Media, Left Usually Get Economics Wrong

Misreporting of economy is due to mix of errors, spin and total BS.
Dan Gainor
August 11th, 2011 12:41 PM

Scarborough: If Rush is Still Rooting Against Obama He's 'Rooting for

For some reason, in the middle of a lengthy "Morning Joe" segment dealing with President Obama's obvious failures as a leader, host Joe Scarborough on Thursday felt the need to bring up conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 11th, 2011 12:23 PM

Donny Deutsch on NBC's 'Today': 'Why Can't You Write an Unflattering B

During a panel discussion about the Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover, left-wing advertising executive Donny Deutsch acknowledged that "It is politically biased," but didn't see any problem with that: "Who says the media's not biased?...Why can't they make a statement? Obviously that was a real picture...It's not a flattering article....why can't you write an unflattering biased article?"  …
Kyle Drennen
August 11th, 2011 12:20 PM

Media Mash: Newsweek 'Queen of Rage' Smear of Michele Bachmann Edition

"I don't know what's worse," Tina Brown's selection of the wild-eyed Michele Bachmann cover photo for Newsweek or her "bold-faced lie" defending the choice, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Sean Hannity on his program last night. "There's not a person in the face of this Earth that looks at that picture and says, 'she looks more presidential,' which is what Tina Brown"…
NB Staff
August 11th, 2011 10:43 AM

Dennis Miller Rips Newsweek and Tina Brown: 'Michele Bachmann Should N

Dennis Miller on Wednesday weighed in on Newsweek's disgraceful cover of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Speaking with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, America's favorite conservative comedian said, "Tina Brown is a mean girl" and "Michele Bachmann should not trust the mean girls on the Left" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 11th, 2011 10:41 AM

Open Thread: Iowa GOP Debate

Just days before the Iowa Straw Poll, Republican presidential candidates face off tonight to debate at the Iowa State Fair. Absent from the debate are two rumored candidates, Gov. Rick Perry and Sarah Palin. Included is the still wide field of GOP contenders, Mitt Romney, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman. Will you…
NB Staff
August 11th, 2011 9:55 AM

Daily Kos Hates Humans: 'We Could Really Use a Global Superplague

Liberals like to describe themselves as the most compassionate ones, the ones that believe like Hubert Humphrey did that the moral test of a society is how it treats its vulnerable citizens in the dawn and the twilight of life. That's not the party line at the Daily Kos. Jon Stafford bluntly wrote on Wednesday night that "I often describe myself as 'Not Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion.  There are…
Tim Graham
August 11th, 2011 8:48 AM

WaPo Paints Big Crowd at Job Fair as 'Hope Has Its Day

On Wednesday, the front page of The Washington Post’s Metro section reported that a record 4,121 people turned out for a job fair held by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. One might think this reflects badly on black Democrats in power, from Norton to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to President Obama. But the Post headline was “Hope has its day at annual job fair.” The Post still has the…
Tim Graham
August 11th, 2011 8:20 AM

The Same Newsweek That Trashed Bachmann Puffed Gloria Steinem as Flore

While Newsweek mocks Michele Bachmann as a crazy "Queen of  Rage" on this week’s cover, and Lois Romano in the cover story suggests she’s too submissive a wife, there’s also an article in the very same issue that champions 77-year-old radical feminist Gloria Steinem. She's apparently the Queen of Cool. Writer Nancy Hass insists that Bachmann and Sarah Palin “wouldn't be riling up the Tea…
Tim Graham
August 11th, 2011 7:26 AM

AP's Wis. Recall Coverage Desperately Seeks Silver Lining, Ignores Nex

Wednesday evening, the Associated Press's Sam Hananel, with predictable help from Scott Bauer, tried to do a Bing Crosby imitation ("Unions look for silver lining in Wisconsin recalls") in an attempt to "Accentuate the Positive" in reporting on the results of yesterday's attempts to defeat six Republican Badger State Senators in recall elections. Democrats, leftists, and public-sector unions…
Tom Blumer
August 11th, 2011 12:04 AM

Alec Baldwin -- Non-Liberal Man of the People? -- Prepares for Politic

Wednesday's Times contained an interview with actor Alec Baldwin about his political ambitions, and naturally, reporter Sarah Maslin Nir -- whose regular job is a night-life "Nocturnalist" blogger -- as too star-struck to suggest Baldwin's one of those ultraliberal actor/political dilettantes who primps about running for Mayor. She never described him as a liberal at all. Baldwin was clearly…
Tim Graham
August 10th, 2011 9:10 PM

Maxim Editor Compares 'Crazy' Bachmann to Hitler, Hussein and Bin Lade

Joe Levy suggests rapper Kanye West could have also compared himself to the Minnesota Congresswoman.
Erin Brown
August 10th, 2011 8:18 PM

Matthews' Shameless Smear: Rush Wants to End Integration of Schools an

It's going to be a long, hot campaign . . . Yesterday, Politico reported that the Obama strategy is to "destroy" or "kill" his perceived chief 2012 rival, Mitt Romney.  The Obamaoids are no doubt counting on close collaboration with their friends in the MSM. Today we were treated to the kind of shameless smear that the left surely has in store.  On his MSNBC show this evening, Chris Matthews…
Mark Finkelstein
August 10th, 2011 8:02 PM

WaPo Double Standard on Modesty: Fashionable for Muslims, Frumpy and R

Five years ago Post fashion writer Robin Givhan scoffed at the notion of modest swimwear in a July 14, 2006 column "Ultimate Coverup." Fast forward to today and the Post's Alison Lake gave Style section readers a gushy look at how "Muslim women shop for ways to bare little." "Web sites offer modest fashions suitable for summer and pool wear," noted the subheader to Lake's story.
Ken Shepherd
August 10th, 2011 6:40 PM