This Is CNN: Sunday Primetime Host Bourdain Calls Himself ‘The Enorm

As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN’s new primetime program Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown last Sunday featured four audible A-words, two audible S-words, three censored F-bombs, and a “G-d damn.” This Sunday, the host actually jokingly gave himself the name “The Enormous C--k” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 10:07 PM

Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers

The newest celebrity in the liberal universe is billionaire Tom Steyer. In a story headlined "The Wrath of a Green Billionaire," Bloomberg Businesweek reporter Joshua Green explained he’s hailed as “a liberal analogue of the conservative Koch brothers, the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, whose lavish support of free-market causes and political ruthlessness loom large in the liberal…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2013 9:46 PM

First-Quarter GDP, Part 3 of 3: AP's Crutsinger Argues With History

On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew by an annualized 2.5 percent during the first quarter. Earlier today, in Part 1 of this series, (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) I showed that while most news organizations, including CNN, Bloomberg and Reuters, characterized that news as a disappointment, especially comparred to expectations of 3.0 percent or more following an awful fourth…
Tom Blumer
April 28th, 2013 5:14 PM

Norah O'Donnell's Liberal Math: A One Percent Raise Is A Pay Cut

NewsBusters readers know that one of the problems in this country is that liberal media members use a form of math much different than any of us learned in school. Take CBS's Norah O'Donnell for example who on Sunday's Face the Nation actually said that a one percent raise is a pay cut (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 4:25 PM

David Gergen: If Obama Doesn't Respect His Own Red Line Iran and Israe

CNN senior political analyst David Gergen made a statement on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday that was rather hawkish for a former Clinton adviser. "If [President Obama] doesn't respect his own red line on Syria, there is no question that Israel and Iran will look at that and say, 'Well, we can't trust the guy. He’s not going to be tough.'"
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 3:19 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama Didn't Want To Go Public With Syrian Chemical Weapon

NBC's Chuck Todd made some stunning statements Sunday about recent revelations concerning Syria's use of chemical weapons on its people. Appearing on Meet the Press, Todd first said the Administration regrets President Obama's claim that this would be a "red line" adding "They didn't want to go public last week that they had this early evidence" and only did so because "they knew Congress was…
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 1:53 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama 'Hates' 'Internet Media and Social Media

NBC's Chuck Todd told an inconvenient truth about Barack Obama on Sunday's Meet the Press. "The rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 1:10 PM

First-Quarter GDP, Part 2 of 3: AP Argues With Itself

On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew by an annualized 2.5 percent during the first quarter. As I noted in Part 1 (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), three establishment press outlets (CNN, Bloomberg, and Reuters) pronounced the result "disappointing" -- but not Martin Crutsinger and Christopher Rugaber at the Associated Press, whose headline read "AFTER NEAR-STALL IN LATE 2012,…
Tom Blumer
April 28th, 2013 12:48 PM

First-Quarter GDP, Part 1 of 3: AP Argues With Others

On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew by an annualized 2.5 percent during the first quarter. The awful 0.4 percent result seen in the fourth quarter was largely sloughed off as caused by a number of one-time factors. Analysts convinced themselves that reported first-quarter growth would come in at 3.0 percent or slightly higher in Friday's release. Instead, we saw what Zero…
Tom Blumer
April 28th, 2013 11:32 AM

Candy Crowley Apologizes For Saying Boston Bomber Posted 'Islamic' Vid

As NewsBusters has been reporting, many in the media have done their darnedest to avoid connecting the Boston Marathon bombers to radical Islam. On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, host Candy Crowley actually apologized for doing so (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 10:30 AM

Obama: ‘MSNBC Used to Work for David Axelrod

They say the truth often comes out in humor. At Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, President Obama said, “MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 9:55 AM

Obama: I Admire CNN’s Commitment to Cover All Sides of the Story Jus

Barack Obama absolutely slayed at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Saturday evening. Early in his address to attendees, he took on CNN saying, “I admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2013 9:31 AM

ABC's Lobbying Failed: NFL Teams Failed to Draft the Openly Gay Kicker

Josh Elliott, ABC’s news anchor at Good Morning America, is heartbroken. The NFL has failed his political correctness test and failed to draft openly gay kicker Alan Gendreau of Middle Tennessee State. Then again, only two kickers were drafted, ruining what Elliott hoped “could be a watershed moment.” In a typically one-sided Friday morning story pushing Gendreau as a barrier-breaker,…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2013 9:08 AM

Daily Kos: Tsarnaevs Worse Than Osama, Left Out the Anti-U.S. Propagan

At the Daily Kos, one blogger was angry that the Tsarnaev brothers were guilty of "Mindless terrorism." They didn’t accomplish a “positive political consequence” in killing four people and wounding more than 200. Milton Mankoff, a former college professor of sociology writing as “Mankoff,” argued the acts are “indefensible” for targeting innocent civilians, but “for other reasons as well.”…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2013 7:31 AM