NBC White House Stenographer Peter Alexander Previews State of the Uni

On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Peter Alexander sounded like he was simply reciting a White House press release about President Obama's upcoming State of the Union address rather than actually reporting on the story: "...senior advisers to the President say that...[the speech] will be more specific, more policy and agenda-oriented....will focus on jobs and the economy, echoing…
Kyle Drennen
February 12th, 2013 1:13 PM

Bozell, Cavuto Discuss Media's Failure to Criticize President Obama's

"What do you think would [have] happen[ed]... if the media learned, if George Bush announced, that he was having 23 executive orders to limit the authority of Planned Parenthood?" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell posed to Neil Cavuto on the February 10 edition of his eponymous Fox Business Network program. The media, of course, would be predictably outraged, the Media Research Center…
NB Staff
February 12th, 2013 12:55 PM

NBC Hounds Jarrett Over Lack of 'Actual Action' From Obama; CBS Goes E

NBC's Savannah Guthrie pressed White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday's Today over President Obama's apparent inaction on many key issues. After reading an excerpt from the President's 2009 address to Congress, Guthrie wondered, "You know, Americans have heard these refrains over and over again. What can you guarantee to the American people that will turn these words into actual…
Matthew Balan
February 12th, 2013 12:42 PM

ABC Leads Pack Attacking Pope, Church

As if more proof were needed that the broadcast networks don’t get religion, and really don’t get Catholicism, analysis of the evening news programs from Feb. 11 showed a how inadequate the assumptions of liberal secular journalists were in explaining the Church, its mission and its role in the lives of the faithful. On the day of the surprise resignation of 85-yr-old Pope Benedict XVI, ABC,…
Matt Philbin
February 12th, 2013 12:23 PM

AP Fails to Report Biden's 'Legitimate News Media' Comment at Gun-Cont

As Geoffrey Dickens at NewsBusters noted earlier today (HT Washington Examiner), at what a White House blog post described as "a roundtable discussion to talk about the Administration’s plan to reduce gun violence" in Philadelphia yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden said, apparently to the members of the press assembled there, that "To be very blunt with you, we’re counting on all of you, the…
Tom Blumer
February 12th, 2013 12:16 PM

Stephanopoulos Spins: Obama's 'Words' Will Be About Jobs, But 'Emotion

George Stephanopoulos allowed Barck Obama to have it both ways on Tuesday. The Good Morning America co-host explained what the State of the Union address would really be about. First, he parroted that the White House "promises a focus on the economy." He then added, "The audience will be packed with victims of gun violence and advocates of gun rights...This has set up an interesting dynamic.…
Scott Whitlock
February 12th, 2013 11:56 AM

New York Times Alleged 'Conservative' Tanenhaus Cowardly Links GOP to

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, penned a 5,000-plus excavation of the history of the GOP for the liberal magazine The New Republic (and its all-white staff): "Why Republicans Are the Party of White People -- An historical investigation," including racism accusations absent of evidence, like this: "It is not a coincidence that the resurgence of nullification is happening…
Clay Waters
February 12th, 2013 11:52 AM

HLN’s Kyra Phillips Presses for New Liberal Pope

What does Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement mean to the media? Pushing for a liberal pontiff – according to HLN’s Kyra Phillips. Phillips interviewed Anthea Butler, Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, on the topic during HLN’s “Raising America,” which airs daily to “look at the news the way parents do.”
Katie Yoder
February 12th, 2013 11:41 AM

Chris Matthews On Dick Cheney: ‘Where Do You Learn To Be That Evil

It’s been four years since President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney left the White House, but MSNBC’s Chris Matthews can’t miss an opportunity to trash the former vice president every chance he has. After playing a recent soundbite of Matthews's favorite bete noir, Matthews asked Howard Fineman, the editorial director of the Huffington Post, “Where do you learn to be that evil?” Speaking…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 12th, 2013 11:05 AM

Laura Ingraham: Celebrities Can Talk About Fracking But a Neurosurgeon

Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday made a marvelous observation about the media firestorm surrounding Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech last week at the National Prayer Breakfast. Appearing on Fox & Friends, Ingraham said, "We can have celebrities talk about fracking and all sorts of political issues...but the head of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the top hospitals in…
Noel Sheppard
February 12th, 2013 10:51 AM

Vice President Biden Calls on 'Legitimate Media' to Push for Gun Contr

Vice President Joe Biden officially enlisted the liberal media in the administration’s attack on gun rights. During a press conference on Sunday, he commanded: “We’re counting on all of you, the legitimate news media to cover these [gun policy] discussions because the truth is that times have change.” And as if on cue NBC News, according to TV Newser, has announced it will launch “a company-…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 12th, 2013 10:40 AM

Cokie And Scarborough Not Sure Reagan Could Get Elected In GOP Today

Ronald Reagan: RINO?  Cokie Roberts and Joe Scarborough have suggested the Gipper might be viewed that way by the modern-day Republican party, making him unelectable within GOP ranks. After Joe Scarborough said that it was Reagan who rounded up Republican support for the assault weapon ban in 1984, Roberts exclaimed "I'm not sure Reagan could get elected within the Republican party today." …
Mark Finkelstein
February 12th, 2013 9:51 AM

Watch the SOTU With Obama Fans at the House of...Jayson Blair

Obama fans in my neck of the woods in Northern Virginia received an e-mail from the Organizing for America team inviting them to a State of the Union watch party in suburban Centreville, Virginia. A quick Google of the Centreville address shows that there’s a famous/infamous resident of the Obama watch-party house: Jayson Blair, the disgraced former New York Times reporter.
Tim Graham
February 12th, 2013 8:31 AM

Esquire Falsely Claims Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden 'Gets No Health

In a lengthy article in March's Esquire "reported in cooperation with" the leftist-advised Center for Investigative Reporting, CIR Executive Chairman Philip Bronstein told readers that the unnamed Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011 was a year ago "wondering how he was going to feed his wife and kids or pay for their medical care." According to Bronstein, the answer is (read…
Tom Blumer
February 12th, 2013 8:26 AM