Time Finds Even on Vacation, Slick Willie Loved His Cigar

Time magazine’s Swampland blog decided to assess the vacationing styles of our recent presidents, who are "just like the rest of us." The captions were generally kind without much partisan tilt, but Bill and Hillary Clinton were shown in rear view in a cozy-looking outdoors setting on his-and-hers stumps. “Clinton was never much good at vacationing,” Time reported. “His staff had to…
Tim Graham
August 12th, 2013 11:05 PM

Holder's Book-Cooking of Mortgage Fraud Enforcement Stats Not News Out

On Friday, Eric Holder's Department of Justice gave the memory-hole treatment to wildly inflated statistics released last October about the number of cases and the amount of money involved in DOJ's mortgage fraud enforcement efforts. Bloomberg News reporters who had discovered that the original numbers were suspect had been getting stonewalled for months in their efforts to get answers to…

Tom Blumer
August 12th, 2013 11:04 PM

At Politico, Untagged Former Biden Adviser Bernstein Fails to Make Cas

An August 6 opinion column at the Politico labeled co-authors Jared Bernstein and Paul Van de Water as "senior fellows at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities." CBPP, that oxymoron known as a "leftist think tank," went unlabeled. The Politico also must have thought that Bernstein's background as the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden from 2009 to 2011 was…
Tom Blumer
August 12th, 2013 9:56 PM

David Limbaugh Column: ObamaCare Is a Nuclear Missile Which Must Be Sh

Instead of the GOP focusing all its energy on infighting over the so-called "tactical" decision of whether to defund Obamacare, how about remembering who the real enemies of freedom are and directing its energies toward the Democrats, who are propping up this monster? It is painful to witness the expenditure of so much negative energy among people who all say they oppose the law. This law is…
David Limbaugh
August 12th, 2013 6:42 PM

On Saturday GMA, Obama's 'Personality' at Press Conference Admired Whi

President Obama held a press conference Friday in which he called for stricter controls over the government’s domestic surveillance system and commented on his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But to ABC’s Good Morning America, those developments were not the primary news. Their main takeaway was that the president showed personality. Seriously, that was the angle that…
Paul Bremmer
August 12th, 2013 6:15 PM

CBS's Garrett Hints George W. Bush is A Serial Vacationer Compared to

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Major Garrett played up how President Obama has vacationed "less than his predecessor, President George W. Bush – 14 trips and 92 vacation days, compared to 50 trips and 323 for Mr. Bush." Garrett cited colleague Mark Knoller's presidential vacation figures, but overlooked Knoller's emphasis that whatever the amount of vacation time, "the burdens and…
Matthew Balan
August 12th, 2013 6:04 PM

ObamaCare Getting Killed on Twitter: Opponents Outnumber Supporters Se

Is social media helping drive the continually growing negative opinion of ObamaCare? A new study finds that negative comments on Twitter about the President's healthcare plan outnumber positive comments by seven to one.
Noel Sheppard
August 12th, 2013 5:51 PM

WashPost's Henderson Lauds Obama on GOP Trying to 'Deny 30 Million Peo

Appearing as a guest on Friday's PoliticsNation, Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson declared that President Obama had "framed it very nicely" when he asserted that Republicans "want to shut down the government so that they can deny 30 million people health care." Henderson:
Brad Wilmouth
August 12th, 2013 5:47 PM

Religion Reporter Helping Leftist Nun Write Memoir Has History of Gauz

On Friday, I noted how ostensibly objective religion reporter David Gibson of Religion News Service has been tapped by Sister Simone Campbell to co-author her memoirs. Proceeds from the project will go into the coffers of NETWORK, Campbell's left-leaning "social justice" organization. Campbell, you may recall, addressed the Democratic National Convention last year and was a mini-celebrity on…
Ken Shepherd
August 12th, 2013 4:39 PM

MSNBC's Finney Denounces GOP 'Scare Tactics' on ObamaCare, Uses Scare

MSNBC host Karen Finney denounced Republican “scare tactics” over ObamaCare on Saturday’s Disrupt – and then employed liberal scare tactics to stress the benefits of ObamaCare. Finney further warned that the GOP wants to “[take] something away from people” in their repeal efforts, rattling off a long list of benefits that Americans would lose if ObamaCare was repealed. Finney began the…
Andrew Lautz
August 12th, 2013 4:19 PM

NewsBusters Interview: The Future of Conservatism With Jim Antle

Oftentimes on the Right, there is a tendency to see a tension between being strategic and being principled. Primarily, this is because many of the people who often speak of strategy have evinced a willingness to jettison principle too readily. But is there necessarily a conflict between these two objectives? Not really. One person who understands this point very well is W. James Antle III,…
Matthew Sheffield
August 12th, 2013 3:53 PM

ABC Ponders 'Madame President' Hillary, Hypes Trump at Expense of Sant

ABC's Jonathan Karl admitted "it's hard to take Trump seriously," yet he spent almost a minute of his report on Monday's Good Morning America playing up Donald Trump's possible 2016 candidacy amidst Trump's birther questions. He also hyped Hillary Clinton's potential candiacy. In contrast Karl gave just 7 seconds to 2012 GOP candidate Rick Santorum, who appeared at the Iowa State Fair over…
Matt Hadro
August 12th, 2013 3:34 PM

Huffington Post: Bill Maher's 2008 Documentary Religulous 'Shockingly

On Monday, the perilously liberal Huffington Post put the following headline on its front page: 6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full Of Sh*t   Unbelievably, one of the films totally lambasted in the piece was - wait for it! - Bill Maher's "Religulous" from 2008 (serious vulgarity alert):
Noel Sheppard
August 12th, 2013 3:33 PM

Appearing On Network, NPR Host Applauds RNC Chairman's Boycott Of MSNB

You know NBC is experiencing backlash over its planned Hillary Clinton miniseries when a liberal National Public Radio reporter criticizes NBC’s decision to air a miniseries prior to the 2016 presidential election. Appearing on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on August 10, NPR reporter David Folkenflik had some harsh words about the upcoming documentary. Folkenflik, commenting on the Republican…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 12th, 2013 2:18 PM