Networks Tout Obama's 'Renewed Focus on Transparency' in War on Terror

May 23rd, 2013 11:58 AM
While the three network morning shows on Thursday all promoted President Obama's "renewed focus on transparency" in an upcoming national security speech, none of the broadcasts made any mention of the administration's deception in the ongoing scandal surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi. On NBC's Today, White House correspondent Peter Alexander declared that Obama would be "…

Dennis Miller: 'The American Media is in an Abusive Relationship With

May 22nd, 2013 9:51 PM
"Let's face facts: the American media is in an abusive relationship with Obama." So marvelously said Dennis Miller on Fox New's the O'Reilly Factor in a discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal Wednesday (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

WashPost's Colby King Falsely Charges Colleague Krauthammer with Calli

May 22nd, 2013 5:45 PM
Defending the indefensible can make a liberal journalist a little prickly. How else do you explain Washington Post columnist Colbert I. "Colby" King's specious attack on his fellow Post colleague and Inside Washington panelist Charles Krauthammer this weekend? It all happened when Krauthammer responded to a Post editorial, published in Thursday’s paper, which asserted that UN Ambassador Susan…

MSNBC's Hayes Sees 'Invented Scandal Mad Libs' in Boehner's Critique o

May 22nd, 2013 5:33 PM
On the Tuesday, May 21, All In with Chris Hayes show on MSNBC, host Hayes mocked House Speaker John Boehner for calling for the American people "to know what the truth is" about recent Obama scandals, as the MSNBC host referred to the Ohio Republican's speech as "a little invented scandal Mad Libs." Hayes took a break from Oklahoma tornado coverage for a little political news:

Howard Dean Dismisses Benghazi Scandal as ‘Laughable Joke

May 22nd, 2013 1:21 PM
Appearing on CNBC’s “Kudlow Report” with Larry Kudlow, former Democratic Party presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean dismissed the controversy surrounding the Benghazi terror attack as “ridiculous” and a “laughable joke,” The Blaze reported Tuesday.   “This is about issues that are important to the American people,” said RNC communications director Sean Spicer.

Letterman: 'Obama's in So Much Trouble Politically He's Thinking of Ki

May 22nd, 2013 11:53 AM
As NewsBusters reported last week, even David Letterman is now telling jokes about Barack Obama. The CBS Late Show host continued to do so Tuesday saying, "He's in so much trouble politically, the President, he's thinking about killing bin Laden again."

NB ToonsDay: The Buck Never Got Here Edition

May 21st, 2013 1:37 PM
This week's batch of cartoons for the NB ToonsDay feature continues to look at President Obama's trifecta of scandals and his buck-never-got-here defense, particularly on the IRS investigation. Also tackled, the Obama/Holder DOJ's attack on freedom of the press vis-a-vis their investigation of the Associated Press and Fox News reporter Jim Rosen.

Politico: Benghazi-focused CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's 'Computers

May 21st, 2013 12:07 PM
Dylan Byers of Politico reports “Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.” "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months. But I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've…

NBC's Gregory Scolds GOP for Comparing Obama to Nixon

May 21st, 2013 10:05 AM
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama administration and those that occurred under President Nixon: "Would you call on Republicans who talk about impeaching the President or who talk about this as a Nixonian-style cover-up with regard to…

But of Course: For Bloomberg's Al Hunt, 'Scandal' Is a 'Misnomer' for

May 20th, 2013 10:52 PM
Old dog, same old tricks. At Bloomberg Views, Al Hunt, formerly "the executive editor of Bloomberg News, directing coverage of the Washington bureau," referred to the controversies swirling around the White House as "faux scandals" and insisted that ... wait for it ... the Obama administration "is the most scandal-free administration in recent memory." No wonder Bloomberg News developed into…

UPDATED | CNBC’s Harwood: Republicans Might ‘Impede’ Efforts to

May 20th, 2013 5:47 PM
UPDATED: [May 21; 5:15 p.m. EDT | see portion in brackets below the page break] || The liberal media continue their effort to spin the Obama administration right out of trouble. On Saturday’s Today, NBC brought on John Harwood, CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent, to provide some analysis of the three scandals that rocked the administration last week. Harwood, with help from co-anchor Erica…

HuffPost’s Bendery Parrots Obama Talking Points on Benghazi, Claims

May 20th, 2013 3:42 PM
Appearing on Sunday’s edition of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program, Huffington Post correspondent Jennifer Bendery dismissed the Benghazi scandal, telling host John McArdle that “there’s really not a whole lot of ‘there’ there” when it comes to the September 2012 attacks. It’s offensive enough that Bendery abandoned any sense of objective journalism in her interview with McArdle. It’s even…

WashPost 'Express' Tabloid Cover Laments: How Can Obama 'Break from th

May 20th, 2013 12:16 PM
While the the front page of today's Washington Post is actually reporting significant developments in two of Barack Obama's trifecta of scandals, the Washington Post Company-owned free tabloid the Express is busy lamenting if the president will ever get  "A Break from the Storm?" Perhaps, as "advisers say," he "should stage a major economic speech to drown out the noise [emphasis mine] of…

Political Satirist Andy Borowitz: 'Obama Denies Role In Government

May 19th, 2013 8:33 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting this week, even comedians that have been almost universally squeamish about telling jokes about Barack Obama have begun to do so with all the scandals now surrounding this White House. Jumping on the bandwagon Saturday was political satirist Andy Borowitz who published a piece deliciously titled "Obama Denies Role In Government":