‘World News’ Leads With Hillary’s Uninsured Pregnant Woman Fib
On Saturday, NewsBusters asked, "Will Media Pounce on Hillary's Lie About Dead 'Uninsured' Pregnant Woman? Hours later, ABC's "World News" certainly did, actually leading the program with yet another example of how candidate Clinton loves to play fast and loose with the facts when delivering stump speeches. Anchor David Muir began the program:
Obama Rejects Ed Schultz Event Outburst: McCain a 'Warmonger
Remember the brouhaha the liberal media made out of Cincinnati radio host Bill Cunningham mocking "Barack Hussein Obama" at a McCain fundraiser, which McCain quickly rejected? Now the same thing (only bigger) has happened on the left. Radio Equalizer reports that at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Fargo on Friday that Obama later addressed, nationally syndicated liberal talk show host Ed Schultz…
Olbermann and Think Progress Quote Al Qaeda #2 to Discredit McCain
In yet another in a disgraceful series of indecent journalistic collaborations, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Hillary Clinton's Think Progress actually quoted al Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri to discredit Republican presidential candidate John McCain (video embedded right, use scrollbars to properly center). I kid you not.Our story begins on Thursday when Think Progress managing…
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the North Dakota Democratic Convention in Grand Forks, N.D., Friday, April 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Hillary Clinton campaigns at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Ore., Saturday, April 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Will Media Pounce on Hillary's Lie About Dead 'Uninsured' Pregnant Wom
The New York Times on Saturday exposed another lie that Hillary Clinton has been telling on the campaign trail about a pregnant woman in Ohio that supposedly died because she was refused care at a hospital due to being uninsured (embedded video of her related speech right, h/t Hot Air).The hospital in question is now refuting these claims, and asking the junior senator from New York to "…
Saturday Funnies: Jon Stewart Lampoons Chris Wallace and Chris Matthew
For those interested in a political giggle this fine Saturday, I recommend a cute sketch done by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart Thursday evening (embedded right). First, Stewart lampooned Chris Wallace for placing a "24"-style ticker on the screen to illustrate how long it's been since the host of "Fox News Sunday" challenged Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama to come on his program.Next…
Snow: Clintons' Failure to File 2007 Return Shows 'They're Human
Like characters in a Currier & Ives scene, a gentle snow has covered the Clintons. Make that a gentle Snow . . . On yesterday's Hardball, Chris Matthews, smelling a rat, was livid when he learned that the Clintons had failed to file or release their 2007 tax return. But on today's Good Morning America, Kate Snow managed to make a silk purse out of the sow's ear of the Clinton's delay. Far…
AP Covers for Obama by Avoiding Church's, and Pastor's, Essence
Now playing defense for Team Obama: Karen Hawkins and Christopher Wills of the Associated Press, as carried in the Washington Post ("Obama Found a Home in His Church") on Thursday. Call it a Wright-wash -- Hawkins and Wills managed to avoid any mention of the main tenets of "Black Liberation Theology" (details after the jump) that form the foundation of the belief system of the Trinity United…
Old Media's Seasonally Ignorant Employment Reporting
Did you know that 574,000 and 1.1 million more Americans had jobs in March than in February and January, respectively? Seriously, as you can see on the right (data can be retrieved from this BLS page; select the very first "not seasonally adjusted" table). Now the fact remains, as you can also see, that job growth during the past two months is nowhere near as great as it was during the same two…
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HDNet anchor Dan Rather gets checked by a U.S. Secret Service special agent prior to boarding a bus to cover Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., Monday, March 31, 2008, in Harrisburg, PA (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
CBS ‘Early Show’ Asks ‘Is America Broken
Touting a new CBS News/New York Times poll on Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming segment on the poll’s findings: "Is America broken? In a new CBS News poll, 81% of Americans believe this country's on the wrong track. Never has that number been so high." Co-host Harry Smith later introduced the segment by declaring: "A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows 81%…
Hillary Has Raised Only 5% of Pa. TV Airtime Goal
As a loyal Clinton campaign email subscriber, rarely a day goes by that I don't hear from Hillary or Bill. It's good to know they're thinking about me. But today brings some very troubling news: Hillary is WAY behind on her fundraising goal for TV airtime in Pennsylvania. [screencap below page break]The gist of today's message from Hillary is that we supporters are being given a cafeteria list…
Karl Rove's Astounding Interview with GQ: 'CBS is a Shoddy Operation
In the past, NewsBusters has not been kind to GQ magazine.However, an interview with former White House advisor Karl Rove, published in the most recent issue, is an absolute must-read.And that's putting it mildly. Although readers are strongly encouraged to peruse the entire, lengthy piece, special attention must be given to Rove's strongly negative opinions of the media, especially CBS (h/t…
