Bill Schneider: Country's Gone Through Failed Marriage With Bush

December 25th, 2008 4:26 PM
If you thought Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg when he thinks about Barack Obama, you ain't seen nuttin' yet, for on Christmas Eve, CNN's Bill Schneider practically aired a love letter for the president-elect.Even worse, after gushing ad nauseum about how Obama is "really sweeping people off their feet" -- with statistics to back up his sick-making adoration, of course! -- Schneider…

CNN's Tale of Two Screen Graphics: Beefcake Barack vs. Winky Palin

December 24th, 2008 7:36 AM

He's Thrilled: MSNBC's Chris Matthews Wins MRC’s 'Quote of the Year

December 22nd, 2008 1:56 PM
The Media Research Center today announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews "won" the dubious honor of Quote of the Year for gushing over a Barack Obama speech back in February: "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often….And that is an objective assessment."Top runner-up for Quote of…

Shoe Tossing Media Darling Also Improves Bleak Shoe Economy

December 22nd, 2008 12:16 PM
CNN, which long ago abandoned the concept of credible journalism, ran a story today regarding the attack by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi on our nation's President as a feel good story about the shoe industry.The title itself reveals that CNN reporters simply can't contain their giddiness when it comes to covering someone attacking the President:Bush assailant kick-starts sales for…

Will Media Report Baghdad's First Public Christmas Celebration

December 22nd, 2008 11:43 AM
An astonishing thing happened in Baghdad on Saturday: Christians, apparently for the first time in the city's history, publicly celebrated Christmas.CNN's Jill Dougherty published an article about this extraordinary event at the network's website Sunday which included a video of her interviewing Iraqis of varied religious beliefs at the scene.However, from what I can tell, this extremely charming…

Whoopi Still Clueless About the Constitution

December 21st, 2008 9:41 PM
“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources” (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint strict constructionist judges, if she should fear a return to slavery. Unfazed, Whoopi replied “I thought…

CNN Lines Up Pro-Abortion Group, AMA Against Pro-Life Doctor's Conscie

December 19th, 2008 5:33 PM
Updated at bottom of post (Jan. 7, 2009)CNN sided against the expansion of health care workers’ right to not participate in controversial medical procedures like abortion and in-vitro fertilization during a report on Friday’s Newsroom program by including only one pro-life voice amongst several statements and clips from pro-abortion groups. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for…

How Will Media Report Tenth Anniversary of Clinton Impeachment

December 19th, 2008 10:53 AM
Ten years ago, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President William Jefferson Clinton.Ten years later, how will the very media that helped sway public opinion in order to prevent a guilty verdict in the Senate report this anniversary?As a preview of what we should expect, here's how CNN's Frank Sesno recounted the tawdry details during Thursday's "American Morning" (video embedded…

Wolf Blitzer: It's Unfair Clinton's the Only Ex-President Pressed to D

December 19th, 2008 7:52 AM

Is CNN Pushing Kids to Ask For a Salary for First Lady Michelle

December 19th, 2008 4:00 AM
**VIDEO below fold** CNN has a segment that they call "CNN Student News" that is supposed to highlight the news of the day for the kiddie set. Pursuant to that, in a December 15 segment, CNN floats a question asking if Michelle Obama (or any First Lady) should get a government salary just for being First Lady? But, what we really ended up with is a slight to those same students to whom CNN was…

Brown Scolds Obama: You Can't Choose Questions You'll Answer

December 19th, 2008 1:20 AM
For the second time since Election Day, CNN's Campbell Brown admonished president-elect Barack Obama for his poor press conference etiquette.During the "Cutting Through the Bull" segment of Wednesday's "No Bias, No Bull," Brown expressed  anger with Obama's treatment of a Chicago Tribune reporter the previous day saying it's "all the more surprising that you could act testy, annoyed, or…

Trump On Madoff Mess: Millionaires of the World, Unite

December 18th, 2008 4:59 PM
Poor schlumps out there know how to get along with next to nothing.  But these were multi-millionaires that Bernard Madoff wiped out: show some sympathy!  That was The Donald's daffy drift in speaking to Wolf Blitzer on this afternoon's Situation Room on CNN.View video here.DONALD TRUMP: They put 100% of their money with this character, this sleazebag.  100% and they're wiped out. And you know,…

Cafferty E-mail: Bush is a Stupid Buffoon, Cheney an Evil Sociopath

December 18th, 2008 10:27 AM
Aside from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, there is possibly no greater and more outspoken media critic of the Bush administration than CNN's Jack Cafferty who on Wednesday read some of the most disrespectful and disgraceful viewer e-mail messages about our nation's President and Vice President you could possibly imagine an American television network airing.In fact, the terrorist supporting al Jazeera…

Air America Host, Time's Mark Halperin Okay With Obama's Delay

December 16th, 2008 4:53 PM
On CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s “No Bias, No Bull” program on Monday evening, New York Daily News columnist Errol Louis and Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin agreed that there was no problem with the transition team of President-Elect Barack Obama delaying the release of their internal findings into their contacts with the office of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Louis saw “nothing…