ABC Uniquely Notes Bill Clinton Spoke Favorably of Paul Ryan Budget

On Saturday's World News, ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl informed viewers that former Democratic President Bill Clinton had spoken favorably to Republican Rep. Paul Ryan about his budget plan that is so unpopular with other Democrats. After recounting President Barack Obama's history of clashing with Rep. Ryan, Karl continued:
Brad Wilmouth
August 15th, 2012 1:50 AM

CBS Uniquely Notes Racial Tinge of Biden's 'Chains' Gaffe

As the broadcast network evening newscasts on Tuesday gave attention to Vice-President Joseph Biden asserting that Mitt Romney, by "unchaining" Wall Street would effectively "put y'all back in chains," only CBS's Bob Schieffer informed viewers that about half the audience in Danville, Virginia, was African-American, thus suggesting the Vice-President was making an embarrassing pander to black…
Brad Wilmouth
August 15th, 2012 1:35 AM

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Calls Out Biden's 'Racially Coded' 'Chains' Gaff

On Tuesday's Anderson Cooper 360, substitute host Soledad O'Brien made the argument that Vice-President Joseph Biden's "chains" gaffe in Danville, Virginia, was "racially coded language," as she rejected the Obama campaign's spin that the comment was not meant to be a reference to the enslavement of African-Americans in the past. After relating the Obama campaign's explanation, she shot it…
Brad Wilmouth
August 15th, 2012 1:29 AM

Gold Medalist Hope Solo to Piers Morgan: 'You're Telling Me You Watche

CNN's Piers Morgan got caught Tuesday evening behaving like a dirty old man. After shamelessly flirting with Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women's soccer goalie Hope Solo, the sixteen years his junior guest eventually asked, "You're telling me you watched our final because I'm hot?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 15th, 2012 12:20 AM

Bozell Column: Paul Ryan Is Not Freddy Krueger

Mitt Romney made a smart executive decision selecting Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate. Ryan’s genial personality, serious policy wonkery, and political courage have dazzled conservatives and won respect even in a  few liberal circles. Romney scores points for political courage as well. He knew liberal politicians and journalists would talk in punishing terms about Ryan’s budget…
Brent Bozell
August 14th, 2012 11:02 PM

ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Chick-fil-A Vandalism Incidents

The broadcast networks complain loudly about real or perceived offenses committed by conservatives. But when they are faced with violence committed by those they agree with, they downplay or even bury such behavior. The silence of the networks regarding the vandalism of multiple Chick-fil-A restaurants is only the latest example of destruction committed by the left and ignored by the media.…
Paul Wilson
August 14th, 2012 10:38 PM

WashPost Joins Time, CNN In Suspending Fareed Zakaria's Column After P

The Washington Post really knows how to bury the lede. In a Tuesday story on how suspended CNN-Time journalist Fareed Zakaria is now under fire for stealing quotes without attribution in his book The Post-American World, media reporter Paul Farhi waited until the 13th and final paragraph to acknowledge that that the Post has joined CNN and Time in punishing Zakaria for his plagiarism. “…
Tim Graham
August 14th, 2012 10:22 PM

ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Chick-fil-A Vandalism

Networks skip 3 destructive incidents on part of gay marriage advocates.
Paul Wilson
August 14th, 2012 9:38 PM

Mediscare! CNN Hypes Cartoon Characters' Plight Under Romney-Ryan's Me

In what seemed like a White House commercial, CNN used cartoon characters to explain the benefits of ObamaCare back in June. Now CNN is trotting out the same elementary and partisan stunt to hype that seniors might lose ObamaCare benefits if the Romney-Ryan ticket wins in November. On Tuesday, medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen explained that "Medicaid Marlene" might lose her Medicaid…
Matt Hadro
August 14th, 2012 6:52 PM

Ridiculous Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan May Be 'Worse' Than Quayle, 'More

A cartoonish Chris Matthews on Tuesday managed to mangle a historical analogy and spew liberal propaganda at the same time as he offered this ridiculous assessment of Paul Ryan: "This guy could be worse than Quayle, more trouble than Tom Eagleton." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Worse than Dan Quayle, who was successfully elected vice president in 1988? "More trouble" than Eagleton, the…
Scott Whitlock
August 14th, 2012 6:32 PM

Cal Thomas Column: Romney/Ryan is Real Change

Last Thursday's Wall Street Journal editorial "Why Not Paul Ryan?" made the case for his selection as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in this statement: "Romney can win a big election over big issues. He'll lose a small one." After Ryan's serious proposal to restructure Medicare -- which virtually everyone knows must be reformed -- the response from Democrats was an unserious TV ad,…
Cal Thomas
August 14th, 2012 6:30 PM

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Shamefully Exploits Teen Girls to Slam Ryan Vot

Towards the close of today's MSNBC Live, anchor Thomas Roberts presented a segment featuring three New Jersey teenage girls who started a petition on the left-leaning Change.org website demanding female moderators for the upcoming presidential debates.  The young ladies succeeded in getting 180,000 signatures for their initiative. But rather than simply hailing their civic activism, Roberts…
Matt Vespa
August 14th, 2012 6:15 PM

UPDATE: AP Corrects Aug. 10 Claim on Timing of Obama’s Promise to Cu

Late this this afternoon, the Associated Press made a correction to Christopher Rugaber's August 10 story on July's federal budget results. His original claim, noted on August 11 by yours truly at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog, was that Barack Obama's promise to cut the deficit in half was something "he pledged to do during his 2008 campaign." As noted in my original post and its mirror, the…
Tom Blumer
August 14th, 2012 6:15 PM

Goldberg Tells MSNBC's Mitchell to Leave Georgetown Bubble, O'Reilly W

On The August 13 broadcast of the O'Reilly Factor, Bill had regular guest Bernie Goldberg discuss Andrea Mitchell's absurd comment that Paul Ryan isn't a pick for "suburban moms."  This came after Ryan claimed that rights come from God, not government, but Mitchell seemed to think these two unrelated points, when combined, made a cogent argument.  Apparently Ms. Mitchell hasn't heard of an…
Matt Vespa
August 14th, 2012 6:02 PM