Maddow and Guest Wonder Why Media is Focused on Weiner - While They Fo

That Rachel Maddow of MSNBC and Chris Hayes of The Nation may be perpetuating the Weiner scandal apparently has not occurred to them. Maddow told Hayes last night that she could understand why Republicans were calling for Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign, but she was at a loss to understand why his fellow Democrats in Congress were doing likewise (video clip after page break) --
Jack Coleman
June 10th, 2011 8:47 PM

Chris Matthews: Newt 'Is Evil, Looks Like The Devil

Talk about demonizing your political opponents, Chris Matthews has literally done it  to Newt Gingrich. . . On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews said that Gingrich "looks like the devil," reminds him of the warlock in Rosemary's Baby, and "is evil." View video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
June 10th, 2011 6:28 PM

NPR's Nina Totenberg: 'If His Name Weren't Weiner, Would We Still Be T

NPR's Nina Totenberg on Friday may have asked one of the silliest questions raised since the Weinergate sex scandal began about two weeks ago. Appearing on PBS's "Inside Washington," Totenberg actually said, "If his name weren’t Weiner, would we still be talking about this?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 10th, 2011 6:22 PM

PCP for Primates: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Our friends and colleagues at CNSNews.com are unveiling a new regular feature devoted to showcasing ridiculous government spending projects called the "Golden Hookah Award." We'll be helping to spread the word to help everyone on the web try to get a handle on what our government officials are smoking. The first recipient of the Golden Hookah is a project funded by the National Institute on…
Matthew Sheffield
June 10th, 2011 5:33 PM

CNN's Don Lemon Belittles Rick Santorum Over Gay Rights Issue

Openly-gay CNN anchor Don Lemon badgered GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum over his views on gay marriage Friday, questioning his stance on gay rights and if he really had any gay friends. A brief clip of the interview that aired on Newsroom Friday afternoon revealed Lemon to be fairly testy in his questions. Having revealed in May that he is gay, Lemon defended his objectivity as a…
Matt Hadro
June 10th, 2011 5:33 PM

Jon Stewart Makes Racially Charged Joke at Herman Cain's Expense: He D

It would be unfair to call Jon Stewart a racist but when he mocked GOP presidential contender Herman Cain as essentially an illiterate, on Thursday's show, it has to be asked wouldn't Stewart and his cronies at The Daily Show have satirized any sort of conservative talk show host, like a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, as a bigot if they had joked that President Barack Obama didn't "like to read…
Geoffrey Dickens
June 10th, 2011 5:23 PM

The Government Job-training Juggernaut

President Obama campaigned this week for "new and innovative approaches" to America's economic crisis. So naturally, the futurist-in-chief filched his fresh, bold ideas straight from ... the 1930s. The grand new solution to the jobs deficit, according to the White House, is more FDR-style federal job-training spending. Sounding every bit like the whiteboard eggheads who keep spinning around…
Michelle Malkin
June 10th, 2011 4:29 PM

Coulter's 'Demonic' Is Angelic

Ann Coulter's chilling two-chapter recapitulation of the French Revolution is worth well more than the price of her new book, "Demonic," but that's just a bonus. Also priceless are Coulter's plethora of one-liner skewerings of the liberal mob, but I digress. What make this her best book are her incisive demonstration that the revolution was the mother of the many totalitarian "revolutions" it…
David Limbaugh
June 10th, 2011 4:15 PM

Daily Kos: Herman Cain Is The Perfect Racist Republican

On Friday morning, the Daily Kos blogger with the byline Seneca Doane tried to have fun with the mass defection away from Newt Gingrich, satirically offering Newt his services in defeating the other GOP candidates. He was especially vicious with Herman Cain: "I'll admit it right up front -- Cain scares me.  I don't mean as an opponent; I mean as a human being." Cain, he says is the perfect…
Tim Graham
June 10th, 2011 3:03 PM

Yahoo! Editor on Economy: GOP Wants to 'Blow Stuff Up' to Win in

Latest conspiracy theory about Republicans contends they support economic sabotage.
Julia A. Seymour
June 10th, 2011 2:07 PM

New York Times Watch Quotes of Note - Who Says Journalists Aren't Reli

Who Says Times Journalists Aren’t Religious? "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." – Managing editor Jill Abramson as quoted by Times media reporter Jeremy Peters upon her ascension to the executive editor slot, replacing Bill Keller, in a story posted at nytimes.com the morning of June 2. The quote disappeared later…
Clay Waters
June 10th, 2011 1:44 PM

VIDEO: Actress Jennifer Garner: $500 Million for Toddler Care 'Not Eno

Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner applauded President Barack Obama for already committing $500 million to federally funded education programs for "toddlers" but argued that it is "not enough."
Nicholas Ballasy
June 10th, 2011 12:55 PM

MSNBC's Matthews Doesn't Seem to Understand British Were Coming for Co

"Shouldn't presidential candidates and prospective candidates have a firm grasp of American history?" Chris Matthews rhetorically asked on the June 9 "Hardball" before lamenting that Sarah Palin had a penchant for being "painfully wrong" on the subject, citing her recent inartful explanation of the famed midnight ride of Paul Revere. Yet it seems Matthews may have no idea why the British…
Ken Shepherd
June 10th, 2011 12:25 PM

Russell Crowe: Pro-abortion Foreskin Man

I really, really like Russell Crowe as an actor.
Jill Stanek
June 10th, 2011 12:13 PM