NYTimes: GOP (Still) Doomed on Immigration, Causing 'Significant Polit

The New York Times is once again trying very hard to make the GOP candidates’s tough stands against illegal immigration a damaging campaign issue. Saturday's entry was reported by Jennifer Steinhauer, “Some Republicans in Congress Are Pushing Steps to Ease Immigration.” She gave congressional Republicans backhanded praise for being "more nuanced and measured" on immigration than their…
Clay Waters
November 2nd, 2011 10:53 AM

Chris Matthews Speculates Herman Cain Sexually Harassed Women While Dr

Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews urged Herman Cain to admit to sexually harassing women and even predicted what the Republican front-runner might say: "I think even if it's really bad he has to put the context to it. He has to say, 'It was an extraordinary night, I had too many drinks, I normally don't act like that, this is not me.'" [Audio available here…
Kyle Drennen
November 2nd, 2011 10:15 AM

Open Thread: Thirty-strong Congressional Call for Holder's Resignation

The tally now comes to 30 members of Congress calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign following Operation Fast and Furious. The latest congressman to call for Holder's resignation was Rep. Connie Mac (R-FL). Mack, who just last week announced he will be running for Senate, indicates that calling for Holder's resignation is a widely shared and politically popular view. Do you…
NB Staff
November 2nd, 2011 10:03 AM

NB Publisher Bozell Debates Liberal Roland Martin on CNN Regarding Cai

NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center debated liberal CNN contributor Roland Martin on the November 1 John King USA regarding the media's coverage of anonymous 15-year-old sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain. "What's the accusation?!" Bozell demanded, noting the media's frenzy over what amounts to incredibly vague, anonymously-sourced accusations from 15 years ago. "…
NB Staff
November 2nd, 2011 9:53 AM

Lanny Breuer Fast & Furious Link Absurdly Absent From Wikipedia

H.R. Haldeman. If you are familiar with that name, the first thing to pop into your mind would probably be Watergate.  And, indeed, the very first sentence of Haldeman's Wikipedia entry mentions that scandal. Lanny Breuer. For the folks who now know the name of the Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Criminal Division, Operation Fast & Furious would come to mind right away. However…
P.J. Gladnick
November 2nd, 2011 9:44 AM

Scarborough: Conservative Leaders Telling Me They'd 'Rather Lose' Than

Could this be a watershed week in the Republican presidential primary?  Joe Scarborough seems to think so.   On today's Morning Joe, he said something remarkable: that in the last week, stalwart conservatives and "conservative leaders" have begun telling him that they would "rather lose" than elect Mitt Romney. Video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
November 2nd, 2011 8:33 AM

Papantonio So Unhinged By Allegations Against Cain, Even Ed Schultz De

Ed Schultz used to be conservative, then jumped ship more than a decade ago and became a left winger. Yet based on his conversation Monday with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio, Schultz's conversion appears far from complete. The two were talking on Schultz's radio show about allegations of sexual harassment leveled against GOP candidate Herman Cain in the 1990s while he was head of…
Jack Coleman
November 2nd, 2011 6:26 AM

Wires Virtually Ignore Corzine's Dem Party ID, Rarely Associate Him Wi

Consider this post the print and online follow-up to the report early Tuesday evening by Matthew Balan at NewsBusters on the failure of the Big Three TV networks to note the Democratic Party/Obama fundraising affiliation of former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, whose now-bankrupt MF Global financial firm has apparently admitted to diverting client money in a futile attempt to battle its…
Tom Blumer
November 2nd, 2011 12:19 AM

Sharpton: Republicans Can't 'Use Christianity' Then Vote Against Welfa

Call yourself a Christian?  Then you can't oppose whatever welfare programs the Democrats devise.  So in effect argued Al Sharpton on his MSNBC show this evening.   In the course of criticizing House Republicans for having passed a bill reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto, Sharpton somehow equated Christianity with support for the liberal agenda.  And although I'm the…
Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2011 9:53 PM

Bozell Column: Protests Turn Violent, But Media Stay Syrupy

NBC anchor Brian Williams, in the argot of the moment, certainly belongs to The One Percent. He lives in the glass-encased Bloomberg Tower in mid-town Manhattan, 34 stories above the tony restaurant Le Cirque at 58th Street and Lexington Avenue. For years he has lived up in the luxury apartment heavens with Beyonce and GE chieftains past and present (both Jack Welch and Jeffrey Immelt). He’s…
Brent Bozell
November 1st, 2011 9:19 PM

Touré: Herman Cain Is Nothing More Than a Black 'Minstrelsy' Entertai

The liberal media are clearly in a full-scale panic over the possibility that a black conservative could either win the Republican presidential nomination or become the eventual victor's running mate. On MSNBC's The Last Word Monday, left-wing author Touré went on a racially charged attack on Herman Cain referring to him as a black "minstrelsy" entertainer (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2011 7:34 PM

Big Three Nets Omit Corzine's Party ID as Feds Investigate His Firm

On Tuesday, the morning shows of the Big Three networks omitted the party affiliation of Jon Corzine as they reported on the federal investigation into his brokerage firm, something that even the liberal New York Times gave in their coverage of the story. ABC's Good Morning America also failed to include Corzine's name during their news brief on the investigation. News anchor Josh Elliott…
Matthew Balan
November 1st, 2011 6:48 PM

Brian Williams Worries Jon Stewart Has Been Too Tough on Occupy Wall S

In an interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart on the premiere of NBC's latest news magazine Rock Center on Monday, host Brian Williams fretted over Stewart's mocking of the Occupy Wall Street protests: "A lot of people were surprised....You were tough on them. You've been tough on them. You've been exacting and taking them to task for all the mayhem, for the drum circles." Stewart joked…
Kyle Drennen
November 1st, 2011 4:51 PM

CNN Segment Hypes 'Diversity' of Occupy Seattle

CNN used an "In Depth" segment on Tuesday to emphasize the diversity among protesters at Occupy Seattle, featuring a rapper, a group of "Raging Grannies," drummers and more. The report during the 12 p.m. hour was one of multiple segments that ran on Tuesday afternoon giving viewers a close-up look at the Wall Street protests. The sympathetic look at the protesters can be contrasted with CNN'…
Matt Hadro
November 1st, 2011 4:16 PM