20 Years Ago: Media Saluted Hillary’s ‘Candid’ Scandal Fairy Tale

Rich Noyes
June 10th, 2023 8:55 AM

Twenty years ago this week, a compliant media elite aided Hillary Clinton's self-serving attempt to re-write the history of the Lewinsky scandal and her "vast right-wing conspiracy" smear of conservatives.

 

TIME's Cover Story Isn't News, It's a Gaseous Tank of Anti-Trump Rage

Tim Graham
April 19th, 2023 3:56 PM

Here's a small sign that Time magazine has become less of a "news magazine" than ever. Their latest "cover story" is a short editorial by a former editor raging against Donald Trump, and how the entire spectacle of his indictment was a "crime scene."

 

THRILLS and TINGLES: Media’s Long History of Adoring Barack Obama

Rich Noyes
November 13th, 2020 7:55 AM

Before they despised Donald Trump, the liberal media adored Barack Obama. From the moment then-state senator Barack Obama showed up on the national stage to address the Democratic convention in 2004, the news media were in love. When Obama ran for President four years later, news reporters led the cheers. And as President, reporters touted his “prodigious talents,” his “amazing legislative…

 
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MSNBC Hopes Women’s March is Left’s Tea Party

Alexis Thomasi
January 26th, 2017 4:56 PM
On Thursday morning, the hosts of Morning Joe discussed the Women’s March that took place on Saturday, January 14th. Their guest, Nancy Gibbs, editor in chief of Time magazine, spoke about the cover this week, which focused on the march and how it will materialize into a movement. During the discussion, there was frequent mentioning of the Tea Party movement and how liberals could emulate the…
 
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Farewell to a Decade of Media Drooling Over Barack Obama

Rich Noyes
January 9th, 2017 8:52 AM
With the Democratic Party defeated, ObamaCare set for repeal, and incoming President Donald Trump poised to revoke a host of his executive orders, Obama’s actual legacy will likely fall far short of what his media fan club once imagined. But one aspect of his place in history seems secure: Barack Obama has been the lucky recipient of more biased, positive “news” media coverage than any other…
 

Person of the Year Obama Was ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’; Trump Is a ‘Demagogue’

Scott Whitlock
December 7th, 2016 11:43 AM
What a difference a Person of the Year can make. In 2008, Time journalists hailed their choice, Barack Obama, as an "Obi-Wan Kenobi" Jedi and cheered, “Why History Can’t Wait.” In contrast, 2016 Person of the Year Donald Trump is an “outlandish” “demagogue.” The Obama cover featured the now cliched hope poster. Trump’s image read, “President of the Divided States of America.” 
 
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Joe Scarborough Whines About Internet Trolls, Forgets Own Network

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 18th, 2016 9:45 PM
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough brought on Time magazine Editor Nancy Gibbs to discuss the publication’s latest cover story about toxic environments on the internet. “I think we are all probably first amendment extremists about, yes, part of our life is that people will call us stupid and idiots and that's fine,” stated Gibbs, “But at what point do you not defend speech that suppresses speech…
 

Time Names Merkel 'Person of the Year,' Lauds 'Leading From Behind'

Tom Blumer
December 9th, 2015 11:58 AM
In an announcement which deservedly carries far less weight than it has in the past, Time Magazine (1997 circulation, 4.2 million; current circuation, 3.3 million) has named German chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 Person of the Year. The stated reason for her selection: "Not once or twice but three times this year there has been reason to wonder whether Europe could continue to exist, not…
 

Bozell Column: Unaccountable Hillary Clinton

Brent Bozell
January 23rd, 2014 11:22 PM
CNN anchor Jake Tapper blandly admitted the obvious in a radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt. The same reporters that insist their former GOP favorite Chris Christie is ruined for 2016 by traffic jams on a bridge are letting Hillary Clinton skate for embassy-security neglect that led to four dead government employees at Benghazi. Why would so-called watchdogs of government…
 

TIME’s Nancy Gibbs: For POTUS Run, Hillary Doesn’t Have to ‘Answ

Paul Bremmer
January 17th, 2014 11:30 AM
TIME Magazine managing editor Nancy Gibbs is a well-established fan of Hillary Clinton, and on Thursday she brought her cheerleading act to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. Gibbs was there to discuss this week’s cover of TIME, which asks, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” Mitchell asked Gibbs how long Hillary can postpone making a decision about whether to run for president in 2016. Gibbs responded…
 

Time Magazine Cover Now? 'Broken Promise' Then? 'Paging Dr. Obama

Geoffrey Dickens
November 21st, 2013 5:34 PM
The cover for the December 2 issue of Time magazine has been released and it’s a brutal shot at the failed ObamaCare rollout. Underneath a picture of a broken pill with the words “Obama Care” imprinted on it, the headline reads: “Broken Promise, What It Means For This Presidency.” However, back in 2009 Time magazine was singing a different tune when it depicted the President as your friendly…
 

Time Names Nancy Gibbs First Top Female Editor -- with a Slimy Paper T

Tim Graham
September 18th, 2013 12:19 PM
Time magazine has named long-time veteran Nancy Gibbs as the new Managing Editor now that Richard Stengel has (officially) joined the Obama administration. In the official announcement, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Martha Nelson declared Gibbs was “one of the most published writers in the history of the magazine, having been an essayist and lead writer on virtually every major news event of the…
 

New 'Time' Editor: Former Editor Stengel's Move To Obama Admin 'A Natu

Mark Finkelstein
September 18th, 2013 9:08 AM
A member of the MSM moving to the Obama administration?  A "natural extension" indeed! Nancy Gibbs, the new Time editor, has really let the cat out of the bag.  Appearing on Morning Joe today, she described the move of her predecessor, Rick Stengel, from Time to a State Department job in the Obama administration, as a "natural extension" for him. Now it's true that Gibbs couched her remarks…
 

I Like Barack: Obama Reminds Historian Brinkley of Eisenhower

Mark Finkelstein
July 5th, 2013 8:18 AM
This Fourth of July weekend is turning into an unforseen laff-fest.  Yesterday we had NBC featuring a photo of President Obama making what he might have thought was an assertive hand gesture while discussing the situation in Egypt with his aides. Today treats us to historian Douglas Brinkley, on Morning Joe, claiming that when it comes to foreign policy, President Obama reminds him of, yes,…