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CBS Touts 'Village' Run By 'Hungry For Change' Wall Street Protesters
CBS's Bigad Shaban filed a puff piece about the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators on Tuesday's Early Show, trumpeting their "self-operating mini-community in lower Manhattan" and how they were "hungry for change," all the while ignoring the radical left wing politics of many in attendance. Shaban took more time to note that "this isn't your average protest. Yoga classes are taught in the off-…
October 11th, 2011 7:33 PM
Bloomberg News Downplays Nature of Solyndra Scandal in Debate "Viewers
As a service to the 10 people who will somehow manage to find the Bloomberg Television channel on their cable box tonight in order to watch the network's GOP presidential debate, Bloomberg News today published and the Washington Post syndicated a "Viewers' Guide to Economic Jargon."
While most of the article is helpful and unbiased, Bloomberg News seriously downplayed the scandalous nature of…
October 11th, 2011 6:40 PM

MSNBC's Matthews on How to Beat Romney: Say He's One of the 'Pigs' on
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday worried about the emergence of Mitt Romney as a serious front-runner and a threat to Barack Obama's reelection. Talking to Democratic strategist Mark Penn, the "Hardball" host spoke the language of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: "Suppose [Democrats] make [Romney] Gordon Gekko? Suppose they say, he's one of the pigs on Wall Street?"
Matthews continued,…
October 11th, 2011 6:13 PM

CNN Praises Persistence of Wall St. Protests, 'Unignorable
Citing a poll showing that 51 percent of Americans have heard of the Wall Street protests, CNN's American Morning co-hosts lobbed some compliments toward the protesters on Tuesday. Co-host Christine Romans made sure to emphasize that "the movement is really resonating."
This is the same network that has been following the protests for weeks and speculating if they will become the liberal…
October 11th, 2011 5:54 PM

Delusional Ed Schultz Claims GOP Rep. Wants Media Censorship of Wall S
The inevitable question about radio blowhard and MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz -- is he dense or dishonest? That he's both is also a distinct possibility.
Schultz piously fulminated against Republican congressman Peter King of New York on his radio show yesterday for suggesting that public policy enacted in response to mob demands from the streets, as occurred during the '60s that liberals…
October 11th, 2011 5:38 PM

Juan Williams on Belafonte and West's Attacks on Herman Cain: 'They Re
As NewsBusters reported, singer Harry Belafonte and Princeton professor Cornel West took some cheap shots at Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday.
On Tuesday, former NPR political analyst Juan Williams told Fox News's Martha MacCallum, "They really can’t stand black conservatives. They think anybody who’s a black conservative is totally inauthentic" (video follows with…
October 11th, 2011 5:21 PM
Former NYTimes Editor Bill Keller Slams 'Doofus' Rick Perry
Monday’s column by former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, “Is the Tea Party Over?”, indulged in the usual doomsaying for the G.O.P.’s 2012 presidential prospects (too negative, too far to the right, etc.). Keller also found the “doofus” Gov. Perry guilty of giving “a wink to the evangelicals, a nod to the executioner, and an ardent defense of personal liberties for those who are…
October 11th, 2011 4:42 PM

NB Publisher Bozell Slams Media for Ignoring or Downplaying Solyndra S
Editor's Note: What follows is a statement NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell released this afternoon reacting to the findings of a Media Research Center study on the media's Solyndra coverage.
ABC, CBS and NBC are aiding and abetting in the cover-up of an outrageous scandal linked directly to Obama and his failed economic policies. Even the uber liberal New York Times could not ignore this…
October 11th, 2011 2:58 PM

GOP Debate Questioner Karen Tumulty Bashed Santorum, Gingrich; Praised
Joining PBS host Charlie Rose as a questioner tonight at the Washington Post debate is Post reporter Karen Tumulty, who wrote for Time magazine for quite a while. On the Post website, she promised "No gimmicks, no gotchas, just a discussion that is as serious as the issues that Americans are dealing with on a daily basis."
But Tumulty has a history of uncorking some liberal hosannas, hailing…
October 11th, 2011 2:40 PM
News Unions Support 'Revolution' of Occupy Wall Street
Two separate journalism guilds back radical protest movement, but none question their ethics.
October 11th, 2011 2:35 PM

NYTimes's Evidence of Perry's Racial Insensitivity: Mentioning Jesse J
Following in the shameful steps of the Washington Post, the New York Times on Monday again tried to use the long-standing racially offensive name of a hunting camp leased by Texas Gov. Perry's family to imply that Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, was guilty of racial insensitivity: “For Perry, Texas Roots Include Racial Backdrop – Hunting Camp Name Has Put Focus On the Other Side of…
October 11th, 2011 1:59 PM

NBC's Lauer: Protesters Mad at Obama for Not 'Taking On' Wall Street
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer interviewed Obama advisor David Plouffe and asked about the frustration of the left-wing Occupy Wall Street protesters: "These people are out there and they're angry at Wall Street, the so-called fat cats....They're also angry at Democrats and the administration for not taking them on and doing anything about it."
October 11th, 2011 1:38 PM

'Occupy Wall Street' Backer Huffington Decamps to Paris, Announces Le
While "Occupy Wall Street" is spreading to "more than a thousand countries," a key liberal supporter of the movement has been enjoying the past few days in the birthplace of the radical French Revolution, where she's expanding... her media empire.
Arianna Huffington is in Paris today announcing Le Huffington Post, a French-language version of The Huffington Post set to launch later this year…
October 11th, 2011 1:10 PM

CNN's Erin Burnett Asks Trump About 'Smaller-tent' Social-Issues GOP
CNN's new prime-time host Erin Burnett pressed Donald Trump about the Republican Party being a "smaller tent party" because of its conservatism on social issues. "Do you have any frustrations that the Republican Party still ends up defining itself by abortion stance or gay marriage?" she asked Trump.
Burnett even quoted rising star Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, who…
October 11th, 2011 1:06 PM