Exactly how wide is the gulf between elite media opinion and public opinion on matters of politics?
Let’s put it this way, after Sen. Barack Obama falsely accused Sen. John McCain of saying…
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August 3rd, 2008 12:49 PM | Soren Dayton
August 2nd, 2008 7:47 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Countdown on MSNBC, liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, also a Princeton University professor of economics, informed viewers of what he believes is "…
August 2nd, 2008 1:26 PM | Brad Wilmouth
In light of Keith Olbermann's recent mockery of elderly television viewers as being in the "65 to dead" demographic, two years ago on MSNBC's Countdown show, Olbermann seemed to rejoice at the…
August 2nd, 2008 10:55 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown, during the show's "Worst Person in the World" segment, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tried to characterize the ratings of his show as more admirable than than those of FNC's…
August 1st, 2008 3:44 PM | Jeff Poor
Rep. Robert Wexler is getting desperate.
After several media outlets discovered the Democratic congressman from Florida uses his in-laws' house in a Florida retirement community to meet…
July 31st, 2008 8:20 PM | Noel Sheppard
The good folks at MSNBC's "Hardball" might be pointing fingers at presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama for playing the race card with his response to a new ad by the McCain…
July 31st, 2008 6:01 PM | Peter Sasso
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it fall, did it really fall? If a supporter of a campaign scores a vitriolic tune and nobody reports the lyrics, does the song matter? MSNBC hopes not…
July 31st, 2008 12:19 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann claimed that pro-gun groups like the NRA "are trying to increase deaths by gun," as he used his "Worst Person" segment to attack a gun…
July 30th, 2008 5:30 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
During the 1 p.m. hour of the July 30 edition of MSNBC’s “News Live,” host Andrea Mitchell once again defended Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), this time in regards to Sen. John…
July 30th, 2008 11:18 AM | Noel Sheppard
You can now include the extremely liberal Dana Milbank in the growing list of Washington Post reporters seemingly disgusted with the arrogance of presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack…
July 29th, 2008 10:12 PM | Brent Baker
In the midst of a campaign in which conservatives fret John McCain is missing opportunities by staying to the left on too many issues, Chrystia Freeland, the U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial…
July 29th, 2008 10:32 AM | Noel Sheppard
NewsBusters has reported for years how the ultra-left wing website Daily Kos will publish all kinds of hateful articles about conservative politicians and figures without ever deleting or editing…
July 29th, 2008 7:19 AM | Mark Finkelstein
UPDATE: The original version of this item reported Joe Scarborough's statement, as transcribed below, that there were no Republicans on his MSNBC staff, with executive producer Chris Licht…
July 28th, 2008 9:58 PM | Brent Baker
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams acted as a conduit for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's propaganda message of conciliation as NBC Nightly News led Monday with about seven minutes of…
July 28th, 2008 5:44 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
The media have been barking up the wrong tree for while, insisting the economy is in recession when we’ve yet to have even one quarter of negative GDP growth.
…July 28th, 2008 10:58 AM | Tim Graham
Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello reported Friday that NBC is talking to Rosie O'Donnell again, but this time about putting her in prime time with a variety show, as if she was Carol Burnett…
July 27th, 2008 8:33 PM | Brent Baker
Before moving on from “Barack Obama's Magical Media Tour” of the past week, a look at an Associated Press story so over the top that the Washington Posts's Howard Kurtz on Friday cited it as an…
July 27th, 2008 9:30 AM | Warner Todd Huston
I do believe that liberals in this country have their tin foils hats on way too tight these days. At least, it's easy to think that over the new national conspiracy theory that lefties are all…
July 26th, 2008 7:24 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing on the Monday, July 21, Tonight Show, MSNBC host Chris Matthews defended his declaration from last February that a Barack Obama speech caused him to feel a "thrill going up my leg," and…
July 25th, 2008 8:02 PM | Noel Sheppard
In the lead up to the March 2003 Iraq invasion, CBS's Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein.
Now, less than four months before America goes to the polls to elect a new president, NBC's Brian…
July 25th, 2008 5:44 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
While many in the media rather enjoyed Obama’s speech in Berlin, particularly CBS which declared that it “confirmed his rock star status,” many conservatives felt that this…
July 25th, 2008 3:48 PM | Scott Whitlock
During a joint press conference between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour bizarrely connected the Illinois senator with a 2005 comment by then-Interior…
July 25th, 2008 2:50 PM | Jeff Poor
If only Congress would get its act together, all our current energy woes would be solved.
That seemed to be CNN’s take on the energy bill in a July 25 segment. CNN…
July 25th, 2008 9:20 AM | NB Staff
Topics in today's show include: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace slamming MSNBC, a prison reality show, Lindsay Lohan's leggings and "Rock of Love" star Bret Michaels.
Watch the episode in the…
July 25th, 2008 7:27 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Are reporters in the business of reporting fact or rumor? Andrea Mitchell, for one, doesn't scruple to circulate "scuttlebutt" that if true would be deeply damaging to John McCain. Barack Obama'…