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NPR Hides Host's Speech for Pay
Guest hosts of the NPR-distributed Diane Rehm Show announced on Thursday and Friday that "Diane is in Maine on a station visit." But that description to the public was incomplete. In fact, Rehm went to Portland, Maine as a keynote speaker on Friday to the fall conference of the local environmental group Maine Businesses for Sustainability. "Diane Rehm will discuss the ways in which…
November 5th, 2011 7:21 AM

Joe Scarborough, Ben Bradlee Suggest Herman Cain Is (and Should Be) Fi
Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller attended the book party for Chris Matthews and his new book on JFK the "Elusive Hero" to draw out media reaction to the vague Herman Cain harassment allegations. Both MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee dumped their disdain on Cain. Bradlee even suggested Cain deserved it all: "I think he’s got it coming to him,…
November 5th, 2011 6:52 AM

Caller to NPR Attacks Media for Downplaying Democrat Sex Scandals, An
On Friday’s edition of the Diane Rehm show on many NPR stations, a conservative-leaning caller, identified as “Frank from St. Louis” lit into “you guys in the mainstream press” for ignoring and/or delaying sex scandals about liberal Democrats, but leaping on the Herman Cain allegations, no matter how fuzzy.
What “Frank” got in return from the three journalists on the “Friday News Roundup”…
November 4th, 2011 11:05 PM

Schultz Guest: Koch Brothers 'Purchased' Cain So They Could 'Kill More
How vile is Mike Papantonio? For the second time in three days the trial lawyer-cum-radio host has actually made Ed Schultz look relatively reasonable.
Interviewed by Schultz on his MSNBC show this evening, Papantonio claimed that the Koch brothers had "purchased" Herman Cain in order to be able to "kill more people" with toxins. Video after the jump.
November 4th, 2011 10:12 PM

ABC Skips Corzine Resignation, CBS and NBC Avoid Democrat Label
ABC's World News this week failed to mention the development that former New Jersey Democratic Senator and former Governor Jon Corzine is mired in a scandal involving $600 million in missing funds from the financial firm MF Global which he headed until today.
The CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News so far have not mentioned Corzine's Democratic Party affiliation as they ran full…
November 4th, 2011 9:45 PM

AP Headline, First Graf on Solyndra Subpoena Rejection Fail to Name th
It would be funny if it weren't so transparently sad. We've seen "name that party" games for a long time in the press. Today, the Associated Press played "name that company."
In an unbylined report Friday evening which oddly has Dina Cappiello's Twitter address at the bottom , the identity of failed solar manufacturer Solyndra isn't revealed until the third paragraph. The item's headline…
November 4th, 2011 9:10 PM
Dem Strategist Bob Shrum: Sexual Harassment Never Minor, Except When I
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Emerson warned. Is it too much to expect in the same sentence?
Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show Wednesday to weigh in on the allegations against Herman Cain, veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum had this to say (audio) --
November 4th, 2011 7:47 PM

NPR: 'Ominous' That Under-30 Adults Aren't Excited About Obama Anymore
On Friday's Morning Edition, NPR's Joel Rose played up the apparently "ominous" finding that voting-age adults 30 and younger aren't as "enamored of Mr. Obama as they used to be." Rose obtained sound bites from the President's supporters, but didn't play any from opponents. He also expressed liberal hopes when he stated that "there's still time for [them] to rediscover the excitement they felt…
November 4th, 2011 7:40 PM

'Largely Peaceful March' in Oakland? NY Times Again Downplays Occupy's
Yesterday Times Watch asked how prominently the New York Times would play the undeniable violence, property damage, and arrests that took place during the Occupy Oakland protests on Wednesday night. The answer: On the front of the National section, page A15. Reporter Maria Wollan got in some of the destructive details from the protests, but still tried to emphasize the “peaceful march” that…
November 4th, 2011 7:20 PM

MSNBC Guest: Cain 'Really Would Have Been Lynched' If He Did This in t
Since Monday, MSNBC has practically been a 24 hour video loop of sexual harassment related attacks on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
On Friday's Martin Bashir show, guest Goldie Taylor actually said, "If Herman Cain did what he purportedly did, you know, back in the ’90s with these particular young women in the ’50s and ’60s in this country, he really would have been lynched…
November 4th, 2011 6:18 PM
Herman Cain's Gauntlet
When it comes to sex, the media apply different standards to Republicans and Democrats.
Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton allegedly trolled for women, using state troopers as his procurers. As president, Clinton engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. He lied about it under oath and was impeached, though later acquitted by the U.S. Senate. Other sexual accusations tainted…
November 4th, 2011 5:34 PM

Shorter Amy Sullivan: Religious Conservatives Believe They Have a Righ
“[S]ocial conservatives believe that efforts to protect gays from assault, discrimination or bullying impinge on their religious freedom to express and act on their belief that homosexuality is an abomination. That’s stating it harshly, but it is the underlying belief,” Time religion reporter Amy Sullivan huffed in a November 4 Swampland blog post on the magazine’s website.
“[T]he Michigan…
November 4th, 2011 5:24 PM
Media Fawn Over 'Groundbreaking' Gay Wedding on Late Night Comedy Show
Online media praise Conan O'Brien for officiating 'history-making' on-air same-sex nuptials.
November 4th, 2011 2:02 PM

Michael Moore Calls CBS Reporter a 'Punk' and a Liar for Asking About
As NewsBusters has been reporting, schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore, a multimillionaire hypocritically supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement, is doing everything possible to hide how rich he is.
On Thursday, Moore had a contentious encounter with a CBS reporter in Denver who after asking the filmmaker about his net worth was called a "punk" and a liar (video follows with excerpts…
November 4th, 2011 1:19 PM