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The Media's Myth of Right Wing Violence

By Mithridate Ombud | March 25, 2010, 2:11 AM EDT

There is a disturbing chill in the air according to the leftist media. Threats of violence and rumor of murder are taking center stage instead of reporting legitimate public outrage about the passage of Obamacare. You need not click far online to hear ano ...

AP Redefines Fair Use

By Mithridate Ombud | November 23, 2009, 12:28 AM EST

Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing.net notes that Associated Press has a warped view of fair use. While they try to get bloggers to pay a license fee to quote five or more words from AP articles, when it came to the Sarah Palin book they turned it inside out. &q ...

Newspapers Facilitate Gun Sales without Background Checks

By Mithridate Ombud | September 5, 2009, 6:55 AM EDT

Coming out of the Contra Costa Times is an article titled "Researchers: Gun shows selling weapons illegally". It begins "From pocket-size assault weapons and sniper rifles that can kill a man a mile-and-a-half away to incendiary armor-pierc ...

ObamaCare Supporter Bites Finger Off Elderly Man

By Mithridate Ombud | September 3, 2009, 9:53 AM EDT

You have a healthcare rally with opposing sides. Someone from one side bites the finger off an elderly man from the other side. You and I both know which side did the biting, but can the media just come out and say "Moonbat Bites Man"? Of course ...

What Does Obama Want with Our Children?

By Mithridate Ombud | November 30, 2010, 6:03 PM EST

As many parents are focused on back to school clothes and supplies, the royal Czar Czar prepares to circumvent parental authority and speak directly to our children in one week. What will he command? That's a good question that the media won't a ...

HuffPo Suggests Anti ObamaCare Doctors Will Harm Patients

By Mithridate Ombud | September 2, 2009, 7:55 PM EDT

Coming on the heels of Obama suggesting that doctors cut off people's feet because it makes them more money than a prescription, an article by the Huffington Post "News Team" suggests that doctors who warn patients about the perils of socia ...

Advertisers 'Glenn Beck' Newspapers

By Mithridate Ombud | August 28, 2009, 7:48 AM EDT

While the media focuses on the tens of advertisers that left Glenn Beck, another segment of the public has spoken out of their wallet. Newspapers, who have spoon fed the progressive movement to the United States for the last several decades will now have ...

Who's Really Bailing on Glenn Beck?

By Mithridate Ombud | August 26, 2009, 9:37 PM EDT

"...democracy must be more than what the majority insists upon." Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope Let me take this opportunity to look into something the media won't touch. All moonbat hands are unloading every cannon on the deck at Glenn ...

NY Times Can Keep A Secret After All

By Mithridate Ombud | June 20, 2009, 4:53 PM EDT

By now, you may have actually believed the typical NY Times line that they have to disclose everything, secret prisons, NSA tactics, interrogation tactics, because the public has the right to know everything and information has to be free, despite the ris ...

Change You Can't Breathe In

By Mithridate Ombud | June 20, 2009, 7:44 AM EDT

Riding on a waning crest of bringing change to the United States and cleaning up the environment, Barack Obama is going head to head against Barbara Boxer on a big issue. There are 44 coal ash dumps that have been designated as a "high hazard" t ...

A Playground You Can Believe In

By Mithridate Ombud | March 23, 2009, 1:16 PM EDT

Steve Kroft caught Barack Obama "laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the economy", at one point asking "Are you punch-drunk?" Politico says "his awkward laughter highlighted an issue Obama h ...

A View From the Inside

By Mithridate Ombud | March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM EDT

Every once and a while we get a new peek into the sausage factory that is Big Journalism. This time it comes from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Bill Steigerwald, who is taking an early buyout after 36 years in journalism. In his last column, he goes ...

Obama's House of Mirrors

By Mithridate Ombud | March 15, 2009, 8:50 AM EDT

It's no wonder Obama supporters are jumping ship, one day he's saying " buy American ", the next day he's retracting it. Before the election he vowed to cut the budget, now he's spending a generation of wealth at a time. He s ...

The Audacity of Truth

By Mithridate Ombud | March 10, 2009, 10:54 AM EDT

You come to NewsBusters for the reporting the American Media just won't do, to hold truth to power, and to point out when they look the other way as their ideological leader does things like give an easy button to Russia, or claims that cars were inv ...

Obama's Million Ghost March

By Mithridate Ombud | January 22, 2009, 3:41 AM EST

I doubt it would surprise anyone here that the media would go to their best lengths to over-estimate the number of people at Obama's inauguration. But just how far? Try a million people. ASU journalism professor Stephen Doig took it to the satellite ...