Obama Endorses Supposedly Nonpartisan Jon Stewart Rally

September 30th, 2010 11:40 AM
As Politico reported on Wednesday, during a gathering in a Richmond, Virginia home, President Obama "seemed to offer a ringing endorsement" of Daily Show host Jon Stewart holding a 'Rally to Restore Sanity' in Washington DC, supposedly as a way to allow moderate nonpartisan voices to be heard.Obama declared: "...apparently he's going to host a rally called something like Americans in favor of a…

CNBC's Kernen Challenges Pa. Governor on Tea Party 'Fruit Loops' Label

September 29th, 2010 3:01 PM
As we near the midterm elections, left-wingers will be reading from the same tired playbook – the attempted marginalization of the Tea Party movement, but just more of it. But more and more, they are discovering the tactics are tougher to defend, as their side has their own fringe, loose-cannon elements. On CNBC’s Sept. 29 “Squawk Box,” hosts Joe Kernen and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera went after…

'Red Eye' Host Gutfeld Rips 'Crybaby-in-Chief' Obama for Rebuke of Fox

September 29th, 2010 12:10 PM
Lately the Fox News Channel’s overnight program “Red Eye” has offered a plethora of media criticism – much of it dead-spot on. Last week during this his “Gregalogue” segment, host Greg Gutfeld took on the so-called “Rally to Restore Sanity” offered up by Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. On the Sept. 29 broadcast of his show “Red Eye,” Gutfeld responded to President…

HuffPo AstroTurf? Arianna Offers Busing From NYC to DC for Stewart-Col

September 29th, 2010 7:26 AM
If Arianna Huffington, an admitted “progressive,” announces she’s offering transportation to individuals that desire to participate in Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “million moderate march,” can it really be described as “moderate?” On the Sept. 28 broadcast of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and author of “Third…

CBS, Justin Bieber Teaming Up to Paint Tea Party as Domestic Terrorist

September 28th, 2010 5:15 PM
A terrorist group bombs a police funeral? It must be some "patriots" upset about health care reform and our black president, or something.That, at least, is what some viewers took away from the season premiere of CBS's hit show "CSI". The episode starred teen pop star Justin Bieber as "a domestic terrorist with Tea Party leanings," in the words of the New York Times, implicated in the bombing of…

Fabrication: Newsweek Makes Up Ground Zero Election Day Tea Party Rall

September 24th, 2010 10:27 AM
For the last several weeks there has been a debate raging over whether the grounds surrounding where the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan are sacred and if it would be an appropriate place for an Islamic place of worship to be built. But if it isn’t appropriate, would it be an appropriate place for a Tea Party rally to be held? Possibly not. But whether that’s the case or not, Newsweek’s David A…

Misread and Misreported: Tea Party Activism Bullish for Economy

September 23rd, 2010 12:20 PM
One of the most common threads in the media recently has been how bad the Tea Party movement has been for this United States. It has been derided for lacking racial diversity, promoting policies outside the so-called mainstream and blamed for creating a civil war within the Republican Party. The media often stress those “negatives” at the expense of the positive basic tenets of the Tea Party…

Time Interviewer Timidly Questions Daily Kos Founder's Extremist Rheto

September 22nd, 2010 5:37 PM
In his 7-question September 22 Q&A with Markos Moulitsas, Time magazine's Ishaan Tharoor timidly challenged the left-wing blogger on his extremist rhetoric about how conservative Americans, particularly religious ones, are the "American Taliban."Moulitsas was interviewed as part of his publicity tour for his new book, "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the…

FNC's Gutfeld Mocks 'Daily Show' Rally: 'This is What Passes for Rebel

September 22nd, 2010 12:55 PM
While it seems like so many of Jon Stewart's adoring fans in the media are elated to see a counter-Tea Party, not many have been willing to call this event what it is - an event to belittle people who are exercising their rights as citizens to protest their government.  But Fox News Channel's Greg Gutfeld, the host of "Red Eye" took a stab at it on his Sept. 22 program. Unfortunately, it…

Cable Nets Barely Cover Christine O'Donnell's Values Voter Summit Spee

September 17th, 2010 5:10 PM
While the mainstream media have been in a frenzy to denounce Christine O'Donnell as a kook for her socially conservative statements on abstinence from the 1990s, the cable news networks had a perfect opportunity this afternoon to let her speak for herself. Collectively they gave her less than five minutes. The Republican Delaware Senate nominee gave a speech at the Values Voters Summit in…

MRC's Bozell Addresses Anti-Tax Cut Bias, 'Islamophobia' on 'Hannity

September 17th, 2010 11:49 AM
Closing out the "Media Mash" segment on the September 16 edition of his eponymous "Hannity" program, the Fox News host asked for NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell's reaction to NBC's Meredith Vieira telling House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that the Bush tax cuts "didn't succeed" and asking him "what's so good about them?":Memo to Meredith [Vieira]: You can have a debate about what future…

FNC's O'Reilly, Huddy Discuss MRCer Bob Parks's Video from 9/12 Rally

September 16th, 2010 5:30 PM

CBS Analyst Marks 9/11 By Hoping For 'Backlash' Against Ground Zero Mo

September 14th, 2010 4:34 PM
On the September 11th Saturday Early Show, CBS News Middle East analyst Reza Aslan slammed opponents of the Ground Zero mosque as having "unapologetically politicized" 9/11 and being part of a "whole wave of anti-Muslim sentiment." While he denounced others for trying to "take advantage of this symbol for their own political purposes," Aslan made his comments only seconds after live coverage of…

Rick Sanchez to Pataki: Did Your Opposition to Mosque Lead to Koran Bu

September 9th, 2010 4:47 PM
On Wednesday's Rick's List, CNN's Rick Sanchez tried to connect the overwhelming opposition to the planned Ground Zero mosque to a Florida pastor's "Burn a Koran Day" event. Sanchez asked former New York Governor George Pataki, "Do you feel in any way that some of this backlash...led by some fine gentlemen like yourself...has kind of paved the way for that controversy, and if so, do you feel…