Pinkerton: Media Love Affair With Christie Ends If He Gets Nomination

November 10th, 2013 5:23 PM
In case you were wondering when all the gushing and fawning over Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will end, Fox News’s James Pinkerton has the answer. Appearing on MediaBuzz Sunday, Pinkerton said, “[I]f he gets the nomination against Hillary Clinton, they'll say, 'Okay, enough’” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Woodward: White House Blames Me for Starting Media Criticism of Obama

November 10th, 2013 4:06 PM
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward made an interesting observation Sunday. Appearing on Fox News’s MediaBuzz, he claimed that the White House blames him for starting the media’s criticism of President Obama’s lack of leadership (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WashPost Media Critic Honors MSNBC's Rachel Maddow As 'Clear Winner of

November 10th, 2013 8:27 AM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple read through a stack of books by cable-news hosts for a Sunday Outlook piece, and declared “MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the clear winner of the cable-news-host literary prize” for her book “Drift.” On Sunday’s front page, The Post called it a “blab lit review” and called it “A survey of the many cable big mouths who have stuffed it between hard covers…

Trace Gallagher at Fox: Insurance Cos. in Calif. Had to Cancel Non-Com

November 6th, 2013 3:41 PM
On Megyn Kelly's Fox News Channel show last night, reporter Trace Gallagher countered the Obama adminstration's attack on Stage Four cancer patient Edie Littlefield Sundby, whose Sunday evening Wall Street Journal op-ed on her individual plan's termination in California has garnered major attention. Ms. Sundby wrote that she has not found an available insurance plan option which will cover…

MSNBC’s Ball and Bacon Suggest Political Sensitivity is Real Problem

November 4th, 2013 6:05 PM
A recent Washington Post report handed MSNBC an opportunity to blame their rivals for the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, and the Lean Forward network appears to be taking advantage. On Monday’s The Cycle, MSNBC contributor Perry Bacon was on to discuss Saturday’s report that fear of Republican criticism caused the Obama administration to work slowly and secretively on the development of…

Bill Maher to Piers Morgan: MSNBC 'Very Rarely Wrong,' CNN Lagging For

November 3rd, 2013 1:03 PM
Bill Maher was a guest on Piers Morgan's CNN show on Tuesday night; the interview segment was replayed on Friday (thanks to NB's Noel Sheppard for that catch). Among other things, Maher confirmed that he is a member of the left's unreality-based community when he described MSNBC as "very rarely wrong" and Fox News's Bill O'Reilly as someone who "says something that is insanely off-base and not…

Fox's Jim Angle: HealthCare.gov Wouldn't Talk to Me, Knew I Was in the

November 2nd, 2013 5:59 PM
Maybe the folks running the HealthCare.gov call centers don't have an enemies list. Instead, based on the experience of Fox News's Jim Angle, it might be an enemies directory, with anyone they're aware of in the media and perhaps other organizations included therein. That's what one almost has to think based on the experience Angle recounted on the air and relayed via Twitter Friday (HT Twitchy…

Ed Schultz Depicts Charles Krauthammer as a Tin Foil Hatter

October 30th, 2013 7:00 PM
He had a hard time pronouncing the subject's name, and admitted "I don't pay much attention to the guy," but MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday actually depicted Charles Krauthammer as a tin foil hatter. Schultz and Company even had the audacity of making a picture of the good doctor wearing such a hat (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Will: ObamaCare Is 'Applied Bloombergism...You're Free to Choose If Yo

October 29th, 2013 7:09 PM
Syndicated columnist George Will made a brilliant observation about ObamaCare Tuesday. Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Will called it “applied Bloombergism... you're free to choose if you choose the right thing” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

George Will Laughs at Sharpton Criticizing Him for Wanting ObamaCare t

October 29th, 2013 6:07 PM
MSNBC's Al Sharpton on Monday took issue with George Will saying on Fox News Sunday, “Of course I want ObamaCare to fail.” When Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg played a clip of that Tuesday, Will laughed through much of it before he responded (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Networks Ignore Obama Team's Latest Attack on Journalist -- Pre-Dawn R

October 29th, 2013 4:56 PM
 All three networks, so far, have skipped the latest example of the Obama administration's aggressive attacks on journalists, this time against a former Washington Times reporter who in 2005 exposed the scant number of flights being protected by Homeland Security. On August 6, 2013, agency officials showed up at Audrey Hudson's house at 4:30 in the morning. With a warrant for an unrelated,…

Megyn Kelly Reminds Viewers: Obama Said You Can Keep Your 'Acme' High

October 29th, 2013 2:10 AM
Monday night on her Fox News program, Megyn Kelly played a clip of President Obama going beyond the now-infamous "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" promise. Earlier Monday, as Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters noted, Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye at NBC News revealed that the Obama administration knew three years ago that "more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market…

Chris Wallace and Brit Hume Skewer Juan Williams As He Defends Million

October 27th, 2013 10:05 PM
On Tuesday's Fox News Special report, contributor Juan Williams lamely tried to excuse away the mind-boggling incompetence of the HealthCare.gov rollout by claiming that "massive opposition (to Obamacare) from the Republicans" caused fearful system architects to "roll it out and see how it works for now." Juan's haughty huffiness was so absurd that the Fox News panel was caught slack-jawed…

George Will: ‘It’s Possible More People Have Lost Coverage Than Si

October 27th, 2013 4:03 PM
Syndicated columnist George Will made a comment about ObamaCare Sunday that has to have the President’s supporters – particularly in the media! – quaking in their boots. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Will said, “It is possible that more people since the first of October have lost their coverage than have signed up for the Affordable Care Act, government program, in all 50 states” (video…