Networks Rediscover Security Gaffes at Olympics, But Don't Acknowledge

The same networks that piled on Mitt Romney for highlighting questions about security for the Olympics have now rediscovered serious problems at the London games. Last Friday, CBS and NBC played up tabloid coverage of Romney as "Mitt the Twit." On Monday, however, Good Morning America's Amy Robach briefly noted, "Well another embarrassment for security at the Olympics. Someone lost a set of keys…
Scott Whitlock
July 30th, 2012 12:19 PM

Sorkin's 'Newsroom' Attacks Women, Gay Republicans

Last night's episode of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom was hilariously titled, "Bullies." Unfortunately for HBO, the humor was due to the program's seemingly endless hypocrisy and not because there was anything remotely funny in the dialogue of the episode itself. Lauded as a ground-breaking show by much of the liberal media, The Newsroom really jumped the shark this week by trying to paint…
Kelly McGarey
July 30th, 2012 12:05 PM

NBC's Lauer and Vieira Gush Over Olympic Tribute to Britain's Governme

Managing to squeeze politics into the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday, NBC hosts Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira cheered a tribute to Britain's government-run National Health Service, with Lauer declaring: "Back in the states...we're locked in this kind of partisan debate over the future of health care in our own country. Here, they feel so strongly about their health care system,…
Kyle Drennen
July 30th, 2012 11:06 AM

Matthews: Cheney TV Appearance 'A Proof Of Life Thing

Chris Matthews let his nasty side show on Morning Joe today, callously calling Dick Cheney's weekend television interview, the first since his heart transplant, "a proof of life thing." For good measure, Matthews called Cheney "pretty much hated in this country." For that matter, don't look for Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough to be having dinner together any time soon.  After Scarborough…
Mark Finkelstein
July 30th, 2012 8:55 AM

WashPost Hails 'Princely' $6,800 Jacket Michelle Obama Wears, While

On Monday morning, Washington Post gossips Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger hailed Michelle Obama the fashion plate with the headline "Fit For a Queen (Truly)." For a reception at Buckingham Palace for heads of state, Mrs. Obama wore a "very fancy" jacket priced at  a "princely $6,800." Readers could exhale, the American now fits in. The very same Washington Post greeted the GOP nominee's…
Tim Graham
July 30th, 2012 7:54 AM

CBS, NBC Hype Romney 'Controversy' and 'Error' in Israel, Ignored Obam

Sunday's CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News tried to spin negatively a vague statement by Mitt Romney advisor Dan Senor that the GOP presidential candidate would "respect" the Israeli government's decision if it chose to attack militarily Iran's nuclear capability, suggesting that the Romney campaign's words amounted to a criticism of the Obama administration, and thus a breach of…
Brad Wilmouth
July 30th, 2012 2:40 AM

Newsweek Cover Story: 'Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Pr

25 years ago, Newsweek published a controversial cover story titled "Bush Battles the 'Wimp Factor.'" On Monday, newsstands will carry an equally controversial albeit derivative Newsweek cover story titled "Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem":
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2012 6:33 PM

LAT's Hiltzik: Social Security 'Contributes Not a Dime to the Federal

In his column at the Los Angeles Times today (HT to a NewsBusters tipster), Michael Hiltzik engages in predictable whining about discussions on how to bring the federal deficit under control seem "increasingly to be driven by the wealthy." In the instance he cites, one could substitute "big bank and big company CEOs," who seem to have recently decided that President Obama's Simpson Bowles debt…
Tom Blumer
July 29th, 2012 5:05 PM

Romney Olympic Truth-telling Draws WashPost's 'Worst Week in Washingto

"Someone should have told Mitt Romney that they still speak English in England," snarked Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza as he awarded Romney the "Worst Week In Washington" on Sunday for calmly laying out security concerns to NBC before the London Olympics -- concerns the networks themselves reported beforehand. That matches the attitude that political reporter Philip Rucker…
Tim Graham
July 29th, 2012 4:32 PM

Howard Kurtz Scolds NYT for Not Mentioning Sooner in Obituary That Sal

Astronaut Sally Ride kept her sexual orientation secret right up to the moment she died. Yet CNN's Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources Sunday actually scolded the New York Times for withholding this fact until the 38th paragraph in its obituary for Ride (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2012 3:30 PM

MSNBC's Bible: Thomas Roberts Tags Liberal Chick-Fil-A Eaters With 'Ch

MSNBC is your network for badly fractured Bible analogies. Jeff Poor of the Daily Caller revealed that on Friday morning, Roberts cracked up MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry by telling anyone for "marriage equality" who eats at Chick-fil-A on August 1 -- when the conservatives turn out in support -- is a "chicken-eating Judas." So in the Roberts analogy, Jesus is Barney Frank, and the…
Tim Graham
July 29th, 2012 3:18 PM

Bob Schieffer Cues Up DNC Chairwoman: ‘Is Mitt Romney a Wimp

A left-wing writer for a liberal magazine wrote an article trying to undermine the Republican presidential candidate, a cover story which featured an insulting characterization. But instead of treating the attack as irrelevant, CBS’s Face the Nation decided to showcase it. “I just got a copy of the Newsweek cover that’s going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you a ‘wimp,’”…
Brent Baker
July 29th, 2012 3:12 PM

AP's Kasie Hunt: A Hotel Is 'Communal' Space; Also Makes Obama Appear

In the kerfuffle over the initial refusal by Mitt Romney's campaign to allow reporters into a fundraising event to take place at an Israeli hotel on Monday, a position the campaign reversed late yesterday (early morning in Israel), the Associated Press's Kasie Hunt had, to say the least, an interesting take on property rights, while clearly misstating how the Obama campaign has handled press…
Tom Blumer
July 29th, 2012 2:50 PM

George Will and Dana Loesch School Donna Brazile and Ruth Marcus on Ob

For the past two weeks Barack Obama's media minions have been working overtime trying to convince the American people the President was taken out of context during his now infamous "You Didn't Build That" speech in Roanoke, Virginia. CNN's Donna Brazile and the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus tried making that pathetic claim on ABC's This Week Sunday only to receive a much-needed education from…
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2012 1:44 PM