Obama's Spiritual Guide: 'God Damn America
At the end of a Good Morning America segment today about Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., an Obama campaign representative complained that John McCain's pastor had not been similarly "vetted." If that's true, then ABC or some other media outlet surely should and will do so. Let's imagine that upon vetting, McCain's pastor is found to have made statements that were…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Fawns Over Obama, Slams Geraldine Ferraro
Following the same pattern as ABC’s "Good Morning America" Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a glowing interview with Barack Obama by co-host Harry Smith, while co-host Russ Mitchell interrogated Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro for recent comments about Obama’s candidacy: "Do you really think that Barack Obama has been so successful in this campaign because he's a black man?"When Ferraro…
SNL Parody? GMA Puffs Obama, Grills Clinton Supporter
In a striking resemblance to a pair of recent "Saturday Night Live" skits, the March 12 edition of "Good Morning America" began with a fawning interview of Barack Obama, then grilled Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro. Co-host Chris Cuomo first congratulated Obama for his Mississippi victory, then questioned if it "seals the deal." Cuomo added he is "sure you’re [Obama] gaining the…
MRC/NB's Bozell Reacts to Media Silence on Spitzer's Democratic Party
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on today's "Fox & Friends" to discuss findings by MRC analysts that Gov. Eliot Spitzer's (D-NY) party affiliation (and Hillary Clinton superdelegate status) has been persistently overlooked in broadcast and print media outlets.:BOZELL: ABC and then NBC "Nightly News" two days ago, not once mentioned that he was a Democrat. "Good…
Olbermann: Ferraro Statement 'Clearly Racist: Are We in South Africa
Forget the popcorn: it could take a case of Cognac and a humidor of good cigars to fully savor the warfare that's breaking out in Dem ranks. Who could have predicted that Keith Olbermann would be accusing a prominent Clinton team member and former Dem VP candidate of making a "clearly racist" statement evoking the apartheid era in South Africa? And yet . . . On this evening's Countdown,…
NB's Noel Sheppard on 'Glenn Beck' Dissects Anatomy of Left-wing Smear
NewsBusters Associate Editor Noel Sheppard appeared on the March 10 "Glenn Beck" program on CNN Headline News to discuss the left-wing Web's recent smear of the radio host. Beck was taken out of context for comments he made about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). [See Sheppard's related March 8 blog entry here.]Video (4:18): Windows Media (15.7 MB), plus MP3 audio (1.94 MB). Here's the transcript:…
3:00 AM Girl Thinks Hillary’s Ad is ‘Fear-mongering’ ‘Cheap Hi
By now, most people have seen or heard about Hillary Clinton’s 3:00 AM ad implying that the world would be safer if she rather than her opponent Barack Obama was to answer an emergency phone call to the White House in the dead of night. In a truly delicious twist of fate, the young girl pictured in the ad is now an active Barack Obama supporter. On Sunday, ABC’s “Good Morning America” team…
NewsBusted
Topics in this episode: Hillary Clinton gains back some much-needed momentum and also complains it's harder to run for president as a female than as a minority male. Barack Obama on the Sermon on the Mount, Ron Paul finally moves to drop his campaign for president and more!Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or…
CBS’s Pelley Grills McCain, Kroft & Couric Chatted With Democrats
On Sunday’s CBS "60 Minutes," anchor Scott Pelley interviewed Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, and the tone of the questions was this: "The United States is going to be in Iraq for years to come. Afghanistan is not going well. Osama bin Laden is at large. And the economy is slipping into recession...How do you make a case for a third Republican term?"Compare that to how Steve Kroft…
CBS’s Smith: Republican Campaign Ads Have Taken ‘Low Road
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith did a segment on the effectiveness of television ads in presidential campaigns, in which he gave credit to Ronald Reagan’s ‘optimistic’ "Morning in America" ad, which he incorrectly said was run in the 1980 campaign rather than 1984, but he followed quickly by condemning more recent Republican ads: "There's a high road and a low road. Remember…
Poll: Democrats Trust Media More than Republicans Do
Harris released one of their latest polls on the 6th and it showed that less than half the general American public trusts the press. With the state of the media today, this should come as no surprise to anyone. But, the numbers are pretty amazing when it is realized that 54% of those responding said they did not trust the press while 46% admitted that they don't trust television news either. The…
