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

The Revolving Door Spins Again: Obama Adviser Plouffe Joins Bloomberg

The left's media-echo chamber just got louder. On Thursday morning in a claimed exclusive, the Politico reported that "(Former presidential adviser and campaign official David) Plouffe will appear regularly on Bloomberg Television to offer analysis and commentary on political and business issues as they impact the intersection of Wall Street, Main Street and K Street and will lend his expertise…
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2013 10:46 PM

Salon.com Story Lamely Claims 'Gross Exaggeration' In MRC Research on

Sometimes, the left simply can’t argue against hard facts. In a book excerpt warning of the “resurgent right” on Salon.com, leftist Lee Fang accused Brent Bozell of “gross exaggeration” in describing media apathy on Obama scandals.   Fang reported that in a speech at the Council for National Policy in February 2009, Bozell claimed by the time the national networks ran "a single story on…
Tim Graham
April 27th, 2013 6:19 PM

Letterman Sinks to Denigrating Gun Rights Senators (Inhofe, Flake, Cru

In a new low for David Letterman – on both a professional and comedic level – each night this past week he devoted a Late Show “Stooge of the Night” segment to a Senator who dared to oppose the gun control bill, a law which would have done nothing to have prevented the Newtown tragedy. Nonetheless, Letterman got very political in putting a picture of each Senator on the screen, yet the…
Brent Baker
April 27th, 2013 5:21 PM

Liberal News Analyst: 'George W. Bush, Not Barack Obama, Is the Real A

NewsBusters readers know Ellen Ratner as the perilously liberal news analyst typically offering the left-wing views on Fox News Watch. On Thursday, Ratner published an article titled "George W. Bush Has Saved More Lives Than Any American President" that is guaranteed to shock the heck out of you as it angers folks on her side of the aisle:
Noel Sheppard
April 27th, 2013 3:50 PM

Chelsea Clinton Interviews...The GEICO Gecko

As NewsBusters readers know, TV critics have not been impressed with Chelsea Clinton’s reporting skills at NBC. This certainly won’t change after Friday’s Rock Center wherein the former presidential daughter actually interviewed – wait for it! – the GEICO gecko (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 27th, 2013 1:39 PM

Liberal Media Bias? Don't Make Bob Herbert Laugh

Bob Herbert: columnist from the Planet Benzar?  Seriously, what the former New York Times op-ed writer had to say this morning is enough to make you wonder whether he occupies the same orb as the rest of us.  Appearing on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show, Herbert literally laughed out loud at the notion that American media leans liberal.  According to Herbert, the bias in the American media is…
Mark Finkelstein
April 27th, 2013 12:46 PM

Maher Defends Weiner: In the Future 'We Will Elect a President Whose P

HBO's Bill Maher on Friday – like so many liberal media members before him – made the case for disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) to be forgiven for his sins and allowed to re-enter politics. At the conclusion of his Real Time program, Maher said, "In the not too distant future, we will elect a president whose penis we have all seen" (video follows with transcribed…
Noel Sheppard
April 27th, 2013 11:31 AM

NYT's 5,000-Word Story on Pigford Fraud 'Vindicates' Andrew Breitbart

On Thursday for Friday's print edition, the New York Times carried a weakly headlined but well-written story entitled "U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination" on its front page. Written by Sharon LaFraniere with the help of three others, it laid out how what began in 1997 as a class-action suit by black farmers (Pigford v. Glickman) claiming they had suffered discrimination at the…
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2013 11:10 AM