Democratic Obstruction of Obama's Jobs Bill Elicits Yawns From the Net

The network newscasts on Wednesday downplayed Democratic obstruction of Barack Obama's jobs bill, offering only minor coverage. Good Morning America and Early Show allowed brief mentions. In an otherwise unrelated segment, GMA's Jon Karl admitted that the President "has a problem with [congressional] Democrats." Karl added, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday, he does not plan…
Scott Whitlock
October 6th, 2011 12:17 PM

Graphic Violence, Abuse and Sex: 'Horror' is Right

'Glee' creator pushes every boundary in new FX drama 'American Horror Story.'
Erin Brown
October 6th, 2011 12:07 PM

NYT's Thomas Friedman: G.O.P. 'A Danger to Itself and to the Country

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared the G.O.P. “a danger to itself and to the country” in his Wednesday column, “No Christie, No Bargain.”
Clay Waters
October 6th, 2011 11:53 AM

October 6 Obama Press Conference Live Blog

I'll be live-blogging the questions from reporters below the page break:
Ken Shepherd
October 6th, 2011 11:01 AM

Bozell: Congress Must Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Left-Wing Prop

"It’s an outrage that federal money has been an enabler for NPR and PBS since 1967 in their efforts to undermine conservatives and Christians," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained in a statement released this morning that accompanies the release of a new Media Research Center (MRC) study detailing a comprehensive compilation of the 20 most memorable leftist excesses of National Public…
NB Staff
October 6th, 2011 10:45 AM

NYT's Gail Collins: Tea Party Only Latest 'Crazed Right-Wing Upheaval

New York Times columnists Gail Collins and David Brooks talked about “The Long Stagnation” in their weekly online chat posted Wednesday. When Brooks, the paper’s idea of a conservative columnist, said he wasn’t impressed by the numbers participating in the Occupy Wall Street protest, compared to the figures generated at Tea Party rallies, Collins, the paper’s former editorial page editor,…
Clay Waters
October 6th, 2011 10:37 AM

Scarborough: 'Divide Between Rich and Poor Has Nothing to do With Free

Former Congressman turned television host Joe Scarborough keeps telling people he's a conservative, but his comments on his MSNBC program continually refute this. On Thursday's Morning Joe, Scarborough said, "The divide between rich and poor has nothing to do with free markets. It has to do with tax policies and business policies that have tilted the deck in favor of the very, very rich" (…
Noel Sheppard
October 6th, 2011 10:28 AM

Soros-Backed Voting Study Promoted By Soros-Funded Media

Once again the media is completely ignoring the fact that an initiative it’s covering was funded by left-wing financier George Soros. The Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice released a report opposed to new laws needed to combat voter fraud. This story was in turn promoted by Soros-funded progressive news sites that brought it to the national stage. The Brennan Center for Justice,…
Iris Somberg
October 6th, 2011 9:36 AM

Graphic Violence, Abuse and Sex: 'Horror Story' is Right

Billed by Entertainment Weekly as an 'over-the-top thrill ride about a haunted house,' free cable network FX's new drama 'American Horror Story' is painted as the latest fun and scary show to appear on free cable. 'Covering our eyes and screaming has never been this much fun!' But with the show's numerous depictions of graphic violence, explicit and inappropriate sexual encounters, along with…
Erin R. Brown
October 6th, 2011 9:27 AM

Networks Again Trumpet What NBC’s Williams Celebrates as ‘the Prot

CBS and NBC led Wednesday night with glowing stories about the growth and diversity of the far-left “Occupy Wall Street” protests, though without any ideological label applied nor any critics allowed, a promotional approach the networks never provided in Tea Party coverage. “We begin tonight with what has become by any measure a pretty massive protest movement,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian…
Brent Baker
October 6th, 2011 9:00 AM

Jon Huntsman Predicts 'We're Going to Win New Hampshire

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman made a bold prediction on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront Wednesday. "We've seen in elections past, how one does in New Hampshire, and we're going to win New Hampshire, that always then predicts the future outcome of the race" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 6th, 2011 8:20 AM

MSNBC VP Already Jazzed: 2012 Is America's 'Second Most Historic Elect

David Barrington, MSNBC’s vice president for advertising sales, is bullish about his network’s financial picture, telling Broadcasting & Cable magazine that MSNBC’s revenue for advanced “upfront” ad revenue was up fifty percent. But the way the MSNBC VP characterized the election stood out. “To grow revenue by 50% will give you an indication as to the recognition among clients, planners…
Tim Graham
October 6th, 2011 6:44 AM

Cavuto Corners Dem Congressman Supporting Wall Street Protesters: Why

A number of Democratic members of Congress came out Wednesday throwing their support behind the protest known as Occupy Wall Street. Fox News's Neil Cavuto interviewed one of them on Your World marvelously asking Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.), "So why didn’t you celebrate when Tea Partiers were running around the country and protesting all the spending and protesting the budget and the debt…
Noel Sheppard
October 5th, 2011 11:55 PM

CSM's 'Decoder' Twists MSNBC Criticism of Cain Strategy Into 'Leaving

This afternoon, Jack Coleman at NewsBusters noted how MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took a shot at GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for supposedly "taking a month off the campaign trail -- taking a month off -- to go on a book tour." The original source for this "claim" is a very poorly written and quite deceptively headlined October 3 item at the Christian Science Monitor by David Grant. The…
Tom Blumer
October 5th, 2011 10:30 PM