'Variable Rate' Too Much for ABC, Borrower to Understand
"What is mysterious, what is mysterious about the phrase 'variable rate'?"—George Will, This Week, March 30, 2008Mystery is in the eyes of the borrower–and the MSM. The term "variable rate" in a mortgage might seem straightforward enough to George Will and our erudite NB readers, but to a college-educated homeowner–and ABC's Kate Snow–it's apparently a real brain twister.Snow hosted a segment on…
LAT Claims George Washington Only Served One Term in Office
UPDATED: Journalists love reporting that Americans are stupid, and they salivate at the thought of asking us to find the United States on a map or who we fought in the American Revolution. That's why it is rather amusing that the Los Angeles Times mistakenly claimed that George Washington only served one term in office as US president. LAT television critic Mary McNamara made the slip up in this…
Bill and Hillary's Unfavorable Ratings Skyrocket, Media Mostly Mum
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported results of a new poll it undertook with ABC News wherein Hillary Clinton's unfavorable rating skyrocketed to its highest point ever.In the same poll, her husband Bill's unfavorable rating rose above 50 percent for the first time since August 1998 when he was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.Although some media outlets other than the Post did…
NYT's Failure to Understand Our Times Now Complete
To the New York Times there is only one issue in America: the war.
To show how pathetic The New York Times and John Broder are at analyzing the current political climate, all one has to do is read "Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles." Here the Times clearly reveals that they see but two types of American politician: the good guys against the war, and the evil ones for it. That's it. To…
Will Media Question False Economic Statistics in DNC Ad Bashing McCain
For months, NewsBusters has been warning readers of the likelihood that media will adopt the 1992 Clinton playbook of regularly depicting the economy as being far worse than it really is.On Sunday, the Democratic National Committee released a new television advertisement attacking GOP presidential candidate John McCain with economic statistics that don't measure up to even the slightest scrutiny…
NYT's Herbert: 'Democrats Doing Everything They Can to Blow This Elect
In the second half of today's "As The Left Eat Their Own," the New York Times' Bob Herbert goes after Democrats for "doing everything they can to blow this presidential election."And that was just the first sentence of his scathing rebuke of all things currently left-leaning.With that as an appetizer, readers are advised to strap themselves into their comfiest chairs with a nice bucket of popcorn…
Hillary Blames Campaign Problems on MoveOn.org, Infuriates Netroots
In today's episode of "As The Left Eat Their Own," a tape of Hillary Clinton complaining after Super Tuesday that activists from MoveOn.org "flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support [her]" was published at The Huffington Post Friday. This has set off a predictably hostile reaction from the liberal blogosphere, and was considered…
NYT Whines About No Global Warming Debate Questions Despite ABC Poll
When it comes to news, much as comedy, timing is everything -- and it's clear the good folks at the New York Times don't have it.On Saturday, the Times published an op-ed by graphics director Charles M. Blow carping and whining about the now infamous Democrat presidential debate broadcast on ABC Wednesday, and, in particular, that no time was spent talking about climate change.Well, Charles,…
Derrick Z: Stephanopoulos, Gibson 'Tried to Eviscerate Obama
The left-wing blogosphere's outrage against ABC ["Boycott Fig Newtons!"] over its allegedly unfair questioning of Obama during Wednesday's debate has seeped over into the MSM in the form of Derrick Z. Jackson's Boston Globe column of this morning. While the headline moots the matter in the interrogative "Tough questions or just plain bias?", there's no doubt as to the answer in Jackson's mind.…
Rush: AP Doesn't Identify Who Promises to Raise Taxes, Trade Barriers
Today, talk-show heavyweight Rush Limbaugh picked up on a curious oversight by an AP business reporter whose negative spin in supposedly objective stories on the economy has frequently been noted here. In a Friday story about a survey of top financial company executives, the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger wrote the following (bold is mine): Turmoil in credit and housing markets will be…
Hillary About to Go Poof? Smerconish Thinks So
Hillary–gone in a week? Yes, if you believe Michael Smerconish.The Philly-based radio talk show host was the only Pennsylvanian on the panel on this evening's Race for the White House on MSNBC. He saved his bombshell for last. Nothing in the kibitzing preceding the show-closing Predictions segment foreshadowed Smerconish's surprising suggestion. But when it came time to break out the crystal…
Scarborough Has Enough of Air America's Maddow, Walks Off MSNBC Set
For those that are luckily unfamiliar, Rachel Maddow is one of the darlings of the extreme-left in this country. A regular on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, the Air America Radio host is also a panel member on that network's "Race for the White House" with David Gregory.Another panel member is Joe Scarborough, and those that have watched this program since its inception know that he…
