CBS Plays Up ObamaCare 'Success', Omits Group's Liberal Leanings
December 15th, 2011 5:03 PM
CBS Evening News on Wednesday hyped the "early success" of a provision of ObamaCare which allows young adults under the age of 26 to stay on their parents' health care. Correspondent Wyatt Andrews spotlighted a young woman afflicted with Crohn's disease as an example of this apparent success, all the while failing to mention the liberal agenda of a "patient rights advocate" featured in his…
NBC's Brian Williams Labels Iraq War a 'Tragic and Prolonged Slog
December 15th, 2011 12:53 PM
Opening NBC's Nightly News on Wednesday, anchor Brian Williams touted the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq as an Obama administration accomplishment while slamming the war effort itself: "The President promised they'd be out by New Year's Eve and here they come....The war started with the event somebody called 'shock and awe' and it became a tragic and prolonged slog."
In the report that…
AP Buries Lede In Reporting on Latest Poll: Voters Favor Budget Cuts O
December 15th, 2011 12:21 PM
A new Associated Press poll finds movement by crucial swing voters towards Republican-friendly economic priorities: budget cuts over Democrat-preferred tax hikes.
But in reporting on the news wire's poll, the AP's Laurie Kellman opened her story with a focus on numbers that show the popularity of extending the Social Security payroll tax holiday, a priority of the Obama administration and…
Obama Crony-Run LightSquared's Network Now Shown to Disrupt Plane Safe
December 14th, 2011 11:17 PM
Late Friday afternoon, Todd Shields at Bloomberg News broke a story about some guy, who happens to be an Obama and Democratic Party donor (but not disclosed), against whom the Securities and Exchange Commission is formally considering an enforcement action (also not disclosed, though it was noted at the New York Times's Dealbook Blog five hours before Shields's report), whose "wireless service…
Run For Your Lives! Mike Malloy Sounds Alarm, 'Republicans Are Going t
December 14th, 2011 8:45 PM
This is what happens when left wingers ignore another left winger with a microphone -- pathology.
Mike Malloy, a man so beyond the pale that he was fired by comparatively sane moonbats at the now-defunct Air America Radio, has again shown he's probably beyond redemption. (audio clip after page break)
CBS Spotlights Democratic Attack on Romney as 'Too French
December 14th, 2011 4:44 PM
On Wednesday's Early Show, CBS somehow thought a Democratic super PAC's cynical ad aimed at discouraging Republican primary voters from voting for Mitt Romney was newsworthy. Correspondent Chip Reid outlined that Romney's French-speaking ability might be "political poison," and cited how French fries were renamed "freedom fries" in 2003 and how John Kerry was accused of looking French in 2004 […
Two Years After Tea Party, Time Calls 'The Protester' Their Person of
December 14th, 2011 8:16 AM
Time is so liberal it was obvious they could not consider the Tea Party protests as a Person of the Year entry. But that’s not true with Occupy Wall Street, since Time’s 2011 Person of the Year is suddenly now "The Protester.” Kurt Andersen’s essay announced: "'Massive and effective street protest' was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the…
Latest Obama Fundraising Letter Asks Donors to Taunt Republicans When
December 13th, 2011 10:08 PM
This one definitely does not go into the "how to persuade people that your cause is right" file.
Obama For America's latest attempt to beg people to contribute $3 to enter a drawing for a dinner with POTUS and FLOTUS has a pathetic, insufferable, punkish and privacy-invading twist, wherein you get the opportunity to tell a Republican acquaintance that you just gave money to the Obama campaign…
CNN Promotes Liberal Analysis of Gingrich Tax Plan as 'Non-Partisan
December 13th, 2011 6:22 PM
CNN touted a study from the liberal Tax Policy Center claiming that Newt Gingrich's tax plan would increase the deficit. On Tuesday afternoon's The Situation Room, business correspondent Poppy Harlow simply labeled the Tax Policy Center "non-partisan" even though it is a joint venture of two liberal think tanks, the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institute.
CNN even reported the Gingrich…
NPR Omits Liberal Affiliation of Pro-'All American Muslim' TV Critic
December 13th, 2011 5:56 PM
Tuesday's Morning Edition on NPR slanted toward TLC's controversial "All American Muslim" series by playing sound bites from two who support the reality TV show versus only one opponent. Correspondent Elizabeth Blair also failed to mention that one of the supporters works for the left-leaning Center for American Progress, while clearly identifying the opponent as being from a "conservative"…
In Report on November Deficit, AP's Crutsinger Miscasts Post-9/11 Econ
December 13th, 2011 8:53 AM
Uncle Sam's Monthly Treasury Statement for November came out yesterday. The results: Tax collections through two months of the fiscal year are up 4.4% over fiscal 2010; spending is down 5.5%, but only because about $31 billion in checks which would ordinarily have gone out on October 1 (a Saturday) were sent on September 30; and the deficit of $235 billion is $55 billion less than last year.…
Union Election Requires Photo ID; Politico Fails to Note Irony
December 12th, 2011 8:59 PM
On Wednesday, the Politico ran a story about the International Association of Machinists Union at Boeing agreeing to approve a contract extension, the result of which ultimately led to the National Labor Relations Board dropping its controversial decision to prevent the company from beginning to operate a mostly-constructed plant in South Carolina.
Though it deserves separate commentary, that…
Wrong Again, Maddow - Ohio Law Doesn't 'Kill' Early Voting
December 12th, 2011 8:41 PM
Those working at MSNBC probably believe they are providing a valuable public service. The network might actually have a chance of doing that if its executives hired an ombudsdman.
Should this unlikely scenario ever occur, the person hired for the job would inevitably focus on Rachel Maddow. (audio clip after page break)
Taranto on Bogus AP 'Fact Check': 'Literally Doesn't Know the Meaning
December 9th, 2011 5:49 PM
Yesterday, Anne Gearan at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, wrote what she called a "Fact Check" piece about a political promise. Really.
Two Republican presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann, are both promising to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if they should become the nation's next president. There's literally no way to "…