How Network News Has Twisted Obama’s War on Religion Into a Conserva

February 28th, 2012 5:06 PM
It’s been nearly three weeks since President Obama faced a political backlash over his plan to force religious institutions to bow to government bureaucrats when it came to supplying birth control coverage to their employees. Since then, the liberal media — led by the broadcast networks — have helped re-script the story to suit the President’s political needs. Instead of a story about the…

NYT's Charles Blow Rants: 'Rick Santorum Scares the Bejesus Out of Peo

February 28th, 2012 3:15 PM
According to liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow, "Rick Santorum scares the bejesus out of people" and could never be elected President. The journalist appeared on MSNBC, Tuesday, to dismiss the idea that the Republican could appeal to independents, should he get the nomination. Blow, who just last week made an ugly, anti-Mormon remark about Mitt Romney, did his best to portray…

New York Magazine’s John Heilemann: Santorum Has Tourette's on Socia

February 28th, 2012 1:00 PM
Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, John Heilemann introduced a new level of attack on Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum by snarking that the conservative former senator has Tourette's syndrome.   In response to host Joe Scarborough assessing the Santorum candidacy as an amateur operation, Heilemann fired back with the following absurd and disgusting comment, “The…

Bill Keller: 'Santorum Sounds Like He's Creeping Up On Christian Versi

February 28th, 2012 9:41 AM
Willful ignorance combined with anti-Christian bigotry: not a pretty sight. Bill Keller, former New York Times executive editor turned Times columnist, put both on display on today's Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough played a clip of Santorum criticizing President Obama and Hillary Clinton for at times speaking of "freedom of worship" rather than "freedom of religion." Santorum made his point…

Diane Sawyer 'Couldn't Believe' Santorum Challenged JFK on Separation

February 27th, 2012 8:43 PM
In the wake of new sexual revelations concerning John F. Kennedy and a nineteen-year-old White House intern, you would think media members would shy away from putting the former president on a pedestal concerning his religious beliefs. Yet there was ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer Monday telling George Stephanopoulos of his previous day's interview with Republican presidential candidate…

NYT's Maureen Dowd on the GOP's 'Uncharitable Nasties' and the 'Barkin

February 27th, 2012 7:28 PM
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went after the “uncharitable nasties” in the Republican field in her Sunday column, “Ghastly Outdated Party,” and for good measure accused Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida of stealing the election for his brother George in 2000. The contenders in the Hester Prynne primaries are tripping over one another trying to be the most radical, unreasonable and insane…

MSNBC's Wagner Deliberately Distorts Santorum Swipe at Obama to Be Ant

February 27th, 2012 4:20 PM
If you were to believe MSNBC's Alex Wagner -- which, I'm sure you don't -- GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is anti-college, believing the acquisition of higher education to be a mark of snobbery. "Is it hypocritical, given Rick Santorum and the fact that he holds not one, not two, but three degrees -- more than the president, -- for him to allege that having a higher education is a…

Maddow on GOP Debate in Arizona Exceeds Her Obligatory Dishonesty

February 27th, 2012 3:18 PM
The journalism watchdogs over at "PolitiFact" don't do justice to their name, Rachel Maddow frequently complains. This from an MSNBC pundit whose claims about Republicans are best understood as "politifiction." (video after page break)

Mika Brzezinski Suggests Santorum Only Respects His Own Religion

February 27th, 2012 12:26 PM
In a discussion Monday about the recent accidental Koran burning by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski disgustingly suggested that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum doesn’t respect non-Christian religions. The former Senator commented in response to the burning that, “I think you highlight it when you apologize for it. You make it sound like there was…

Billy Crystal Calls GOP Candidates 'Dark Knight, an American Psycho an

February 26th, 2012 9:26 PM
NewsBusters reported Friday that Oscars host Billy Crystal intended to mock GOP "idiots" during Sunday's awards presentation. Roughly forty-five minutes in, Crystal was true to his word taking a cheap shot at the Republican presidential candidates (video follows with transcript):

Rick Santorum Scolds David Gregory for Focusing on Social Issues

February 26th, 2012 6:49 PM
Rick Santorum had a bit of a testy exchange with NBC's David Gregory on Sunday's Meet the Press. After Gregory asked if Santorum was going to "rail against areas of our culture that [he] disagree[s] with" if elected president, the former senator smartly replied, "It's so funny. I get the question all the time, 'Why are you talking so much about these social issues'...as people ask me about…

For Schieffer, GOP ‘Too Far to the Right’ and Too Obsessed with Bi

February 26th, 2012 6:15 PM
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, pressed Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over how Republicans have moved “too far to the right” to win before cuing up Maryland’s Democratic Governor, Martin O’Malley, to agree while fretting “we’ve spent the last couple of weeks here talking about running against birth control for goodness sake” – as if the media have…

Howard Kurtz on Maher's Obama Donation: 'There’d Be a Bigger Fuss if

February 26th, 2012 2:32 PM
As NewsBusters reported Friday, HBO's Bill Maher recently gave $1 million to pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA Action. On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, host Howard Kurtz correctly observed, "There’d be a bigger fuss if comedian Dennis Miller gave a million dollars to a pro-Romney or a Santorum Super PAC" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

AP Nonsense on Santorum: 'Misidentified' As Evangelical -- By Time Mag

February 26th, 2012 1:52 AM
An AP report by Rachel Zoll brought to our attention by a NewsBusters tipster headlines a truly weird assertion about GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum ("Santorum benefits from mistaken religious identity"), and submits as evidence an item in a Christian magazine which in turn has its own weird headline ("Catholic Politicians You Thought Were Evangelical"). It turns out that the…