Lefty Sachs Zaps Obama: 'No Plan, No Leadership

August 19th, 2011 8:04 AM
All joking aside about "if Obama has lost [fill in the blank], he has lost America", there was a stunning display today of a formerly ardent supporter condemning in the most fundamental terms President Obama's failure of leadership. On Morning Joe, leftist Columbia Prof. Jeffrey Sachs absolutely scalded the president.  Declared Sachs: the stimulus failed.  Three years in, Obama has no plan…

Ed Schultz Edits Rick Perry to Falsely Accuse Him of Making Racist Rem

August 16th, 2011 6:43 PM
For months, NewsBusters has been warning readers that America's media are going to do everything in their power to label all contenders to Barack Obama racist. On Monday's "The Ed Show," the host edited Rick Perry - in mid-sentence, mind you! - to falsely accuse the Texas governor of making a racist remark about America's first black president (video follows with partial transcript and…

Networks Embrace Buffett’s Call for Higher Taxes on ‘Mega-Rich

August 16th, 2011 2:08 AM
“Billionaires on notice,” ABC anchor Diane Sawyer teased Monday’s World News in trumpeting, as did CBS and NBC, a New York Times op-ed by liberal billionaire Warren Buffett. Sawyer heralded Buffett’s quest: “Is it time for the mega-rich to pay at least the same tax rate as their secretaries? And if they did pay their fair share, would it fix America's schools or roads?” Sawyer soon…

Pat Buchanan Challenges Warren Buffett: 'Set an Example and Send a Che

August 15th, 2011 9:11 AM
The liberal media are predictably fawning over billionaire Warren Buffett's op-ed in the New York Times Monday calling for new taxes on the super-rich. This led MSNBC's Pat Buchanan on Monday's "Morning Joe" to challenge the Oracle of Omaha asking, "Why doesn’t he set an example and send a check for $5 billion to the federal government?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Fareed Zakaria: 'Liberals Need to Grow Up' and Stop Criticizing Obama

August 14th, 2011 11:53 PM
Liberals need to grow up and stop criticizing President Obama. So said Fareed Zakaria Sunday on the CNN program bearing his name (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Gregory Scolds Bachmann for Listening to Public Opinion on Debt Ceilin

August 14th, 2011 9:32 PM
It appears David Gregory is a bit confused about how our system of government works. During intense questioning of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Sunday's "Meet the Press," the host scolded his guest for having the nerve to actually care what the American people thought about raising the debt ceiling (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Paul Krugman Calls for Space Aliens to Attack Earth Requiring Massive

August 14th, 2011 10:29 AM
Oh those whacky liberals. On Sunday's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," New York Times columnist - and, ahem, Nobel laureate - Paul Krugman actually advocated space aliens attack earth thereby requiring a massive defense buildup by the United States that would stimulate the economy (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NYT's Blow: Every Time Bachmann Said 'As President of the United State

August 13th, 2011 11:42 AM
"I must confess that every time Representative Michele Bachmann uttered the phrase 'as president of the United States' during Thursday's Republican presidential debate I blacked out a little bit, so I'm sure that I missed some things." So actually began a piece by New York Times columnist Charles Blow Saturday:

NYT Editorial: GOP Caused Downgrade and 'Invited a Double-Dip Recessio

August 13th, 2011 10:42 AM
In the view of the New York Times, everything that ails our nation is caused by Republicans. Consider Saturday's editorial disgracefully titled "Magical Unrealism: In the Iowa Debate, Republicans Fled From the Truth About the Damage Caused by Their Party":

The Debt Panel's Patty Murray Problem

August 12th, 2011 5:10 PM
Everything that's wrong with the so-called debt "super-committee" can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named Murray co-chair of the dog-and-pony deficit-reduction panel tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late November. Murray, an unrepentant Nanny…

Networks Take Cue from Obama, Start Attacking S&P Only After He Does

August 12th, 2011 9:53 AM
The recent decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA upset many on the left, especially those within the Obama administration. The White House lashed out at S&P and some in the news media did too. So Business & Media Institute decided to look back at six years of network (ABC,CBS and NBC) coverage of S&P. BMI found out that bulk of…

Romney’s ‘Corporations Are People’ Called a ‘Gaffe’ as Nets

August 11th, 2011 10:30 PM
ABC’s Jake Tapper on Thursday night scolded Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for a “gaffe” over his assertion that “corporations are people” since “everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people.” That common sense observation came in reaction to a bunch of hecklers, from a left-wing activist group, who confronted Romney in Iowa, yet neither ABC or CBS acknowledged…

Rush Limbaugh: 'The Chris Matthewses and the Media Are Very Close to t

August 11th, 2011 8:31 PM
As NewsBusters reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday took some poorly-researched cheap shots at conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh responded Thursday explaining that this is borne of frustration over the failure of Barack Obama noting, "The Chris Matthewses and the media are very close to the rioters in London in terms of anger, disappointment" (video follows with…

Chris Matthews: 'Paul Ryan Stuck His Neck Out and [Obama] Punched His

August 11th, 2011 6:48 PM
Remember the good old days when political commentators were governing their tongues and offering Americans a far more civil tone in the wake of the tragic shootings in Tucson? Well, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday demonstrated just how bygone those days are when he gleefully reminisced about Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) sticking his neck out with a bold budget proposal months ago only…