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'Modern Family' Stokes Non-Controversy Over F-Bomb

ABC’s “Modern Family” represents the very best of the current broadcast television lineup. Smart scripts. Singularly great characters. Big laughs buffeted by an array of smaller ones. So why are two of the show’s cast members trying to milk a

NBC Begins Its War on Romney and Mormons

To NBC, I am “controversial” because I am a Mormon. Politics and religion, it’s all fair game right now for the Activist Old Media. Mitt Romney is not even the Republican nominee, and the battles are well underway. Of course,

No More Go-along-to-Get-along

In politics, as in life, there can be an overwhelming temptation to go along to get along; to be a team player; to do the easy thing even when it’s not the right thing. For far too long, insiders from

Here We Go Again: GOP Meets for NBC Inquisition

In just a few minutes, at 9am EST on MSNBC.(!) Hopefully we can finally get some answers on the burning condom controversy that has engulfed the mind of George Stephanoupolos. And, we’ll see how David Gregory tries to use his

Romney Holds Commanding Lead in New Hampshire

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a commanding lead in the Jan. 10 New Hampshire Republican primary, according to three new polls released Friday that show Romney could become the first nonincumbent to sweep the first two GOP nominating contests

The Dead Baby Pile On: Jezebel Says Karen Santorum Had An Abortion

Jezebel, the site where self-obsessed women celebrate unprotected promiscuity, is smearing another woman’s loss of child for politics. This, in the Claire’s Boutique mindset of progressive feminism, is called “empowerment.” Let’s get down to brass tacks: Presidential candidate Rick Santorum,

NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Iowa 'Too White' to Reelect Obama

In the January 1, 2012 broadcast of NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell frames the coming year’s presidential election primarily in terms of race. It “doesn’t represent the rest of the country–too white, too evangelical, too rural,” she narrates, though she

Flashback: Newt Praises Sharpton

In 2009 Newt Gingrich joined Al Sharpton on an “Education Reform” tour for President Obama. For his efforts, Gingrich was recently rewarded by Sharpton when the NBC News host said, “He can’t explain how he called [Obama] a food-stamp president

Mitt Romney: We Should Not Have Invaded Iraq

Gov. Mitt Romney told NBC’s Chuck Todd today that the United States would not (and, by implication, should not) have invaded Iraq in 2003, had it been known that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction. If we

House GOP Revolts Over Senate Payroll Tax Bill

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that he opposes a Senate-approved bill that extends a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months and said congressional bargainers need to write a new version that would