Ken Shepherd

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MSNBC's Chris Matthews, of All People, Slams Obama for Being Surrounded by 'Sycophants'

President Obama’s problem is that he’s surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear. That was the post-election analysis of none other than… Chris ...
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Nets Cover Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling, Only CBS Notes Obama Admin Defended Warrantless Cell Phone Searches

On Wednesday, a unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, ruled that police may not search the contents of an arrested individual's cell phone without first ...
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Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Destroyed; Big Three Evening Newscasts Ignore

The Big Three broadcast networks on June 19 all ignored news of how Lois Lerner's crashed hard drive was destroyed by the IRS, even as they had time for Harrison Ford's broken leg (NBC), a new ...
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NBC/WSJ Poll: 54 Percent Say Obama 'Can't Lead, Get the Job Done'; Nightly News Skips Damning Stat

Fifty-four percent of respondents in a brand new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll believe that President Obama "can't lead, get the job done," contrasted with 42 percent who say he can. What's ...
Chris Matthews and Cynthia McFadden on the June 11, 2014 Hardball.

MSNBC's Matthews: 'Dead Broke' Was Mere 'Half Gaffe' by Hillary

Comparing Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices book tour to an "out of town play getting ready in New Haven," MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday night dismissed the former Secretary of State's ...
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MSNBC's Matthews Hits Obama for Violating Law with Bergdahl-Taliban Prisoner Swap

On his June 3 Hardball program, MSNBC's Chris Matthews expressed his disapproval of the President having broken federal law in the process of securing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release in ...
Chris Matthews from the June 2, 2004 Hardball on MSNBC.

MSNBC's Matthews, Guests Blast Koch Bros., GOP: 'Hurting the Planet' for Money, Partisan Gain

On his June 2 Hardball program, host Chris Matthews used new Obama EPA regs simply as an excuse to team up with his two liberal guests to blast Republicans as know-nothings on climate change who ...
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NYTimes's Porter Wishes U.S. Govt. Would Cook Up Euro-style VAT Tax

In January New York Times economics reporter Eduardo Porter called for Americans to pony up more in taxes in a piece headlined, "A Tax Bite Tailored To Help All." Porter was back at it again ...
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MSNBC's Harris-Perry Laments That We Don't Think America's Kids Are 'Collective' Responsibility

Narrating a new MSNBC "Lean Forward" spot, weekend hosr Melissa Harris-Perry laments that we in America "haven't had a very collective notion that these are our children." "[W]e have to break ...
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WashPost Defends ObamaCare's Constitutionality; But In 1995, Paper Cautioned Congress to 'Demonstrate Some Modesty' On Commerce Clause

It was as predictable as the sun rising in the east, but today the Washington Post defended as constitutional ObamaCare's individual mandate. The mandate is defended by the administration ...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Insists He Tries to Examine American Politics 'Objectively'

"There's a real level of national hatred of the president that I hadn't seen before. Certainly not under Clinton or under Dubya," MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews insisted on WMAL radio's ...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Slanders Gingrich, S.C. GOP Debate Attendees As Racists

Appearing on colleague Andrea Mitchell's eponymous 1 p.m. Eastern program today, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews to viewers that last night's South Carolina GOP presidential debate was chock ...

CNN 'Developing Story': 'Is Cain the Anti-Women Candidate?'

Seeking to breathe new life into the political damage of unproven sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain, CNN's Lisa Sylvester presented viewers with a "developing story" in the 4 p.m. hour ...

Bureaucrat Who Approved Solyndra Loan Resigns, Times Buries News on Page A17

Energy Department bureaucrat Jonathan Silver announced his resignation on Oct 6, effective the following day. He led the Energy Department office which approved the ill-fated $528 million loan to ...

Incensed That Obama Speech Pushed Back One Day, NYT Whines Boehner Needs to 'Grow Up'

Speaker John Boehner politely suggesting that President Obama could be accommodated to give an address to a joint session of Congress a day later than the date he originally requested is ...

NYT Film Critic Likes 'Old Fashioned Orgy,' Pans G-Rated 'Seven Days in Utopia'

In the September 2 "Weekend Arts" section, Times film critic Stephen Holden hailed an R-rated flick about friends hosting an orgy as a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" while panning a G-rated drama ...

NYTimes Paints Speaker Boehner as Having Issued 'Unprecedented' Refusal of President's Request

The September 1 Times portrayed House Speaker John Boehner's request that President Obama delay his speech to Congress by a day as an "unprecedented" refusal of a presidential request and evidence ...

Times Downplays Rep. Carson's Smear, Suggests Rep. West May Leave CBC Because He's 'Taking Issue with Criticism'

Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) recently suggested Tea Party conservatives were the sort of people who would like to lynch blacks. In light of that comment, the CBC's ...

Echoing Democrats, MSNBC, Times Editorial Slams GOP for Taking FAA 'Hostage'

Although it's Senate Democrats who are refusing to debate and vote on a House plan to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through September 16, the New York Times editorial board today ...

Reporting How Cubans May Finally Be Able to Own Their Houses, Damien Cave Worries About 'Gentrification'

Leave it to the Times to worry about income disparity and gentrification in Cuba. In his August 3 Cubans Set for Big Change: Right to Buy Homes, correspondent Damien Cave reported on how Cubans ...