On CNN, Ralph Nader Again Promotes Moyers for President; Blitzer Gushe
February 7th, 2007 3:56 PM
On Sunday’s "Late Edition," CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer conducted a syrupy interview with consumer advocate and frequent presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Blitzer allowed the former Green Party standard-bearer to once again promote left-wing PBS host Bill Moyers for President in 2008. The CNN anchor also gushed over Nader’s new work of non-fiction, "The 17 Traditions," a liberal tome about rasing…
Russert: Obama 'On the Money' in Calling Iraq 'Dumb War
February 4th, 2007 11:05 AM
Not that there was ever much doubt where Tim Russert aligns, but it was nice to get concrete confirmation on today's Meet the Press. Grilling John Edwards over his vote to authorize the war and his expression of support for it as late as 2004, Russert pointed out that Obama had staked out a firmly anti-Iraq war position before the conflict began. Russert displayed a two-part graphic of Obama'…
Hillary's Time Machine: Wouldn't Have Started War if She Were Prez in
February 2nd, 2007 7:13 PM
Hillary has gone John Kerry one better. The junior senator from Massachusetts of baleful Gallic mien merely voted for the $87 billion . . . before he voted against it.That's nothing. Hillary Clinton fired up the Time Machine, travelled back to 2002, and assured her fellow Dems that had she been president, the war in Iraq would never have happened.On this afternoon's Hardball, Chris Matthews…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 27 to February
February 2nd, 2007 9:45 AM
When it comes to the subject of global warming, members of the media have lost all restraint. CNN’s Larry King nervously wondered if climate change might "really kill us all?" Could it "submerge cities like New York and Washington and San Francisco under floods from melting Arctic ice caps?" Not to be outdone, "Good Morning America’s" weatherman warned of the dire threat of global warming. The…
Biden Comments Rate 'Oops' from NY Times, No Front-Page Mention by Glo
February 1st, 2007 6:36 AM
In our continuing calvalcade of coverage of the Biden "clean and articulate" comments, we thought it would be interesting to see how three of the leading liberal newspapers treated the story on their respective front pages this morning.At the New York Times, the headline on the smallish front-page article brought a dash of downplaying humor to the story: "Biden Unwraps His Bid for ’08 With an…
MSM Forgive-a-thon Continues: Olbermann Calls Biden Comments 'A Slip
January 31st, 2007 8:46 PM
I'm feeling a lot of love out there. Directed by the MSM toward Joe Biden, that is, for having called Barack Obama the first "clean" and "articulate" black presidential candidate. Earlier this evening, as noted here, Chris Matthews, joined by MSMers Jay Carney and Anne Kornblut, cut Biden mucho slack.The forgive-a-thon continued on Countdown. First, Keith Olbermann declared Biden's comments "a…
Defending Biden's Blooper, Matthews Ignores 'Clean' Crack
January 31st, 2007 6:22 PM
Let's play one of our favorite parlor games: "WIARHSI?" You know: "What if a Republican Had Said It?" In today's game, let's imagine what would happen if a Republican presidential candidate had said that Barack Obama was the first "clean" and "articulate" African-American presidential candidate? Which paper would be first to call for the Republican's withdrawal from the race: the NY Times,…
