Obama Pines for the Days of Pre-blog Monolithic Mainstream Media

Charlie Spiering of the Beltway Confidential blog for the Washington Examiner yesterday noted how President Obama is pining for the days of monolithic media, when Americans all watched, and trusted, liberal anchor Walter Cronkite [video follows page break]:  
Ken Shepherd
August 17th, 2011 3:23 PM

NYT Dubiously Claims Buffett Tax Hikes Would Raise Revenues, Falsely C

New York Times reporter David Kocieniewski reported on the front of Tuesday’s Business section reported on the op-ed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s in Monday’s Times which has gone viral in liberal circles. Buffett called for higher taxes on rich people like him in the name of fairness, claiming his 17% effective tax rate was lower than anyone else in his office. Kocieniewski, who…
Clay Waters
August 17th, 2011 2:16 PM

Engine Trouble on Cessna Forces Ed Schultz to Send Mayday, Land on Rem

Radio and cable host Ed Schultz came through a close call on Sunday after his Cessna 206 blew a cylinder while he was flying home from his fishing lodge in Canada, forcing Schultz to land on an abandoned airstrip in the Canadian wilderness. Schultz told his radio listeners about the incident at the end of his three-hour radio show yesterday while interviewing frequent guest and sponsor Mark…
Jack Coleman
August 17th, 2011 2:01 PM

Taking After Tebow Again

Christian athlete drives press round the bend.
Matt Philbin
August 17th, 2011 1:06 PM

CNN's Yellin Cherrypicks Poll Numbers to Spin for Obama

CNN's Jessica Yellin used a recent CNN poll Tuesday to give credence to the White House spin that President Obama is the victim of a bad economy he inherited from Bush. What Yellin failed to report was another CNN poll showing that Americans almost two-to-one disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy. Yellin, on Tuesday's The Situation Room, touted a July 25 CNN poll showing that 57…
Matt Hadro
August 17th, 2011 12:53 PM

George Stephanopoulos Scolds Companies Who Relocate Overseas Because o

According to Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, companies that go overseas as a result of high taxes in America are "unpatriotic." The ABC host, who has repeatedly lobbied for higher taxes throughout his journalistic career, endorsed Warren Buffett's call for the rich to pay a higher percentage in taxes. Talking to Donald Trump, Stephanopoulos cajoled, "Warren Buffett made another…
Scott Whitlock
August 17th, 2011 12:05 PM

NBC Frets Over Tea Party's 'In-Your-Face Tactics' and 'The Politics of

At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: "In your face. The Tea Party puts its confrontational style on display during a stop on President Obama's bus tour." Later, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd lamented how "uplifting moments" of Obama's Midwest tour were interrupted by "a bitter taste of the energy and confrontational style of the Tea Party."  …
Kyle Drennen
August 17th, 2011 11:39 AM

Al Sharpton Falsely Accuses Well-Known Isolationist Pat Buchanan of Su

With each passing day it is becoming clearer and clearer the brainiacs at MSNBC replaced one blithering idiot in their 6PM time slot with another blithering idiot. On Wednesday's "Morning Joe," Al Sharpton actually accused well-known isolationist Pat Buchanan of having supported the Iraq war (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 17th, 2011 11:01 AM

Rick Perry's Bad Medicine

Texas, we have a problem. Your GOP governor is running for president against Barack Obama. Yet, one of his most infamous acts as executive of the nation's second-largest state smacks of every worst habit of the Obama administration. And his newly crafted rationalizations for the atrocious decision are positively Clintonesque. In February 2007, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a shocking executive…
Michelle Malkin
August 17th, 2011 10:52 AM

Obama's $1.1 Million Tour Bus Made in Canada

President Obama: Saving or creating manufacturing jobs... in Canada? The New York Post reported this morning about the custom-made campaign bus, er official government vehicle, that:
Ken Shepherd
August 17th, 2011 10:29 AM

Strange New Respect in the New York Times for Southern Christians Figh

New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson reported Sunday from Cullman, Ala., “Alabama Law Criminalizes Samaritans, Bishops Say.” The Times showed an unusual and convenient respect for Southern Christians who are taking a liberal and paranoid stand on a new state law against illegal immigration -- the issue perhaps most likely to bring out the Times’s liberal bias. On a sofa in the hallway…
Clay Waters
August 17th, 2011 9:15 AM

Lefty Hypocrites Level Gay Slurs

It’s hard to keep up with what the media and the left deem acceptable. Seems like just last year Anderson Cooper publicly took offense at a line from a movie. Come to think of it, it was just last year that the CNN anchor found “That’s so gay,” upsetting to his perfectly honed PC sensibilities. Fast forward a year. Many people are accusing two currently prominent figures of being gay. But don…
Matt Philbin
August 17th, 2011 8:55 AM

Network Newscasts Apoplectic Over Perry, ‘White House Tells Him to W

“Republican presidential contender Rick Perry rustles up a controversy when he appears to threaten the head of the Federal Reserve,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley teased Tuesday night in taking literally Perry’s remarks about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. CBS then played a clip of Perry: “We would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.” Brian Williams teased the NBC Nightly…
Brent Baker
August 17th, 2011 8:47 AM

Harvard Hates the Tea Party: Xenophobic, Racist, Theocratic Whites Les

A hot item on the New York Times website is an op-ed by Harvard professor Robert Putnam (who drew a lot of media notice for his nonfiction book "Bowling Alone") and Notre Dame professor David Campbell called "Crashing the Tea Party." The professors earn their Times real estate by regurgitating the CBS-Times polling on the alleged growing unpopularity of the Tea Party, and calling the Tea Party…
Tim Graham
August 17th, 2011 7:09 AM