Harry's 'Bush Lost 8 Million Jobs' Howler, Nailed by PolitiFact, Other
On August 2 on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed that the economy under George W. Bush lost eight million jobs.
PolitiFact, which occasionally seems to engage in verbal gymnastics to give Democrats and leftists the benefit of the doubt, was more than a little annoyed with Reid's claim, giving it a rating of "Pants on Fire." As will be demonstrated later, virtually no…
Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: 'The Problem That We Have Here Is the Cons
ABC's Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera.
During a "This Week" discussion about the recent credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's Roberts said, 'The problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different…
Clarence Page: 'Is The Tea Party Over
Want to know just how scared of the Tea Party America's media are?
On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page published a column entitled "Is The Tea Party Over?":
Arianna Huffington Flat Out Lies About Investment Firm's Economic Opin
UPDATE AT END OF POST: AOL HuffPo responds.
Joining our growing list of media members willing to flat out lie on national television to advance their political agendas is Arianna Huffington who falsely claimed this week that securities firm JPMorgan warned its clients the debt ceiling agreement "is going to reduce our growth by a point-and-a-half."
Such was dishonestly said during a segment…
ABC Financial Expert Slapping S&P As 'Suspect' Is Undisclosed Obama Fu
The predictable MSM reaction to Standard & Poor's downgrading of the US government's credit rating? Kill the messenger, of course. Yesterday, we noted how Jeff Glor at CBS' Early Show parroted the Obama line about the downgrade being "political."
Today it was ABC's turn. Good Morning America had on Mellody Hobson, a regular ABC "financial contributor" and former host of her own ABC…
Matthews: Everyone Knows Government Creates Jobs
The solution to our raging unemployment rate is so simple, I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it before. Luckily, Chris Matthews did. The government simply needs to spend more money! Because, as "everyone knows, as we studied in school," government spending creates jobs!
Matthews, just as wacky on the weekend Hardball as he is in his Mon.-Fri. version, went on a two-segment rant this…
Tony Blankley Sarcastically Says to Rude and Dismissive Al Sharpton 'Y
MSNBC's Al Sharpton on Friday was being tremendously rude and dismissive to his guest the always well-mannered Tony Blankley.
So discourteous was Sharpton that at the end of the discussion, Blankley sarcastically said, "You are a very polite gentleman" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Richard Wolffe Flat Out Lies About Obama's Eight Percent Unemployment
As the prospects for Barack Obama's reelection decline, American media are getting more and more cavalier with the truth when defending the object of their affection.
On Friday, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe not only lied about the adminstration's projection that unemployment wouldn't rise above eight percent if its stimulus package was enacted, he also badly misrepresented the…
Early Show Echoes White House, Dismisses Debt Downgrade As 'Political
Should anything happen to the Obamas' Portugese water dog Bo, perhaps the First Family could adopt Jeff Glor as a pet parrot. The weekend Early Show weekend co-host proved the perfect White House mimic this morning. Glor dutifully echoed the Obama admin line, dismissing as "political" Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US government's credit rating.
In support of his point, Glor twice…
Know What Else Obama Inherited From Bush? A 'AAA' Rating
This marvelously comes from the Republican Party of Sarasota:
Yahoo: 'America's Credit Rating Was Intentionally Sabotaged By Congres
"[I]t's difficult to escape the conclusion that America's credit rating was intentionally sabotaged by Congressional Republicans."
So wrote Yahoo Finance economics editor Daniel Gross Friday evening:
NYT Downplays Downgrade: 'Experts Say the Fallout Could be Modest
Ever the dutiful Obama shills, the New York Times on Saturday downplayed the seriousness of the announcement by Standard and Poor's that it had downgraded America's debt rating to AA+.
As you read this, imagine how this front page article would have differed if a Republican was in the White House:
NYT's Nocera Apologizes for Calling Tea Partiers 'Terrorists
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera took a lot of heat this week for writing an article calling Tea Party members "terrorists" wearing "suicide vests."
On Saturday, he apologized:
