Chris Matthews Compares Obama Speech to Troops in Afghanistan to Henry

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. I have to wonder how the St. Crispin's Day speech by Henry V as written by William Shakespeare would sound if read from a teleprompter. The reason for this strange speculation is that Chris Matthews yesterday on Hardball compared President Obama's speech to the troops in Afghanistan to…
P.J. Gladnick
May 2nd, 2012 11:28 AM

Shareholder Tells NYT 'You’re Willing to Offend Catholics Because Th

A shareholder in New York Times stock told Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and other officials at the company's annual meeting last week, "You’re willing to offend the Catholics because they’re not going to come and kill you.” Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid reported Wednesday:
Noel Sheppard
May 2nd, 2012 10:44 AM

Rather Purports To Be At Peace, But Suggests Anonymous Partisans Destr

If this is how Dan Rather at peace looks like, wonder what he's like when angry and embittered . . . On Morning Joe today, Rather emphatically alleged that he was "at peace" over the Memogate fiasco that led to the end of his career. But he couldn't help himself from suggesting that his reputation had been destroyed by anonymous partisans employing "lies."  View the video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
May 2nd, 2012 9:52 AM

Open Thread: Book Reveals Pelosi Knew About Waterboarding

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has now been formally exposed for lying about her knowledge of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding by a new book from a former CIA counterterrorism officer who actually gave her a briefing about them. In other words, Pelosi and other congressional Democrats who later decried the use of "torture" when it became politically…
Matthew Sheffield
May 2nd, 2012 9:51 AM

National Media Ignore Would-be Cleveland Terrorists' Occupy Connection

The leaders of the plot to bomb an Ohio highway bridge are members of the "Occupy" movement, but you won't find that information in much of the mainstream media coverage of the story. The FBI arrested five people in a federal sting operation in which FBI agents provided inoperable explosives to suspects allegedly intending to bomb a bridge about 15 miles south of Cleveland. The suspects, …
Matthew Sheffield
May 2nd, 2012 9:49 AM

Jimmy Kimmel: Romney ‘Looks Like Every Guy in Every Erectile Dysfunc

As NewsBusters reported, Jimmy Kimmel at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner made totally disgraceful jokes about how large President Obama’s penis is. Three days later on his own program, Kimmel took a different tack with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying, “He looks like every guy in every erectile dysfunction commercial” (video follows with transcribed…
Noel Sheppard
May 2nd, 2012 9:49 AM

PolitiFact Whiffs Again, Rates Accurate Romney Claim 'Half True

It must be campaign season. Fact-checking gurus are rating accurate statements by the Romney campaign as "Mostly False" or "Half True" or – the best – "True but False," since they're correct but they apparently don't tell the whole story. However, when President Obama made a factually-incorrect statement last week, he did not receive a "False" rating from the website PolitiFact, but…
Matt Hadro
May 2nd, 2012 9:09 AM

No WashPost Liberal Labels As Kathleen Turner Play Honors Molly Ivins

First came the play honoring liberal Texas Gov. Ann Richards. Now comes the play honoring leftist Texas columnist Molly Ivins, played by....Kathleen Turner? She’ll be getting her frump on. But The Washington Post couldn’t put an L word on either of these ladies. “Kathleen Turner will star in Arena Stage’s production of ‘Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins,’ by Margaret and…
Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2012 8:02 AM

Piers Morgan: Killing Bin Laden 'Biggest Decision' of Obama's Presiden

Are you starting to feel the media are spiking more footballs as the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's execution nears than the President himself? On CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, the host actually called this "the biggest decision" of Barack Obama's presidency (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 1st, 2012 11:44 PM

Bozell Column: Our Anti-Obama Media

The general-election campaign for president is not yet under way, but clearly some in media have entered the Utterly Ridiculous Zone. On CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” host Howard Kurtz hailed an “eye-opener: the candidate with the best coverage during the presidential primaries was Mitt Romney. And the worst? Barack Obama.” That’s not eye-opening. It’s a declaration that you’re blind. And deaf.…
Brent Bozell
May 1st, 2012 11:12 PM

CNN's Candy Crowley Pounds McDonnell on Voter ID, Skips Asking Schweit

On Sunday's State of the Union, CNN anchor Candy Crowley interviewed two governors, Virginia Republican Bob McDonnell and Montana Democrat Brian Schweitzer. Crowley pounded McDonnell with a set of questions about that state's voter ID bill and whether it disenfranchises Democrats, and she also brought up the "non-invasive ultrasound" abortion controversy. But Crowley skipped asking Schweitzer…
Tim Graham
May 1st, 2012 11:02 PM

Chuck Todd Compares Bin Laden Assassination to VE and VJ Days

NBC's Chuck Todd on Tuesday, moments before President Obama addressed the nation from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, compared the assassination of Osama bin Laden one year ago to VE and VJ Days marking the end of World War II. The following was actually said by NBC's Chief White House correspondent on MSNBC's Hardball (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 1st, 2012 7:51 PM

NYT Blogger: 'Cuba May Be the Most Feminist Country in Latin America

Forget the fact that Cuba is a one-party totalitarian state where leadership is entirely dependent on how closely related one is to a certain Fidel Castro rather than any electoral process. The good news is that "Cuba may be the most feminist country in Latin America." That laughable premise has been published by New York Times blogger Luisita Lopez Torregrosa. Of course, that revelation would…
P.J. Gladnick
May 1st, 2012 7:15 PM

CBS: Vice President Biden Among 'Most Popular Surrogates' of Obama

On Monday, CBSNews.com's Lucy Madison bizarrely included Vice President Biden as one of the Obama campaign's "most popular surrogates" as she highlighted First Lady Michelle Obama's 69 percent approval rating, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. However, Madison didn't point out that Biden's approval ratings in two polls earlier in 2012 lag far behind Mrs. Obama. The online…
Matthew Balan
May 1st, 2012 6:48 PM