McCain: Media Bias Towards Obama 'Something We Have to Accept' - 'It I
August 2nd, 2012 9:49 AM
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said something on Fox News's Hannity Wednesday that so-called journalists across the fruited plain should be embarrassed by.
"The media bias towards President Obama is just, it's something we have to accept. It is just the air we breathe in the political environment" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Cal Thomas Column: You're No Bill Clinton, Mr. President
August 2nd, 2012 8:15 AM
The Obama re-election team must be in panic mode. The president is stuck in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in some polls and behind him in others, so in desperation it has reached out to the Big Dog, Bill Clinton, for help.
Clinton will speak next month at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in a Wednesday night position often reserved for the vice presidential nominee.…
Hypocritical CNN Downplays Gay Agenda -- When Obama Is Under Fire for
August 1st, 2012 4:05 PM
CNN, the network that encourages gay activists and promotes the gay agenda, is now trying to sweep the issue aside – when President Obama is under fire for his support of gay marriage, that is. On Thursday morning, CNN's Carol Costello suggested Rev. William Owens, a critic of Obama's support for same-sex marriage, focus on something else.
"I think nearly every poll out there shows that same…
Embarrassed White House Issues Apology to Charles Krauthammer
August 1st, 2012 11:43 AM
Charles Krauthammer received a rare apology yesterday from the Obama White House after the president’s press shop had called him out in a mistaken “fact check” of one of the syndicated writer’s recent columns.
In a posting on the official White House blog yesterday evening, Obama communications director Dan Pfeiffer blamed “internal confusion” for an earlier posting in which he denounced…
Irony Alert: GOP-Bashing D.L. Hughley Likens Joe Wilson, House Republi
July 31st, 2012 2:43 PM
On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, liberal comedian D.L. Hughley claimed that Republicans acted as bullies when they impeached former President Bill Clinton in 1998, as well as Rep. Joe Wilson when he shouted "you lie" at President Obama in 2009. Hughley also indicated that Clinton would have handled Wilson's outburst better, as "he had, to a greater or lesser degree, been bullied and seen what…
WaPo's Richard Cohen Calls Romney 'The Village Idiot
July 31st, 2012 9:21 AM
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has successfully founded a private equity company, rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics, and governed the state of Massachusetts.
Despite such accomplishments, the Washington Post's Richard Cohen on Monday called Romney "the village idiot":
Dick Morris: 'I Guarantee Bill Clinton Is Going to Cast His Ballot for
July 30th, 2012 11:33 PM
"I guarantee you, Sean, based on what I’ve heard from third parties or I’ve spoken to that William Jefferson Clinton is going to cast his ballot for Mitt Romney."
So said former Clinton adviser Dick Morris on Fox News's Hannity Monday (video follows with transcript).
Chris Matthews Gushes Shamelessly Over Bill Clinton: 'The Big Dog Has
July 30th, 2012 9:00 PM
Is there anything more disgusting than watching a grown, heterosexual, married man gush and fawn over another grown, heterosexual married man for political reasons on national television?
Unfortunately, this happens all too often for MSNBC's Chris Matthew who on Monday's Hardball was once again proudly displaying the thrill up his leg, this time for former President Bill Clinton (video…
Newsweek 'Wimp'-ing Out of Real Coverage of the Disastrous Obama Econo
July 30th, 2012 6:23 PM
"There is absolutely no way Barack Obama can win reelection running on his record and the news media know this," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Eric Bolling at the top of today's Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Newsweek's current edition, featuring the headline, "The Wimp Factor: Is he [Mitt Romney] just too insecure to be president?" is just the latest example of the media's…
McCain Blasts Newsweek's 'Liberal Left-Wing Trash
July 30th, 2012 6:12 PM
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) had some harsh words for Newsweek and its Washington bureau chief Howard Kurtz Monday.
According to Politico, the former Republican presidential nominee said of Kurtz's newest article "John McCain Stages Romney Intervention," "It’s just the kind of liberal left-wing trash that I have to put up with from time to time."
Mitch McConnell: 'The New York Times Monopoly Is Over
July 30th, 2012 4:14 PM
"I think the New York Times monopoly is over...Arthur Sulzberger used to have the biggest megaphone in America. And all you have to do is look at the dwindling size of newspapers, even one as big as his.”
So said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in an interview with BuzzFeed Monday:
CBS, NBC Hype Romney 'Controversy' and 'Error' in Israel, Ignored Obam
July 30th, 2012 2:40 AM
Sunday's CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News tried to spin negatively a vague statement by Mitt Romney advisor Dan Senor that the GOP presidential candidate would "respect" the Israeli government's decision if it chose to attack militarily Iran's nuclear capability, suggesting that the Romney campaign's words amounted to a criticism of the Obama administration, and thus a breach of…
Newsweek Cover Story: 'Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Pr
July 29th, 2012 6:33 PM
25 years ago, Newsweek published a controversial cover story titled "Bush Battles the 'Wimp Factor.'"
On Monday, newsstands will carry an equally controversial albeit derivative Newsweek cover story titled "Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem":
AP's Kasie Hunt: A Hotel Is 'Communal' Space; Also Makes Obama Appear
July 29th, 2012 2:50 PM
In the kerfuffle over the initial refusal by Mitt Romney's campaign to allow reporters into a fundraising event to take place at an Israeli hotel on Monday, a position the campaign reversed late yesterday (early morning in Israel), the Associated Press's Kasie Hunt had, to say the least, an interesting take on property rights, while clearly misstating how the Obama campaign has handled press…