On MLK Anniversary, NBC Sees Another Day to Boost Obama
August 28th, 2013 2:59 PM
In a puff piece on Wednesday's NBC Today, White House correspondent Kristen Welker heralded President Obama's upcoming speech marking the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech: "President Obama has delivered a number of big speeches before, but this one is different. He'll be speaking in the shadows of Dr. King, a man who gave his life fighting for civil rights. So, today…
CBS Boosts Obama's MLK Anniversary Speech With Highlight Reel From Pas
August 28th, 2013 2:48 PM
Wednesday's CBS This Morning shamelessly promoted President Obama's upcoming address commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 1963 "I have a dream" speech by featuring nothing but race-related clips from the President's past speeches. Jeff Pegues hyped the "big names" set to speak at the anniversary celebration, but underlined "the headliner: the nation's first black…
Networks Ignore Obama/Holder Lawsuit That Could Trap Black Kids in Fai
August 28th, 2013 12:35 PM
Late last week the Obama/Holder Justice Department filed a lawsuit in federal court which could hold up school vouchers for disadvantaged, predominantly African-American, kids in Louisiana. The school vouchers could "impede the desegregation process" in the state's public schools, the Justice Department reportedly claims in the lawsuit. For his part, as the Associated Press reported, Louisiana…
Meacham Lowers Bar For Obama: Country Has 'Unrealistic Expectations
August 28th, 2013 12:34 PM
Presidential historian Jon Meacham did his best on Morning Joe this morning to lower the bar for President Obama's speech today commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. "The country has put an enormous amount of expectation on him . . . since he first came on the stage in 2004 . . . we sometimes have-often have--unrealistic expectations of the office," empathized Meacham…
Sharpton Guest: Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly 'Incessantly Beat Up On
August 28th, 2013 10:48 AM
People familiar with Earl Ofari Hutchinson know him to be one of the biggest race-baiters in the nation.
On Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, Hutchinson claimed conservative commentators Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly "incessantly beat up on blacks" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Krauthammer on Attacking Syria: 'What's Russia Going to Do? Cancel Ano
August 28th, 2013 10:08 AM
With all eyes on Syria and what the Obama administration is going to do in response to alleged chemical weapons use by Bashar Assad, many are concerned with how Vladimir Putin will react if we attack.
On Fox News's O'Reilly Factor Tuesday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer marvelously asked, "What's Russia going to do? Cancel another summit?"
AP: 'Obama's Presidency Has Been Marred By Racist Backlash
August 28th, 2013 10:02 AM
Is there no limit to the liberal media's race-baiting?
Consider a Wednesday report by the Associated Press that claimed, "When he became president, Obama blasted through a heavy barrier that many before him had only pushed against. But his presidency has been marred by racist backlash and his administration has found itself refighting battles already thought won, such as ensuring equal access…
Krauthammer: Pointless to Attack Syria Unless Goal Is Regime Change
August 27th, 2013 7:11 PM
With all eyes on Syria and what appears to be a looming United States strike, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday that it’s a “pointless exercise” unless we’re going all in to remove Bashar Assad.
Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report Krauthammer said, “If we are going to have an attack, it should be aimed at that, and if it’s not, we shouldn't be doing anything."
Jesse Jackson to Politico: Tea Party Is 'The Resurrection of the Confe
August 27th, 2013 12:09 PM
In the world of Jesse Jackson and the people over whom he has undue influence, if you oppose President Obama's agenda in any way, on any issue, you're a racist. No debate, no allowance for principled objection, discussion over. Apparently now, in Jackson's view, if you in any way oppose the frightening and financially reckless expansion of government we've seen during the past five years or the…
Howard Kurtz Mocks Obama Blaming Limbaugh for His Problems
August 27th, 2013 11:54 AM
Now that he's mostly settled in at the Fox News Channel, we're wondering if former CNNer and Washington Postie Howard Kurtz is ready to take the gloves off. His Monday column dealt in part with Friday's clash between President Barack Obama and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh.
By attacking the radio talk show host as a reason Republicans supposedly tell the president privately they support…
Only 323,000 People Watched Obama's CNN Interview Friday, Came in Thir
August 27th, 2013 10:39 AM
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said last month that Barack Obama got to a point when people stopped listening to him faster than most presidents.
Proving the point, practically nobody watched his interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN's New Day last Friday.
AP Lets Obama's Claims of 'No Urgent Deficit Crisis' and Misleading 'F
August 26th, 2013 11:59 PM
As has been demonstrated many times, including in its recent cover-up and weaselly non-correction of his "Gulf ports" gaffe, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, continues to do its level best to keep President Obama's misstatements and misleading statements from wider public visibility.
Two such instances occurred in one speech on Friday in Binghamton, New York, where Obama…
Bloomberg Racism News: 'House Republicans Set to Defy Obama Are Mostly
August 26th, 2013 9:41 PM
Bloomberg News betrayed their sense that democracy is best served by complete deference to President Obama. Their headline was “House Republicans Set to Defy Obama Are Mostly White Men.”
Reporter Greg Giroux (who is also white, if bean-counting is important) began this way: “The core group of Republicans who are pushing the House toward a showdown with the White House over the debt ceiling…
Bozell, Cavuto Discuss Media WMD Double Standard: Iraq and Bush v. Syr
August 26th, 2013 6:02 PM
"With all the talk that took place" during the Bush administration "on Iraq about the need for congressional approval, before there was a military strike, have you heard anyone in the media question how unilaterally Barack Obama can decide to send us to war [in Syria] without congressional approval?" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell asked Neil Cavuto on the August 26 edition of his Fox News…