Print Larry O'Connor Follow Read Full Bio Shameless Barney Frank Fixates On Sequester, Gov't Spending In Post-Bombing Rant Former congressman Barney Frank appeared on MSNBC Tuesday morning and focused his remarks on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing incident squarely at political opponents who call for a reduction in the size of government. He used the incident to make a case for increased tax revenues and somehow linked the security needs in Boston to the sequester cuts. 16 Apr 2013 Kristof: GOP Slam 'Wasn't One of My Classier' Tweets "That’s what comes of wandering around the finish line and firing off tweets and tweeting things without thinking. It was a connection that I should not have made in 140 characters. I just think I do some good tweets and I think I do some bad tweets and that wasn’t one of my classier ones.” 16 Apr 2013 Fox News' Scott Brown: 'I'm Mad,' 'We Need To Fight Back' Fox News often gets criticism for signing former political figures as analysts, but this moment showed the strategy to be quite effective. While other networks were relying on journalists and news anchors to speculate fill time with irresponsible speculation, Fox News was able to turn to a person of authority, gravitas, and importance to reflect in a personal way on the event and how it impacted the people of Boston. 16 Apr 2013 Cable News: Let The Mindless Speculation Begin When cable news anchors cover a developing story like the Boston Marathon bombing, they are forced to either constantly repeat the same, limited facts over and over again, or they choose to improvise, make it up as they go and dabble in wild, unfounded speculation just to fill the air time and to keep themselves interested in their topic. 15 Apr 2013 Not Newtown: White House Won't Comment on Need for Regulation to Prevent Next 'House of Horrors' At Monday's press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked Jay Carney if President Obama would ask congress for new regulations on abortion clinics in light of the "House of Horrors" murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013 Not Trayvon: White House Claims 'President Does Not And Can Not Comment' On Gosnell Case During Monday's White House press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked White House spokesman Jay Carney about the ongoing Kermit Gosnell murder trial in Philadelphia. Incredibly, Jay Carney said "the President does not and can not take a position on an ongoing trial." 15 Apr 2013 Dem: Past Four Years 'Physically And Mentally Very Difficult' For Hillary Davis: "Physically, mentally, it was a very difficult job. The travel... I think it's clear that she had, physically, a difficult time at one point. She's gotta just rest. John Kerry's gonna have a difficult job, you're on the road a lot. It's very, very tiring." 15 Apr 2013 'Media Watchdog' Kurtz Devotes 2 Minutes to Gosnell; Full Segment To Congressman Tweeting Cyndi Lauper Howard Kurtz is the media's most diligent watchdog, just ask him. His weekly CNN program, "Reliable Sources" and his regular column at The Daily Beast, are supposed to serve as bellwethers for the most important media stories of any given week. As media watchers and political junkies tuned in this weekend, they probably expected wall-to-wall coverage of the biggest media story of the week, the Kermit Gosnell murder trial in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013 Tax Payer Funded Hate: Bill Moyers Trashes America The Public Broadcasting System is funded by your tax dollars. One of its stars, former Johnson Administration official Bill Moyers collects those tax dollars every week in his paycheck. This week, he said this about America. 13 Apr 2013 Media Focus On Weiner's Salacious Pics; Ignore Vicious Smear Campaign A New York Times Magazine cover story featuring Weiner and his wife Huma Abedein is being described as a "confessional" with a contrite Weiner opening up and owning up to his past transgressions and bad behavior. However, the media seems to be willfully ignoring the most egregious and disgraceful aspects of what was Weinergate: His lying smear of this publication and its founder, Andrew Breitbart. 11 Apr 2013 Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Shameless Barney Frank Fixates On Sequester, Gov't Spending In Post-Bombing Rant Former congressman Barney Frank appeared on MSNBC Tuesday morning and focused his remarks on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing incident squarely at political opponents who call for a reduction in the size of government. He used the incident to make a case for increased tax revenues and somehow linked the security needs in Boston to the sequester cuts. 16 Apr 2013
Kristof: GOP Slam 'Wasn't One of My Classier' Tweets "That’s what comes of wandering around the finish line and firing off tweets and tweeting things without thinking. It was a connection that I should not have made in 140 characters. I just think I do some good tweets and I think I do some bad tweets and that wasn’t one of my classier ones.” 16 Apr 2013
Fox News' Scott Brown: 'I'm Mad,' 'We Need To Fight Back' Fox News often gets criticism for signing former political figures as analysts, but this moment showed the strategy to be quite effective. While other networks were relying on journalists and news anchors to speculate fill time with irresponsible speculation, Fox News was able to turn to a person of authority, gravitas, and importance to reflect in a personal way on the event and how it impacted the people of Boston. 16 Apr 2013
Cable News: Let The Mindless Speculation Begin When cable news anchors cover a developing story like the Boston Marathon bombing, they are forced to either constantly repeat the same, limited facts over and over again, or they choose to improvise, make it up as they go and dabble in wild, unfounded speculation just to fill the air time and to keep themselves interested in their topic. 15 Apr 2013
Not Newtown: White House Won't Comment on Need for Regulation to Prevent Next 'House of Horrors' At Monday's press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked Jay Carney if President Obama would ask congress for new regulations on abortion clinics in light of the "House of Horrors" murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013
Not Trayvon: White House Claims 'President Does Not And Can Not Comment' On Gosnell Case During Monday's White House press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked White House spokesman Jay Carney about the ongoing Kermit Gosnell murder trial in Philadelphia. Incredibly, Jay Carney said "the President does not and can not take a position on an ongoing trial." 15 Apr 2013
Dem: Past Four Years 'Physically And Mentally Very Difficult' For Hillary Davis: "Physically, mentally, it was a very difficult job. The travel... I think it's clear that she had, physically, a difficult time at one point. She's gotta just rest. John Kerry's gonna have a difficult job, you're on the road a lot. It's very, very tiring." 15 Apr 2013
'Media Watchdog' Kurtz Devotes 2 Minutes to Gosnell; Full Segment To Congressman Tweeting Cyndi Lauper Howard Kurtz is the media's most diligent watchdog, just ask him. His weekly CNN program, "Reliable Sources" and his regular column at The Daily Beast, are supposed to serve as bellwethers for the most important media stories of any given week. As media watchers and political junkies tuned in this weekend, they probably expected wall-to-wall coverage of the biggest media story of the week, the Kermit Gosnell murder trial in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013
Tax Payer Funded Hate: Bill Moyers Trashes America The Public Broadcasting System is funded by your tax dollars. One of its stars, former Johnson Administration official Bill Moyers collects those tax dollars every week in his paycheck. This week, he said this about America. 13 Apr 2013
Media Focus On Weiner's Salacious Pics; Ignore Vicious Smear Campaign A New York Times Magazine cover story featuring Weiner and his wife Huma Abedein is being described as a "confessional" with a contrite Weiner opening up and owning up to his past transgressions and bad behavior. However, the media seems to be willfully ignoring the most egregious and disgraceful aspects of what was Weinergate: His lying smear of this publication and its founder, Andrew Breitbart. 11 Apr 2013
Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare25 May 2013, 10:55 AM PDT
Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare25 May 2013, 10:55 AM PDT