Scarborough Blasts NBC, MSNBC for Liberal Bias

Joe Scarborough blasted NBC and MSNBC for liberal bias on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, criticizing his network’s parent company for producing what could be a “splashy biopic” about Hillary Clinton set to be released in 2015. Scarborough accused MSNBC of promoting liberal candidates, claiming the network is “exactly the same” as Fox News when it comes to pushing a partisan agenda. Co-host Mika…
Andrew Lautz
August 7th, 2013 2:29 PM

Nation Mag’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Democrats Are ‘Centrist Party

It really is amazing listening to liberal media members sometimes. Consider The Nation magazine’s Katrina vanden Heuvel who on MSNBC’s Now Wednesday actually said, “At the moment the Democratic Party with a few exceptions is a kind of centrist party” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 2:06 PM

Reports: ESPN’s Hugh Douglas Denounced Co-host Michael Smith as ‘U

Former Philadelphia Eagles lineman and current ESPN commentator Hugh Douglas is in hot water for allegedly insulting his colleague Michael Smith with racial slurs while at a party last Friday in Orlando, Florida. According to the sports blog Deadspin, Douglas has grown increasingly uncomfortable being paired with Smith and Jemele Hill as co-hosts of ESPN’s “Numbers Never Lie” statistics show…
Matthew Sheffield
August 7th, 2013 1:59 PM

Daily Beast's Sepkowitz Suggests Bush's Doctors Should've Done 'Nothin

George W. Bush should’ve waited to have a heart attack, hints Daily Beast contributor Kent Sepkowitz, in a story exploiting the 43rd president's emergency procedure yesterday to insert a stent in his coronary artery. After a few paragraphs replete with medical jargon, Sepkowitz argued that Bush probably should’ve waited a while before having the procedure, and held out the quick treatment for…
Matt Vespa
August 7th, 2013 1:37 PM

Reuters: Bezos Didn't Haggle Down Price of WashPost, Paid Four Times I

The Reuters news wire has an interesting little piece today that reveals that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos not only seems to have agreed to buy the Washington Post for much, much more than its market value, but that agreed to the initial asking price rather than try to haggle it down. Jennifer Saba has the story:
Ken Shepherd
August 7th, 2013 1:00 PM

Networks Hype Obama on Leno, but Skip This Whopper: 'We Don't Need a H

Some comments are so unbelievable, one would think even liberal journalists would be forced to challenge them. However, even though all three morning shows on Wednesday covered Barack Obama's appearance on the August 6 Tonight Show, none of them noticed his claim to be a supporter of small government. Talking to Jay Leno, Obama discussed the sequester and spending. He seriously insisted, "One…
Scott Whitlock
August 7th, 2013 12:48 PM

Leno Wimps Out, Becomes Obama’s Willing Accomplice Again

When it was announced a week ago that Barack Obama would be appearing on NBC's Tonight Show Tuesday, NewsBusters asked if he would be interviewed by the tough Jay Leno who's been hard on the President for the past year, or the "willing accomplice" that tossed him nothing but softballs when he appeared on the show in 2011. Sadly, Obama once again faced the willing accomplice.
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 12:47 PM

WashPost's Henderson Sees 'Raucous' GOP 'Freelance Artists' Playing to

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, after host Al Sharpton complained that House Speaker John Boehner's refusal to condemn birtherism feeds an inability to compromise with President Obama, Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson agreed with Sharpton and asserted that Speaker Boehner "has not tried very hard to get the more raucous members of his caucus in check," and referred to…
Brad Wilmouth
August 7th, 2013 12:30 PM

CBS Provides White House Victory Lap Over Declining Childhood Obesity

For the first time in a generation, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported improvements in obesity rates for low-income preschoolers in 19 states across. Following the small but rare improvement, CBS This Morning took to the airwaves on August 7 to give White House chef Sam Kass a victory lap on the CDC’s findings. Appearing on Wednesday, Norah O’Donnell beamed about the exclusive…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 7th, 2013 12:00 PM

WashPost Publisher Plays New York Times Reporter For a Fool

New York Times reporter-cotton candy maker Sheryl Stolberg defended her Sunday puff piece on Washington Post publisher Katherine Weymouth, who with her rock-hard body and newspaper "royalty" family have run the Post into a situation so desperate they had to be saved by Jeff Bezos. Stolberg complained to Politico that the Graham family "kept their secret from an entire newsroom of their own…
Tim Graham
August 7th, 2013 11:51 AM

Suits: Conflict of Interest

Evan Mantel
August 7th, 2013 10:43 AM

Jane Fonda: Nancy Reagan ‘Very Pleased That I Was Playing Her

As NewsBusters reported, Jane Fonda claimed a few weeks ago that Nancy Reagan was “not unhappy” that she was playing her in the new movie “The Butler.” On Tuesday, Fonda upped the ante claiming on NBC’s Late Night that Reagan’s “very pleased that I was playing her” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 10:32 AM

The Hollywood Reporter: DeGeneres Hosting Oscars to Appease Women, Gay

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will host the 86th Academy Awards next year on March 2, 2014. The pick is a natural fit. DeGeneres is popular, likeable and experienced, having previously hosted the ceremony in 2007. But more important, her presence will appease women and gays while dousing the Academy’s reputation as “an old white man’s club.” And that’s not the opinion of some stodgy…
Katie Yoder
August 7th, 2013 9:26 AM

Scarborough Slags Off Conservative Bloggers: Cellar Dwellers In PJs Wr

Joe Scarborough has yet again scaled his soap box to mock those of us in the conservative blogosphere.  He described us today as a bunch of "very stupid people" living in their mama's basement who write "really stupid things" about him. The thin-skinned Scarborough has often derided his show's critics as Cheetos-chewing cellar-dwellers.  He was at it again this morning, depicting them as…
Mark Finkelstein
August 7th, 2013 8:59 AM