Trifecta: Politico, WSJ and AP Report Obama Crowd in Wis. of About

September 23rd, 2012 11:59 PM
Saturday, Joel Pollak at Breitbart's Big Journalism observed that President Obama is having some trouble drawing big crowds these days, and that the national press is exaggerating the turnout at his events. He specifically cited the situation this weekend where Politico and the Wall Street Journal claimed there were "18,000 people inside a 5,000-seat arena at an Obama event in Milwaukee on…

MSNBC’S Donny Deutsch and Martin Bashir Proclaim The Election Over

September 19th, 2012 12:25 PM
Stick a fork in Romney, he's done! The election's over! According to hard-left MSNBC contributors anyway. It's just a matter of time before Chris Matthews demands a prime slot on the president's inaugural ball dance card. Speaking on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch ridiculously proclaimed the race over and asked regarding the first presidential debate, “What do you think's going to…

MSNBC's Michael Eric Dyson: Republicans 'Watch More Porn and Go to Mor

September 17th, 2012 5:31 PM
MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson made a comment on the Martin Bashir show Monday that left the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart totally speechless. Talking about Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's position on abortion and marriage, Dyson said, "He needs to speak to his fellow Republicans whose numbers ain’t so hot in that regard, and who watch more porn and go to more strip…

NYT Columnists Gone Wild: Dowd Accused of Anti-Semitic Tropes, Kristof

September 17th, 2012 12:19 PM
Has Maureen Dowd's documented hatred of Paul Ryan pushed her over the edge? The New York Times columnist is accused by several pundits of employing anti-Semitic tropes in her latest Sunday Review column, the charmingly titled "Neocons Slither Back," currently the #1 e-mailed Times story as of noon Monday. Meanwhile, Times columnist Nicholas Kristof harshly criticized Mitt Romney and accused…

Is Time Completely Rewriting Its Interviews

September 14th, 2012 5:50 PM
Time magazine offered its Ten Questions interview to “fashion’s new phenom Prabal Gurung” in the September 17 edition, and asked him to load up the “wows” for how Michelle Obama honored him and his native country by wearing his dresses. Par for the course for Time, yes? Here’s where it gets odd. The video of Time writer Feifei Sun’s interview with Gurung is substantially different than the…

Reporters So Busy Covering Ryan's Marathon Error They Ignore Multiple

September 13th, 2012 1:27 PM
While virtually everyone in the so-called mainstream press is hammering GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan regarding what he calls an “honest mistake” about his time while running in a marathon 22 years ago, only one major network has reported an embarrassing flub President Obama made over the weekend -- twice. If you want to learn any aspect of the controversy involving the Wisconsin…

NYT's Krugman: 'You've Got to Be Kidding' if You Think Obama Should Ha

September 11th, 2012 5:32 PM
James Taranto, who puts together the Wall Street Journal feature Best of the Web, was in excellent form Monday on the shifting standards of a certain economist turned partisan hack columnist who writes for the New York Times. When it comes to Republican presidents, four years is plenty of time to deal with inherited economic problems, but when it comes to Obama, "you've got to be kidding" that…

Media Accuse Ryan of Lying About…Mountain Climbing

September 11th, 2012 3:57 PM
During any presidential campaign, wild accusations fly back and forth between the GOP and the Democratic Party, but the liberal media hit a new low last Wednesday when they made the ridiculous assertion that Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has been lying about the number of times he's hiked Colorado's mountainsides. With the economy and jobless rate in the nation in terrible…

Norah O’Donnell Scolds Ryan: Misstating Your Marathon Time Is Like G

September 9th, 2012 3:09 PM
We really have entered an alternate reality. On CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, substitute host Norah O'Donnell not only asked Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan about how he could have gotten his marathon time wrong from 22 years ago, she actually equated the error to Al Gore saying he invented the internet (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NYT's Trip Gabriel Makes 'Mountain' Out of a Molehill Over Latest Dem

September 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
New York Times campaign reporter Trip Gabriel joined vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and his brother Tobin on a plane above the Rocky Mountains – and devoted a full story to probing Ryan's claims on climbing them, in Friday's "For Ryan, Perks Of Joining Ticket Can Be Weighty." Gabriel rode with the paper's trendy passion for partisan-slanted "fact-checking," but at an even more petty…

Paul Ryan Schools Piers Morgan: Obama Has 'Made Things Worse

September 5th, 2012 9:26 PM
When CNN's Piers Morgan argued that President Obama needed time to fix the economy, Paul Ryan answered him on Wednesday that Obama slowed what should have been a quick recovery. "You have to give President Obama a bit of time just to get things back on track," the liberal CNN host pushed. Ryan countered that "usually when we have a deep recession in America, we come bounding out of it with…

Chris Matthews Told Ryan in 2010 'We Are Trying to Match With Obama th

September 5th, 2012 6:33 PM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews went on a rant early Wednesday morning about Republicans accusing President Obama of trying to bring European socialism to America. Unfortunately, the aging Hardball host conveniently forgot that he basically said the same thing to Paul Ryan in 2010 (video follows with transcripts and commentary):

Will Media Fact-Check Castro's Line About Romney Telling Students to B

September 5th, 2012 1:10 PM
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro was quite a media hit at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. Given all the scrutiny presenters got for their addresses at last week's Republican National Convention, one has to wonder if the press will fact-check the following section of Castro's speech (photo courtesy MTC/Newscom):

Chuck Schumer Ridiculously Asserts Mainstream Media Placed Halo Over P

September 5th, 2012 10:35 AM
Apparently the mainstream media have a conservative bias towards Congressman Paul Ryan.  Such is the ludicrous assertion held by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaking on CBS This Morning following the first night of the Democratic National Convention.  First, Schumer claimed that Ryan, “creates this halo for himself that he’s a budget reducer” then goes on to claim that, “the mainstream media…