George Will Takes on Former Obama Administration Official for Calling Tea Partiers ‘Terrorists’
August 7, 2011 No Comment
As NewsBusters previously reported, former Obama administration car czar Steve Rattner last month called Tea Partiers terrorists on national television. On Sunday's “This Week,” George Will took Rattner on for making such an inflammatory statement (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: People know that you have a debt crisis and you have to deal with it. The question is, and you, I think, I don't know whether you want to say this, but you called the Congressman an economic terrorist. STEVE RATTNER, MSNBC ECONOMIC ANALYST AND FORMER OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CAR CZAR: Not, not the Congressman personally. I did say that I thought those who essentially were trying to hold up and bring the U.S. to the brink of default without being reasonable in their compromise. Look, the President was willing to go more than halfway. He was willing to go 75 percent of the way in a package that would have both revenues… CONGRESSMAN JASON CHAFFETZ, (R-UTAH): No, but we… RATTNER: Wait a minute, let me finish, and spending cuts that would have achieved this $4 trillion grand bargain and would have perhaps averted this downgrade or certainly put us on a better path for fiscal responsibility. But you do have one group of people who are saying no tax increases, never, no how, when in fact the tax decreases under President Bush partly got us in this problem. If you take today’s one and a half trillion dollar deficit, a trillion of it is from excess spending. 400 billion of it is from the Bush tax cuts. Indeed. However, if we went back to the exact same outlays called for in the 2007 budget approved by a Republican Congress, we'd actually have a $200 billion surplus in fiscal 2012 based on OMB's projected tax receipts. If we adjusted 2007's spending for inflation, we'd only have a $43 billion deficit next year thereby totally avoiding S&P's downgrade without raising taxes one cent. But I digress: ROBERTS: The Standard & Poor's report, which, again, I would like to disassociate myself from, but it does say that one of the reasons that they think that the fiscal house will not be in order is because they think the Bush tax cuts will stay in forever and that they think the intransigence of Republicans on this line is one of the reasons that they have downgraded the credit rating. GEORGE WILL: All of the people comparing the Tea Party to suicide bombers, one of whom is Steve here… AMANPOUR: I don't think he said that, did he? WILL: Yes. RATTNER: No. ROBERTS: Terrorists are suicide bombers. WILL: I can read you the transcript from the morning show. RATTNER: I was there. I was there. WILL: I understand, I was watching. And so were we. As NewsBusters reported , here's what Rattner said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on July 29: RATTNER: You know, the problem with this is it's like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, 'either you do it my way, or we're going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.' So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs end. Sounds like Will has a better grasp of what Rattner said that morning, dontcha think? But I again digress: WILL: Anyway, what you, you do know that 95 House Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling as compared to only 66 House Republicans. You do know that 26 Democratic Senators voted against raising the debt ceiling? Indeed. What liberals like Rattner have totally ignored was that if interfering with an agreement to raise the debt ceiling was an act of terrorism, Democrats in both chambers of Congress were far more guilty than Republicans. Alas, one would have to be an impartial journalist to figure that out, and such a thing really doesn't exist anymore – certainly not on MSNBC where Rattner contributes.
Continue reading …Tony Blankley Sarcastically Says to Rude and Dismissive Al Sharpton ‘You Are a Very Polite Gentleman’
August 6, 2011 No Comment
MSNBC's Al Sharpton on Friday was being tremendously rude and dismissive to his guest the always well-mannered Tony Blankley. So discourteous was Sharpton that at the end of the discussion, Blankley sarcastically said, “You are a very polite gentleman” (video follows with transcript and commentary): AL SHARPTON, HOST: What is the plan of the Tea Party to create jobs? TONY BLANKLEY: Look, the Tea Party has two policies they are trying to get. They want to reduce the debt and they want to reduce the size of government. SHARPTON: How do you produce jobs? BLANKLEY: Let me at least finish a couple of sentences. The fundamental problem and the reason why the public is so alienated that the entire political class obviously doesn’t have an answer to these problems, and we are getting more and more scared everyday. And the Tea Party is one voice. They are representing a lot of populist sentiments. You’ve got progressives on the other side having another voice. Nobody is coming up with a convincing policy prescription. That’s why the country is so scared. SHARPTON: Oh, I got it. So I ask you and Joe was quiet and I was quiet, what is the Tea Party’s plan and you just spent the minute telling me about how nobody had a plan. So, I guess the answer is: the Tea Party has no plan. BLANKLEY: I told you — SHARPTON: It reminds me of James Brown my mentor. James Brown used to say, it's like a dog knife, Tony — it just can’t cut it. You’re talking loud and saying nothing. BLANKLEY: You are a very polite gentleman. How pathetic. Is this really what MSNBC is striving for in the 6PM time slot opposite Fox News's highly acclaimed “Special Report?” On Thursday, Report trounced MSNBC Live attaining four times the viewership in the all important demographic aged 25-54. It appears that I'm not the only one in America that thinks this show with the perilously biased Sharpton as host is totally unwatchable.
