'Today' Pans Hil's Obama-for-VP Ploy: Ignorant, Arrogant, Illogical, C
If Hillary Clinton's latest gambit--floating Obama as her VP--were a play not a ploy, and the Today crew the theater critics, they would have left at intermission to begin penning a blistering pan.Interviewing Tim Russert, Matt Lauer kicked off the kicking around of Hillary's idea.MATT LAUER: Let's talk about this idea. Is it being floated seriously? Is this light-hearted, and who's behind it?…
AP's 'Workers Giving Up' Claim Goes from 'Perhaps' to 'Fact
.... and in 24 Hours, with No Credible Support In a report from the presidential campaign trail in Wyoming early Saturday morning, Sara Kugler of the Associated Press picked up on an economic meme created out of whole cloth by one of her colleagues, and treated it as an undisputed fact -- all in the name of creating support for campaign rhetoric coming from one of the two remaining Democratic…
Media Matters Book Says 'Free Ride' for McCain: 'Oops, Bad Timing
In Sunday’s Washington Post Book World, senior editor Alan Cooperman reviewed four new political books in brief, including a new book from Media Matters for America titled Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman. Cooperman concluded that, oops, the title doesn’t match the rough reporting coming out from newspapers on McCain’s alleged hypocrisy (and adultery?) with…
Oprah Abandoned 'The Hot-Flash Cohort
Look for NOW to be setting up picket lines outside Rush's Southern Command, protesting the way Limbaugh has demeaned mature women, writing them off as the "hot-flash cohort."Outrageous! When will these right-wing men realize we will no longer tolerate their misogynist --What? It wasn't Rush? It was that avatar of elite liberal thought Tina Brown, writing in Newsweek? Never mind.Here's how…
'Saturday Night Live' Stumps for Hillary for Third Week in a Row
With political pundits across the fruited plain believing that NBC's "Saturday Night Live" transformed the Democrat presidential campaign by exposing media's love affair with Barack Obama as well as their apparent disdain for Hillary Clinton, one has to wonder just how far the program's producers and writers are willing to go to advance their candidate of choice.After all, for the third week in…
Michelle Obama’s ‘Mean America’ Statement Gets a Nearly Free Med
On Wednesday, NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard noted the following comments by Michelle Obama in her recent New Yorker Magazine profile by Lauren Collins: Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. "We have…
ABC's Wright: 'Trouble Is' Ads Like Hillary's 3 AM Work
Ads like Hillary's "it's 3 AM" work--and that's a problem. At least in the view of David Wright it is. As I described here, the ABC reporter doesn't work particularly hard to keep his Obama light under a basket.Wright-the-ABC-Obamacan was back at it today. GMA ran a segment featuring Casey Knowles, whose image as an eight-year old was used in Hillary's ad. Knowles has since grown up to be an…
Anyone Wishing to Evaluate John McCain Won't Get Old Media Help
It's not exactly a secret that John McCain is not admired by conservatives for a variety of reasons. The conventional wisdom is that the Arizona Senator and GOP presidential nominee needs to mend some, uh, fences (warning: profanity at link) with many in his party. Fair enough, but a word to the wise, and this is relevant regardless of personal ideology: If either McCain himself, or anyone who…
Weekend Captionfest II
Hillary Clinton talks with a patron at Herrera's restaurant in Dallas, TX on the day of the Texas presidential primary election, March 4, 2008. Photo Reuters/Mike Stone
Media See Recession in Jobs Report Without Historical Reference
There's no denying the economy is slowing, and may have either entered a recession, or is on the brink of one. Maybe.However, the media's hysterical response to Friday's February jobs report lacked any historical reference to how the labor market behaved in previous recessions.Instead, press outlet after press outlet decided that the loss of 63,000 jobs in February was a clear signal the…
Glenn Beck Bashes Olbermann's Ties to Media Matters and Think Progress
NewsBusters has frequently reported the deplorable connection between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Clinton front-organizations Media Matters and Think Progress.On Friday, conservative radio host Glenn Beck marvelously illustrated just how this liberal alliance works, and showed how a few sentences transcribed by Olbermann's minions and taken out of context can easily be used to completely…
