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Hardball Panel Briefly Kicks Around Secret Service Conspiracy Theory
During a panel discussion on the September 30 program, MSNBC Hardball panelists briefly discussed how some folks may feel that recent lapses in Secret Service security are not accidental but in some way intentional, borne out of a dislike or hatred for the president within the agency's ranks.
September 30th, 2014 9:18 PM
Over 300,000 Face Deadline to Prove ObamaCare Eligibility; Nets Omit
Tuesday marked the deadline for hundreds of thousands Americans with insurance through ObamaCare to provide proper verification of their income levels or risk losing their government subsidies used to purchase health care plans. When it came to marking this critical deadline for ObamaCare, the major broadcast networks dodged coverage of the story in both their morning and evening newscasts.…
September 30th, 2014 9:00 PM
NYT's 'Woe Is Us' Report on Ohio Dems Woefully Short on Fact Checking
On Sunday, Trip Gabriel at the New York Times had the thankless task of concocting a report which would somehow make Ohio Democrats feel positive about winning at least one statewide office in November instead of getting skunked, which appears pretty likely at this point.
That's because the campaign of the Dems' gubernatorial candidate, affectionately known as the Wreck That Is Edward FitzGerald…
September 30th, 2014 8:53 PM
Ed Schultz Actually Corrects Bogus Obama Claim on Jobs
Not a good sign for President Obama when his one of his most reliable cheerleaders in media turns into a skeptical fact-checker.
While MSNBC's token working stiff Ed Schultz remains reliably besotted with Dear Leader, he's also unwilling to let a misleading claim from Obama pass unchallenged. At least when Schultz is outside the narrow ideological confines of MSNBC and opining on his daily…
September 30th, 2014 7:50 PM
WashPost Puts Thumb on Scale for Liberals in Ohio Early Voting Story
Washington Post Supreme Court correspondent Robert Barnes gave readers of today's Washington Post an imbalanced, biased story regarding the Supreme Court's intervening to permit Ohio to reduce its early voting plan by one week.
September 30th, 2014 5:46 PM
Midterms: CBS Sees 'Very Conservative,' 'Far Right' Problem in Kansas
Polls and prognosticators suggest a Republican takeover of the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections. Yet, the networks continue to offer scant coverage of the various races. The CBS Evening News on Sunday managed to look at the Senate elections in Kansas and Colorado. Regarding incumbent Pat Roberts, Nancy Cordes warned, "He's being dragged down by a very conservative governor who even some…
September 30th, 2014 5:40 PM
NBC Tackles Claims of Anti-Muslim NFL, Skips Islam in Okla. Beheading
On Tuesday, NBC's Today seized on accusations of anti-Muslim bias in the NFL after Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah was hit with a 15-yard penalty after appearing to pray in the end zone after scoring a touchdown against the New England Patriots Monday night. This was the same network that censored any mention of the Islamic extremism of an Oklahoma man who beheaded a co-worker on…
September 30th, 2014 4:55 PM
Harry Reid, Dem Predecessor Tom Daschle Feuding; Will Media Report?
Bob Cusack and Jessica Taylor of The Hill newspaper have an excellent piece today documenting a feud between current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and a predecessor of his, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). The contentious argument between the two is apparently over how Reid refuses to be a party loyalist and endorse the South Dakota Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. Senate.
September 30th, 2014 4:02 PM
Imams Deny ISIS's War Crimes, Islamic Faith of Beheading Suspect
On Monday's Fox News's Hannity, Islamist cleric Anjem Choudary accused the Western media and Blackwater of framing ISIS for the atrocities that the terrorist group has freely admitted to. When host Sean Hannity raised the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, Choudary contended that "the information that we received...is very biased....I don't take my news from Fox News or the BBC. If you…
September 30th, 2014 3:58 PM
Reporter 'Creeped Out' at Obama/Dem Attempt at On-Site Censorship
The Blaze relayed that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Kissinger was insulted that aides to Michelle Obama and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke told her she could not talk to the crowd at a Milwaukee event.
"To say that I was creeped out is an understatement," she said. "This is what reporters do in America: we speak to people."
September 30th, 2014 3:56 PM
Ronan Farrow Attacks GOP Candidate’s ‘Harsh Rhetoric’ On Immigration
With the 2014 midterm elections just five weeks away, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow thought it was the perfect time to give a state Democrat a six minute platform to promote her campaign. On Tuesday afternoon, Farrow spoke to Leticia Van de Putte of Texas, the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, and provided her with unchallenged airtime to hit her Republican opponent on numerous issues including…
September 30th, 2014 3:53 PM
Fox News Was Most Watched Cable Channel in Third Quarter; MSNBC Slides
During the third quarter, Fox News, which has been routinely walloping its cable-news competition for years, was "the most-watched (network during) primetime across all of cable in more than a decade — even besting USA and ESPN."
So says the Hollywood Reporter, which also gets the award for the most delicious (or is it really the most truthful?) typo of the day:
September 30th, 2014 3:46 PM
'60 Minutes' Audience Craters For Obama Interview
Steve Kroft's interview of Barack Obama was the focus of this past Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" on CBS. It has become noteworthy primarily because of Obama's statement that U.S. intelligence agencies "underestimated what had been taking place in Syria." As several previous NewsBusters posts have shown (examples here, here, here, and here), the press is working mightily to minimize how the…
September 30th, 2014 2:37 PM
Cosmo Attacks Jessa Duggar’s ‘Radical,’ ‘Deranged,’ ‘Extreme’ Views
The reality-TV Christian family the Duggars, spoke at the Values Voters Summit in Washington D.C. this past week and apparently while they were here got a chance to visit the National Holocaust Museum. 21-year-old daughter Jessa shared her thoughts about the sanctity of life to her Instagram afterwards and her comments drew a raging response from feminists like Cosmo’s Senior Political writer…
September 30th, 2014 2:25 PM