CNN's Candy Crowley: Defunding Planned Parenthood Leads to...Sicker Ba

CNN's Candy Crowley adopted the pro-abortion lobby's talking points on Friday's Situation Room, as she asked Rep. Steve King about the House's vote to defund Planned Parenthood: "There's that term, 'penny wise and pound foolish.' Would you worry that, by cutting off those services, people...would have sicker babies, or certain people...wouldn't have HIV testing...and that would just cost us…
Matthew Balan
February 19th, 2011 10:04 AM

Bozell Column: Too Much Tolerance for Charlie Sheen

The 911 call went out on January 27. Charlie Sheen was unconscious after another wild 36-hour bout with alcohol and drugs. People magazine reported paramedics found him unresponsive, drooling blood. He looked like death. He was rushed to the hospital, and there the family gathered, expecting the worst. Again, he survived. Nobody seems able to stop this train. No one can force him to change.…
Brent Bozell
February 19th, 2011 8:51 AM

Derelict to the End: AP Fails to Tag Judge in Pa. Guilty of Racketeeri

Friday, a jury convicted former Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Judge Mark Ciavarella of "12 counts, including racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy, but acquitted him of 27 counts, including extortion" in connection with "what prosecutors said was a 'kids for cash' scheme that ranks among the biggest courtroom frauds in U.S. history." Ciavarella was "accused of using juvenile delinquents…
Tom Blumer
February 19th, 2011 8:29 AM

AP Assaults Boehner With the 'Mainstream Economists' Ploy

In a piece biased enough to appear on The Huffington Post, AP writer Charles Babington goes after House Speaker John Boehner, asserting that the Democrats are aligned with "many mainstream economists" -- and the economists cited are liberals, with no label. The "mainstream" apparently favors cutting nothing from the enormous deficit, and adding more "stimulus." Democrats and many mainstream…
Tim Graham
February 19th, 2011 8:03 AM

NPR Promotes New Planned Parenthood Radio Ads Attacking Pro-Lifers Aft

Planned Parenthood lost a House vote on Friday by a count of 245 to 180 that would strip its funding out of this year's stopgap spending bill. But they're not sitting still. Frank James of  NPR's blog It's All Politics is reporting the "woman's health organization" plans to run radio ads that will initially target several Republican lawmakers, including "freshmen Allen West (FL), Frank Guinta…
Tim Graham
February 18th, 2011 11:16 PM

Media Fails to Note Muslim Group’s Controversial History

One of the largest Muslim organizations in North America is considering plans to build a summer camp on 114 acres of land in the Adirondacks.  Via the Albany Times Union:  “The Islamic Circle of North America, a Muslim advocacy group based in New York City, hopes to raise money to develop a camp for children and families of all religions on land donated to it last year.” The Islamic…
Rusty Weiss
February 18th, 2011 11:12 PM

Norah O'Donnell Misses Wisconsin Governor's Motives for Budget Cuts

In the midst of outcry that Wisconsin teachers were skipping school to protest the governor's new budget bill and demand collective bargaining rights, NBC's Norah O'Donnell provided the teachers' motives as an argument for their side. She failed to mention why Wisconsin Gov. Walker cut into their benefits in the first place. Covering the story on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," O'Donnell…
Matt Hadro
February 18th, 2011 6:08 PM

PBS Tweets Its Love for MoveOn.org Campaign Against Conservatives

On its Twitter account today, PBS explicitly thanked MoveOn.org for their campaigning to "save public broadcasting" from the conservatives who would cut the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  A special thanks to @moveon for its help and support this week. www.moveon.org #savepublicbcasting This certainly clashes with a story on Wednesday by Katy Bachman of AdWeek, in which…
Tim Graham
February 18th, 2011 5:06 PM

ABCNews.com Laments Planned Parenthood Defunding Motion Passed Despite

Earlier this afternoon, the House of Representatives voted for an amendment to a spending bill that would strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding. Much of the debate on the measure happened last night, including a speech in opposition of the move by a Democratic congresswoman, Jackie Speier (D-Calif.),  who recalled her own abortion procedure. After the vote came down today, ABCNews.com…
Ken Shepherd
February 18th, 2011 4:09 PM

New York Times: Justice Thomas Must Talk More to Show He's Not Corrupt

A Friday New York Times editorial, “The Thomas Issue,” furthered the paper’s fevered crusade against Justice Clarence Thomas, piggybacking on Adam Liptak’s front-page Sunday story on the vital matter of Thomas’s failure to ask questions during Supreme Court oral argument.   The Times actually argued that Thomas should speak up more to ensure the public that he is open-minded, while claiming…
Clay Waters
February 18th, 2011 4:08 PM

Networks that Railed Against Rhetoric of Tea Parties Offer No Comment

The same networks that assailed the allegedly extreme invective from the Tea Party have, thus far, not found anything interesting about signs implying that Scott Walker, Wisconsin's Republican governor, is a Nazi or a dictator in the style of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. On Thursday's newscasts and Friday's Today, Good Morning America and the Early Show, the extreme rhetoric of some of the signs…
Scott Whitlock
February 18th, 2011 4:06 PM

Lisa Edelstein of 'House' Makes 'Back Alley' Abortion Ad for MoveOn.or

Actress Lisa Edelstein plays Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the hospital administrator (and main squeeze) of Fox's "House.” But Edelstein jumped into politics this week in a MoveOn.org ad accusing the Republican Party of moving the clock back and "trying to send women back to the back alley"for  abortions. "With the economy, joblessness and eight million wars that we're fighting, it seems very odd for…
Tim Graham
February 18th, 2011 3:19 PM

Chris Rock: American Tea Partiers Are Racist and Insane

It was the summer of 1996, and I remember it like it was yesterday. HBO aired Chris Rock in concert, “Bring the Pain” the one-hour special was titled, and I was sure after it was over that the future of standup comedy was in the best of hands. Rock stalked the stage like a leopard about to pounce and his gazelle was most every sacred cow in the area of race relations there was at the time: O.J…
John Nolte
February 18th, 2011 3:13 PM

ABC’s Outrageous 1991 Undercover Probe of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Given the reactions of the left to both the Acorn and Planned Parenthood stings you might be surprised to learn that  Eyeblast.tv has uncovered a nearly identical sting, at least in terms of tactics, against crisis pregnancy centers that ABC News did back in 1991. Apparently back then the Left had zero problems with undercover video investigations aimed at proving a political point. They were…
Stephen Gutowski
February 18th, 2011 2:32 PM