Unbelievable: NPR Ombudsman Apologizes for Pro-Abort Story Using Words

On September 1, NPR reporter Carrie Johnson filed a slanted story touting the Obama Justice Department for cracking down on allegedly violent pro-life protesters like 79-year-old grandfather Dick Retta. (Matt Balan wrote it up here.) The National Abortion Federation’s Facebook page raved: "Listen to a great segment on NPR's Morning Edition featuring NAF Vice President and General Counsel Sharon…
Tim Graham
September 16th, 2011 10:19 PM

CNN's AM Hosts '08 Obama Supporter to Discuss Boehner's Jobs Plan -- B

CNN's American Morning brought on liberal academic Jeffrey Sachs to analyze Speaker Boehner's jobs plan Friday. Instead of hosting a conservative critic of President Obama the morning after he unveiled his jobs plan, the network actually interviewed the President's economic policy assistant. While Sachs went on-air and criticized the Republican plan as inherently flawed, Obama's director of…
Matt Hadro
September 16th, 2011 7:34 PM

Obama Predicts: His Plan Will Cost $235,263 Per Job

[Editor's note: Mark Levin touted this story in his first half-hour Friday night.] President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser held in a private residence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening that the $447 billion American Jobs Act he has proposed will create 1.9 million American jobs—which works out to a cost of about $235,263 per job. “It’s estimated that the American Jobs Act would…
Fred Lucas
September 16th, 2011 7:33 PM

MSNBC's Matthews Misleads Viewers by Insisting Texas Now Losing Jobs U

"What Texas miracle?" Chris Matthews snorted at the open of his September 16 program, noting that "Today we learned that the Texas unemployment rate hit 8.5 percent last month" and that "the state actually lost jobs last month, even worse than the national figure of zero jobs created." "So where's the Texas miracle now?" a smug "Hardball" host asked his audience. [Video follows page break;…
Ken Shepherd
September 16th, 2011 6:14 PM

CNBC's Cramer: Wall Street Hates Obama Like He's Carter -- He's 'Destr

Jim Cramer, a Democrat and Wall Street insider, made a statement on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Friday morning that most definitely turned heads in the White House. Speaking about the disappointing data released by the Conference Board, Cramer said that traders hate President Obama "like Jimmy Carter was hated" because they believe he's "destroying this country" (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
September 16th, 2011 6:09 PM

MSNBC's Ratigan -- Who Constantly Blasts Crony Capitalism -- Ignores S

MSNBC ranter extraordinaire Dylan Ratigan is no fan of "crony capitalism" -- when businessmen get government to help them socialize the risk of their ventures through government subsidies or bailouts, leaving taxpayers on the hook for failure while reaping the benefits of government largesse. The Obama administration's handling of solar energy firm Solyndra is a perfect example of same. Yet…
Ken Shepherd
September 16th, 2011 4:54 PM

Daily Kos Trashes Debate Crowd at That 'Tyrant' Reagan's Library

The parade of liberals busy congratulating themselves over never applauding the idea of executing vicious murderers at a TV debate grows ever longer. At the Daily Kos, "jmannatl" denounced the Reagan Library audience, as well as that "tyrant" Reagan, for applauding the "murderous" toll of Gov. Rick Perry: It’s one thing to allow the state to kill it’s citizens, but it is a truly monstrous…
Tim Graham
September 16th, 2011 4:31 PM

Schieffer Spins: Congress's 'Worse Than Car Thieves' Poll Numbers Good

On Friday's Early Show, CBS's Bob Schieffer wildly spun Congress's 12% job approval as good news for President Obama, despite his own low poll numbers: "My heavens! He's 20 points ahead of the members of Congress....I mean, I think that probably some car thieves have a higher approval rating." But in 2010, when Democrats led Congress, The Early Show ignored a poll which showed low numbers for…
Matthew Balan
September 16th, 2011 4:27 PM

Short 'n Sweet, My Tweet

Paying attention to the president and his enablers so you don't have to.
Dan Kennedy
September 16th, 2011 3:18 PM

CMI COMMENTARY: Pageants and "Prosti-Tots

TLC's boundary pushing "Toddlers and Tiaras" has officially crossed the line.
L. Brent Bozell III
September 16th, 2011 2:26 PM

Scarborough Accuses GOP Debate Audience of 'Applauding the Death of a

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday said the people in the audience at Monday's Republican presidential debate were "applauding the death of a young man without health insurance" and therefore were like the John Birchers "that Bill Buckley kicked out of the conservative movement in the mid-1960s." Unfortunately, the host of "Morning Joe" has, like so many others in the media, badly…
Noel Sheppard
September 16th, 2011 2:00 PM

WaPo 'Lunchline' Email: 'Abortion Rights Supporters... Dealt a Major B

Update (15:30 EDT): Yates notes our criticism on Facebook (see screen capture at bottom of post) In today's "Lunchline" -- a free Washington Post e-mail newsletter with teasers and links to stories in the day's paper and on the website -- staffer Clinton Yates linked to Anita Kumar's story on Virginia's Board of Health adopting new regulations on the state's abortion clinics. Yates's tease…
Ken Shepherd
September 16th, 2011 1:58 PM

NYT's Krugman Hears Non-Existent Eruption of Crowd Cheering Death

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman just can't stop offending of late. Krugman confounded even liberals with his ill-timed blog post on the morning of September 11 decrying President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as “fake heroes” in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. In his Friday column “Free To Die,” he suggested Republicans would prefer people die for…
Clay Waters
September 16th, 2011 1:55 PM

James Carville: Tea Party Delights In Mass Death

In a completely out-of-left-field smear posted on CNN.com, James Carville called the GOP presidential field "mortality-fascinated" and ripped the entire Tea Party as a bunch of bloodthirsty sadists. The outspoken Democratic strategist, addressing Obama in a letter, wrote "This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There…
Matt Hadro
September 16th, 2011 1:22 PM