MSNBC: Obama Needs More R&R; Americans Uneasy Over Economy Because We

In a segment shortly after 3 p.m. EDT today looking at how much President Obama has aged in the two years since winning the presidential election, MSNBC's Thomas Roberts and guest Douglas Brinkley concluded that the commander-in-chief needs to take it easy more often.  The MSNBC host and the liberal presidential historian also blamed the amount of stress President Obama faces in office on…
Ken Shepherd
October 25th, 2010 4:08 PM

Rep. Joe Barton Tells Bozell: Congress Should Investigate NPR for Misu

Congressman Joe Barton, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that authorizes spending for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sent a letter Friday to Media Research Center President Brent Bozell about his call for an investigation in the firing of Juan Williams by National Public Radio.
Tim Graham
October 25th, 2010 1:57 PM

Eleanor Clift Holds Out Hope of Democrats Retaining the House

For Eleanor Clift, the dream will never die. At least not until after all the polls close on November 2. The uber-liberal Newsweek contributor presses Democrats to "Keep Dreaming" in an October 25 post at the magazine's website. Clift insists that it is possible that Democrats can get their base motivated enough to keep Republicans from taking the House:
Ken Shepherd
October 25th, 2010 1:45 PM

ABC Touts Dem as 'Feminist Icon' After the Release of Racy Photos, Dow

The surfacing of racy photos of a Democratic congressional candidate have made the politician "something of a feminist icon," according to Good Morning America. Reporter Jeremy Hubbard and host Bianna Golodryga on Sunday offered sympathetic reports on Krystal Ball, a House candidate in Virginia. An ABC graphic speculated, "Sexist Smear Campaign?: No Regrets for Racy Photos." Golodryga pitched…
Scott Whitlock
October 25th, 2010 12:53 PM

Hannity, Bozell Pummel Lesley Stahl, Chris Matthews for Media Bias in

MSNBC's Chris Matthews and CBS's Lesley Stahl were two of the targets in the latest "Media Mash" segment on Fox News Channel's "Hannity" program. NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 22 edition of the program  to look at how the media have been denigrating the Tea Party movement. [Video of the segment available after the page break]
NB Staff
October 25th, 2010 12:37 PM

On Today: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Links Pro-Life Candidates to Abortion

    Left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, on Monday's Today show, disgustingly tried to link pro-life candidates running in this year's midterm elections to the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller, as she told Today co-host Matt Lauer "the thing that has surprised me the most is how much" Tea Party candidates were "going back to hard line...positions on abortion" and, as she plugged her…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 25th, 2010 11:43 AM

MSNBC President Phil Griffin Laughably Claims Channel Doesn't Fundrais

The folks at MSNBC are for some reason still under the impression that they are anything but a far less successful liberal alternative to Fox News. The former channel's president, Phil Griffin, tried to perpetuate that delusion in a blog post by New York Times media blogger Brian Stelter on Sunday. Griffin claimed that MSNBC, unlike Fox News, does not help guests who are political candidates…
Lachlan Markay
October 25th, 2010 10:53 AM

Joe Manchin ObamaCare Reversal Draws Huffington Post Scorn

So what was the reaction at the Huffington Post to the admission  by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, who is now running for a U.S. Senate seat from that state, that he would now oppose ObamaCare despite his earlier support for that same legislation? Brutal scorn as can be seen in the very title of Huffington Post political writer Sam Stein's article, "Joe Manchin Does 180: I Would Have…
P.J. Gladnick
October 25th, 2010 10:48 AM

Alec Baldwin: Sarah Palin 'Listless and Tired'; Harry Reid 'Driven and

Alec Baldwin thinks former Alaska governor Sarah Palin "looks oddly listless and tired on the circuit these days." In the same Huffington Post piece, the actor actually praised Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as "driven, methodical and philosophically galvanized":
Noel Sheppard
October 25th, 2010 10:13 AM

Open Thread: 'Teachers Unions Gone Wild

Self-styled "investigative journalist" James O'Keefe has released his latest undercover project. He took a hidden camera into a meeting of the New Jersey Education Association, and heard some pretty astounding things. Check out the video below the fold (WARNING: explicit and vulgar content).
NB Staff
October 25th, 2010 9:10 AM

WaPo Imagines Four Faces of Jon Stewart on Mount Rushmore

The Washington Post  celebrated Jon Stewart in a very gooey artistic fashion on Monday: in a drawing, it made Stewart all four faces on Mount Rushmore. The headline was "Who Does Jon Stewart Think He Is?" Obviously, he'd disavow being great enough to replace four iconic presidents on a mountain face. The story by Post reporter Paul Farhi also began with goo: These days, he can claim to be…
Tim Graham
October 25th, 2010 8:23 AM

Bill Press Displays Boundless Capacity for Delusion, Claims NPR 'No Mo

And then there are those who are beyond hope. Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show Friday, here's what fellow liberal radio host Bill Press said about NPR firing Juan Williams for violating the network's version of sharia law (audio here) --
Jack Coleman
October 25th, 2010 6:35 AM

WikiLeaks Lances Lancet's 2006 Pre-Midterm Elections Iraq Civilian Cas

Not that it justifies the horrible consequences of leaking classifed information, thereby endangering our troops, our allies, our friends, and their families (of course it doesn't), but the WikiLeaked documents being carried at outlets like the New York Times are revealing some truths that are proving quite inconvenient for Iraq war opponents. Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I…
Tom Blumer
October 24th, 2010 9:36 PM

CBS Relays Dem Claims of ‘Dangerous’ & ‘Extreme’ GOP, NBC Sees

On Friday morning, after airing a full report on the Democratic strategy of painting Republican candidates as "dangerous" and "extreme," CBS’s The Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez seemed surprised when Republican guest Eric Cantor disagreed with her view that "there is no question these Tea Party Republicans are outside the Republican mainstream," and her suggestion that next year…
Brad Wilmouth
October 24th, 2010 8:51 PM