CNN: We Don't Call the ACA 'ObamaCare' In Our Reporting...Except That

CNN's Jim Acosta bragged that his network does not call the Affordable Care Act "ObamaCare," a term he said Republicans prefer. However, CNN has repeatedly referred to the law as "ObamaCare" in its reporting. "He [Romney] used the term 'ObamaCare,' which by the way, that's fine in Republican circles, but there are a lot of Democrats who sort of bristle at using the term 'ObamaCare'," Acosta…
Matt Hadro
July 12th, 2012 4:05 PM

Networks Lead With Calling Obama’s Tax Hike a ‘Tax Cut

President’s plan would raise taxes on wealthy in 2013, and everyone after one year, but ABC, CBS and NBC favor tax-cut talk.
Julia A. Seymour
July 12th, 2012 3:45 PM

Morning Shows Skip Obamacare Repeal Vote; Evening Newscasts Whine Abou

All three morning shows on Thursday ignored the House vote to repeal Obamacare. Despite finding time for such important topics as women who are addicted to tanning, Good Morning America, as well as Today and CBS This Morning, skipped the latest on the President's unpopular legislation. In contrast, all three evening newscasts on Wednesday did cover the story. Both CBS and ABC whined about…
Scott Whitlock
July 12th, 2012 3:37 PM

Coulter Column: No, Fast & Furious Is Not a D.C. Law Firm

Most Americans don't care about whether Attorney General Eric Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don't understand the story. Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands to strengthen liberals'…
Ann Coulter
July 12th, 2012 3:31 PM

Open Thread: Obama Backers Support Hiking Taxes on the Rich, Are Total

NB Staff
July 12th, 2012 2:59 PM

Businessweek Cover Mocks Mormons

The title of a post at Business Insider crows, “Here's The Ballsy Businessweek Cover That's Going To Piss Off The Mormon Church.” In truth, it should anger anyone who finds it low and, frankly, un-American, to attack a candidate – directly or indirectly – through his religion. But with Mitt Romney running neck and neck with Barack Obama, Bloomberg Businessweek saw the opportunity to further…
Matt Philbin
July 12th, 2012 2:58 PM

WashPost Plays Up a Heil-Hitler Reference In Story on Virginia Catholi

Now here’s a stretch: what began on the front page of Thursday’s Washington Post as a story on the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia asking volunteer religion teachers to sign a fidelity oath to church teachings concluded with an image of German Catholic bishops doing a Heil Hitler salute. This loaded Nazi reference – in a church now led by someone conscripted into Hitler’s army – came from a…
Tim Graham
July 12th, 2012 2:42 PM

CNN Gushes Over Biden's Reception From Democrat-Friendly NAACP

While CNN initially panned Mitt Romney's Wednesday reception by the NAACP as "very negative," anchor Kyra Phillips was quite jovial about Joe Biden quoting scripture to the audience the next day. A gleeful Phillips gushed that Biden "rolled out the scripture. He got spiritual on them, and they loved it! That is Joe Biden, we had to expect that." [Video below. Audio here.]
Matt Hadro
July 12th, 2012 1:07 PM

Networks Ignore Harry Reid's Refusal to Call Vote on Tax Cut Extension

As I noted yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday refused to call a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts, even though President Barack Obama days earlier urged passage of such tax cuts as soon as possible. Predictably, however, the July 11 editions of the network evening newscasts  -- ABC's World News, the CBS Evening News, and NBC's Nightly News -- all ignored the…
Ken Shepherd
July 12th, 2012 12:40 PM

NBC's Guthrie Worries: Is Romney Campaign 'Calling the President a Lia

In an interview with Romney campaign advisor Ed Gillespie on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted over Republicans dismantling false Obama campaign attacks that Romney outsourced jobs as head of Bain Capital: "I want to get to a new ad that your campaign is putting out today....are you calling the President a liar?" Gillespie didn't shy away from the charge: "What we're…
Kyle Drennen
July 12th, 2012 12:24 PM

CNN's Foreman: Obama Not 'Champion of Transparency' He Promised He'd B

During Tuesday night's edition of CNN's Outfront, substitute host Tom Foreman departed from the network's usual liberal spin to accuse President Obama of failing to keep his promise of presiding over the most transparent presidential administration ever. After running a clip of the president stating that “We have put in place the toughest ethics laws and toughest transparency rules of any…
Randy Hall
July 12th, 2012 11:56 AM

Jon Karl Misleads: McCain Got 'a Standing Ovation' From the NAACP; But

Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Wednesday hyped the boos Mitt Romney received at Wednesday's NAACP conference as the "most hostile reception Mitt Romney has received from any group during this campaign." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Karl actively misled while comparing John McCain's 2008 reception at the NAACP to Romney's appearance. Karl huffed, "...[McCain] received a standing…

Scott Whitlock
July 12th, 2012 11:29 AM

Wanda Sykes Takes Cheap Shot at Romney, Mormonism and Polygamy

Polygamy was officially banned by the Mormon Church in 1890. Mitt Romney has been married to only one woman for 43 years. But that didn’t stop perilously liberal comedienne Wanda Sykes from taking a polygamist swipe at Romney on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
July 12th, 2012 10:28 AM

AP Deletes Own Absurd Texas Voter ID Claim

Imagine how much laughter would be induced by a young person who claimed an inability to find work because he or she lacked the time to obtain a Social Security card. Even more laughable would be someone who takes the time to fly from Texas to Washington, D.C. in order to testify at a trial yet claims she can't find the time to obtain a voter identification card. Well, Henry Jackson of the…
P.J. Gladnick
July 12th, 2012 10:26 AM