Charles Krauthammer Schools Jeanne Cummings: Gingrich Won in SC Becaus

January 28th, 2012 10:51 AM
Bloomberg's Jeanne Cummings got a much-needed lesson Friday about money not being everything in politics. After she claimed on PBS's Inside Washington that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's revival in the race was all due to multimillion dollar donations from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly replied that the former Speaker's…

Charles Krauthammer Schools Margaret Carlson on Payroll Tax Holidays

December 24th, 2011 8:01 AM
Like so many of her liberal media colleagues, Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson believes cutting payroll taxes for a short period of time stimulates the economy. Fortunately for viewers of PBS's Inside Washington, when she tried to make this absurd conclusion Friday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer was there to give her and others on the panel a much-needed education (video follows with…

Krauthammer: Obama's Speech 'Classic Example of How Little it Takes to

December 10th, 2011 10:35 AM
As NewsBusters reported, the media gushed and fawned over President Obama's speech last Tuesday likening himself to Teddy Roosevelt. On Friday's Inside Washington, Charles Krauthammer called this "a classic example of how little it takes to stir the erogenous zones of liberals" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Charles Krauthammer Shuts Up Nina Totenberg: 'I'm in the Middle of a S

November 26th, 2011 9:47 AM
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and NPR's Nina Totenberg had a humorous exchange on PBS's Inside Washington Friday. After mocking Totenberg for the "surprise" of her giving Democrats on the Super Committee credit, Krauthammer scolded her for constantly interrupting him saying, "I'm in the middle of a sentence, and I am going to get to the end, and I will let you know with punctuation…

Krauthammer Scolds Shields and Totenberg: 'What Planet Are You Guys Li

November 19th, 2011 1:08 PM
Charles Krauthammer justifiably lost his patience with his fellow panelists on PBS's Inside Washington Friday evening. No matter how many times he explained that Republicans last week proposed a revenue increase that Democrats refused, PBS's Mark Shields and NPR's Nina Totenberg couldn't seem to grasp this simple concept leading Krauthammer to ask, "What planet are you guys living on...I’ve…

NPR's Nina Totenberg: There Was Nothing Political About Obama Giving S

November 19th, 2011 11:20 AM
NPR's Nina Totenberg on Friday exhibited what Hillary Clinton would call a willing suspension of disbelief. When the subject of failed solar company Solyndra came up on PBS's Inside Washington, Totenberg actually said with a straight face, "There is no evidence that there was any political anything about the awarding of this contract" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Really Lazy AP, NYT Fail to Report Obama's 'We've Been a Little Bit La

November 14th, 2011 8:56 PM
On Saturday, at a Q&A session at the APEC CEO Business Summit in Hawaii, President Barack Obama, when asked about impediments to foreign investment in the United States, responded in part: "... we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted -- well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and…

Totenberg: 'Don't Make Me the Spokesman for the White House'; Krautham

October 22nd, 2011 1:12 PM
There was a truly marvelous exchange between syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and NPR's Nina Totenberg on Friday's "Inside Washington." When Krauthammer pressed her on why President Obama didn't embrace the Bowles-Simpson plan to reduce the budget deficit, Totenberg replied, "Don’t make me the spokesman for the White House," leading him to deliciously ask, "What would be new about…

Politico's Evan Thomas: U.S. a 'Great Giant' That Was Going to 'Stomp

October 7th, 2011 10:33 PM
On PBS's Inside Washington on Friday, the Politico's Evan Thomas - formerly of Newsweek - characterized the United States as a "great giant" that would go on to "stomp on" other countries after the 9/11 attacks. After substitute host Mark Shields introduced a segment on the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan by asking how history would "judge" the military operation, he turned to…

Krauthammer: Ponzi Would Be Social Security Commissioner If New Entran

September 17th, 2011 1:17 AM
For several weeks, NewsBusters has been reporting that despite protestations from liberal media members, Texas governor Rick Perry is 100 percent correct when he calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme. On PBS's "Inside Washington" Friday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer put a fine point on this saying, "If Charles Ponzi had had the force of the law forcing people, new entrants, into…

Krauthammer Schools WaPo's King on Obama: He'd Be a Good Professor But

September 10th, 2011 10:28 AM
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and the Washington Post's Colby King got into a heated debate about Barack Obama on Friday's "Inside Washington." After King compared the current White House resident to Harry Truman, Krauthammer struck back with a list of Obama's shortcomings concluding, "He would be a good professor...He can do a lot of things, but run the United States he can't" (…

Krauthammer: Obama Is 'President Zero - Zero Economic Expansion, Zero

September 3rd, 2011 12:55 PM
Charles Krauthammer on Fox News's "Special Report" Friday offered Republicans a 2012 campaign slogan to defeat Barack Obama. "President Zero: zero economic expansion, zero jobs, zero ideas on how to cure the economy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Mark Shields: Romney 'Has More Positions Than the Kama Sutra

September 3rd, 2011 12:31 PM
Although he attributed it to Mike Huckabee, Mark Shields on PBS's "Inside Washington" said Friday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "has more positions than the Kama Sutra." This led Charles Krauthammer to humorously scold, "I thought this was a family show...There are children watching" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Krauthammer: Obama 'Debasing Currency of Presidential Authority' Like

September 3rd, 2011 11:18 AM
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday said one of those truly memorable lines he comes up with from time to time. Speaking about Barack Obama's decision to give his jobs creation plan before a joint session of Congress next week, Krauthammer told the host of PBS's "Inside Washington," "The same way the Federal Reserve is debasing our real currency he’s debasing the currency of…