The Media's Selective Race Outrage

For over a year, the liberal media recited "the Tea Party is racist". They did so for hours on end without any clear proof. What do I mean by proof? Knowing this bunch as we do, had there been video of one clearly racist sign at a Tea Party, we'd be seeing that video as often as we did that of Rodney King. It would be their smoking gun. They could single-handedly discredit the Tea Party and…
Bob Parks
February 10th, 2011 2:50 PM

Ed Asner, Harry Belafonte Both Lament Obama's Betrayed the Left

Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer reports hard-left actor Ed Asner is slamming Obama as another "corporatist as president," another "president who represents corporations more than people." The remarks came on the liberal Stephanie Miller radio show: ED ASNER: I’m on the board of Defenders of Wildlife, and at a recent board meeting the announcement was made for just wildlife alone the…
Tim Graham
February 10th, 2011 2:45 PM

On Today: NBC's Vieira Hits Tim Pawlenty for Daring to Call Obama a Fi

NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Thursday's Today show, challenged former Minnesota Republican Governor and potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty for daring to call Barack Obama a fiscal "chicken" as she (citing his Democratic successor Mark Dayton) accused him of not being a fiscal conservative. After Vieira initially questioned if Pawlenty had the requisite "star quality" to run for…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 10th, 2011 1:35 PM

Open Thread: Whistleblower Alleges Politicized FOIA Compliance at Hold

Sorry for the late OT today, NBers, but this one is a doozy. Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams has revealed yet more apparent politicization at Eric Holder's Justice Department, this time concerning the department's treatment of Freedom of Information requests. Adams writes: Eric Holder’s Justice Department has even politicized compliance with the Freedom of Information Act…
NB Staff
February 10th, 2011 1:10 PM

NBC's Kelly O'Donnell Twice Tags Disgraced Rep as 'Conservative,' All

All three evening newscasts on Wednesday and the morning shows on Thursday identified disgraced former Congressman Chris Lee as a Republican. On the February 10 Today, Kelly O'Donnell twice tagged the ex-representative, who resigned after shirtless photos of him surfaced online, as "conservative." The NBC reporter asserted, "The former Congressman is a former businessman, considered an up…
Scott Whitlock
February 10th, 2011 12:45 PM

Bill Maher Calls Bill O'Reilly 'Unpatriotic' for Obama Interview

On the February 8 edition of MSNBC's "Last Word," left-wing comedian Bill Maher disparaged Bill O'Reilly as "unpatriotic" for the way in which the veteran Fox News anchor conducted his interview with President Barack Obama on Super Bowl Sunday. "And Bill O'Reilly, who claims he's such a patriot, how unpatriotic in my view to treat a president that way," railed Maher. "How does that look to…
Alex Fitzsimmons
February 10th, 2011 12:22 PM

Time: CPAC Is 'Carnival' of 'Red-Meat Throwers,' But Liberal Netroots

Today marks the opening of the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Regardless of where you may stand on internal debates about some of this year's co-sponsors, there's no denying that for nearly four decades its been an enduring legacy of conservative political activism. But to liberal journalists like Time's Adam Sorensen, CPAC is casually dismissed as a "three-day…
Ken Shepherd
February 10th, 2011 11:59 AM

WaPo Celebrates 'Uncommon Forcefulness' of Anti-Tea Party Protest, Sub

While conservatives were shocked at a video showing liberals at a Common Cause rally suggesting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should have his toes cut off one by one, be lynched alongside his wife, or be put "back in the fields," The Washington Post seems to find mostly a burst of liberal pride. On Thursday's Fed Page on A-17, reporter Dan Eggen's story is headlined "Uncommon…
Tim Graham
February 10th, 2011 8:28 AM

Too Useful to Check: Us Magazine Falls For Fake Palin-Aguilera Story

B-Us-ted. GossipCop.com reports that Us Weekly just did something extraordinarily dumb (bolds, italics, and link are in original): Whoops! Us Weekly Publishes Sarah Palin/Christina Aguilera Spoof as Fact
Tom Blumer
February 10th, 2011 1:10 AM

The Super Bowl and Its Ads

The other night while watching the Super Bowl, I became increasingly aware that the Angry Left might have a point about the Giant Corporations. Not that the game was not exciting. It was. Those quarterbacks can really heave the ball. Suddenly it is in their hands, and suddenly it is in a receiver's outreached arms, having passed through a forest of opposing players' arms. Both teams were…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
February 10th, 2011 12:05 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell Asks Republican Congressman 'How Do We Know You're

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday had a very heated discussion with Congressman Steve King (R-Ia.) about Barack Obama's religious upbringing. At one point, the "Last Word" host actually asked his guest, "How do we know you are not a Muslim?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 9th, 2011 11:28 PM

Chris Matthews Cherry Picks Santorum to Bash Him and Palin

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday decided to wade into the Rick Santorum-Sarah Palin-CPAC dust-up by cherry-picking what the former Pennsylvania Senator told S.E. Cupp on Glenn Beck's online program the day before. Not surprisingly, by presenting only his biased and abbreviated side of the story, the "Hardball" host attacked both Palin and Santorum (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
February 9th, 2011 9:55 PM

Matthews Trumpets: We've Never Had A World Leader Like Bill Clinton Be

Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, really laid it on thick in his tease for his upcoming special on Bill Clinton's post presidency as he exalted :"Other American presidents have done things before, after leaving office, but nothing on this level or planetary scope" and glorified: "We've never had a world leader like this before!"  The MSNBC ad for the documentary, entitled Bill Clinton:…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 9th, 2011 7:01 PM

John Avlon Rips 'Far Right' Social Conservatives Over CPAC on CNN.com

CNN contributor John Avlon took yet another shot at mainstream conservatives in a Wednesday column on CNN.com. Avlon blasted the "far right" Family Research Council and other conservative groups for their opposition to GOProud's sponsorship of CPAC, and accused conservatives of being on "the wrong side of history" with homosexuals, just as they supposedly were with the "last great civil right…
Matthew Balan
February 9th, 2011 6:51 PM