Go Ahead, Invade Their Phone Records: AP Reports Obama Has 'Alleged Sc

May 25th, 2013 10:55 PM
Forget the Department of Justice surveillance. Associated Press is actually writing about “alleged scandals” and “alleged misbehavior” when it reports on Obama. Somehow we’re not going to take it seriously when former AP employees like Ron Fournier have predicted the AP surveillance was going to make the wire service turn critical of the White House. Tom Raum is still barking with what…

Press Fails to Contrast Medea Benjamin's Civility With Obama With Disr

May 25th, 2013 6:41 PM
Code Pink's Media Benjamin managed to break into another presidential event on Thursday, namely Barack Obama's speech at the National Defense University. The topic was "U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy," meaning that the administration's aversion to the T-word seems to be diminishing as the damaging scandal-related news continues to pour in. Readers will see that Benjamin was relatively civil…

As Stockholm Riots Move Into Fifth Day, Press's Aversion to the M-Word

May 24th, 2013 11:09 PM
A Google News search on "Sweden riots" done tonight at 10 PM ET (not in quotes, sorted by date, with duplicates) returned 314 items. Adding the word "Muslim" to the search reduced the number of results to nine. Fewer than a handful are from establishment press outlets, and one of those only appeared in the search results because a commenter and not the story's writer used the M-word. That…

Leno: ‘Not Looking Good for Obama - Today His Teleprompter Took the

May 24th, 2013 10:42 AM
Jay Leno continued his humorous attacks on the current White House resident Thursday devoting much of his opening monologue to the various scandals plaguing the Administration. At one point, the NBC Tonight Show host joked, “It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the fifth.”

Leno: Obama Knows Nothing Because They Moved ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t T

May 23rd, 2013 6:01 PM
Jay Leno continued his humorous attacks on Barack Obama Wednesday. During a series of opening monologue jokes about the various scandals plaguing the Administration, the NBC Tonight Show host said that with all the President appears not to know about what's going on around him, it means "They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."

CBS Spotlights 'Firestorm' Over 'Obama's War on Journalism'; ABC Punts

May 23rd, 2013 1:02 PM
The Big Three networks coverage so far of the Justice Department's questionable investigation of Fox News' James Rosen has followed a similar pattern to that of their coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case. Jan Crawford's report on Thursday's CBS This Morning was the first full report on growing controversy on ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts. NBC briefly covered the investigation…

Fournier: Obama's 'Jihad Against the Press' Makes it More Likely We'll

May 23rd, 2013 10:07 AM
With each passing day, it's becoming clearer and clearer that many of the current White House resident's followers in the media are really angered by his attack on the Associated Press and Fox News's James Rosen. On MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday, the National Journal's Ron Fournier said of this issue, "You can't make journalism a conspiracy...The irony here is that President Obama, by raising…

Dennis Miller: 'The American Media is in an Abusive Relationship With

May 22nd, 2013 9:51 PM
"Let's face facts: the American media is in an abusive relationship with Obama." So marvelously said Dennis Miller on Fox New's the O'Reilly Factor in a discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal Wednesday (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Liberal Journalists Alter, Shear Rip White House Over AP Scandal

May 22nd, 2013 5:18 PM
Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt featured two liberal journalists on his nightly program this week, and both joined the chorus of media outrage at the Obama administration over the Justice Department’s recent AP probe. Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Alter called Eric Holder’s explanation of the probe “pathetic” and suggested that President Obama should “apologize to journalists” over the…

New York Times: Obama Administration 'Threatening Fundamental Freedoms

May 22nd, 2013 3:35 PM
"With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news." So shockingly began a New York Times editorial Wednesday.

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Acknowledges Obama’s Contempt for the Press, B

May 22nd, 2013 1:50 PM
Even ABC News’s Cokie Roberts recognizes that the Obama administration has far overstepped its constitutional boundaries in obtaining the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The political commentator denounced the Obama/Holder Justice Department’s actions on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, claiming the overreach was “appalling.” Roberts later criticized the administration’s…

Letterman: 'Obama's in So Much Trouble Politically He's Thinking of Ki

May 22nd, 2013 11:53 AM
As NewsBusters reported last week, even David Letterman is now telling jokes about Barack Obama. The CBS Late Show host continued to do so Tuesday saying, "He's in so much trouble politically, the President, he's thinking about killing bin Laden again."

Leno: Obama Holds Press Conferences to Find Out What’s Going on Not

May 22nd, 2013 11:10 AM
Jay Leno on Tuesday continued his humorous attacks on the current White House resident. The NBC Tonight Show host concluded a series of opening monologue jokes targeting the administration saying, “That's why President Obama holds press conferences: not to explain what's going on, to find out what's going on” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Chuck Todd: Obama Administration Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism

May 22nd, 2013 10:18 AM
As more revelations surface concerning the White House targeting press members, more and more of Barack Obama's fans in the media are breaking ranks. Count NBC's chief White House correspondent amongst them, for on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday, Chuck Todd actually said, "They want to criminalize journalism" (video follows with transcript and commentary):