ABC Ignores Anthony Weiner's Mocking of GOP 'Grandpa' at AARP Event

ABC's Good Morning America, which first covered the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal by ignoring that the politician was a Democrat, did grow to embrace the tawdry aspects of the story. Yet, the morning show on Wednesday avoided he mayoral candidate's latest gaffe: Calling his Republican opponent "grandpa" at an AARP candidate forum. NBC's Today and CBS This Morning both managed to highlight the…
Scott Whitlock
August 7th, 2013 4:29 PM

NB's Graham: RNC Is 'Exactly Right' to Boycott CNN, NBC Should They Ai

"NBC News hired Chelsea Clinton when she had zero journalistic talent, so the idea that NBC News or NBC entertainment isn't going to be friendly to Hillary is just a silly, silly thing," NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham told The Blaze's Andrew Wilkow in an August 6 interview on Wilkow!. Graham called out  NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd as one prominent journalist dismissive of…
NB Staff
August 7th, 2013 4:27 PM

Paul Pounds Harwood: ‘Don't You Have Something Better to Read Than C

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had quite a testy exchange with CNBC’s John Harwood Tuesday. Appearing on NPR’s On Point, Paul eventually told the substitute host, “Don't you have something better to read than a bunch of crap from people who don't like me? I mean, that won’t make for much of an interview if I have to sit through, you know, reading after recitation of people calling me a racist” (…
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 4:17 PM

More People Killed in Cars Than by Al Qaeda, Obama Laments

At best, what President Obama said last night about terrorism was brought about by muddled thinking and possibly fatigue. At worst, it was a Freudian slip with troubling implications. I'll give the man the benefit of a doubt, something liberals were rarely able to do when his predecessor was in office. After all, we're at war. Making his fourth appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno…
Jack Coleman
August 7th, 2013 3:35 PM

Reince Priebus to CNN: GOP Can 'Move On' Without You In

RNC chair Reince Priebus went on CNN on Tuesday and castigated the network for "promoting" Hillary Clinton and her "cult of personality" before the 2016 election. CNN films will be producing a documentary on Clinton, who may run for president in 2016. On OutFront, Priebus explained, "we ought not have moderators and companies that are in the business of promoting a Democratic opponent three…
Matt Hadro
August 7th, 2013 3:07 PM

Leno: 'I'm Conservative Fiscally and I'm Probably Liberal Socially

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The Last Word on MSNBC to preview his interview with President Obama, NBC's Tonight Show host Jay Leno described his political views as "conservative fiscally" and "probably liberal socially" after host Lawrence O'Donnell asked him if he tries to hide his political views from the audience. The comedian had positive words for President Obama, Bill and Hillary…
Brad Wilmouth
August 7th, 2013 2:44 PM

Daily Beast: Cut Weiner a Break, America, Teens Sext All the Time

Parents can hardly criticize New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner for his latest sexting escapade when their teens commit the same deed (and have done so for years) – or so says The Daily Beast.  The Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker agonized over the conundrum, asking, “In the wake of Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal, one question has emerged that’s particularly tough to answer: How…
Katie Yoder
August 7th, 2013 2:44 PM

Scarborough Blasts NBC, MSNBC for Liberal Bias

Joe Scarborough blasted NBC and MSNBC for liberal bias on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, criticizing his network’s parent company for producing what could be a “splashy biopic” about Hillary Clinton set to be released in 2015. Scarborough accused MSNBC of promoting liberal candidates, claiming the network is “exactly the same” as Fox News when it comes to pushing a partisan agenda. Co-host Mika…
Andrew Lautz
August 7th, 2013 2:29 PM

Nation Mag’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Democrats Are ‘Centrist Party

It really is amazing listening to liberal media members sometimes. Consider The Nation magazine’s Katrina vanden Heuvel who on MSNBC’s Now Wednesday actually said, “At the moment the Democratic Party with a few exceptions is a kind of centrist party” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 2:06 PM

Reports: ESPN’s Hugh Douglas Denounced Co-host Michael Smith as ‘U

Former Philadelphia Eagles lineman and current ESPN commentator Hugh Douglas is in hot water for allegedly insulting his colleague Michael Smith with racial slurs while at a party last Friday in Orlando, Florida. According to the sports blog Deadspin, Douglas has grown increasingly uncomfortable being paired with Smith and Jemele Hill as co-hosts of ESPN’s “Numbers Never Lie” statistics show…
Matthew Sheffield
August 7th, 2013 1:59 PM

Daily Beast's Sepkowitz Suggests Bush's Doctors Should've Done 'Nothin

George W. Bush should’ve waited to have a heart attack, hints Daily Beast contributor Kent Sepkowitz, in a story exploiting the 43rd president's emergency procedure yesterday to insert a stent in his coronary artery. After a few paragraphs replete with medical jargon, Sepkowitz argued that Bush probably should’ve waited a while before having the procedure, and held out the quick treatment for…
Matt Vespa
August 7th, 2013 1:37 PM

Reuters: Bezos Didn't Haggle Down Price of WashPost, Paid Four Times I

The Reuters news wire has an interesting little piece today that reveals that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos not only seems to have agreed to buy the Washington Post for much, much more than its market value, but that agreed to the initial asking price rather than try to haggle it down. Jennifer Saba has the story:
Ken Shepherd
August 7th, 2013 1:00 PM

Networks Hype Obama on Leno, but Skip This Whopper: 'We Don't Need a H

Some comments are so unbelievable, one would think even liberal journalists would be forced to challenge them. However, even though all three morning shows on Wednesday covered Barack Obama's appearance on the August 6 Tonight Show, none of them noticed his claim to be a supporter of small government. Talking to Jay Leno, Obama discussed the sequester and spending. He seriously insisted, "One…
Scott Whitlock
August 7th, 2013 12:48 PM

Leno Wimps Out, Becomes Obama’s Willing Accomplice Again

When it was announced a week ago that Barack Obama would be appearing on NBC's Tonight Show Tuesday, NewsBusters asked if he would be interviewed by the tough Jay Leno who's been hard on the President for the past year, or the "willing accomplice" that tossed him nothing but softballs when he appeared on the show in 2011. Sadly, Obama once again faced the willing accomplice.
Noel Sheppard
August 7th, 2013 12:47 PM