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‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Blasts Abortion Culture: ‘What in the World Happened to Us?’

By Matt Vespa | August 21, 2013, 10:25 AM EDT

In a video featuring Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, the TV star- in what appears to be a religious sermon- declares his pro-life stance on the issue of abortion.  When discussing the ethics of, and that there's even a debate on, the issue, he as ...

NYT Columnist: Pro-Life Legislation Promotes Violence Against Women

By Matt Vespa | August 13, 2013, 6:12 PM EDT

While NewsBusters really doesn’t target op-eds, especially ones that are printed in the New York Times, egregiously absurd arguments merit exposure and ridicule. Enter Frank Bruni's August 14 column, wherein the Times scribe discussed how our culture ...

WashPost Writer Writes Story About Brutal 2010 Murder, Omits Illegal Alien Status Of The Suspect

By Matt Vespa | November 18, 2013, 4:40 PM EST

The Washington Post’s August 9 front-page story about the brutal murder of Vanessa Pham is missing a critical detail.  The young woman's alleged murderer is an illegal immigrant; a fact that is omitted entirely from Justin Jouvenal's story, even ...

WashPost Writer Publishes Fluff Piece On IRS Furloughs, Ignores Targeting Scandal

By Matt Vespa | August 9, 2013, 10:06 AM EDT

The Washington Post’s Josh Hicks can’t be living under a rock, so his piece of the IRS’ postponement of their August furlough day is probably just fluff to fill space on the website.  His August 8 story had no mention of the fact that the agency is under ...

NBC's Todd: Clinton Miniseries 'A Total Nightmare' For Us

By Matt Vespa | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

It's not just conservatives who think it's a horrible idea for NBC to run a Hillary Clinton miniseries before the 2016 election. Network anchor Chuck Todd worries about the perception of bias, even as he insists that there's a tall wall of ...

Daily Beast's Sepkowitz Suggests Bush's Doctors Should've Done 'Nothing' For His Heart

By Matt Vespa | August 7, 2013, 1:39 PM EDT

George W. Bush should’ve waited to have a heart attack, hints Daily Beast contributor Kent Sepkowitz, in a story exploiting the 43rd president's emergency procedure yesterday to insert a stent in his coronary artery. After a few paragraphs replete wi ...

UPDATED: WashPost Pushes Faulty Anti-Gun Study, Fails to Print Blog Item Critical of It

By Matt Vespa | August 7, 2013, 11:20 AM EDT

Well, the Washington Post is back to their usual tricks in distorting the facts about guns and background checks.  On page A2 of today's print edition, staff writer Philip Rucker gave readers a story, which read pretty much like a press release for a ...

Sorry NYT, Babies Can Feel Pain At 20 Weeks

By Matt Vespa | August 5, 2013, 1:15 PM EDT

In his August 2 article, Theory On Pain Is Driving Rules For Abortion, New York Times's Erik Eckholm set about to critique how the "theory" of fetal pain is driving a push by pro-lifers for state laws tightening up abortion restrictions. Ye ...

MSNBC Host: Democratic Sex Scandals Are Different, Or Something

By Matt Vespa | August 2, 2013, 11:50 AM EDT

The one thing we can say safely about liberals is that they lack self-awareness, especially when one of their own acts badly.  The Chronicles of Carlos Danger, the exploits of San Diego Mayor Bob “filthy” Filner, and the sexual proclivities of Eliot Spitz ...

Out Of The Loop: WaPo Blames Sequester For Snowden Leak

By Matt Vespa | August 1, 2013, 12:14 PM EDT

Al Kamen’s In The Loop blog on the Washington Post’s website needs to be renamed.  It’s become unhinged. Emily Heil’s July 31 post  for the feature literally blamed sequestration for the Snowden fiasco.  Yes, according to Heil, because of that horrible, d ...

Illinois Comptroller Can't Pay Legislators Due To Pension Crisis, When Will Media Report?

By Matt Vespa | July 29, 2013, 9:09 PM EDT

As members of America’s news media fail to recognize that Detroit went bankrupt due to decades of Democratic Party rule, they’ll probably execute the same protocol when they cover Illinois’ pension fiasco, which happens to be the worst in the country. In ...

Is Time Hoping for a Civil War in the Pro-life Movement?

By Matt Vespa | July 30, 2013, 10:50 AM EDT

Recent polls show Americans are perfectly okay with legislation being pursued in statehouses across the fruited plan to institute a ban on abortions occurring after the 20th week of pregnancy. This is despite a drumbeat of media puffery to glorify pro-cho ...

WaPo Buries Lead On Zimmerman Juror: She Called Trial A 'Publicity Stunt'

By Matt Vespa | July 29, 2013, 1:23 PM EDT

If you want to see what a buried lede looks like, look no further than the Washington Post’s story about juror B29 in the George Zimmerman case.   The headline of the July 25 piece blares what the left-wing commentators have been screaming for days: " ...

NYT Labels AG Eric Holder Defender Of 'Minority Voters,' Ignores Poll Showing Minorities Back Voter ID Laws

By Matt Vespa | July 26, 2013, 3:05 PM EDT

A recent poll shows that more than eight out of ten non-white voters are fine with their state government requiring a photo ID at polling places. Yet, that fact was completely omitted from a front-page Friday New York Times story by Charlie Savage and Ada ...

'Déjà Pivot': MSNBC Host Calls Out Obama On His Repetitive Pivots On Jobs, Will Others Follow?

By Matt Vespa | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

Yesterday, President Obama gave another warmed-over version of the same economic policy speech that’s been given for the past five years at Knox College in Illinois.  He saved the automobile industry.  He’s overseeing an economic recovery.  Republicans ar ...