Morgan Freeman: 'We're In a Lot of Trouble If We Don't Reelect Obama

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman said Tuesday, "We’re going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect" Barack Obama. Appearing on PBS's Tavis Smiley show, Freeman added, "Because people on the other side of the fence scare me" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 20th, 2012 9:04 AM

WashPost Sports Section Blames Bush for Roger Clemens Prosecution

The Washington Post can’t even keep the liberal politicking out of the Sports section. On Wednesday, sports columnist Sally Jenkins somehow blamed a George W. Bush speech snippet for the Roger Clemens prosecution: "The Clemens case came about because a handful of zealots who are presumably bored by their real jobs were overly empowered by former president George W. Bush’s mention of the…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2012 8:34 AM

HBO's Aaron Sorkin Urges More Liberal Media Bias, Wants Romney to Tell

Mark Harris of New York magazine interviewed Aaron Sorkin about his new HBO series The Newsroom and thrilled to upcoming lines from the liberal anchorman Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, such as "I’m a registered Republican—I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not by gay marriage." Sorkin also wishes Mitt Romney would tell the "…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2012 7:12 AM

Channeling Occupy Wall Street in the New York Times Business Section

Financial reporter Nathaniel Popper made the front of the New York Times Sunday Business section using the language of Occupy Wall Street, in a populist crusade against high chief executive pay disguised as a news story: "C.E.O. Pay, Rising Despite the Din." Popper talked in familiar terms of "revolution," "the 99 percent," and the "nation’s have-a-lots" versus "the have-lesses," and the term…
Clay Waters
June 20th, 2012 7:07 AM

NYT's Frank Bruni After Obama's G20 Press Conference: 'He Doesn't Seem

The Hope and Change that media shamelessly sold to the nation in 2008 is starting to reach a point of solemn desperation. Perfectly exemplifying this Tuesday was New York Times columnist Frank Bruni who minutes after President Obama finished his press conference at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, told CNN's Piers Morgan, "He doesn’t seem in command” (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 10:53 PM

Bozell Column: Touting That Killer Barack Obama

Team Barack Obama knows they are in a heap of re-election trouble when pundits look at his shambles of an economic record. So what to do? Easy. The most shameless of our Obama-loving journalists are painting Obama as an action-movie superhero in the war on terror. Just open up Newsweek magazine to an advertisement for a book by its own Daniel Klaidman called "Kill Or Capture." It begins by…
Brent Bozell
June 19th, 2012 10:38 PM

Bill O'Reilly: 'That Was the Most Boring Press Conference I Have Seen

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday something few members of the media dare. At the conclusion of President Obama's address at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, The O'Reilly Factor host said, "That was the most boring press conference I have seen in 37 years of covering the news."
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 10:18 PM

Today Show Covered Benefits of MS Patients Riding Horses Same Day O'Do

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday mocked Ann Romney for riding horses to combat her multiple sclerosis. Hours earlier, NBC's Today show, in a segment about the recent MS diagnosis of rock star Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack, addressed the benefits of horseback riding for reducing the symptoms of the disease (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 9:30 PM

Wisconsin Recall Anarchists Suffer Hilarious Withdrawal Pains When Med

It is well known that leftwing political demonstrators love to play to the cameras as happened in Wisconsin during the months leading up the the recent failed attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker. So what happens when the media departs once the election is over? As you can see in this video (and below the fold) their media withdrawal pains might not be pretty sight but it is definitely quite…
P.J. Gladnick
June 19th, 2012 8:52 PM

AP's Job Openings Coverage Understates Significance of Steep Drop

It wouldn't quite be fair to say that the Associated Press's Christopher Rugaber sugarcoated his dispatch on today's release of the April Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics. But it would be more than fair to say he missed several chances to tell readers how significant the setbacks BLS relayed really were (openings fell 8.7% from a…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2012 8:25 PM

NPR Promotes Rapper Who's Glad Reagan's Dead, Since He Introduced Coca

On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, National Public Radio promoted an Atlanta rapper named “Killer Mike” and his “politically charged” song called “Reagan.” Somehow, they left out that Atlanta-based "artist" Michael Render ends the song with “I’m glad Reagan dead” and regurgitates the old conspiracy theory that Reagan and Ollie North imported cocaine into the inner cities:
Tim Graham
June 19th, 2012 8:22 PM

Limbaugh: 'NBC News Is An Annex of the Democrat National Committee' fo

As NewsBusters reported Monday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, on the MSNBC program bearing her name, aired a video of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney selectively edited in a fashion designed to make him look like an out of touch imbecile. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh excoriated those involved with the airing of this video Tuesday going so far as calling NBC News “an…
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2012 7:16 PM

Sympathy for 'the Devil': Anna Wintour 'an Engaged Politico and Valuab

The New York Times went full Hollywood on the front of Sunday Styles. Jeremy Peters, a political-media reporter for the paper, profiled the imperious fashionista Anna Wintour as "an engaged politico and valuable asset to President Obama and his re-election effort." Wintour, the inspiration for the book and movie The Devil Wears Prada, raised her profile when she released a much-mocked fund-…
Clay Waters
June 19th, 2012 2:52 PM

Jon Stewart Slams Romney as 'Rich' While Being Mum on His Own Wealth

One of Jon Stewart's favorite targets these days is GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whom the Comedy Central host has called a “multi, multi,multi, multi-millionaire” while carefully avoiding the fact that he too is considered to be very wealthy. Perhaps Stewart's harshest criticism of the former Massachusetts governor came on January 24 when he asked:
Randy Hall
June 19th, 2012 1:44 PM