Name That Party: NYT Quick to ID GOP Insult of Jews -- Avoided Labelin

Two Republican chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for an op-ed article that made a clumsy comment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent. Reporter Robbie Brown and The New York Times's headline writers quickly let us know the two offenders were Republican: "2 South Carolina Republicans Apologize for Reference to Jews." It made quite a contrast from how the Times treated a Democratic…
Clay Waters
October 21st, 2009 4:37 PM

California AG Angrily Responds to Charges Politically Charged Suit fro

'Power Lunch' co-host Caruso-Cabrera suggests Jerry Brown's $56-million lawsuit against State Street bank a ploy to prop up attorney general's bid for governor.
Jeff Poor
October 21st, 2009 4:22 PM

Networks Barely Report 'Stealth' Push for 'Second Stimulus

Stories mostly ignore failure of Obama's $787 billion stimulus to halt rising unemployment, continue to give credit for saving or creating jobs.
Julia A. Seymour
October 21st, 2009 4:06 PM

Absurd Denial: WaPo Claims ‘Goal’ of GOP Attack Pieces Wasn't to H

A Washington Post staff writer on Wednesday swore that it wasn’t the "goal" of the newspaper to elect Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor, despite the paper’s wave of attack coverage against the Republican nominee. Participating in a chat on WashingtonPost.com, Amy Gardner did admit that there’s an "argument to be made" over whether the paper did some "‘prolonged’ reporting" on…
Scott Whitlock
October 21st, 2009 3:59 PM

'Morning Joe': With Fox Feud, Administration Really 'Playing' Rest of

And you thought President Obama just didn’t like Glenn Beck. According to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, the administration’s repeated attacks on Fox News are an attempt to send a message to the rest of the news media: “Fox isn’t a real news organization, so the stories it generates aren’t real news.”The Oct. 21 “Morning Joe” reported on an exchange yesterday (noted on Newsbusters by Noel Sheppard)…
Matt Philbin
October 21st, 2009 2:57 PM

GMA: Health Labels 'Confusing' for Consumers

In performing its duty to help save us from ourselves, ABC often turns to its favorite kill-joy food police, the Center for Science in the Public Interest. And they did it again on Oct. 21, when "Good Morning America's" Lisa Stark lamented with CSPI's executive director, Michael Jacobson, about the conniving designs of the food industry to lure unsuspecting consumers into its artery-clogging,…
Carolyn Plocher
October 21st, 2009 2:45 PM

Networks Barely Report 'Stealth' Push for 'Second Stimulus

BMI Staff
October 21st, 2009 2:00 PM

Hypocritical Olbermann Finds It ‘Weird’ That Bush 41 Called Him

Less than a week after likening conservative blogger Michelle Malkin to a “mashed-up bag of meat” on his Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on Monday called out former President George H.W. Bush for daring to call him and fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow “sick puppies,” as Olbermann described Bush’s words from a recent interview as a “weird term."As he characterized Bush as being…
Brad Wilmouth
October 21st, 2009 1:14 PM

Republican Senator Accuses Obama of Acting Like Nixon

A top Republican Senator who used to work for President Richard Nixon has warned the Obama administration to not create an "enemies list" like that of his former employer.Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) in his speech on the Senate floor Wednesday listed a number of recent events that uncomfortably remind him of how the Nixon White House treated everyone in America that didn't agree with it:If the…
Noel Sheppard
October 21st, 2009 1:09 PM

Welcome to the P.T. Barnum Administration

Obama, media treat Americans like a bunch of suckers and it's working on health care.
Dan Gainor
October 21st, 2009 11:36 AM

MSNBC Entertainment Editor Furthers Misinformation About Palin

MSNBC entertainment editor Courtney Hazlett spent all of two minutes on "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan and still managed to get her facts wrong.Noting former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's scheduled November 16 appearance on "Oprah," Hazlett told viewers that the former Alaska governor "famously said no to appearing on Oprah" during the 2008 presidential campaign,…
Ken Shepherd
October 21st, 2009 11:36 AM

Dumb and Dumber, By Choice

Americans are ignorant, and Obama is counting on it.
Dan Kennedy
October 21st, 2009 11:33 AM

CNN Again Cites Liberal Study on Talk Radio, Pushes Localism

CNN’s Carol Costello again omitted the liberal source of a statistic she touted during a report on Wednesday’s American Morning, that 91% of talk radio is apparently conservative. Costello also pushed the left-wing aim of localism in radio programming, playing three soundbites in favor of the proposal, versus two against it.Near the end of her report, which aired at the bottom of the 7 am Eastern…
Matthew Balan
October 21st, 2009 11:25 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
October 21st, 2009 10:57 AM