Bob Schieffer Laughs Out Loud After Playing Video of Obama Bragging Ab

CBS's Bob Schieffer certainly wasn't in an Obama-loving mood Sunday. Having asked the President's senior campaign adviser "Whatever happened to hope and change" early in the program, the Face the Nation host in a subsequent segment laughed out loud after playing a clip of Obama bragging about his accomplishments on 60 Minutes last year (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 5:16 PM

Bob Schieffer Asks Obama Senior Adviser Gibbs 'Whatever Happened to Ho

Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs certainly didn't expect this question when he agreed to go on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday. Right out of the gate host Bob Schieffer pressed his guest about all the negative ads the President's campaign is running until he finally asked, "Whatever happened to hope and change?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 3:56 PM

Joe Klein: 'Community Organizer Is a Code Word for Organizing Poor Peo

As NewsBusters has been reporting for months, the goal of the liberal media as it shamelessly campaigns for the reelection of President Obama is to paint everything opponent Mitt Romney says as racist, elitist, or both. On this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Time magazine's Joe Klein said that Romney referring to Obama's experience as a "community organizer is a code word for…
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 3:15 PM

WashPost Columnist Sees Catholic Church As Very Conservative 'Authorit

Don’t look for sophistication in The Washington Post’s coverage of the Catholic lawsuits against ObamaCare. Religion columnist Lisa Miller began on Saturday: “Mommy and daddy are fighting, and the anguished children don’t know where to turn.” “A small group of very conservative bishops has hijacked the church, or at least the public voice of the church,” Miller complained. “The bishops are…
Tim Graham
May 27th, 2012 2:00 PM

George Will Schools Jennifer Granholm on Bain Capital and Solyndra

Former Democratic Michigan governor turned Current TV commentator Jennifer Granholm got a much-needed education Sunday about the difference between Mitt Romney's involvement with Bain Capital and President Obama's forays into green energy investment. "When Bain invested," said George Will on ABC's This Week, "it invests money that it gets voluntarily to be invested. When the president throws…
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 1:45 PM

Ex-ABC News Head Westin Defends Ban on American Flag Pins Even in

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN to plug his book, Exit Interview, former ABC News president David Westin recounted his decision to continue barring journalists from wearing American flag lapel pins on air even after the 9/11 attacks, and ended up defending his decision. Westin: (Video at bottom)
Brad Wilmouth
May 27th, 2012 1:20 PM

NYT White House Correspondent: Obama 'Hates' Camp David Because There

UPDATE AT END OF POST: There actually is golf at Camp David. Camp David has been an historic presidential retreat since World War II, but according to New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper, Barack Obama "hates it" because there isn't any golf. Such was revealed on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show this weekend (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 12:00 PM

AP 'Fact Check' Ignores Obama Stump Speech Claim of 'Slowest' Spending

At the Associated Press aka the Administration's Press on Saturday, Andrew Taylor's "Fact Check" item on President Obama's stump speech claim in Iowa on Thursday dove into the trees without first looking at the forest. Distracted by ridiculousaurus Rex Nutting's write-up earlier in the week at MarketWatch ("Obama spending binge never happened"), which absurdly claimed that "government outlays…
Tom Blumer
May 27th, 2012 11:02 AM

Alan Simpson Admits He's a RINO, Says 'Men Legislators Shouldn’t Eve

Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) went on quite an anti-GOP rant Sunday after admitting on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, "I guess I’m known as a RINO now which means Republican In Name Only." Before taking a shot at tax advocate Grover Norquist - who "[wanders] the earth in his white robes" - Simpson said, "Abortion is a horrible thing, but for heaven sakes, it’s deeply intimate and personal…
Noel Sheppard
May 27th, 2012 10:55 AM

NBC's Engel: Reform Activists 'Were Crying' Over Egyptian Election Res

On Saturday's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, NBC correspondent Richard Engel conveyed that the reform advocates who led the toppling of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt are distraught at the kinds of candidates that Egyptian voters are choosing to replace Mubarak, with both major presidential candidates likely to curtail freedom if elected. Engel recounted: (Video at bottom)
Brad Wilmouth
May 27th, 2012 10:43 AM

Rewind: Chris Hayes 'Uncomfortable' Calling Fallen Military 'Heroes

Effete: affected, overrefined, and ineffectual; see "Chris Hayes."  OK, I appended the name of the MSNBC host to the dictionary definition.  But if ever you wanted to see the human embodiment of the adjective in action, have a look at the video from his MSNBC show this morning of the too-refined-by-half Hayes explaining why he is "uncomfortable" in calling America's fallen military members "…
Mark Finkelstein
May 27th, 2012 9:21 AM

Right Wing Spiked: WashPost Touts Comic Artists Speaking Out for 'Yout

On the front page of Saturday’s Style section, Washington Post writer Michael Cavna touted the new “relevance” of promoting homosexuality in comic books and strips now that President Obama has un-closeted his long-obvious support for gay marriage. Guess who wasn’t relevant: conservatives who thought it was a bad idea. The headline was "Comics' gay couples land with election-year splash."…
Tim Graham
May 27th, 2012 7:42 AM

NYT Media Reporter Touts PBS, MSNBC's 'Up,' Brian Williams

New York Times media reporter David Carr gave an interview to the liberal blog Talking Points Memo about his usage of media and his thoughts on it. He said he routinely reads his newspaper and The Wall Street Journal, and is reading a book by Kurt Andersen, who hosts an NPR show called Studio 360. When asked who was doing good TV journalism, it was a pretty tilted list. It started with ABC's…
Tim Graham
May 27th, 2012 6:48 AM

FNC Cites MRC Study Recounting Media Double Standard on Romney Wealth

On Saturday's Fox News Watch, two studies from the Media Research Center - parent organization to NewsBusters - were cited during the program. The first mention came during a discussion of Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker's criticism of the Obama campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital. After panel member and FNC contributor Judy Miller wondered why either Romney's…
Brad Wilmouth
May 26th, 2012 11:16 PM