CNN's Chyron Gaffe: Claims 'Obama: Must Stigmatize Muslim Community'
February 18th, 2015 5:43 PM
For the second time in just over a week, CNN aired a misleading on-screen graphic. On Wednesday's The Lead With Jake Tapper, during live coverage of President Obama's speech to a White House summit on "countering violent extremism," a lower third chyron stated, "Obama: Must 'Stigmatize' Muslim Community."
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CNN's Toobin: Immigration Stay is a 'Very, Very Bad Ruling' for Obama
February 18th, 2015 2:07 PM
On Tuesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin hyped that a federal judge's stay on President's Obama's executive action granting amnesty for scores of illegal immigrants is a "very, very bad ruling for the President and his administration." Toobin underlined that the judge is "a known conservative judge, who...[has] been hostile to the President on immigration reform."
Obama Admin Officials to New Yorker Mag: Libyan Chaos Is GOP's Fault
February 17th, 2015 10:45 PM
In a rundown of the deteriorating situation in Libya in its February 23 issue, New Yorker Magazine's Jon Lee Anderson quoted "a senior (Obama) Administration official" (the capital "A" is Anderson's) who, incredibly, claimed that the country's descent into virtual chaos resulted from "the politicization" of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and…
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Nets Paint Illegal Immigrants as Victims After Judge Halts Amnesty
February 17th, 2015 10:06 PM
Just shy of 24 hours after a federal judge halted President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, the major broadcast networks displayed their palpable opposition to the ruling during their Tuesday night broadcasts, lamenting that it “dashes American dreams for millions of families under the threat of deportation” after Wednesday was set “to be a historic day for millions of illegal immigrants” when…
CNN Boss: No Conflict of Interest In Having Obamas Over for Dinner
February 17th, 2015 7:17 PM
“During a CNN internal town hall Tuesday, network chief Jeff Zucker said it’s not a conflict of interest for an executive of the network to host the president and First Lady in their home,” an insider familiar with the event told TheWrap.com.
The fuss was apparently over a dinner with the Obamas at the home of CNN vice president Virginia Moseley, who's married to Thomas Nides, a former aide to…
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Only NBC Notes Criticism of Obama Following ISIS Expansion Into Libya
February 17th, 2015 3:42 PM
Of all the broadcast network coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning of ISIS terrorists beheading twenty-one Christians in Libya, only one reference was made on NBC's Today to President Obama's failed policy in Libya providing an opening to the Islamic extremists.
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Barnicle: We Can't Call It Radical Islam 'Because We're The Crusaders'
February 17th, 2015 7:23 AM
Mike Barnicle: proud member of the Barack Obama "terrible deeds in the name of Christ" school of moral blindness . . .
Joe Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe with a protracted and impassioned plea for America—and in particular President Obama—to call out radical Islam by name. Mika Brzezinski was dubious, citing unspecified "difficult times" in the past when presidents used the wrong…
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Will Slams Obama for Calling Murdered Christians 'Egyptian Citizens'
February 17th, 2015 12:46 AM
On Monday night, the panelists on the Fox News Channel (FNC) show Special Report excoriated the Obama administration for saying in a statement that the Coptic Christian men from Egyptian beheaded by ISIS in a video along the Libyan coast were “Egyptian citizens” and labeling Islamic State fights as merely “ISIL-affiliated terrorists” instead of further identifying them as Muslims or Islamic…
NY Times Bemoans Libya's Implosion; No Mention of Obama or U.S.
February 15th, 2015 9:56 AM
Libya's descent into chaos troubles the New York Times editorial board. Naturally, the Old Gray Lady's Sunday editorial, even as it referenced the 2011 "civil war," didn't even try to make any association between the current mess and the administration which initiated it.
The editorial's recitation of the current situation, without any mention of President Obama, NATO, or the United States…
Adam Carolla: Obama's 'Unfair' Rhetoric Discourages Work
February 14th, 2015 12:38 PM
Adam Carolla wants President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren to take a knee. The podcaster says their economic rhetoric sends the wrong message to Americans.
Both Obama and Warren warn about an unfair playing field and how the government should make the necessary “corrections.” So "How is it possible for everyone to have exactly the same opportunity?” asks Carolla.
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NBC, ABC Gush Over Obama's 'Captivating' Selfie Video
February 13th, 2015 11:43 AM
NBC and ABC on Friday gushed over a new video of the President taking selfies and making silly faces as he promotes ObamaCare. Only CBS This Morning wondered if the President was diminishing the office. Good Morning America's Amy Robach parroted the White House commercial as just another fun, viral video. The journalist enthused, "Trending this morning, the President is presiding on Facebook with…
WashPost Never Probed Candidate Obama's College Years Like Walker's
February 12th, 2015 5:02 PM
The Washington Post published a 2,223-word story on Thursday's front page on the college career of Scott Walker -- it ended abruptly without a graduation. One obvious question: when did the Post publish a long story on candidate Barack Obama’s undergraduate college years before he was elected in 2008? The answer: They didn’t.
Obama attended Occidental College in California for…
Staples Pushes Back on Obama Smear, Networks Ignore
February 12th, 2015 2:49 PM
In an interview with BuzzFeed on Tuesday, President Obama attacked office supply chain Staples over accusations that the company was cutting back on worker hours to avoid the ObamaCare health insurance coverage mandate for their employees: "...when I hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting…
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ABC, CBS Omit Keystone Pipeline Passing Congress; NBC Gives It 11 Secs
February 12th, 2015 2:52 AM
When it came to the major broadcast networks covering the full congressional passage of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on their Wednesday night newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley chose to ignore the story completely and left their viewers in the dark on this issue. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News made it the second topic covered on its…