Campbell Brown Calls Out Rush Limbaugh to Debate Ali Velshi
January 31st, 2009 3:02 PM
CNN's Campbell Brown isn't happy with what Rush Limbaugh said about her colleague Ali Velshi Friday, and has invited the conservative radio host to debate him on her program.As some background, Velshi was on Brown's "No Bias, No Bull" show Thursday and claimed: "This is not the economy that Ronald Reagan ever saw or anybody with the last name Bush ever saw, or Clinton. We have not seen anything…
Coulter: Double Standard for Liberal Pundits; Calls Olbermann a '57-Ye
January 30th, 2009 1:25 PM
Being an outspoken conservative in the media has proven dicey lately, as the Democrat-controlled Congress and White House are working toward seeing an $819 billion stimulus bill signed into law. According to Ann Coulter, there has been a double standard applied to those outspoken conservatives. Coulter appeared on the Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom" on Jan. 30 to promote her new book, "…
CNBC Asks Limbaugh About His Bipartisan Stimulus Plan
January 29th, 2009 1:18 PM
On Thursday, NewsBusters asked, "How Will Media Cover Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Stimulus Plan?"Moments later, we got our first clue as the conservative talk radio host was interviewed by CNBC's Erin Burnett and Mark Haines.UPDATE: Better functioning video now embedded; bonus "Fox & Friends" interview video also added at end of post.Most fascinating, Burnett, who has come across as left of…
How Will Media Cover Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Stimulus Plan
January 29th, 2009 10:48 AM
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh wrote an op-ed in Thursday's Wall Street Journal wherein he offered a bipartisan stimulus plan to get the economy going.As not one Republican voted for President Obama's economic package in the House Wednesday despite his campaign promises to usher in a new era of bipartisanship, given the media's focus on Limbaugh of late one would expect his now-…
Cramer and Matthews: Where’s the Infrastructure Spending
January 29th, 2009 10:27 AM
Between Election 2008 and the early moments of the Obama administration, it was assumed a new New Deal was coming complete with massive infrastructure projects. But, now the stimulus package is so full of other things even some of the most unlikely news outlets have noticed. In an amazing moment of clarity, resembling the end of a Hardy Boys novel after Frank and Joe solved a mystery, CNBC "Mad…
CNN Re-Plays Zakaria's Fallacious 'Bush's Biggest Mistake
January 25th, 2009 9:36 AM
Before another edition airs (1 PM EST) in a few hours of CNN's Fareed Zakaria: GPS (Global Public Square), CNN was so pleased with Zakaria's commentary from last Sunday that they re-ran it on Thursday afternoon to counter House Minority Leader John Boehner's advocacy of tax cuts to boost the economy. In the noon hour Thursday CNN re-played Zakaria's commentary from the top of his January 18 show…
Debunking the Stimulus Myth: Only 3% Allotted for Road, Bridge Spendin
January 23rd, 2009 8:17 PM
You've heard it here, there and everywhere in the news media - the time is now for a big-government economic stimulus package, not only to revive the economy, but to salvage America's crumbling infrastructure. That's one of the selling points used over and over again by pundits, as they are paraded out repeatedly on broadcast and cable network news programs - that so-called "shovel-ready"…
Cramer on Geithner's Tax Troubles: 'If it was Cramer, I Would Be Prose
January 22nd, 2009 8:31 PM
Like him or not, this time he has a valid point. CNBC rabble-rouser and "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer questioned the merits of Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary-designate, and told viewers on CNBC's Jan. 22 "Street Signs" that, had he been in Geithner's shoes, he'd face criminal prosecution. "I happen to have a meeting with my lawyers just to discuss this - with my…
Geithner’s Tax Troubles: There’s Much More, and the Press Is Virtu
January 22nd, 2009 1:22 AM
Sometimes you learn a lot from commenters. I was going through the comments tonight at my Pajamas Media column about the Geithner nomination that went up earlier today, and came across this at Comment 39 from "Mike M": The deduction he took for the summer camp as a day care expense is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED IN THE IRS CODE! That’s out and out tax fraud. Even Leona Helmsly (sic) is jealous in her…
AP Geithner Hearing Report: No Mention of IMF 'Reimbursements' for Tax
January 21st, 2009 2:24 PM
The Associated Press's 1:12 p.m. coverage (saved here, as the dynamic link changed during the drafting of this post) of the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on Barack Obama's nomination of Timothy Giethner as Treasury Secretary has plenty of discussion of Geithner's tax "mistakes" (the picture, but not its heading, is from a November 21 New York Times article). But as has been the case with…
AP's 'Q&A' on Geithner's Taxes Has Excuses Galore, No Mention of 'Reim
January 17th, 2009 10:17 AM
The Associated Press's record of running interference for Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner continues mostly unabated.My chronicle of AP's largely weak coverage, most of which has been previously detailed at NewsBusters (here, here, and here), is at the end of this post.No AP report I have seen has noted that Geithner applied for and merely pocketed partial "reimbursements" from the…
Tax 'Goof' Update: Geithner Was 'Reimbursed' for Taxes He Didn't Pay
January 15th, 2009 10:02 AM
Yesterday, details discovered about Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner's tax situation moved it to well past the level of an "honest mistake."You wouldn't know it from the Associated Press's Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who, as I noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), continues to run interference for him. A story from Thursday afternoon that has since been dynamically updated had a…
