'Slut' Walk Feminist Won't Say If She'd Want Daughter To Dress Like On

This column makes a living lambasting Mika Brzezinski for her liberalism. So let's give the Morning Joe co-host credit when she dares deviate from the lefty line. On today's Morning Joe, Mika persistently questioned Jessica Valenti, a feminist proponent of [their term] "Slut Walks," as to whether she'd want her daughter to dress like one.  Valenti, happy to push others out into the streets…
Mark Finkelstein
June 6th, 2011 8:27 AM

ABC’s Amanpour Chafes Over Focus on Debt, Pushes for ‘Another Stim

Looking at government as the best job creator, on Sunday’s This Week ABC’s Christiane Amanpour pushed her guests to agree the stagnant economy and growing unemployment argue for less concern about controlling federal spending and demonstrate the need for “another stimulus” big spending effort. Amanpour was undeterred by the failure of the ongoing “stimulus” spending pushed by President Obama…
Brent Baker
June 6th, 2011 4:19 AM

Fox News Accidentally Shows Picture of Tina Fey in Story About Palin

Someone at Fox News has some serious 'splaining to do. During a Sunday segment about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's interview with Chris Wallace earlier in the day, a picture of Tina Fey impersonating her nemesis was accidentally placed in the upper-right corner of the screen:
Noel Sheppard
June 6th, 2011 1:15 AM

CBS Reporter Invokes 'Long, Hot Summer' Cliche in Covering Teen Unempl

For those too young to remember, invoking a "long, hot summer" was a favorite pastime of the establishment press and so-called "civil rights leaders" after the race riots of the 1960s (example here). The message: Get that federal money flowing to us, or there will be violence in the streets. At CBS News, reporter Bill Whitaker wrapped his coverage of the teen unemployment situation as follows…
Tom Blumer
June 6th, 2011 1:14 AM

Roger Ailes: 'Palin's So Smart She’s Got the Press Running Up the Ea

For approaching three years, so-called journalists have been calling former Alaska governor Sarah Palin an idiot. In an interview with the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, Palin's employer at Fox News, Roger Ailes, marvelously said, "She's so smart she’s got the press corps running up the whole East Coast behind her bus”:
Noel Sheppard
June 6th, 2011 12:33 AM

AP’s Romney ‘Fact Check,’ Part 2: GOP Candidate Mostly Prevails

In one of five items they alleged were false statements made by Mitt Romney in his presidential candidacy announcement speech, Associated Press "fact-checkers" Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn claimed that the economy has not gotten worse since Barack Obama became president. Part 1 (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) clearly showed that the facts are on Romney's side. The current score is Romney 1,…
Tom Blumer
June 5th, 2011 11:49 PM

Entire Media Skips Team Obama's Neat Idea in Court: Avoid Individual M

On Thursday, Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner publicized a whopper from Obama’s solicitor general Neal Katyal defending ObamaCare (and Mark Levin teed it up and whacked it to the fairway on the radio). But it was blacked out by all the networks – and all the major newspapers and wire services. Get a load of this: "President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care…

Tim Graham
June 5th, 2011 7:20 PM

AP's Romney 'Fact Check,' Part 1: Candidate's 'Economy Is Worse' Claim

First let's get the obvious out of the way. It's not a secret to many readers here that yours truly's opinion (and not that of NewsBusters or MRC) is that GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney would be a completely unacceptable candidate. For those who didn't know that, now you do. Nonetheless, when Romney says things which are either definitely or arguably true and Associated Press "fact…
Tom Blumer
June 5th, 2011 6:26 PM

Networks Skipping the Blago Retrial...As If It Were Irrelevant to Obam

Let’s not imagine Anthony Weiner was the only Democratic embarrassment of the last week. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was back on trial in Chicago last week “offering an enthralling and self-immolating primer on American government,” wrote former Chicago Tribune editor James Warren.  “In talking about his mulling appointing himself to Obama's senate seat, Blagojevich even said that it…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2011 6:04 PM

Newsweek's Clift Says Press Don't Care About Romney's Mormonism Hours

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift said on PBS's "McLaughlin Group" Friday that the press really aren't interested in Mitt Romney being a Mormon. This amazingly transpired roughly 24 hours before her magazine revealed a June 13-20 cover story about Romney entitled "The Mormon Moment: How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2011 4:58 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Beware the Ryan Ruin

A year ago, Paul Ryan was an obscure minority House member from northern flyover country. Today, he's the GOP's point man on budget issues and, as such, is frequently flayed by the Daily Kos gang (see first two items). This past week, Kossacks also went on (and on) about what Republicans allegedly have in common with eugenicists and, yes, Hitler.  As usual, each headline is preceded by the…
Tom Johnson
June 5th, 2011 4:57 PM

Bob Schieffer Asks Haley Barbour 'Could You Ever Envision Supporting a

As no clear frontrunner emerges in the Republican presidential nomination race, the liberal media are in a full-scale panic over the thought that the former governor of Alaska might eventually enter and challenge their beloved president in November 2012. On Sunday, "Face the Nation's" Bob Schieffer asked Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour with some incredulity, "Could you ever envision…
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2011 3:23 PM

Rewind: When CBS Showed Kevorkian Killing on Camera

Now that suicide-assisting Dr. Jack Kevorkian has passed away, it might be worth revisiting the CBS 60 MInutes segment in 1998 that actually led to him going to prison for eight years. The victim was named Tom Youk, and a tape of his death by lethal injection was shown for right-to-die advocacy -- and perhaps more than a little bit for ratings. At the time, MRC president Brent Bozell wrote a…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2011 2:53 PM

Gawker Writer Scolds CBS News Correspondent for Blaming Network's Slow

Old and new media clashed on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday. After CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes blamed Andrew Breitbart for her network's slow response to the ongoing Weinergate scandal, Gawker staff writer Maureen O'Connor said, "I think even if that's the case, it was very quickly that you could have looked into this story and verified it for yourself" (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2011 1:42 PM