CBS: Pat Schroeder on Hillary: ‘We Thought the Salem Witch Trials We
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked about Hillary Clinton dropping out of the presidential race with liberal blogger Arianna Huffington and former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, who commented on sexism during the campaign: "It troubles me a lot what we saw. It was like they made a witch out of her [Hillary Clinton], some people. You know we thought the Salem witch…
CBS's Byron Pitts Concedes He's 'Excited' by Obama's Nomination
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz played a clip of CBS reporter Byron Pitts on Wednesday's CBS Evening News hailing Barack Obama's Democratic nomination victory as proof “one of America's oldest and ugliest color lines has been broken, and there is a new bridge for a new generation,” then proposed: “You obviously are paid to be an objective journalist, but some part of you must be…
CNN Shows Us How We Are Reliving 1968 in
Did you know that we are reliving 1968 again? George W. Bush is like Lyndon B. Johnson, unpopular. Iraq is like Vietnam, unpopular. The civil rights movement is represented in Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy parallels the women's movement. The energized youth voting in this primary is comparable to the college students protesting Vietnam in 1968. Well, that's what a program…
Will Media Report Anti-Semitic Article at Obama's Website
If the official John McCain for President website featured an anti-Semitic article about the Jewish lobby, would media report it?Probably so much so that the Republican presidential nominee would be forced to issue an explanation and an apology.Well, on Saturday evening, a person representing Socialists for Obama published an article (link no longer operable) at Barack Obama's official campaign…
70% of Americans Believe Reporters Try to Help Their Candidates Win
Although the results of a new poll may not be surprising to NewsBusters readers, it is nonetheless shocking to actually see it in print: 68 percent of Americans "believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win."Even more predictable given how obvious it's been, a majority of respondents also felt Barack Obama has gotten the best press coverage so far during the campaign.…
Chgo Sun-Times: Denial of Rev. Wright's Honorary Degree an 'Injustice
Leave it to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times to get her kufi in a twist over the decision by Northwestern University to withdraw the honorary degree they had intended to bestow upon Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's racist "spiritual mentor."
In the sort of backwards logic of a woeful Black victim mentality -- Mitchell’s specialty -- Mitchell is claiming that the decision to…
Media Admission: 'Republicans Face More Scrutiny on Race Than Democrat
In the past several months, NewsBusters has been regularly revealing the race-baiting by the Clinton campaign while asking why media weren't doing a better a job of reporting it.At the same time, we've been wondering whether such issues will be similarly ignored if Barack Obama won the nomination, or if race and racism would be used to help him defeat John McCain.On Sunday, an article in New York…
Media's Fist Bump Focus Shows They're Obama Fixated and Out of Touch
Since Barack Obama declared himself the Democrat presidential nominee Tuesday, supposedly impartial press members have been sycophantically gushing over the "fist bump" he and his wife shared that evening just prior to his victory speech (video embedded right).Such has been reported by NewsBusters here and here.On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," CNN's Howard Kurtz and guests discussed the media's…
Former LA Times TV Critic Skewers Olbermann as Bad for News Industry
Keith Olbermann is not good for the news industry.Such was the opinion of former Los Angeles Times television critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Rosenberg in a rather scathing article published Saturday.Adding delicious insult to injury, Rosenberg didn't have very nice things to say about Chris Matthews, Dan Abrams, MSNBC, or that network's obvious love affair with Democrat presidential…
Democrat Superdelegate Accuses Clinton of Exploiting Racism, Media Mum
Now that Hillary Clinton has officially conceded the Democrat presidential nomination, will media be as interested in former supporters bashing her campaign tactics as they are former Bush administration officials that write negative tell-all books about the president?Given the media's almost total boycott of Friday's revelation from a New Jersey Democrat superdelegate who claims the Clinton…
Hillary Touts Her Own Commander-in-Chief Credentials—But Not Obama's
Some endorsement! Barack Obama's greatest vulnerability as a candidate is, perhaps, his lack of national security credentials—the doubt in voters' minds as to whether he is qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. So if there was one thing Hillary Clinton could have done during her speech today to bolster Barack, it would have been a clear-cut statement that, yes, she believes in his ability to be…
