Events
CNN's Fox-Bashing/Fox-Job Applying Roesgen 'Tak(ing) a Break
April 17th, 2009 4:48 PM
CNN's Susan Roesgen has had a rough week, what with all the ordinary American/First Amendment practitioners bashing she so passionately and obnoxiously delivered in her TEA Party reporting.Perhaps it was the sniping at the place she twice applied in 2005 - Rupert Murdoch's House of Ratings, otherwise known as Fox News - that put her over the edge.Or whether or not her email box was so overwhelmed…
CNN's 'Anti-Government' TEA Party Reporter: Obama as Hitler? 'Offensiv
April 16th, 2009 12:31 PM
CNN reporter Susan Roesgen became a pseudo-"journalistic" anti-hero yesterday for her obnoxiously belligerent interview of one Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party participant and her overall assessment of the more than 750 events around the country as amongst other derogatory things "anti-government." But in another segment, she delved into rank hypocrisy the likes of which we rarely find even in…
MSNBC: The Place for Low-Brow 'Teabag' Humor
April 14th, 2009 5:00 PM
MSNBC prides itself as being the place for politics, the seemingly clever marketing slogan could be used to describe the network as the place where hosts try to use dirty humor about important political events. David Shuster, filling in for MSNBC loose-cannon Keith Olbermann on his April 13 broadcast, and his writers probably thought they were pretty clever when they pieced an item denigrating…
Kurtz Acknowledges CNN’s Lack of Tea Party Coverage -- On His CNN Sh
April 12th, 2009 7:48 PM
With the Tax Day tea party rallies just three days away, outside of the Fox News Channel, the coverage has been lacking. And, it was something that even Washington Post media columnist and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" Howard Kurtz acknowledged on his April 12 program. "The folks at Fox News have found something to be for in this age of Obama," Kurtz said. "They are firmly in favor of tea…
Predictable: MSNBC’s Shuster, Newsweek’s Gross Belittle and Miscon
April 11th, 2009 2:37 PM
Even before a single bag of tea has been dumped as a form of protest over government economic policies, the gang at MSNBC is in full-attack mode over the notion these protests merit any recognition. On MSNBC's April 10 "Countdown," fill-in host David Shuster imitated his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow's juvenile and overdone description of the tea party protest to disparage the upcoming…
FNC’s Beck on Left-Wing Media Tea Party Criticism: 'They Don’t Get
April 9th, 2009 7:01 PM
Some groups on the left may have it out for anti-tax tea party movement, but according to one of the movement's biggest proponents - it is because they don't understand it from a hierarchical perspective. Although there are reports that ACORN, The Huffington Post and the Daily Kos wanting to infiltrate the rallies, or crying foul for other reason - Beck, who appeared on Fox News Channel's April…
If Obama Believes Austrian Is a Language, So Will AP
April 6th, 2009 11:34 PM
At an April 4 news conference in Strasbourg, France (White House transcript here), President Obama referred to a language that doesn't exist (bold is mine; HT to DrewM at Ace of Spades):It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing -- and…
Newt on G20 Protests vs. Tea Party Protests: 'The Media is Always Happ
April 2nd, 2009 2:02 PM
With the G20 meeting in London, there have been raucous protests - clashes with police in riot gear, destruction of property at nearby banks and even the death of one man from a heart attack. And the media have gone out of their way to cover every sordid detail. To former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the media's flag-to-flag coverage of the G20 protests are a glaring contrast to the…
Fox's Sammon: Carville, Greenburg Told Reporters They Wanted Bush to F
March 11th, 2009 11:33 PM
The above headline isn't even the half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where he and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke (photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!" The assembled press apparently understood that…
NewsBusters @ CPAC Day Two
February 27th, 2009 10:49 AM
Once again NewsBusters is at CPAC. We'll be covering the events and speakers, giving you a flavor of everything via our page on Twitter, @TheMRC. Log on to our Twitter page and check it out. Right now NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is addressing the role the biased media have to play in pushing a gun control agenda.
NewsBusters @ CPAC and 'Targets of the Fairness Doctrine
February 26th, 2009 11:39 AM
Washington, D.C. -- The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for 2009 is underway and NewsBusters is here to cover it at the lovely Omni Shoreham Hotel on Bloggers Row. We're not sure how much we'll blog per se, but you can also follow us on Twitter @TheMRC and @KenShepherd.You can watch a Web stream of the CPAC proceedings at Ustream here.You can watch the streaming video embedded…
Wounded Vets Upset at Bush Insult During Vets Inaugural Ball Concert
January 22nd, 2009 10:00 AM
While performing at the inaugural ball honoring America's military veterans, some wounded vets are reported to have walked out on funk Musician George Clinton over a perceived on stage insult to George W. Bush.
The Washington Times is reporting that during the Heroes Red, White and Blue Inaugural Ball a white towel with the word "[Expletive] GEORGE" spelled out on it was displayed by band…
WaPo Prints Overwrought Letter: John Roberts Oath Flub 'a Disgrace
January 21st, 2009 5:45 PM
Among the five "Scenes From an Inauguration" letters the Washington Post published from readers in its January 21 edition, one took the cake for over-the-top left-wing derangement.The letter, by one Ed Burke of Warrenton, Virginia, launched a screed at Chief Justice John Roberts, calling his mistake reciting the presidential oath for Barack Obama "a disgrace" whether it was "through design" or "…