My Recurring Obama 'Dream

Can you imagine how insufferable President Obama would be about his record in office if he actually had abundant positive accomplishments? Have we ever seen a starker contrast between a politician's record and his self-assessment of it? It's not as though the president just avoids or downplays his failures. It's more like he showcases them, but only after completely revising history to put…
David Limbaugh
May 16th, 2011 3:40 PM

The New York Times: Woe to the Marital Woes of the (GOP) Candidates

Sex scandal double standards? New York Times Washington reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg managed to write an entire story about the marital woes of potential Republican presidential candidates yet only vaguely glanced over President Bill Clinton, whose proven adultery and allegations of sexual harassment almost brought down his presidency and led to his impeachment. A marital crisis in the…
Clay Waters
May 16th, 2011 3:30 PM

Moderate Sen. Lugar's Struggles With Tea Party Mark 'Identity Crisis

The New York Times’s biased Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike profiled Indiana’s veteran moderate Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, one of the Times’s favorite Republicans, on Sunday’s front page: "Running on Moderation in Immoderate Times." With Sen. John McCain making conservative noises on illegal immigration, Lugar may be the best bet for the Times to foster its dream of a moderate (i.e.…
Clay Waters
May 16th, 2011 3:23 PM

CNN Anchor Don Lemon Reveals He Is Gay In New Memoir

CNN anchor Don Lemon has openly acknowledged that he is gay in his book "Transparent," set to be released June 16. He tweeted an article in the Sunday's New York Times about the book  late Sunday night, later thanking his followers for their outpouring of support in the wake of his revelation. "I think it would be great if everybody could be out," he was quoted in the Times interview. "But…
Matt Hadro
May 16th, 2011 2:00 PM

NBC: 'Flamethrower' Gingrich 'Has a Tendency to Dive Into the Currents

After accusing presidential candidate Newt Gingrich of racism during an interview on Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC host David Gregory later posed this question to the show's political panel: "Do you think he [Gingrich] dialed back the reputation as...a flamethrower?...I mean, talking about Obama and anti-colonial views, about anti-Americanism." The mostly liberal panelists used the…
Kyle Drennen
May 16th, 2011 1:27 PM

CNN's Double Standard: Okay When One of Ours Advises the President, Ba

The news that CNN's Fareed Zakaria has had private conversations with Barack Obama unveiled a glaring double standard at that network, as back in November 2002, when it was revealed that Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes sent a memo to then President George W. Bush regarding his post-9/11 actions CNN anchors threw a fit. As the MRC's Brent Baker reported in the November 19 CyberAlert, CNN anchors…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 16th, 2011 12:35 PM

ABC Seeks out John Avlon of the Lefty Daily Beast to Bash 'Weak' GOP

Good Morning America on Saturday looked to political columnist John Avlon of the liberal Daily Beast to bash the "fairly weak" Republican field and chide the primary process for creating "extreme" candidates.  Co-host Bianna Golodryga never mentioned the ideology of the website or of Avlon's frequent attacks on conservatives. Avlon briefly departed from his negative outlook to praise Mitt…
Scott Whitlock
May 16th, 2011 12:13 PM

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell to CNN: Zakaria Must Recuse Himself Immed

The President’s secret meetings with Fareed Zakaria – the same reporter who openly used a CNN network broadcast to promote Obama in 2008 – show a clear and disturbing double standard at CNN. For decades, the liberal media have repeatedly condemned conservatives in the media who communicated privately with Republican presidents. They furiously attacked George Will in 1980 when he advised…
Brent Bozell
May 16th, 2011 11:55 AM

WaPo Critic Hails Novel 'Re-Imagining' Jesus As Bisexual Free-love Adv

Novelist and infamous liar James Frey has a new novel out, "The Final Testament of The Holy Bible," which he pompously holds forth as a "theoretical third volume of the Bible" that conceives of a second coming of the Christ in the person of "an alcoholic bisexual living in the Bronx who impregnates prostitutes, titillates priests and becomes the ultimate seducer himself," John Murray of the…
Ken Shepherd
May 16th, 2011 11:37 AM

AP Bitterly Clings to 'Worst New-Home Sales Market in Nearly 50 Years

In an unbylined report this morning on homebuilders' continued pessimism, the Associated Press continues to mislead its readers and other news consumers about just how bad the market for new homes has been during the past two years. The government has been reporting new home sales since 1963. The 320,000 news homes sold in 2010, which followed sales of only 375,000 in 2009, are the two worst…
Tom Blumer
May 16th, 2011 11:36 AM

Krugman: Republicans Are Holding America Hostage

When an admittedly liberal Nobel laureate in economics thinks trying to balance the budget is holding America hostage, one has to wonder if there are any adults remaining on the left side of the aisle. Consider what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote Monday:
Noel Sheppard
May 16th, 2011 10:21 AM

CNN Tries to Contain Damage from Spitzer Outing Zakaria’s Consultati

Two days after liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer told fellow CNN host Fareed Zakaria it “brought a smile to my face” and “makes my heart warm” to learn President Obama “calls you for wisdom and advice about issues around the world,” Zakaria took to CNN’s Web site for his Sunday show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, to issue a “clarification on my conversations with the President” in…
Brent Baker
May 16th, 2011 8:14 AM

Buchanan: Newt Is 'Out On Left Wing Of Republican Party

Newt Gingrich came in for some serious criticism on today's Morning Joe.   Reacting to footage of Newt on Meet the Press alluding to Paul Ryan's health care proposal as "radical," Joe Scarborough accused Gingrich of being in "the mushy middle." Pat Buchanan came with the unkindest cut of all, saying Gingrich is "out on the left wing of the Republican party." View video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
May 16th, 2011 8:13 AM

WaPo Overlooks Boehner Speech, Highlights Students Asking the Speaker

When a liberal Democrat is Speaker of the House, everything they say is newsworthy, but when a conservative Republican is Speaker, the most newsworthy people are angry protesters of the Speaker. This came true on Sunday, when The Washington Post story on Speaker John Boehner's commencement address at Catholic University of America in D.C. by Katherine Shaver was all about the protesters, and…
Tim Graham
May 16th, 2011 8:11 AM