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Kate Zernike's Smear Victim, Jason Mattera, Calls for Her Firing, Retr
Reporter Kate Zernike continues to take heat for her false allegation, in a February 18 post on the New York Times's "Caucus" blog, that Jason Mattera of Young America's Foundation, a speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, engaged in racial stereotyping during an anti-Obama tirade.Her bizarre charge appeared under the headline: "CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in…
February 22nd, 2010 2:50 PM
Still Hoping for Some Change
Let's be honest for a minute, America. I know a lot of you had stars in your eyes last January when Barack Obama was inaugurated amid promises of "change we can believe in", closing down evil Guantanamo Bay, bringing the troops home from Iraq and all the other idealistic promises he made so he could get elected.He also promised to fix the economy and let us know in no uncertain terms that he had…
February 22nd, 2010 2:29 PM
Carol Costello Uses Subtle Attacks on Bush, Republicans for Economic P
CNN's Carol Costello clearly misses the good old days when unions dominated and the "American Dream" was alive and well. "The American dream, 1950s-style. Middle-class America seemed to have it all then. A nice home, a car, economic security. Sixty years later the Bindners and much of the middle-class think thanks to Uncle Sam all of that is disappearing," Costello said introducing her "broken…
February 22nd, 2010 2:23 PM
Couric Changes Tone on Tiger Woods: His Cheating Now 'Disgusting and R
On Friday, we noticed Katie Couric expressing sympathy for Tiger Woods on her Twitter page, that he was at the "epicenter of humiliation" and public judgment "must be very painful." ABC’s Jake Tapper replied that he hoped the "painful" referred to the pain of Tiger’s wife and children. On Saturday, Couric responded to Tapper and our blog on Twitter: For the record...I think what tiger did was…
February 22nd, 2010 1:54 PM
French Writer Levy Salutes Polanski, Calls Him 'Courageous' in HuffPo
Roman Polanski, the once-fugitive movie director that raped a 13-year-old American girl in 1977 and then fled to France, has won an award while still under house arrest in his luxury Swiss Chalet. Last week, Polanski received the Silver Bear award as best director at the Berlin International film for "The Ghost Writer." His producer Alain Sarde accepted, because, as Polanski said, "The last time …
February 22nd, 2010 1:45 PM
ABC's Bill Weir Touts: Obama Is 'Keeping a Campaign Promise' to Air He
Good Morning America's Bill Weir on Sunday trumpeted Barack Obama for "keeping a campaign promise" to broadcast the health care debate on C-SPAN. Counting the upcoming televised summit between Republicans and Democrats on the issue as fulfillment, Weir gushed, "...The revolution will be televised." He extolled the event, saying, "And for the first time, live in your living room, President Obama…
February 22nd, 2010 12:50 PM
CBS's Rodriguez: Health Care Being 'Held Hostage' By Partisanship
In an exclusive interview with First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez fretted over the future of ObamaCare: "Deadlines keep getting missed for passing health care. Obstacles keep mounting....Unfortunately at the moment...health care is being held hostage by partisanship."Rodriguez introduced the interview by proclaiming that the First Lady: "acknowledges…
February 22nd, 2010 12:13 PM
ObamaCare: New Republic Editor Irked at Humble NewsBusters Corresponde
It appears that The New Republic senior editor, Jonathan Chait, is a bit irked at your humble correspondent for pointing out that he seems a to have gone off the deep end on the subject of ObamaCare:Some of us realized all along that there was no rational reason that the Massachusetts election had to kill health care reform. Fundamentally, the main barrier -- getting sixty votes in the Senate --…
February 22nd, 2010 11:44 AM
MRC President Brent Bozell: 'God Bless Bloggers
Where would the world be without an independent, citizen-run type of media? It would be in a dark place, according to Media Research Center President and Founder Brent Bozell. Bozell addressed CPAC on Feb. 20 about the state of the media. He cited how bloggers played a role in unearthing the former White House "green jobs czar" Van Jones past for signing a statement about the September 11…
February 22nd, 2010 11:00 AM
Newsweek Denigrates ObamaCare Opponents with Derisive 'Town Hall Face
As my colleague Tim Graham brought to my attention this morning, Newsweek is not content to let its advocacy for ObamaCare lie in the realm of biased writing. Nope, it appears the gang at Newsweek wants to help along President Obama by lampooning earnest Americans who expressed their displeasure last year at town hall meetings.Why Newsweek chose now to roll out its photo gallery on "The Town Hall…
February 22nd, 2010 10:48 AM
MRC’s Notable Quotables: Scolding ‘Harsh Rhetoric’ of Tea Party
I don’t usually post the MRC’s bi-weekly Notable Quotables here on NewsBusters, but there seemed to be more than the usual number of obnoxious liberal quotes over the past two weeks — disparaging the Tea Party as “harsh” or racist; denigrating Sarah Palin as “preposterous” and “anti-intellectual,” and insisting that the voter revolt against Democrats’ big government policies is fiction: “a…
February 22nd, 2010 10:42 AM
ABC’s Moran Shares Frustration Public Doesn’t Appreciate ‘Stimul
Hosting Sunday’s This Week on ABC, Terry Moran noted during the past week the Obama administration “fanned out across the country” to trumpet how “the stimulus worked,” yet President Obama “sounded a little frustrated that people don't get it” as, Moran fretted: “What did they do wrong? They're playing defense on what was one of their major accomplishments.”Earlier in his interview with…
February 22nd, 2010 9:35 AM
Flashback: Media Ignored Anti-Bush, Lefty Writings of Bomb Plotter in
Imagine the outrage and attempts to implicate hate speech by conservatives if someone planted and threatened to explode bombs, and ended up leaving a suicide note railing against President Obama. But just over a year ago, a similar individual who expressed his hatred of President Bush and Karl Rove in a suicide note received little attention. As Aspen, Colorado, delayed its New Year’s…
February 22nd, 2010 9:23 AM