AP Lets Obama's Untrue Critique of Romney As 'Willing to Let (Auto) In

February 2nd, 2012 10:09 PM
On Tuesday, Ken Thomas of the Associated Press covered President Barack Obama's appearance at the Washington Auto Show and allowed Obama's criticism of Mitt Romney as being among those "willing to let this industry die" to stand, ignoring known history in the process. Obama's statement marks him as a true ingrate, because for better or worse (my opinion: worse; your mileage, so to speak, may…

Wolf Blitzer Gushes Over Obama, Spoke 'Very Movingly' at Prayer Breakf

February 2nd, 2012 7:00 PM
CNN's Wolf Blitzer was apparently quite moved by President Obama's speech at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast. Blitzer hailed it as a candid address and noted that the President spoke "very movingly" of his faith. Of course, Obama's profession of his faith came shortly after his administration mandated religious-affiliated organizations to act against their church's teaching, a decision…

Top Three Worst Media Attacks on Komen (So Far

February 2nd, 2012 2:37 PM
Radical anti-life groups have decided to destroy the Susan G. Komen foundation for daring to challenge the abortionists of Planned Parenthood. The so-called “pro-choice” community targeted the group’s fund-raising and even hacked the Komen website, adding a slogan for the “Race for the Cure,” urging readers to “help us run over poor women on the way to the bank.” Both left-wing organizations…

CNN Hypes Planned Parenthood's Claims of 'Bullying by the Right

February 2nd, 2012 12:10 PM
Normally, when a leading charity cuts ties to a large non-profit organization, the news will not spark a media controversy. But when the Susan G. Komen Foundation severed financial ties to Planned Parenthood due to Congressional investigations into the organization, CNN hyped Planned Parenthood's cries of foul play and "bullying from the right." Correspondent Mary Snow aired a pretty one-…

CNN's Martin and O'Brien High Five Each Other for Skewering Mitt Romne

February 2nd, 2012 10:50 AM
UPDATES AT END OF POST: Martin and O'Brien respond. Should media members congratulate each other for skewering a political candidate? That's exactly what CNN's Roland Martin did Thursday as he high fived Soledad O'Brien for the previous day's interview with Mitt Romney wherein the Republican presidential candidate uttered the now infamous words, "I'm not concerned about the very poor" (…

Lawrence O'Donnell Cherry Picks Limbaugh to Claim Rush Agrees With Med

February 2nd, 2012 12:33 AM
Not surprisingly, the Obama-loving media are having a field day with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's comment to CNN's Soledad O'Brien regarding not being "concerned about the very poor." MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Wednesday decided to make an even bigger deal out of this issue by cherry-picking Rush Limbaugh to make it appear the conservative radio host shared the press's view…

CNN Sympathizes With Another DREAM Act Supporter

February 1st, 2012 7:15 PM
Once again, CNN sympathized with an illegal immigrant supporting the largely Democratic-sponsored DREAM Act. Anchor Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday hailed "DREAMer" Mayra Hidalgo who blistered Republicans for their rigidity on immigration. Baldwin let Hidalgo air this message to certain Republican candidates: "Do you even have a heart?" The immigrant directed her ire at Newt Gingrich and Mitt…

CNN Rehashes Kathleen Parker: Gingrich Getting Support 'Against All Re

February 1st, 2012 3:06 PM
Was Soledad O'Brien trying to hit two candidates with one stone? The CNN host combined negative poll results for Mitt Romney with a "conservative" criticism of Newt Gingrich in her tough question to Romney on Wednesday. O'Brien quoted so-called conservative Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, who questioned Romney's appeal to voters when "far less perfect" Newt Gingrich is still…

Fox Presses White House on Religious Freedom Controversy; Will Big Thr

January 31st, 2012 9:46 PM
Fox News's Ed Henry challenged White House Press Secretary Jay Carney during a Tuesday briefing over the growing controversy surrounding the Obama administration's move on January 20 to force most employers to cover sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraceptives in their health care policies without co-pay. This new federal mandate would force Catholic institutions, like hospitals…

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Falsely Labels Bush as 'Food Stamp President

January 31st, 2012 6:55 PM
On Tuesday, for the second time in two weeks, CNN's Soledad O'Brien insisted that President Bush, not President Obama, is the "food stamp president" – even though data show her argument is ridiculous. On January 19, O'Brien had opened up that "it was George Bush who was the food stamp president." Then on Tuesday, she stated that Bush oversaw a greater percent increase of food stamp…

CNN Anchor Goes Personal on Vitter; He Says 'The Good News Is...It's N

January 30th, 2012 12:45 PM
Bill Clinton has done hundreds of TV interviews since leaving office in 2001, and journalists have very rarely found it appropriate to revisit his sex scandals. But for CNN, Republicans merit an entirely different standard of coverage. On Monday's Early Start, co-host Ashleigh Banfield insisted to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that "I got to" bring up his 2007 prostitution scandal, so she could…

Kathleen Parker: National Review 'Created From an Ideological Point of

January 29th, 2012 3:05 PM
Those familiar with Kathleen Parker's work are well aware that this supposedly conservative columnist is a fine example of a Republican in Name Only. On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Parker proved it once again saying that the National Review "was created from an ideological point of view...As opposed to, for example, the Chicago Tribune or The Washington Post" (video follows with transcript…

CNN Urges Gabby Giffords' Husband to Run for Congress

January 27th, 2012 6:22 PM
Former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords retired from office a year after suffering a gunshot wound to the head, and CNN is already goading her husband to replace her in Congress. Since Democrats wanted him to run for Giffords' seat, CNN was basically asking a Democrat to run for office. On Friday's Starting Point, host Soledad O'Brien told Giffords' husband, retired astronaut Mark…

CNN Smears Reagan Legacy; Touts 'A Lot of People Who Were Suffering' U

January 27th, 2012 3:34 PM
Their past antics might not lend them credibility as presidential critics, but CNN's Suzanne Malvaux and Carol Costello threw water on the GOP veneration of President Reagan on Friday. Echoing the liberal media of the Reagan years, the duo cast his conservative legacy as "revisionist history." "And it's almost like revisionist history here. Back in the day, there were a lot of people who…