Politico: Obama 'Out of Step' with Pro-Gay Rights Sentiment

Politico skews report on the president and same-sex marriage.
Sarah Knoploh
June 4th, 2009 12:00 AM

CBS: Obama's Success at Undoing Bush Policies Key to Crippling Terrori

President Obama's popularity amongst Muslims pegged to success at “pulling out of Iraq,” “ending torture” and “closing Guantanamo Bay,” are key to the chances of ending terrorism CBS reporter Lara Logan contended Wednesday night. She concluded her preview of Obama's Thursday speech in Cairo: “Terrorists who are threatened by Obama's popularity amongst Muslims do not want America's President to…
Brent Baker
June 3rd, 2009 11:16 PM

Reuters: Osama Scared of Obama's Skills, While Bush Was a 'Belligerent

Tim Graham
June 3rd, 2009 10:50 PM

CNN's Cooper Spotlights Woman Who Decided Against Late-Term Abortion

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a five-minute long interview of Diane Elder, a woman who decided to let her infant daughter live despite her severe genetic defects, during his program on Tuesday evening. The interview came about after Elder wrote Cooper after watching a similar interview he conducted the previous night of Lynda Waddington, a “pro-choice” blogger for the Huffington Post and…
Matthew Balan
June 3rd, 2009 6:43 PM

NYT's Stolberg: Obama's 'Trying to Bring People Together' as GOP Fight

It was a liberal-fest on MSNBC's weekly "New York Times Special Edition on MSNBC" show, hosted last Friday by John Harwood and Norah O'Donnell and featuring a rotating gaggle of Times reporters, both in studio and on location. To preface a discussion about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about 20 minutes into the show, host Harwood (who also writes for the Times) broadcast a clip of former…
Clay Waters
June 3rd, 2009 6:30 PM

NBC's Brian Williams Bows To President Obama

How much is "Nightly News" host Brian Williams in the tank for President Obama?Well, as part I of NBC's special report "Inside the Obama White House" came to a close Tuesday, Williams, while saying good night to the president, actually bowed his head.I kid you not (embedded video and partial transcript below the fold): 
Noel Sheppard
June 3rd, 2009 5:43 PM

Austin, Texas Requires Green Audit for Real Estate or Face Criminal Ch

Local government of Austin 'green' ordinance requires mandatory $300 'clean energy audit' according to NBC affiliate; Non-compliance classified as Class C misdemeanor.
Jeff Poor
June 3rd, 2009 5:36 PM

MSNBC's David Shuster Hits Obama From the Left on Gays in the Military

MSNBC host David Shuster on Wednesday criticized President Obama from the left, calling him hypocritical for leaving the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in place, despite a campaign pledge to end the ban on gays in the military. Shuster singled out Obama in his "Hypocrisy Watch" series, complaining, "But, here we are, more than four months into your administration and the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'…
Scott Whitlock
June 3rd, 2009 5:28 PM

Flashback: Wacky Network Quotes from 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre

Tomorrow, June 4, is the 20th anniversary of the Chinese army massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Back in 1989, the big networks provided in-depth coverage of the massive protests that swelled in mid-May, and harsh coverage of the brutal reaction from the communist authorities.But, as the Media Research Center noted at the time, the networks also used the occasion for…
Rich Noyes
June 3rd, 2009 5:22 PM

Barbara Walters Doesn't Check Facts, Attacks Glenn Beck Anyway

In a video post dated June 2, 2009, Breitbart TV reporter Scott Baker reveals that – shocker – Whoopi Goldberg was lying about Glenn Beck’s lying. What’s more, Barbara Walters didn’t check her facts before the Baxter-esque duo ambushed Beck on his May 20 appearance on ABC’s “The View.” The video – embedded at right – is quite long, but I’ve broken down below the information offered in it.First up…
Mike Sargent
June 3rd, 2009 4:47 PM

Obama's a 'Powerful New Ally' for Muslim Outreach As 'Myths Abound' in

Eli Saslow, the young Washington Post reporter best known for his giddy promotion of Obama’s "glistening pectorals," touted Obama as a "powerful new ally" against "Islamophobia" on the front of Wednesday’s Style section. The protagonist of Saslow’s story, Aida Mansoor of Hartford, Connecticut, tries to educate an apparently (and painfully) bigoted America about Islam. This is where Obama comes to…
Tim Graham
June 3rd, 2009 4:27 PM

ABC's Chris Cuomo: 'Barack Hussein Obama' Gives 'Hope' to Egyptians

"Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo reported live from Egypt on Wednesday and informed viewers that students at a university in Cairo are "given hope, just by the fact that a brown-skinned president named Barack Hussein Obama exists." The news anchor, who was in the region to cover the President's speech on Thursday, provided a decidedly different tone than that of many journalists who avoided…
Scott Whitlock
June 3rd, 2009 4:07 PM

Obama, Media Likely Wrong on 2009 Job Figures ... By May

Finding the 'glass half full,' nets and newspapers find good news about job loss, ignore failure of stimulus to halt rising unemployment.
Julia A. Seymour
June 3rd, 2009 3:57 PM

'Now or Never' Rehashes Old News, Name-Calling But Doesn't Offer Econo

Book by CNN's Jack Cafferty lives in the past, but offers surprising remarks on mortgages, bailouts.
Amy Menefee
June 3rd, 2009 3:30 PM