NBC's Ann Curry in Baghdad: 'U.S. Brings Its Divisive Eight-Year War i

In a live report from Baghdad on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry described her arrival to the country with Vice President Biden: "Security is heavy amid an uptick in violence as the U.S. brings its divisive eight-year war in Iraq to an end. The Vice President timed his trip to the last days of America's war in Iraq." Later in the report, Curry listed the cost of the war: "Eight…
Kyle Drennen
November 30th, 2011 12:58 PM

Stephanopoulos Gloats: Will My Interview With New Accuser 'Spell the E

George Stephanopoulos, who as a Democratic operative in the '90s coordinated with ABC to save Bill Clinton from scandal, on Wednesday teased an exclusive with Herman Cain's accuser, openly gloating, "Will our interview spell the end of the one-time front-runner's presidential bid?" [See video below. MP3 audio here. ] The Good Morning America co-host could barely contain himself as he opened…
Scott Whitlock
November 30th, 2011 12:28 PM

WaPo Continues Barney Frank Puffery with 'Barney's Greatest Hits

Yesterday we noted how the Washington Post devoted both an A-section front-pager and a Style section front-pager to celebrating the career of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who announced his retirement from the House on Monday. Today the Post's "In the Loop" columnist Al Kamen continued the paper's celebration with a look at  "Frank's Greatest Hits", a collection of the Massachusetts Democrat's…
Ken Shepherd
November 30th, 2011 12:22 PM

Open Thread: Does Obama Know the Difference Between England and Great

Following the contemptible storming of the British Embassy in Iran by violent protestors, President Obama rightly condemned the Iranian government for not controlling the protestors and protecting a diplomatic outpost. In doing so, however, he made yet another embarrassing foreign policy gaffe: referring to the embassy as "English" instead of "British." How do you think the media would have…
NB Staff
November 30th, 2011 10:12 AM

Gingrich Rips WaPo: Media 'Would Rather Worry About Rumors About Conse

On Monday, NewsBusters broke a story about Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake using Twitter to dig up dirt on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. On Tuesday, the former House Speaker spoke to St. Louis radio host and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch about this saying, "It’s a little sad to see a paper the quality of the Washington Post stoop to...the National Enquirer approach…
Noel Sheppard
November 30th, 2011 9:34 AM

Tina Brown: Obama 'Doesn't Like His Job

Recently on Morning Joe it was Jon Meacham suggesting that Barack Obama doesn't particularly like people and was in the wrong line of work. Today it was Tina Brown's turn, opining that PBO doesn't dig his gig.   Discussing PBO's ever-paltrier poll numbers, Brown opined that Obama "doesn't like his job."  Video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
November 30th, 2011 9:31 AM

NYT's Keller Mocks Bloggers, State Colleges, Claims 'Stimulus Created

Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, devoted his oversized every-other-Monday column to a snobby and elitist assault on an old foe – the dangers of internet commentary, mostly of the right-wing variety, on the state of economic debate: “The Politics of Economics in the Age of Shouting.” Keller recently took a crash course in economics via airplane and bedside reading…
Clay Waters
November 30th, 2011 9:14 AM

Too Easy Being Green: New 'Muppets' Villain an Oil Tycoon

Muppet fans around the world were excited to see their childhood friends reunite; only to find out it was to save their studio from a rich oil executive. Liberal Hollywood loves an evil oil company - better yet, make it a successful business man that runs an oil company. The movie industry has repeatedly bashed businessmen and gone after gas and oil. Tex Richman, a wealthy man that plans to…
Iris Somberg
November 30th, 2011 9:04 AM

NPR Embarrassed America's the 'Only Major Country' That Still Has Clim

As the international "climate change" bureaucrats prepare to meet again in Durban, South Africa, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris (who makes the big bucks for nonprofit journalism) has filed several reports relying exclusively on left-wing climate panickers like Alden Meyer of the "Union of Concerned Scientists." In addition to that, on Tuesday night's All Things Considered, Harris…
Tim Graham
November 30th, 2011 8:46 AM

Oops: DNC Blasts Tapper for Blogging Obama Ad Was False on Romney Clai

The Democratic National Committee blasted ABC reporter Jake Tapper in an "open letter" for declaring on his Political Punch blog that their ad was "deceptive and false" on Mitt Romney's position on the stimulus (as we reported first here.) Ben Smith at Politico reported it, and noted it has now been unpublished. This is probably why: DNC National Press Secretary Melanie Roussell charged,  "If…
Tim Graham
November 30th, 2011 8:16 AM

Iranian Mob's Storming, Sacking of British Embassy Not In AP World New

If you don't hear much about the Iranian mob which stormed the British embassy earlier today in future news reports, you can probably at least partially blame the Associated Press, which considers the event so unimportant that it's not even part of its main U.S. site's top ten world stories as of 10:25 p.m. (saved here at host for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes). For those…
Tom Blumer
November 29th, 2011 11:11 PM

Bozell Column: Let's Kill Cain's Campaign

One might think from the breaking news that a woman has claimed she had a 13-year affair with presidential candidate Herman Cain that someone is being seriously exposed as a hypocrite. That would be the press. The media can’t deny they continue to display a lousy double standard. For Republican candidates, scandal news is instant. For Democrats, it’s eventual, if at all! Ginger White’s…
Brent Bozell
November 29th, 2011 10:39 PM

Cain Accuser Pushed By Media Into Getting Ahead of the Feeding Frenzy

Herman Cain's latest accuser, Ginger White, told a second Atlanta TV nation that she decided to come forward with her story now "because she became aware of  'leaks' to the media about the relationship." "There were threats of people coming out with their version, not that any version was very pretty. But I thought it was important to at least come out with my story, my side of the story,"…
Tim Graham
November 29th, 2011 10:22 PM

Joy Behar Asks Ann Coulter ‘Do You Think It’s a Vast Right-Wing Co

On Tuesday's Joy Behar Show, the host humorously asked Ann Coulter if her show being canceled was a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Without skipping a beat, the conservative author said, "No, I think it is a vast Casey Anthony conspiracy" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 29th, 2011 9:22 PM