Comedy Gold: In NY-09, AP's Fouhy Casts Weprin as Presumptive Front-Ru

Last night at 11:31 p.m., as shown here at the Columbus Dispatch, the Associated Press's Beth Fouhy was treating the special congressional electoral contest in NY-09 as if Democrat David Weprin would likely fend off the challenge from Republican Bob Turner. The 11:31 p.m. time stamp appears to be accurate, since only about a half-hour earlier, at 10:56 p.m., Fouhy put up a brief item at an AP…
Tom Blumer
September 14th, 2011 2:28 PM

Brian Williams: Debates Much More Stressful Than (Fawning) Obama Inter

Here's an addendum to how Brent Bozell exposed just how differently Brian Williams treated the GOP candidates versus Barack Obama last week. For a cover story (titled "Shaping the Field" on the cover), Ben Grossman of Broadcasting & Cable magazine was allowed to observe Williams in action before and after the Reagan Library debate. Grossman noted Rick Perry communications director Ray…
Tim Graham
September 14th, 2011 2:22 PM

Rumsfeld on Cancelling NYT: What Krugman Said Was 'So Repulsive and Re

Former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld has had a subcription to the New York Times for roughly 60 years. As he told radio host Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo Tuesday, he cancelled it as a result of Paul Krugman's "repulsive and repugnant" blog posting on 9/11 (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 14th, 2011 2:12 PM

Media Silent on Poll Showing 74% of Voters Think Economy Is Over-regul

On Monday, the Tarrance Group released a poll showing that 74 percent of American voters believe "that businesses and consumers are over-regulated." What's more, "another two thirds (67%) believe that regulations have increased over the past few years. These percentages include majorities of all partisan affiliations, with 91% of Republicans, 75% of Independents and 58% of Democrats saying…
Ken Shepherd
September 14th, 2011 1:06 PM

NBC Offers Scant Coverage of Big Dem Loss in NY Special Election

The Today show, which is a four hour program, on Wednesday devoted a scant 43 seconds of air time to a surprising loss by Democrats in a New York special congressional election. Both CBS and ABC offered more expansive coverage. ABC's Good Morning America saw the election of Republican Bob Turner as a "stunning upset." Referencing another GOP win in Nevada, host George Stephanopoulos…
Scott Whitlock
September 14th, 2011 12:32 PM

New NY Times Executive Editor Abramson Admits, Sort of, the Times's Li

Jill Abramson, the paper’s new executive editor, talked with the Times’s public editor Arthur Brisbane on Sunday, and touched on the paper’s perceived liberal slant. Abramson didn't quite deny it.   Brisbane: The legendary Times executive editor A. M. Rosenthal once told a colleague he felt the need to steer The Times to the right to compensate for the leftward political leanings of some…
Clay Waters
September 14th, 2011 12:08 PM

Open Thread: Reagan 278,000; Obama Zero

Deroy Murdock has an excellent column at National Review Online holding up the Reagan economic record vs. Barack Obama's. It's an excellent read. An excerpt follows the page break. Leave us your thoughts in the comments section:
NB Staff
September 14th, 2011 11:49 AM

NBC Interrupts 9-11 Commemoration to Scold Iraq War

Just as they did right after the killing of Osama bin Laden back in May, NBC's Brian Williams and Richard Engel interrupted Sunday morning's ceremonies marking the tenth annivesary of the 9/11 attacks to pontificate against the war in Iraq. At about 9:30am on Sunday, during live coverage of the events at Ground Zero, Williams instructed the audience: "Iraq had nothing do with this."…
Rich Noyes
September 14th, 2011 10:39 AM

Matthews Keeps Pounding Perry's Social Security Ponzi Critique Despite

Despite having been exposed for at least twice calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, MSNBC's Chris Matthews continues to pound Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying the same thing. Here's what the "Hardball" host hypocritically said on Tuesday's program (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 14th, 2011 10:29 AM

Video: Bozell Discusses Media's Disinterest in Jump in Poverty Under O

"To the degree" that the jump in the poverty rate in the United States is being reported, it "is being reported as a problem for Obama" and "not a problem caused by Obama," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox Business Network's David Asman on the September 13 edition of "Nightly Scoreboard." "His policies have nothing to do with the effect," in the minds of liberal journalists, the…
NB Staff
September 14th, 2011 10:12 AM

NYT Reporters Huff: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

Tuesday's New York Times's “Check Point” was the latest liberally slanted fact check of a G.O.P. presidential debate, this time by two liberal reporters, Michael Cooper and Nicholas Confessore, “Perry’s Criticism of Social Security as ‘Ponzi Scheme' Dogs Him in Debate.” Confessore, who once worked for the liberal journals Washington Monthly and American Prospect, once again staunchly…
Clay Waters
September 14th, 2011 9:45 AM

Jon Stewart: GOP Debate Set 'Looks Like the Inside of Betsy Ross's Vag

Is there anything left that's sacred to liberal media members? On Tuesday, the "Daily Show's" Jon Stewart mocked the previous day's Republican presidential debate by disgracefully saying the set "looks like the inside of Betsy Ross's vagina" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 14th, 2011 9:16 AM

MSNBC's Alter Plugs Obama Plan, GOP 'Standing in the Way of You Gettin

Appearing on Tuesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter urged both liberals - euphemistically calling them "progressives" - and non-liberals to support President Obama's economic plan and advised Obama to "fight, fight, fight," and argue that Republican opposition would mean they are "standing in the way of you getting a job." After host Ed Schultz asked Alter about the GOP…
Brad Wilmouth
September 14th, 2011 8:56 AM

Ron Reagan Asserts MSNBC Has 'Some Fealty to the Truth,' Unlike That F

Ronald Prescott Reagan is again making silly noises. The Radio Equalizer blog listened in on the radio show Both Sides Now with Huffington and Matalin on Saturday, when Junior Reagan boosted MSNBC (where he recently substituted for Chris Matthews hosting 'Hardball') as "a news network that actually has some fealty to the truth, unlike Fox News, which is a propaganda outfit." Blogger Brian…
Tim Graham
September 14th, 2011 8:14 AM