Ed Schultz: 'Will Voters Hold GOP Accountable for Trying to Kill Ameri

Despite Clint Eastwood's pronouncement Monday that he is "certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama," the President's fans in the media are doing a victory lap over Super Bowl Sunday's Chrysler commercial featuring the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker. So excited by this ad was MSNBC's Ed Schultz Monday that he disgustingly asked his audience, "Will voters hold Republicans…
Noel Sheppard
February 6th, 2012 9:17 PM

NBC Nightly News Finally Mentions Obama Mandate Imposition on Catholic

NBC Nightly News on Monday lifted its two-plus week blackout of the Obama administration’s decision to force religious institutions, such as Catholic hospitals and charities, to provide birth control coverage in health insurance provided to employees, but ABC’s World News and the CBS Evening News have still yet to utter a syllable about what has enraged people across the political spectrum…
Brent Baker
February 6th, 2012 8:35 PM

Clint Eastwood: 'I Am Certainly Not Politically Affiliated With Mr. Ob

Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood has come under some heat for appearing in a Chrysler commercial on Super Bowl Sunday that some feel was pro-Obama. Eastwood spoke with Ron Mitchell, the producer of Fox's O'Reilly Factor, Monday to set the record straight:
Noel Sheppard
February 6th, 2012 7:29 PM

CNN Quickly Reported Liberal Backlash Against Komen, But Sat on Religi

CNN's blatant double-standard in covering religious and social issues was manifested in its lopsided coverage of two different stories over the past few weeks. When prominent religious leaders condemned an Obama administration mandate as an attack on religious freedom, the network gave the controversy one brief mention in ten days. But when liberal outrage ensued over a cancer charity…
Matt Hadro
February 6th, 2012 6:54 PM

Chris Matthews: Obama's Smile 'Worth Five to Ten Points' on Election D

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there he goes again. On MSNBC's Hardball Monday, host Chris Matthews said Barack Obama's smile "is worth five to ten points" on Election Day (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 6th, 2012 6:05 PM

Nets Hype Social Media 'Torrent' in Komen Reversal, Keep Slant Toward

ABC, CBS, and NBC spotlighted the Komen foundation's about-face on funding Planned Parenthood on their Friday evening newscasts, and played up the apparent role of social media in getting the charity to reverse its earlier decision. On World News, ABC's Diane Sawyer trumpeted the "dramatic day for people power," while on Nightly News, NBC's Lester Holt concluded, "score one for the power of…
Matthew Balan
February 6th, 2012 5:45 PM

How Planned Parenthood Used Social Media to Crush Komen

Politico's Keach Hagey has predicted Planned Parenthood's successful ambush of Susan G. Komen for the Cure last week will "likely to go down as a textbook case of the political power of social media." She's right, and pro-lifers need to learn from it.
Jill Stanek
February 6th, 2012 5:31 PM

NBC's Lauer to Obama: Can Mitt Romney 'Identify With the Middle Class

In his softball Sunday interview with President Obama before the Super Bowl, Today co-host Matt Lauer invited the Democratic commander in chief to speculate on Mitt Romney's ability to connect with voters: "He's a guy who's been incredibly successful in his life and career. He's made a lot of money, it's not a crime...can [he] identify with the middle class and the underclass in this country…
Kyle Drennen
February 6th, 2012 5:15 PM

MSNBC's Bashir Blows Smoke Over Obama Contraception Mandate in Newt-Ba

While most in the liberal media are downright ignoring President Obama's attack on religious institutions -- via the mandate that they cover contraceptives in their health insurance plans, even if doing so violates church teaching -- MSNBC's Martin Bashir mentioned the issue in today's "Clear the Air" commentary that closes his eponymous program. Of course, true to MSNBC form, Bashir ignored…
Ken Shepherd
February 6th, 2012 5:10 PM

NYT Hails Planned Parenthood Donor Mayor Bloomberg for 'Longtime Suppo

New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum wrote a valentine in news story format for Saturday’s edition on Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s heavily publicized donation to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood, after it initially lost funding from the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity: “With Fine Timing, Bloomberg Makes a Financial Pledge That Excites and Engages.” Raising not a whisper of…
Clay Waters
February 6th, 2012 4:14 PM

WaPo Editorial Board: Virginia Voter ID Bill Example of State's 'Insti

On Saturday I noted how Washington Post staffer Laura Vozzella front-loaded her February 4 Metro-section front-pager with overheated rhetoric from liberal Democrats suggesting that voter ID bills pushed by Republicans were the second-coming of Jim Crow. As I wrote my critique, I wondered what sort of news editor would allow such extremely biased dreck to go to publication. Today's Washington…
Ken Shepherd
February 6th, 2012 3:51 PM

Drill There, Build Here, Now

Media buy lefty shtick on Keystone pipeline, accept Obama as pro-energy.
Dan Gainor
February 6th, 2012 2:41 PM

Brent Bozell to Media: Tell the Truth About Obama's Assault on Religio

Editor's Note: What follows is a letter that NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell sent to the presidents of the news divisions of ABC, CBS, and NBC as well as to CNN president Jim Walton. It has also been carbon copied to 10 leaders representing various Catholic and Protestant faith organizations. The broadcast and cable television networks need to report the…
Brent Bozell
February 6th, 2012 1:54 PM

Media's 'Blatant' Pro-Abortion Bias Clear in Komen Controversy, Says N

On Sunday, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat highlighted the blunt favoritism shown by the media toward Planned Parenthood in last week’s headline-making spat with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, the breast cancer charity, after it announced it would no longer fund the prominent abortion provider: “The Media’s Abortion Blinders.” Douthat compared the popularity of the pro-…
Clay Waters
February 6th, 2012 1:47 PM