By Tom Blumer | January 3, 2016, 1:12 AM EST
A time-honored tactic in political TV ads is to use contrasting degrees of photographic exposure, one bright and snappy for your candidate and a darker hue, sometimes even going to old-fashioned black-and-white, for your opponent. On December 29, at the W ...
By Ken Shepherd | December 18, 2015, 11:54 AM EST
The Big Three broadcast network evening newscasts all touched on the revelation that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter used private e-mails for government business and this well after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire for exclusively ...
By Tom Johnson | November 28, 2015, 8:10 AM EST
In the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have made media bias an issue, as did Newt Gingrich during the 2012 contest. Irony alert: Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that it was one of the me ...
By Brad Wilmouth | November 2, 2015, 11:46 AM EST
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, the liberal HBO comedian opened the show trashing GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson by not only including him in a joke about Bill Cosby's history of rape, but also by advancing false assertions tha ...
By NB Staff | July 23, 2015, 5:23 PM EDT
"Donald Trump is under fire for saying that John McCain is not a war hero. Come on, Donald, that’s way out of line… without McCain, we wouldn’t have won the War of 1812."-- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller Subscribe to NewsBusted here. Campaigns & ...
By Brad Wilmouth | July 22, 2015, 11:49 AM EDT
On Tuesday's The Situation Room on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer and correspondent Dana Bash followed the lead of CNN's New Day in forwarding accusations that Jeb Bush and other Republicans have been "hypocritical" in slamming Donald Trump&# ...
By Brad Wilmouth | July 21, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
So far this week, CNN's John King and Chris Cuomo on New Day have both felt the need to dredge up the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads exposing negative aspects of then Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military service and anti ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | July 21, 2015, 11:34 AM EDT
During an appearance on Monday’s Hardball, failed MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid argued that Donald Trump attacking John McCain’s military service likely will not hurt him among the “Republican Party base.” The MSNBC reporter insisted that “having Donald Trump l ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | July 20, 2015, 11:00 AM EDT
On Sunday’s State of the Union, CNN’s Dana Bash reacted to Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain’s military service by arguing that a lot of Americans likely weren’t bothered by his comments at all. Speaking to host Jake Tapper, Bash suggested “there' ...
By Tim Graham | July 20, 2015, 7:26 AM EDT
Boston Globe White House reporter Matt Viser created a popular tweet among Democrat partisans over the weekend on the Donald Trump gaffe alleging Sen. John McCain wasn't a war hero because he was captured. Viser noted Kerry came to McCain's defe ...
By Matthew Balan | June 18, 2015, 9:13 AM EDT
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Jan Crawford hyped the latest " dust-up between the musician and the politician," and underlined that " rare is the Republican candidate who isn't told to stop the music – even if...they paid licen ...
By Clay Waters | June 8, 2015, 1:56 AM EDT
The New York Times, having taking loads of online hits over its not-a-parody nytimes.com news flash Friday morning about the 17 traffic tickets earned by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette over an 18-year period, doubled down, by reprinting ...
By Tom Blumer | April 18, 2015, 5:11 PM EDT
Time.com's Zeke Miller tweeted yesterday that a "reporter" asked recently declared presidential candidate Marco Rubio of Florida the following question: "Is 43 old enough to be president?" Meanwhile, two weeks ago, a column at Tim ...
By Mark Finkelstein | March 31, 2015, 9:58 AM EDT
On today's Morning Joe, liberal Republican Nicolle Wallace sought to slough off a Politico article reporting that Jeb Bush is losing the influential "Laura Ingraham primary." Claimed Wallace, who served as Jeb's press secretary when he ...
By Tom Blumer | February 11, 2015, 12:48 AM EST
In a new book, Obama 2008 campaign manager and longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod reveals that, in the words of Zeke J. Miller at Time.com, "Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose ...
