Olbermann Touts Man Who Created 50 Green Jobs with Stimulus Funds

MSNBC host fails to point out that each job cost nearly $2 million.
Julia A. Seymour
January 28th, 2010 10:54 AM

McCain Said 'Blame It On Bush' When Obama Claimed He Inherited Deficit

CRITICAL UPDATE AT END OF POST: Obama praised the 2009 budget when the Senate passed it!After President Obama told the nation during Wednesday's State of the Union address that he inherited the huge budget deficits befronting the country, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) turned to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and said, "Blame it on Bush."In reality, this was one of many Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) moments…
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2010 10:50 AM

Olbermann Touts Man Who Created 50 Green Jobs with $99 Million Stimulu

Keith Olbermann should keep a calculator on hand during his broadcasts. If he'd had one, the liberal MSNBC host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" could have run the numbers on Jan. 27 following the State of the Union address. Olbermann was recapping President Obama's speech and told viewers: "Among those seated with the first lady in the visitor's gallery ... a man from Arizona whose company…
Julia A. Seymour
January 28th, 2010 10:29 AM

It's the Stupid Economy

I feel a lot better now that we know we have his attention. Don't you?
Glenn Foden
January 28th, 2010 10:01 AM

Morning Shows Tout Risk to Republicans for ‘Continuing to Say No

The three morning shows on Thursday reacted to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address by highlighting the risk Republicans run in continuing to oppose the President’s agenda. On NBC’s Today, Meredith Vieira fretted to Joe Biden, "What risk do the Republicans run by continuing to say no, by being the party of no?" NBC put the happiest spin on the speech, featuring a graphic that trumpeted, "‘…
Scott Whitlock
January 28th, 2010 9:28 AM

NYT Jumps on Arrest of ACORN 'Pimp' - Yet Waited 6 Days to Report ACOR

When the ACORN scandal broke, the New York Times dragged its feet for six days before issuing a story on the devastating footage from conservative activist and guerilla film-maker James O'Keefe, who caught on video the left-wing housing group giving advice to a "prostitute" and "pimp" on how to shelter illegal income from taxes. But following Tuesday afternoon reports of the Monday arrest of O'…
Clay Waters
January 28th, 2010 8:52 AM

ABC’s Terry Moran Laughs at George Will’s Critique of Obama

Brent Baker
January 28th, 2010 8:40 AM

Rosie O’Donnell Falsely Spins: Stronger Response to Haiti Disaster T

On Monday’s edition of Rosie Radio, host Rosie O’Donnell spun the outpouring of support for the victims of the Haiti earthquake as a result of President Obama’s leadership. She then falsely accused George Bush of not quickly speaking out after Hurricane Katrina: "If two days after Katrina, you know, the President of the United States went on and said, 'You will not be forsaken. You will not be…
Scott Whitlock
January 28th, 2010 7:58 AM

Alan Colmes Questions Death Penalty for 'Chemical Ali

Tim Graham
January 28th, 2010 6:34 AM

Fineman: Obama Should Be On Mt. Rushmore For That Speech

"If presidential leadership were only about giving speeches, the jackhammers would already be at work on Mt. Rushmore."So amazingly said Newsweek's Howard Fineman shortly after President Obama finished his State of the Union Address, but that wasn't the only absurd thing he told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday's "Countdown.""In many, many ways, this is one of the most conservative speeches…
Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2010 1:29 AM

Couric on Obama: 'Better at Making Us Smarter than Making Us Angry

Following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, on CBS Katie Couric revealed her reading interests as she endorsed the take on Obama from a liberal New York Times columnist: “Well, as Tom Friedman said, 'he's better at making us smarter than making us angry.'” (Friedman's actual assertion in his January 27 column: “He is so much better at making us smarter than angrier.”) Then,…
Brent Baker
January 28th, 2010 1:00 AM

State of the Union Overnight Thread

Post your thoughts and observations here. Spot any media bias or other newsy articles? Join the conversation...
NB Staff
January 28th, 2010 12:58 AM

Chris Matthews: I Forgot Obama Was Black Tonight

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Video of Matthews clarifying this crazy comment. The tingle appears to be back for Chris Matthews, for shortly after Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address Wednesday, the "Hardball" host said he forgot the President was black.Speaking with fellow MSNBCers Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, Matthews gushed, "You know, I was trying to think about who he was…
Noel Sheppard
January 27th, 2010 11:03 PM

SOTU Run-Up: ABC’s Sawyer Lobs Softballs to Rahm Emanuel; CBS’s Co

Both ABC’s Diane Sawyer and CBS’s Katie Couric interviewed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as part of their networks’ run-up to tonight’s State of the Union address, but the contrast was stark. While Sawyer attempted to feel Emanuel’s pain over the setbacks for health care legislation (“Two times you have rolled the health care rock up the hill....and two times you have seen it crash back…
Rich Noyes
January 27th, 2010 9:20 PM