CNBC’s Caruso-Cabrera Presses California AG on Publicity Stunt/Lawsu

Want to make a big splash to bolster your chances in a political campaign? A tried and true strategy for some attorneys general has been to champion a populist position by exploiting the legal system for publicity. Just look at the lead up to the launch of former New York AG Eliot Spitzer gubernatorial campaign with his attacks on Wall Street. And that appears to be the playbook California…
Jeff Poor

Name That Party: NYT Quick to ID GOP Insult of Jews -- Avoided Labelin

Two Republican chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for an op-ed article that made a clumsy comment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent. Reporter Robbie Brown and The New York Times's headline writers quickly let us know the two offenders were Republican: "2 South Carolina Republicans Apologize for Reference to Jews." It made quite a contrast from how the Times treated a Democratic…
Clay Waters

California AG Angrily Responds to Charges Politically Charged Suit fro

'Power Lunch' co-host Caruso-Cabrera suggests Jerry Brown's $56-million lawsuit against State Street bank a ploy to prop up attorney general's bid for governor.
Jeff Poor

Networks Barely Report 'Stealth' Push for 'Second Stimulus

Stories mostly ignore failure of Obama's $787 billion stimulus to halt rising unemployment, continue to give credit for saving or creating jobs.
Julia A. Seymour

Absurd Denial: WaPo Claims ‘Goal’ of GOP Attack Pieces Wasn't to H

A Washington Post staff writer on Wednesday swore that it wasn’t the "goal" of the newspaper to elect Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor, despite the paper’s wave of attack coverage against the Republican nominee. Participating in a chat on WashingtonPost.com, Amy Gardner did admit that there’s an "argument to be made" over whether the paper did some "‘prolonged’ reporting" on…
Scott Whitlock

'Morning Joe': With Fox Feud, Administration Really 'Playing' Rest of

And you thought President Obama just didn’t like Glenn Beck. According to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, the administration’s repeated attacks on Fox News are an attempt to send a message to the rest of the news media: “Fox isn’t a real news organization, so the stories it generates aren’t real news.”The Oct. 21 “Morning Joe” reported on an exchange yesterday (noted on Newsbusters by Noel Sheppard)…
Matt Philbin

GMA: Health Labels 'Confusing' for Consumers

In performing its duty to help save us from ourselves, ABC often turns to its favorite kill-joy food police, the Center for Science in the Public Interest. And they did it again on Oct. 21, when "Good Morning America's" Lisa Stark lamented with CSPI's executive director, Michael Jacobson, about the conniving designs of the food industry to lure unsuspecting consumers into its artery-clogging,…
Carolyn Plocher

Networks Barely Report 'Stealth' Push for 'Second Stimulus

BMI Staff

Hypocritical Olbermann Finds It ‘Weird’ That Bush 41 Called Him

Less than a week after likening conservative blogger Michelle Malkin to a “mashed-up bag of meat” on his Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on Monday called out former President George H.W. Bush for daring to call him and fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow “sick puppies,” as Olbermann described Bush’s words from a recent interview as a “weird term."As he characterized Bush as being…
Brad Wilmouth

Republican Senator Accuses Obama of Acting Like Nixon

A top Republican Senator who used to work for President Richard Nixon has warned the Obama administration to not create an "enemies list" like that of his former employer.Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) in his speech on the Senate floor Wednesday listed a number of recent events that uncomfortably remind him of how the Nixon White House treated everyone in America that didn't agree with it:If the…
Noel Sheppard

Welcome to the P.T. Barnum Administration

Obama, media treat Americans like a bunch of suckers and it's working on health care.
Dan Gainor

MSNBC Entertainment Editor Furthers Misinformation About Palin

MSNBC entertainment editor Courtney Hazlett spent all of two minutes on "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan and still managed to get her facts wrong.Noting former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's scheduled November 16 appearance on "Oprah," Hazlett told viewers that the former Alaska governor "famously said no to appearing on Oprah" during the 2008 presidential campaign,…
Ken Shepherd

Dumb and Dumber, By Choice

Americans are ignorant, and Obama is counting on it.
Dan Kennedy

CNN Again Cites Liberal Study on Talk Radio, Pushes Localism

CNN’s Carol Costello again omitted the liberal source of a statistic she touted during a report on Wednesday’s American Morning, that 91% of talk radio is apparently conservative. Costello also pushed the left-wing aim of localism in radio programming, playing three soundbites in favor of the proposal, versus two against it.Near the end of her report, which aired at the bottom of the 7 am Eastern…
Matthew Balan