NBC Wades Into 'Spreading Lies about President Obama's...U.S. Citizens

Daring to go where only cable has gone so far, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News waded into the rampant claims that President Barack Obama -- though he was born in a U.S. state and to a mother who was a U.S. citizen, so even if he were born in Kenya he'd still be a U.S. citizen -- is somehow really not one. Anchor Brian Williams didn't hide his disdain, teasing the newscast: “Spreading lies about…
Brent Baker
July 22nd, 2009 8:39 PM

Live Blog: President Obama's July 22 Primetime Press Conference

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NB Staff
July 22nd, 2009 7:59 PM

CNN's Blitzer Surprised Giuliani Thinks Obama 'Much Worse' Than He Tho

[Update, 8:24 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from the interview added.]CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was a bit surprised by Rudy Giuliani’s answer during Wednesday’s Situation Room, after asking the former mayor to reassess his prediction last year about “on-the-job training” for a President Obama. Blitzer inquired whether his “worst fears [had] come true.” Giuliani answered, “In many respects, it’s much…
Matthew Balan
July 22nd, 2009 7:40 PM

Reuters Has Problem with Counting Uninsured

Zoe Ortiz
July 22nd, 2009 6:19 PM

Shocker: PBS/US News's Erbe Calls for Flat Tax, Bashes Surcharge on Ri

Reliably liberal journalist Bonnie Erbe almost caused a few heads to explode here at Media Research Center headquarters today when yours truly passed along her July 21 blog post entitled, "Democrats' Meaningless "Tax the Rich" Proposals Will Lead to Class Warfare."The PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News & World Report contributing editor slammed the idea floating in Congress of adding a…
Ken Shepherd
July 22nd, 2009 5:55 PM

BMI Special Report: UnCritical Condition Finds Proponents of ObamaCare

Julia A. Seymour
July 22nd, 2009 4:46 PM

CBS Early Show Uses Obama Volunteer to Promote Health Care Reform

While reporting on President Obama’s efforts to pass health care reform legislation on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez cited one person who would benefit from the plan: "Debby Smith from Virginia...lost her job back in 2006, and lost her health care benefits, and says that she can't afford the $700 a month that it would cost take to pay for her own insurance."What Rodriguez…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2009 4:31 PM

Wednesday Funnies: How to Talk a Liberal Out of Obamacare

From the good folks at Let Freedom Ring comes a fabulous video perfectly depicting what healthcare in America will look like if the current administration gets its way (h/t Cal Thomas):
Noel Sheppard
July 22nd, 2009 3:53 PM

In CBS Interview Obama Claims Unemployment ‘Exceeded Everybody's Exp

During an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday, President Obama defended the administration’s handling of the economy: "nobody...anticipated that in the first three months, we would lose 700,000 jobs per month...the severity and the depth of the recession was something that, you know, really exceeded everybody's expectations."However, on the February 6 Evening News,…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2009 3:36 PM

In '89, NBC Marked Chappaquiddick Anniversary With Gooey Story on How

Tim Graham
July 22nd, 2009 3:29 PM

'Fox and Friends' Expose Obama Hypocrisy

President Obama and other liberals have frequently criticized the previous administration for a lack of transparency. But now it seems the Obama White House is practicing the same things liberals criticized President Bush and Vice President Cheney for.  So on the July 22 edition of “Fox and Friends,” anchor Brian Kilmeade brought to viewer’s attention the Obama administration’s hypocrisy on their…
Sam Theodosopoulos
July 22nd, 2009 2:05 PM

Uncritical Condition

BMI Staff
July 22nd, 2009 2:00 PM

CBS’s Couric Sympathizes With Obama: ‘Is Your Confidence Ever Shak

In her Tuesday interview with President Obama, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric wondered: "You're so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, ‘Damn, this is hard. Damn, I'm not going to get the things done I want to get done and it’s just too politicized to really get accomplished the big things I want to accomplish’?" [audio…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2009 1:15 PM

ABC's Cuomo: Is GOP Being 'Reckless' With Health Care Reform

ABC anchor Chris Cuomo played the liberal emotion card and asked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during an interview on Wednesday’s Good Morning America if Republicans were “playing politics” with President Obama’s health care “reform” proposal, and whether this was turning into a “little bit of a reckless situation” on the part of the GOP. [audio available here]Cuomo first put the…
Matthew Balan
July 22nd, 2009 12:00 PM