Gosnell Attorney to Fox's Megyn Kelly: 'Things Went a Bit Awry,' Blame

May 26th, 2013 6:23 PM
Imagine if Newtown, Connecticut massacre perpetrator Adam Lanza had lived and gone on to get convicted of the 26 murders he committed. Further, imagine, post-conviction, that his attorney claimed that "things went a little awry" that day. There would be no containing the outrage, or the establishment press coverage. Kermit Gosnell attorney Jack McMahon was interviewed on Wednesday by Fox News…

Fox's Ed Henry: Colleagues Cheered Me On When I Grilled Bush Administr

May 25th, 2013 11:54 AM
Fox News senior White House correspondent Ed Henry said Friday that when he used to grill George W. Bush press secretaries Dana Perino and the late Tony Snow when he was working for CNN, his colleagues cheered him on in private. "Then when I was at Fox covering the Obama administration," he told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, "it can get a little bit lonely sometimes" (video follows…

CNN Ignores Eric Holder Approving Seizure of Fox Reporter's E-Mails

May 24th, 2013 3:21 PM
[UPDATED BELOW] News broke on Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder approved the Justice Department's seizure of a Fox News reporter's private e-mails. CNN still has yet to report this development, although the network found time to cover Brad Pitt's "face blindness" on Friday. Host Jake Tapper ripped into the Obama administration on Wednesday for its investigation of Rosen, but on…

NBC Fails to Report Its Own Scoop That AG Holder Approved Investigatio

May 24th, 2013 12:05 PM
As of Friday morning, NBC News broadcasts had completely ignored an important scoop from the network's own national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the Justice Department's aggressive investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen. Meanwhile, both CBS News and FNC provided on-air coverage of the new development. [Listen to the…

WaPo's Marimow Fails to Reveal 18-month Delay in Unsealing Rosen Warra

May 24th, 2013 1:13 AM
One obvious question which occurred to me and I suspect others when I read Ann Marimow's first account at the Washington Post dated May 19 of the search warrant issued in 2009 for the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen was: "Where has this thing been hiding?" The "Affadavit for Search Warrant" is dated May 28, 2010. Why did it come out just this week? Marimow didn't say. More…

Dennis Miller: 'Nixonian' Obama Will Need Teleprompter to Say 'I Am No

May 23rd, 2013 6:25 PM
Appearing for his regular "Miller Time" segment on Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, comedian Dennis Miller asserted that the Obama administration is "looking more Nixonian" because of recent scandal revelations. He went on to crack that when President Obama says, "I am not a crook," he'll need a teleprompter to help him. Referring to the Justice Department's focus on FNC reporter…

CBS Spotlights 'Firestorm' Over 'Obama's War on Journalism'; ABC Punts

May 23rd, 2013 1:02 PM
The Big Three networks coverage so far of the Justice Department's questionable investigation of Fox News' James Rosen has followed a similar pattern to that of their coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case. Jan Crawford's report on Thursday's CBS This Morning was the first full report on growing controversy on ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts. NBC briefly covered the investigation…

Fournier: Obama's 'Jihad Against the Press' Makes it More Likely We'll

May 23rd, 2013 10:07 AM
With each passing day, it's becoming clearer and clearer that many of the current White House resident's followers in the media are really angered by his attack on the Associated Press and Fox News's James Rosen. On MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday, the National Journal's Ron Fournier said of this issue, "You can't make journalism a conspiracy...The irony here is that President Obama, by raising…

Dennis Miller: 'The American Media is in an Abusive Relationship With

May 22nd, 2013 9:51 PM
"Let's face facts: the American media is in an abusive relationship with Obama." So marvelously said Dennis Miller on Fox New's the O'Reilly Factor in a discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal Wednesday (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming

May 22nd, 2013 6:34 PM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics -- formerly of AccuWeather -- argued against the view that global warming is causing more violent tornadoes and compared Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's recent comments blaming recent weather disasters on global warming to "ambulance chasing." Bastardi:

Jake Tapper Slams Obama Admin for Treatment of Fox News Reporter

May 22nd, 2013 6:09 PM
CNN's Jake Tapper took Obama's Justice Department to task on his Wednesday afternoon show, sounding alarm over the "precedent" that the administration's investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen would set. Tapper directly challenged liberal defenders of President Obama: "But even if you side with this President over those of us in the media who challenge him in his administration, it is…

Actual Huffington Post Headline: 'OH NO: Fox News Is RIGHT

May 22nd, 2013 4:19 PM
The perilously liberal Huffington Post just can't stand the idea that it could possibly agree with Fox News. On Wednesday, the Post published the following headline at its front page: "OH NO: Fox News Is RIGHT!"

New York Times: Obama Administration 'Threatening Fundamental Freedoms

May 22nd, 2013 3:35 PM
"With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news." So shockingly began a New York Times editorial Wednesday.

Committee to Protect Journalists Denounces 'Chilling Effect' of Rosen

May 21st, 2013 3:53 PM
In statement released on Tuesday, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon, issued this warning against the Obama Justice Department investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen: "U.S. government efforts to prosecute leakers by obtaining information from journalists has a chilling effect domestically and sends a terrible message to journalists around the world…