CNN Touts Hillary Clinton's Twitter Account; Barely Reports Accusation

June 11th, 2013 3:43 PM
[UPDATED BELOW] For hours on Monday and Tuesday, CNN hyped a positive Hillary Clinton story while ignoring a negative Clinton story. While both stories broke on Monday morning, CNN only touted one of them on Monday: Clinton joining Twitter. And the network spent almost 10 minutes discussing it on Tuesday morning. In contrast, it took until 11 a.m. on Tuesday for CNN to even mention serious…

WashPost Devotes 26-Paragraph Front Page Puff Piece to Hillary Clinton

June 11th, 2013 10:40 AM
Another day, another Hillary Clinton for president story by the Washington Post. On Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially joined Twitter. Today, the Post devoted a 26-paragraph puff piece to this development and on the front page no less. Staff writer Philip Rucker all but begged Hillary to run for president in his story headlined “One-tweet wonder draws followers, and…

NBC Gushes Over Hillary Biopic: Clinton's 'Friends in Hollywood' Are

June 7th, 2013 11:32 AM
After fretting that numerous government scandals were becoming a "big problem" for President Obama at the top of Friday's NBC Today, in the 7:30 a.m. ET half hour, correspondent Andrea Mitchell eagerly engaged in reporting that was more enjoyable, the promotion of a new Hollywood biopic of Hillary Clinton ahead of the former secretary of state's potential 2016 presidential run. [Watch the video…

Author: Obama Asked for Softball '60 Minutes' Interview with Hillary t

June 3rd, 2013 10:49 PM
The New York Post offered an op-ed on Monday adapted from the new paperback edition of Ed Klein's book The Amateur. Klein says Team Obama and Team Clinton made a deal last summer: Bill Clinton would give the key nominating speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte endorsing Obama. In exchange, Obama would endorse Hillary Clinton as his successor. But after he won his second term, Obama…

Jessica Chastain Denies Being Up for Role as Hillary Clinton

June 2nd, 2013 5:04 PM
NewsBusters reported last Sunday that Jessica Chastain was one of four gorgeous actresses up for the part of Hillary Clinton in the planned 2016 biopic "Rodham." According to Digital Spy, Chastain denied this during a discussion with journalists at Saturday's Sound of Change concert in London.

NBC's Brokaw Gushes Over Clintons 'Still At the Top of the Attention S

May 30th, 2013 5:42 PM
Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today to promote his new show premiering on the Military Channel, The Brokaw Files, special correspondent Tom Brokaw fondly looked back at a 1993 interview he conducted with Bill and Hillary Clinton: "It's amazing when you stop and think about all that they've been through. That was 1993, it's 20 years ago, and they're still at the top of the attention span in this…

Chris Matthews Plots 2016 for Hillary: It's Just a Question of 'Who's

May 28th, 2013 6:15 PM
  According to Chris Matthews on Tuesday, having Rand Paul or Ted Cruz as opponents would result in an easy win for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Hardball host, who famously had a "thrill" going up his leg for Barack Obama, plotted the former Secretary of State's path to victory. Regarding whether she'll run, Matthews gushed, "It's just a question of what kind of campaign and who's going to…

Scarlett Johansson and Reese Witherspoon Considered to Play Hillary Cl

May 26th, 2013 10:59 PM
When you see Hillary Clinton, do you think of Scarlett Johansson? Or Reese Witherspoon? According to Britain's Independent, the director of the upcoming 2016 biopic "Rodham" does:

Grammy Award-Winner Michael Bolton: 'I'd Walk Across the Country to Ge

May 26th, 2013 10:13 PM
"If she decides to run, I would walk across the country to get her into office." So said Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Michael Bolton about Hillary Clinton during an interview with HuffPost Live Friday.

NYT Feminists Still Giddy About Hillary's Chances In 2016: Any Gender

May 26th, 2013 7:52 AM
Politico’s Katie Glueck reported two feminists who’ve written opinion columns for The New York Times are still giddy about Hillary Clinton’s chances in 2016. Benghazi, schmengazi. Appearing Thursday at the liberal Center for American Progress, former Times columnist Anna Quindlen asserted any gender-related problems Hillary encountered in previous races have been “wiped out,” and her gender…

Romney: ‘I’m Not a Fan of the President

May 18th, 2013 11:53 AM
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was Jay Leno’s guest on the Tonight Show Friday, and he didn’t have kind things to say about the current White House resident or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At one point in their discussion, Romney said, "I'm not a fan of the president - in case you didn't know that."

MSNBC’s Alex Witt Suggests Hillary’s ‘What Difference Does It Ma

May 14th, 2013 5:50 PM
It seems the liberal media are desperately determined to shield Hillary Clinton from any attacks on her handling of the Benghazi fiasco. On Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, the host attempted to blunt the criticism by suggesting that Mrs. Clinton’s opponents have taken her memorable "What difference, at this point, does it make?" quote from her testimony in January out of context. Witt was…

NB ToonsDay: IRS Audits the Tea Party; Gosnell Guilty; Benghazi Tarnis

May 14th, 2013 11:30 AM
It's been a busy week full of news stories highly damaging to liberals, from the damning testimony about Benghazi to revelations that the Obama IRS targeted the Tea Party to yesterday's conviction of Philadelphia abortionist and infanticidal maniac Kermit Gosnell. So we at NewsBusters thought we'd show you how some conservative political cartoonists around the country were dealing with these…

NPR Anchor Tries to Describe First Obama Term as 'Remarkably Scandal-f

May 13th, 2013 10:44 PM
On Monday, NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep expressed -- in the face of all the evidence of Fast and Furious, Solyndra, MF Global, and so on -- that the first term of Obama's presidency was "remarkably scandal-free." When I challenged him on the factual inaccuracy of this, he tweeted in reply , "Hm, did I say it was scandal-free or that it 'has been described' as such?" However…