Continue reading …Richard Wolffe Flat Out Lies About Obama’s Eight Percent Unemployment Pledge
August 6, 2011 No Comment
As the prospects for Barack Obama's reelection decline, American media are getting more and more cavalier with the truth when defending the object of their affection. On Friday, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe not only lied about the adminstration's projection that unemployment wouldn't rise above eight percent if its stimulus package was enacted, he also badly misrepresented the timing of job losses during the recession (video follows with transcript and commentary): RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Now, I’ve also got to pick up something that the Chairman Steele was just saying, though, because, you know, he comes out with a talking point of 8 percent. The president promising it won’t go above that. Actually, it was an economic forecast that they made during transition before huge job losses of January and February of 2009. So, let’s just have a little context here. I know people are scoring political points. It was an economic forecast that they made during transition before huge job losses of January and February of 2009? Hardly. On January 9, 2009, future administration officials Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein published a fourteen page report entitled ” The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan .” On page five they offered the following chart: As you can see, the incoming adminstration projected that if its stimulus package was enacted, unemployment would not go higher than eight percent. As such, this wasn't just some “economic forecast.” This document was the new administration's sales pitch to Congress and the American people to pass ARRP. To depict it any other way is dishonest. But Wolffe wasn't done: MICHAEL STEELE: Yes. WOLFFE: But actually, the big job losses happen in the — AL SHARPTON, HOST: He tried hard. You got to give him the credit. WOLFFE: first couple of months of this presidency. STEELE: Yes. And Obama wrapped himself all around that 8 percent and drove it for as long as he could until he couldn’t fit it anymore and didn’t wear well. WOLFFE: The job losses, Michael, the job losses came in the first few months of this presidency. Really? Let's look at a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Look to you like the “job losses came in the first few months of this presidency?” Quite the contrary, from January to December 2008, the economy shed over 3.6 million jobs, nearly two million in the fourth quarter alone. For Wolffe to claim that any economic projections made in January 2009 couldn't have possibly taken into account just how bad the job losses were because the worst was yet to come is nonsense. As this has been the position the White House has taken in order to deflect blame for its failure to solve the unemployment problem, it is certainly not surprising a shill like Wolffe would be echoing the same disingenuous talking points. But assuming MSNBC wants to have any credibility as a so-called “news” network, it should require that contributors given the title “political analyst” speak the truth whenever they're on the air. Failing this, its analysts are merely acting as White House propagandists and should probably be so designated to allow viewers to properly discount what they're being told.
