Eight Times! Chuck Todd Repeatedly Writes Off Rosen Remarks As 'Manufa

Rally round the Rosen! On his MSNBC show this morning Chuck Todd used variations on the phrase "manufactured controversy" no fewer than eight times in dismissing the controversy around Rosen's "Ann Romney never worked a day in her life" remarks. By the end of a subsequent segment, Todd had former Obama and Clinton adviser [and Dee Dee sister] Betsy Myers taking up the "manufactured" meme. …
Mark Finkelstein
April 13th, 2012 10:26 AM

Joe Scarborough Calls David Gregory One of 14 Communists on Meet the P

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday gave a tongue-in-cheek introduction to NBC's David Gregory that took an obvious swipe at Republican Florida Congressman Allen West. "I am holding in my hands a list, a list of fourteen members of the Communist Party that work for Meet the Press. Now we bring in one them" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 13th, 2012 9:55 AM

Daily Kos Sticks Up for Praising Castro

You can't call this unexpected. When Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended five games by his team for proclaiming his love and admiration for Fidel Castro in a town full of Cuban exiles, the ardent radicals at the Daily Kos would object. In an article titled "Ozzie Got Screwed," The writer going by the handle "Agnostic" of "The Church of Ineffable Stupidity" threw his "WTF" hat…
Tim Graham
April 13th, 2012 6:16 AM

Sexual Stereotyping Now OK at the NYTimes? Claims Women Are Simply Bet

Sexual stereotypes are acceptable, as long as they portray women as superior to men. That's the takeaway from Cathy Horyn's feminist hyperventilating over two female fashion design icons on the front of Thursday's Styles section, keyed on a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called “Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: Impossible Conversations.” In "The Edge Goes to the Women," Horyn…
Clay Waters
April 12th, 2012 9:53 PM

NOW Prez: Ann Romney Lacks 'Life Experience' And 'Imagination

Back up the bus!  After bouncing Hilary Rosen beneath the Greyhound, President Obama and friends might have to throw it in reverse again over the person of key Dem coalition member Terry O'Neill.  The NOW president suggested to Ed Schultz tonight that Ann Romney, along with Mitt, lacks "life experience" and "imagination" needed to understand most Americans. For good measure, in the very same…
Mark Finkelstein
April 12th, 2012 9:36 PM

Thom Hartmann: Trayvon Killed by Koch Brothers, NRA, and Wal-Mart

Liberal radio host Thom Hartmann came unglued over Trayvon Martin on Wednesday, blaming his death on...the Koch brothers. "A young man died," he declared. "A young man died a violent and unnecessary death because the Koch brothers and other right-wingers and large corporations in America decided that it would be a really cool idea if they got together and wrote laws that they would then give…
Tim Graham
April 12th, 2012 8:50 PM

NPR Runs to Obama's Defense on Economy; Romney Not Telling 'Whole Stor

NPR's Scott Horsley could have been mistaken as a spokesman for the White House or President Obama's campaign on Wednesday's All Things Considered, as he defended the Democrat's record on the economy. Horsley also claimed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claim that on women losing the bulk of the jobs over the past three years was "not really the whole story." The only…
Matthew Balan
April 12th, 2012 7:19 PM

Michael Steele Schools Joan Walsh on Romney-Rosen Dustup: Stay-at-Home

In the wake of the Ann Romney-Hilary Rosen stay-at-home mom dustup, Salon's Joan Walsh on Thursday predictably made the totally false claim "being able to stay home with your children [is] a choice for the wealthy only." Fortunately, former RNC chairman Michael Steele was also on MSNBC's Hardball to set the record straight saying, "This isn’t about just rich women. There are a lot of middle…
Noel Sheppard
April 12th, 2012 6:38 PM

Rachel Maddow's Deceit About Michigan GOP Borders on Pathological

How do you know when Rachel Maddow isn't telling the truth? If any sentence she utters includes the words "Michigan" and "Republican." This habit of hers has become so ingrained that Maddow runs the risk of caricature, as in -- there she goes again, pulling a Maddow. (video and audio clips after page break)
Jack Coleman
April 12th, 2012 6:36 PM

NB Publisher Bozell's Letters to Congress: Investigate Comcast/NBC

Earlier this week, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell announced he was calling on Congress to investigate Comcast, the parent company of NBC, given the network's malfeasance in the Zimmerman 911 audio editing. Comcast's "continued silence on how to prevent such malfeasance in the future constitutes a serious breach of public trust," Bozell noted in letters…
NB Staff
April 12th, 2012 5:52 PM

Wolf Blitzer Puts Hilary Rosen Through the Wringer, Forces Her to Apol

After saying Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life, Democratic activist Hilary Rosen was trying to spin her way out of the firestorm over her comments. CNN's Wolf Blitzer would have none of it on Thursday's The Situation Room as he reprimanded her, forced her to apologize, and asked her how it felt to be thrown "under the bus" by Democratic allies. Blitzer grilled Rosen for upwards…
Matt Hadro
April 12th, 2012 5:50 PM

NBC Medical Editor: Trayvon Martin Case Shows 'We Don't Talk Enough Ab

In a statement totally disconnected from the reality of media coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, on Thursday's Today show, NBC chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman proclaimed that the case, "...underscores the fact that we don't talk about race enough in this country and that race does matter, it's always under the surface." NBC alone – not to mention the other networks or MSNBC – made…
Kyle Drennen
April 12th, 2012 5:19 PM

War on Conservative Women: Twitchy Notes Angry Leftists Denouncing Ann

While most everyone in political circles has condemned Hilary Rosen's slam of Ann Romney, rank-and-file liberals on Twitter apparently haven't read the memo. Twitchy has an excellent post documenting all the bile, complete with requisite leftist slams of Mrs. Romney as a c*nt, b*tch, and whore. As Michelle Malkin, no stranger to left-wing hate, tweeted, "Some are baptized by fire. On Twitter…
Ken Shepherd
April 12th, 2012 5:14 PM

NB's Bozell Discusses Push for Congress to Investigate Comcast/NBC

NBC's apology for its malicious Zimmerman 911 audio edits is woefully inadequate, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted on last night's "Hannity." For instance, the network has not given an on-air apology, only a written apology in a press release. What's more, the network has not disclosed the name of the producer it fired, even as it insists his error was not malicious in intent. That's…
NB Staff
April 12th, 2012 4:43 PM