CBS Pounces On Gov. Christie Fight With Heckler: ‘Don’t Poke The Bear’

After ABC and NBC played up Governor Chris Christie’s (R-N.J.) confrontation with a heckler at an event marking the two-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy during their Wednesday night broadcasts, all three network morning shows (ABC's Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and NBC's Today) predictably continued to pile on against the Republican on Thursday morning. On CBS This Morning,…
Jeffrey Meyer

Scarborough Raps Obama Hypocrisy on Civilian vs. Military Quarantines

You really have to watch the clip of President Obama strutting his self-righteous anger at states that are imposing Ebola quarantines.  I, Barack thunders that such quarantines reflect a lack of leadership, and "that's not who I am."  Thank you, sir, for letting us know what a strong leader you are.   On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough scalded President Obama's self-righteous hypocrisy. …
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Anchors, Brass Stonewalling Sharyl Attkisson’s 'Stonewalled' Book

Sharyl Attkisson, the ex-CBS investigative reporter who has called out CBS’s liberal bias since her resignation earlier this year, continues the attack in her new book, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington, set to be released next Tuesday, November 4. And just where is CBS’s comment on Attkisson’s accusations of…
Melissa Mullins

CBS Laments Spending in N.C. Senate Race; Blames Citizens United Case

CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes profiled the North Carolina Senate race during Wednesday night’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and devoted much of her report highlighting the fact that the race between incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan and Republican challenger and State House Speaker Thom Tillis has become the most expensive Senate race of the cycle. Specifically,…
Curtis Houck

Ex-Newsweek Writer: Liberal Bias a ‘Minor Factor’ in News Reporting

Steven Waldman, a former Newsweek reporter and Obama adviser to the FCC, concedes that liberal bias can have an effect, but says that overall it’s a “minor factor,” far less important than journalists’ interest in advancing their careers.
Tom Johnson

NBC Nightly News Broadcasts Critical Story About Common Core

Until recently the mainstream media has portrayed the opponents of Common Core to be just a bunch of conservative yahoos incapable of understanding what a wonderful education program it is. However that might now be changing. Last night, NBC Nightly News surprisingly broadcast a segment highly critical of Common Core.  
P.J. Gladnick

AP's Scott Bauer Effectively Admits That Media Didn't Vet Mary Burke

M.D. Kittle at Watchdog.org's Wisconsin Reporter scooped everyone covering the Badger State Governor's race on Tuesday when he reported that Democratic candidate Mary Burke's resumé is not what her campaign's web site says it is. Burke's campaign bio claims that she "played a central role in Trek’s expansion as the Director of European Operations." Kittle found "multiple former Trek executives"…
Tom Blumer

ABC, NBC Skip Midterms, Yet Go After Christie 'Lashing Out' at Heckler

ABC and NBC failed to cover the upcoming midterm elections during their Wednesday evening broadcasts, but instead devoted over three-and-a-half minutes to going after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) for confronting a protestor earlier in the day during an event marking the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Christie, who has received some rare praise from the mainstream media for a…
Curtis Houck

Hysterical Media Tells US to Calm Down?!

In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having "fed panic" by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries. NBC News' Brian Williams opened his broadcast last Friday announcing that the Obama administration was trying "to restrain the Ebola panic."
Ann Coulter

USAT Lists 7 'Things' Middle Class Can't Afford; Includes Medical Care

On Saturday, Erika Rawes at USA Today's Wall Street Cheat Sheet engaged in some impressive gymnastics as she discussed the middle class and identified seven things its members "can't afford anymore" (the headline) or that "a larger percentage of people have trouble paying for" (the content). It's a sloppy list. One of the items — debt — isn't a "thing" at all, but rather the result of buying too…
Tom Blumer

Chris Matthews Again Paints RNC Chairman As Racist Vote Blocker

For the second night in a row, MSNBC's Chris Matthews gratuitously attacked Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as someone who is almost singlemindedly devoted to disenfranchising black voters.
Ken Shepherd

CBS Did Not Challenge Warren's Discredited 'GOP Cut Ebola $' Claim

Tuesday's CBS This Morning show was an especially disgraceful display of media bias. Late yesterday morning, NewsBusters' Jeffrey Meyer noted how the show's Nora O'Donnell admitted to throwing "a softball of a question" at Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. The question: “What's going to happen if Republicans take control (of the Senate)?” NB's Scott Whitlock additionally…
Tom Blumer

NewsBusted: Obama Voting the Chicago Way

"President Obama voted on the first day of midterm elections.  And because he was in Chicago, his vote has already been counted 27 times." --Jodi Miller
NB Staff

Daily Beast: Maine Gov. 'Traps' Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox

"Maine's governor traps Kaci Hickox," insists editors of the Daily Beast.
Ken Shepherd