Open Thread: SOTU Recycling

As a liberal, President Obama is a firm believer in recycling, apparently in areas in which one doesn't normally expect to see recycling. Check below the break for a great video that shows just how often he uses the exact same themes and even phrases in his speeches. At the very least, is it possible that some of the trillion dollars Obama's spent could go toward paying someone else to write…
Matthew Sheffield
January 25th, 2012 5:55 AM

Not National News: Bankrupt Solyndra Destroys Millions of Dollars' Wor

I guess what follows shouldn't be a total surprise, given that the Obama administration was perfectly comfortable ruining hundreds of thousands of perfectly good cars during the Cash For Clunkers program in 2009. The video which follows from CBS News in San Francisco last Thursday (full transcript here) tells viewers what is happening to valuable parts at the main manufacturing plant of the…
Tom Blumer
January 25th, 2012 12:15 AM

Bozell Column: Obama vs. Catholics

The Brian Williams MSNBC debate in Florida was not only dreadfully boring – I never thought I could ever long for commercials – it was pathetic. Freed of the fear of triggering an avalanche of applause against loaded questions, Williams and his co-moderators couldn’t bring themselves to utter one single question asking the Republican candidates to respond to Obama mistakes. For almost two hours…
Brent Bozell
January 24th, 2012 11:13 PM

NB Chat: State of the Union

One year after insulting the Supreme Court and promising a better economy, President Obama is back at it again tonight for another State of the Union Address. If you're watching the speech and the after-the-fact commentary, feel free to join us as we discuss the debate in a live chat right here on NewsBusters. As with all NB live events, you are expected to abide by the NewsBusters terms of…
NB Staff
January 24th, 2012 8:55 PM

Nets Use Romney’s Taxes to Advance Obama’s False ‘Fairness’ Na

Hours before President Barack Obama’s third State of the Union address in which he will push higher tax rates on the wealthiest under the guise of “fairness,” pivoting off the poster woman for higher rates, Warren Buffett’s secretary who supposedly pays a higher income tax rate than her boss, ABC and NBC advanced the narrative which confuses tax brackets with effective tax rates. In fact,…
Brent Baker
January 24th, 2012 8:31 PM

Obama to Call for Increased Domestic Oil and Gas, says Journal

Media join president in taking an anti-energy industry stance.
Julia A. Seymour
January 24th, 2012 8:11 PM

M-BS-NBC: Matthews Falsely Claims That Compared to Romney's 15 Percent

As NewsBusters predicted earlier, Obama-loving media were going to use Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's just-released tax returns to misinform the public for the benefit of the current White House resident. Doing his part Tuesday was MSNBC's Chris Matthews who not only told his Hardball viewers "Romney paid a much lower tax rate than most Americans," he completely falsified…
Noel Sheppard
January 24th, 2012 8:07 PM

M-BS-NBC: Fineman Falsely Claims Gingrich Never Says 'President Obama

The levels America's media will go to protect Barack Obama often stagger the mind. On MSNBC's Hardball Tuesday, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman not only complained about how the former Speaker of the House refers to the current White House resident - "I've never heard Newt Gingrich call President Obama 'President Obama.' It's usually just 'Obama'" - his assertion was totally false (video…
Noel Sheppard
January 24th, 2012 7:01 PM

CBS's Hill Hints Ryan is Out of Step With America For Opposing Tax Hik

On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Erica Hill played up the "overwhelming majority" that apparently support raising taxes on the rich, and urged Rep. Paul Ryan to consider supporting such a tax hike: "68% of people support raising...taxes on incomes of $250,000 and higher. Is that something that you could, perhaps, at least have a conversation about?" [audio available here; video below the jump…
Matthew Balan
January 24th, 2012 6:58 PM

CNN Bypasses Obama-Alinsky Ties; Links Alinsky to Tea Party

CNN's Soledad O'Brien would not brand Saul Alinsky as a leftist radical, and neither would she say President Obama was influenced by his writings – but she had no problem tying Alinsky's controversial beliefs to the Tea Party movement on Monday's Starting Point. As a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama mirrored the tactics Alinsky laid out in his book "Rules for Radicals" – which…
Matt Hadro
January 24th, 2012 5:56 PM

Liberal Media Boost Buffett and Obama's Attack on the Rich

Barack Obama’s invitation to Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, to tonight’s State of the Union Address is bound to please not only Bosanek’s boss but also the liberal media that has allied with Buffett in his mission to raise taxes on the rich. For over 10 years the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has campaigned to sop the wealthy with burdensome taxes, and his friends in the media have been…
Geoffrey Dickens
January 24th, 2012 5:04 PM

The Question Is Not 'Electability,' but 'Re-electability

Republican internecine squabbles this primary season seem to turn on the vying candidates' respective electability against incumbent Barack Obama. But if even uber-liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has finally awakened to President Obama's arrogance, what does it say about his electability? It's understandable that a lib would take so long to turn on the messiah, having invested…
David Limbaugh
January 24th, 2012 4:58 PM

ABC's Class Warfare: 'Just How Rich Is Mitt Romney and Is He Paying Hi

ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who makes $8 million a year, pounced on the release of Mitt Romney's tax returns, sneering on Tuesday, "So, just how rich is Mitt Romney and is he paying his fair share of taxes?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The Good Morning America co-host excitedly told viewers, "Breaking overnight, the long-awaited tax returns from Mitt Romney finally revealed. Our team…
Scott Whitlock
January 24th, 2012 4:50 PM

Buzzfeed Writer Hits Romney for Tithing to Mormon Church, Which Oppose

You have to give McKay Coppins credit. The Buzzfeed writer today managed to work in hints of anti-Mormon skepticism and the complaints of the gay rights lobby into his January 24 story -- "What's With Mitt's Mormon Money?" -- on Romney's tax records. It's a liberal bias trifecta!
Ken Shepherd
January 24th, 2012 4:30 PM