WaPo Buries Opposition to Tuition Bill; Baltimore Sun Paints GOP Criti

Yesterday liberal Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed into law a measure allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. Covering the story today, the Washington Post offered this bland print edition headline on page B1: "O'Malley signs bill allowing immigrant tuition breaks." The move "bucks trend in other states" and a "showdown…
Ken Shepherd
May 11th, 2011 11:24 AM

Poll-Cooking With AP: Obama Approval at 60% -- With 46-29 Dem-GOP Spli

The chefs in the kitchens at AP-GfK, a joint effort of the Associated Press and GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications, have been working overtime cooking up a scrumptious dish for fans of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. After tasting the output this morning, the AP's Liz Sidoti and Jennifer Agiesta could hardly contain their glee (also saved here for future reference…
Tom Blumer
May 11th, 2011 11:16 AM

NewsBusters Interview: David Freddoso, Author of 'Gangster Government

During the 2008 campaign, much of the press succeeded in painting a portrait of Barack Obama that bore almost no resemblance to either the Chicago politician he was before, or the president he's been since. We were sold Hope and Change, but ended up with what Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso decries as "Gangster Government" in a new book bearing that title. Gangster government is…
Lachlan Markay
May 11th, 2011 10:16 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell: 'We Are All Socialists In This Country

Last November, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell admitted on air to being a socialist. In a segment on "The Last Word" Tuesday addressing how Cuba - a country nearing economic ruin - is moving towards capitalism, O'Donnell said, "We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security, classic socialistic…
Noel Sheppard
May 11th, 2011 10:10 AM

CBS Finds Sympathetic College Student to Use to Promote Obama’s Push

Pedro Ramirez knows his “future depends on” President Barack Obama’s success in passing “immigration reform,” specifically the “Dream Act,” CBS’s John Blackstone asserted in a Tuesday night story which corroborated the need for Obama’s quest by holding up Ramirez as an innocent victim. “He is student body president at California State University at Fresno where he'll graduate this month…
Brent Baker
May 11th, 2011 9:38 AM

The New York Times Knows (Hopes?) Medicare 'Clearly Providing...Moment

The New York Times’s pro-Democratic election enthusiasm is showing. Metro reporter Raymond Hernandez has written two stories in two days about House Speaker John Boehner coming to aid a Republican candidate in a special election May 24 in upstate New York. Monday’s story previewed Boehner’s visit in support of Jane Corwin, who is running a "struggling campaign...for a vacant seat in Congress…
Clay Waters
May 11th, 2011 8:55 AM

Open Thread: Heritage Takes a Shot at 'Saving the American Dream

The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday released its comprehensive budget proposal, titled "Saving the American Dream." The plan would reform entitlements and the tax code, and balance the federal budget in ten years. But while it is primarily an economic plan, it "has a higher moral purpose," Heritage writes. "If entitlements are not reformed, the next generation and future ones will have to pay…
NB Staff
May 11th, 2011 8:49 AM

Morning Joe Regular Accuses US Special Operations In Afghanistan Of 'H

Left-wing Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, a frequent Morning Joe guest, has accused US special operations forces of committing "high-tech murder on a large scale" for their targeted campaign of killing or capturing Al Qaeda Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Sachs made his contemptible accusation on today's Morning Joe in the course of a discussion of the PBS Frontline documentary "Kill/…
Mark Finkelstein
May 11th, 2011 8:41 AM

On Al Sharpton Show, Guest Says Herman Cain Shouldn't Bash Obama Like

The Al Sharpton radio show always gets even stranger when radical Syracuse professor Boyce Watkins is a guest. (Last year, he suggested Limbaugh listeners and Fox watchers easily become violent.) On Monday, Professor Watkins told Sharpton that Herman Cain should run for president like Colin Powell, and never mind that Powell actually endorsed Obama in 2008. If he's like a Tea Partier, then Cain…
Tim Graham
May 11th, 2011 8:37 AM

As He Issues Layoff Notices, AP Gives Conn. Governor Malloy Kid-Glove

Connecticut Governor Daniel Malloy has called himself the "anti-Christie" because of his willingness to raise taxes to help balance the Nutmeg State's budget. By contrast, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the object of Malloy's scorn, recently ruled out tax increases, as he has been doing ever since he became governor in 2010. Malloy's recently passed taxes amounting to an estimated $1.4…
Tom Blumer
May 11th, 2011 1:41 AM

Union Shill Ed Schultz Sued by NBC Employee Alleging Fraud, 'Anti-Labo

Libtalker Ed Schultz told his radio listeners Tuesday that he's a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by an NBC engineer who alleges he helped get Schultz on television -- a man who Schultz claims has stalked Schultz and his wife. Schultz began the second hour of his nationally syndicated radio show describing the lawsuit filed by Michael Queen, who is described in a press release issued by…
Jack Coleman
May 11th, 2011 12:18 AM

Bozell Column: Fact-Challenged Ed Schultz

As much as liberals complain about conservative “misinformation”and incivility, they never seem to find it on channels like MSNBC, and we know there are small bands of liberals that wander over there. While many were watching the first GOP presidential debate on May 5, Ed Schultz invited on left-wing bomb-thrower (and 2010 congressional-seat loser) Alan Grayson to heap mud on George W. Bush.…
Brent Bozell
May 10th, 2011 10:42 PM

If FOIA Request Is Successful, AP Says It Will Decide Which OBL Pictur

Just when you consider cutting the Associated Press a break for doing something right, they pull this. Most people know that in the interest of "not spiking the football," the Obama administration has decided that it will not release photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body. Shortly after the decision was announced, AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request for said photos. According to…
Tom Blumer
May 10th, 2011 9:34 PM

MSNBC Airs Highly-Edited 2002 Video of Bush Saying 'I'm Not That Conce

Since the successful raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan nine days ago, MSNBC has been playing highly-edited snippets from George W. Bush's March 13, 2002, press conference to make it appear the 43rd president had dropped the ball concerning the former al Qaeda leader. Chris Matthews did this Tuesday during a Bush-bashing segment on "Hardball" (multi-part video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
May 10th, 2011 9:20 PM