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Editor's note: A version of this opinion piece appeared on the Media Research Center's NewsBusters blog.Imagine for a moment a Fox News host calling one of the liberal Supreme Court justices such as Sonia Sotomayor a "troll."Liberal heads would explode across the fruited plain including in newsrooms from sea to shining sea.With that as pretext, check out what MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Comedy Central's Daily Show Thursday :RACHEL MADDOW: It's weird to see Antonin Scalia in person. It's weird.JON STEWART, HOST: Does he, you know, I only read some of the transcripts of what he was saying. And he was saying certain thing like, "We've got to get rid of this because it's one of the last vestiges of racial preferences," the Voting Rights Act I guess.MADDOW: He said that, he said when Congress re-upped the Voting Rights Act, they looked into whether or not it was still necessary. Ten months of debate, 21 hearings, 15,000 pages of evidence, and in ...
Anderson Cooper revealed on Monday that he is gay, ending years of reluctance to talk about his personal life in public.The CNN journalist wrote in an online letter ...
To all the millions of victims of superstorm Sandy, Chris Matthews has a message: "I'm so glad." The MSNBC host, on a panel of pro-Obama pundits including Rachel Mad...
President Obama spoke to the UN Tuesday, but what he had to say depended on the media outlet reporting it. It was about "optics" according to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow; ...
Memo to the media: Clearly mark political satire, especially if it makes Republicans look bad. Otherwise, you might fool a Nobel prize-winning New York Times columni...
The late Warren Zevon wrote the song " Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead " in 1991. After Wednesday's presidential debate , it could be the new theme for the O...
The Obama administration paid a PR firm nearly $500,000 in stimulus funds to run a barrage of ads on White House-friendly cable programs promoting its green job trai...
Republican leaders on a House panel are requesting that the U.S. Department of Labor turn over all records involving a $495,000 contract funded through President Oba...
(at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not.Candidates, strat...
"So to repeat, this is not a distraction. This is what this campaign is going to be about."-- President Obama at a press conference in Chicago when asked about the ...
Abortion-rights supporters worried Tuesday that regulations Kansas is trying to enact would give the state health department unfettered access to patient medical rec...
While the legality and increased use of American drones in foreign countries continues to come into question, no one can dispute that their use saves countless Ameri...
Former President Jimmy Carter says he would be "very pleased" to see Mitt Romney as the GOP presidential nominee -- an endorsement that the former Massachusetts gove...
In the real world, when you cover up four murders after the fact, you likely go to jail. In government, you retire with dignity and run for president with full media...
MSNBC host duped by satirical website
Comedian George Carlin famously joked about the seven words you couldn't say on air. Add two more – "Islam" and "Muslim" – but only if you use them in a negative con...
Even if they have no interest in watching it, celebs like Michael Moore and Sean Penn may soon be getting copies of the movie "Hating Breitbart" in the mail.The film...
My recent column on the proposed demolition of Ronald Reagan's Chicago home and the possibility of the site being used as a parking lot for Obama's future library ha...
It was awkward. It was a little funny. But a "career-ender?" That's the question CNN posed regarding Sen. Marco Rubio's water-swig during his response to the State o...
If Santa Claus had a State of the Union speech, it would sound much like President Obama's latest. In it, Obama detailed a Christmas list of "investments" on Tuesday...