NBC's Guthrie Invites Clinton to Slam GOP 'Rooting for the Economy to

In an interview aired on Friday's NBC Today, former President Bill Clinton began by attacking Republicans: "I'm not sure both sides want the economy to get better....I know what Senator McConnell said, that his number one priority was winning the election." Co-host Savannah Guthrie helpfully added: "It sounds like you're saying the Republicans are basically rooting for the economy to fail." […
Kyle Drennen
July 13th, 2012 10:22 AM

Former NYT Supreme Court Reporter Greenhouse: 'Breathtaking Radicalism

In her latest nytimes.com column, posted Wednesday night, "The Mystery of John Roberts," Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, retraced previous conservatives losses at the Supreme Court from the pre-Internet days of the early '90s and the relatively muted response of conservative activists. That set the stage for Greenhouse to criticize the "torrent of right…
Clay Waters
July 13th, 2012 9:46 AM

Sununu Smacks Down Juan Williams: 'Don't Let Your Blind Loyalty to Thi

As NewsBusters previously reported, former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu on Tuesday laughed in Andrea Mitchell's face when she defended Barack Obama's use of bogus outsourcing reports about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Continuing this trend of calling out Obama shills in the media, Sununu on Fox News's Hannity Thursday told Juan Williams, "Don't let your blind loyalty…
Noel Sheppard
July 13th, 2012 9:44 AM

Lamar Smith Column: National Media's Bias Erodes Public Confidence

The national liberal media’s bias has eroded the public’s confidence in the news they get.  Americans’ distrust of the national media will continue to grow until the national media provides the public with objective news reports. Recent bias displayed by the national media has caused one of its long-time defenders to grow “weary of trying to defend the indefensible.”  These recent remarks by…
Lamar Smith
July 13th, 2012 7:35 AM

Reuters: 'Rights Groups' Try to Keep Late-Term Abortions In Arizona

The ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights are trying to keep Arizona safe for late-term abortionists. But they must not be labeled as liberal, or even in the usual argot (as AP showed) as “abortion-rights groups.” The Reuters headline (repeated by Yahoo and other online aggregators) is “Rights groups file suit challenging Arizona abortion ban.” The story by David Schwartz repeated that…
Tim Graham
July 13th, 2012 7:23 AM

ABC Cries ‘Super Bug,’ Chicken Industry Cries Foul

Moving on from “pink slime” attack on beef, Jim Avila targets the poultry industry with an unproven theory.
Mike Ciandella
July 13th, 2012 7:21 AM

Leftist Radio Host Mike Malloy 'Calls Satan' to Learn How Breitbart Is

Just imagine the uproar there'd be if a conservative radio talk show host pretended to talk to the devil to find out how a recently deceased liberal activist is doing in Hell. Now contrast that with the virtual media silence there's been since liberal radio host Mike Malloy acted as if he was on a phone call with Satan to learn how conservative activist Andrew Breitbart is faring in Hades.…
Randy Hall
July 13th, 2012 12:59 AM

AP's Crutsinger With Understatement of the Month: FY2012 Deficit 'Almo

Uncle Sam's June Treasury Statement released today told us that with three months remaining in the 2012 fiscal year the government has already run up a deficit of over $900 billion. According to the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger, Americans should see that as a "positive sign," because "deficit is growing more slowly than last year." During the final three months of fiscal 2011, the…
Tom Blumer
July 12th, 2012 11:51 PM

Blue Greens: NPR Saddened That Americans Don't Feel Guiltier About Usi

On Thursday’s Morning Edition, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris reported the bad news: Americans don’t feel guilty enough for their rampant overconsumption of planetary resources. “You might think that Americans, renowned for consuming a disproportionate share of the Earth's resources, would feel the most guilty about using up those resources. Not so, according to a new study,”…
Tim Graham
July 12th, 2012 11:28 PM

9/11 Truther Touré's New Wacko Theory: Romney Tried To 'Win More Whit

Left-wing author Touré Neblett wildly accused Mitt Romney of playing the race card in a Thursday item on Time's website, claiming that Romney "went to the NAACP's National Convention planning to get booed," so he could "elicit an emotional reaction from white voters. Romney's performance wasn't intended to win more black votes, it was intended to help win more white votes." Touré, the…
Matthew Balan
July 12th, 2012 7:05 PM

Soledad O'Brien Inquires If Romney Intended to Be Booed by NAACP

CNN's Soledad O'Brien flirted with the absurd theory that Mitt Romney intended to be booed by the NAACP, asking on Thursday's Starting Point if it was part of his "strategy."   After playing a clip of House Minority Leader Pelosi saying Romney getting booed was a "calculated move" on his part, O'Brien noted Romney expected to be booed and asked "Is there some kind of strategy in this…
Matt Hadro
July 12th, 2012 6:18 PM

Juan Williams Insists He Isn't Liberal, Just a 'Foil

Juan Williams hit it off with the I-man on the July 11 broadcast of Imus in the Morning.  Apparently, Williams, who was fired by NPR in 2010, is the "foil" for the conservative personalities on Fox News.  When Imus asked if Fox News was "right wing," Williams responded with "given what I'm up against, I think that's the way it comes across. If you're arguing politics with Krauthammer and Brit…
Matt Vespa
July 12th, 2012 5:23 PM

Donny Deutsch Predicts Women and Minorities Will 'Cost' Romney Electio

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about Mitt Romney's NAACP speech, advertising executive Donny Deutsch gave credit to the Republican presidential candidate for making the appearance, but proclaimed: "...this is going to be what I'll call the demographic election, women, Latinos and African-Americans are going to cost him the election." Co-host Savannah Guthrie began the…
Kyle Drennen
July 12th, 2012 5:21 PM

HBO's Tea Party-Bashing 'Newsroom' Writer Thanks Think Progress for 'V

As NewsBusters previously reported, this past Sunday's Tea Party-bashing episode of HBO's The Newsroom featured a lead character prominently mentioning the far-left, George Soros-funded propaganda organization Think Progress. On Monday, the co-author of that episode, one Gideon Yago, tweeted his thanks to TP reporter Adam Peck for "reporting and archiving" that was "vital to the research we…
Noel Sheppard
July 12th, 2012 5:14 PM