Karl Rove Forced To Defend Bush Immigration Policy - On Fox News
May 7th, 2010 10:36 AM
If you listen to the Obama administration, Democrats, and the mainstream media, Fox News is just an echo chamber for Republican talking points as well as a proud defender of former President George W. Bush.Fox fans counter that this is the only television network where liberals and conservatives regularly are allowed to voice their views while getting challenged by hosts and anchors.Thursday's "…
Mara Liasson: The Crisis In Greece Could Eventually Happen In America
May 6th, 2010 11:50 PM
NPR's Mara Liasson on Thursday made a truly astonishing and frightening comment: the crisis in Greece, with the government slashing spending and raising taxes in such a fashion that people are rioting in the streets, could happen in America. "Greece, whose debt is now I think 115 percent of GDP, ours is about 84 now, and they had to impose some tough austerity measures which means tax hikes and…
Bill O'Reilly: Gibbs' Attack On Wendell Goler Start of New War Against
May 6th, 2010 12:50 PM
Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday said the Obama administration has started a new war with Fox News."As you may remember, the President and his team harshly criticized Fox News last fall for not being fair. And that led to a vigorous back and forth between the FNC troop and the White House, which of course jazzed our ratings up a bit. Then things kind of died down." After White House press secretary…
Cavuto Strikes Back At Gibbs For His 'Botched White House Presser
May 6th, 2010 11:11 AM
Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Wednesday struck back at Robert Gibbs for his "botched White House presser." On Tuesday, the White House press secretary took exception with Cavuto inviting former FEMA director Michael Brown on the previous day's "Your World" to offer a conspiracy theory about the Obama administration's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.As NewsBusters reported, Gibbs badly…
FNC's Baier Mentions NB Item on MSNBC's Brewer Hoping Times Square Bom
May 6th, 2010 10:42 AM
NewsBusters contributor Scott Whitlock's May 4 item, "MSNBC's Contessa Brewer 'Frustrated' That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim" was noticed by Fox News Channel "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier, who included a reference to the story and the underlying controversy in his May 5 "Grapevine" segment. [MP3 audio available here; click play on embed at right to watch video] Brewer, a daytime live news…
Did Media's Bush Derangement Syndrome Drive Times Square Bomber To Vio
May 5th, 2010 4:43 PM
There's a cynical theme growing in the media that Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square Saturday, was driven to violence by the loss of his job, the loss of his house, and his anger towards former President George W. Bush.In all of this theorizing -- or what some might call psychobabble -- those making the assertion have yet to ponder if…
Gibbs Scolds Fox for Airing Brownie's Oil Spill Conspiracy Theory, Wil
May 4th, 2010 10:19 PM
A rather strange thing happened Tuesday when Fox News's Wendell Goler tried asking Robert Gibbs a question at the afternoon briefing: he got scolded by the White House press secretary for an interview Neil Cavuto did with former FEMA director Michael Brown the previous day.To set this up, Brown on FNC's "Your World" said he felt the White House intentionally delayed action on the oil spill in the…
Murdoch to Critics: Attacks on 'Powerful' Fox News 'Good For Ratings
May 4th, 2010 6:11 PM
There's no question Fox News is killing its competition in the ratings. And the reason is quite simple according to Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA), the parent company of Fox News. On Fox News Channel's May 4 "Your World with Neil Cavuto," Murdoch credited the success of Fox News to the void it fills as people are concerned about the political direction of the nation. He…
MSNBC President Phil Griffin Finally Comes Clean on Channel's Liberal
May 3rd, 2010 11:57 AM
It took a while, but MSNBC President Phil Griffin has finally admitted and embraced his cable network's hard-left slant. He told the Chicago Tribune that he will try to carve out a niche on the left, hoping some day to rival the Fox News Channel's record-setting ratings.
Not so long ago, Griffin insisted that MSNBC was not "tied to ideology" -- unlike Fox, which simply could not be trusted,…
Poll Finds CNN and Fox Far More Trusted Than All Other News Outlets Co
May 3rd, 2010 10:28 AM
People on the Left squawked in January when a poll was released finding Americans felt the Fox News Network was BY FAR the most trusted name in news.On Sunday, the results of a new online survey were released by a liberal entity somewhat confirming the Public Policy Polling data NewsBusters shared with you earlier in the year.According to the "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll, when asked the question…
Coulter’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Takeaway: Obama a 'Be
May 3rd, 2010 8:11 AM
A lot of the media have been very willing to declare President Barack Obama's monologue at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on May 1 a smashing success. And even though that is a fair assessment, perhaps that's a clue the President chose the wrong occupation. On Fox News Channel's May 2 "Geraldo at Large," in a segment dedicated to Obama's grand performance, Rev. Al Sharpton praised Obama…
FNC Highlights 'Another Outrage' from U.N., Iran on Women's Rights Com
May 3rd, 2010 5:55 AM
On Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, substitute anchor Juan Williams devoted a segment to the recent inclusion of Iran on the United Nations Commission on the Status for Women, despite the draconian treatment of women by government authorities in the nation. The FNC host was reminded of Libya's leadership of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 2003. Williams:Another outrage courtesy of our…
Coulter: I've Never Seen Any Issue Lied About As Much As Ariz. Immigra
May 1st, 2010 7:31 PM
Conservative author Ann Coulter Friday said she's never seen the press lie about any issue as much as they have about the new anti-illegal immigration law in Arizona."Everyone is blatantly lying about what this law does," she told Juan Williams who was filling in for the regular host of Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor.""I've never seen anything, a law lied about, any public issue lied about so much…
Phil Donahue: Learn About Glenn Beck At Daily Kos Website
April 29th, 2010 2:06 AM
Phil Donahue believes people should learn about Fox News's Glenn Beck by watching a video that was posted at the perilously liberal website Daily Kos.In a preview of an interview to be aired on the "Joy Behar Show" Friday, the host asked her guest, "What do you think of this upsurge of the Becks and the Limbaughs and Fox News?"Donahue curiously responded, "You know this kid Daily Kos?...He's got…