Time to Give Thanks for Our Police for Coping with Occupiers

Despite Occupy Wall Street attacks and media abuse, men and women in blue keep us safe.
Dan Gainor
November 21st, 2011 1:03 PM

ABC Parrots White House Spin for Booing of Michelle Obama: 'Not Clear

Good Morning America's Josh Elliott on Monday repeated White House talking points in regard to the booing of Michelle Obama at a NASCAR event on Sunday. News reader Elliott played a clip of the booing and then parroted, "The White House says it was a chaotic event. It was not clear, perhaps, what the boos were specifically for." The Today show didn't cover the event at all. On the Early Show…
Scott Whitlock
November 21st, 2011 12:53 PM

NBC's Gregory to Kyl: 'Real Deficit Hawk Republicans' Want Tax Hikes

While grilling Arizona Senator Jon Kyl on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, host David Gregory tried to bolster the argument for tax increases: "The Bush tax cuts...real deficit hawks, many of them happening to be Republicans....said let them all expire for everybody. For the rich, for the middle class. If you really want to get serious about the deficit, let the Bush tax cuts expire for…
Kyle Drennen
November 21st, 2011 12:18 PM

MSNBC's Roberts: Newt's Get a Job and Take a Bath Comment About OWS Wa

GOP presidential candidate New Gingrich's complaint about free-loading Occupy Wall Street protesters needing to "get a job" and "take a bath" before doing so was denounced this morning by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts as "toxic language." "I know he's trying, that is Newt Gingrich, trying to appeal to conservatives, but could this kind of toxic language end up ultimately backfiring?" Roberts…
Ken Shepherd
November 21st, 2011 12:02 PM

CNN to Norquist: 'Aren't You Exactly What a Lot of Voters Hate About O

CNN's Carol Costello borrowed from the Democrats on Monday's American Morning and demanded that conservative Grover Norquist explain why he wasn't "exactly what a lot of voters hate" about America's political system. From the start of her interview with Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Costello bludgeoned him with Democratic talking points. Democrats had attacked Norquist…
Matt Hadro
November 21st, 2011 11:57 AM

Is Chris Matthews Racist? According to His Own Standard, Yes

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Saturday expressed his harshest criticism of Barack Obama to date saying amongst other things that he's got "the worst kind of a notion of the presidency." Roughly three months ago, Matthews on the syndicated weekend program bearing his name smelled racism in the declining number of whites supporting the current White House…
Noel Sheppard
November 21st, 2011 10:32 AM

Open Thread: What Will Happen With Supercommittee Defeat

The congressional supercommittee tasked with finding ways to reduce the federal deficit is looking like they will admit defeat sometime today. The failure of the supercommittee will create and end of the year battle over jobless benefits and an expiring payroll tax, among other programs set to expire at the end of December. Democrats on the committee are seeking to extend jobless benefits,…
NB Staff
November 21st, 2011 10:07 AM

So-Called Electability and MSM Bias

It is open season for the liberal media on any GOP presidential candidate who displays the audacity to surge in the polls, the latest targets being Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. A reasonable case can be made for some of these criticisms, and conservatives often concede the weaknesses, but there is no justification for this same media's ongoing cover-up for the current White House occupant.…
David Limbaugh
November 21st, 2011 10:07 AM

Frank Rich Blasts Chris Matthews for 'Man-Crush' JFK Biography

The day after MSNBC's Chris Matthews tore into Barack Obama for having "the worst kind of a notion of the presidency," New York magazine's Frank Rich blasted the Hardball host for publishing a "man-crush of a biography" about the late John F. Kennedy (emphasis added):
Noel Sheppard
November 21st, 2011 9:34 AM

Character on NBC's 'The Office' 'Apologizes' for Republicans Cutting N

On Thursday's episode of The Office on NBC, character Oscar Martinez, played by actor Oscar Nunez, apologizes to a park ranger at the Gettysburg battlefield for both the ranting of character Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) and for "the Republicans who are cutting your funding." [Audio available here] Despite Dunder Mifflin's accountant taking a gratuitous shot at the GOP, the historic Civil…
Kyle Drennen
November 21st, 2011 9:03 AM

Mika Brzezinski's Anti-Newt Rant Drives Her To Emotional Brink

Shades of "Special Comment"!  In a rant worthy of Keith Olbermann at the height of his Miss Precious Perfect histrionics, Mika Brezinski began today's Morning Joe by tearing into Newt Gingrich for his recent suggestion that Occupy protestors should "get a job, right after you take a bath." It wasn't merely Mika's words: "arrogant, disgusting, sickened."  So strongly ran Brzezinski's rage…
Mark Finkelstein
November 21st, 2011 8:23 AM

Howard Kurtz Takes Bill O'Reilly's Side in Lincoln Book Battle With Wa

A rather extraordinary thing happened Sunday. CNN's Howard Kurtz actually took Bill O'Reilly's side in the Lincoln book dispute the Fox News host is having with Kurtz's former employer the Washington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 20th, 2011 10:41 PM

60 Minutes: Grover Norquist 'Likes Things Ugly,' Group Has Characteris

Serious question: who do you think the liberal media loathes more: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Grover Norquist?  I'm going with 'b.' After all, Mahmoud merely wants to build an atom bomb and wipe Israel off the map, for starters. But Grover Norquist wants to keep taxes from increasing and thereby limit the growth of government. In a 60 Minutes hit piece tonight, CBS correspondent Steve Kroft…
Mark Finkelstein
November 20th, 2011 9:34 PM

David Gregory Echoes Obama Adviser, Asks John Kerry 'Does Romney Have

White House senior adviser David Plouffe made headlines last month when he told NBC's David Gregory that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "has no core." On Sunday's Meet the Press, the host decided to play the part of one of Barack Obama's closest allies and ask Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), "Does Romney have a core politically?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 20th, 2011 9:08 PM