NBC, CBS Skip Latest Developments in VA Scandal as It Explodes to New

The Veterans Affairs scandal engulfing the Obama administration has spread into Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, but only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday found time to cover the latest developments. GMA news reader Amy Robach revealed, "We're learning those secret waiting lists were also kept at ten facilities in these four Midwestern western states with nearly 100 veterans…
Scott Whitlock
June 4th, 2014 12:00 PM

NBC's Chuck Todd: White House Didn't Expect Critics to 'Swift Boat' Be

Acting as a stenographer on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd parroted the Obama administration's new attack against critics of the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange: "They did not expect this backlash on Bergdahl himself. I've had a few aides describe it to me as, 'We didn't know that they were going to swift boat Bergdahl'....a reference to that political fight…
Kyle Drennen
June 4th, 2014 11:48 AM

How Can You Tell? Maureen Dowd Writes Column About Her Crazy Pot-Candy

Dan Rather loves telling people about the time he tried heroin...for journalism. Now liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in a Tuesday column about traveling to Colorado to experience the progressive new world of legalized pot. Suffice it to say, her experience was, well, quite the adventure. Dowd detailed how she inhaled a pot-filled candy bar, and the resulting psychological…
Connor Williams
June 4th, 2014 11:30 AM

Dennis Miller Tells Seth Meyers ‘America is Built on Busting Your A

Dennis Miller has a response for those liberals who think this country is full of people who can't better their lives with new jobs: America "is built on busting your a**." Late Night host Seth Meyers on Tuesday night hosted his fellow Saturday Night Live alum. The radio host and comic was promoting his new stand up act, “America 180.” Meyers asked Dennis Miller to explain a little bit about…
Jackie Seal
June 4th, 2014 11:11 AM

On Fox Biz, Psychology Expert Worries ‘Erratic’ Obama May Not Be

Forget about Barack Obama’s ultra-liberal policies — should Americans now be worried about the mental health of the current occupant of the White House? That was the alarming suggestion Fox Business Network viewers heard Tuesday evening. Talking about the bewildering decision to trade five “high risk” Taliban leaders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Lou Dobbs Tonight, psychology expert Dr.…
Rich Noyes
June 4th, 2014 10:49 AM

Rewind: Kent State? How Journalists Mangled Metaphors on the Tiananmen

On June 4, 1989, the communist regime in China cracked down violently on democratic protesters in Tiananmen Square. American networks had provided weeks of coverage of the protests, and the crackdown was a global outrage. But both then and later, some national reporters embarrassed themselves by making odd comparisons between the communist crackdown and allegedly similar outrages in America:
Tim Graham
June 4th, 2014 8:58 AM

Bergdahl Deal: David Gregory Auditioning For WH Spox Spot

Psst: David Gregory! You can stop auditioning to fill Jay Carney's White House spokesman spot. President Obama has already appointed someone else.  Given his rotten Meet The Press ratings, it's understandable that Gregory would be prospecting for his next position. Even so, his performance on today's Morning Joe was pitiable. With even liberals like Mika Brzezinski, Donny Deutsch and John…
Mark Finkelstein
June 4th, 2014 8:28 AM

CNN Liberal Begala Sees 'Enormous Problem' in Obama Breaking Law with

Add CNN political commentator Paul Begala to the list of liberals finding fault with the way President Obama handled the release of five Taliban members from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for American hostage Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, the liberal spinmeister took the Obama administration to task for not obeying the legal requirement that Congress should be informed…
Brad Wilmouth
June 4th, 2014 8:08 AM

Kevin Drum: No Need For Either a White House Press Secretary or a Dail

Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum favors reducing the federal workforce...by one position. Specifically, that of White House press secretary. In a Monday post, Drum argued that junking the position would eliminate the routine posturing at White House briefings from journalists who are "less interested in gaining actual information than in simply playing gotcha." The source of that approach,…
Tom Johnson
June 4th, 2014 7:15 AM

Politico Produces 5,900 Words on 'Less in Control' Obama; All Scandals

For evidence that no one looking for objective reporting should seriously consider reading output from the Politico, look no further than the 5,900-word puff piece propagated by Carrie Budoff Brown and Jennifer Epstein on Sunday. Their "Special Report: The Obama Paradox" told readers what that President Obama supposedly "recognizes that he is less in control of the Washington agenda than ever…
Tom Blumer
June 3rd, 2014 11:46 PM

NewsBusted: Get in the Van, Richard

"NBC's Richard Engel said U.S. relations have not improved with any country during the Obama presidency. Engel then was pulled into a van and hasn't been seen or heard from since." To subscribe to NewsBusted via email, sign up here. To subscribe at YouTube, visit the NewsBusted channel here.
NB Staff
June 3rd, 2014 9:55 PM

ABC Ignores Own Poll Showing Majority of Americans Support Benghazi Se

On Tuesday, June 3 the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 51 percent of Americans support the formation of a select committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi.  Despite the new polling, the June 3 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer ignored the poll completely but had time to run a full story on the strength of different cell phone cases. [See video of MSNBC's Chris…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 3rd, 2014 9:21 PM

Trading Private Bergdahl: Mad Magazine Nails Obama's Prisoner Exchange

"Obama, when you've lost MAD magazine, you've lost America." That was the apt quote from one of Mad Magazine's readers commenting on their hard hitting parody about President Obama's trade of Bowe Bergdahl for five top Taliban leaders who had been incarcerated in Guantanamo. As you will see after the jump, Mad took a very dim view of the exchange. "Barack Obama's Unfortunate New Movie," was…
P.J. Gladnick
June 3rd, 2014 9:13 PM

Nearly 2/3rds of MSNBC.com Readers Think Bergdahl-Taliban Prisoner Swa

It's not scientific, of course, but a reader poll at the bottom of an MSNBC.com piece headlined "Is Bowe Bergdahl the GOP’s new Benghazi?" seems to indicate that not even fans of the Lean Forward network are falling for the network's absurd pro-Obama spin on the prisoner swap. By a nearly 2-to-1 margin (65 percent), readers answered "no" to the poll question, "Do you support Obama’s decision…
Ken Shepherd
June 3rd, 2014 9:13 PM