Leno: Obama Knows Nothing Because They Moved ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t T

May 23rd, 2013 6:01 PM
Jay Leno continued his humorous attacks on Barack Obama Wednesday. During a series of opening monologue jokes about the various scandals plaguing the Administration, the NBC Tonight Show host said that with all the President appears not to know about what's going on around him, it means "They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."

CBS Spotlights 'Firestorm' Over 'Obama's War on Journalism'; ABC Punts

May 23rd, 2013 1:02 PM
The Big Three networks coverage so far of the Justice Department's questionable investigation of Fox News' James Rosen has followed a similar pattern to that of their coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case. Jan Crawford's report on Thursday's CBS This Morning was the first full report on growing controversy on ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts. NBC briefly covered the investigation…

Fournier: Obama's 'Jihad Against the Press' Makes it More Likely We'll

May 23rd, 2013 10:07 AM
With each passing day, it's becoming clearer and clearer that many of the current White House resident's followers in the media are really angered by his attack on the Associated Press and Fox News's James Rosen. On MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday, the National Journal's Ron Fournier said of this issue, "You can't make journalism a conspiracy...The irony here is that President Obama, by raising…

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):

Liberal Journalists Alter, Shear Rip White House Over AP Scandal

May 22nd, 2013 5:18 PM
Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt featured two liberal journalists on his nightly program this week, and both joined the chorus of media outrage at the Obama administration over the Justice Department’s recent AP probe. Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Alter called Eric Holder’s explanation of the probe “pathetic” and suggested that President Obama should “apologize to journalists” over the…

New York Times: Obama Administration 'Threatening Fundamental Freedoms

May 22nd, 2013 3:35 PM
"With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news." So shockingly began a New York Times editorial Wednesday.

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Acknowledges Obama’s Contempt for the Press, B

May 22nd, 2013 1:50 PM
Even ABC News’s Cokie Roberts recognizes that the Obama administration has far overstepped its constitutional boundaries in obtaining the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The political commentator denounced the Obama/Holder Justice Department’s actions on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, claiming the overreach was “appalling.” Roberts later criticized the administration’s…

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."

Leno: Obama Holds Press Conferences to Find Out What’s Going on Not

May 22nd, 2013 11:10 AM
Jay Leno on Tuesday continued his humorous attacks on the current White House resident. The NBC Tonight Show host concluded a series of opening monologue jokes targeting the administration saying, “That's why President Obama holds press conferences: not to explain what's going on, to find out what's going on” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Chuck Todd: Obama Administration Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism

May 22nd, 2013 10:18 AM
As more revelations surface concerning the White House targeting press members, more and more of Barack Obama's fans in the media are breaking ranks. Count NBC's chief White House correspondent amongst them, for on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday, Chuck Todd actually said, "They want to criminalize journalism" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Juan Williams: The Obama Administration Has Criminalized Journalism

May 21st, 2013 5:53 PM
On Tuesday's Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor and Emmy-winning journalist Juan Williams accused the Obama Justice Department of having "criminalized journalism" by investigating Fox News correspondent James Rosen. Williams claimed that such probing by the administration “makes it difficult for journalists to do business” and posed the question, “How do you do journalism if you are…

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.

WashPost's Pincus Steadfastly Defends Obama/Holder DOJ's Handling of A

May 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
At this point it's become abundantly clear that the Obama/Holder Justice Department went overboard in its overzealous, subpoena-happy probe of Associated Press journalists. We also know from the Washington Post's reporting, that the administration was peeved about the timing of the AP story in question, not so much the content, and that the AP's president is on record slamming the  DOJ for an "…

AP Waits Until Carney Responds to WSJ Story on IG's IRS Tea Party-Targ

May 20th, 2013 7:33 PM
Well, it looks like I was right earlier this afternoon when I thought that the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, was among those holding off on reporting the Wall Street Journal's Sunday evening disclosure that Kathryn Ruemmler, the head of the Office of the White House Counsel, "learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency…