
Time's Grunwald Frets That 'Paragon of Fiscal Responsibility' Obama Re
Time Magazine senior correspondent Michael Grunwald on Monday lamented the fact that Barack Obama, "a paragon of fiscal responsibility compared to [George W.] Bush," doesn't get accolades for all his successes.
Grunwald's piece, entitled, "The Counterfactual President: Obama Averted Disasters, but Getting Credit Is the Hard Part," sarcastically compared President Obama's record on terrorism…
April 6th, 2011 4:28 PM

NYT's Jackie Calmes Declares GOP 'So Far to the Right' on Risky Budget
The ambitious, cost-trimming House Republican budget proposal put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan “is not going to become law anytime soon, if ever,” New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes assured us in her Wednesday “news analysis,” “A Conservative Vision, With Bipartisan Risks.” Yet it still “poses huge political risks for Republican candidates for Congress and for the White House in 2012.” A front-…
April 6th, 2011 2:36 PM

Which Soros Event Will You Attend This Week
Lefty billionaire funds conferences to 'change the world,' economy and media.
April 6th, 2011 2:27 PM
Glenn Beck to End Fox News Program to Pursue Oprah Route
Fox News host Glenn Beck and the news channel announced today that Beck is going to be quitting his show. The following statement was put out to the media:
April 6th, 2011 1:09 PM

CNN's Spitzer Slams GOP for 'Balancing the Budget On the Backs of the
While questioning Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) over the budget battle on Monday's "In the Arena," CNN's Eliot Spitzer switched gears and attacked Republicans for cutting taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the poor. Spitzer and Chaffetz sparred over the ongoing budget battle and spending cuts, and Spitzer was certainly not lacking in Democrat talking points.
"You are driving the…
April 6th, 2011 12:29 PM

Lack of Military Pay, No Museums or Passports, ABC Highlights Liberal
Not paying U.S. military officers, closed museums and a lack of passports were just some of the potential problems highlighted by Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Wednesday. The ABC reporter discussed a possible government shutdown and warned that without a deal, "...Troops, including those on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq, may not get their paychecks."
Karl didn't note that a…
April 6th, 2011 12:22 PM

Chuck Schumer Thrilled by Matt Lauer's Tea Party Bashing
In a softball interview with New York Senator Chuck Schumer on NBC's Today on Wednesday, co-host Matt Lauer recited Democratic talking points on the budget fight perfectly: "[For] the Tea Party and others on the far right....does it seem to you, Senator, that this is less about a fiscal debate or an economic policy debate and they are making an ideological stand here?" [Audio available here…
April 6th, 2011 11:30 AM

WaPo TV Reviewer Grouses About New Show Chronicling 'Selfish' Coupon-c
On the surface, TLC's "Extreme Couponing" -- premiering tonight at 9:30 p.m. EDT -- may look to you and me like an innocently voyeuristic look into the lives of fellow Americans who take penny-pinching to the extreme, saving at times hundreds of dollars on grocery store runs.
But that's why we're not TV critics for a liberal metropolitan newspaper.
Washington Post's Hank Stuever worked in a…
April 6th, 2011 10:59 AM

Liberal Commander Kristof in the NY Times: Send SWAT Team to Seize Col
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, newly minted war-monger. On March 24 the Iraq war dove claimed the U.S. was being welcomed as liberators in Libya. On Sunday he applauded what the column’s text box admitted was “our inconsistent intervention in Libya,” headlined with a bleeding-heart plea: “Is It Better to Save No One?” He even called for "a SWAT team of Libyans and coalition forces…
April 6th, 2011 9:47 AM
Open Thread: If the Government Shut Down, How Could We Tell
That's the question posted by a recent video, embedded below the break, released by Heritage Action for America. With an "Obama shutdown" looming, Heritage wonders - only a bit facetiously - whether there would be much of a difference, given that the White House has failed to deal with any of the major problems facing the nation in the last two-plus years.
April 6th, 2011 9:21 AM

Protest Series: MoveOn.org "We Are One" DC Rally
Pardon our cynicism, but we were mindly curious if the people who attended MoveOn.org's national "We Are One", "Respect Our Rights", "Keep the Dream Alive" rally in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 2011 really knew what they were protesting about?
[Video embedded after page break]
April 6th, 2011 7:37 AM

Time Holds a Hanky for EPA Boss; Newsweek Hails Smarts of Energy Secre
The "news" magazines offer a very friendly environment for Obama's cabinet members devoted to environmental issues. In this week's Time, they offer their "Ten Questions" for EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. They have a sympathetic tilt that Republicans are waging "war" on the EPA, instead of considering that the EPA is preparing to take command and control over the American economy. (Mario…
April 6th, 2011 6:45 AM

New DNC Chair Schultz Has Had Several 'I Know Nothing' Moments
In the 1965-1971 comedy series "Hogan's Heroes," prison guard Sergeant Schultz is a "bumbling, highly unmilitary 325-pound Sergeant of the Guard. Schultz is a basically good-hearted man who, when confronted by evidence of the prisoners' covert activities, will simply look the other way, repeating 'I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!'"
Reviewing past NewsBusters posts featuring or…
April 6th, 2011 12:31 AM

Bozell Column: The Failed Couric Experiment
The news leaked out Monday that Katie Couric is stepping down from her failed experiment as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News.” People inside the news business greeted the news as shocking. But what’s shocking is that Couric didn’t get the boot years ago. CBS’s ratings cratered while she earned $15 million annually.
Couric was once projected as the Great White Female Hope after Dan Rather’s…
April 5th, 2011 10:51 PM