Bill Maher Shows MRC's 'Don't Believe the Liberal Media' Billboard in

To welcome guests to the Republican National Convention, the Media Research Center placed a "Don't Believe the Liberal Media" billboard outside the Tampa airport last week. On HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the host aired a video by Alexandra Pelosi which included a shot of this billboard (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 1st, 2012 7:58 AM

Colby King: GOP Only Has Blacks at Conventions to Sing 'God Bless Amer

After Yahoo's Washington bureau chief was fired Wednesday for saying the Romneys are "happy to have a party with black people drowning," you would think media members would be more careful accusing Republicans of racism. Apparently not, for on PBS's Inside Washington Friday, Colby King, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, actually said Republicans "always have African-…
Noel Sheppard
September 1st, 2012 12:19 AM

Bernanke Claims Two Rounds of QE Created 2 Million Jobs; That Would Me

In his Jackson Hole, Wyoming presentation today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, as reported by Paul Wiseman at the Associated Press, made the following claim in connection with the Fed's programs of "quantitative easing" (QE): "Bernanke argued Friday that collectively, such measures have succeeded. He cited research showing that two rounds of QE (quantitative easing) had created 2…
Tom Blumer
August 31st, 2012 11:53 PM

MSNBC's Touré Neblett Reacts to Ryan's Speech: For Women and Minoriti

Near the end of his Wednesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan told his audience and the nation that "sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government." John Hayward at Human Events noted that MSNBC's Touré Neblett did not handle Ryan's self-evident assertion very well. In fact,…
Tom Blumer
August 31st, 2012 9:32 PM

Chris Matthews Admits to Verbally Accosting GOP Delegates at Restauran

Just hours after a producer for deranged MSNBC host Chris Matthews was accused of physically assaulting Republicans outside the party’s national convention last night, Matthews himself has admitted to verbally confronting several GOP delegates at a restaurant in Tampa, Florida calling them a “douchebag convention.” According to The Hill newspaper, the perpetually angry liberal television host…
Matthew Sheffield
August 31st, 2012 8:54 PM

NBC Plays Up Stimulus Funding of DC Reflecting Pool Renovation

On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams touted the stimulus spending that went to renovating the reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC: "Tourists in Washington this holiday weekend will find water in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool for the first time in two years. It was actually stimulus funding that paid for the major renovation…
Matthew Balan
August 31st, 2012 8:31 PM

To the 'Fact-Checkers': This Is What Lies About Auto Plant Closings Lo

This afternoon, NB's Kyle Drennen did a great job of runnng down the pathetic contention by establishment press "fact-checkers" that vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan somehow lied or misled viewers during his speech Wednesday night concerning the closure of the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin and what presidential candidate Barack Obama said at the plant in 2008. No, WaPo, …
Tom Blumer
August 31st, 2012 6:39 PM

PolitiFact Repeals the Laws of Supply and Demand

If you restrict the supply of something, the price will go up.  It’s one of the laws of supply and demand.  Thus, cap-and-trade energy rationing schemes drive the price of energy up, by capping the supply.  President Obama has conceded that in his unguarded moments.  In a January 17, 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Obama said that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…
Hans Bader
August 31st, 2012 5:04 PM

Obama’s Failed Stimulus Funded ‘Green Jobs’ Initiative Ads on MS

File this under unsurprising but notable, because it’s the type of story that mainstream media outlets will largely ignore in an attempt to protect an undeserving administration from anything that could hurt its re-election chances. According to a Washington Times report by Jim McElhatton, the U.S. Department of Labor allegedly paid a public relations company at least half a million dollars…
Ryan Robertson
August 31st, 2012 4:50 PM

NYT's Calmes Elevates Liberal 'Fact-Checking': GOP 'Falsehoods' Have

White House reporter Jackie Calmes talked to Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod for a strong hit of Republican Convention bashing in her Friday New York Times story "Obama Team Sharpens Attacks on Rivals' Character." Calmes cited liberal media analysis to bolster her contention that even "independent fact-checkers" think the Republicans are lying. As the Obama campaign heads into its…
Clay Waters
August 31st, 2012 4:16 PM

Desperate Media Scramble to Call Paul Ryan a Liar Ignores the Facts

Immediately after Paul Ryan concluded his acceptance speech for the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, the media sought ways to tear down the Wisconsin Congressman's indictment of the failures of the Obama administration. In particular, networks and newspapers attempted to knock down Ryan's accurate claim that President Obama promised to keep open a GM plant that closed…
Kyle Drennen
August 31st, 2012 4:00 PM

Liberal Bloggers: Republicans 'Condone Rape,' Are 'Making Sure Rapists

You'd think an image of a man violently covering a frightened woman's mouth, accompanied with the words, "He’s decided to become a father…right-wing Republicans want to make sure he does", would be considered mildly extreme, right? Not extreme enough for Huffington Post contributor and pro-Obama blogger, Erin Kotecki Vest, who posted the image to her Facebook page.
Rusty Weiss
August 31st, 2012 3:53 PM

MSNBC Failed to Cover 'Incredibly Moving' Story About Romney; Today MS

Last night, at 8:38 p.m. Eastern, Ted and Pat Oparowski -- who attended church with Mitt Romney in the late 1970s -- shared their heartwarming story of how Mitt Romney took time out of his busy schedule to visit their cancer-stricken son David and to help him settle his affair and write his will when it was apparent the cancer would take his life. Both CNN and Fox News Channel carried the…
Ken Shepherd
August 31st, 2012 3:45 PM

New York Times News Headline: 'Ryan's Speech Contained a Litany of Fal

The latest entry in the media's obsession with picayune and partisan "fact-checking" of the Republican National Convention: New York Times reporter Michael Cooper's Friday "Check Point," "Facts Take a Beating In Acceptance Speeches." The original web headline was ridiculously partisan for a news story: "Ryan's Speech Contained a Litany of Falsehoods." Representative Paul D. Ryan used his…
Clay Waters
August 31st, 2012 2:47 PM