AP's Bauder Gives CBS's Kroft an Excuse Platform for Softball Obama-Cl

Steve Kroft at CBS News is apparently feeling the heat over his powder-puff interview of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It has fallen to television writer David Bauder at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press (HT Dylan Byers at the Politico) to try and help put out the fire. You see, according to Kroft (my paraphrase), "This whole interview thing…
Tom Blumer
January 28th, 2013 7:13 PM

Brit Hume: Theme of Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview - 'Just How Gre

Brit Hume on Monday made some strong comments about Barack Obama's recent attacks on Fox News as well as the gooey interview CBS's 60 Minutes did with the President and Hillary Clinton the previous evening. Of the latter, he said the theme was “Just How Great Is the Relationship Between You Two?” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 7:06 PM

Democratic Strategist Equates the NRA to Big Tobacco, MSNBC's Bashir N

On the January 28 edition of his afternoon MSNBC program, Martin Bashir brought on liberal Democratic strategist Julian Epstein to talk about the left-wing’s favorite topic of late gun control.  As the interview progressed, Epstein made a comparison of the firearms industry to Big Tobacco, attacking firearms manufacturers for their role in sponsoring youth sporting events and publications like…
Matt Vespa
January 28th, 2013 7:03 PM

Walter E. Williams Column: The Folly of Blindly Following 'Experts

Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid the foundation for classical mechanics, and his genius transformed our understanding of science, particularly in the areas of physics, mathematics and astronomy. What's not widely known is that Newton spent most of his…
Walter E. Williams
January 28th, 2013 6:11 PM

Kirsten Powers on Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview: 'Something You'd

As NewsBusters has been reporting all day, CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday gave a gushing and fawning interview to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that should be an embarrassment to the network. On Fox News's America's Newsroom Monday, left-leaning contributor Kirsten Powers said of this fiasco, "It really was something you would expect from like the state-run media...60…
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 5:49 PM

CNN Fawns Over 'Love Fest' Between 'Political Superstars' Obama and Cl

CNN joined the networks in giving outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a cushy send-off after Clinton's syrupy 60 Minutes interview alongside President Obama. The network gushed over the "chummy" affection between the "political superstars" on Monday morning. "Well, it's the exit interview everybody is talking about," hyped anchor Soledad O'Brien. "Hillary Clinton, the President,…
Matt Hadro
January 28th, 2013 5:45 PM

NB's Graham Slams Steve Kroft's Embarrassing Softball Chat with Obama

CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft "ought to hand in his journalism card" if there actually were such a thing, NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham concluded in an interview with substitute host Eric Bolling on the January 28 edition of Your World w/Neil Cavuto. Graham was referring to the January 27 puff piece that the newsmagazine aired in which Kroft failed to ask any tough questions…
Ken Shepherd
January 28th, 2013 5:45 PM

TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger: Doubting Global Warming is Like Believing the

If you deny global warming, you are on par with those who believe the Earth is flat or the moon landing never happened, at least, according to Jeffrey Kluger, TIME Magazine senior editor for science and technology. Kluger appeared on Saturday’s CBS This Morning to discuss the recent trend toward warmer weather. Co-host Jim Axelrod asked Kluger if the record-setting temperatures of the past…
Paul Bremmer
January 28th, 2013 5:43 PM

Yes, Obama Really Does Believe Media Are Too Nice to Republicans

Those who doubt the idea that modern liberalism is essentially about denying reality need to hear the latest laughable bit of media analysis from President Barack Obama. According to the former junior senator from Illinois, the American media elite, the same group of people who have described themselves as "swooning" for him, is actually too nice to Republicans. This same group of people has…
Randy Hall
January 28th, 2013 5:25 PM

CBS: 60 Minutes Interview 'Much Better Image' for Hillary Than 'Bruisi

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell gushed over Steve Kroft's interview of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, twice emphasizing the supposed "warmness" between the two Democrats. O'Donnell asserted that the interview was "a long way from where they were in 2008 in that bitter primary battle....This time, they were leaning into each other. There was clearly a warmness between them…
Matthew Balan
January 28th, 2013 5:05 PM

NBC's 'Today' Praises Obama and Clinton's 'Very Warm Friendship'; A 'T

After gushing coverage on Monday's NBC Today over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton "finishing one another's sentences" in a joint interview, a four-minute panel discussion at the top of the morning show's 9 a.m. et hour was devoted to the topic as well, with co-host Tamron Hall declaring: "I was looking at the body language a lot, other than the words, and they leaned in together...both leaning…
Kyle Drennen
January 28th, 2013 4:04 PM

Andrea Mitchell Claims Obama Said Only Guests Shot Skeet—But Even Ne

How big of an Obama lapdog is Andrea Mitchell?  Even bigger than ardent Obama fan Chris Hughes. The Facebook co-founder, who bought the New Republic last year, recently scored an interview with President Obama that has been criticized for its generally soft questioning.  But during an appearance on Mitchell's MSNBC show today, even Hughes was more candid about the prez than Mitchell. When it…
Mark Finkelstein
January 28th, 2013 3:14 PM

MSNBC's Touré: 'Abortion Was There To Save Me

On the January 25 broadcast of MSNBC’s The Cycle, 9/11 Truther and liberal commentator Touré Neblett “thank[ed] God” that abortion was there to save him from unwanted fatherhood with a girlfriend who was "just not the one."  "[I]n some ways that choice saved my life," the MSNBC host insisted in his closing commentary, seemingly remorseless for how that choice cost an innocent human being his or…
Matt Vespa
January 28th, 2013 2:56 PM

MSNBC Continues To Push One-Sided Gun Control ‘Debate

In what has become a daily theme, once again, MSNBC is pushing a one-sided discussion on gun control.  Speaking on Monday, January 28 with Dan Gross, the President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), host Thomas Roberts continued to lobby for congressional action for strict gun control. Naturally, Roberts failed to bring on a pro-gun rights advocate…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 28th, 2013 2:39 PM