
Maddow Shows Paul Ryan Grilled by Constituents - And Airbrushes Ryan's
(Updated with video clips of Kenosha, Wisc., town hall forum provided by Congressman Ryan's press office; links to clips after end of post)
April 27th, 2011 8:05 PM
AP, NYT Downplaying and Ignoring Mass. Move to Limit Union Health Barg
Gosh, after Republican Governors Scott Walker and John Kasich succeeded in championing legislation curtailing many collective bargaining rights of unionized state and municipal employees in Wisconsin and Ohio, respectively, the establishment press had the meme all set. The GOP, conservatives, and Tea Partiers are enemies of labor and the middle class, while Democrats, liberals, and progressives…
April 27th, 2011 7:58 PM
Only the Republican Study Committee Budget Gets the Job Done
Last weekend, David Ignatius in his Washington Post column made a vital contribution to the debt and deficit debate: "Take the deficit pain now. It's a truth of economics and life that if you have bad news coming, take the hit early and get it behind you. You can't start building until the debris is out of the way."
Ignatius offers various examples from history (e.g., Fed Chairman Paul Volker…
April 27th, 2011 6:15 PM

CBS: Ryan Budget Opponents 'Poignant'; Touted 'Nasty' Tea Parties in
CBS's Early Show on Wednesday played up how opponents of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan shouted down GOP representatives at recent town hall meetings, but downplayed them as "less than friendly," and marveled at their apparently "poignant" questions. The network also omitted how liberal groups targeted these meetings, and trumpeted the "nasty national shouting match" at health care town hall…
April 27th, 2011 5:51 PM
Royal Disaster: Networks Obsess Over Wedding, Barely Mention Mexico Dr
Fawning coverage of British nuptials outpaces reporting of Mexican drug war victims.
April 27th, 2011 4:19 PM

CNN Showcases Five Year-Old Victim of Gov. Christie's Budget Cuts
CNN's Deborah Feyerick took the offensive Tuesday and emphasized the negative effects of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's cuts to education funding. Feyerick highlighted the plight of an illiterate kindergartner from a "high risk" neighborhood as an example of student who could be affected by budget cuts. The segment ran during the 8 a.m. EDT hour of Tuesday's "American Morning" on CNN.
CNN…
April 27th, 2011 3:56 PM

Even Liberals Think NYT Columnist Paul Krugman's a Little Paranoid
Paul Krugman, economist turned left-wing folk hero. New York magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells talked with the once respected-economist turned hack New York Times columnist about “What’s Left of the Left,” a title which at least positions Krugman accurately as a left-wing opinion leader who draws cool economics graphs that prove the perfidy of Republican policy (whether or not he once agreed…
April 27th, 2011 3:15 PM
Poll Finds Muslim Brotherhood with Over 70 Percent Favorability in Egy
While it was suggested during February's coverage of anti-government protests in Egypt that the radical Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement only had the support of a minority of Egyptians, a recent Pew Research Center poll finds that over 70 percent of the Egyptian public holds a favorable view of the Islamist organization. The same poll also notably finds that the more secular April 6…
April 27th, 2011 3:03 PM

Bush-Cokers: When CBS's '60 Minutes' Promoted Kooky Anti-Bush Book
On MSNBC this morning, NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd decried how Googling has ruined the Old Media's ability to submerge smear stories about national politicians. But in 1999 and 2000, the liberal media were quite interested in long bouts of speculation about whether George W. Bush has used cocaine. Were they "Bush-cokers"? The supposed "crown jewel" of TV journalism, CBS's 60 Minutes,…
April 27th, 2011 1:37 PM

Bush Jibes Stephanopoulos: 'Just Because You're Reporting It' Doesn't
Amidst a very congenial interview on ABC, former president George W. Bush made a jab at "Good Morning America" host George Stephanopoulos - and perhaps the media's treatment of his presidency generally.
Bush got a chuckle out of Stephanopoulos when he reminded the ABC anchor that "just because you're reporting it, as you might recall, doesn't necessarily mean" it's true.
Bush was on…
April 27th, 2011 1:18 PM
Helen Thomas Cancels Speech at Anti-Israel Rally
As previously documented by NewsBusters, Helen Thomas - former columnist and White House correspondent for both UPI and Hearst Newspapers - was scheduled to speak at a left-wing anti-Israel rally next month during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming visit to America. But the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Thomas "withdrew her participation fearing she will become the…
April 27th, 2011 1:09 PM
Sharia Compliance in Dearborn, Michigan
The RINO (reverend in name only) Terry Jones is like his fellow RINO, Fred Phelps, but in political drag.
Jones, the "pastor" (PINO?) of the tiny and inconsequential Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., was jailed last week in Dearborn, Mich., "following a jury trial that found he was likely to create a 'breach of the peace' for plans to protest outside the Islamic Center of…
April 27th, 2011 12:39 PM
Maxine Waters: Swamp Queen
Confirmed: "Drain the swamp" is Washington-speak for "Let it fester." While House ethics watchdogs dither, it's shady business as usual for ethics scandal-plagued Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.
Last summer, the House Ethics Committee charged the entrenched California congresswoman with three violations related to her wheeling and dealing on behalf of minority-owned OneUnited Bank in Los…
April 27th, 2011 12:33 PM

MSNBC Touts 'Reasonable' Obama on Birth Certificate, Gregory Chides 'L
Meet the Press host David Gregory on Wednesday derided the Republican National Committee Chairman as "low-minded" for his response to the release of Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate. Jansing and Co. guest host Savannah Guthrie lauded the President for looking "like the most reasonable man in Washington."
Appearing just minutes after the President completed a press conference on the…
April 27th, 2011 12:26 PM