On Leno: Kids Ask Obama the Darndest Questions

Ever since he announced he was stepping down as Tonight Show host Jay Leno has seemingly been harder on Barack Obama. Well on Monday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno that trend continued as Leno featured a clip of schoolchildren peppering the President with the tough questions that the press should be hammering him with on a daily basis. Watch and laugh. (Video after the jump)
Geoffrey Dickens
May 21st, 2013 9:47 AM

CBS Highlights Ex-IRS Staffer Who Declares There Were No Politics at C

Monday’s CBS Evening News took one break from Oklahoma tornado coverage – to run a piece on how an IRS manager who recently retired from the Cincinnati office, where 501 (c)(4) applications were processed, declared “politics and religion were things that people generally didn’t talk about at work.” Reporter Dean Reynolds focused on the assurances by Bonnie Esrig, who was also featured in a…
Brent Baker
May 21st, 2013 8:47 AM

MSNBC's Hayes Gang: Media Is Too White, Headed for 'GOP-Style Problems

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is getting credit from liberals for having an explicit racial-quota system of guest selection. That quota mentality extended to the Hayes show’s website, where producer Collier Meyerson complained that the percentage of minorities in the media is declining. She interviewed MSM veteran Farai Chideya, who said  the media "may be creating for itself GOP-style problems.” An…
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2013 8:12 AM

Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only

As NewsBusters reported, a deadly tornado stroke Oklahoma Monday. At approximately the same time it was bearing down to kill innocent people, Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of Comedy Central's Daily Show, commented on Twitter, "This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives":
Noel Sheppard
May 21st, 2013 1:00 AM

But of Course: For Bloomberg's Al Hunt, 'Scandal' Is a 'Misnomer' for

Old dog, same old tricks. At Bloomberg Views, Al Hunt, formerly "the executive editor of Bloomberg News, directing coverage of the Washington bureau," referred to the controversies swirling around the White House as "faux scandals" and insisted that ... wait for it ... the Obama administration "is the most scandal-free administration in recent memory." No wonder Bloomberg News developed into…
Tom Blumer
May 20th, 2013 10:52 PM

'Get to Know Chris Hayes' -- Learn He Really Avoids Obama Scandals Lik

MSNBC ads on liberal websites like Salon.com are pushing to increase interest and ratings in the badly named show "All In," when it could be titled "A Few In." Or, to quote Dana Carvey's George Bush, "Still Gaining Acceptance." The ad says “Click here to get to know Chris Hayes.” This takes you to the “All In With Chris Hayes” Facebook page. What you get there is a great sense of just how…
Tim Graham
May 20th, 2013 10:33 PM

Not In the MSNBC Talking Points: Virginia's 2013 Democrat Candidates A

As MSNBC and Chuck Todd recycle the hidebound liberal argument that perhaps the new black GOP nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is "out of the mainstream" on abortion, no one expects the Maddow Network to do the same for the Democrats. State. Sen Ralph Northam, one of the two LG candidates who will be on the primary ballot on June 11, is so proud to be associated with the abortion-…
Tim Graham
May 20th, 2013 8:03 PM

Martin Bashir on Moore, Oklahoma: 'Perhaps the Worst Tornado in the Hi

As NewsBusters has reported over the years, America's media love to hype every serious weather event. On Monday, shortly after an F4 tornado demolished the town of Moore, Oklahoma, MSNBC's Martin Bashir called it "perhaps the worst tornado in the history of the planet" (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):
Noel Sheppard
May 20th, 2013 7:37 PM

AP Waits Until Carney Responds to WSJ Story on IG's IRS Tea Party-Targ

Well, it looks like I was right earlier this afternoon when I thought that the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, was among those holding off on reporting the Wall Street Journal's Sunday evening disclosure that Kathryn Ruemmler, the head of the Office of the White House Counsel, "learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency…
Tom Blumer
May 20th, 2013 7:33 PM

Networks Hype Obama's 'Powerful' Commencement Speech; Set Aside Over F

ABC, CBS, and NBC touted President Obama's Sunday commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on their Sunday evening and Monday morning newscasts, devoting a total of five minutes and 14 seconds to the "powerful speech", as NBC's Tamron Hall labeled it on Monday's Today. On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell gushed, "I think it's one of those speeches that will be looked at…
Matthew Balan
May 20th, 2013 6:13 PM

UPDATED | CNBC’s Harwood: Republicans Might ‘Impede’ Efforts to

UPDATED: [May 21; 5:15 p.m. EDT | see portion in brackets below the page break] || The liberal media continue their effort to spin the Obama administration right out of trouble. On Saturday’s Today, NBC brought on John Harwood, CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent, to provide some analysis of the three scandals that rocked the administration last week. Harwood, with help from co-anchor Erica…
Paul Bremmer
May 20th, 2013 5:47 PM

MSNBC Slams 'Scandal' of GOP Vote to Repeal ObamaCare

On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:
Brad Wilmouth
May 20th, 2013 5:24 PM

Even Ed Schultz Skeptical of Dem Rep. McDermott's Spin on IRS Scandal

Ah, seems like old times. Way back when, it was Congressman Jim McDermott's apologia for Saddam Hussein that earned McDermott the enduring nickname "Baghdad Jim." (Audio after page break)
Jack Coleman
May 20th, 2013 5:05 PM

Monday's Amnesia: CNN Covers Powerball Jackpot Winner as Much as IRS

CNN's scrutiny of the Obama administration's scandals has fallen sharply from last week. From 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. ET on Monday, CNN spent about as much time on Obama's "triple trouble" of controversy as it did on Saturday's Powerball-winning ticket. CNN spent 12 full minutes reporting that one single ticket won the $590 million Powerball jackpot over the weekend, and had yet to be claimed.…
Matt Hadro
May 20th, 2013 4:54 PM