Media Mostly Mum on Outrageous Obama Claim of Fiscal Restraint

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday lectured journalists to not believe the "BS" that Barack Obama is a reckless spender. Rather than investigate Carney's assertions, or the sketchy basis for them, reporters have either embraced the talking points or allowed them to go unchallenged. Chris Matthews on Wednesday repeated the "fact" that federal spending "is rising at the slowest rate…
Scott Whitlock
May 25th, 2012 12:33 PM

Media's Blackout Working: MRCTV Street Interviewer Finds Just One Pers

The broadcast media's blackout on news of the Catholic Church's lawsuit against the Obama administration continues apace, while the news media covers much more important events like who won American Idol. So it's no wonder that MRCTV's Dan Joseph found only one person yesterday who knew about the lawsuit. Watch the video in the embed below the page break.
Ken Shepherd
May 25th, 2012 12:28 PM

NBC's 'Today' Fawns Over Recycled Three-Year-Old Photo of Boy Touching

After a Wednesday New York Times story gushed over the "indelible image" of a boy touching President Obama's hair in 2009, Friday's NBC Today dutifully promoted the pro-Obama fluff as co-host Savannah Guthrie declared: "...that photograph has gone viral online....the boy asked President Obama if he had hair just like his own. The President said yes, then bent over and invited the then-5-year-…
Kyle Drennen
May 25th, 2012 11:47 AM

Bashir to Facebook Co-Founder: Go 'Play with the Traffic

On Thursday’s edition of his eponymous program, MSNBC afternoon anchor Martin Bashir continued his shtick of using vile language to attack people with whom he disagrees, wishing a co-founder of the Facebook social network to go "play with the traffic." Bashir's death wish on Eduardo Saverin came at the end of a segment in which he criticized conservative activist Grover Norquist. Norquist,…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 25th, 2012 11:29 AM

UK Headline: 'Britain Can’t Afford to Fall for the Charms of the Fal

Leave it to America's strongest ally in the world to speak the truth. On Thursday, England's Telegraph published an article with the absolutely glorious headline "Britain Can’t Afford to Fall for the Charms of the False Economics Messiah Paul Krugman":
Noel Sheppard
May 25th, 2012 10:53 AM

CNN Cites MRC in Takedown of MTV Show About Losing Virginity

On Thursday, CNN anchor Carol Costello credited Dan Gainor, the head of the Culture and Media Institute, as a leader in the charge against a new MTV series, which was supposed to follow virgins seeking to lose their virginity. Costello read Gainor’s quote on air: “This is part of the media attempt to mock people who have morals and to treat virginity like a disease that must be cured. She…
Paul Wilson
May 25th, 2012 10:37 AM

Bozell, Carlson Note Media's Silence on Obama Supporter's Bribe to Hus

NBC, ABC and CBS have all ignored a new book by former Newsweek foreign editor Ed Klein that contains a shocking allegation from Klein's interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright in which the former Obama pastor claimed that an Obama supporter offered him $150,000 if he would refrain from preaching until after the 2008 election. From "now until election day," the liberal media will be seeking to…
NB Staff
May 25th, 2012 10:32 AM

Open Thread: Democrats Struggle to Decide Whose Money to Take

We already know that the punitive tax hikes on a small number of wealthy individuals favored by liberals will do almost nothing to pay off the national debt. What we didn't know is just how divided Democrats are as to who will get the shocking tax increases. The Hill reports today that congressional Democrats can't agree on who should be targeted to pay more in taxes, those families making $…
Matthew Sheffield
May 25th, 2012 10:06 AM

WaPo Busts White House for Citing Bogus Report Claiming 'Obama Spendin

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney during the previous day's press gaggle cited a bogus MarketWatch report hysterically claiming "Obama Spending Binge Never Happened." Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler looked at Carney's comments as well as Rex Nutting's article Friday and gave their assertions three Pinocchios:
Noel Sheppard
May 25th, 2012 10:02 AM

Politico Lets Obama Off Unemployment Hook: 'Bleak Numbers Beyond His C

If between now and Election Day unemployment numbers improve, particularly if they dip below the 8% barrier, you know President Obama, with an MSM assist, will be out there pounding his chest about the number of jobs "he created." But when the unemployment numbers remain weak?  Well, that's not Obama's fault.  Just ask Mike Allen of Politico.  On today's Morning Joe, trying to explain Obama'…
Mark Finkelstein
May 25th, 2012 8:30 AM

Piers Morgan Whacks 'Little Wretch' Who Says He Taught Phone-Hacking

Reuters reported that BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman said Wednesday that the former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. Morgan’s consistently denied authorizing phone hacking during his tenure there. Morgan responded on Twitter: “Right - that's the last time I'm inviting Jeremy Paxman to lunch. Ungrateful…
Tim Graham
May 25th, 2012 7:33 AM

Stephanopoulos Wife Ali Wentworth: 'I Would Like My Vagina to be Taken

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight, actress and comedienne Ali Wentworth brought up "reproduction rights" and Planned Parenthood as issues she is concerned about when host Piers Morgan turned the discussion to politics and what American women will be looking for in the presidential election. Wentworth began her answer by flippantly referring to her anatomy:
Brad Wilmouth
May 25th, 2012 5:14 AM

CNN's Morgan Was 'Absolutely Thrilled' When Obama Pledged to Close Gua

On Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight, during an interview with Obama supporter and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, host Piers Morgan declared that he was "absolutely thrilled" when President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay, and showed disappointment that Obama "broke that promise."
Brad Wilmouth
May 25th, 2012 3:29 AM

Very Annoyed Matthews Rips ‘Horse’s Ass Right-Wingers’ Who Cite

In February of 2008, NewsBusters first highlighted MSNBC’s Chris Matthews oozing “I felt this thrill going up my leg” while listening to a speech by Barack Obama. Conservatives reminding him of it has certainly annoyed Chris Matthews ever since, so much so that he lashed out at C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, sinking to including the non-profit cable network’s senior executive producer as amongst the “…
Brent Baker
May 25th, 2012 2:05 AM