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Politico's Censorious Scoop: 'Blaming the Media’s Not a Winning GOP
Politico’s not shy about its liberal bias – or about denying liberal bias. On Page 3 of its Monday paper, media writer Dylan Byers penned an article headlined “Blaming the Media’s Not a Winning GOP Game Plan.”
Byers strangely argued that since conservative pundits from Bill Kristol to Laura Ingraham have knocked Team Romney’s performance, “it is difficult to see how this past week’s rallying…
September 17th, 2012 11:22 PM

NBC’s Williams Jumps to Highlight Surreptitiously-Recorded Romney Co
Once again serving as the broadcast arm of MSNBC, Monday’s NBC Nightly News devoted a full segment to the supposed outrage over what Mitt Romney said in a surreptitiously-recorded video promoted by the left wing Mother Jones magazine, remarks which Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow put at the top of their MSNBC shows. And CNN soon joined in the hysteria with Anderson Cooper 360…
September 17th, 2012 9:04 PM

Can You Top This? CBS/NYT Poll Weights Registered Voters Dems 35%, Rep
In a campaign season which is on track to go down as the worst ever for cooked polling, one from CBS News and the New York Times has outdone everyone to this point.
Clearly, they didn't like what a properly weighted result would have told them, which is that Mitt Romney is in a deadlock with Barack Obama if one uses Gallup's party affiliation numbers from before Democratic National Convention…
September 17th, 2012 8:17 PM

Maddow Unintentionally Exposes Obama Admin for Fatally Lax Security in
Keep up the good work, Rachel, even when it's not at all what you intended.
In the wake of last week's deadly attack against the US consulate in Benghazi, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow helpfully provided Mitt Romney with plenty of damning information for use against President Obama in their upcoming debates. (Video clip after page break)
September 17th, 2012 7:00 PM
Obama Admin Requested YouTube Yank Anti-Islam Video; Network Newscasts
Early Friday afternoon, the Washington Post's David Nakamura confirmed that on Tuesday, September 11 -- before the attack in Benghazi that killed Amb. Chris Stevens -- the Obama National Security Council asked YouTube to pull down a video "trailer" for "The Innocence of Muslims," saying it may violate the video-sharing service's "terms of service." Such a move would have removed the film from…
September 17th, 2012 5:55 PM

MSNBC's Michael Eric Dyson: Republicans 'Watch More Porn and Go to Mor
MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson made a comment on the Martin Bashir show Monday that left the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart totally speechless.
Talking about Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's position on abortion and marriage, Dyson said, "He needs to speak to his fellow Republicans whose numbers ain’t so hot in that regard, and who watch more porn and go to more strip…
September 17th, 2012 5:31 PM

'Atlantic' Reporter Blames Netanyahu for Poor U.S.-Israel Relations
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, The Atlantic's national correspondent Jeff Goldberg acknowledged poor U.S.-Israel relations and proceeded to blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for causing the rift: "I've never seen an Israeli prime minister mismanage the relationship with the United States or with the administration the way this prime minister has." [Listen to the audio…
September 17th, 2012 5:11 PM

Former Romney Spokesperson Rips Media for Overlooking Obama's Policies
Former Romney spokesperson Richard Grenell called out the media on Monday for not focusing hard enough on President Obama's foreign policy record. "The media needs to start looking at policies, not just lip service from this President," he told CNN's Carol Costello.
"You know, there has been criticism that Romney spoke out too early in the Middle East after 15 hours of a developing violence…
September 17th, 2012 5:03 PM

ABC Forced to Respond to MRC Complaints on Skimpy Convention Coverage
An executive producer at Good Morning America was forced to defend ABC's skimpy convention coverage, huffing that the network stressed quality over quantity. The Associated Press on Monday picked up a report by the Media Research Center pointing out that ABC had the least amount of convention coverage, less than half than that of CBS.
When pressed on it by the AP's David Bauder, Good Morning…
September 17th, 2012 4:30 PM

Andrea Mitchell: I Plead Guilty To Being One of The 'Elite, Smart Peop
Gee, and you thought Barack Obama had an inflated opinion of himself. After watching Andrea Mitchell in action, he might actually need self-esteem therapy . . .
On her MSNBC show today, Mitchell rolled a clip in which Rick Santorum told the Value Voters Summit audience that "we will never have the elite, smart people on our side." After asking a former Santorum aide what he he meant by…
September 17th, 2012 4:06 PM

CBS Plays Up Politico's Reporting on Apparent 'Turmoil' in Romney Camp
Like their colleagues on NBC's Today show, Monday's CBS This Morning forwarded a recent Politico report about supposed "turmoil inside the Romney campaign," which was stuffed with unnamed sources. Norah O'Donnell spotlighted "this finger-pointing that's going on...and whether or not they mismanaged the messaging in terms of Romney's big convention speech." John Dickerson hyped that "what's…
September 17th, 2012 3:48 PM

'Meet the Press': Liberal Journalists All Agree, Nothing Obama Could D
In a stunning display of group-think on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, a panel of journalists all concluded that no American president could have possibly prevented the ongoing crisis in Middle East or responded to it any better than Barack Obama. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
The hand-wringing began with The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg absolving the President of any…
September 17th, 2012 3:31 PM

Bozell Video: 'The Public' Waiting for Romney to Call Media Out on The
"The public is waiting for Mitt Romney to say, 'I've had enough of you folks,'" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney this morning. The Media Research Center founder and president noted that unlike President Obama, Romney actually entertained questions from the media after his September 11 statement, where he was subjected to six different iterations of…
September 17th, 2012 3:26 PM

New York Times Blares Mildly Good Poll News for Obama on Two Consecuti
The New York Times is milking its latest poll, showing some good news for Obama, to maximum effect. Sunday's front-page featured a poll story from one of the paper's top Obama boosters, White House correspondent Jackie Calmes (pictured): "Challenged on Medicare, G.O.P. Loses Ground." Text box: "Polls Show Favor for Obama on Issue of Party Trust." Calmes writes from Orlando:
September 17th, 2012 2:38 PM