MSNBC's Hayes Sees 'Ridiculous Clownish Antics' in GOP, Lauds Brewer f

June 17th, 2013 2:13 PM
On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes compared conservatives to clowns as he praised Republican Governor Jan Brewer for breaking ranks with conservatives and pushing for the implementation of ObamaCare in Arizona. Reminiscent of the time he recently called various Republicans "jackasses" and used some version of the word "jackass" 11 times in one segment, Hayes on Friday used some…

NYT's Backhanded Compliment for AZ Gov. Brewer: 'Compassionate...Not a

January 22nd, 2013 7:01 AM
New York Times Phoenix bureau chief Fernanda Santos reported Sunday on Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's controversial action to expand Medicaid in Arizona, in a story full of labeling bias and a denigrating description of the supposedly uncompassionate governor: "Medicaid Expansion Is Delicate Maneuver for Arizona's Republican Governor." (Previously, Santos has advocated for Arizona's illegal…

MSNBC Hits Brewer on Hispanics While Hispanic Governor Speaks

August 29th, 2012 11:14 PM
At about 9:15 p.m. during MSNBC's live coverage of the Republican National Convention, NBC correspondent Ron Mott omitted the word "illegal" as he pressed Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on whether her "hardline stance on immigration" had hurt her politically with Hispanic voters.

Reuters: 'Rights Groups' Try to Keep Late-Term Abortions In Arizona

July 13th, 2012 7:23 AM
The ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights are trying to keep Arizona safe for late-term abortionists. But they must not be labeled as liberal, or even in the usual argot (as AP showed) as “abortion-rights groups.” The Reuters headline (repeated by Yahoo and other online aggregators) is “Rights groups file suit challenging Arizona abortion ban.” The story by David Schwartz repeated that…

Kathy Griffin Aims Vulgar Name-Calling at ABC's Hasselbeck

May 18th, 2012 5:22 AM
On Thursday's Kathy show on Bravo!, host and left-wing comedienne Kathy Griffin called Elisabeth Hasselbeck by two vulgar words after playing a clip of the right-leaning co-host of ABC's The View in which Hasselbeck challenged President Obama to explain the distinction between his own view on how the federal government should treat same-sex marriage as opposed to GOP presidential candidate Mitt…

Jan Brewer Smacks Down Piers Morgan: 'You Don't Know What I Was Saying

February 29th, 2012 1:47 PM
After Tuesday's Arizona GOP primary, CNN's Piers Morgan accused Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) of "jabbing him [Obama] in the chest and threatening all sorts of things," in reference to Brewer's tarmac meeting with President Obama where she was photographed pointing her finger at him. Brewer immediately called Morgan out for embellishing the story, during the interview early Wednesday morning. "…

NBC's Gregory Hits Jan Brewer: 'Are You Showing Disrespect For the Off

February 27th, 2012 12:30 PM
Concluding a dramatically slanted discussion on immigration on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory grilled Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on a recent argument with President Obama and her declining an invitation to a White House party, insisting: "Are you showing disrespect for the office of the presidency?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the lead-up…

Flashback 2006: NBC's Brian Williams Points Finger At President Bush

January 29th, 2012 9:48 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Thursday, reacting with predictably similar disgust as the rest of the media to the picture of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger at Barack Obama, asked viewers, "Who have you ever seen talking to the president like this?" Maybe he should have looked in the archives of interviews he did with George W. Bush…

Jesse Jackson Says Gov. Brewer ‘Gave President Obama the Finger

January 28th, 2012 9:37 PM
It was a routine Saturday morning at Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH forum, broadcast nationally on the Word Network.  He was all over the map.  Jackson trashed Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney.  He warned that enterprises such as black funeral homes and black insurance companies are “under attack.”  He condemned a proposed change in Grammy Award classifications…

MSNBC Runs Viewer Tweet Urging Secret Service to Break Jan Brewer's Fi

January 28th, 2012 7:21 PM
Yet more evidence of pathologies that roil the liberal, uh, mind. MSNBC, America's closest approximation yet to Pravda (though not for lacking of trying, New York Times), did something curious but characteristic Wednesday night during the hour-long hyperventilation known as "The Ed Show." (video after page break)

Real Time Guest KOs Maher and Bashir: If Brewer Were Dem Pointing Fing

January 28th, 2012 1:56 PM
Reason TV's Kennedy on Friday had a delicious smackdown of HBO's Bill Maher and MSNBC's Martin Bashir. When Maher and Bashir voiced predictable scorn for Governor Jan Brewer pointing a finger at Barack Obama earlier in the week, Real Time panelist Kennedy correctly observed, "If this were a Democratic governor and a Republican president doing the same thing, the entire panel on your show…

Spin City in NYTimes: 'In Airport Run-In, Democrats See Help for Obama

January 28th, 2012 8:39 AM
New York Times reporter Helene Cooper, touring the West with the president, claimed that the dust-up between Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama on an airport tarmac in Phoenix could help him among Hispanics: “In Airport Run-In, Democrats See Help for Obama Among Hispanics.” A flattering photo from Las Vegas of Obama and some star-struck preteens was just part of the spin…

Maher Mocks Conservatives as Racists and Defends Liberal Hatred of Bus

January 28th, 2012 7:34 AM
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher repeatedly made jokes about conservatives being racists, and at one point even acknowledged that the main criticism that conservatives make about him is his tendency to make cracks about them being racists. Maher also defended liberal hatred of President Bush, claiming that the left hated Bush for what he actually did, in contrast with…

Liberal Radio Hosts Decry Jan Brewer's 'Blatant Racism' Toward Obama

January 28th, 2012 6:52 AM
With a little more outrage than the liberal news media, the liberal talk-radio hosts lunged at Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for merely being pictured accusingly pointing a finger at President Obama. The same people who hated reading too much into a picture of Obama not having his hand over his heart know everything about this scenario. Al Sharpton declared “This is only one case in point of a lot…