
Expect More Cain Scrutiny After Allegations, Hints NYTimes Reporter Su
Will the media take advantage of sexual harassment allegations to perform even more stringent levels of Cain scrutiny of every word and action from his campaign? New York Times reporter Susan Saulny hinted so in Friday’s “Even Cain’s Old Jokes Face Extra Scrutiny Now.”
Previously, Saulny had quoted leftist Cain-haters Cornel West and Harry Belafonte in an October 19 story fretting over Cain’…
November 11th, 2011 2:17 PM

Scandals, Penn State-Style Ethics and Journalist Hypocrisy
Networks focus on many scandals, from Fast and Furious to Cain, just not their own.
November 11th, 2011 1:37 PM

Jon Stewart Revels in Rick Perry's 'Brain Turd' Moment as the 'Dope Di
Jon Stewart, on Thursday's Daily Show, repeatedly mocked Rick Perry for his, as he put it, "brain turd" moment at this week's CNBC debate. However, Perry wasn't the only GOP candidate Stewart made fun of. Everyone from Perry to Santorum took a hit. The only candidate Stewart didn't mock was Mitt Romney, whom the Daily Show host declared to be the winner of the whole race. "It's over! Indecision…
November 11th, 2011 1:15 PM
Surprise! Iran Has Nukes
If ever there was a time when "see, I told you so" was warranted, it is now as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports this week that Iran is close to developing a nuclear weapon.
That so many in the State Department over several administrations could deceive themselves into believing claims by the Iranians that their intentions are nothing but peaceful and their sole objective…
November 11th, 2011 12:52 PM

NYTimes Prepares 'Autopsy Report' for 9-11-Type 'Disaster' of Perry Ca
Yet another media outlet is writing Gov. Rick Perry’s political obituary after his GOP debate flub Wednesday night. This time it's Ross Ramsey, managing editor for the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization that provides content to the New York Times: “National Spotlight Might Shine Too Bright for Gaffe-Prone Perry.”
The Times has certainly feasted on Perry’s flub, in which the Texas…
November 11th, 2011 12:51 PM

CNN Debate Moderator Runs Blooper Reel of GOP Debates
CNN's Wolf Blitzer – who will be moderating CNN's Republican presidential debate on November 22 – played a highlight reel of largely negative moments from the past GOP debates on Thursday afternoon's The Situation Room.
The "Top 10" video consisted of bloopers, controversial statements, and heated exchanges, all of which Blitzer innocently deemed "memorable moments." Rick Perry's most recent…
November 11th, 2011 12:40 PM

ABC's John Berman Mocks FEMA-Like 'Disaster' Rick Perry
Good Morning America's John Berman on Friday made no effort to hide his derision of Rick Perry, noting that former FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh is running his campaign. Berman openly mocked, "...[Allbaugh] ran FEMA. So, he knows how to recover from disasters, Robin."
Earlier in the segment, the reporter made another comparison, joking, "You know, there's no question that Rick Perry is in full…
November 11th, 2011 12:05 PM

NBC and CBS Give Scant Coverage to Deadly Shootings at Occupy Wall Str
On Friday, both NBC's Today and CBS's The Early Show offered news briefs on two deadly shooting incidents at two separate Occupy Wall Street protests Thursday night, while ABC's Good Morning America failed to make any mention of the deaths.
On Today, news anchor Natalie Morales reported: "Occupy Wall Street protests turned deadly overnight in two cities. In Oakland, California, Police are…
November 11th, 2011 11:38 AM

National Media Yawns at Soldiers Convicted of Murdering Civilians in A
Have you noticed how the Abu Ghraib-obsessed media are no longer really interested in tales of savagery from American soldiers...even when court martials find them guilty? Wouldn’t that make it seem that their concern for human rights is only tender when there’s a political usefulness to the story? Only CBS offered anchor briefs, on both Evening News and The Early Show.
Associated Press…
November 11th, 2011 10:41 AM

Media Mash: 'Predatory Black Sexuality' Edition
Liberal MSNBC contributors like Toure have "gone beyond the pale" with their recent remarks about Herman Cain, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell complained on the November 10 edition of "Hannity."
Bozell was reacting to a montage that included the liberal author anticipating a racist backlash by white conservatives who, according to Toure, will now fear…
November 11th, 2011 10:33 AM

CNN's Morgan Asks Powell If He Felt 'Used' on Iraq, Compares to Libya
As he interviewed former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN host Piers Morgan seemed to suggest that the war against Muammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya was perhaps better run than the war in Iraq, and went on to ask Powell if he felt "used" when he presented to the United Nations the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq.
After asking Powell did he…
November 11th, 2011 8:17 AM

CNN's Jack Cafferty Tells Perry 'Please Just Go Away,' Laments Palin S
On Thursday's edition of The Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer ran with the media herd that he's "probably never seen anthing as dramatic" as the Rick Perry brain freeze. Then he turned to commentator Jack Cafferty, who insisted, "Not since Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric as a candidate for one of the nation's highest offices disgraced himself the way Rick Perry did last night."…
November 11th, 2011 8:14 AM

CNN 'Belief Blog' Piles on Comparing Penn State to Catholic Hierarchy
The liberal media is very eager to underline the parallels between the Penn State sex-abuse scandal and the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal. There are some. But the media elite betrays their enthusiasm to drag the church through the P.R. mud again by dwelling overwhelmingly on anti-Catholic activists to offer a rerun of everything that went wrong, and very little about what has gone right…
November 10th, 2011 10:50 PM

WaPo's Miller Praises 'Frankness' of Evangelical Pastors About Sex, W
To Washington Post religion reporter Lisa Miller, evangelical ministers like Rick Warren and Tim Keller should be applauded for their "clinical frankness" about God's design for sexual pleasure within the covenant of marriage in their sermons, books, and even tweets.
Now if only they could just get over that silly biblical injunction against homosexuality, Miller lamented in her November 10 "…
November 10th, 2011 6:26 PM