Joe Muto, the self-described “weasel,” “traitor” and “sell-out” who for a few days last week was the “Fox News Mole” for Gawker.com until FNC identified him, disclosed on CNN’s Reliable Sources that he tried to leave the network but was unable to get hired elsewhere because the rest of the cable news industry “blackballed” him since they presumed anyone who worked for Fox News is “a nut.” Not…
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley was barely able to contain his laughter Wednesday night after playing a clip of President Obama invoking Ronald Reagan on behalf of his “Buffett Rule” tax hike quest. Breaking into a laugh, a baffled Pelley wondered to CBS News political analyst John Dickerson: “So a vote for President Obama is a vote for Ronald Reagan?!” (Watch the video to see Pelley’s…
ABC’s Sunday night tribute to Mike Wallace, who passed away Saturday night, highlighted several swipes at Ronald Reagan, thus, inadvertently or not, painting the “legendary” 60 Minutes correspondent as something less than an impartial journalist. Or maybe ABC News just enjoyed re-playing those hits on the late conservative President. Anchor David Muir began with a clip of Wallace, from either…
When ABC’s Jake Tapper held up Andrew’s Sullivan’s “Forget the Church, Follow Jesus” Newsweek cover story on how, as Tapper described Sullivan’s premise, “American Christianity is in a ‘crisis,’ it’s too focused on politics and policy, too little on spirituality,” Pastor Rick Warren took the opportunity to air “a little personal gripe.” He contended: “I think it’s disingenuous that magazines like…
In Newsweek/The Daily Beast's NewsBeast video show for Monday, March 26, assignment editor/reporter Allison Yarrow reacted to the heart transplant received by former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Can you imagine being that organ donor?...I would never do it. I’d say ‘give me my heart back.’”Yarrow also charged: “He may be one of the most evil people in the world.”Details in a post by Tim Graham on…
Filling in for Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, Norah O’Donnell hit Republican Congressman Paul Ryan from the left, using White House talking points to contend his budget plan helps the rich and hurts the poor, but with her next guest, liberal Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, she simply cued him up to react to Ryan and ruminate on whether ObamaCare will be a campaign issue.“The current tax rate…
If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would
realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats,
actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just very poor...at
explaining” their accomplishments. The assessment from Clooney, who also
declared “the President that I voted for, I’m very proud of,” came in a
Meet the Press online “Press Pass” sit-down…
Another example of how out of touch the Washington press corps are with what is common knowledge amongst conservatives. On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer was flummoxed by Mitt Romney’s contention that Obama officials desire high gas prices:
"Mitt Romney said...that the President actually wanted gas prices to go
up when he was running for President. He also said the President should…
From Politico Live, about 9:45 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 13, the night of the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, a rant from Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris – a Washington Post veteran – justifying why he assigned a staffer to write a post which was mildly titled: “How much do voters know?” (Details in a NewsBusters post: “Politico’s Alex Burns: Voters Are ‘Forrest Gump-like’, Lack ‘Most…
Catching up with an unintentionally funny moment from Tuesday night’s (March 13) Republican primary coverage, MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney, who was off-camera at the moment, noticeably exhaled and then loudly groaned “ugghh!” upon hearing the exit poll determined a plurality of women in Alabama voted for Rick Santorum. A few minutes earlier she had bemoaned how “this women’s vote really…
