Wisconsin Dems Remove Spokesman for Walker-Dahmer Tweets

There's an update in our report on the spokesman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party sending three tweets comparing Gov. Scott Walker to cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The spokesman, Graeme Zielinski, has been dumped as the party spokesman and Democrat leaders also docked Zielinski a week's pay -- "a little more than $1,000." The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel added that Zielinski…
Tim Graham
March 4th, 2013 6:34 PM

Politico: Obama Job Approval Number Drops Over Sequester Weekend; Will

While we've shown how the media have studiously sought to blame congressional Republicans for the sequester and inoculate President Obama against any blame, it appears to not be working. We'll keep an eye out to see to what extent, if at all, the broadcast networks report on the dip in the president's job approval numbers. As Politico's "44" blog noted this afternoon, the president has taken…
Ken Shepherd
March 4th, 2013 6:24 PM

Rodman Cancels TV Appearances After Disastrous ABC Interview

As NewsBusters reported, NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman had a truly disastrous appearance on ABC's This Week Sunday. According to TVNewser, this apparently has led the good friend of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un to cancel subsequent television interviews:
Noel Sheppard
March 4th, 2013 5:35 PM

CBS Invites All-Liberal Panel to Discuss Catholic Church ‘Reform

In the aftermath of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, CBS has made up its mind about Catholicism: the Church is in crisis and must be reformed! Whereas Martin Luther tacked his theses on the Wittenberg church door, however, CBS opted to ensure its stab at church reformation would go largely unnoticed by including the segment on Saturday's CBS This Morning. [Video below. MP3 audio here.]…
Paul Bremmer
March 4th, 2013 5:28 PM

Brian Williams Claims His Reporting is 'Cleansed of Political Opinions

Appearing on left-wing actor Alec Baldwin's weekly WNYC talk radio show, Here's The Thing, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams laughably asserted that his reporting was void of any political bias: "My work has been so cleansed, as I see it, and as I've tried, of political opinions over 27 years....I can try to call it down the middle, and try to be fair about it, and do a 'just the facts…
Kyle Drennen
March 4th, 2013 5:26 PM

No Social Conservatives on CBS's List of 'Eye-Opening Women

On Monday, CBS This Morning launched a week-long set of interviews for Women's History Month, but the majority of the women they picked for their list of "Eye Opening Women" are dedicated liberals, particularly on social issues. The morning newscast first conducted a fawning interview of former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was part of the Supreme Court plurality that upheld the Roe v. Wade…
Matthew Balan
March 4th, 2013 3:41 PM

NY Times Sees 'Austerity,' "Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard' by 'Pai

The perils and victims of the round of the mandatory federal spending cuts known as sequestration led the New York Times' weekend coverage, with the 2.4% cut in annual federal spending that went into effect starting Friday labeled "austerity" and ushered in with headlines warning that "Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard." Also: those who still approve of Congress tend to be "Obama haters,"…
Clay Waters
March 4th, 2013 3:19 PM

More Reporters Step Forward to Discuss Obama White House’s Petty Tre

An article in Monday’s U.S. News & World Report by Ken Walsh, a veteran journalist who covered five presidencies, notes a growing “unhealthy antagonism … between the West Wing and the mainstream media.” If the assessment is accurate, it could mean that the press, after four years of mindless obeisance to this administration, is finally ready to provide frank coverage, warts and all. The…
Howard Portnoy
March 4th, 2013 2:45 PM

NB Publisher Bozell Slams 'Squawking Parrots' in Media Who Made Fools

"The Obama administration couldn’t have made its cheerleaders at ABC, CBS, and NBC look any more foolish," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted earlier today in reaction to a new study by the Media Research Center's (MRC) Geoff Dickens showing that 66 percent of the broadcast network news coverage of the budget sequestration that took effect on Friday advanced Obama White House talking…
Ken Shepherd
March 4th, 2013 1:43 PM

National Journal’s Ron Fournier Asks Why Obama Doesn’t Just Murder

**UPDATE** Earlier version of blog incorrectly stated that Ron Fournier had deleted tweets in question when in fact they are still on his account. It appears as though the days of civility and integrity in journalism are long gone.  On March 1, National Journal’s Ron Fournier, formerly the Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press, took to Twitter to express his dissatisfaction with…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 4th, 2013 1:02 PM

Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ Advice to Kids in Unsafe Areas

Michelle Obama participated in a Google+ Hangout Monday involving her “Let’s Move!” campaign. In response to a question about what parents should do in unsafe areas, she advised that kids should exercise indoors:
Noel Sheppard
March 4th, 2013 12:59 PM

WashPost Prints Jen Rubin's Critique of CPAC Rather Than Blog Critical

What's the point of the Washington Post retaining a conservative blogger when the paper's editors will opt to highlight her posts critiquing other conservatives rather than printing ones critical of the president and his lapdog lackeys in the press? Once again the Washington Post's op-ed page editors chose to excerpt a Jennifer Rubin blog post critical of conservatives rather than one tough on…
Ken Shepherd
March 4th, 2013 12:41 PM

Howard Kurtz Ridicules Media Freak Out on Sequester

CNN's Howard Kurtz mocked the media – including his own network – on Sunday's Reliable Sources for uncritically channeling government hysteria over the sequester cuts. "[I]f the press had put in, let's say, 10 percent of the effort that was devoted to investigating, I don't know, Beyonce's lip syncing into the actual measurable effects of these budget cuts, I think we would have seen a…
Matt Hadro
March 4th, 2013 12:36 PM

After Hyping a 'Fiscal Emergency' That Could 'Cripple' and 'Vaporize

For weeks, ABC has been hyping sequestration as a "fiscal emergency" that could "cripple" much of America and "vaporize" jobs. Yet, Monday's Good Morning America featured no stories on what the network had been calling "massive cuts." On Friday's GMA, as sequester was about to occur, Josh Elliott hyperventilated, "Jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free." Day after day,…
Scott Whitlock
March 4th, 2013 12:32 PM