Dr. Carson: 'An Uneducated Populace Will Fall For Anything' Including
February 11th, 2013 8:56 PM
"If you go and you talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth of education, of knowledge, of understanding what the real issues are, and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they're supposed to think, and they keep repeating that and pretty soon they say, 'Oh, that must be true.'”
So marvelously said Dr. Benjamin Carson - the…
Fox's Roger Ailes: 'Obama's Too Busy Getting Middle Class To Hate Rich
February 11th, 2013 11:10 AM
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes had some harsh words about Barack Obama recently.
In an interview published by the New Republic Monday, Ailes said, "The president likes to divide people into groups."
Playboy TV or Fox News
February 7th, 2013 3:19 PM
What's the correlation between Fox News and Playboy TV?
Well, on a relatively new online game show called Let's Ask America, web cam contestants were playfully asked which one would offend liberal parents more if they stumbled upon their teenage son watching one or the other. (video clip below; h/t email tipster John Heckman)
Scarborough Gloats Over Fox News 'Trust' Ratings, Ignores MSNBC's Mise
February 7th, 2013 8:32 AM
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Time for Joe Scarborough to brush up on the Sermon on the Mount?
On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough gloated at length over survey results indicating that the public's trust in Fox News has declined and that PBS is the only network that more people trust than distrust. But…
Kirsten Powers: Liberal Media 'Don't Really Care About Human Rights' U
February 6th, 2013 5:45 PM
It's been nothing less than astonishing watching the media cover for Monday's leaked Department of Justice memo making the legal case for drone attacks against Americans.
Exposing the hypocrisy of this Wednesday was one of Fox News's liberal contributors Kirsten Powers who said of her colleagues on the left, "They're clearly hypocrites. They clearly don't really care about human rights. They…
Howard Kurtz Tells Obama and Gore 'Stop Whining About Right-Wing Media
February 4th, 2013 5:12 PM
Liberal media members defending Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are about as rare as Halley's Comet.
Yet that's what CNN's Howard Kurtz did Monday in a piece surprisingly titled "Obama, Gore, Stop Whining About Right-wing Media."
Donald Trump Sues Bill Maher for $5 Million
February 4th, 2013 10:12 AM
As NewsBusters reported in early January, HBO's Bill Maher offered Donald Trump $5 million if he could prove he wasn't spawned by a father that was an orangutan.
On Fox & Friends Monday, Trump announced that he was suing Maher for $5 million for not following through on his offer (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Network Morning Shows Ignore 10th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbi
February 1st, 2013 2:34 PM
On February 1, 2003, seven astronauts on board Space Shuttle Columbia died during re-entry as they returned to Earth from the STS-107 mission. Friday was the 10th anniversary of the disaster, but none of the Big Three networks morning newscasts marked this somber occasion.
ABC's Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and NBC's Today understandably devoted considerable broadcast time to the…
Fox's Bret Baier Quotes NB's Sheppard on Why Obama Loves Going on 60 M
January 30th, 2013 12:03 AM
As NewsBusters reported, CBS's Steve Kroft told CNN's Piers Morgan Monday that President Obama likes going on 60 Minutes because "he knows that we're not going to play gotcha with him."
On Tuesday, Fox News's Bret Baier quoted NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard's opinion on this matter (video follows with transcript):
Kirsten Powers Rips Obama and His Administration For Its 'Strategy to
January 29th, 2013 11:32 AM
In a column which went up this morning, Fox News Political Analyst Kirsten Powers, whose political positions certainly lean left and is a self-described liberal, ripped into President Obama and his administration for what she correctly characterizes as their "strategy to delegitimize a news organization" -- hers.
Her column is about far more than Obama's recent complaint to the New Republic's…
Lindsey Graham: 'In 2007 When We Tried To Do Immigration Reform, Obama
January 29th, 2013 1:13 AM
As America's media predictably fall in line behind any attempts President Obama makes to reform immigration policy, one has to wonder if they're going to recall how he cast the pivotal vote in the Senate in 2007 to block such legislation.
Keeping the press on their toes, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Fox New's On the Record Monday, "In 2007 when we tried to do immigration reform, he…
AP's Bauder Gives CBS's Kroft an Excuse Platform for Softball Obama-Cl
January 28th, 2013 7:13 PM
Steve Kroft at CBS News is apparently feeling the heat over his powder-puff interview of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It has fallen to television writer David Bauder at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press (HT Dylan Byers at the Politico) to try and help put out the fire.
You see, according to Kroft (my paraphrase), "This whole interview thing…
Brit Hume: Theme of Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview - 'Just How Gre
January 28th, 2013 7:06 PM
Brit Hume on Monday made some strong comments about Barack Obama's recent attacks on Fox News as well as the gooey interview CBS's 60 Minutes did with the President and Hillary Clinton the previous evening.
Of the latter, he said the theme was “Just How Great Is the Relationship Between You Two?” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
Kirsten Powers on Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview: 'Something You'd
January 28th, 2013 5:49 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting all day, CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday gave a gushing and fawning interview to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that should be an embarrassment to the network.
On Fox News's America's Newsroom Monday, left-leaning contributor Kirsten Powers said of this fiasco, "It really was something you would expect from like the state-run media...60…