WaPo 'On Faith' Contributor: Jesus Would Want Government to 'Forgive

Liberal theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite has often used her perch on Washington Post's "On Faith" section to pound the pulpit for liberal economic ideas twisting Christian Scripture to support her views and, by extension, implicitly condemn as heresy dissenting ones. Monday's blog post "Forgive us our student loan debt" was no exception as the Center for American Progress senior fellow…
Ken Shepherd
November 30th, 2011 4:22 PM

For CNN, 200 'Occupy' Arrests Amounts to 'Dozens

CNN's T.J. Holmes, reporting Tuesday on the eviction of "Occupy Los Angeles" and the subsequent arrests of 200 protesters, simply numbered the arrests as totaling in the "dozens." Apparently for CNN, over 16 dozen arrests still merits the count of "dozens" rather than "scores" or even "hundreds" or simply "200." CNN held sympathy for "Occupy L.A." in more ways than one. During the 12 p.m.…
Matt Hadro
November 30th, 2011 3:55 PM

NBC's Lauer Hits Obama Advisor From Left, Cites Democratic Mayor Calli

On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer interviewed Obama advisor David Plouffe and promoted liberal concerns that the administration had not pushed enough government economic programs: "Even the Democratic Mayor of Scranton, Christopher Dougherty, says that he'd hoped for more federal help under this Democratic administration, and it hasn't come." Lauer further detailed Dougherty's…
Kyle Drennen
November 30th, 2011 3:35 PM

NYT Covers Falling Tea Party Support, Ignores Polls Showing Sharp Down

Kate Zernike, whose reporting on the Tea Party for the New York Times is often hostile, on Wednesday devoted a full story to an outside poll, from the Pew Research Center, claiming falling support for the Tea Party “may be dragging down the Republican Party heading into a presidential election year." (“Support for Tea Party Falls In Strongholds, Polls Show.”) Yet the Times has ignored recent…
Clay Waters
November 30th, 2011 2:52 PM

Flashback: Boston Globe Reporter Praised Barney Frank's 'Integrity' in

Barney Frank's retirement announcement could have come as early as 1989 but back then the Democratic congressman from Massachusetts relied on the liberal attitudes of his constituents and his friends in the media to see him through a prostitution scandal, friends like the Boston Globe's Tom Oliphant. On the August 26, 1989 edition of the syndicated Inside Washington, Oliphant had no fear that…
Geoffrey Dickens
November 30th, 2011 2:45 PM

NBC's Ann Curry in Baghdad: 'U.S. Brings Its Divisive Eight-Year War i

In a live report from Baghdad on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry described her arrival to the country with Vice President Biden: "Security is heavy amid an uptick in violence as the U.S. brings its divisive eight-year war in Iraq to an end. The Vice President timed his trip to the last days of America's war in Iraq." Later in the report, Curry listed the cost of the war: "Eight…
Kyle Drennen
November 30th, 2011 12:58 PM

Stephanopoulos Gloats: Will My Interview With New Accuser 'Spell the E

George Stephanopoulos, who as a Democratic operative in the '90s coordinated with ABC to save Bill Clinton from scandal, on Wednesday teased an exclusive with Herman Cain's accuser, openly gloating, "Will our interview spell the end of the one-time front-runner's presidential bid?" [See video below. MP3 audio here. ] The Good Morning America co-host could barely contain himself as he opened…
Scott Whitlock
November 30th, 2011 12:28 PM

WaPo Continues Barney Frank Puffery with 'Barney's Greatest Hits

Yesterday we noted how the Washington Post devoted both an A-section front-pager and a Style section front-pager to celebrating the career of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who announced his retirement from the House on Monday. Today the Post's "In the Loop" columnist Al Kamen continued the paper's celebration with a look at  "Frank's Greatest Hits", a collection of the Massachusetts Democrat's…
Ken Shepherd
November 30th, 2011 12:22 PM

Open Thread: Does Obama Know the Difference Between England and Great

Following the contemptible storming of the British Embassy in Iran by violent protestors, President Obama rightly condemned the Iranian government for not controlling the protestors and protecting a diplomatic outpost. In doing so, however, he made yet another embarrassing foreign policy gaffe: referring to the embassy as "English" instead of "British." How do you think the media would have…
NB Staff
November 30th, 2011 10:12 AM

Gingrich Rips WaPo: Media 'Would Rather Worry About Rumors About Conse

On Monday, NewsBusters broke a story about Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake using Twitter to dig up dirt on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. On Tuesday, the former House Speaker spoke to St. Louis radio host and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch about this saying, "It’s a little sad to see a paper the quality of the Washington Post stoop to...the National Enquirer approach…
Noel Sheppard
November 30th, 2011 9:34 AM

Tina Brown: Obama 'Doesn't Like His Job

Recently on Morning Joe it was Jon Meacham suggesting that Barack Obama doesn't particularly like people and was in the wrong line of work. Today it was Tina Brown's turn, opining that PBO doesn't dig his gig.   Discussing PBO's ever-paltrier poll numbers, Brown opined that Obama "doesn't like his job."  Video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
November 30th, 2011 9:31 AM

NYT's Keller Mocks Bloggers, State Colleges, Claims 'Stimulus Created

Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, devoted his oversized every-other-Monday column to a snobby and elitist assault on an old foe – the dangers of internet commentary, mostly of the right-wing variety, on the state of economic debate: “The Politics of Economics in the Age of Shouting.” Keller recently took a crash course in economics via airplane and bedside reading…
Clay Waters
November 30th, 2011 9:14 AM

Too Easy Being Green: New 'Muppets' Villain an Oil Tycoon

Muppet fans around the world were excited to see their childhood friends reunite; only to find out it was to save their studio from a rich oil executive. Liberal Hollywood loves an evil oil company - better yet, make it a successful business man that runs an oil company. The movie industry has repeatedly bashed businessmen and gone after gas and oil. Tex Richman, a wealthy man that plans to…
Iris Somberg
November 30th, 2011 9:04 AM

NPR Embarrassed America's the 'Only Major Country' That Still Has Clim

As the international "climate change" bureaucrats prepare to meet again in Durban, South Africa, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris (who makes the big bucks for nonprofit journalism) has filed several reports relying exclusively on left-wing climate panickers like Alden Meyer of the "Union of Concerned Scientists." In addition to that, on Tuesday night's All Things Considered, Harris…
Tim Graham
November 30th, 2011 8:46 AM