CBS Sports anchor Tim Brando does not think NBA basketball player Jason Collins should be called a “hero” for coming out on Monday and becoming the first openly gay male athlete in major professional team sports. In a series of
CBS This Morning admitted Republicans “have a point” that the sequester’s cuts could be smarter and more flexible. They went on to say that the White House was hoping Americans would protest from the pain inflicted by the cuts and
After being featured Tuesday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Breitbart News contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer once again found himself the focus of national media in a 60 Minutes Sunday report highlighting his work uncovering
Last Friday evening CBS announced that Psy, the anti-American Korean one-hit wonder (“Gangham Style”), would be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Even though Psy apologized for a song where he said that American troops and families should be killed
Saturday night the beautiful-ugly people from media, Hollywood, and politics are scheduled to converge in the smallest, most elite, and corrupt bubble of the season: The White House Correspondents Dinner. E! will broadcast live, security will ensure the oh-so precious
The April 24 edition of The Late Show With David Letterman saw the CBS talker label Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) the “Stooge of the Night” for voting “no on gun control reform.” Letterman then put a photograph of Cruz up
Former President George W. Bush met with “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose to discuss the issues facing America right now, including the Boston Marathon attack.
Presidential historian and CBS News commentator Douglas Brinkley gave an interview to Media Matters for America on the press attention being paid to the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Apparently willing to lend his credentials and authority
It’s rare to hear a positive word about either President Ronald Reagan or radio talker Rush Limbaugh on a major broadcast network. On the latest edition of CBS’s The Amazing Race, viewers were treated to a toast to those two
LESLEY STAHL, CBS: Can we go back to what Bob [Woodward] had mentioned about privacy? Because, yes, we have something brilliant happened here, but it happened because the tools that they are using are the tools that deprive us of
Just when it seemed that the Boston police had all but given up hope that the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, would be found Friday, all hell broke loose just after 7pm ET when Tsarnaev was
The weekend’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/21 cover a CISPA internet blackout, hacking and hijacking on Twitter, social media-driven journalism, swatting, DDoS attack, news punking, and skyscraper gaming. Summary of stories: another call from Anonymous for
CBS: Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani and former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge discuss the connections between 9/11 and the bombings at the Boston Marathon and agree that America must remain vigilant despite ramped up security
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber who was captured alive on Friday, reportedly is unable to speak as he is recovering at a Boston hospital because of a throat wound he may have sustained while trying to kill
In response to Obama’s rush to judgment: These words from Obama’s weak and uninspired statement following the capture of the second terrorist, rang hollow to my ears. “One thing we do know is that whatever hateful agenda drove these men
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-deceased Suspect 1 in the Boston Marathon bombing, was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend by the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police on July 28, 2009 after he confessed to officers who arrived on the scene. “I slapped her,” Tsarnaev
Many are wondering why the FBI overlooked the potential danger posed by now-deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after they interviewed him. According to reports, the bureau failed to find any incriminating evidence of terrorist ties. As first reported
“I don’t have information on that,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told Breitbart News at the Friday evening presser when asked if the three individuals who reportedly were taken into custody may have aided and abetted suspected marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
Late Friday, the FBI finally admitted that it had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed by police early Friday morning. The FBI reversed itself after the Tsarnaevs’ mother, Zubeidat, told Russia Today that her
Monday while the media was busy covering the terrorist bombing in Boston Obama quietly was striping anti-corruption provisions from the STOCK Act. After a CBS “60 Minutes” report the original STOCK Act was signed by Obama last year in a
Ruslan Tsarni is the uncle of the bombing suspects. In the following phone interview aired by CBS Boston, reporter Peter Wilson asks Ruslan about his nephews history. “I just wish they never existed. I’m wordless…shocked,” Ruslan tells Wilson.Asked if the
According to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has covered the Benghazi terror attack resulting in the death of four Americans including our Ambassador to Libya, new whistleblowers are speaking to Congressional investigators. For months, Republican members of Congress have
PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY: The Senate will vote and whenever it votes it ought to pass this amendment. It’s pretty simple. What’s complicated about the fact that 90% of the people want this done and yet a substantial percentage of
Adam Scott’s thrilling Masters victory on Sunday in a sudden-death playoff against 2009 Masters champion Angel Cabrera at Augusta was the highest rated final round of the Masters in 12 years for CBS. According to Nielsen, the 10.2/21 for Sunday’s
Marcus Smart was expected to be guaranteed $8.7 to $9.7 million in a couple of months despite being in a shooting slump for a good part of his freshman season and having his Oklahoma State team lose in the opening
In its constant attempts to maximize business opportunity, the city of Los Angeles has now forced Clear Channel to remove digital billboards across the city. Digital billboards rotate more frequently than conventional moving billboards, and are significantly brighter due to
This week’s episode of Hawaii Five-O correctly portrayed North Korea as a brutal, isolated nation that harbors terrorists. But the CBS show’s latest installment, which aired on the 101st birthday of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, jumped the shark all
Iconic NFL broadcaster Pat Summerall, whose booming play-by-play voice was the soundtrack of many of the country’s most important football games in the 1990s, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 82. As the Dallas Morning News noted, Summerall
On CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said he opposes further gun laws because the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment refers to a right, not a law. He also said the gun debate needs to center around enforcement
LOS ANGELES, April 13 (UPI) — CBS chief Leslie Moonves took a $7.7 million pay cut in 2012 but was still the top earning Hollywood conglomerate executive, a regulatory filing showed. Moonves pay as CBS Corp. president and chief executive
Tiger Woods almost got disqualified from the Masters but was instead assessed a rare two-shot, after-the-fact, retroactive penalty on Saturday morning for an illegal drop on the 15th hole in the second round of the Masters on Friday. Woods is
Tiger Woods, again on top of the golf world and chasing Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 majors instead of his demons, will try to win his fifth Masters and 15th major at Augusta. Two talented lefties–defending champion Bubba Watson and
Guan Tianlang is a 14-year-old from China who will make history as the youngest player ever to qualify for the Masters Golf Tournament. CBS News’ Wyatt Andrews spent some time with Tianlang in his hometown.
Last Friday, April 5, White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed at a press briefing that Barack Obama’s budget would raise taxes on middle class Americans. The confession arose from an exchange between Carney and Major Garrett of CBS News, in
The Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday said 92% of the reactions to the NRA 500–and the NRA’s sponsorship of the race–have been positive, debunking the mainstream media’s initial notion that the NRA sponsorship would potentially repel fans and viewers. In
Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said there will not be any “political speeches” or statements at Saturday’s NRA 500 race. After the NRA signed on as a sponsor of the race, liberals, gun control activists, and the mainstream media
Eric Draper was President George W. Bush’s chief photographer and followed him nearly everywhere. CBS News’ Bill Plante talks to Draper about his new book, “Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of George W. Bush.”
On April 7, CBS News’ 60 Minutes paraded the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting before Americans. This shameless politicization of an unspeakable tragedy had one objective–to build support for more gun control. The program was replete
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
