Politico's Top Stories Suggest Site's Liberal Tilt
October 10th, 2011 8:04 AM
Politico's "Daily Digest" is an email the blog blasts out in the morning, touting the day's top stories. As a subscriber, this NewsBuster was struck by the left-friendly lean of five out this morning's six featured stories.
To be sure, "Post-recession income falls" is not good for President Obama, reporting as it does that Americans' incomes have fallen faster during his presidency than…
AP on the Long-Term Unemployed, Part 2: Reporter Hananel Never IDs Fai
October 9th, 2011 5:39 PM
As shown in Part 1, this afternoon's report on long-term unemployment at the Associated Press by Sam Hananel attempted to create the impression but provided no actual evidence for the notion that complaints by many who have been unemployed for an extended time period that many employers are reluctant to consider and sometimes even refuse to consider their employment inquiries and applications…
AP on the Long-Term Unemployed, Part 1: No Jobless Person Found Who Su
October 9th, 2011 5:06 PM
The headline this afternoon at the Associated Press to a report by Sam Hananel attempted to create the impression that complaints by many who have been unemployed for an extended time period that many employers are reluctant to consider and sometimes even refuse to consider their employment inquiries and applications equals support for provisions in President Obama's American Jobs Act which…
Actor Jay Mohr Makes Sexual Jokes About Palin, Finds Herman Cain 'Gett
October 8th, 2011 7:49 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Imus in the Morning on the Fox Business Network, actor and comedian Jay Mohr took some sexual jabs at Sarah Palin, suggesting that she used to be his "booty call," and then later referring to her as "screwing black people since the mid-90s."
He also imitated GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain as he cracked that Cain is "getting blacker" as the campaign…
Maher: Perry's 'Racist Rock' is Like GOP, 'Overtly Racist Bulls*** Thi
October 8th, 2011 10:14 AM
During the "New Rule" segment ending Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher asserted that the painted over "N****head Ranch" rock on Texas Governor Rick Perry's hunting territory is a "metaphor" for the Republican Party, because it is "overtly racist bulls*** thinly painted over." Maher also displayed the words "The Bigotest Loser" while an image of Perry was shown on screen.…
NBC's 'Today' Frets Scott Brown Getting 'Nasty' and 'Personal' in Mass
October 7th, 2011 12:14 PM
At the top of Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if a joke by Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown in response to a jab by Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was a "comeback or insult" and noted that "women's groups are giving him a big dressing down today."
In a later tease of the story, fellow co-host Ann Curry proclaimed: "A senate race in Massachusetts has…
CBS Lets Wasserman Schultz Bash GOP, Omits Her Rosy Economic Spin
October 6th, 2011 3:32 PM
CBS's Erica Hill let DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz bash congressional Republicans unopposed on Thursday's Early Show. Hill also failed to ask the Florida Democrat about her eye-opening claim on Wednesday that "anyone" can see that the economy is improving "and now, we've begun to turn the corner."
The anchor brought on Wasserman Schultz, the morning show's only political guest, for…
'Occupy Wall Street' Is What a Mob Looks Like
October 6th, 2011 12:35 PM
I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.
No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want -- as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street." You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in…
NYT's Thomas Friedman: G.O.P. 'A Danger to Itself and to the Country
October 6th, 2011 11:53 AM
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared the G.O.P. “a danger to itself and to the country” in his Wednesday column, “No Christie, No Bargain.”
CSM's 'Decoder' Twists MSNBC Criticism of Cain Strategy Into 'Leaving
October 5th, 2011 10:30 PM
This afternoon, Jack Coleman at NewsBusters noted how MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took a shot at GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for supposedly "taking a month off the campaign trail -- taking a month off -- to go on a book tour."
The original source for this "claim" is a very poorly written and quite deceptively headlined October 3 item at the Christian Science Monitor by David Grant. The…
Al Sharpton Begins One Third of His MSNBC Programs Saying 'Hey, Republ
October 5th, 2011 9:42 PM
Six weeks into his new job as an MSNBC host, Al Sharpton has made it crystal clear he despises members of the GOP.
So far he has begun one third of his shows hatefully saying, "Hey, Republicans" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Martin Bashir Worries Puppet Will Starve Thanks to Evil Republicans
October 5th, 2011 4:41 PM
Touting Sesame Street's newest muppet character, a young girl living in poverty, MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Wednesday slammed Republican efforts to curb spending and urged: "...perhaps they do well to change the channel just for a moment from Fox News to PBS.... on Sesame Street they will see the sad face of a hungry doll whose family doesn't have enough money to buy food." [Audio available…
While WaPo Notes Obama's Sinking Approval Numbers, GMA Touts His Lead
October 5th, 2011 2:38 PM
The Washington Post and ABC News may have co-sponsored the same poll, but they spun the results differently on Wednesday morning. The Post, in its story "Opposition to Obama Grows – Strongly," focused on the President's low job approval, reporting that 40 percent of Americans "strongly disapprove" of the job Obama has done.
Meanwhile, ABC's Good Morning America touted the President's "15…
CBS Highlights 'Fast & Furious'; ABC, NBC Place Heads in the Sand
October 4th, 2011 12:22 PM
"CBS Evening News" distinguished itself among the Big Three networks on Monday by devoting an entire segment to the ongoing controversy over the "Fast and Furious" program, where the federal government smuggled guns to Mexican drug cartels. NBC hasn't mentioned the story on its news programs since April 17, while the last time ABC covered it was a news brief on June 15.
Correspondent Sharyl…