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NB ToonsDay: The Buck Never Got Here Edition
This week's batch of cartoons for the NB ToonsDay feature continues to look at President Obama's trifecta of scandals and his buck-never-got-here defense, particularly on the IRS investigation.
Also tackled, the Obama/Holder DOJ's attack on freedom of the press vis-a-vis their investigation of the Associated Press and Fox News reporter Jim Rosen.
May 21st, 2013 1:37 PM
Veteran Journalist Brit Hume Condemns FBI Investigation Of Fox’s Jam
Following a Washington Post report showing that the Obama administration under the Justice Department had singled out Fox News’ James Rosen, including secretly reading his personal emails, FNC’s Brit Hume took the Obama administration to task for its actions.
Appearing on Special Report w/ Bret Baier on May 20, the veteran Washington journalist described the actions by the Justice Department…
May 21st, 2013 1:00 PM
WashPost's Pincus Steadfastly Defends Obama/Holder DOJ's Handling of A
At this point it's become abundantly clear that the Obama/Holder Justice Department went overboard in its overzealous, subpoena-happy probe of Associated Press journalists. We also know from the Washington Post's reporting, that the administration was peeved about the timing of the AP story in question, not so much the content, and that the AP's president is on record slamming the DOJ for an "…
May 21st, 2013 12:31 PM

After Terrible Storm, ABC Devotes 10 Minutes to Crime, Botox and Enter
Despite the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday, ABC's Good Morning America still found time to devote several segments to stunningly superficial topics, including getting Botox injections at age 20 and Matt Damon's gay love scenes with Michael Douglas in a new movie. Additionally, the network morning show offered yet another segment to the tabloid details of the Jodi Arias…
May 21st, 2013 12:10 PM

Politico: Benghazi-focused CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's 'Computers
Dylan Byers of Politico reports “Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.”
"I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months. But I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've…
May 21st, 2013 12:07 PM

ABC and CBS Ignore Obama Administration Investigating FNC's James Rose
While much of the news coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning was dominated by coverage of the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, Tuesday's NBC Today did manage to provide two news briefs, totaling a minute and fourteen seconds, to the stunning revelation that the Obama administration searched through the private emails of Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen,…
May 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
MSNBC's Ratings Fall to Seven Year Lows
As NewsBusters has been reporting, Americans are tiring of MSNBC.
Deadline reported Monday the liberal so-called "news" network's ratings last week dropped to levels not seen since 2006:
May 21st, 2013 11:00 AM
CNN Anchor Hits Tom Coburn for Wanting Offsetting Cuts to Emergency Ai
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants any federal disaster relief sent to his tornado-ravaged state to be offset by other spending cuts, but CNN's Carol Costello thinks his stand to be either "extreme" or very untimely.
"This is either extreme fiscal responsibility or a raging case of 'this is not the time,'" Costello mocked on Facebook and Twitter. The Senator is sticking to his fiscal principles…
May 21st, 2013 10:29 AM
Open Thread Tuesday
Discuss the news of the day and anything else you'd like.
May 21st, 2013 10:24 AM
Mediaite Writer Furthers MSNBC Spin On IRS Scandal: 'They Have To Pin
You just knew this was bound to happen. Some on the left are trying to blame George W. Bush for Obama's IRS fiasco. Take for example Mediaite's resident Obama apologist Tommy Christopher, who wrote a much ado about nothing post on May 16 insinuating that this egregious abuse of government power stems from former Bush appointed IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman – and that credit for clearing…
May 21st, 2013 10:13 AM

Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc
In remarks which will more than likely be ignored by the establishment press, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in essence blamed yesterday's deadly tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma on Republicans who have "run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings." Whitehouse was intensely upset because, in his view these red state ignoramuses who are allowing ever more intense,…
May 21st, 2013 10:08 AM

HuffPo Live: Gender Bending a ‘Benefit’ for Children
Panel
decries gender ‘myths.’
May 21st, 2013 10:06 AM
NBC's Gregory Scolds GOP for Comparing Obama to Nixon
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama administration and those that occurred under President Nixon: "Would you call on Republicans who talk about impeaching the President or who talk about this as a Nixonian-style cover-up with regard to…
May 21st, 2013 10:05 AM

On Leno: Kids Ask Obama the Darndest Questions
Ever since he announced he was stepping down as Tonight Show host Jay Leno has seemingly been harder on Barack Obama. Well on Monday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno that trend continued as Leno featured a clip of schoolchildren peppering the President with the tough questions that the press should be hammering him with on a daily basis.
Watch and laugh. (Video after the jump)
May 21st, 2013 9:47 AM