Charles Krauthammer Schools Jeanne Cummings: Gingrich Won in SC Becaus

January 28th, 2012 10:51 AM
Bloomberg's Jeanne Cummings got a much-needed lesson Friday about money not being everything in politics. After she claimed on PBS's Inside Washington that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's revival in the race was all due to multimillion dollar donations from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly replied that the former Speaker's…

Al Hunt and Mark Shields Repeat Disputed Story of Gingrich Divorcing C

January 23rd, 2012 3:04 AM
Last Friday saw two high-profile liberal pundits - one on Bloomberg News's Political Capital and the other on PBS's Inside Washington - repeating the story that Newt Gingrich divorced his first wife while she was being treated for cancer, without either of them noting that one of Gingrich's daughters - Jackie Gingrich Cushman -  last May specifically disputed the account that her mother, who is…

Maher Brings Aboard Moyers Who’s Glad He Has ‘Confederate Money

January 21st, 2012 12:32 PM
Bill Moyers returned this month to PBS stations to once again peddle his far-left hatred of conservatives. On Friday night he took to HBO to discredit the Republican presidential field with the first refuge of liberals unable to sustain an argument: racial smears. To Bill Maher’s delight, Moyers charged “the delusional fringe has come in from the margin and runs” the Republican Party before…

Nina Totenberg Says ‘Facts Don’t Matter’ to Gingrich After She C

January 21st, 2012 10:13 AM
In a delicious example of irony, NPR’s Nina Totenberg on Friday falsely claimed that there were more people on food stamps under George W. Bush than are using the food assistance program today. This marvelously came seconds before she told the panel of PBS’s Inside Washington that “facts don’t matter” to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (video follows with transcript and…

Eleanor Clift: Romney Withholding Tax Returns Because They'd Show Offs

January 14th, 2012 3:41 PM
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has up to this point opted not to make his tax returns public. Not surprisingly, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift smells a rat and expressed her conspiratorial opinion during the predictions segment of PBS's McLaughlin Group Friday (video follows with transcript):

McLaughlin Group Pays Tribute to Tony Blankley

January 14th, 2012 3:21 PM
Like a lot of Americans who live outside the D.C. metro area, I was first introduced to Tony Blankley by PBS's McLaughlin Group. It was therefore quite fitting that host John McLaughlin as well as panelists Michelle Bernard, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, and Clarence Page on Friday paid tribute to Blankley who sadly passed away last Saturday (video follows with commentary):

Will PBS's Supposedly 'Harsh' Clinton Documentary Equal Its Nasty Take

January 13th, 2012 9:49 AM
PBS will air a "harsh" documentary in Febuary heavily focusing on Bill Clinton's serial infidelities and scandal, according to Politico. The "American Experience" episode will devote 40 minutes to the Monica Lewinsky controversy and include lines such as this: "Millions had responded to his campaign message of change, but millions of others feared where the country was heading and didn’t trust…

Time Magazine Promotes Moms Demanding That Breastfeeding Be Shown on

January 12th, 2012 1:26 PM
It apparently wasn’t edgy enough for “Sesame Street” to plan a segment where a scantily clad Katy Perry flirted with Elmo the Muppet. Now Time magazine’s "Healthland" blogger Bonnie Rochman reports that those “progressive” breast-feeding advocates want the whole breast. They are “lowering the boom” with a petition demanding Sesame Street return to PBS Seventies-style, insisting four-year-olds…

Politico's Thomas & WaPo's King Claim Santorum 'Pandering' to Racist W

January 7th, 2012 4:10 AM
Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, Politico's Evan Thomas - formerly of Newsweek - made claims about the existence of "angry, white, middle class" men in the Republican Party who are "seething." And fellow panel member and Washington Post columnist Colby King accused GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum of "pandering" to a racist view "that black people are…

Charles Krauthammer Schools Margaret Carlson on Payroll Tax Holidays

December 24th, 2011 8:01 AM
Like so many of her liberal media colleagues, Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson believes cutting payroll taxes for a short period of time stimulates the economy. Fortunately for viewers of PBS's Inside Washington, when she tried to make this absurd conclusion Friday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer was there to give her and others on the panel a much-needed education (video follows with…

Politico's Evan Thomas: 'When Mitch McConnell Is the Good Guy, You Kno

December 24th, 2011 2:14 AM
Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, Politico's Evan Thomas - formerly of Newsweek - took a jab at Senate Republican Leader Mitch Mcconnell, suggesting that he is normally not a "good guy," during a discussion of the Kentucky Republican's role in reaching a deal with Democrats to extend the payroll tax cut by two months. (Video below)

Krauthammer: Obama's Speech 'Classic Example of How Little it Takes to

December 10th, 2011 10:35 AM
As NewsBusters reported, the media gushed and fawned over President Obama's speech last Tuesday likening himself to Teddy Roosevelt. On Friday's Inside Washington, Charles Krauthammer called this "a classic example of how little it takes to stir the erogenous zones of liberals" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Hell Freezes Over: Rich Lowry Says 'Eleanor [Clift] Has Hit It On The

December 4th, 2011 5:45 PM
For conservatives, hell may have frozen over on Sunday. Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, said on PBS's McLaughlin Group referring to the perilously liberal Newsweek columnist named Clift, "Eleanor has hit it on the head" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Mark Shields: Obama Wins in a Landslide if Gingrich is GOP Nominee

December 3rd, 2011 11:13 AM
The liberals on PBS's Inside Washington Friday were all giddy at the thought of Newt Gingrich as the Republican presidential nominee. So sure this would be good news for the president he adores, syndicated columnist and PBS fixture Mark Shields said this would result in the "landslide reelection victory of Barack Obama" (video follows with transcript and commentary):