NBC's Today Pretending That Libya Consulate Attack Isn't News Anymore
October 8th, 2012 5:08 PM
The 2007 video of then-Senator Barack Obama hinting at racism in the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina isn't the only news story that NBC's Today show stuck up its nose at during the first days of October. The morning newscast has conspicuously ignored covering the latest developments in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It hasn't devoted a full…
Obama Burdens America With Another Trillion-Dollar Deficit; Networks S
October 8th, 2012 4:22 PM
None of the Big Three broadcast networks noted the release Friday of the Congressional Budget Office’s final determination of the fiscal year 2012 federal budget deficit: $1.1 trillion, the fourth year in a row of trillion-dollar deficits. ABC, CBS and NBC’s Friday evening newscasts and Saturday morning news programs were silent about the statistic — even though Obama’s massive spending and…
Roger Ebert: 'One of the Best Presidential Debate Moderators Would Be
October 7th, 2012 6:35 PM
"Actually, one of the best presidential debate moderators would be David Letterman."
So astonishingly wrote movie critic Roger Ebert on Twitter Thursday (vulgarity warning):
Billy Crystal Ridicules Romney Wearing His Picture With Mouth Cut Out
October 6th, 2012 2:41 PM
The dissing of Mitt Romney by America's Obama-loving media knows no bounds.
On CBS's Late Show Friday, Billy Crystal showed up with a picture of Romney with the mouth cut out and proceeded to ridicule the Republican presidential nominee with the assistance of host David Letterman (video follows with transcript and commentary):
David Letterman Calls Mitt Romney 'A Felon
October 6th, 2012 1:24 PM
CBS Late Show host David Letterman on Friday accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of being "a felon."
"The man has not paid a nickel in United States federal income tax" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'L
October 5th, 2012 5:32 PM
On Friday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes trumpeted that the Obama campaign is "turning lemons into lemonade" as she reported that the Democratic operation is "arguing that Romney had a great performance at the debate, but only because he was untethered from the truth." Not once did the correspondent or colleagues Norah O'Donnell and Bill Plante critically examine the claims from the incumbent…
CBS This Morning Brings On Howard Dean, Spurring Sanctimonious Lecture
October 5th, 2012 3:16 PM
The sole political guest on Friday's CBS This Morning was Howard Dean, the ultraliberal failed presidential contender who was once the governor of Vermont. Co-host Norah O'Donnell asked him to comment on the vice president's statement on Thursday insisting the Democrats absolutely want to raise a trillion dollars in taxes on the rich.
Biden had "some comments that people are calling a gaffe…
NBC’s Today Ignores State Department E-mail Denying Increased Securi
October 5th, 2012 12:16 PM
Given the recent death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, one would expect the three news networks to investigate the grotesque failures by the federal government to protect our embassies overseas.
Unlike NBC’s Today, ABC and CBS’s Friday morning shows both covered recent State Department emails showing they denied a request by officials in Libya for increased security in May leading up…
Media Mash: CNN Helps Cover Up Obama's Race Speech, MSNBC Plays the Ra
October 5th, 2012 10:58 AM
MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 4 edition of Hannity and exposed the hollowness of the media's argument against covering inflammatory quotes Barack Obama made in a 2007 speech on race, clips aired for the first time earlier this week on Hannity. [Watch the full video after the jump.]
Host Sean Hannity set up the newest "Media Mash" segment: "I…
Norah O'Donnell Jabs Romney on Big Bird Line: 'Silly Thing to Bring Up
October 4th, 2012 5:47 PM
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, just hours after Mitt Romney's "crisp" debate performance, Norah O'Donnell stuck to her fixation on playing up the Republican's supposed negatives. O'Donnell maligned how Romney phrased his opposition to the federal government's subsidization of PBS: "This may have been the first time in a presidential debate that Big Bird was mentioned. It seems kind of like a…
Norah O'Donnell Thinks Obama Left 'Greatest Hits' on 'Cutting Room Flo
October 4th, 2012 1:04 PM
President Obama left his "greatest hits on the cutting room floor" for Wednesday night's debate, claimed CBS This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell after the debate. According to her, "contraceptive rights" and "free mammograms" in ObamaCare are some of the President's "greatest hits."
"There was no mention of Bain," she said on Wednesday night's Charlie Rose. "There was no mention of the auto…
On CBS, Time's Foroohar Spins Debate: 'You Have to Wonder Whether Romn
October 4th, 2012 12:33 AM
Time's assistant managing editor Rana Foroohar could have been mistaken as an Obama campaign flack during CBS's post-presidential debate coverage on Wednesday night, with her claim that "the key issue is, really, taxes, and I think that you have to wonder whether Romney's math adds up." She asserted, "There's a bigger math issue here, and that's whether or not lowering tax rates actually…
Robert Gibbs Mocks CBS's Coverage of Obama Tape, Charlie Rose Changes
October 3rd, 2012 1:17 PM
When push came to shove, CBS's Charlie Rose caved to the wishes of Obama adviser Robert Gibbs on Wednesday's CBS This Morning. Gibbs derided CBS for hammering a controversial video of Obama from 2007, and Rose quickly changed the subject.
"I have to say I'm a little amazed that, as you mentioned, a widely-covered speech, likely by people at your network, has somehow caused a kerfluffle five…
Three Days After Denouncing Child Soldier 'Slavery', Obama Waived Sanc
October 3rd, 2012 10:59 AM
"When a little boy is kidnapped" and forced to become a child soldier, "that's slavery," President Obama noted in a September 25 speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. Yet a mere three days later, the president waived-- for the third year in a row, no less -- U.S. sanctions on countries that use child soldiers, including Libya, where, as you may have noticed, we've had some…