Continue reading …Rick Santelli Gives MSNBC Guest Ezra Klein a Lesson in Economics on Live TV
August 6, 2011 No Comment
Rick Santelli, the man who’s 2009 firebrand speech on government spending is considered a seminal moment in the Tea Party’s founding, gave MSNBC analyst and Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein a stern lesson in free markets on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday morning. Klein made some assertions about the financial crisis, including that most people agree two economists he cited have “done the best work… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 05/08/2011 20:12 Number of articles : 3
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As NewsBusters reported Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh caught MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a bald-faced lie about him. Later that evening, Maddow apologized for her error but blamed it on- wait for it! – the conservative website World Net Daily and then accused Limbaugh of racism (video follows with transcript and commentary): RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: I’m in a face-off, a huge fight, I’m in a massive brawl with Rush Limbaugh right now. And you know what? Rush Limbaugh wins. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: I thought when President Obama released the second form of the birth certificate, that that would not put this thing to rest, that it was, in fact, based in giving more facts would help? But it did put it to rest. I was wrong. It put it to rest. On the president’s 50th birthday, it is now just the dead-enders and the profiteers at still point still plugging this thing. There is nobody who has any pull in conservative politics or Republican politics at all who is — seriously? Are you sure? Are you sure this is — this is from this week, this is from yesterday? OK. Play it. RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO HOST: Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday. We haven’t seen proof of that. He tells us August 4th. Sorry. MADDOW: Sorry. Apparently it’s not over. (END VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: That was from last night’s show. I was wrong. I lose. Yes, that was Rush Limbaugh on his radio show about not being sure if the president was born. That was not from Rush Limbaugh’s show this past Wednesday, it was, in fact, from his show a year ago, way before the administration produced that second form of President Obama’s birth certificate this past April. A classy, professional anchor would have said she was sorry now, and moved on. Unfortunately, Maddow is neither classy nor professional: MADDOW: The reason I thought this sound bite was from this week because of a report from the pro-birther publication World Net Daily, the link does not work anymore. But here’s a cache version of that report. It was posted just past midnight Wednesday, August 4th, 2011, at 12:15 a.m. And it misattributed the day that Rush Limbaugh’s said those words as today, which would have been Wednesday, August 3rd, the day before the article was posted. The article linked to audio uploaded on August 3rd, 2011 of Rush Limbaugh’s comments — all of which made me believed it was from August 3rd, 2011, audio that I used and wrongly attributed to having been said on August 3rd, 2011. That clip was mislabeled. The article was wrong. And it was wrong of us to not check early World Net Daily’s reporting. I’m very sorry. Here is the cached version of WND's piece, and it does indeed give readers the impression that Limbaugh said this Wednesday and not last year. However, is the far-left MSNBC now relying on far-right publications for its research? Are there really no resources at a division of Comcast, General Electric, and NBC to do some basic fact-checking beyond a website that those associated vehemently disagree with at every turn? And are YouTube video descriptions considered credible enough for MSNBCer's to cite dates from? Doesn't give you much confidence in the veracity of any of their reporting. But Maddow wasn't done making a fool of herself, for instead of leaving it there, she felt the need to attack Limbaugh by accusing him of racism: MADDOW: And if you are worried about overall thesis that Rush Limbaugh is not giving up on trying to use the president’s race against him, this day and age, don’t worry about that thesis. Our error in misdating that tape does not undermine our thesis, as well proven by Mr. Limbaugh on his radio show just this week alone. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LIMBAUGH: I’m not going to apologize to the magic Negro. Grab the magic Negro. We’re going to click and play it again today. The guy is never going to look older than 12. He’s never going to act older than 12. He’s always going to look like a man-child. (INAUDIBLE) saying out there saying he’s earning every gray hair. Earning every gray hair, I can believe it living with her, but not because of the job of being president. Next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that’s what Zimbabwe, that’s what Mugabe did, he took the white people’s farms. That’s the only place that had any money. So, tar baby now has racial (INAUDIBLE). So, we’ve got to stop everything. This is Colorado congressman calls Obama a tar baby. We will take a break and be but don’t tar baby me. Do not tar baby me. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: OK. So, that’s all from, in fact, this week. I stand by my theory that the dead-enders and the profiteers and the people who used the president’s race against him for political purposes are sticking with the birther thing. But I am still sorry I got that other sound bite wrong. That’s why we call it “Department of Corrections.” I’m sorry. And this is what qualifies as an apology and retraction at MSNBC. As if it's possible, making matters worse, rather than any punishment for Maddow's mistake, NBC rewarded her by giving her a guest appearance on Sunday's “Meet the Press.” Gives you a lot of confidence in the integrity of these so-called “news” divisions, doesn't it?
