AP Report on Record August Deficit Fails to Report Record August Defic

Yesterday, Uncle Sam's Monthly Treasury Statement for August officially confirmed the Congressional Budget Office's Monday estimate of how horrid it would be. The August deficit, driven by $369.393 billion in spending, the highest such single-month total in U.S. history, was $190.533 billion, the largest August deficit ever reported. Naturally, Daniel Wagner at the Associated Press failed to…
Tom Blumer
September 14th, 2012 8:11 AM

Lamar Smith Column: Former NY Times Public Editor Admits Liberal Media

It is not often that members of the liberal national media admit their biases. Americans know that the media is not impartial and that objectivity is not a priority when reporting on current events. Americans need and deserve a balanced media. The New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane gave us insight into the Times’ liberal slant in his final column after two years with the newspaper.…
Lamar Smith
September 14th, 2012 8:04 AM

Scarborough: Romney 'Didn't Allow Us' In MSM To Cover Obama Libyan Sec

Joe Scarborough has blamed Mitt Romney for the MSM's failure to cover the Obama administration's failure to heed intelligence warnings of a planned attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans, including US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.   Speaking on Morning Joe today, Scarborough said Romney "didn't allow us" in the media to report on…
Mark Finkelstein
September 14th, 2012 7:34 AM

Hispanic Coalition Demands FCC Monitor Fox News, Talk Radio for Racist

Paul Bedard of The Washington Examiner reported “Latino groups Wednesday blamed a surge in hate crimes against Hispanics on harmful stereotypes portrayed on TV and in conservative media and are asking the administration to probe Fox News and talk radio, two media cited by the groups as the worst perpetrators.” They want the FCC to make charts that monitor Hispanic stereotypes in the news. "…
Tim Graham
September 14th, 2012 6:59 AM

Open Thread: An Imaginary Tax Increase

Ever since his early days as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has had a penchant for creating straw men out of his opponents' policy ideas and then arguing against his fictictious version of their viewpoints. He's been very careful to do this of late in the area of taxes. While he likely wants to raise income taxes on all taxpayers similar to the other taxes he's raised on health…
Matthew Sheffield
September 14th, 2012 6:11 AM

CBS News President: Seriously, We're Not Biased

CBS News, current employer of the reporter caught coordinating attack questions against Mitt Romney and former employer of the disgraced Dan Rather, is actually not biased. So says its current president David Rhodes. Now that you've had your guffaw, let's get into the specifics. According to Rhodes, his news team is actually "constantly diligent" to avoid being accused of bias. Those who do…
Matthew Sheffield
September 13th, 2012 8:57 PM

NB's Graham: Washington Press Corps a 'Pathetic Pack of Politicizers

"We got about 10 minutes on the three evening newscasts" last night about "how Romney must have made a mistake" with his statement on the deadly Benghazi consulate attack instead of devoting any significant attention to the question of "What is wrong with the state of our security at our embassies in the Middle East?" NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham complained to Fox News Channel's Neil…
NB Staff
September 13th, 2012 6:15 PM

FNC's Kirsten Powers Slams 'Utterly Insane' Media 'Obsession' With Att

Appearing on Fox News's America Live on Thursday, Daily Beast columnist and Democratic pundit Kirsten Powers ripped the liberal media for expressing more outrage over Mitt Romney's reaction to Tuesday's embassy attacks, than toward the attackers themselves: "I mean, it is just absolutely utterly insane the way that they have elevated this." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump…
Kyle Drennen
September 13th, 2012 5:25 PM

CNN Asks If Anti-Islam Film Director Has Blood on His Hands

Terrorists murdered an American ambassador in cold blood, and yet CNN shamelessly implied on Thursday that the makers of an anti-Islam movie might have blood on their very hands. "Do you and Mr. Bacile feel that you have any blood on your hands as a result of the violence?" correspondent Brian Todd asked a consultant for the film, Steve Klein. Anchor Don Lemon reported that the movie "may…
Matt Hadro
September 13th, 2012 5:23 PM

Internal Emails Show Law Journal Rejected Article Because Author Was

When we discuss liberal bias in the media here at NewsBusters, we usually refer to items on television news programs or stories in newspapers across the country, but left-wing intolerance and bias against those who disagree is present in many other facets of our culture, particularly in academia. The latest example of this intolerance for dissent comes out of Harvard University where law…
Randy Hall
September 13th, 2012 5:21 PM

ABC, CBS, NBC Devote More Time (20 to 1) to Romney Flap Than Obama Mid

The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) Wednesday evening newscasts devoted more than 9 minutes (9 minutes, 28 seconds) to the flap over Mitt Romney's statement criticizing the administration's handling of the Libyan crisis but spent just 25 seconds on questions regarding Barack Obama's Middle-East policy, a greater than 20-to-1 disparity. NBC's Brian Williams opened the Nightly News telling viewers…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 13th, 2012 5:03 PM

CBS Gets in Senator Portman's Face on Embassy Apology Dispute, Breaks

Thursday's CBS This Morning rushed to President Obama's defense over the spat between the Democrat and opponent Mitt Romney over a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt condemning an obscure Internet video about Muhammad. Minutes after Steve Kroft tossed softballs at the President and let him speak uninterrupted for two and half minutes, the show confronted Republican Senator Rob…
Matthew Balan
September 13th, 2012 4:43 PM

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Rips Liberal Media's Cover Up of Obama's

Barack Obama has morphed into Jimmy Carter before our eyes, but the liberal media have refused to report on the Obama Administration’s failed foreign policy of apologies and appeasement. Terrified to hurt Obama’s chances of re-election, they are shamelessly seizing on this horrific attack on Americans abroad to push their go-to narrative that Mitt Romney is tone deaf. Romney rightly…
Brent Bozell
September 13th, 2012 4:13 PM

Here's a Word Rarely Used by the Press to Describe the Benghazi Consul

A report yesterday in the Toronto-based Globe and Mail ("Obama’s reaction to Benghazi will be muted") concerning the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya caught my eye. Right there in its third paragraph, Alan Jamieson said that "On Wednesday, the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was destroyed by Muslim militants." "Destroyed"? I hadn't read that anywhere else. CNN…
Tom Blumer
September 13th, 2012 4:13 PM