Limbaugh Dismisses Obama Claim That GOP Is Too 'Worried About' Him to
During Friday afternoon's edition of his radio talk show, host Rush Limbaugh rejected the charge made by President Barack Obama that most Republican members of Congress have told him that privately they agree with his desire to fund ObamaCare but fear a backlash from the Tea Party and “what Limbaugh would say about me on the radio.”
The conservative host called the president's claim “silly…
Obama's Latest Gaffe: 'Like Eating Your Corn Seed
Somebody should tell President Obama to forget the folksy metaphors. The prez sounds phony mouthing them, and since they are unfamiliar to him, he's apt to get them wrong. As was the case at today's townhall at Binghamton University, when Obama claimed that reducing spending on government programs would be "like eating your corn seed."
You might have thought the man from Illinois would…
Kevin Spacey: 'House of Cards' Filmed in Baltimore Due to 'Fantastic T
NewsBusters has regularly reported actor Kevin Spacey's liberal views.
Yet at the annual Edinburgh International Television Festival Friday, Spacey said his hit TV series House of Cards was filmed in Baltimore, Maryland, because of the "fantastic tax breaks."
CNN Donates 42 Minutes to Puff Obama Interview: Hypes New Dog, But Not
CNN's Chris Cuomo scored an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Friday and donated a whopping 42 minutes of his three hour New Day program to playing (and replaying) the discussion with the President. Despite all that time, the host never brought up the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups or the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi. Cuomo did mention Syria crossing…
Networks Seize on White House Scandal...From 40 Years Ago
While NBC, ABC, and CBS have censored coverage of the ongoing IRS scandal for weeks – even as new revelations have moved it higher up the rungs of the Obama administration – on Wednesday and Thursday, the networks all eagerly hyped 40-year-old tapes of President Richard Nixon discussing the Watergate scandal. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Perhaps the most…
Rangel: ‘There Is No Reason Why a Young Person Should Have to Pay fo
President Obama made some proposals Thursday about how we can reduce college costs around the country.
Speaking about this on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir show hours later, Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) actually said, and I quote, “There is no reason why a young person should have to pay for college.”
CNBC Notes Yet Another Obamacare 'Quirk': Many Employees Will Turn Dow
Maybe we should cue up the old classic "High Hopes," especially given its ironic title, every time one of these "unintended consequence of Obamacare" stories comes along. Instead of singing "Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant," we can all sing, "Oops, there goes another Obamacare 'quirk.'"
One of the latest "quirks," also described as a "weird" result of the progressive movement's…
Congressman Clyburn Compares Conservative Websites to Nazi Propagandis
Congressman James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Wednesday compared America's media to Nazi propagandists.
Speaking on Sirius XM's POTUS channel, Clyburn also said people will believe anything they see on television or read in the newspaper (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Krauthammer: Obama Has Made America ‘Irrelevant’ in the Middle Eas
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words for the White House Wednesday.
Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer said President Obama has made America “irrelevant” in the Middle East.
MSNBC’s Wagner And Reid Carp About Three ‘72 Dolphins Who Refused
Three players from the 1972 Miami Dolphins turned down President Obama’s recent invitation to the White House, citing disagreements with the chief executive's political agenda, and Alex Wagner was not going to let them get away without being ridiculed. On Tuesday’s NOW with Alex Wagner, the host and her panelists pilloried the three players who chose to stay behind for ideological reasons while…
MSNBC: Obama Having to 'Swat' GOP 'Gnats' That Are 'Swarming Around Hi
On Wednesday's MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, fill-in co-host Kathleen Matthews, wife of Hardball host Chris Matthews, lamented Republicans distracting President Obama from pushing his liberal agenda: "...the President's got the gnats of August swarming around him, with Ted Cruz out there fighting against ObamaCare. So, hard to kind of keep that message and that kind of – that solid message…
NPR's Gary Knell Steps Down After Only 20 Months as Head of 'Beacon of
When Gary Knell became the chief executive officer of National Public Radio in December of 2011, his goal was to “calm the waters” after the publicly funded network had endured two high-profile scandals: the firing of Juan Williams and the video of a fund-raising executive slamming the Republican Party as “seriously racist, racist people” while accepting donations from a group that was…
Camille Paglia: 'Hillary Disqualified Herself for Presidency in Fist-P
The American media have been disgracefully ignoring the murder of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens in Benghazi almost one year ago with some of them having the nerve to echo President Obama's claim that it's a "phony scandal."
Not Camille Paglia who in an interview with Salon Wednesday said, "I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi...As…
WashPost: 1972 Dolphins Reduced to 'Wide-Eyed Children' in Obama's Pre
The only team in professional football history to go undefeated getting a White House reception 40 years after the fact is worthy of real estate in print newspapers, but today's Washington Post elected to put a gauzy item on President Obama hosting the 1972 Dolphins not on the front page of the Sports section but the front page of the entire paper.
What's more, sports writer Liz Clarke all…