Continue reading …As NewsBusters reported Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh caught MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a bald-faced lie about him. Later that evening, Maddow apologized for her error but blamed it on- wait for it! – the conservative website World Net Daily and then accused Limbaugh of racism (video follows with transcript and commentary): RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: I’m in a face-off, a huge fight, I’m in a massive brawl with Rush Limbaugh right now. And you know what? Rush Limbaugh wins. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: I thought when President Obama released the second form of the birth certificate, that that would not put this thing to rest, that it was, in fact, based in giving more facts would help? But it did put it to rest. I was wrong. It put it to rest. On the president’s 50th birthday, it is now just the dead-enders and the profiteers at still point still plugging this thing. There is nobody who has any pull in conservative politics or Republican politics at all who is — seriously? Are you sure? Are you sure this is — this is from this week, this is from yesterday? OK. Play it. RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO HOST: Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday. We haven’t seen proof of that. He tells us August 4th. Sorry. MADDOW: Sorry. Apparently it’s not over. (END VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: That was from last night’s show. I was wrong. I lose. Yes, that was Rush Limbaugh on his radio show about not being sure if the president was born. That was not from Rush Limbaugh’s show this past Wednesday, it was, in fact, from his show a year ago, way before the administration produced that second form of President Obama’s birth certificate this past April. A classy, professional anchor would have said she was sorry now, and moved on. Unfortunately, Maddow is neither classy nor professional: MADDOW: The reason I thought this sound bite was from this week because of a report from the pro-birther publication World Net Daily, the link does not work anymore. But here’s a cache version of that report. It was posted just past midnight Wednesday, August 4th, 2011, at 12:15 a.m. And it misattributed the day that Rush Limbaugh’s said those words as today, which would have been Wednesday, August 3rd, the day before the article was posted. The article linked to audio uploaded on August 3rd, 2011 of Rush Limbaugh’s comments — all of which made me believed it was from August 3rd, 2011, audio that I used and wrongly attributed to having been said on August 3rd, 2011. That clip was mislabeled. The article was wrong. And it was wrong of us to not check early World Net Daily’s reporting. I’m very sorry. Here is the cached version of WND's piece, and it does indeed give readers the impression that Limbaugh said this Wednesday and not last year. However, is the far-left MSNBC now relying on far-right publications for its research? Are there really no resources at a division of Comcast, General Electric, and NBC to do some basic fact-checking beyond a website that those associated vehemently disagree with at every turn? And are YouTube video descriptions considered credible enough for MSNBCer's to cite dates from? Doesn't give you much confidence in the veracity of any of their reporting. But Maddow wasn't done making a fool of herself, for instead of leaving it there, she felt the need to attack Limbaugh by accusing him of racism: MADDOW: And if you are worried about overall thesis that Rush Limbaugh is not giving up on trying to use the president’s race against him, this day and age, don’t worry about that thesis. Our error in misdating that tape does not undermine our thesis, as well proven by Mr. Limbaugh on his radio show just this week alone. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LIMBAUGH: I’m not going to apologize to the magic Negro. Grab the magic Negro. We’re going to click and play it again today. The guy is never going to look older than 12. He’s never going to act older than 12. He’s always going to look like a man-child. (INAUDIBLE) saying out there saying he’s earning every gray hair. Earning every gray hair, I can believe it living with her, but not because of the job of being president. Next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that’s what Zimbabwe, that’s what Mugabe did, he took the white people’s farms. That’s the only place that had any money. So, tar baby now has racial (INAUDIBLE). So, we’ve got to stop everything. This is Colorado congressman calls Obama a tar baby. We will take a break and be but don’t tar baby me. Do not tar baby me. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: OK. So, that’s all from, in fact, this week. I stand by my theory that the dead-enders and the profiteers and the people who used the president’s race against him for political purposes are sticking with the birther thing. But I am still sorry I got that other sound bite wrong. That’s why we call it “Department of Corrections.” I’m sorry. And this is what qualifies as an apology and retraction at MSNBC. As if it's possible, making matters worse, rather than any punishment for Maddow's mistake, NBC rewarded her by giving her a guest appearance on Sunday's “Meet the Press.” Gives you a lot of confidence in the integrity of these so-called “news” divisions, doesn't it?
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