Dem Sen. Webb Slams Obama Leadership, Citing ObamaCare Boondoggle; Was
April 19th, 2012 11:38 AM
President Obama's ham-handed, laissez faire handling of his signature legislative achievement, ObamaCare, "cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader," argued retiring one-term Sen. James Webb (D-Va.). Webb.
"If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set of objectives from the White House," reporter Karen Tumulty quoted Webb,…
NBC Pounces on Ted Nugent Comments, Ignores Obama's Own History of Vio
April 19th, 2012 9:21 AM
Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News highlighted controversial comments about President Obama recently made by conservative rocker Ted Nugent, even bringing up another controversial clip from 2007.
But correspondent Andrea Mitchell failed to mention that Obama has his own history of using violent metaphors, as, during the 2008 campaign, then-…
CBS's Rose Hounds Boehner on Ryan Budget, Cites Bishops; Went Easy on
April 18th, 2012 6:23 PM
Charlie Rose did his best to forward liberals' talking points about Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, during an interview of House Speaker John Boehner. Rose played up Mitt Romney's endorsement of the Ryan plan and how the former governor "talked about, perhaps, abolishing H.E.W. [sic]- I mean, HUD, as well as Department of Education."
The anchor even went so…
MSNBC's Martin Bashir, Who Compared Santorum to Stalin, Mocks Concept
April 18th, 2012 5:32 PM
MSNBC's Martin Bashir, who previously compared Rick Santorum to genocidal murderer Joseph Stalin, on Wednesday mocked the concept that MSNBC could be biased against Republicans. A network graphic dismissed, "Paranoia? Romney: More Media Should Be as 'Fair' as Fox News."
After playing clips of Mitt Romney decrying liberal media bias, Bashir huffed, "This is pretty rich from a man who hasn't…
NBC Touted Romney's Dog on a Car Roof Story, But Only ABC Notes: Obama
April 18th, 2012 12:31 PM
Of the three major networks, only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday covered the "dog wars" counterattack by Mitt Romney's operatives. Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos highlighted that the campaign is "tweeting around a picture of the President and trying to focus on a revelation he made in his memoir, that he actually tried dog when he was a young boy in Indonesia."
CBS This Morning…
After Weeks of Ignoring Bill Maher's Vileness, NBC's Today Freaks Over
April 18th, 2012 12:06 PM
Everyone on NBC's Today show payroll ignored foul-mouthed comedian Bill Maher's $1 million donation to an Obama super PAC -- but NBC's Andrea Mitchell went to extravagant lengths on Wednesday to tie Mitt Romney as closely as possible to supporter Ted Nugent, after Nugent made headlines for controversial comments about President Obama. The lone mention of Bill Maher on the Today show in 2012 was…
AP's Kuhnhenn Gives No Space to Critics of Obama's Oil Speculation Plo
April 18th, 2012 11:33 AM
Yesterday at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, the headline at reporter Jim Kuhnhenn's story on President Obama's latest excuse to add more bureaucrats to the government payroll ("Obama wants to target oil market manipulation") presupposed the existence of oil market manipulation when none has been proven. In 850 words, he didn't find any space for critics of the move, who…
Robin Leach: Obama Is a 'Socialist' - He Is 'Whipping Up This Racial W
April 18th, 2012 8:57 AM
Former Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host Robin Leach said Friday that President Obama is a socialist.
Appearing on the Fox Business Network, Leach told host Neal Cavuto the current White House resident is "whipping up this racial war and this economic divide" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Romney Calls Media 'Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
April 17th, 2012 6:12 PM
Mitt Romney on Tuesday channeled his inner Hillary Clinton by calling the media a "vast left-wing conspiracy."
During an interview with Breitbart TV's Larry O'Connor, the Republican presidential candidate also said, "Many in the media are inclined to do the president's bidding and I know that's a battle, an uphill battle we fight with the media generally" (video follows with partial…
MSNBC's Martin Bashir: Romney Dodged Draft by Performing Missionary Wo
April 17th, 2012 4:25 PM
On the April 17 edition of his afternoon program, MSNBC's Martin Bashir mocked Mitt Romney’s unabashed support for our military. Bashir insulted Romney claiming that, “for all his endless references to military personnel, was this not the same Mitt Romney who managed to dodge the draft during Vietnam and spent most of his time I believe in France as a Mormon missionary?”
Bashir has a…
CNN's Fareed Zakaria Being Considered for Diplomatic Post in Obama Sec
April 17th, 2012 3:21 PM
It appears all those private meetings Fareed Zakaria has with President Obama discussing foreign policy might just pay off for the CNN host.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Zakaria is being considered for a diplomatic post - even Secretary of State - if the current White House resident gets reelected in November:
NYT's Stelter Says Ann Romney Insult Will Fade Like Limbaugh 'Overreac
April 17th, 2012 2:17 PM
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter was the latest to downplay Obama-supporter Hilary Rosen's insult of Ann Romney of having "never worked a day in her life," in his Sunday Review "news analysis," "From Flash to Fizzle." Stelter argued that Hilary Rosen's insult would be the latest controversy to burn hot and then be totally forgotten:
John Cusack Rips Obama From Left: 'Continued Imperial Presidency' of B
April 17th, 2012 1:46 PM
Tuesday's CBS This Morning rolled over and gave movie star John Cusack a platform to spout his leftist political views. Cusack slammed the Obama administration: "The excesses of the Bush administration...[Obama] had a constitutional obligation to correct that, and I don't think they have, and I think that's deeply troubling....They've...continued that imperial presidency of the Bush…
Fortune's Allan Sloan: Obama's Tax Return Is a Masterful 'Political Do
April 17th, 2012 1:20 PM
"Forgive my skepticism -- all right, I guess you can call it cynicism -- but the more I look at Obama's return, the more it strikes me as being a much more a political document than a financial document," Fortune magazine senior editor Allan Sloan noted in a column in today's Washington Post.
"Despite Obama having significant net worth, his return shows not a penny of tax-advantaged capital…