As part of a team of New York Times reporters fact-checking the presidential debate Sunday morning in Concord, N.H. , White House reporter Jackie Calmes once again baselessly claimed that expensive Obama-care is actually a money-saver, claiming GOP candidate Mitt Romney was false to assert otherwise. But the history of government cost projections (Medicare, anyone?) strongly suggest Calmes is wrong. (After the GOP took the November 2010 elections, Calmes confidently stated : 'Republicans also say they will try to deny money to put Mr. Obama's new health care law into effect, though they have not made clear what they would... continue reading
On Monday's Today, NBC's Matt Lauer dwelt on an "extremely negative" attack on frontrunner Mitt Romney from a super PAC that supports Newt Gingrich and asked the former Speaker, "Can't you already hear the ads from President Obama's team saying this is a guy whose own party members called him ... a predator and ruthless? " Back on January 4, CBS similarly played up Gingrich calling Romney a "liar." Midway through the interview, the anchor noted that the super PAC, "Winning the Future," attacks Romney as a " greedy, ruthless corporate raider who has slashed jobs for profit ." He... continue reading
ABC's GOP presidential debate on Saturday overflowed with liberal questions. Of the 48 queries by George Stephanopoulos, Diane Sawyer and others, 20 came from the left, three were from the right and 25 were neutral or horse race questions. A whopping 25 percent (12 questions) revolved around contraception-related subjects or gay rights. Although birth control isn't exactly a pressing 2012 issue (especially in a tough economy), George Stephanopoulos wasted seven questions on contraception. The former Democratic operative began by noting Rick Santorum's belief that there is no constitutional "right to privacy." He added, "And following from that, he believes that... continue reading
Out the 41 questions directed to the six Republican presidential candidates during Sunday's NBC News/Facebook debate on Meet the Press, 25 of them were from the left , 13 questions were neutral, mainly about the campaign horse race and electability, and only three questions pressed the candidates from the right. Early in the debate, moderator David Gregory demanded to know how much "pain" the candidates would inflict upon Americans by cutting spending. Newt Gingrich called out Gregory for the slanted query: "David, you know, I, I find it fascinating that very, very highly paid Washington commentators and Washington analysts love... continue reading
Sad news came Sunday (January 8) that Tony Blankley, the long-time leading conservative thinker, author and columnist, who served House Speaker Newt Gingrich and later ran the editorial pages for the Washington Times , passed away at age 63 . Back on Thursday, March 27, 2003 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, Blankley pitched in at the last-minute to help us when a planned speaker (Rush Limbaugh) was unable to attend. At the MRC's ' DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2002 ,' Blankley enthusiastically bound on stage to accept in jest the '... continue reading
In pointing out how Barack Obama only won in 2008 by a slim margin, so this year's Republican nominee doesn't have to win over all that many Americans, ABC's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning listed the media amongst the factors 'going' for Obama four years ago: 'You had the media, perhaps, tilting on the scales a little bit.' That's an understatement, but a noteworthy realization when it comes from the chief White House correspondent for a major network. From the roundtable on the Sunday, January 8 This Week with George Stephanopoulos produced in Manchester, New Hampshire: JAKE TAPPER: The fundamental... continue reading
On Friday's CBS Evening News , anchor Scott Pelley tagged Rick Santorum as the "very conservative Pennsylvania Senator" as he introduced a full report on the GOP presidential candidate's views on gay rights, abortion, and contraception, with correspondent Dean Reynolds warning that the GOP candidate's views on social issues that helped him in Iowa "have energized his opponents here in New Hampshire." After noting a recent poll shows Santorum "coming on strong" in the Granite State since his near win in the Iowa caucuses, Pelley, applied the "very conservative" label to the Pennsylvania Republican: The very conservative former Pennsylvania Senator... continue reading
During Saturday's Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, hosted by ABC, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos bizarrely repeatedly pressed candidate Mitt Romney on whether the former Massachusetts governor believes the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a 1965 ruling that a constitutional right to privacy bars states from banning contraception. Romney, befuddled by the off the wall nature of the question on such an issue that is not on any state's legislative agenda, eventually observed that it was a "silly thing" for the ABC co-moderator to ask such an irrelevant question. Stephanopoulos's odd persistence which dragged on the discussion with Romney for more... continue reading
During Saturday's Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire hosted by ABC, two of the three co-moderators - World News anchor Diane Sawyer and local ABC affiliate anchor Josh McElveen - posed questions about gay rights issues to candidates Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney. Gingrich ended up confronting ABC's choice of questions by criticizing the media's general double standard in asking questions that are sympathetic to a liberal gay rights point of view while not showing sympathy for how religious organizations have been harmed at times by gay rights activism and anti-Christian "bigotry" from the left. Reading... continue reading
Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, Politico 's Evan Thomas - formerly of Newsweek - made claims about the existence of "angry, white, middle class" men in the Republican Party who are "seething." And fellow panel member and Washington Post columnist Colby King accused GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum of "pandering" to a racist view "that black people are just shiftless, lazy and hands out" because of a recent comment in which Santorum appeared to bring up "black people" who receive welfare benefits, although the former Pennsylvania Senator denies that he used the word "black."... continue reading