CBS Smacks Catholic Church Over New Clergy Sex Abuse Report

CBS's Elaine Quijano filed a slanted report on Wednesday's Evening News about the new report on the Catholic priest child sex abuse scandal. All but one of the sound bites which Quijano played during the segment either leaned negative against the Catholic Church or completely slammed the religious body. Anchor Katie Couric heralded the negative reaction about the report from some quarters in…
Matthew Balan
May 19th, 2011 6:31 PM

Awkward Alert! Brian Williams Fails to Report on His New Comcast Colle

Normally the announcement that a government official is leaving a post to join a company they had oversight of would invoke cries of crony capitalism from the likes of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, but when that person is joining your company it makes for quite the awkward news brief. Williams, to date, has expressed no outrage at the fact that FCC commissioner Meredith Baker is…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 19th, 2011 6:15 PM

No Decline in Polar Bear Population

The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organization of scientists that has attempted to monitor the global polar bear population since the 1960s, has issued a report indicating that there was no change in the overall global polar bear population in the most recent four-year period studied.
Terence P. Jeffrey
May 19th, 2011 5:36 PM

Peter Fonda Tells President Obama: 'You Are a F---ing Traitor

I’m a major Peter Fonda fan, think he’s one of the best character actors working today and can’t imagine life without “Easy Rider,” but this is way, way over the line. The sentiment is hard to disagree with and I’m no Obama fan, but he is the President of the United States and trashing him in this manner overseas at Cannes is hardly different than what all but ended the Dixie Chicks career.
John Nolte
May 19th, 2011 5:31 PM

West Wing Star Rob Lowe Praises Conservatives? Right-Wing Politics Bas

Hollywood star Rob Lowe, who once campaigned for Michael Dukakis, appeared on Tuesday's Hannity and proclaimed that conservative politics is based on "logic." Liberalism, he asserted, is "built on empathy. " Appearing to promote his new book "Stories I Only Tell My Friends," Lowe was pressed on why Hollywood is so liberal. Lowe enthused, "And you know, one of the great things about Hollywood…
Scott Whitlock
May 19th, 2011 5:31 PM

CNN's Zakaria Praises Obama's Middle East Speech on CNN; No Mention of

Update below the break: Although Zakaria said he would be "surprised" if any Israelis objected to Obama's "quite even-handed" call for pre-1967 borders between Israel and Palestine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed clear disapproval of the idea Thursday. CNN's Fareed Zakaria appeared three times on Newsroom Thursday to preview and evaluate President Obama's speech on the…
Matt Hadro
May 19th, 2011 5:17 PM

NBC Uses Liberal Expert, Flawed Study to Go After School Choice

At the top of NBC's Nightly News on Wednesday, anchor Brian Williams teased a story on charter public schools: "In our 'Education Nation' report tonight, the agonizing lottery for kids and their families to get into the best schools, but are they the best schools?" He later declared that families "put everything on the line for a coveted spot in a charter school, but do these schools really…
Kyle Drennen
May 19th, 2011 5:01 PM

Media Slammed 'Bitch' Angle's Ad, Now Silent When Ryan Shown Throwing

Anyone whose eyes have been glued to certain news outlets for the last 24 hours has probably heard almost nothing about one of the most offensive political advertisements in recent memory. That's because most major networks have largely failed to cover a video portraying Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan as literally throwing grandma off a cliff. While ABC, MSNBC, and CNN continue to ignore the…
Alex Fitzsimmons
May 19th, 2011 4:41 PM

'Transparent' Obama Administration Holds More 'Listen Only' Events

President Barack Obama has often lauded his administration as being the "most transparent" but the administration continues to hold a string of "listen only" media events where reporters are not allowed to ask questions. On Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama held a "listen only" media call on the “Joining Forces” national initiative to support military families. This latest conference call…
Eric Scheiner
May 19th, 2011 4:30 PM

Anderson Cooper Hammers Catholic Bishops' Clergy Abuse Report – But

CNN's Anderson Cooper heavily scrutinized the new study of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal Wednesday, but featured no one from the church's side to defend the report. Cooper gave his own critical commentary of the study, voiced the concerns of many clergy abuse victims, and brought on for a soft interview a disillusioned Catholic priest who is resigning from the clergy. However,…
Matt Hadro
May 19th, 2011 4:28 PM

Bernie Sanders Gets Ambushed

Human Events editor Jason Mattera set out recently to answer the age old question "how, exactly, does a socialist go about selling a book through a major American corporation". Apparently the answer for avowed socialist senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) the answer is "with a heavy dose of cognitive dissonance".
Stephen Gutowski
May 19th, 2011 4:24 PM

CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendm

CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight has been such a parade of celebrity interviews it’s almost made Larry King Live look like a hard-news show. But on Wednesday night, Morgan interviewed Ted Nugent and pounded him repeatedly and personally, especially insulting him as a “draft dodger.” He also suggested he was homophobic and not compassionate toward the poor. Morgan naturally picked a big fight on the…
Tim Graham
May 19th, 2011 3:20 PM

NYT's Gail Collins Rips GOP for Sexual Hypocrisy, Lauds 'How Much Ever

Gail Collins, the New York Times’s editorial page editor (2001-2007) turned feminist columnist, went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show on Tuesday night to discuss the revelation that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger having a child with a long-time domestic servant.  Although Schwarzenegger, the former bodybuilder and actor, hardly has a reputation as a social conservative, Collins nonetheless…
Clay Waters
May 19th, 2011 2:18 PM

Ed Schultz and David Sirota Clash in Regretfully Brief On-Air Argument

How sad indeed when liberals turn on one another, their nastiness quickly achieving critical mass. Radio host and columnist David Sirota wasn't expecting a call from fellow liberal and MSNBC loose-cannon Ed Schultz on his radio show yesterday, broadcast out of AM 760 in Denver. When word filtered back to Schultz that Sirota was badmouthing him for Schultz's criticism of "intellectual…
Jack Coleman
May 19th, 2011 1:38 PM