Media Overreact, Claim Pope ‘OK with Gays

Liberals in the media are doing what they do best when it comes to Pope Francis today: misrepresenting him to their hearts’ content. When asked in a press conference about celibate priests who suffer same-sex attraction, the Pope replied: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” – a view which is exactly in line with Church teaching. But of course, the…
Lauren Enk
July 29th, 2013 3:45 PM

Hollywood’s ‘The To Do List’: ‘Sometimes Sex Is Just Sex

Forget the summer reading list, try a summer sex list. Hollywood’s latest movie posits that “sometimes sex is just sex,” and gives young audiences eight easy steps to make it that way – via Brandy Klark’s “To Do List.” A comedy, “The To Do List” followed class valedictorian Brandy Klark (played by “Parks and Recreation’s” Aubrey Plaza) as she created a list of sexual experiences to complete…
Katie Yoder
July 29th, 2013 3:36 PM

Alan Colmes: We’ll Have True Equality When Blacks Can Speak Against

As NewsBusters has been reporting, CNN’s Don Lemon has taken a lot of heat from the left for having the nerve to agree with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly about problems in the black community. On Fox News’s Happening Now Monday, liberal talk radio host Alan Colmes marvelously stated, “We’ll have true equality in this country when someone like Don Lemon or any other person of color can make a…
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2013 3:28 PM

Media Overreact, Claims Pope ‘OK with Gays

Pope’s comment, consistent with Church teaching, blown out of proportion by press.  
Lauren Enk
July 29th, 2013 3:13 PM

Virtually Unreported: Detroit's Bankruptcy Came With Sky-High Tax Rate

Just over a week ago, MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry claimed that Detroit's bankruptcy is a result of "when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub," and analogized it to "exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us." The truth, of course, is that Detroit has had quite a large government. It also had and still has frightening rates of violent and nonviolent…
Tom Blumer
July 29th, 2013 3:12 PM

Delusional Schultz: Social Security is 'Cheap,' Doesn't Contribute to

Ed Schultz took a dive off the deep end on Saturday’s The Ed Show, claiming that Social Security is a “cheap” program that “has never contributed one penny to the deficit.” The bombastic MSNBC host also blasted Republicans who support partially privatizing Social Security, arguing those lawmakers just want to “get their hands on the money.” Schultz echoed similar arguments made by Rep. Mark…
Andrew Lautz
July 29th, 2013 1:59 PM

MSNBC's Hayes: 'Frustrating' That 'More People in Prison' While 'Crime

On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes did not seem to recognize that putting criminals in jail contributes to reducing crime as he declared that it was "frustrating" to him that there has been more "incarceration" while "crime is going down." As the MSNBC host brought aboard California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee as a guest to discuss some of FNC host Bill O'Reilly's recent…
Brad Wilmouth
July 29th, 2013 1:50 PM

NBC: Weiner Scandal 'Terribly Painful'... for Hillary Clinton

On Monday's NBC Today, following a report on the latest fallout from the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, Hillary Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell fretted over the impact of the controversy on the former secretary of state: "This is terribly painful....this is getting to the point where it is really splashing up against the Clintons because it's almost unavoidable that people are making…
Kyle Drennen
July 29th, 2013 1:18 PM

NPR Offers No Credit for Republicans When North Carolina Rights Racial

NPR loves to label individuals and groups—but not all the time. They usually want listeners to know who Republicans are, as they did incessantly last year with GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin. A piece about the North Carolina General Assembly righting an old wrong on the July 25 All Things Considered evening news show took a different approach, with reporter Julie Rose entirely omitting party…
John Williams
July 29th, 2013 1:03 PM

MSNBC's Dyson: O'Reilly 'Surprised That Black People Don't Throw Banan

Appearing as a panel member on the Sunday, July 28, Melissa Harris-Perry show, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson declared that, when FNC host Bill O'Reilly dined at Sylvia's restaurant in 2007, he was "surprised that black people don't throw bananas at each other or swing from trees." His attack on O'Reilly was the latest example of MSNBC personalities reviving a 2007 smear against…
Brad Wilmouth
July 29th, 2013 12:54 PM

Belafonte and MSNBC's Hayes Invoke Emmett Till Murder Over Trayvon Mar

As singer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte appeared as a guest on Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes brought up  Civil Rights Movement-era murder victim Emmett Till and wondered if Trayvon Martin's death would have a similar "catalyzing effect" in a "civil rights struggle." While both acknowledged that the circumstances were different, Belafonte lumped in Trayvon Martin as…
Brad Wilmouth
July 29th, 2013 12:15 PM

Man That Said Romneys 'Happy to Party With Black People Drowning’ to

Last August, in the middle of the Republican National Convention, NewsBusters broke the story about the Yahoo! News Washington bureau chief who said of the Romneys, "They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.” On Monday, Politico reported that David Chalian has been hired by CNN to produce the new Crossfire:
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2013 11:09 AM

New Republic Finally Corrects Claim That George Zimmerman 'Profiled' S

“It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission” states an adage that the staff of the New Republic magazine has apparently adopted, especially when it comes to writing disparaging things about George Zimmerman, the man who was found not guilty of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin three weeks ago. In an essay entitled “The Law That Acquitted Zimmerman Isn't Racist But…
Randy Hall
July 29th, 2013 10:32 AM

Stop Censoring the IRS Scandal, 186 Conservative and Tea Party Leaders

RESTON, Va. – Today, 186 leaders of the conservative movement and the Tea Party – including congressmen, national conservative leaders, and Tea Party leaders from coast-to-coast – joined Media Research Center President Brent Bozell’s call to action. Last Thursday, Bozell, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, Citizens United President David Bossie, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder…
NB Staff
July 29th, 2013 10:32 AM