
NewsBusters' Sheppard Debates Media Firestorm Over Gay Romney Adviser
An openly gay adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney resigned last week, and the Obama-loving media interested in discussing anything but the poor economy jumped all over it.
NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard discussed this with Don Lemon on CNN Newsroom Saturday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 7th, 2012 11:34 AM
Open Thread: Le Boot
Over the weekend, French president Nicolas Sarkozy went down in defeat to Socialist Francois Hollande. Do you see the election as having any bearing on the American elections or is it just an anomaly?
May 7th, 2012 11:09 AM

WashPost Promotes 'Liberal Hero' Elizabeth Warren on Page One, Buries
On Monday’s front page, The Washington Post promoted “liberal hero” Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat looking to retake the “Ted Kennedy seat” in the Senate. “Stakes high as liberal hero tries to unseat GOP senator,” read the headline. On Sunday, the Post’s Chris Cillizza said Warren had the “Worst Week in Washington” for her muddled answers to claiming she was of Native American heritage in…
May 7th, 2012 9:11 AM

In Final Hours of Campaign, Sarkozy, Allies Cried Out Against Socialis
The Daily Telegraph in London reported that in France on Friday night, the camp of Nicholas Sarkozy attacked "biased" media for an "alliance" with Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. An ally said it was "a veritable denial of democracy." There's not just a socialist media bias problem in America, obviously.
There was even violence reported. Two star "presenters" of France's most-watched…
May 7th, 2012 8:42 AM
David Brooks Is In 'The One Percent
Monday's "Reliable Source" gossip column in The Washington Post reports under the headline "Surreal Estate" that New York Times columnist (and official PBS and NPR "conservative" pundit) David Brooks is rolling in dough. He's bought a home in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington for $3.95 million.
"The New York Times op-ed columnist and wife Sarah are trading up — from their longtime…
May 7th, 2012 6:45 AM

Peggy Noonan Schools David Corn: 'When a President Wants to Make Somet
David Corn, the perilously liberal Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, got a much-needed civics lesson from the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.
After Corn carped and whined about House Republicans blocking Barack Obama's fiscal agenda, Noonan replied, "When a President wants to make something happen, he can make it happen, and he can't sit back and…
May 6th, 2012 8:13 PM

Chrystia Freeland on Ann Romney: 'Michelle Obama Gets Bashed If She We
As NewsBusters reported, Ann Romney got mercilessly attacked last week for having the unmitigated audacity to wear a $990 shirt on television.
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Thomson Reuters' Chrystia Freeland said this was "fair" and "fine" because "Michelle Obama gets bashed if she wears expensive clothes" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 5:31 PM

Schieffer Feigns Concern: Has Republican Party ‘Moved Too Far Right
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, who in February asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie whether the Republican presidential candidates “are pushing your party too far to the right to make the nomination worth anything when you get to November?”, on Sunday repeated his mantra, demanding of Peggy Noonan: “Do you think that the Republican Party has moved too far right for its own good?”
As if he cares…
May 6th, 2012 3:53 PM

David Gregory Asks Biden: Is There a 'Modern Right-Wing Conspiracy' Ag
In 1998, first lady Hillary Clinton famously claimed there was a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband.
On Sunday, NBC's David Gregory actually asked Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press, "Do you think that there is a modern right-wing conspiracy that has aligned against this president?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 3:49 PM

WashPost Tags Warren with 'Worst Week,' But Adds Indian Arguing She's
In Sunday’s Outlook section, Washington Post political Chris Cillizza awarded Massachusetts Democrat and Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren with the “Worst Week in Washington” award. But the Post also published native-American novelist David Treuer insisting – this is the headline – “Elizabeth Warren says she’s Native American. So she is.”
But the issue is that Warren would use her fraction…
May 6th, 2012 2:23 PM

PBS's Tavis Smiley: I Hate Seeing Obama 'Bragging About Having to Off
It's becoming crystal clear that President Obama stepped on his foot while taking a victory lap for the assassination of Osama bin Laden one year ago.
Joining the growing list of even liberal media members offended by this shameless act of self-promotion was PBS's Tavis Smiley who on ABC's This Week Sunday actually said, "I just hate seeing the president play into the hands of the right by…
May 6th, 2012 2:22 PM

Time Magazine Edits Out Clinton Saying 'For Him' in Obama's Bin Laden
It's become a huge source of contention that in the Obama campaign ad featuring the current White House resident shamelessly congratulating himself for killing Osama bin Laden, former President Clinton says that if SEALs had been captured or killed during the raid, "The downside would have been horrible for him."
Time magazine published an article last week by former Newsweek editor Jon…
May 6th, 2012 1:44 PM

Eleven 'Chris Matthews Show' Regulars Say Romney Won't Drive Political
You want a clear picture of just how in the tank America's media are for Barack Obama?
On Sunday, Chris Matthews revealed that eleven out of twelve regulars on the syndicated program bearing his name say Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won't take control and drive the political debate in the next six months leading to Election Day (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 1:05 PM

Fareed Zakaria on War on Terror: 'We Look Like Scared, Fearful Losers
While President Obama and his adoring media did a victory lap on the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's assassination, Fareed Zakaria had a completely different take about how the War on Terror is going.
On CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday, the host said, "We don't look like people who have won a war. We look like scared, fearful losers" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 11:36 AM