
June 16th, 2011 4:17 PM
Eliot Spitzer Yields Podium to Planned Parenthood Head, Barely Scrutin
Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest abortion provider, the controversial recipient of government funds, and is criticized by some for its lack of transparency – and yet CNN's Eliot Spitzer gave president Cecile Richards a free pass in a Wednesday night interview.
Could Spitzer's leniency be due to the fact that he enjoyed the endorsement of Planned Parenthood when he ran for governor…
June 16th, 2011 4:01 PM
Pelosi: Obama Did Not and Does Not Need Congress’ Authorization for
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is “very protective of congressional prerogative” regarding military action but believes that President Barack Obama did not need Congress’ authorization to take action against Libya and does not need congressional authorization today to continue with the operation.
June 16th, 2011 3:07 PM
That Annoying Sarah Palin
Sarah Barracuda brings out the worst (and the strangest) in our media masters.
June 16th, 2011 3:02 PM
Politico Throws Bucket of Cold Water on GOP Contenders: They Can't Eve
In a June 16 story for the Politico, Molly Ball surveyed the existing GOP presidential field and essentially buried them all as pathetic losers who couldn't even carry their home states. The article headlined: "The GOP's Unfavorite Son Primary" detailed how current candidates Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and even undeclared ones like…
June 16th, 2011 3:00 PM
The Left's $2 Billion Newsroom: AOL and Huffington Post
Merger of sites, local sites give liberals journalism army 10,000 strong.
June 16th, 2011 1:16 PM
Brian Williams Skips Vindication of Scott Walker's Union Law, Finds Ti
In a combined ten hours of programming, Wednesday, the networks devoted a mere 41 seconds to an important ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that allowed Scott Walker's collective bargaining law to be implemented. NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams, however, found time to focus on Spider-Man and the 2012 Academy Awards.
On June 15, only NBC's Today and CBS's Early Show covered it. That day'…
June 16th, 2011 12:40 PM
ABC, NBC Skip Issa Probe Exposing ATF's 'Idiotic' Policy Blamed in Bor
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) conducted hearings on Wednesday to investigate a highly controversial ATF operation that led to the death of a U.S. border agent, but neither NBC nor ABC covered the story on their nightly newscasts.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman lambasted a Justice Department official who claimed to be cooperating with the investigation but offered…
June 16th, 2011 12:23 PM
Gingrich Rips 'Reprehensible' NBC Reporting on His Wife, Demands Apolo
Appearing on Fox News's On the Record Wednesday night, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich slammed NBC News for its reporting earlier that day that Callista Gingrich was a main cause of the exodus of Gingrich staffers last week: "I believe NBC owes Callista an apology....I think the program this morning was totally irresponsible and personally reprehensible..."
Host Greta…
June 16th, 2011 11:48 AM
WaPo Ignores Pelosi's 62% Jump in Net Worth, Obsesses Over Debts of Fr
Update (11:55 a.m. EDT): MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts just mentioned the 62% spike in Pelosi's net worth, attributing it mostly to her husband's real estate dealings.
As my colleague Noel Sheppard noted today, the media have largely ignored the fact that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has seen an astonishing 62 percent spike in her net worth over last year.
Yet in a June 16…
June 16th, 2011 11:27 AM
Media Ignore Labor Attacks on Catholic Colleges
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) apparently thinks itself qualified to judge how religious a college is. So far in 2011, the NLRB declared two Catholic colleges not Catholic enough to be exempt from federal labor law.
This controversial labor union attack on Manhattan College and Xavier University has gone virtually unnoticed by the national news media. The Washington Times was the…
June 16th, 2011 11:25 AM
Pelosi's Net Worth Grew 62 Percent Last Year, Media Mostly Mum
You would think that in a tough economy with 9.1 percent of the population unemployed and most people seeing continued decreases in the value of their homes the revelation of a political leader experiencing a massive rise in her net worth would be newsworthy. Apparently not, for the following report about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) stunning one year financial windfall…
June 16th, 2011 10:51 AM
Weiner Resigns: Will Media Lament His Departure
Update: 14:30: Weiner made it official moments ago with these words:
"I had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do, to fight for the middle class and those struggling to make it. Unfortunately, the distraction that I have created has made that impossible."
Video and earlier post follows...
June 16th, 2011 10:48 AM
Deadbeats, Duds and Doofusses: Dads in the Media
These are tough times to be an American dad, and indeed, an American man. The recession, or "mancession," as it's been called, hit men harder than women; male unemployment was 8.9 percent compared to 8 percent for women in May. Adding insult to injury, leftwing journalists have sniggered about the plight of the "beached white male." In 2010, women became the majority in the work force for…
June 16th, 2011 10:47 AM