Media Pump Up Obama, Despite High Gas Prices

For years while George W. Bush was in the White House, the three broadcast networks and other media repeatedly hyped the threat of rising gas prices, exaggerated the "record" price of gas and incorrectly predicted, $4, $5 and $6 gasoline or even higher. Now the gas price story has been turned upside down under the anti-oil presidency of Obama, despite sustained high gas prices.
Julia A. Seymour
November 17th, 2011 12:39 PM

HLN's Outgoing Joy Behar: A Record of Bashing and Smearing Conservativ

With the news that the liberal Joy Behar's HLN show will end next month, the Media Research Center compiled a "best of Behar" list from its own archives. The liberal prime-time host was one who could never be accused of holding back her smears against conservatives, and repeatedly teed-up her liberal guests to bash Republicans. Behar, who is also the co-host of ABC's The View, mostly…
Matt Hadro
November 17th, 2011 12:15 PM

Video: 'Occupy San Diego' Honors Suspected White House Shooter with Mo

During the height of the Tea Party protests, the liberal media sought to hype any hint that the movement may turn violent against Democrats in general and President Obama in particular. For example, Hardball's Chris Matthews famously blew up in August 2009 at a libertarian protester who legally carried a gun to a presidential townhall meeting in New Hampshire, suggesting it was wildly…
Ken Shepherd
November 17th, 2011 11:48 AM

Open Thread: Could Gingrich's Ties to Freddie Mac Hurt His Campaign

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has been surging in national polls lately, many of which put him in first place for the Republican presidential nomination, slightly ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. However, like any other GOP candidate could tell you, the better you are polling, the more criticism you get. Gingrich is now being scrutinized for his ties to the widely disliked…
NB Staff
November 17th, 2011 11:04 AM

Time's Tharoor: 'Occupy Wall Street Strikes Back

"[A]s Occupy Wall Street embarks on a day of action across New York City that's being echoed by protests around the U.S. and the world, Bloomberg may yet question whether he should have let Zuccotti be," Time magazine's Ishaan Tharoor noted in a November 17 "Global Spin" blog post at the magazine's website. Tharoor has previously romanticized the OWS movement, and today's post, "The Whole…
Ken Shepherd
November 17th, 2011 11:01 AM

Networks Ignore Reports That White House Shooter May Have Spent Time a

Updated : More analysis added. As reports started coming out on Wednesday on the search for White House shooting suspect Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, one common detail was mentioned, including in The New York Times: "Late on Friday, the police searched the Occupy DC protest camp...after reports that the suspect might have spent time there." NBC, ABC, and CBS left that fact out of their…
Kyle Drennen
November 17th, 2011 9:51 AM

My Generous Offer To Liberal Talk Show Host Bill Press

Liberal talk show host Bill Press recently said he sees no difference between the allegations against Herman Cain and that of a child-sex abusing ex-Penn State coach stating, “What’s the difference, really? There’s no difference. I mean, okay, we have maybe sexual assault in the case of Sandusky (Penn State coach), but let me tell you something, assuming, and if what Sharon Bialek says is…
Rick Amato
November 17th, 2011 9:02 AM

NYT Reporter Condemns Gold-Hoarding 'Dragon' Germany Proposing Path of

New York Times Berlin bureau chief Nicholas Kulish was harsh on his hosts in his “Memo From Germany” on Wednesday, “Success and Advice Cast a Giant as a Villain, Not a Model, in Europe.” Germany’s leadership has had the gall to fix work-force rules and institute pension reforms and are insisting that bailout help for free-spending, sclerotic Greece must be contingent on similar requirements, or…
Clay Waters
November 17th, 2011 8:09 AM

NYTimes Again Finds 'Far Right Wing' of GOP; Yet to Locate Democratic

New York Times political reporters Jeff Zeleny (pictured) and Jim Rutenberg teamed up on Tuesday for a preview of the possible presidential head-to-head matchup Obama vs. Mitt Romney: “As the Primary Campaign Grinds On, Romney’s Team Prepares for Obama.” But they felt the need to put a metaphorical finger on the scale with a negative description of the GOP.
Clay Waters
November 17th, 2011 7:24 AM

Sharpton Slams Cain For Calling 'Cuban' A Language—Ignores Obama Did

Say, Al Sharpton: if Herman Cain lacks "intelligence" for colloquially referring to "Cuban" as a language, how about Barack Obama . . . who did precisely the same thing when it came to "Austrian"? On his MSNBC show tonight, Sharpton mocked Cain for asking in an aside while munching on a Cuban delicacy during a campaign stop: "how do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?" Does Sharpton not know that…
Mark Finkelstein
November 16th, 2011 10:46 PM

Implying Cain Lied: 'Can Gloria Cain Pull a Hillary Clinton

The Los Angeles Times has aggressively covered the unproven sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain. When his wife Gloria granted an interview to Fox News to respond, Times reporter James Oliphant asked "Can Gloria Cain Pull a Hillary Clinton?" Oliphant didn't seem to consider that an insulting question -- since he never told the reader the obvious. Hillary Clinton helped her husband deny…
Tim Graham
November 16th, 2011 10:41 PM

Gay Pope-Imam Kiss? Benetton Sells Clothes With Gay-Kiss 'Unhate' Camp

Newsweek and New York magazine are running it. The New York Times turned it down. But Benetton is returning to its decency-shredding advertising ways, photographically mashing world leaders -- even the Pope -- into homosexual kisses. This would be the same Newsweek that once refused a left-wing tree-hugger ad that trashed...Victoria's Secret. "Italian clothing chain Benetton is trying to drum…
Tim Graham
November 16th, 2011 9:32 PM

Newspaper Guild Endorses Occupy Movement's Thursday 'Day of Mass Actio

Five weeks ago, Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center's Culture & Media Institute thoroughly documented (at NewsBusters; at MRC) how "two separate news unions, including the newspaper guild, the recognized union for many print and online journalists, and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) are fully behind the radical message of Occupy Wall Street." Now that the Occupy encampments…
Tom Blumer
November 16th, 2011 8:57 PM

Chris Matthews on Newt Gingrich: 'He’s Not a Human Being, He’s a G

Now that Newt Gingrich has taken frontrunner status in some Republican presidential candidacy polls, it's the job of the liberal media to lay off Herman Cain and Rick Perry and start focusing their attacks on him. Doing his part Wednesday was MSNBC's Chris Matthews who in the middle of a twelve minute opening smear job of the former House Speaker on Hardball actually said, "He’s not a human…
Noel Sheppard
November 16th, 2011 6:55 PM