Bye-Bye Barbara! The Top 20 Worst of Walters Countdown

Geoffrey Dickens
May 12th, 2014 9:39 AM
Friday marks Barbara Walters’ retirement from ABC’s The View. On that show, and throughout her forty-year career at ABC News, the longtime reporter has shown an inclination to suck-up to liberal heroes like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (“His bold actions on issues like gun safety...has inspired many”) and ask silly softball questions to the likes of Barack Obama (“If you were a…
 

Lefty Blogger: GOP, Romney Should Have Had 'The Taste Slapped Out of

Tom Johnson
May 11th, 2014 4:57 PM
The right has directed most of its anger over the handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack at President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice, but when lefty blogger Martin Longman reflects on reactions to Benghazi, he thinks of a different villain: Mitt Romney. In a Saturday post for the Washington Monthly web site, Longman recalls that a few days after the attack, he was "seething about…
 

Chris Matthews, Guest Mangle Boko Haram Issue Into Racial Jab at GOP

Matthew Balan
May 10th, 2014 4:45 PM
Chris Matthews mocked Republicans on Friday's Hardball over their hawkish stance towards Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist group that recently kidnapped hundreds of girls. Matthews made a thinly-veiled racial attack on the GOP during a panel discussion on the terrorist organization: "By the way, when did the Republican Party take this keen interest in Africa? I may have missed that one."…
 

Kessler's 'Four Pinocchios' Evaluation of Obama's '500 Filibusters' Ho

Tom Blumer
May 10th, 2014 10:30 AM
On Friday, Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post (HT Hot Air) gave "Four Pinocchios" (i.e., a "Whopper") to a statement President Barack Obama made about Senate Republicans' filibuster track record on Wednesday in a speech at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner in Los Angeles. In the process, Kessler essentially delivered a rebuke to reporters who cover Obama. Every one of…
 

Contemptible: AP Story Again Keeps Lois Lerner's Name Out of Headline

Tom Blumer
May 8th, 2014 2:07 PM
Once again, as it did a month ago in two separate stories, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, left the name of Lois Lerner, the former IRS official who ran its section on tax-exempt organizations, out of its headline and opening paragraph. This time, for good measure, AP reporter Stephen Ohlemacher didn't reveal Lerner's name until Paragraph 3. Before getting to Ohlemacher'…
 

Politico Notices TV Meteorologists 'More Skeptical' of Climate Change

Matthew Balan
May 7th, 2014 4:20 PM
Politico's Darren Goode surprisingly highlighted the skepticism of many on-air meteorologists in a Monday item about President Obama's interviews with "some of television's most popular celebrities — weather forecasters — to ratchet up the volume on the administration's latest scientific assessment of climate change." Goode pointed out that "not all broadcast meteorologists have been conducive…
 

Networks Give Obama Megaphone to Push Climate Change Alarmism, Dismiss

Kyle Drennen
May 7th, 2014 12:15 PM

After enthusiastically promoting an upcoming White House climate change report on Tuesday, all three network morning shows on Wednesday happily touted interviews with President Obama on the subject and continued to hype the "dire" and "alarming" findings. Meanwhile, critics were dismissed as an anti-science minority. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]   At the top of NBC's…

 

The Burying of a Scandal: TV News Hides the Facts on the IRS’s Targe

Rich Noyes
May 7th, 2014 11:14 AM
Summary: After a partisan report last June absurdly suggested that progressive groups were just as likely to be scrutinized as conservative ones, ABC, CBS and NBC essentially abandoned their coverage of the IRS targeting scandal which broke one year ago this week. After producing 136 stories on their morning and evening news show during the first seven weeks of the scandal, broadcast news…
 

Polls Show ObamaCare Not Getting More Popular, Despite Their Happy Enr

Randy Hall
May 6th, 2014 10:27 PM
During the past two months, most of what we've heard about the Affordable Care Act was the administration's announcement on March 31 that the target total of more than 7 million people had signed up for ObamaCare, and by May 1, that figure had grown to 8 million enrollees. However, four polls were released during the past week that resulted in the same message: ObamaCare isn't getting any…
 

Networks Tout White House Report on Global Warming; Hype the Perils of

Matt Hadro
May 6th, 2014 9:48 PM

The broadcast networks all took a climate change study released by the White House and ran with it on Tuesday evening, advancing the administration's narrative by hyping the threats of climate change while barely quoting any critics. ABC's coverage was so soft that correspondent Ginger Zee bragged like a groupie that President Obama asked a question of her: "And then something interesting…

 

CNN's King, Panelists Hit Obama From Left on Climate Change: 'Why Did

Matthew Balan
May 6th, 2014 3:12 PM
CNN's John King, along with the AP's Julie Pace and National Journal's Ron Fournier, targeted President Obama from the left on Tuesday's New Day over the issue of climate change. King highlighted Obama's interviews with meteorologists in order to "push his agenda for climate change," and wondered, "If the President has this power...through executive authority, and this issue is so important to…
 

Networks Eagerly Push White House Climate Change Agenda Ahead of Obama

Kyle Drennen
May 6th, 2014 11:46 AM

On Tuesday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all seized on a new climate change report being released by the White House ahead of a slate of interviews with President Obama conducted by network meteorologists. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On NBC's Today, weatherman Al Roker stood in front of the White House holding up a draft copy of the report and proclaimed: "…

 

CBS Star Oozes That 'Gloria Steinem Is My Beauty Icon

Tim Graham
May 6th, 2014 8:28 AM
The May 5 edition of People is focused on “50 Most Beautiful” people, but also has a pictorial titled “Hot Right Now: 10 buzzworthy stars talk about everything from their geeky pasts to who they look up to as beauty icons.” CBS “The Good Wife” star Julianna Margulies is pictured in a red gown and talks about how she wears a wig on her show rather than have to force stylists to straighten her…
 

Lefty Propagandists Viciously Attack McDonalds, Push Wage Hikes

Sean Long
May 5th, 2014 3:05 PM

Trust liberals to combine “tasteless” with something as tasty as McDonald’s. In a May 1 video entitled “You Salt My Fries, I’ll Salt Yours,” progressives at The Agenda Project Action Fund blasted McDonald’s for allegedly underpaying its workers and opposing minimum wage hikes. The video made misleading claims about the minimum wage, while employing class warfare to viciously attack business…