ABC Cheers 'Laudable' Candy Crowley for Propping Up Obama in Debate

ABC analyst Matthew Dowd on Sunday cheered the "laudable" Candy Crowley for propping up Barack Obama with wrong information about Libya during last week's debate. Referring to a contentious exchange between the President and Mitt Romney over when the White House called the attack a terrorist indicent, Dowd enthused, "...What Candy Crowley did, I actually thought, was laudable, because what…
Scott Whitlock
October 22nd, 2012 11:39 AM

MRC's Tim Graham Hits 'Absurd' Libya Coverage with Lou Dobbs on Fox Bu

MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Friday on the Fox Business Channel to discuss the media’s protective coverage of the Obama administration on the growing Benghazi scandal. Graham said on the Big Three networks, "We've had 22 stories in the last couple of days about binders full of women and networks skipping out on covering Libya." (Video and…
NB Staff
October 22nd, 2012 11:06 AM

Obama Welcomes Jay-Z Support, Violent, Misogynistic Lyrics and All

Editor’s Note: This article contains profanity. Whatever else his electoral troubles, president Obama seems to have the all-important hip-hop star demographic sewn up. Rapper Jay-Z recently released an ad which detailed his love for president Obama, and encouraged young voters to vote with Obama in November. The president, whose re-election campaign has been heavy on soak-the-rich class…
Lauren Thompson
October 22nd, 2012 10:29 AM

Chuck Todd: Seven Out Of Ten Challengers In Romney's Position Win

Coming down the stretch of the presidential campaign, it looks like NBC political director Chuck Todd has put getting it right over any personal or network partisan leanings.  On Morning Joe today, Todd declared that seven out of ten challengers in Mitt Romney's position in the polls win the election. In an assessment sure to send shivers down Obama-camp spines, Todd added that "Romney…
Mark Finkelstein
October 22nd, 2012 9:11 AM

Pennsylvania Man Shoots Relative in Halloween Costume, Thought She Was

A Pennsylvania man shot a female relative Saturday night because he thought the girl dressed in a Halloween costume was a skunk. According to New Sewickley Township police, the nine-year-old girl who attending a Halloween party was over a hillside in a black costume with a black hat and white tassel when she was shot at 8:30 PM.
Noel Sheppard
October 22nd, 2012 8:58 AM

Debate Night: Will Liberal Bob Schieffer Be the Next Candy Crowley

When CBS’s longtime Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer sits down in Boca Raton, Florida, tonight to moderate the final 2012 presidential debate, he’ll be following three journalists who became targets for criticism over how they handled their moderating duties. Upset liberals scorned PBS’s Jim Lehrer for taking a hands-off approach in the first debate on October 3, with MSNBC analyst Howard…
Rich Noyes
October 22nd, 2012 7:58 AM

Media Liberals Expected Jon Stewart To Ask Tougher Questions of Obama

People expect Jon Stewart to act like a journalist? Tampa Bay Times TV critic (and NPR contributor) Eric Deggans was surprised that  Stewart wasn't tougher with President Obama in his Daily  Show interview -- from the left. "This close to such a tight election, it's perhaps not surprising that a comic known for his pragmatically liberal views would be careful challenging a Democratic president…
Tim Graham
October 22nd, 2012 7:23 AM

Female Hosts on MSNBC 'Lucky' to Get Paid Far Less Than Male Counterpa

Two of the women who anchor hour-long news programs on the MSNBC cable TV channel have stated that "the guys get paid more," but they are nevertheless "lucky" to be paid half of what a male co-host earns. During an interview on Thursday, Mitt Romney senior adviser Barbara Comstock told the host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports" that "we know here at MSNBC, the guys get paid more," and Mitchell…
Randy Hall
October 22nd, 2012 4:41 AM

Overnight Outrage: The Federal Government's $300-Plus Million Solyndra

Let's get the easy part out of the way first. The New York Times and the Associated Press are only covering the outrages emerging in Solyndra's bankruptcy in the vaguest of terms. The only related Times item I could find was a sentence at the end of an October 11 Green blog post indicating that "the I.R.S. and the Energy Department argue in court papers" against the company's bankruptcy plan.…
Tom Blumer
October 22nd, 2012 1:20 AM

On MSNBC, 'Totally Biased' Comedian Says Romney Looked Like 'He's Just

When MSNBC broadcast live coverage of the Al Smith dinner in New York on Thursday night, Rachel Maddow brought in leftist comedian W. Kamau Bell from the show "Totally Biased" on FX, twice identified by Maddow as "brilliant." Bell quickly turned to bashing Mitt Romney. "I think he has to learn how to enjoy the joke telling process.  He has that look on his face between every joke like he's…
Tim Graham
October 21st, 2012 11:24 PM

Study: Deadly 2011 Earthquake May Have Been Caused By Human Activities

Can human activities cause or exacerbate an earthquake? According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience Sunday, the answer is yes:
Noel Sheppard
October 21st, 2012 7:27 PM

Joe Klein: Benghazi Consulate Controversy 'The October Mirage - It Rea

The Obama-loving media were out in force Sunday downplaying the significance of the White House's ever-changing position on the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi last month. After New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper called the death of four Americans "peripheral to what's going on right now" on Meet the Press, Time magazine's Joe Klein told Face the Nation viewers this…
Noel Sheppard
October 21st, 2012 6:20 PM

Friedman Contends Benghazi Controversy ‘Utterly Contrived,’ Stepha

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, who three weeks ago derided Mitt Romney for how he “acts...as if he learned his foreign policy at the International House of Pancakes,” on Sunday’s Meet the Press dismissed concerns over how the Obama administration handled Benghazi before and after the attacks. “To me,” he declared, “this is an utterly contrived story in the sense that ‘…
Brent Baker
October 21st, 2012 5:03 PM

Unhinged: 'Hating Breitbart' So Much to the Point of Disrupting a Movi

Gateway Pundit blog and Michelle Malkin's Twitchy site both reported on Saturday how Ryan Clayton, a far left contributor to DailyKos and Huffington Post, was escorted out a Friday night showing of the documentary, Hating Breitbart, in Arlington, Virginia, for his outbursts during the opening minutes of the film. Clayton actually makes an appearance in the movie, where he shouted bogus…
Matthew Balan
October 21st, 2012 4:09 PM