Chris Matthews: West Virginians Decided Decades Ago to Oppose Obama

Guest hosting on Tuesday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews assigned dark motives to the voters of West Virginia and repeatedly reaffirmed that nobody should be surprised if Barack Obama loses the May 13 primary to Hillary Clinton. According to Matthews, "You could have predicted West Virginia 20 years ago on this one." Making his racial overtones more clear, Matthews derided, "These…
Scott Whitlock

Soros Attacks Free-Market Capitalism in USA Today Puff Piece

If you're a believer in the Larry Kudlow creed, that "free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity," then look out, because George Soros is going to make you cringe. A May 13 USA Today article by David J. Lynch profiled the Hungarian billionaire who said he sees traditional free market theory as "flawed." "Of course, real life never matches up exactly with the theory's assumptions.…
Jeff Poor

MRC's Worst of the Week: GOP ‘Slime and Hate’; Coddling Obama

The general election has apparently begun. This week, the liberal media launched a pre-emptive attack on Republican campaign tactics even as TV interviewers slobbered all over Barack Obama. Here are the Media Research Center’s "Worst of the Week" (audio and video links below the fold):# GOP: Merchants of Slime and Hate. It’s Hillary Clinton’s campaign, not the GOP, which has pummeled Barack Obama…
NB Staff

Joy Behar: Some People 'Refuse to Accept Reality

Justin McCarthy

Newsweek CW: Up Arrow for Chinese; May Be Dictators, But They Aren't I

Ken Shepherd

News Reports Avoid Mentioning Record U.S. April Tax Receipts

How do you write an article about Uncle Sam's April financial results without telling readers how much money came in and went out -- especially if what came in was an all-time record? Yesterday and today, many journalists have shown us how. Two of them are Martin Crutsinger of the Associated Press and Michael M. Phillips of the Wall Street Journal. Crutsinger's AP report actually made it…
Tom Blumer

Soros Bashes Free Market in USA Today Profile

Paper: Billionaire supporter of liberal causes calls theory of markets 'rubbish.'
Jeff Poor

CBS: Myers Says Clinton Will Leave Race ‘In A Way That’s Classy

On Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to radio talk show host Michael Smerconish and former Clinton Administration Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers, about when Hillary Clinton would drop out of the presidential race and asked Myers: "Why is Hillary Clinton still running?" Myers responded by declaring that: "I don't think there's any question that she's going to get out. The only…
Kyle Drennen

WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother's Day for Mexican Families

If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother's Day story, you don't have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the Washington Post gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border fence between Mexico and the United States keeps Mothers from being with their children. Yes those mean Americans and their insistence on border…
Warner Todd Huston

Hannity Exposes Gore’s Connection to Ethanol and Higher Food Prices

Since media began recognizing the international food crisis and its ties to biofuels, NewsBusters has been wondering when press members will expose how intricately linked Nobel Laureate Al Gore is to this controversial issue. On Sunday, Fox News's Sean Hannity finally did just that. In a segment on "Hannity's America," the host addressed much of what NewsBusters has been reporting for the past…
Noel Sheppard

More Military Doom and Gloom from AP

Amid talk among the mainstream media of a sinking economy in which the elderly must live in vans and others cannot afford to drive 35 miles to church on Sundays, the Associated Press did note a drop in unemployment from 2006 to 2007. But even that news was buried in a story about the military and was used to explain trouble had in meeting recruiting goals. On May 13, an AP story by writer Anne…
Lyndsi Thomas

NBC Meteorologist: Cooler Waters, Not Global Warming, Behind Tornadoes

'Nightly News' anchor Brian Williams says 'smart' people say 'we must be doing something to our earth' to cause 'deadly tornado season.'
Jeff Poor

CNN’s Toobin: McCain’s Global Warming Stump ‘Like Acknowledging

CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, during a panel discussion on Monday’s "The Situation Room," reacted sarcastically to John McCain’s recent campaign speech on climate change. "Well, you know, this story illustrates just how low the bar is for Republicans on the environment.You know, the fact that he acknowledges global warming is seen as a big advantage for him, but it's like acknowledging…
Matthew Balan

USA Today Joins CNN, ABC in Inflating Gas Prices on Websites

Ken Shepherd