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Chrystia Freeland on Ann Romney: 'Michelle Obama Gets Bashed If She We
As NewsBusters reported, Ann Romney got mercilessly attacked last week for having the unmitigated audacity to wear a $990 shirt on television.
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Thomson Reuters' Chrystia Freeland said this was "fair" and "fine" because "Michelle Obama gets bashed if she wears expensive clothes" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 5:31 PM
Schieffer Feigns Concern: Has Republican Party ‘Moved Too Far Right
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, who in February asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie whether the Republican presidential candidates “are pushing your party too far to the right to make the nomination worth anything when you get to November?”, on Sunday repeated his mantra, demanding of Peggy Noonan: “Do you think that the Republican Party has moved too far right for its own good?”
As if he cares…
May 6th, 2012 3:53 PM
David Gregory Asks Biden: Is There a 'Modern Right-Wing Conspiracy' Ag
In 1998, first lady Hillary Clinton famously claimed there was a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband.
On Sunday, NBC's David Gregory actually asked Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press, "Do you think that there is a modern right-wing conspiracy that has aligned against this president?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 3:49 PM
WashPost Tags Warren with 'Worst Week,' But Adds Indian Arguing She's
In Sunday’s Outlook section, Washington Post political Chris Cillizza awarded Massachusetts Democrat and Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren with the “Worst Week in Washington” award. But the Post also published native-American novelist David Treuer insisting – this is the headline – “Elizabeth Warren says she’s Native American. So she is.”
But the issue is that Warren would use her fraction…
May 6th, 2012 2:23 PM
PBS's Tavis Smiley: I Hate Seeing Obama 'Bragging About Having to Off
It's becoming crystal clear that President Obama stepped on his foot while taking a victory lap for the assassination of Osama bin Laden one year ago.
Joining the growing list of even liberal media members offended by this shameless act of self-promotion was PBS's Tavis Smiley who on ABC's This Week Sunday actually said, "I just hate seeing the president play into the hands of the right by…
May 6th, 2012 2:22 PM
Time Magazine Edits Out Clinton Saying 'For Him' in Obama's Bin Laden
It's become a huge source of contention that in the Obama campaign ad featuring the current White House resident shamelessly congratulating himself for killing Osama bin Laden, former President Clinton says that if SEALs had been captured or killed during the raid, "The downside would have been horrible for him."
Time magazine published an article last week by former Newsweek editor Jon…
May 6th, 2012 1:44 PM
Eleven 'Chris Matthews Show' Regulars Say Romney Won't Drive Political
You want a clear picture of just how in the tank America's media are for Barack Obama?
On Sunday, Chris Matthews revealed that eleven out of twelve regulars on the syndicated program bearing his name say Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won't take control and drive the political debate in the next six months leading to Election Day (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 1:05 PM
Fareed Zakaria on War on Terror: 'We Look Like Scared, Fearful Losers
While President Obama and his adoring media did a victory lap on the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's assassination, Fareed Zakaria had a completely different take about how the War on Terror is going.
On CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday, the host said, "We don't look like people who have won a war. We look like scared, fearful losers" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 6th, 2012 11:36 AM
Cleveland Plain Dealer: One of Five Arrested in Bridge Blowup Plot Sig
The last national press reports on the five men arrested Monday for plotting to blow up a Cleveland-area bridge reassured everyone that none involved were in responsible roles in the Occupy movement. On Thursday, the Associated Press's Thomas J. Sheeran wrote that Occupy Cleveland spokespersons "said the men were associated with the group but didn't represent Occupy Cleveland or its non-violent…
May 6th, 2012 10:28 AM
Candy Crowley: Most People Think GOP Are 'Conservative White Guys Who
As NewsBusters has been reporting of late, the Obama-loving media have been doing everything they can to play the race card as we head towards Election Day.
CNN's Candy Crowley did it on Sunday morning's State of the Union saying to Newt Gingrich, "Most people do look at Republicans going ‘They’re a conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect Big Oil’" (video follows with transcribed…
May 6th, 2012 10:08 AM
NY Times Goes Hunting for Racist 'Ultraconservatives' in Ohio Who Won
The New York Times sent reporter Sabrina Tavernise to the battleground state of Ohio, to the blue-collar town of Steubenville in pursuit of a pet theory: Barack Obama may struggle to win because some whites are racist. Tavernise starts by suggesting this could be a problem with Democrats, but “ultraconservatives” quickly surface.
The locals were most quotable in the Times when made…
May 6th, 2012 7:44 AM
NY Times Still Finds Obama a 'Rock Star,' Rally Has 'Techno-Dazzle
New York Times correspondent Mark Landler hyped Obama the “aging rock star” trying to rekindle the 2008 magic at a rally Saturday in Columbus. It also featured “digital gizmos” that “lent the rally the techno-dazzle of an Apple product introduction.”
The euphoria may be hard to recreate – the media hype then was more effective because it didn’t have three-and-a-half years of reality for…
May 5th, 2012 11:17 PM
HuffPo Writers Declare 'CNN Is Terrible' But Avoid the Real Reason Why
"CNN Is Terrible. Here's Why."
That is the headline on a Huffington Post story written by Jason Linkins and Elyse Siegel. They are certainly correct that "CNN is terrible" but as to the why they present only cosmetic or minor problems. The big why as to why CNN terrible, namely liberal bias, is left unmentioned in their article. They start out on the right track with amusing observations of…
May 5th, 2012 10:56 PM
Three Wires All Avoid Mentioning Seasonality of Jobs Data in Friday's
It is more than a little odd that each of the three wire services identified in today's earlier post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), in reporting on yesterday's OMG-awful jobs report, somehow failed to mention something about the data presented. Specifically, at Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Associated Press (here and here), five reporters in four stories somehow avoided using two truly required…
May 5th, 2012 10:13 PM