Sunday on CNN’s CNN “Inside Politics,” Politico’s Mike Allen said Democrats are facing a “bleak” reality in the upcoming midterm elections. Allen said, “Here is an amazing sign of how bleak the environment is for Democrats. A Democratic strategist who
Either due to direct orders or just because they find him adorbs, CNN is doing as instructed by Obama: ensuring that their coverage of the Republican-controlled Congress falls only one of two ways: Either the GOP doesn’t get anything done
Japanese-based newpaper Choson Sinbo reports that imprisoned American Christian Kenneth Bae feels abandoned by the U.S. government. Bae was arrested in November 2012 and sentenced to “15 years of hard labor” after being charged with trying to “bring down the
NEW YORK (AP) — Clearly, former CNN prime-time stars Larry King and Piers Morgan aren’t big fans of each other. After King derided Morgan’s interview skills and called him pompous, Morgan responded on Twitter on Friday that King was a
Dustin Johnson, one of the PGA’s biggest stars–and allegedly one of its biggest partiers–is bowing out of golf for an indefinite time period to get his head together. The world’s sixteenth-ranked golfer known for his prodigious length off the tee,
Regardless of your views on gay marriage, gay adoption and so on, I think we can all agree that Israel’s tolerant, liberal society is a much nicer place to live than the barbaric, oppressive, misogynistic and homophobic cultures that seem
For a brief moment in time, the media seemed willing to call evil by its name. In the aftermath of open acknowledgment that Hamas has been shielding its rockets with civilians, including women and children, and building tunnels designed to
(Reuters) – The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday. The National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease unit
Reports have surfaced that two American aid workers who contracted the viral disease Ebola in Liberia will be flown back to the United States. According to CNN, sources reported that an airplane leaving Georgia was on its way to Liberia
CNN “The Lead” host Jake Tapper grilled Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, a Representative of the PLO’s General Delegation on Thursday. After Areikat argued that the Israelis are the real terrorists because Hamas has not killed a large number of Israeli
Retired Israeli Major General Amos Yadlin said that Israel does more to avoid civilian casualties than the United States has in its military operations. On Thursday’s “Wolf” on CNN, he argued the IDF is “doing more than the Americans have
***UPDATE: Weir has apologized. Worth noting that earlier this year Fox News chief Roger Ailes told me that Weir likes to attack Fox as a way to gain attention. Weir seems awfully eager to prove Ailes right. As first
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Thanks to a CNN op-ed, former Congresswoman and America’s number one gun-grabber Gabrielle Giffords is in the news again. Here’s Giffords’ opener: This month, just outside of Houston, a man police say had a history of abusing and threatening women
At the Politico-owned Capital New York, Alex Weprin published a syrupy puff-profile of CNN’s Erin Burnett. Out of options and ideas, CNN chief Jeff Zucker just renewed Burnett’s contract. Naturally, the Politico piece goes to extreme lengths not to point
As July closes out, MSNBC has posted some of its worst ratings in eight years. The network came in third in total viewers and fourth in the key 25 to 54 age bracket for the month. In prime time, the
Don’t buy the headlines and hype about CNN reclaiming second place. It was a pyrrhic victory. CNN’s July was abysmal. MSNBC’s was worse. Both networks hemorrhaged massive numbers of viewers. CNN lost -23% of total viewers and -32% of 25-54
The details of a 2009 draft of health care reform have become relevant again this month. Here’s what the so-called HELP bill said and why it matters now. The Halbig case is the one about whether or not tax subsidies
Some time this week, 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim is expected to arrive among relatives in Manchester, New Hampshire. She made international news for being sentenced to death in Sudan for her Christian faith, but she was able to get to Rome
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said there should be “no dealing with the Senate on anything beyond securing the border” in an interview on Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Ryan also advocated for amending the 2008 anti-human trafficking law that illegal
With reports that two Americans have now been diagnosed with the Ebola virus while working to help Africans in Liberia, Western focus has shifted to the dangers of an Ebola outbreak. According to Samaritan’s Purse, the group for which both
After three days of battling the furious flames known as the Sand Fire of El Dorado and Amador County, firefighters made significant headway in containing it. This came despite a troublesome drone equipped with a camera flying in the area,
In a speech to the people of Israel in Hebrew broadcast this evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Operation Protective Edge, which the IDF began to neutralize tunnels used to funnel arms to Hamas in Gaza, will not
During a town hall meeting at a summit with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, President Obama explained to a young African student that to succeed, a burgeoning country required a system of laws. He explained: Regardless of the
The growing ebola virus epidemic in Africa has claimed a second American victim, an aid worker infected while treating patients. As Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and now Nigeria work to isolate and defeat the disease, keeping the more than 1,000
On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd reacted to the news of polling data that shows 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would defeat President Barack Obama if the head-to-head match-up were held today.
