Stocks Tank After Obama Press Conference

Investors were clearly displeased with Barack Obama's comments Wednesday about raising taxes on the top two percent of wage earners. In fact, stocks began to drop during the President's press conference, and then tanked once he was done (chart courtesy BigCharts.com).
Noel Sheppard
November 14th, 2012 5:22 PM

CNN: Obama's Win Wasn't a Mandate...Except It Was

Despite CNN correspondent Dana Bash's claim that "neither side has a really clear mandate" from the election, CNN anchors went ahead on Tuesday and Wednesday and pushed Republicans to admit that President Obama has a mandate to raise taxes by virtue of his party's election gains. On Tuesday night, Piers Morgan called Paul Ryan's denial of a mandate "ridiculous, given President Obama was re-…
Matt Hadro
November 14th, 2012 5:07 PM

AP's Final Report on October Deficit Equates Bush and Obama Deficits

Well, there's one little bit of good news in Martin Crutsinger's final report on yesterday's release of the federal government's October Monthly Treasury Statement (I did a review of his initial take yesterday [at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog]). The good news is that Crutsinger, unlike in most months during the past several years I have reviewed such reports, actually identified the single-month…
Tom Blumer
November 14th, 2012 4:45 PM

Another ABC Anchor Moonlights as GLAAD Spokesman: Sam Champion Hosts G

For the second time this year, one of Good Morning America's hosts will be promoting the left-wing Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). The organization announced on its website that GMA weatherman Sam Champion will be anchoring a fund-raiser in New York City. Champion, who is gay, will be the event co-chair with Rubem Robierb. In October, ABC announced, the  two were…
Scott Whitlock
November 14th, 2012 4:21 PM

Anderson Cooper Suggests Paul Ryan May Have Used Racial Dog Whistle

After Paul Ryan held that a voter turnout increase in "urban areas" hurt the Romney ticket, CNN's Anderson Cooper questioned if he was using racial overtones and hammered him with a "Keeping Them Honest" report claiming Ryan missed other reasons why Team Romney lost. "Well, some critics jumped on those remarks, since 'historically urban' has often been used as a code word for African-…
Matt Hadro
November 14th, 2012 3:59 PM

Politico Predicted Obama Would Face 'Hard Questions' On Sequestration

Apparently the folks at Politico think the White House press corps is set to be tougher on the president at press conferences in his second term than they're actually proving to be. As my colleague Tom Blumer noted, early this morning, Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown and Josh Gerstein posited seven "hard questions" they anticipated being raised at today's presidential press conference. "[W]hen…
Ken Shepherd
November 14th, 2012 3:45 PM

NBC Uses Hurricane Sandy Aftermath to Promote Occupy Wall Street

In a transparent effort to yet again applaud the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams introduced the broadcast's Making a Difference segment by proclaiming: "We all remember the Occupy Wall Street movement. We covered them here a lot....Whatever you think of their agenda and them, they've re-formed now, into Occupy Sandy. They're redirecting…
Kyle Drennen
November 14th, 2012 3:44 PM

CNN Promotes Liberal Catholics’ Attack on Bishops

A November 13 piece by Dan Merica on CNN’s Belief Blog, titled Liberal Catholics Use Election Results to Battle Bishops,” promoted the same tired attacks from the left about the Catholic hierarchy daring to defend religious liberty and Catholic teachings on life and marriage issues. Merica cited President Obama’s re-election as a spur to liberal groups to step up their attacks on the Roman…
Paul Wilson
November 14th, 2012 3:38 PM

NYT Praises Fox for Leaving Out 'Agitprop' on Election Night, Strains

In NYT-land, the liberal cable network MSNBC has been "gaining ground" on conservative Fox News for years (without ever actually catching up). Times media reporter Brian Stelter (pictured) filed the latest enthusiastic installment in MSNBC's quest for the white whale of ratings parity with Fox News in "The Anti-Fox Gains Ground." Meanwhile, Stelter's media news colleague David Carr gave…
Clay Waters
November 14th, 2012 3:32 PM

Fawning Fan Girl Journalist to Obama: 'Congratulations'; 'I've Never S

Barack Obama on Wednesday submitted to his first press conference since March. Some of the White House journalists didn't seem to hold the long wait against him, however. One reporter, Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune, turned into a gushing fan, congratulating the President on his reelection. Parsons cooed to Obama that she had "never" seen him "lose." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]…
Scott Whitlock
November 14th, 2012 3:19 PM

CNN Promotes Liberal Catholics’ Attack on Bishops

Cites groups claiming ‘America’s Catholic bishops out of touch with Catholic laypeople.’  
Paul Wilson
November 14th, 2012 3:12 PM

Media: Perfect Storm of Sandy, Obama Re-Election a Chance to Push Carb

The media will never let a disaster – or a favorable (to them) election – go to waste. So the last month has been propitious for them. Combine Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election with the looming fiscal cliff, and the media have the perfect opportunity to push for a carbon tax. The New York Times claimed that “economists of diverse viewpoints concur that if the international…
Liz Thatcher
November 14th, 2012 3:06 PM

Papa John's Owner Slammed by Liberals for Stating He'll Pass on ObamaC

In what is likely to become a common occurrence as ObamaCare takes effect, the owner of another nationwide business is under fire from liberals, this time for passing on the extra health care costs to customers instead of absorbing them and increasing the company's operating expenses. Papa John's Pizza CEO John Schnatter was the subject of a segment on Monday night's edition of The Ed Show on…
Randy Hall
November 14th, 2012 2:42 PM

NYT Sunday Review Contributor Finds 'Political Racism' in Long Voting

Since taking over the section, editor Andrew Rosenthal has transformed the New York Times Sunday Review from a selection of liberal-leaning political and sociological analysis into a bulletin board for the far left. From the softer end of the spectrum, an essay by Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt, who proposed liberal tax solutions to the "fiscal cliff" in "The Cliff Is a Hard Place to…
Clay Waters
November 14th, 2012 2:11 PM