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Shorter Chris Matthews: Jack Kemp Opposed GOP's Racism

October 7th, 2015 8:55 PM
Leave it to Chris Matthews to find a way to blast the GOP as racist and xenophobic in a softball promotional segment plugging a new book on the life and politics of the late Jack Kemp.

Maher: ‘Everything in the Weekly Standard Is a Lie Told to an Idiot

April 13th, 2013 12:04 PM
As NewsBusters readers are well aware, Bill Maher is not someone that should be casting aspersions on other people’s intellects. Despite this, the host of HBO’s Real Time Friday said of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, “Everything in it is a lie told to an idiot” (video follows with commentary):

Bret Baier Gets NPR's Mara Liasson to Admit Medicare 'Ends As We Know

April 23rd, 2012 7:54 PM
For over a year, the Left and their media minions have dishonestly claimed Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) proposed budgets would "end Medicare as we know it." At the end of a discussion about Monday's report from the Medicare trustees predicting the program goes bankrupt in 2024, Special Report host Bret Baier got NPR's Mara Liasson to admit Medicare will end as we know it even if Congress…

Will Washington Media Adopt ‘Barack the Bumbler’ Story Line

October 3rd, 2009 11:33 AM
Barack Obama’s bumbling of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics is a test for the Washington press corps, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes argues. Liberal reporters may refuse to see the controversy in Obama’s far-left agenda, but the President’s high-profile Olympic flub offers a non-ideological story of White House incompetence.Excerpts:Now is the time for the mainstream media to show it’s not…

FNC Discusses Biden Gaffes, 'Wrong' on 'Foreign Policy Issues' in Sena

May 26th, 2009 4:15 PM
Friday's Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC gave attention to Vice President Biden's tendency to commit gaffes, with the notably centrist Morton Kondracke of Roll Call commenting that "I say little prayers every day for the health of Barack Obama, who is a lot more intelligent than Joe Biden." Kondracke went on to give a negative assessment of the Vice President's Senate career: "For all the…

Kirsten Powers: Obama’s Stem Cell Decision Designed to Please Anti-B

March 10th, 2009 11:18 PM
On Monday’s Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, during the Fox All Stars panel discussion, liberal FNC analyst Kirsten Powers, also a columnist for the New York Post, characterized Barack Obama's recent decision to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research as merely a political move designed to please members of his base who blame President Bush for the plight of those who suffer…

Fox News Panelists Excoriate NYT's 'Mortgage Bonfire' Hit Piece on Bus

December 23rd, 2008 10:14 AM
The roundtable on Monday night's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC was not kind to the New York Times's hit piece on Sunday's front page that blamed President Bush and only Bush for the mortgage meltdown, ignoring the Democrats in Congress who protected the irresponsible push for more "affordable housing" by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (as Times Watch noted yesterday). Nina Easton, Washington…

TV Journalists Relieved Obama 'Masterpiece' Took on McCain

August 29th, 2008 5:48 AM
Television journalists were nearly uniformly enthralled with Barack Obama's Thursday night acceptance speech, relieved he showed the toughness to take on John McCain directly, unlike, in their world view, all too-soft past Democratic nominees. Only FNC offered a contrarian view or mentioned the word “liberal” while David Gergen on CNN trumpeted the address as a “symphony” and a “masterpiece” with…

Fred Barnes: Obama Falsely Claims Banking Committee Membership

July 25th, 2008 3:44 PM
It seems Barack Obama had a "senior moment" on Wednesday during his trip to Israel regarding which Senate committees he is a member of. On the same day's Special Report with Brit Hume, during the "Fox All Stars" segment, the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes called out Obama for his claim, which the Illinois Senator made while trying to impress Israeli reporters, that he is a member of the Senate…

Fred Barnes 'Eats Children's Arms and Legs for Afternoon Snacks

February 2nd, 2008 7:10 AM

Barnes: Press 'Loathes Romney for Moving Right on Social Issues

January 14th, 2008 8:03 PM
Catching up with an article in last week's Weekly Standard (but with Mitt Romney making his last stand in Tuesday's Michigan primary it remains topical), veteran Washington journalist Fred Barnes, a regular panelist on FNC's Special Report, asserted that the press corps “loathes Romney for moving to the right on social issues.” In “The All-Too-Resistible Romney: He has everything going for him…

Fred Barnes: CNN's Debates 'Screw Republicans...Boost Democrats

November 30th, 2007 3:47 AM
Describing the agenda of questions CNN chose to pose, during its Wednesday night Republican presidential debate with YouTube, as “completely different” from those forwarded to Democrats in July, Fred Barnes, on Thursday's Special Report on FNC, cited the contrast in questions about the military and Iraq as demonstrating how CNN picked the questioners to “screw Republicans” and “boost Democrats.”…

Fred Thompson Says Fox News Is Biased Against His Campaign

November 25th, 2007 2:58 PM
This should certainly raise the eyebrows of folks around the country who believe Fox News is too conservative.On "Fox News Sunday," Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson told a somewhat stunned Chris Wallace that FNC is biased against his campaign. I kid you not. As reported hours ago by TheHill.com (video available here):