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Rand Paul: Stephanopoulos Might Have Helped Obama Manufacture the Republican War on Women

By Noel Sheppard | August 8, 2013, 1:15 PM EDT

Last year NewsBusters repeatedly made the case that members of the press – in particular ABC’s George Stephanopoulos – aided and abetted President Obama’s claim that the Republicans were engaging in a so-called War on Women. In a radio interview with Geraldo Rivera Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said ...

It's Obama Who Needs 'Binders Full of Women': Libtalker Bill Press

By Jack Coleman | January 15, 2013, 10:16 AM EST

Looks like that much ballyhooed GOP-led "war on women" has jumped parties. Remember how liberals barked at the moon after Mitt Romney said during one of the presidential debates that he requested "binders full of women" while governor of Massachusetts to bring more women into state government? ...

Media Bias Year-in-Review: The Most Partisan Potshots of Campaign 2012

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2012, 3:18 PM EST

moderate as GOP nominee Mitt Romney. When Team Obama decided to taint the GOP as perpetrating a "war on women," journalists leaped onto the bandwagon. Winning our " Sandra Fluke Award," for promoting Obama's phony war on women, was Joy Behar, a Current TV host and longtime co-host ...

Joy Behar Compares Romney to 'Horny Speed Dater'

By Ryan Robertson | November 6, 2012, 5:31 PM EST

disrespect by reducing their campaign to a fabrication called the war on women. Thereby reducing women to the ...

Cher and Kathy Griffin: 'Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time On Women'

By Noel Sheppard | November 3, 2012, 3:44 PM EDT

Cher and Kathy Griffin on Friday released a campaign video accusing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of wanting to turn back time on women’s rights. I guess these two brainiacs haven’t gotten the message that the White House’s phony Republican war on women has failed and failed badly ...

The GOP's 'War on Women' is Intensifying, At Least According to MSNBC

By Ryan Robertson | October 18, 2012, 5:01 PM EDT

Leave it to MSNBC to set the record straight, where a defense of conservativism is strictly forbidden.  With no one to dispute such claims, one would think the GOP's "war on women" has never been more overt or frightening-- especially after watching News Nation's host Tamron Hall ...

Panic at New York Times? Two Lead Editorials Tar Romney as Sexist and Radical

By Clay Waters | October 18, 2012, 2:38 PM EDT

"war on women" theme, issuing two lead editorials on the dangers a Romney administration would ...

Daily Kos Week in Review: Boxing Day

By Tom Johnson | October 6, 2012, 6:52 AM EDT

matter how much the GOP whines about being painted with the "War on Women" brush, their radical ...

George Will: 'Romney Campaign Slogan Should Be Title of Krugman’s Book “End This Depression Now”'

By Noel Sheppard | September 9, 2012, 12:29 PM EDT

distracting the public with ridiculous issues such as the made-up Republican War on Women. Add it all up, and ...

Senator McConnell Tells NewsBusters 'Maybe the Heat Is Getting to Chris Matthews'

By NB Staff | April 25, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT

seen really since the beginning of January was this whole “Republican War on Women.” MCCONNELL: ...

CBS Trumpets Obama's Lead Among Women, Silent on Romney's Lead With Men

By Rich Noyes | August 30, 2012, 4:43 PM EDT

doing with men? Is it because the Democrats have cooked up a "war on women" theme for this ...

Liberal Journalist Carole Simpson Demands Female Moderator for Presidential Debate, All But Cites 'War on Women' As Reason

By Ken Shepherd | August 10, 2012, 11:42 PM EDT

reasons, all but saying that the media-imagined "war on women" has something to do with it, ...

CNN Rehashes Obama Spin to Whack Romney Ad as 'Ridiculous'

By Matt Hadro | August 13, 2012, 8:08 AM EDT

worst just wrong. (...) BURNETT: Reihan, it does seem this whole you know war on religion, the war on women, all of these charges are – I mean people have all sorts of specific issues with candidates and ...

Networks Continue Blackout on Romney-Killed-My-Wife Ad, Tout War on Women Meme

By Scott Whitlock | August 9, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT

the Obama administration's "war on women" talking point, playing up attacks from Sandra ... Mitchell focused on the war on women angle. Explaining that Obama was in Colorado, she highlighted, ...