NPR Wraps Election With Talk of 'Race Baiters' and O'Reilly

NPR doesn’t interview authors who find liberal bias in the news media. But it does interview its own contributors when they attack Fox News and media that feeds "fear and prejudice." On Thursday’s Talk of the Nation, host Neal Conan welcomed on Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times to discuss his new book for a half hour. It's titled "Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a…
Tim Graham
November 2nd, 2012 1:31 PM

ABC and CBS Ignore Their Own Reporters As Benghazi Blackout Reaches

For the seventh night in a row, ABC’s World News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News refused to give one single second of coverage to the Obama administration’s deceitful response to the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11. According to the Media Research Center, the last time Benghazi was discussed on one of the flagship network evening news casts was the…
NB Staff
November 2nd, 2012 12:50 PM

ABC Again Predicts Doom for Romney: Race 'Breaking' for Obama

Good Morning America's Matt Dowd, who is often billed as a down-the-line analyst, again predicted doom for Mitt Romney, agreeing with George Stephanopoulos's question that the presidential race is "breaking for [Barack] Obama." Appearing on Friday's program, Dowd touted, "I think the trajectory of this race has now slowly moved to the President over the last few days, especially how he's…
Scott Whitlock
November 2nd, 2012 12:38 PM

Christian Blogger Publishes '10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Ne

Trevin Wax, a blogger at the evangelical Christian website TheGospelCoalition.org published an excellent post eight days ago entitled "10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Never Asked by the Media." "Debate moderators and reporters love to ask pro-life candidates hard questions about abortion. Curiously, they don’t do the same for pro-choice candidates," Wax noted on his Kingdom People…
Ken Shepherd
November 2nd, 2012 12:24 PM

Grover Norquist Slams CNN's Jobs Spin; 'Not Even a Dead Cat Bounce

After the last jobs report before the election, CNN's Soledad O'Brien tried to be positive even with high underemployment and unemployment rates. On Friday's Starting Point, she ridiculously cast underemployment moving down one tenth of a percent to 14.6 as "improving." "Underemployment which was 14.7 percent, now 14.6; labor force participation, as well, that's better. Are you feeling…
Matt Hadro
November 2nd, 2012 12:17 PM

NBC Touts Bloomberg Helping Obama, Wonders if Christie Hurting Romney

Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw strained to explain why New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg endorsing President Obama would be helpful: "[It] may not move the needle, for example, in Colorado, but in Ohio and in places where they're trying to get white men, they can say, 'Look, this guy has got the endorsement of the Mayor of New York.'" Why would someone in…
Kyle Drennen
November 2nd, 2012 11:21 AM

FNC’s Geraldo Rivera Clashes With Own Network Over Libya

Unlike the liberal media who are engaging in a full-scale blackout of the scandal in Libya, Friday’s Fox & Friends engaged in a vigorous debate over the attack on our Embassy in Benghazi.  Fox News Channel liberal contributor Geraldo Rivera engaged in a full-out shouting match with conservative-leaning co-hosts Steve Doocy and Eric Bolling.  During the back-and-forth, Geraldo’s main…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 2nd, 2012 11:14 AM

The Media’s Coverage of the Libya Attacks: From Slanted to Suppresse

Americans of all political stripes were distressed by the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. But the reaction of the national broadcast networks has been demonstrably and shamefully partisan from the beginning of this story. In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, all three broadcast networks…
Rich Noyes
November 2nd, 2012 11:00 AM

HuffPo: No Sex for Republicans

As the 2012 campaign nears its close, the left seems increasingly to be shooting from the hip – and aiming at the crotch. Many conservatives have been appalled by the coarseness of some of the Obama campaign’s missives: things like “vote like your lady parts depend on it,” the Lena Dunham ad associating women voting for Obama with losing their virginity, or every third word out of Joe Biden’s…
Matt Philbin
November 2nd, 2012 10:38 AM

Just in Time for Election, Media Forecast Falling Gas Prices

Up or down, the media often hype changing gas prices, in spite of a long track record of incorrect predictions. But the most recent forecast stands to benefit media favorite: President Barack Obama. In recent months, all three broadcast news networks and the USA Today have offered predictions ahead of the presidential election, saying prices would be much lower by late November: after…
Liz Thatcher
November 2nd, 2012 10:19 AM

Special Report: Upside Down Economics

Presidential elections have been won or lost due to the economy. Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan. This election season is no different as polls, including a recent one from NBC News/Wall Street Journal, continue to show the economy is the top concern of voters. But the network news media often skew economic coverage in favor of liberal…
Julia A. Seymour
November 2nd, 2012 10:05 AM

Clint Eastwood: 'Romney Is Just a Perfect Guy for the Job

Clint Eastwood made quite a splash when he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this summer. Continuing his ringing endorsement of Mitt Romney on Fox News's Hannity Thursday, the actor/director said, "He is just a perfect guy for the job" (video follows with transcript):
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 10:02 AM

October Jobs Report Shows Incomes Continuing to Decline

One of the negative features of the current economic recovery has been declining incomes of average Americans. This trend continued in October.
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 8:43 AM

Glee’s Jane Lynch Dresses as Mitt Romney for Halloween, Wife Goes as

Glee star Jane Lynch dressed as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for Halloween. In a pre-recorded Chelsea Lately aired Thursday, Lynch also said her wife was going as Paul Ryan (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, file photo):
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 12:54 AM