How lefty commentators handled pre-election midterm bad news
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight gives the Republicans a 3-in-4 shot of gaining control of the Senate. Compared with the Washington Post’s projection of 97 percent likelihood, that’s a modest projection....
View ArticleCarney serves faithfully as Obama voice on CNN
When CNN in September hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as a political analyst, the 24/7 cable network made no bogus promises of neutrality from this Obama confidant and former...
View ArticleOn Fox News, Sharyl Attkisson accuses ‘CBS Evening News’ of defending...
There are two parts of “Stonewalled,” the new book from former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. One is the hazy and difficult-to-corroborate tale of the intrusions into her work and home...
View ArticleCan Rush Limbaugh be libeled?
Rush Limbaugh wants a retraction and apology from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and he’s threatening legal action if he doesn’t get satisfaction. Heck, he’s threatening legal action...
View ArticleTexas columnist commits egregious Alex Jones-oriented false equivalence
Alex Jones is a fiery extremist who uses his radio show and his Web site InfoWars.com to spin out some of the country’s wackiest conspiracy theories. A month ago, he accused President Obama “and...
View ArticleFox News’s ‘Hannity’ confronts Jonathan Gruber face to face
Key Obamacare adviser and MIT economist Jonathan Gruber had a lot to say about the health-care reform law at conferences in recent years — talkativeness that has put him at a center of a firestorm over...
View ArticleLongtime White House correspondent: If President Obama wants network time,...
A collective shrug from the marquee broadcast television networks — ABC, NBC and CBS — met the prospect of President Obama’s 10-minute address tonight at 8 p.m. outlining his plans to reform the U.S....
View ArticleTime for Bill O’Reilly to make amends for his panicked Ebola commentary
Now for a throwback to the last crisis that preoccupied cable-news producers 24-7: Addressing the international Ebola outbreak, United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Nov. 21 stated that if...
View ArticleStephen Colbert slights Fox News over Eric Garner case
As reported here previously, Fox News has cast a skeptical glance at the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for his involvement in the July death of...
View ArticleStephen Colbert assists President Obama with Obamacare propaganda
How clever can Obamacare talking points get? Last night’s edition of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” answered that question. We’re just nine days from the end of Stephen Colbert’s run at Comedy...
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