Mark Shields: 'Republican Base Moving From Its Own Home to the Rest Ho
"The Republican base is moving from its own home to the rest home to the funeral home."
So said PBS's Mark Shields Friday on Inside Washington (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):
Oliver Stone: America Didn't Win World War II - Russia Did
Filmmaker Oliver Stone doesn't think America won World War II.
On Monday, the co-author of the controversial new book "The Untold History of the United States" told PBS's Tavis Smiley, "Russia won it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Bozell Column: Ellen DeGeneres, The 'Sacred Cow' of PBS
The PBS broadcast of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize on October 30 was a festival of tributes to Ellen DeGeneres – which is fine, since she is quite talented comedically. But it wasn’t so much a tribute for the comedy as it was for her pioneering work promoting homosexuality.
For laughs, consult top producer Cappy McGarr, who insisted Ellen wasn’t picked for political reasons: “The…
PBS's ‘Moyers & Company’ Publishes Lefty Voting Guide
PBS’s “Moyers & Company” released a series of articles in which his writers answer a question that “matters today” to answer. Both the selection and wording of the questions and the answers provided by Moyers’s staff strongly favor President Obama over challenger Mitt Romney.
Moyers’s status as a journalist has not kept him out of liberal politics. As the president of the Schumann Center…
CNN, PBS Fans More Likely to Vote Obama
CNN and PBS claim to be impartial and non-partisan networks, but guess who their audiences are voting for? According to BuzzFeed, a significant majority of Facebook fans of those networks are likely Obama voters.
On a graph titled "What does your favorite TV channel say about your politics?", CNN falls well to the left of center, with almost 30 percent more fans likely voting for Obama over…
NYT Pollster Nate Silver: 'I Don't Intend to Vote This Year
The controversial New York Times pollster Nate Silver, who has been roundly criticized for his overly-optimistic Barack Obama polling, told Charlie Rose, on his PBS show on Tuesday: "I don't intend to vote this year."
Silver, responding to a Rose question that he had a political bias in favor of the President, added: "I'd say I am somewhere in-between being a libertarian and a liberal. So if…
'Robin Hood Tax' Gains Support of Soros, Moyers, Tides and Media
Proudly claiming the legendary outlaw Robin Hood as their inspiration, liberal groups and past Occupy Wall Street supporters are pushing for a “Robin Hood Tax” on corporate transactions. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Bill Moyers’s Schumann Center for Media and Democracy and the liberal Tides Foundation and Proteus Fund have given over $4 million to organizations that support the tax,…
Media's Heavy-Handed Liberals Race to Exploit Hurricane Tragedy
Like ambulance-chasing lawyers, the heavy-handed liberal activists who populate much of the media raced to exploit Hurricane Sandy even as the storm was lashing the East Coast last night, citing it as proof of “climate change” and a reason to oppose Mitt Romney.
Yesterday afternoon, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir started a panel discussion by claiming that “people are wondering today if the current…
Andrew Sullivan Makes a Fool of Himself on ABC's 'This Week' With Geor
Andrew Sullivan made a fool of himself on ABC's This Week Sunday.
For the entertainment pleasure of viewers, George Will and PBS's Gwen Ifill assisted the Obama-loving Daily Beast columnist (video follows with transcript and commentary):
'Inside Washington' Panel Unanimously Says Obama Wins If Election Held
The national and battleground state polls are all showing tremendous momentum for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney since the first debate.
Despite this, with the absence of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, the entire panel of PBS’s Inside Washington Friday – comprised of the Washington Post’s Colby King, PBS’s Mark Shields, Politico’s Evan Thomas, and NPR’s Nina…
On PBS, Roll Call Reporter Ties Mourdock to Romney, Remembers Akin Gaf
During the October 24 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, Gwen Ifill explored the state of current U.S. Senate races with Rothenberg Political Report’s Nathan Gonzales and Roll Call’s Shira Toeplitz.
The first on the list was Indiana race between Richard Mourdock and Rep. Joe Donnelly. Here, liberal media creep leeched into Toeplitz’s analysis as she found Mourdock’s comments about life and…
Noted: Obama Got More Speaking Time at Every Presidential Debate
Now that all three presidential debates are history, did using only liberal moderators have any impact on the amount of time Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Milt Romney had to make their case for occupying the White House next January?
The answer to that question is a definite "Yes," since President Obama got a total of 8 minutes and 8 seconds more time than…
Media Debate Fail: Obama, the Auto Bailout and China
In their third Presidential debate analysis, the Jurassic Press Media last night and thus far this morning have failed utterly in their role as fact checker and record-corrector - at least when it comes to what President Barack Obama had to say.
As but one glaring example, there were the President’s absurd assertions regarding the auto bailout and China.
Heilemann: Romney Avoided the 'Dangers' of Past 'Harsh' Statements Ins
On PBS's Charlie Rose show on Monday, as the group discussed the night's presidential debate, New York magazine's John Heilemann described Mitt Romney's past statements on foreign policy as "relatively harsh and relatively bellicose," as he argued that Romney had faced political "dangers" in his foreign policy positions "because he's been surrounded by some number of neo-conservative foreign…
