Bozell Column: Touting That Killer Barack Obama

Team Barack Obama knows they are in a heap of re-election trouble when pundits look at his shambles of an economic record. So what to do? Easy. The most shameless of our Obama-loving journalists are painting Obama as an action-movie superhero in the war on terror. Just open up Newsweek magazine to an advertisement for a book by its own Daniel Klaidman called "Kill Or Capture." It begins by…
Brent Bozell
June 19th, 2012 10:38 PM

Bill O'Reilly: 'That Was the Most Boring Press Conference I Have Seen

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday something few members of the media dare. At the conclusion of President Obama's address at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, The O'Reilly Factor host said, "That was the most boring press conference I have seen in 37 years of covering the news."
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 10:18 PM

Today Show Covered Benefits of MS Patients Riding Horses Same Day O'Do

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday mocked Ann Romney for riding horses to combat her multiple sclerosis. Hours earlier, NBC's Today show, in a segment about the recent MS diagnosis of rock star Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack, addressed the benefits of horseback riding for reducing the symptoms of the disease (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 9:30 PM

Wisconsin Recall Anarchists Suffer Hilarious Withdrawal Pains When Med

It is well known that leftwing political demonstrators love to play to the cameras as happened in Wisconsin during the months leading up the the recent failed attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker. So what happens when the media departs once the election is over? As you can see in this video (and below the fold) their media withdrawal pains might not be pretty sight but it is definitely quite…
P.J. Gladnick
June 19th, 2012 8:52 PM

AP's Job Openings Coverage Understates Significance of Steep Drop

It wouldn't quite be fair to say that the Associated Press's Christopher Rugaber sugarcoated his dispatch on today's release of the April Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics. But it would be more than fair to say he missed several chances to tell readers how significant the setbacks BLS relayed really were (openings fell 8.7% from a…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2012 8:25 PM

NPR Promotes Rapper Who's Glad Reagan's Dead, Since He Introduced Coca

On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, National Public Radio promoted an Atlanta rapper named “Killer Mike” and his “politically charged” song called “Reagan.” Somehow, they left out that Atlanta-based "artist" Michael Render ends the song with “I’m glad Reagan dead” and regurgitates the old conspiracy theory that Reagan and Ollie North imported cocaine into the inner cities:
Tim Graham
June 19th, 2012 8:22 PM

Limbaugh: 'NBC News Is An Annex of the Democrat National Committee' fo

As NewsBusters reported Monday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, on the MSNBC program bearing her name, aired a video of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney selectively edited in a fashion designed to make him look like an out of touch imbecile. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh excoriated those involved with the airing of this video Tuesday going so far as calling NBC News “an…
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 7:16 PM

Sympathy for 'the Devil': Anna Wintour 'an Engaged Politico and Valuab

The New York Times went full Hollywood on the front of Sunday Styles. Jeremy Peters, a political-media reporter for the paper, profiled the imperious fashionista Anna Wintour as "an engaged politico and valuable asset to President Obama and his re-election effort." Wintour, the inspiration for the book and movie The Devil Wears Prada, raised her profile when she released a much-mocked fund-…
Clay Waters
June 19th, 2012 2:52 PM

Jon Stewart Slams Romney as 'Rich' While Being Mum on His Own Wealth

One of Jon Stewart's favorite targets these days is GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whom the Comedy Central host has called a “multi, multi,multi, multi-millionaire” while carefully avoiding the fact that he too is considered to be very wealthy. Perhaps Stewart's harshest criticism of the former Massachusetts governor came on January 24 when he asked:
Randy Hall
June 19th, 2012 1:44 PM

MSNBC's Selectively Edited Romney Video, Andrea Mitchell's Non-Apology

Barack Obama’s adoring cheerleaders at NBC are back in the editing room distorting the truth, and, not surprisingly, Andrea Mitchell has the gall to make no apologies for it. First it was their vile attempt to make George Zimmerman sound like a racist to gin up racial conflict, and now they’ve set their sights on Mitt Romney who they’re desperately trying to paint as an out-of-touch, silver…
Brent Bozell
June 19th, 2012 1:41 PM

Critics Still Consider ‘Girls’ Irresistible

After ten awkward and unpleasant episodes, the first season of HBO’s critically acclaimed show ‘Girls’ has mercifully come to an end. Each week upped the ante with graphic sex, inappropriate innuendo, frequent depictions of masturbation, and even a golden shower. Basically what we’ve come to expect from premium cable networks. The season finale was no exception. In her weekly recap, Crystal…
Ryan Robertson
June 19th, 2012 1:34 PM

Painful to Watch: MSNBC Anchor Doesn't Get How Partisan Breakdown Matt

Apparently MSNBC's Thomas Roberts doesn't seem to get the importance of knowing the partisan breakdown of a poll's respondents to assessing that polls reliability. In the midst of a segment centered around President Obama's quasi-amnesty-by-fiat policy announced last week, token conservative panelist J.P. Freire poured cold water on a new Bloomberg poll that shows 64 percent of Americans…
Ken Shepherd
June 19th, 2012 1:05 PM

ABC Zeroes in on Rubio: 'You were Baptized in the Mormon Church?'; Gus

ABC offered rising Republican Marco Rubio an extended interview for Monday's Nightline, but pressed the Senator on briefly attending a Mormon church as a child and on a misstatement over when his parents left Cuba. In contrast, the same network and show gushed over Barack Obama in 2008, thrilling that his rallies were like "Springsteen concerts." Reporter David Muir on Monday highlighted…
Scott Whitlock
June 19th, 2012 12:58 PM

Geraldo: Daily Caller Scribe's Incivility Akin to 'Interrupting Lincol

Move over, Obama Boy -- you've got serious competition from Geraldo Rivera. Talking with GOP Rep. Allen West on his WABC radio show yesterday, Rivera made a fawningly inane analogy to describe Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro's unmitigated gall in attempting to ask questions at a presidential news conference (audio) --
Jack Coleman
June 19th, 2012 12:51 PM