Will Edwards Ad Waltz Hillary Out -- And Obama In
Chris Matthews can't get enough of John Edwards' brutal-but-funny anti-Hillary ad, playing it twice during this evening's "Hardball." Set to the Blue Danube Waltz and based on clips from last week's debate, the theme is Hillary's double-talk on Iraq, Social Security and immigration [her triple-toe loop on driver's licenses for illegal immigrants].But in the three-cushion game that is presidential…
CBS's Smith to Bloomberg: 'Manhattan Will Be Underwater by
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith interviewed New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. The liberal mayor has followed in the footsteps of Al Gore and implored the government to take action to address an impending environmental crisis, saying "We need to do something now." To match Bloomberg’s alarmist rhetoric, Smith added "Manhattan will be underwater by 2050." Amusingly, even…
NBC 'Correspondent': Vote for Environmentalist Candidates
Not that there was any doubt about the ulterior motives behind NBC's "Green Week," but we didn't expect the Peacock Network to be quite this brazen. This morning on MSNBC, an NBC environmental "correspondent," who as you'll see has an impressive resume as a left-wing activist, openly urged viewers [on the eve of Election Day] to vote for politicians with an environmentalist agenda.Video (2:18):…
Chris Matthews Panel Stocked With Liberals Piles on Hillary
Hillary's horrible Halloween week from hell got worse Sunday when Chris Matthews and his liberal-stocked panel piled on the Junior Senator from New York fortifying the recent media meme that the Clinton in 2008 inevitability has suddenly become a tad less inevitable. Adding insult to injury, when you're a Democrat candidate, and press members like Norah O'Donnell of MSNBC, Richard Stengel of…
Biden's Verbal Gaffes 'OK' Because of His 'Civil Record
In an article that is otherwise fairly balanced, Delaware's biggest daily, the Wilmington News Journal, proclaims in a headline today that senior Senator Joe Biden has a "Tangled tongue, but a civil record," with the sub-header "Biden's bloopers don't jibe with his votes." Sen. Joe Biden sees black supporters as his base and maintains a stellar voting record with the NAACP. But he's also gotten…
Clinton: Russert Asked Hillary ‘Breathtakingly Misleading’ Questio
Is this what we have to look forward to the next twelve months before Election Day: any time a member of the media asks Hillary Clinton a tough question, her husband is going come to her defense, wagging his finger as he only he can, declaring in his smug tone that she was unfairly treated? Such was certainly the case Friday when former President Bill Clinton aggressively responded to a reporter…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: October 27 to November
George Bush: A Reverse Grinch? "The Early Show" may be last in the ratings for the network morning shows, but the program is no slouch on the bias front. This week, co-host Julie Chen hyperventilated about the recent lead scare over toys from China. She lectured the head of the Consumer Product Safety Board, "American parents are upset, they're frightened, they feel like their Halloween and their…
Debate Coverage: Goo-Goo Globe Faults Fistfight Focus
"Character is destiny." -- Heraclitus, pre-Socratic philosopher Which tells you more about what kind of president a candidate would make: a. Her positions on the nursing shortage, Social Security and internet decency; orb. The way she responds under pressure?I'm guessing that, like me, the great majority of people would opt for "b."Ah, but the sensitive souls of the Boston Globe editoral board…
Kathleen Willey Tell-all Coming Soon
Former Bill Clinton presidential aide Kathleen Willey is set to release a memoir of her time in the White House and the time since she accused Clinton of making gross sexual advances on her.In the book, titled "Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and set for release Nov. 6, Willey identifies the mysterious man who threatened her just before she testified against Clinton…
Weekend Captionfest
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) participates in a debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia, October 30, 2007. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)
CBS’s Smith ‘Admired’ Kucinich ‘Since He was Mayor of Clevelan
While previewing an upcoming interview with extreme left-wing presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich, on Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith remarked, "I've actually admired Dennis Kucinich for a long -- since he was mayor of Cleveland." In addition to Smith admitting that he admired someone as liberal as Kucinich, who wants to establish a Department of Peace and claims to have seen…
Lauer Begs Barack to Say Economy's Headed to Recession
Talk about talking down the economy! No fewer than three times today, Matt Lauer invited Barack Obama to declare that the U.S. economy is headed into recession. At the end of a "Today" interview that focused largely on Hillary-related issues and Iran, Lauer turned to the economy and pressed Obama to predict the worst.View video here.
