Washington Post: Obama Has a 'Ready Command of Facts

Amy Ridenour
August 1st, 2009 4:22 PM

1% GDP Decline Good for Obama, 0.4% Drop Bad for Bush

In today's "How's That Voodoonomics Working Out For You" segment, despite considering a 0.4 percent decline in the nation's Gross Domestic Product a calamity when George W. Bush was President, America's media applauded Friday's announcement that the GDP in the second quarter declined by one percent.Of course, this is not at all surprising, for many of these same outlets cheered when businesses…
Noel Sheppard
August 1st, 2009 1:47 PM

Shatner, Greenpeace Team Up on PR Stunt to Boldly Go Where No Green Va

Go green or have your private business robocalled and vandalized. It happened to a computer manufacturer in a Greenpeace publicity stunt earlier this week that included William Shatner. Greenpeace and the Canadian-born actor joined forces against Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and accused the company of "breaking green promises" for not producing products completely free of PVC plastic and…
Jeff Poor
August 1st, 2009 12:10 PM

NYT Shocker: 'Obama’s Pledge to Tax Only the Rich Can’t Pay for Ev

Unless you are hopelessly liberal and/or drinking WAY too much Kool-Aid, you are fully aware that President Obama and his Democrat minions on Capitol Hill can't get enough money from the so-called rich to pay for all the programs they're proposing.On Saturday, such an inconvenient truth was actually revealed by none other than the New York Times:"This idea that everything new that government…
Noel Sheppard
August 1st, 2009 12:01 PM

Olbermann-O'Reilly Feud Halted by Murdoch and Immelt

Although the ongoing feud between Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was apparently good for ratings -- likely more for the latter than the former, of course -- the heads of the parent companies of both networks stepped in recently to end the on-air squabble.Not only that, but News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch and General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt were apparently coaxed into…
Noel Sheppard
August 1st, 2009 11:02 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
August 1st, 2009 10:38 AM

Like Obama, Bill Clinton Also Idolized on Time Covers, But Not GOP Pre

So how unusual is it for a new President to be featured seven times on Time’s cover, as Barack Obama has been (with First Lady Michelle Obama snagging her own solo appearance)? A look back at Time’s covers finds Bill Clinton matched Obama’s celebrity in 1993 — seven covers for himself, one for Hillary. But the last three Republican Presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush…
Rich Noyes
August 1st, 2009 10:23 AM

NPR's Nina Totenberg: Insurance Companies Have Us By The...(Can't Say

Tim Graham
August 1st, 2009 7:33 AM

Bozell Column: MTV Acts Responsibly

Brent Bozell
August 1st, 2009 7:02 AM

ABC’s Stossel Slams Socialized Medicine, Finds Obama Expressed Inter

On Friday’s 20/20 on ABC, co-anchor John Stossel exposed the flaws in the Canadian and British government-run health care systems, and even showed viewers a clip of President Obama as he once expressed a belief that single-payer health care would be an acceptable system, even while taking the position that he would not pursue it, during one of the Democratic party presidential debates in 2008.…
Brad Wilmouth
August 1st, 2009 1:28 AM

AP Still Avoids Dem ID of Corrupt PA Judges After Briefly Doing So, Th

Here's a particularly noteworthy "Name That Party" follow-up.In a February post ("AP’s ‘Name That Party’ Twist: Disgraced PA Judges’ Dem Party ID Disappears After Initial Inclusion"; at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the Associated Press had originally identified the party of two Democratic judges involved in a shocking scheme that pushed thousands of juvenile offenders into detention…
Tom Blumer
July 31st, 2009 10:38 PM

CBS Buries Democrat Label in Chris Dodd/Kent Conrad Countrywide Scanda

On Friday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report recounting mortgage company Countrywide Financial’s history of offering special deals on loans to government officials – including figures with connections to President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama. But, while the two most prominent figures currently still in government who are implicated in the scandal…
Brad Wilmouth
July 31st, 2009 9:36 PM

Beck Exposes 'Cash for Clunkers' Language Giving Feds Authority to Tak

Say what you want about the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck and his antics, but to give credit where credit is due, he exposed some disturbing language from the Obama administration's "Cash for Clunker" program Web site Cars.gov. Beck on his July 31 program hosted a segment about the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) Web site, also known as "Cash for Clunkers" and demonstrated what a Web browser…
Jeff Poor
July 31st, 2009 9:09 PM

Year Ago GDP Jump 'Disappointing'; This Year Negative GDP: 'Whole Lot

A year ago, when the government reported second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from the first quarter to 1.9 percent, the CBS Evening News centered a story around what Katie Couric described as “disappointing” news while ABC and NBC didn't utter a syllable about the GDP jump. But Friday night, with a different President in office, Couric crowed a one percent decline in the 2009…
Brent Baker
July 31st, 2009 8:50 PM