Larry King To Be Replaced By 'Britain's Got Talent' Judge
June 14th, 2010 9:46 AM
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Morgan is the former British tabloid editor that mocked George W. Bush for falling off a Segway only to break three ribs years later driving one himself!A number of reports claim CNN's longtime host Larry King is about to be replaced by Piers Morgan, one of the judges on "Britain's Got Talent" and its U.S. version "America's Got Talent."According to London's The Daily…
Clyburn, Boiled Down: We'll Never Stop Blaming Bush
June 13th, 2010 10:09 PM
Real Clear Politics currently has a video highlighting statements by Democratic Congressman James Clyburn Jr. of South Carolina. It teases the video with a question asked by Candy Crowley of CNN. Once one sees the entire sequence, it's clear that Clyburn really answered Crowley's question before she even asked it. Here's the full transcript of the vid, which begins after Indiana Republican…
Kurtz: Helen Thomas Has Been Excused for Saying Questionable Things fo
June 13th, 2010 4:47 PM
CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday said an inconvenient truth that few in his industry would care to admit: "Helen Thomas has been saying all kinds of questionable things in [the White House] press room for the past decade, but her colleagues, for the most part, had given her a pass until now."This indeed is the real lesson behind last week's retirement of the nation's longest living member of the…
Fareed Zakaria Defends Obama's Oil Spill Response: 'What Does the Medi
June 13th, 2010 11:36 AM
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday worked overtime trying to defend Barack Obama's pathetic response to the Gulf Coast oil spill while chastising his colleagues in the media for having the nerve to criticize the president.In the opening segment of his "Fareed Zakaria GPS" aired on CNN, Zakaria asked, "Have we all gone crazy?" He continued, "In dealing with the serious problem involving technical…
Jerry Brown Calls Meg Whitman a Nazi, Media Mostly Mum
June 12th, 2010 7:13 PM
California's Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown on Tuesday called his Republican rival Meg Whitman a Nazi.You probably didn't hear about this because America's media largely ignored it. By contrast, the press had a field day when Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina made a comment about Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) hair that was picked up by an open microphone Tuesday evening.Why…
MSNBC Trivializes Pope Benedict’s Apology for Clergy Scandal
June 11th, 2010 6:40 PM
MSNBC’s Savannah Guthrie thinks the Vatican has “minimized” the clergy abuse scandals for months, before Pope Benedict’s Friday apology. And MSNBC seemed to do their level best to “minimize” that, during the 9a.m. EDT news hour.Guthrie reported that the Vatican publicly apologized for the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic clergy Friday, “after months of minimizing” the scandals. “I have to…
CNN Falsely Claims Pope Benedict XVI Hasn't Said He's Sorry, Reporter
June 11th, 2010 4:09 PM
CNN's Kyra Phillips completely got it wrong on Friday's Newsroom as she reported on Pope Benedict XVI's latest apology for the priestly sex abuse scandal. Even after she reported that Pope was "begging for forgiveness," Phillips repeatedly claimed that "there are two simple words we haven't heard: I'm sorry." The Pope has actually used those words and has made multiple apologies.The CNN anchor…
Media Continue War against BPA; Claim It Causes 'All Sorts' of Health
June 11th, 2010 10:20 AM
Toys, food, packaging. Chemicals are in them all. The media make a living by sensationalizing the potential dangers of just about everything in our modern world. Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical found in many plastic items, was no exception. The news media have been scaremongering about BPA for years, even going so far as to compare it to tobacco at one point, but a cautious tone from the…
James Carville Bashes Fareed Zakaria: 'I Wanted to Hit Him With a Foot
June 11th, 2010 12:43 AM
Democrat strategist James Carville Thursday had strong words for Fareed Zakaria who in an interview recently published at CNN.com defended President Obama's handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill."When I read that I wanted to hit him with a football bat," Carville told CNN's John King on the program bearing his name.For those not getting the joke, Carville was mocking Zakaria's reference to "…
Jack Cafferty: 'Outrageous' That Democratic Congress Can't Pass Budget
June 10th, 2010 6:42 PM
CNN's Jack Cafferty ripped the Democratic-controlled Congress for their inaction to pass a budget during a commentary on Thursday's Situation Room: "The Democrats in Congress can't be bothered to pass a budget for next year. That's their job....It's simply outrageous." Cafferty also channeled the Tea Party and strongly condemned the federal government for "taking us down the road to financial…
CNN's Sanchez Highlights 'Big Oil' Cash to Republicans, Omits Obama
June 9th, 2010 8:12 PM
On Wednesday's Rick's List, CNN's Rick Sanchez twice highlighted how "several Republicans want to keep the cap on what oil companies pay for spills at $75 million" and how apparently that's about "how much they [oil companies] spend on campaign contributions to politicians each year," but omitted that President Obama was the top recipient of money from BP during the 2008 election cycle.Sanchez…
Fox News Could Get Helen Thomas's Old Seat
June 9th, 2010 2:47 PM
In what must to the far-left seem like adding insult to injury, Fox News could end up with Helen Thomas's vacated press briefing room seat.What's more, rival network CNN's senior White House correspondent would be perfectly okay with it reports the Huffington Post: At least one competitor is backing Fox News for the newly vacated front-row seat in the White House briefing room: CNN Senior White…
CNN's Gupta: Womb is a 'Sacred Space' and a 'Safe Refuge' for 'Babies
June 8th, 2010 6:06 PM
CNN anchor Dr. Sanjay Gupta refreshingly made an implicitly pro-life argument during a report about how toxic chemicals possibly affect the unborn children: "Here in the womb, enveloped in darkness and warmth, a baby's life begins in earnest. It is a sacred space: pristine, insulated, more than nine months of safe refuge from the world outside" [audio available here].Dr. Gupta made that statement…
CNN's Don Lemon Acts as Helen Thomas Apologist in Fleischer Interview
June 7th, 2010 3:01 PM
CNN anchor Don Lemon repeatedly defended rabidly anti-Israel columnist Helen Thomas as he interviewed Ari Fleischer late in the 7 pm Eastern hour of Sunday's Newsroom. After playing Thomas's remarks, Lemon lauded her in his first question to Fleischer: "Helen Thomas has broken down many barriers for women....She has a lifelong achievement...in journalism. Should that count for anything?" [audio…