What Do You Get When You Search CNN.com for 'Obama Gaffe' Video
June 10th, 2008 3:38 PM
Answer: Just two videos (see screencap at right).Inspired by featured CNN.com video of a McCain gaffe -- wherein the Arizona senator says he'd veto every beer -- I decided to search the CNN.com Web site for video of Obama gaffes.I got a grand total of two.Now, to be fair, searching "McCain gaffe" yielded no videos of McCain gaffes, but one from November 2006 entitled "Kerry's gift of gaffe,"…
ABC Reporter Actually Asks Obama a Tough Question
June 10th, 2008 1:56 PM
Mark this date, June 10, 2008, on your calendars as the day someone in the Obama-loving media finally asked the Democrat presidential nominee a tough question. Potentially even more surprising, the question and answer were posted at ABC News's website.Is this a rare moment of clarity for a press member, or is this a sign the kid gloves are coming off now that Obama has won the nomination?While…
Media Ignore Minimum Wage Hike's Impact on May Unemployment Rise
June 10th, 2008 11:44 AM
It certainly wasn't surprising how press outlets desperately trying to depict the economy as depression-like in order to get Barack Obama in the White House were practically giddy following the dour jobs report released by the Labor Department last Friday.What was shocking given the portion of May's unemployment rate rise attributed to high school and college students looking for summer jobs was…
MRC/NB's Bozell on New Poll on Media Bias; Media Disinterest in Obama
June 10th, 2008 11:09 AM
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the June 10 "Fox & Friends" to discuss yet another poll noting that the public perceive what the MRC has documented for nearly 21 years: the media are not only biased ideologically, they tailor campaign coverage in a way that goes softer on candidates they favor, such as Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).For example, Bozell note, the…
Matthews: Voting for McCain Like Staying on Sinking Titanic
June 10th, 2008 9:33 AM
Vote Obama: it's a matter of life or death! That's essentially how Chris Matthews characterized the choice confronting voters this November. Matthews not only put voting for Obama in the category of something to be done to "save your life," he analogized voting for McCain to a decision to remain on the Titanic rather than man the lifeboats.The Hardball host was a guest on today's Morning Joe.…
Brokaw Scolds Letterman on 'Horrible' U.S.; Environmental Hypocrisy
June 10th, 2008 2:29 AM
Tom Brokaw came aboard Monday's Late Show to promote his book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today, but soon chided David Letterman with some historical context after Letterman forwarded standard liberal claims about how the America of 2008 is in a “horrible” state thanks to the awful President George W. Bush, and when Letterman fretted about government…
NBC's Williams Tells Grads U.S. Broken, 'Need You to Fix the Country
June 9th, 2008 9:30 PM
Delivering the commencement address Sunday at Ohio State University in Columbus, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams implied America is broken as he told the graduates: “We need you to fix the country.” That clip, squeezed in between Al Gore at Carnegie Mellon and Martin Sheen at Notre Dame, aired as part of an annual compilation of…
NY Times Reporter: McCain Trying to Live Down 'Warmonger' Reputation
June 9th, 2008 5:07 PM
John McCain's first major television ad of the general election campaign is an apparent attempt to inoculate himself from criticism of his support of the Iraq War by underlining the fact that War Is Hell. New York Times reporter Julie Bosman used the opportunity (in the paper's regular Ad Campaign feature on Saturday) to suggest from out of nowhere that McCain had a "warmonger" reputation to…
More Obamessiah Worship Overlooked by MSM: Victory Worthy of Another C
June 9th, 2008 4:51 PM
Imagine, if you will, that former Arkansas Gov. Mike "majored in miracles" Huckabee had won the Republican nominating contest and in the rapture of exhuberance at the historic moment, a Republican congressman who is also the son of a famous religious right clergyman exulted that "the event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."…
Boston Globe Takes Aim at Swift Boat Vets
June 9th, 2008 4:00 PM
With all of the videos of Barack Obama’s pastor problems and gaffes, it’s no wonder the liberal media are afraid of what conservative 527 groups will do with them. A June 9 article entitled “Decency in D.C.” and featured in the “local news” section of the Boston Globe, columnist Kevin Cullen decried the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) – the group which ran ads against Senator John…
CNN Turns to Steinem to Blame Hillary’s Loss on Sexism, Media
June 9th, 2008 1:17 PM
CNN’s "American Morning," following-up on their segment last Friday with Gail Sheehy on whether sexism factored into Hillary Clinton’s loss, asked "pioneering feminist" Gloria Steinem about the issue on Monday morning. Steinem placed the blame squarely on "misogyny and the culture at large, and especially in the media." "[N]o candidate in history has been asked to step down by the media. She was…
CBS: Pat Schroeder on Hillary: ‘We Thought the Salem Witch Trials We
June 9th, 2008 12:13 PM
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked about Hillary Clinton dropping out of the presidential race with liberal blogger Arianna Huffington and former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, who commented on sexism during the campaign: "It troubles me a lot what we saw. It was like they made a witch out of her [Hillary Clinton], some people. You know we thought the Salem witch…
