On NBC, Leftist Rails: Are We Gonna Be 'Bullied' by 'Right Wing Media

NBC's Matt Lauer brought on two liberals, former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, publisher and editor of the leftist The Nation magazine, on Friday's Today show, to dissect the Shirley Sherrod "saga" as viewers were treated to an attack on the "right wing media which peddles fears and slanders." In a segment titled "Race In America, Lessons Learned From The…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 23rd, 2010 2:40 PM

Ann Coulter Rips Into CBS For False Reporting on Tea Parties

Appearing on Friday's CBS Early Show to discuss the Shirley Sherrod controversy, Ann Coulter pointed out the network's own faulty reporting on tea partiers protesting the passage of ObamaCare: "CBS News itself has reported that John Lewis was called the 'N' word 15 times. That is a lie, that is a despicable lie, that never happened. Why doesn't CBS News apologize for that?" [Audio available here…
Kyle Drennen
July 23rd, 2010 1:25 PM

JournoList Revelations Suggest Founder Ezra Klein Not Accurate in Defe

The more details emerge about the liberal media listserv JournoList, the more it resembles the cabal of leftist message-coordination many conservatives feared. Though perhaps not the "vast left-wing media conspiracy" Fred Barnes proclaims, evidence points to concerted efforts to coordinate talking points, and now, to direct links between the Obama White House and JournoList members.Ironically,…
Lachlan Markay
July 23rd, 2010 1:00 PM

ABC's Elisabeth Leamy Tosses Softballs to Obama: What Are You Teaching

Good Morning America's Elisabeth Leamy used an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Friday to toss mostly softball questions, such as wondering, "I want to ask you, what are you and the First Lady teaching your daughters about money?" [MP3 audio here]After the President suggested that his children could earn some money on the side, Leamy gushed, "I've got a job for them babysitting." The…
Scott Whitlock
July 23rd, 2010 12:03 PM

'Media Mash': Bozell Addresses Media Bewilderment at Obama's Low Poll

Appearing on the Fox News Channel "Hannity" program last night, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell tackled the media's bewilderment that Obama's legislative successes aren't translating into healthy job approval numbers ahead of the upcoming November midterm congressional election. "Yes, [President Obama is] getting his legislative agenda accomplished, the problem is, this is a socialist…
NB Staff
July 23rd, 2010 11:25 AM

Time Blames GOP Filibuster for Cap-and-Trade's Death

Eulogizing emissions bill, Ecocentric blogger Walsh blames 'abused,' not excess costs or expert dissent.
Kyle Gillis
July 23rd, 2010 10:59 AM

CBS Points out Obama Flip Flop on Paying for Benefits

It is rare that the network news media expose President Barack Obama's hypocrisy on any point, which is why Mark Knoller's CBS story on July 22 was so enlightening. Covering Obama's July 22 signing of a bill "restoring" jobless benefits to roughly 2.5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks, Knoller wrote that Obama "changes tune on paying for unemployment…
Julia A. Seymour
July 23rd, 2010 10:45 AM

Olbermann's Production Staff Jumping Ship, JournoListers Hate Him

While on a much-needed vacation, things for Keith Olbermann have gone from bad to worse.News is coming out almost daily concerning members of his production staff jumping ship to work for Lawrence O'Donnell's new program.On top of that, the Daily Caller has published e-mail messages of liberal JournoList members expressing their disgust for the "Countdown" host.As lefties hating on Olbermann is…
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2010 10:39 AM

Attacking Angle: MSNBC Honcho Thinks Only Big-Government Believers Sho

Senators Wanted: Non-believers in big government need not apply.That would apparently be the classified ad Mark Whitaker would run.  Criticizing Sharron Angle this morning, MSNBC's DC bureau chief sniffed that people like her "are running to be part of a government they don't believe in."Whitaker made his remark in the course of commenting on a Politico story about Angle walking away from an…
Mark Finkelstein
July 23rd, 2010 9:14 AM

Open Thread: 17 Years of Media Denial

NB Staff
July 23rd, 2010 8:35 AM

CBS Highlights NAACP's Chairman of Hate: Julian Bond's Viciousness Nev

On Thursday's Early Show on CBS, their interview with radical black leftist Michael Eric Dyson was preceded by a Jan Crawford news story stuffed with Team Obama apologies to Shirley Sherrod for their quick and dirty firing via BlackBerry. The only non-adminstration (or non-apologizing) soundbite in the story was radical black leader Julian Bond:  CRAWFORD: But the controversy seems to show that…
Tim Graham
July 23rd, 2010 7:44 AM

NYT Implies Fox to Blame for Sherrod, But White House Acted Before Sto

The New York Times on Thursday picked through the sordid saga of Shirley Sherrod, fired from her post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture after a clip of a speech to a gathering of a rural chapter of the Georgia NAACP appeared to show her hostility toward a white farmer seeking assistance. A full version of the speech shows that was a set-up to Sherrod's tale of racial reconciliation, though…
Clay Waters
July 23rd, 2010 7:33 AM

Behar: Bush Admin ‘Did Not Give a Damn About Poor People and Everybo

On Thursday’s The View on ABC, as the group hosted former USDA official Shirley Sherrod to talk about her experience of being fired by the Obama administration, after co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck got her to address comments she had made before the NAACP in which she accused Republicans of challenging President Obama on health care reform because he is black, co-host Joy Behar went on a tirade…
Brad Wilmouth
July 23rd, 2010 3:50 AM

HuffPo Gets Religion Wrong Again

Presents view of liberal Christianity that, not surprisingly, isn't Christianity at all.
Katie Bell
July 23rd, 2010 12:00 AM