NBC, CBS Skip Poll Showing Obama Tied or Losing to Republicans

The morning shows on NBC and CBS skipped a new Gallup poll finding Barack Obama either behind or tied with his Republican challengers. Only ABC's Good Morning America mentioned the stark numbers. In an otherwise unrelated story on Sarah Palin, George Stephanopoulos briefly mentioned, "We're going to switch gears now to politics and there is a brand-new Gallup poll showing that the four top…
Scott Whitlock
August 23rd, 2011 4:15 PM

Un-Retired Again: Is Bill Moyers The Brett Favre of PBS

Elizabeth Jensen at the New York Times reports "Bill Moyers says he is returning to public television in January, but he won’t be found on the PBS lineup." This is a distinction without much difference -- if, as expected, most PBS stations snap it up. By "un-retiring" again, Moyers is beginning to look like the Brett Favre of PBS. His latest retirement from the latest installment of "Bill…
Tim Graham
August 23rd, 2011 3:28 PM

Bozell: FCC Needs to Ensure 'Fairness Doctrine' Stays Dead

Editor's Note: What follows is a statement Mr. Bozell released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision yesterday to remove the so-called Fairness Doctrine from the regulation books. The FCC deserves a one-handed round of applause for this move. Years ago, striking the Censorship Doctrine – and that's exactly what the Fairness Doctrine was – would have actually meant something. But since…
Brent Bozell
August 23rd, 2011 3:15 PM

NY Times: Romney Wrong to Expand House After Criticizing Obama Vacatio

What's "awkward" about employing construction workers in a recession? New York Times reporter Ashley Parker found hypocrisy where none exists in a brief item in Tuesday’s paper on Mitt Romney adding on to one of his properties, “Room for All 16 Grandchildren.” Mitt Romney has never claimed to be a middle-class man of the people.
Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2011 3:09 PM

CBS Poses Specter of 'Elitist' Romney as Obama Makes Posh Retreat

CBS's Jan Crawford highlighted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney 's fortune on Tuesday's Early Show and how "wealthier candidates, like Romney, John Kerry, and Jon Huntsman, are...hit with that nasty insult they're an elitist." Crawford did mention how that label has also been leveled at President Obama on more than one occasion, but also forwarded a myth about former President…
Matthew Balan
August 23rd, 2011 3:03 PM

'Malice in Wonderland' Rewrite has Tea Party Led by 'Mad Hatter' Miche

Lefty media website says tea party members have "'officially gone 'Down the Rabbit Hole.'"
Erin Brown
August 23rd, 2011 2:40 PM

A Tale of Two Interviews: CNN's Morgan Shows Contempt for Tea Party

In two separate interviews of Republican presidential candidates, CNN's Piers Morgan exhibited an obvious contempt of Tea Party politics as well as a double standard toward moderate and conservative presidential candidates. In Monday's interview with Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, CNN's Piers Morgan baited the moderate candidate to criticize the Tea Party for its unwavering…
Matt Hadro
August 23rd, 2011 1:35 PM

Inspired By Obama, NYT Churns Out Another Sympathetic Story on Illegal

There’s a jubilant undercurrent in Julia Preston’s Tuesday report in the New York Times on Obama’s new policy limiting deportations of illegal immigrants who have not committed a crime, “U.S. Issues New Deportation Policy’s First Reprieves.” Preston has a reputation for sympathetic coverage of illegal immigration policy. In December 2010 she lamented a Senate vote blocking a bill granting…
Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2011 1:09 PM

ABC Labels 'Pro'-Rights Liberals, Tags 'Anti,' Negative Conservatives

Liberals are "pro" and bestow rights on people. Conservatives are "anti" and negative. That's the impressions that viewers would get from watching ABC. On Tuesday, Good Morning America's Bianna Golodryga mentioned the possible presidential candidacy of George Pataki, noting the former New York governor is "pro-choice, pro-union and pro-gay rights." Yet, on June 30, 2011, World News reporter…

Scott Whitlock
August 23rd, 2011 12:32 PM

Newsweek's Tomasky: Huntsman a 'Narrow Thread of Hope' for GOP

Newsweek's Michael Tomasky counts himself as one of many "impressed liberal[s]" who are heartened by Jon Huntsman's attacks on Rick Perry. Writing yesterday on the Daily Beast website, Tomasky suggested the former Utah governor was "a narrow thread of hope about the future" of the GOP dominated by both leaders and rank-and-file primary voters who are far from "reasonable." As such, Huntsman…
Ken Shepherd
August 23rd, 2011 12:12 PM

'Malice in Wonderland' Rewrite has Tea Party led by 'Mad Hatter' Bachm

The left and its media allies have systematically reduced Tea Party members to caricatures, calling them everything from "bigots" to "racists" to "terrorists," hoping to make something stick. The latest installment is a rewrite of the famous story tale "Alice in Wonderland," in which their "Mad Hatter" leader is none other than GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann. TBTM Media, the…
Erin R. Brown
August 23rd, 2011 10:57 AM

WaPo's Richard Cohen: Perry's Global Warming Beliefs Make Him Joe McCa

The media must really believe Rick Perry can defeat their beloved President Obama for they are coming at the Texas governor with guns blazing. On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen likened Perry to the late Sen. Joe McCarthy because of his disbelief in manmade global warming:
Noel Sheppard
August 23rd, 2011 10:41 AM

Open Thread: Romney, Perry, Bachmann, and Paul All in Close Race With

Contrary to the media myth that none of the Republican presidential candidates can beat President Obama next fall, a new Gallup poll suggests that the top four GOP candidates would actually all have close races with Obama if the election were held today. Mitt Romney polled 2% above Obama, 48% to 46%, Rick Perry was tied with Obama, at 47%, Ron Paul lagged polled 2% below Obama, 45% to 47%,…
NB Staff
August 23rd, 2011 10:34 AM

NPR Sees Tea Party Racism in 'Almost Neuralgic' Opposition to Spending

On Monday night's All Things Considered On National Public Radio, anchor Robert Siegel followed up a story on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington D.C. with an interview with a "longtime civil rights activist," recent NAACP chairman Julian Bond. Siegel omitted any reference to any of Bond's splenetic rages against conservatives (see below), but instead invited him to denounce…
Tim Graham
August 23rd, 2011 8:30 AM