Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press , liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded for the American people to excuse extramarital affairs of public figures like David Petraeus: "What would we have done if FDR had not been our leader because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer? Think of the productive years that Clinton could have had if Monica Lewinsky hadn't derailed them. We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that." [ Listen to the audio... continue reading
No wonder why CNN's ratings are low – they're diagnosing a large part of their potential audience with a disorder. A CNN guest "expert" said conservatives' brains are more susceptible to fear and claimed many are suffering from "post-election stress disorder" brought on in part by the conservative media. "And the amygdala, the region of the brain that processes fear was much larger in people with conservative beliefs. So that means they're like more sensitive to fear," asserted human behavior specialist Dr. Wendy Walsh during an appearance Sunday night. [Video below. Audio here .] "[W]ith due respect to my colleagues... continue reading
No surprise here, but CNN's Fareed Zakaria cheered the states that legalized same-sex marriage and marijuana on his Sunday CNN show, lauding it "a picture of America at its best, edgy, experimental, open-minded and brilliantly diverse." Zakaria also noted exit polls favoring amnesty for illegal immigrants. "I hesitate to build a grand narrative out of all this, but the trend seems to be towards individual freedom, self-expression, and dignity for all," gushed the liberal journalist once reportedly considered for a position in Obama's second-term cabinet. [Video below. Audio here .] And he got in a jab at Republicans at the... continue reading
On Monday's CBS This Morning , Sharyl Attkisson filed a hard-hitting report on the possible ties between former CIA chief David Petraeus's resignation and the continuing controversy over the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Attkisson spotlighted how Petraeus told several members of Congress that " video of the Benghazi attack supports an element of spontaneity, as the administration first claimed ." Anchor Charlie Rose also hyped Rep. Peter King's theory on General Petraeus's resignation: " The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says the timing of the resignation suggests a cover-up . Petraeus was scheduled... continue reading
Sounding more like a Democratic strategist on Sunday's Meet the Press than NBC's political director, Chuck Todd urged President Obama to force congressional Republicans into a corner on the fiscal cliff: "...go do it with 65-70 members of the Senate, cut the deal, bring it over to the House.... box Boehner in....did the President learn anything from his first term about how to deal with congressional Republicans? Which is don't do it through the leadership." Moments later, liberal pundit and historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin described how Obama could "build his mandate": "...he has to mobilize that base. That base was energized... continue reading
MSNBC host Chris Jansing on Monday found the " parallels" between Abraham Lincoln and the newly reelected Barack Obama to be "fascinating ." The anchor interviewed Gloria Reuben, liberal actress and co-star of the just-released Steven Spielberg biography of the 16th president. Jansing compared, "...You have a president who is newly elected, who faces a divided divided Congress and a divided country." [MP3 audio here .] Couldn't such a vague analogy be made of many presidents, including George W. Bush? Jansing introduced the Lincoln actress by pointing out, "You're a social activist. You've been very big in [the] pro-choice [cause]... continue reading
During a discussion on Monday, NBC's Today show crew could barely contain their enthusiasm at the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for president again in 2016, with new third-hour co-host Willie Geist proclaiming: "Can you think of a more qualified human being? She lived in the White House for eight years with another President, she was a United States senator, and now she's got every world leader on speed dial, so there'd be no questions about her qualifications." [ Listen to the audio ] Early in the conversation, Geist touted how "there are already polls out in Iowa, she's got... continue reading
Tonight (Monday), CBS-owned Showtime will debut a ten-part series: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States . Ronald Radosh, in last week’s Weekly Standard , determined it offers “not an untold story, but the all-too-familiar Communist and Soviet line on America’s past as it developed in the early years of the Cold War.” Showtime’s plug for the series which will debut Monday nights at 8 PM EST/PST, starting November 12: There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the... continue reading
Sunday’s Meet the Press featured a panel of five, none of them conservative (Congressman-elect Joaquín Castro, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Washington Post ’s Bob Woodward and NBC’s Chuck Todd), to assess why Mitt Romney lost and “the future of the GOP.” And they agreed conservatives are the problem. Todd, NBC’s political director, decided the GOP has become “a coalition of special interest forces” and fretted “the leaders in Washington can’t control the special interest groups” as Republicans, like Democrats in the past, “succumbed to their base.” As if the Obama campaign this year didn’t succumb... continue reading
"Tone deaf" Republicans are too conservative, or so said CNN's panel on Friday's Starting Point . CNN's Don Lemon remarked, "I think unless the GOP becomes the GNP, which is the Grand New Party, they're on the verge of extinction because they're tone deaf." All three guests agreed that the GOP needs to move to the center. Anchor Soledad O'Brien started it off by lauding "one of the very best tweets" from the election, CNN regular Abby Huntsman saying her dad Jon Huntsman should have been the party's nominee. [Video below. Audio here .] O'Brien quoted none other than liberal... continue reading