CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'L

On Friday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes trumpeted that the Obama campaign is "turning lemons into lemonade" as she reported that the Democratic operation is "arguing that Romney had a great performance at the debate, but only because he was untethered from the truth." Not once did the correspondent or colleagues Norah O'Donnell and Bill Plante critically examine the claims from the incumbent…
Matthew Balan
October 5th, 2012 5:32 PM

AP Touts Positive 'Effects of Free Birth Control' Under ObamaCare

For today’s ObamaCare press release, timed nicely for the fall campaign, you could open to the Washington Post Express tabloid for the headline “Study Touts Effects of Free Birth Control.” An AP story announced: “Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concluded Thursday. The findings were eagerly anticipated and come as a bitterly…
Tim Graham
October 5th, 2012 5:09 PM

Touré: 'If You Just Have a Bunch of White People, You’re Gonna Come

MSNBC's Touré made another in a series of racist remarks Friday. Appearing on the Martin Bashir show, Touré said of Republicans, "If you just have a bunch of white people, you’re gonna come up with alternate realities that don’t make any sense" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 5th, 2012 5:06 PM

NBC Seizes on New Study to Promote ObamaCare Contraception Mandate

At the top of the 9 a.m. et hour on Friday's NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales eagerly touted a study released by Washington University in St. Louis on contraception: "A new study suggests that free birth control can dramatically lower rates of abortion and teen births." Morales then quickly used the findings to promoted ObamaCare: "The report comes as millions of women are about to…
Kyle Drennen
October 5th, 2012 4:48 PM

CNN Keeps Hyping Romney's Proposed PBS Cuts, PBS Host Calls It 'Attack

CNN continued to hype Big Bird as a key debate issue on Friday morning as Soledad O'Brien brought on PBS "Reading Rainbow" host LeVar Burton who laid into Mitt Romney's promise to cut PBS funding. "Save Big Bird!" and "Romney Takes Aim At Big Bird" read CNN's headlines on screen. "I was outraged. I couldn't believe the man actually fixed his mouth to say that. I interpreted it as an attack…
Matt Hadro
October 5th, 2012 3:55 PM

DUers Explain Why Romney Won Debate: He Used Cheat Sheet

You want to know the real reason why Mitt Romney won his debate with President Obama on Wednesday night? According to the DUers at the Democratic Underground it had nothing to do with his debate skills or the fact that Obama did a poor job of defending his record. Nope. If you believe the theory floating around the DU, it was all because Romney managed to sneak in a cheat sheet cleverly…
P.J. Gladnick
October 5th, 2012 3:36 PM

CBS This Morning Brings On Howard Dean, Spurring Sanctimonious Lecture

The sole political guest on Friday's CBS This Morning was Howard Dean, the ultraliberal failed presidential contender who was once the governor of Vermont.  Co-host Norah O'Donnell asked him to comment on the vice president's statement on Thursday insisting the Democrats absolutely want to raise a trillion dollars in taxes on the rich. Biden had "some comments that people are calling a gaffe…
Ryan Robertson
October 5th, 2012 3:16 PM

The Thrill is Gone: NBC Touts Jon Stewart Mocking Obama and Chris Matt

In a display of just how badly President Obama performed in Wednesday's presidential debate, Friday's NBC Today played a clip of Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripping into Obama: "There is no red America. There is no blue America. There is only the America that can't believe how bad this guy did in the debate. Romney won with the sound up....Romney won with the sound off." [Listen to the audio or…
Kyle Drennen
October 5th, 2012 2:25 PM

Nicholas Kristof's Kindergarten Liberalism: U.S. Rich Like Greedy Kid

So much for sophisticated liberalism. Nicholas Kristof's Thursday New York Times column is titled "Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?" Despite (or because of) an opening that's almost a parody of simple-minded liberalism, it was the 1# most e-mailed Times story as of Friday morning. Imagine a kindergarten with 100 students, lavishly supplied with books, crayons and toys. Yet you gasp: one…
Clay Waters
October 5th, 2012 1:46 PM

Experts: Job Spike Mostly Part-timers, Home-Based Jobs

With almost exactly one month left till the election, the government reported Oct. 5 the unemployment rate plummeted to 7.8 percent in September. While media outlets like The New York Times called the number “unexpected good news for Obama,” both liberal and conservative economists were quick to tear it apart. The labor force jumped in one of the two government employment surveys – “the…
Julia A. Seymour
October 5th, 2012 1:24 PM

NBC’s Today Ignores State Department E-mail Denying Increased Securi

Given the recent death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, one would expect the three news networks to investigate the grotesque failures by the federal government to protect our embassies overseas.  Unlike NBC’s Today, ABC and CBS’s Friday morning shows both covered recent State Department emails showing they denied a request by officials in Libya for increased security in May leading up…
Jeffrey Meyer
October 5th, 2012 12:16 PM

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Twice Implies Romney Is 'Lying

CNN's Soledad O'Brien twice implied Mitt Romney is lying, on Friday's Starting Point. She pointed to the candidate's admission to being wrong about his 47 percent comments after previously standing by them as a "flip-flop," and something "which some could define as lying." Meanwhile, on Wednesday she barely touched a 2007 video of then-Senator Obama pandering to a largely black audience and…
Matt Hadro
October 5th, 2012 11:48 AM

Ed Schultz on 'Today': Obama Thrown Off by 'So Many Lies' From 'Corpor

Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Ed Schultz desperately tried to explain away President Obama's bad debate performance: "I think that there were so many lies coming across that stage, and so many inaccuracies, it was hard for the President to comprehend it and decide which one he wanted to attack first." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Co-host…
Kyle Drennen
October 5th, 2012 11:18 AM

Media Mash: CNN Helps Cover Up Obama's Race Speech, MSNBC Plays the Ra

MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 4 edition of Hannity and exposed the hollowness of the media's argument against covering inflammatory quotes Barack Obama made in a 2007 speech on race, clips aired for the first time earlier this week on Hannity. [Watch the full video after the jump.] Host Sean Hannity set up the newest "Media Mash" segment: "I…
NB Staff
October 5th, 2012 10:58 AM