CNN Gives Prime-Time Interview to Foul-Mouthed Muppet Running for Pres

CNN – "The Most Trusted Name In News" – has recently been giving some quality air time to Muppets. It's newest prime-time anchor Erin Burnett interviewed Elmo back in October, Wolf Blitzer spotlighted Kermit the Frog last Thursday, and then a cursing "Marvin E. Quasniki" announced his candidacy for president at the end of Wednesday's Erin Burnett OutFront. When asked how he would pay for the…
Matt Hadro
December 8th, 2011 12:48 PM

MSNBC Gives Platform to Former NAACP Chief to Blast Voter ID Laws As

All this week MSNBC is giving Politics Nation host Al Sharpton a platform to attack voter ID laws as a move to "Block the Vote" and keep black voters from the polls. To help drive more viewers to tune in, the network is having daytime news anchors run segments critical of such voter ID laws. Today during the 11 a.m. Eastern hour of MSNBC programming, anchor Thomas Roberts interviewed former…
Ken Shepherd
December 8th, 2011 12:47 PM

ABC, NBC Omit Blagojevich's Party ID; CBS: Is Sentence 'Too High

ABC, NBC, and CBS all reported on former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich receiving a 14-year prison sentence for corruption on their evening news programs on Wednesday and their morning shows on Thursday, but only CBS's Early Show gave his Democratic affiliation. ABC devoted only 3 news briefs total to the conviction, while NBC Nightly News and The Early Show aired full reports. News…
Matthew Balan
December 8th, 2011 12:35 PM

Jake Tapper's Toilet Take on Romney: 'Mitt Happens

A new ad by Mitt Romney prompted Good Morning America's Jake Tapper to offer his version of a vulgar saying: "Mitt happens." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The morning show on Thursday was full of snarky critiques with a graphic for a previous segment chiding, "Playing the Morals Card: Romney Goes After Gingrich." Host George Stephanopoulos wondered if Romney's new commercial,…
Scott Whitlock
December 8th, 2011 12:34 PM

ABC's Morning Show Host Gets Chance to Jab GOPers in Primetime

The GOP presidential candidates, at the upcoming ABC News debate in Iowa, should brace themselves to be splattered with tough questions from the left from moderator George Stephanopoulos. The good news for them is that most should be well-prepared for the left-leaning sliders, as many have already been subjected to Stephanopoulos’s liberal questioning on Good Morning America. In 20 interview…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 8th, 2011 12:07 PM

NBC's Lauer to Dan Quayle: Wasn't Romney 'Wrong' and Obama 'Right' on

In an interview with former Vice President Dan Quayle on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pushed Quayle to admit that Mitt Romney was wrong to oppose Obama's auto bailout: "[He] said, 'You know what? Let Chrysler fail.'...There would have been thousands of jobs lost. Did he get it wrong? Did President Obama get it right by bailing out the auto industry?"   Quayle endorsed Romney on…
Kyle Drennen
December 8th, 2011 11:14 AM

Scarborough Equates Obama's Lack of Experience Running Government to G

Just how much does MSNBC's Joe Scarborough despise Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich? On Thursday's Morning Joe, the supposedly conservative host equated Barack Obama's lack of government-running experience in 2008 to that of the former Speaker of the House (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 8th, 2011 11:04 AM

Associated Press Buries Corzine Party Affiliation in Next-to-Last Para

Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) will testify to a House panel today regarding the MF Global scandal that he "simply do[es] not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date," reports Associated Press's Marcy Gordon. Gordon eventually got around to mentioning Corzine's party affiliation, in paragraph 11 out of her 12-paragraph story:
Ken Shepherd
December 8th, 2011 10:47 AM

BMI's Top 10 Economic Myths of

Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. This year the media's myths were wide-ranging: from conspiracy theories about economic sabotage, to overpopulation panic and Occupy Wall Street's mantra "We are the 99 percent." Here is our 2011 list:
Julia A. Seymour
December 8th, 2011 10:46 AM

Open Thread: Democrats Losing Voters in 2012 Battleground States

It seems President Obama's speeches on class warfare, big government, and comments on American laziness haven't worked in his favor. According to ABC News, the number of registered Democrats in battleground states for next year's election has dropped by nearly one million. Some of his supporters contend that Obama will still win the independent vote, where many of those Democrats have gone.…
NB Staff
December 8th, 2011 10:15 AM

NYT: Still No Leftist Labels for George Soros in Gushing Piece on His

New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom, who tracks foundation and charitable giving for the Times, gushed over George Soros in a story Wednesday on the new leader of “his unconventional philanthropic empire”: “Criminal Justice Expert Expected to Lead Soros Foundations.” Through his Open Society Institute, Soros has invested heavily in left-wing groups Moveon.org and the Center for American…
Clay Waters
December 8th, 2011 9:06 AM

Another Day, Another Dose Of Liberal Bias At 'Politico

Take a stroll down the list of the six stories featured in Politico's "Daily Digest" email today, and you'll find five of them with a decided pro-Obama and/or anti-Republican angle. Let's score the first story, about the upcoming GOP debate in Iowa, as neutral, even though the theme is a pending alpha dog-fight between Gingrich and Romney.  But after that, every story has a decided liberal…
Mark Finkelstein
December 8th, 2011 8:45 AM

NPR Prompts OWS Architect to Claim America Riper for Socialist Revolut

NPR anchor Robert Siegel interviewed Occupy Wall Street's inspirational force, Kalle Lasn of the Canadian group Adbusters, on Tuesday night's All Things Considered and discussed how ripe America was for a socialist revolution. Lasn brought up comparisons to 1968 and the hope for a "full-fledged, full spectrum movement that operates on all levels." Siegel suggested back then, it inspired violent…
Tim Graham
December 8th, 2011 8:24 AM

AP Kept Blago's Party ID Out of Three Pre-Sentencing Stories on Tuesda

Wednesday afternoon, Matthew Balan at NewsBusters noted that two of the three network morning shows failed to mention disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's Democratic Party affiliation. Not that it's an excuse, but what was probably their primary raw material, namely three Tuesday reports from the Associated Press, completely failed to tag Blago as a Democrat, specifically the…
Tom Blumer
December 8th, 2011 12:33 AM