Unhinged Matthews Welcomes GOP By Ranting About Romney Playing the 'Ra

Chris Matthews's unhinged, fuming performance on Monday's Morning Joe is a good reason why members of the GOP avoid MSNBC. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus aggressively battled the liberal cable anchor after the host unloaded on Mitt Romney for playing the "race card." [Must see video below the jump. MP3 audio here.] Asserting that just mentioning welfare is racist,…
Scott Whitlock
August 27th, 2012 10:40 AM

Open Thread: More States in Play Now

Since Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney's running mate, the situation in the various states seems to have changed a bit. Ryan's home state of Wisconsin has tightened up quite a bit, moving from solid Obama to a tossup. Mitt Romney's birth state of Michigan has also become more competitive:
NB Staff
August 27th, 2012 10:36 AM

Networks Ignore Ethanol Mandates in Most Coverage of Historic Drought

The severe drought affecting the Midwest this year has caused the latest corn projections to be the lowest since 1995. With such a small corn crop, the government mandates that make some of that corn be used for ethanol make even less sense, and will raise prices even further. The drought has been a big news story for the network morning and evening show in the past six months, earning 55…
Liz Thatcher
August 27th, 2012 10:01 AM

House Committee Finds ICE Exaggerating Deportation Numbers; Will Press

An Associated Press report by Helen O'Neill time-stamped Saturday afternoon claims that "a record number of deportations means record numbers of American children being left without a parent — despite President Barack Obama's promise that his administration would focus on removing only criminals." Perhaps the assertion about more parents being forced to leave their kids behind is true. But…
Tom Blumer
August 27th, 2012 9:53 AM

The Media vs. the GOP: Intolerant, Anti-Women, and Always Too Conserva

Bad weather may have forced Vice President Joe Biden to skip his plans to make mischief at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, but Democrats don’t have to worry: the liberal “news” media have been “counter-programming” GOP conventions for decades. It doesn’t matter whether the nominee is a conservative like Ronald Reagan, or a moderate like John McCain — network reporters…
Rich Noyes
August 27th, 2012 9:02 AM

Chuck Todd: 'Shadow of Bush and Katrina Does Hang Over This Convention

Now that Hurricane Isaac missed Tampa thereby dashing liberal media hopes the Republican National Convention would be destroyed by it, so-called journalists are taking up a new theme to rain on Mitt Romney's pending nomination. Take NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd who said on Sunday's Nightly News, "When you think as this storm moves to and closer to Louisiana, the specter, the…
Noel Sheppard
August 27th, 2012 8:15 AM

NBC's Todd: 'Shadow of Bush and Katrina Does Hang Over' GOP Convention

On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Chuck Todd raised the invoked former President Bush and Hurricane Katrina from seven years ago  as potential embarrassments for the Romney campaign as Hurricane Isaac heads toward New Orleans the same week as the Republican National Convention. During a discussion of the GOP convention being delayed from Monday because of the hurricane, Todd…
Brad Wilmouth
August 27th, 2012 7:23 AM

FNC Cites MRC Study on Media Hitting Akin More Than Biden

On Saturday's Fox News Watch, as the panel discussed the substantial attention the media devoted to Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin's claim that forcible rape victims rarely become pregnant as opposed to Vice President Joe Biden's "chains" gaffe, two recent studies by the Media Research Center -- parent organization to NewsBusters -- were cited. Host Jon Scott cited MRC analyst Scott…
Brad Wilmouth
August 27th, 2012 7:10 AM

Oh Brother, I Mean Mother: Dem Mom and Daughter Pose as 'Republican Wo

It seems that that the Obama campaign and the left in general doesn't even care if they get caught in these kinds of deceptions any more, but they nonetheless need to be noted. A mother and daughter claiming in this Obama For America video to be examples of "Republican Women for Obama" are really far-left Democrats, and have been for many years. Here's the capsule version built with excerpts…
Tom Blumer
August 26th, 2012 11:12 PM

'2016: Obama's America' Earns $6.238 Million for Weekend, Hits Number

As I suggested yesterday (hardly a prediction since it was so clearly going to happen), "2016: Obama's America" has taken in enough in estimated gross proceeds this weekend ($6.238 million from Friday through Sunday) to become the top conservative post-1982 documentary (and number six overall, behind four Michael Moore films and Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth"). Some critiques, currently…
Tom Blumer
August 26th, 2012 7:36 PM

Eleanor Clift: By Election Day 'Voters Will Be Saying "Praise the Lord

"By the time voters go to the polls in November they’ll be saying ‘Praise the Lord’ about ObamaCare." So said Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on PBS's McLaughlin Group this weekend (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 26th, 2012 5:49 PM

Stephanopoulos Hypes ‘Political Hurricane from Todd Akin’ While Ba

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos opened his Sunday show: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. Storms brewing. The GOP convention threatened by Tropical Storm Isaac and that political hurricane from Todd Akin...” Over on CBS, guest Haley Barbour scolded Bob Schieffer who had wondered how Republicans get the focus “back” onto the economy? Barbour called Schieffer out for his obsession on Akin: “…
Brent Baker
August 26th, 2012 4:47 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: The Nauseating Party

Todd Akin may not know much about biology, but this week one Kossack sounded awfully uninformed herself on abortion and related issues. Another claimed that one of the major parties (hint: not the Democrats) is, in effect, pro-rape. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
August 26th, 2012 2:19 PM

Jeb Bush: 'I Look Forward to Working on Romney's Reelection in 2016 an

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart has made it crystal clear he wants Barack Obama to win in November. On NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said, "I look forward to working on [Mitt Romney's] reelection in 2016 and making Jon Stewart awfully upset" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 26th, 2012 12:32 PM