Letterman Plays Video of Chris Matthews' Head Exploding
October 10th, 2012 9:05 AM
As NewsBusters reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews had an on air meltdown following Barack Obama's terrible performance in last Wednesday's debate with Mitt Romney.
On Tuesday, CBS Late Show host David Letterman ended his monologue by showing a video of Matthews' head exploding (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary).
CBS Hounds Giuliani on Romney's Foreign Policy Speech, 'Tack to the Ce
October 9th, 2012 3:52 PM
Charlie Rose badgered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday's CBS This Morning over the "few specifics" of Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech on Monday. During the interview, Norah O'Donnell boosted former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's "full of platitude and free of substance" blast at Romney's speech.
Rose changed subjects midway through the segment and also…
‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ Comes Under Suspicion of Forgery, Media
October 9th, 2012 11:47 AM
Remember that scrap of papyrus the media were screaming about that claimed that Jesus had a wife? Scholars are lining up to dismiss it as a forgery. The Smithsonian Institute canceled its planned documentary on the subject after scholars expressed doubts about its authenticity.
But the media, so quick to report on a scrap that CBS reporter Allen Pizzey argued “challenges the very foundation…
NBC's Today Pretending That Libya Consulate Attack Isn't News Anymore
October 8th, 2012 5:08 PM
The 2007 video of then-Senator Barack Obama hinting at racism in the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina isn't the only news story that NBC's Today show stuck up its nose at during the first days of October. The morning newscast has conspicuously ignored covering the latest developments in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It hasn't devoted a full…
Obama Burdens America With Another Trillion-Dollar Deficit; Networks S
October 8th, 2012 4:22 PM
None of the Big Three broadcast networks noted the release Friday of the Congressional Budget Office’s final determination of the fiscal year 2012 federal budget deficit: $1.1 trillion, the fourth year in a row of trillion-dollar deficits. ABC, CBS and NBC’s Friday evening newscasts and Saturday morning news programs were silent about the statistic — even though Obama’s massive spending and…
Roger Ebert: 'One of the Best Presidential Debate Moderators Would Be
October 7th, 2012 6:35 PM
"Actually, one of the best presidential debate moderators would be David Letterman."
So astonishingly wrote movie critic Roger Ebert on Twitter Thursday (vulgarity warning):
Billy Crystal Ridicules Romney Wearing His Picture With Mouth Cut Out
October 6th, 2012 2:41 PM
The dissing of Mitt Romney by America's Obama-loving media knows no bounds.
On CBS's Late Show Friday, Billy Crystal showed up with a picture of Romney with the mouth cut out and proceeded to ridicule the Republican presidential nominee with the assistance of host David Letterman (video follows with transcript and commentary):
David Letterman Calls Mitt Romney 'A Felon
October 6th, 2012 1:24 PM
CBS Late Show host David Letterman on Friday accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of being "a felon."
"The man has not paid a nickel in United States federal income tax" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'L
October 5th, 2012 5:32 PM
On Friday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes trumpeted that the Obama campaign is "turning lemons into lemonade" as she reported that the Democratic operation is "arguing that Romney had a great performance at the debate, but only because he was untethered from the truth." Not once did the correspondent or colleagues Norah O'Donnell and Bill Plante critically examine the claims from the incumbent…
CBS This Morning Brings On Howard Dean, Spurring Sanctimonious Lecture
October 5th, 2012 3:16 PM
The sole political guest on Friday's CBS This Morning was Howard Dean, the ultraliberal failed presidential contender who was once the governor of Vermont. Co-host Norah O'Donnell asked him to comment on the vice president's statement on Thursday insisting the Democrats absolutely want to raise a trillion dollars in taxes on the rich.
Biden had "some comments that people are calling a gaffe…
NBC’s Today Ignores State Department E-mail Denying Increased Securi
October 5th, 2012 12:16 PM
Given the recent death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, one would expect the three news networks to investigate the grotesque failures by the federal government to protect our embassies overseas.
Unlike NBC’s Today, ABC and CBS’s Friday morning shows both covered recent State Department emails showing they denied a request by officials in Libya for increased security in May leading up…
Media Mash: CNN Helps Cover Up Obama's Race Speech, MSNBC Plays the Ra
October 5th, 2012 10:58 AM
MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 4 edition of Hannity and exposed the hollowness of the media's argument against covering inflammatory quotes Barack Obama made in a 2007 speech on race, clips aired for the first time earlier this week on Hannity. [Watch the full video after the jump.]
Host Sean Hannity set up the newest "Media Mash" segment: "I…
Norah O'Donnell Jabs Romney on Big Bird Line: 'Silly Thing to Bring Up
October 4th, 2012 5:47 PM
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, just hours after Mitt Romney's "crisp" debate performance, Norah O'Donnell stuck to her fixation on playing up the Republican's supposed negatives. O'Donnell maligned how Romney phrased his opposition to the federal government's subsidization of PBS: "This may have been the first time in a presidential debate that Big Bird was mentioned. It seems kind of like a…
Norah O'Donnell Thinks Obama Left 'Greatest Hits' on 'Cutting Room Flo
October 4th, 2012 1:04 PM
President Obama left his "greatest hits on the cutting room floor" for Wednesday night's debate, claimed CBS This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell after the debate. According to her, "contraceptive rights" and "free mammograms" in ObamaCare are some of the President's "greatest hits."
"There was no mention of Bain," she said on Wednesday night's Charlie Rose. "There was no mention of the auto…