Politico: Amnesty 'Right Thing To Do', But Easy to 'Demagogue

It's a classic MSM tactic: delegitimize opposition to a liberal proposal.  Suggest that there can be no principled objections, only base motives.   Take the current proposals on "the pathway to citizenship"—AKA amnesty—being floated.  On today's Morning Joe, Politico co-founder and executive editor Jim VandeHei proclaimed that it was probably "the right thing to do," but fretted that it…
Mark Finkelstein
January 29th, 2013 8:32 AM

Seven Millionaire Journalists who Cheer For Higher Taxes

100 years after the income tax liberal anchors still support tax increases.
Julia A. Seymour
January 29th, 2013 7:00 AM

Lindsey Graham: 'In 2007 When We Tried To Do Immigration Reform, Obama

As America's media predictably fall in line behind any attempts President Obama makes to reform immigration policy, one has to wonder if they're going to recall how he cast the pivotal vote in the Senate in 2007 to block such legislation. Keeping the press on their toes, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Fox New's On the Record Monday, "In 2007 when we tried to do immigration reform, he…
Noel Sheppard
January 29th, 2013 1:13 AM

Politico's 'Quiet Liberal Plans for Entitlements' Are Predominantly Ta

The front-page title at the Politico for David Nather's lengthy write-up on Democrats' alleged ideas for doing something about runaway entitlement programs is "The quiet liberal plan for entitlements; There are some ideas for reining in spending that have been blessed by the left." That gives readers the impression that the left might actually have something specific and potentially palatable…
Tom Blumer
January 29th, 2013 12:23 AM

CBS's Kroft on Why Obama Does 60 Minutes: 'He Knows We're Not Going To

CBS's Steve Kroft made a statement Monday that totally epitomizes liberal media bias in the modern era. Speaking to CNN's Piers Morgan about his interview with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the previous evening's 60 Minutes, Kroft said the President likes doing his show because "he knows that we're not going to play gotcha with him" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 11:56 PM

New York Times Displays Its Gun Fear on Sunday's Front Page

Between the multiple editorials calling for stricter gun laws and the denunciations of the NRA by its reporters, it's safe to say the urban liberals at the New York Times lack a cultural affinity for guns. Using the Sandy Hook massacre as an excuse, the paper treats as vital and disturbing Sunday front-page news something that's been going on for decades: The gun industry encouraging youth to…
Clay Waters
January 28th, 2013 8:12 PM

Smiley and West Admit Limbaugh Makes Valid Point ... About Guns

Perhaps Tavis Smiley and Cornel West aren't such fringe dwellers after all. Late-night TV talk show host Smiley and occasional academic West, co-hosts of a weekend radio show, actually said yesterday that Rush Limbaugh, a figure of towering evil as far as liberals are concerned, may have made a legitimate claim about gun ownership. (audio clips after page break)
Jack Coleman
January 28th, 2013 8:11 PM

AP's Bauder Gives CBS's Kroft an Excuse Platform for Softball Obama-Cl

Steve Kroft at CBS News is apparently feeling the heat over his powder-puff interview of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It has fallen to television writer David Bauder at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press (HT Dylan Byers at the Politico) to try and help put out the fire. You see, according to Kroft (my paraphrase), "This whole interview thing…
Tom Blumer
January 28th, 2013 7:13 PM

Brit Hume: Theme of Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview - 'Just How Gre

Brit Hume on Monday made some strong comments about Barack Obama's recent attacks on Fox News as well as the gooey interview CBS's 60 Minutes did with the President and Hillary Clinton the previous evening. Of the latter, he said the theme was “Just How Great Is the Relationship Between You Two?” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 7:06 PM

Democratic Strategist Equates the NRA to Big Tobacco, MSNBC's Bashir N

On the January 28 edition of his afternoon MSNBC program, Martin Bashir brought on liberal Democratic strategist Julian Epstein to talk about the left-wing’s favorite topic of late gun control.  As the interview progressed, Epstein made a comparison of the firearms industry to Big Tobacco, attacking firearms manufacturers for their role in sponsoring youth sporting events and publications like…
Matt Vespa
January 28th, 2013 7:03 PM

Walter E. Williams Column: The Folly of Blindly Following 'Experts

Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid the foundation for classical mechanics, and his genius transformed our understanding of science, particularly in the areas of physics, mathematics and astronomy. What's not widely known is that Newton spent most of his…
Walter E. Williams
January 28th, 2013 6:11 PM

Kirsten Powers on Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview: 'Something You'd

As NewsBusters has been reporting all day, CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday gave a gushing and fawning interview to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that should be an embarrassment to the network. On Fox News's America's Newsroom Monday, left-leaning contributor Kirsten Powers said of this fiasco, "It really was something you would expect from like the state-run media...60…
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2013 5:49 PM

CNN Fawns Over 'Love Fest' Between 'Political Superstars' Obama and Cl

CNN joined the networks in giving outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a cushy send-off after Clinton's syrupy 60 Minutes interview alongside President Obama. The network gushed over the "chummy" affection between the "political superstars" on Monday morning. "Well, it's the exit interview everybody is talking about," hyped anchor Soledad O'Brien. "Hillary Clinton, the President,…
Matt Hadro
January 28th, 2013 5:45 PM

NB's Graham Slams Steve Kroft's Embarrassing Softball Chat with Obama

CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft "ought to hand in his journalism card" if there actually were such a thing, NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham concluded in an interview with substitute host Eric Bolling on the January 28 edition of Your World w/Neil Cavuto. Graham was referring to the January 27 puff piece that the newsmagazine aired in which Kroft failed to ask any tough questions…
Ken Shepherd
January 28th, 2013 5:45 PM