Unlike Nixon, Obama's Media Attacks Generate Little Press Anger

October 20th, 2009 4:25 PM
Is Barack Obama turning into Spiro Agnew? The White House's attacks on the Fox News smack of the distaste for media opposition espoused by Nixon's vice president almost 40 years ago but are being met with a decidedly different reaction today by the elite media.Pundits have wondered aloud since last week why the White House would pursue a strategy that seems to be boosting the ratings of a…

Michael Moore: Foreclosed Homeowners Like Rape Victims

October 7th, 2009 10:20 AM
No, that's not a made-up headline. The foreclosed and/or evicted homeowners that have played such a role in the current economic meltdown - are they irresponsible borrowers that lived beyond their means or are victims that got swindled? Michael Moore is clear on where he thinks they fall. Moore matched up with Fox News and conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity on Hannity's Oct. 6 program…

Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bia

September 30th, 2009 11:10 AM
With each passing day the Fox News Channel and its various hosts come under more and more fire from the Left.Democrats and their media minions have actually accused FNC of stirring up hatred in the nation that could result in violence against President Obama.With this in mind, Fox's leading personality Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday invited media analyst and former CBSer Bernie Goldberg to discuss…

MRC-TV: Bozell Discussed Joe Wilson, ACORN on Sept. 11 'Hannity

September 14th, 2009 12:11 PM
Video of Baltimore ACORN activists willing to help a pimp and prostitute work out a tax shelter for a brothel is a "devastating" indictment of the liberal activist group, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell pronounced on the September 11 "Hannity." [MP3 audio available here]"It shows the power of the Internet. It doesn't matter anymore that [Big Three broadcast networks] ABC and NBC and…

Tapper: Wilson Took To Conservative Media Limelight 'Like Moth To A Fl

September 11th, 2009 9:29 AM
Jake Tapper has distinguished himself within the White House press corps as someone consistently willing to pose probing questions to the president and his aides.  But on today's Good Morning America, ABC's chief White House correspondent used a particularly unflattering metaphor for Rep. Joe Wilson and his decision to go on Fox News to defend himself.  As a clip of Rep. Wilson on last night's…

A Tale of Two Uninsureds: President Changes Number from 46-47 Million

September 10th, 2009 6:40 AM
What's 16-17 million uninsured among 300 million Americans? Apparently not much to President Barack Obama, who slipped a not-so-subtle change to a statistic he had cited previously different during his Sept. 9 address to a joint session of Congress. The president pointed out there are "more than 30 million American citizens" who are having difficulty obtaining health insurance (emphasis added…

Global Warming Overshadowed: Media Give Massive Cap-and-Trade Tax Seco

July 1st, 2009 6:29 PM
The news cycle has been dominated by celebrity deaths - Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and even TV pitchman Billy Mays - and President Barack Obama's health care initiative. Obama has used the compliant media to keep the focus to health care, and they are neglecting a critical largest news event that could impact the lives of every man, woman and child for the foreseeable future. The U.S. House…

Limbaugh: Obama's Control of Banks a 'Stealth Way' to Impose Fairness

June 5th, 2009 1:59 PM
Some in the liberal media establishment have decried discussion of the Fairness Doctrine, claiming the Obama administration's publicly saying it wouldn't pursue it removed the threat.  However, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh theorized that President Obama may have another method to restrict content over the airwaves in mind. In an interview on Sean Hannity's June 4 Fox News…

Kurtz Acknowledges CNN’s Lack of Tea Party Coverage -- On His CNN Sh

April 12th, 2009 7:48 PM
With the Tax Day tea party rallies just three days away, outside of the Fox News Channel, the coverage has been lacking. And, it was something that even Washington Post media columnist and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" Howard Kurtz acknowledged on his April 12 program. "The folks at Fox News have found something to be for in this age of Obama," Kurtz said. "They are firmly in favor of tea…

Richard Belzer Unloads a ‘Heil Hannity’ Salute on Fox News

February 20th, 2009 5:31 PM
Sean Hannity invited radical-left actor Richard Belzer to his "Great American Panel" on February 13, and Belzer was hardly returning the honor. After Belzer tried to play professor and suggest that Reaganism was Hobbesian and "antitheticallly opposed" to John Locke and Jefferson, he raised his hand to interrupt, and then decided to offer his other arm in a "Heil Hannity" salute. When will lefties…

Olbermann: Hannity & Limbaugh ‘Haven’t Called [Obama] the N-Word

August 12th, 2008 2:17 AM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked Sean Hannity for his recent declaration on FNC's Hannity's America that Obama "can’t point to a single instance in which President Bush or McCain or Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama’s race." Missing Hannity’s point that conservatives are not attacking Obama for being…

Hannity Exposes Gore’s Connection to Ethanol and Higher Food Prices

May 13th, 2008 2:29 PM
Since media began recognizing the international food crisis and its ties to biofuels, NewsBusters has been wondering when press members will expose how intricately linked Nobel Laureate Al Gore is to this controversial issue. On Sunday, Fox News's Sean Hannity finally did just that. In a segment on "Hannity's America," the host addressed much of what NewsBusters has been reporting for the past…

Will Media Report Al Gore’s Hypocritical Private Plane Flights

September 10th, 2007 9:40 AM
By now, most conservatives have likely seen or heard about the video Fox News's Sean Hannity aired on Sunday's "Hannity's America" wherein the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, was seen getting off a private, fuel inefficient jet at San Francisco Airport before stepping into a non-hybrid, Lincoln Town Car. This raises a question: Should we expect to see this video on CNN and…