In September 28 Front-pager, Washington Post Displays Pretzel Logic on

"Consulate attackers had ties to al-Qaeda," blares a page A1 Washington Post headline in this morning's edition. "But terrorist group didn't plan assault in Libya, U.S. officials say," the subheader adds. Yet six paragraphs into his article, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller noted that (emphasis mine) "The intelligence picture assembled so far indicates that militants had been preparing an…
Ken Shepherd
September 28th, 2012 1:18 PM

NBC's Brokaw: Romney 'Missteps' Gave Obama 'Air Cover' And 'Camouflage

On Friday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw demonstrated the blatant media effort to ignore Obama administration failures surrounding the consulate attack in Libya: "Romney turned out to give the President air cover. There are serious questions about what happened in Libya and the absence of security and what is our Middle East policy, but Romney's missteps really have given the…
Kyle Drennen
September 28th, 2012 12:33 PM

Letterman Uses Scarborough to Trash Romney: 'Sweet Jesus

When he's not shamelessly touting his conservative bona fides, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough spends most of his time bashing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Apparently these attacks have become so well-known throughout the liberal media that CBS Late Show host David Letterman Thursday night played one for his audience in a brief segment he called "Joe Scarborough: Sweet Jesus" (video…
Noel Sheppard
September 28th, 2012 12:11 PM

HuffPo’s Fineman Marvels: ‘Untouched’ Obama to Win Election ‘B

Most editors spend a lot of their time assigning, proofreading, copy editing, and fact-checking articles for their news organizations while trying to eliminate any bias in their stories, or at least strive to balance information from both sides of the political aisle. Judging by a post entitled “Barack Obama Floating Like a Butterfly,” that's apparently not the case with Howard Fineman,…
Randy Hall
September 28th, 2012 11:58 AM

Brit Hume: During My Entire Career Media Have Been Biased But Tilt

On September 25, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell was joined by numerous other conservatives in an open letter to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN executives protesting their blatant bias and noting that they are encouraging Americans to get their news from other, more balanced sources. The following night, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren referenced the letter in a segment with fellow FNCer Brit Hume,…
NB Staff
September 28th, 2012 11:57 AM

NBC Skips 'Dangerously Slow' Economic Growth, Puffs Obama's New Talkin

Economic growth grew at an incredibly sluggish 1.3 percent in the second quarter, revised down from 1.7 percent. According to business writer Jim Pethokoukis, this is "dangerously slow." However, NBC skipped the bad news for Barack Obama entirely. ABC allowed it a mere 21 seconds. CBS was the only network to allow the story a full report. Although Nightly News correspondent Chuck Todd couldn…
Scott Whitlock
September 28th, 2012 11:45 AM

Leno: ‘We Wasted Four Years Waiting For Obama To Do Something About

Jay Leno took some surprising shots at President Obama Thursday night. During the opening monologue of NBC's Tonight Show, the host said Americans wasted four years for the current White House resident to do something about the economy (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 28th, 2012 11:03 AM

CNN's Gupta -- Once a Candidate for Obama's Surgeon General -- Trumpet

CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta boosted ObamaCare on Friday morning's Starting Point without disclosing that he was once a candidate to be President Obama's Surgeon General, and thus the megaphone for ObamaCare. "Since President Obama's health care law was enacted, 3.1 million people under the age of 26 are now covered by their parents' plans and preventive care is covered…
Matt Hadro
September 28th, 2012 11:00 AM

Open Thread: Identification Idiocy

Today's starter topic: voter identification. We all know that somehow or another, voter identification laws are supposed to be ageist and racist according to the left. And yet, that means apparently most of American society also has those characteristics. Over at Patriot Update, David Goetsch has a great post talking about the numerous mundane situations in which people are required to show…
NB Staff
September 28th, 2012 10:59 AM

At 25th Anniversary Gala, Katie Couric 'Wins' MRC's 'Worst Reporter in

NewsBusters's parent company the Media Research Center (MRC) today proudly announces that perky Katie Couric is the “winner” of the DisHonor of the Worst Reporter in the History of Man for her outrageously pathetic bias as chronicled by the MRC over the past quarter century. The competition was fierce, but Couric was selected from a competitive field of finalists that included Bryant Gumbel,…
NB Staff
September 28th, 2012 10:00 AM

WashPost Critic Pans 'Won't Back Down' As 'Anti-Union Screed' for Demo

It’s surprising that Hollywood would make a film that sympathetically argues for school choice, the movie Won’t Back Down, starring accomplished actresses Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It’s not surprising that liberal Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday would then offer a withering one-star review that seemed more like a political judgment than an artistic estimate. Hornaday huffed…
Tim Graham
September 28th, 2012 7:44 AM

Ann Coulter Interview Part II: Media Stoking Racial Tensions To Get Ob

On Monday, NewsBusters published part I of our interview with Ann Coulter regarding her new book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama. In part II, she discusses amongst other things how the media are intentionally stoking racial tensions to help get President Obama reelected.
NB Staff
September 27th, 2012 5:30 PM

Live From MRC 25th Anniversary

While we unfortunately are not able to broadcast the Media Research Center's 25th anniversary dinner tonight, please join us in this post for live coverage via Twitter of the festivities. If you don't feel like tuning in for the tweets, feel free to post a comment about our anniversary as well. We won't say no to your generous donation gifts to celebrate our birthday as well.
Matthew Sheffield
September 27th, 2012 5:13 PM

In Time Q&A, Chelsea Clinton Doesn't See Her Future In TV News

Although Chelsea Clinton still uses her NBC News Special Correspondent title when she puts her byline on Daily Beast articles, her interview with Time magazine leaves the strong sense there is no NBC News future for Special Chelsea. The entire hiring stunt reeked of Bill-and-Hillary favor-seeking. Time’s Jim Frederick declared, “So you currently work for NBC and you’re studying for a PhD.”…
Tim Graham
September 27th, 2012 4:43 PM