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Flashback: The Media VILIFIED Clarence Thomas Even BEFORE Anita Hill

July 1st, 2023 8:50 AM

From the very moment President George H. W. Bush nominated Thomas to the Court on July 1, 1991, journalists employed nasty and often racist language to denigrate Thomas as unfit to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose retirement had created the vacancy that needed to be filled.

PBS's Tavis Smiley and Guest: Republicans Don't Want to Help Jobless

September 9th, 2011 2:55 PM
A taxpayer who doesn’t favor Barack Obama might not mind subsidizing a show where he’s attacked as unserious about the country’s problems. But with PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley, it’s been a relentless attack on Obama from the left. Everything he’s done isn’t half-socialist enough. On Wednesday, Smiley welcomed fellow leftist and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to his show to…

Former NY Times Columnist Tells Maddow 'Macho,' 'Violent' American Cul

July 8th, 2011 5:24 PM
Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert appeared on Thursday night on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC to discuss how the death penalty demonstrates how America is marred by “such a macho culture, such a violent culture” that we would actually execute murderers and politicians haven't completely banned it. For her part, Maddow tried to imply that there’s race-baiting politics involved,…

NYT's Herbert: Obama and Dems Created Mess But GOP Would Be Worse

September 11th, 2010 11:56 PM
You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting some pathetically liberal media member claiming that despite how bad things are now they'd get worse if Republicans won in November.Exhibit A: New York Times columnist Bob Herbert's article Saturday.In it, he somewhat honestly told his readers about the misshaps of the President he personally helped get elected.Fair enough, but the conclusion…

Ratigan: 'Default Position' In USA Is To Incarcerate Black Men

August 23rd, 2010 5:57 PM
Dylan Ratigan's "Daily Rant" segment was a treasure trove of controversial statements today.  You be the judge of which statement rates higher on the controversy-meter:Ratigan's claim that the "default position" in the USA is to incarcerate black men rather than educate them; orBlogger Keli Goff's suggestion that to end the cycle of poverty among African-Americans, and to avoid burdening…

NYT's Herbert Rips Obama: He Should Have Exclusively Focused On Jobs

August 14th, 2010 12:23 PM
Are even the most liberal media members starting to realize the administration's "Recovery Summer" campaign was a complete joke?Such appears to be the case for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who on Saturday published a piece absolutely excoriating President Obama for not exclusively focusing on jobs after his inauguration last year:The Obama administration seems to be feeling sorry for…

MRC-TV: Bozell on Fox Biz Discussing NYT Columnists Attacking Obama Fr

June 30th, 2010 11:11 AM
"Has the mainstream media -- which turns left -- have they abandoned the president on his economic policies?" Stuart Varney asked NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell in a brief interview held shortly after 10 a.m. today. The Media Research Center founder answered in the affirmative, noting that staunch liberals in the mainstream media think Obama is too conservative on his spending plans:BRENT…

NYT's Herbert: Obama and Democrats Wasted Once In a Lifetime Opportuni

June 30th, 2010 12:59 AM
Add New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to the growing list of liberal media members realizing that Barack Obama's campaign slogan "Hope and Change" was nothing but a great sales pitch."Mr. Obama and the Democrats have wasted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity handed to them in the 2008 election," wrote Herbert Tuesday."They did not focus on jobs, jobs, jobs as their primary mission." No, they…

NYT's Herbert: Big Companies Don't Care About People

May 29th, 2010 11:47 AM
It certainly comes as no surprise that liberal media members hate big business, but the level to which New York Times columnist Bob Herbert attacked some of the nation's largest employers on Saturday should concern everyone interested in preserving what's left of the free market."[T]he biggest, most powerful companies do not have the best interests of the American people in mind when they are…

Larry King Pro-Obama Then Anti-War in Michael Moore Interview

December 2nd, 2009 3:30 PM
CNN’s Larry King carried water for President Obama’s move to send more troops to Afghanistan during an interview of Michael Moore on early Wednesday morning. King later shifted further to the left, asking Moore if he agreed with Jesse Ventura’s call for a new draft and a “war tax” and quoting from Bob Herbert of the New York Times, who labeled the Afghan war a “tragic mistake.”The CNN host…

NYT Columnists Who Blamed Conservatives for 'Right-Wing' Killings Igno

November 13th, 2009 4:12 PM
Back in June, liberal columnists at the New York Times lined up to link conservative talkers Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh to James von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum, and the murder by Scott Roeder of abortionist George Tiller.Columnists Paul Krugman and Judith Warner both weighed in on June 12.Krugman’s “The Big Hate” blamed Fox…

White House Met Privately With Many Left-Wing Opinionistas

October 23rd, 2009 1:15 PM
The White House has berated Fox News for days now for purportedly pushing an agenda and calling it news. So Americans may have been surprised when, as reported by Noel Sheppard, Obama invited two of MSNBC's most divisive liberal pundits--Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow--to the White House for an off-the-record briefing.As it turns out, Maddow and Olbermann were only two of the left's…

Is NYT's Herbert Losing Faith in Obama or Pushing for Stimulus II

October 7th, 2009 10:03 AM
"The Obama administration seems hamstrung by the unemployment crisis. No big ideas have emerged. No dramatically creative initiatives."Such was written Monday by one of President Obama's biggest supporters -- New York Times columnist Bob Herbert.So concerned is Herbert that he's presaging doom and gloom for the president if things don't change soon.Maybe even more shocking, as he addressed the…

Maddow Guest Bob Herbert on Defeating al Qaeda: 'Get Out' of Afghanist

January 19th, 2009 7:18 PM