BBC: Is America Ready for 'Little Mosque on the Prairie

The BBC’s entire approach to this subject is wildly dishonest. There are no problems between Muslims and non-Muslims in America. We got along just fine pre-9/11, got along just fine the day after 9/11, and get along just fine today. The BBC:
John Nolte
September 9th, 2011 1:58 PM

NYTimes Approves of Obama's 'Punchy Tone' and 'Politically Moderate Pr

President Obama’s jobs speech led Friday’s New York Times, the paper portraying his $447 billion melange of payroll tax cuts and infrastructure spending portrayed as “Seeking a Tax Cut and Spending as Stimulus.” Reporter Mark Landler had previously commiserated with President Obama over “frustrating,” “unreasonable” Republican “intransigence” in a Times podcast in July, and on Friday offered…
Clay Waters
September 9th, 2011 1:47 PM

Bachmann Questions Obama Push to Spend on 'Green' Projects

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pointed to Solyndra, the bankrupt solar panel company that received $535 million from the federal stimulus act, as an example of President Barack Obama’s unsuccessful attempt to pick winners and losers in the economy. Solyndra had never shown a profit, yet it received millions of taxpayer dollars. “So this is something that needs to be looked into,” Bachmann…
Fred Lucas
September 9th, 2011 1:40 PM

CBS and NBC Cheer Obama's 'Extraordinarily Bold' Speech, 'Robust Defen

Throughout coverage of President Obama's address to Congress Thursday night, anchors and correspondents on both CBS and NBC gave fawning reviews of the new jobs plan, in some cases, even before the speech began. In contrast, ABC took a much more skeptical tone, with a focus on the President's falling poll numbers.   Evening News anchor Scott Pelley opened CBS's coverage by proclaiming the…
Kyle Drennen
September 9th, 2011 1:24 PM

After GOP Debate, Networks Turn to a Democrat; After Obama's Speech? A

On Thursday, the day after the Republican presidential debate, the network morning shows turned to a high profile Democrat for a response. On Friday, the day after Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress, the same programs turned to Democratic Vice President Joe Biden.     On Friday's Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos offered this softball to Biden: "Mark Zandi, the economist says…
Scott Whitlock
September 9th, 2011 12:41 PM

Ten Years After September 11: Recalling the Outrageousness of the Holl

Ten years after the attacks of September 11, it’s worth recalling how the immediate reaction of some on the far Left was to blame the United States foreign policy for instigating the attacks, and how various Hollywood celebrities spent the remainder of the decade trashing the War on Terror and likening the United States to some sort of Nazi regime or police state. Some even promoted wild…
Rich Noyes
September 9th, 2011 11:22 AM

Bill Press: Americans Could 'Do Something So Dumb' As Electing Rick P

Liberals fear democracy. They think the American people can be really dumb. They even admit that on the radio. On Wednesday, Bill Press worried that stupid Americans might elect President Perry:  "I think Perry is a weaker candidate than Mitt Romney, but I would not put it past the American people to do something so dumb as to elect him." Speaking of dumb, on Wednesday on the radio, Ed…
Tim Graham
September 9th, 2011 11:14 AM

'New Yorker' Editor: Obama Responsible for Lack of Anti-Americanism in

By all accounts, President Obama has been far more hawkish than anyone anywhere in the world could have possibly imagined. Despite this, "New Yorker" magazine editor David Remnick told the crew at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday that the current Administration is responsible for the lack of anti-American displays in Arab Spring uprisings (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 9th, 2011 10:56 AM

The New York Times vs. Fiscal Discipline, Again

The New York Times vs. fiscal discipline, once again. Monica Davey reported emotional anecdotes from Michigan Wednesday against attempts by the state to rein in costs: “Families Feel Sharp Edge of State Budget Cuts.” Here in Michigan, more than 11,000 families received letters last week notifying them that in October they will lose the cash assistance they have been provided for years. Next…
Clay Waters
September 9th, 2011 10:44 AM

Open Thread: Can Democrats Keep Weiner's Seat

While former Rep. Anthony Weiner's district is not always a Democratic stronghold, it does tend to vote more liberally. David Weprin, the Democratic New York State assemblyman running in the special election for Weiner's former seat is not the greatest candidate, either. A few weeks ago, he told a newspaper that he thought the national debt was around only $4 trillion. With a weak Democratic…
NB Staff
September 9th, 2011 9:34 AM

NY Times 'News' Story Hits G.O.P.'s 'Untrue...Misleading' Claims About

Three liberal New York Times reporters teamed up Thursday morning to fact-check the Republican debate (and defend Obama) at the Reagan library. John Broder, Nicholas Confessore, and Jackie Calmes cowrote “Attacking the Democrats, but Not Always Getting It Right,” which was not labeled or presented as "news analysis" (a label the Times is using less of lately) but as a factual news story. The…
Clay Waters
September 9th, 2011 9:20 AM

Reuters Takes Administration Line by Describing Fast & Furious Twice a

Reuters appears to have taken the side of the Obama Administration in the Operation Fast & Furious scandal in which guns were permitted by the Bureau of Alcohol Firearms Tobacco and Explosives  to be "walked" across the Mexican border via the sale to straw buyers. The Department of Justice has portrayed this as a mere "botched" operation in which "mistakes" were made rather than the result…
P.J. Gladnick
September 9th, 2011 8:34 AM

WaPo, Schizo: Obama Speech Shows 'Mastery of Medium'? Or He's Irreleva

While columnist Dana Milbank complained about "The irrelevancy of the Obama presidency" -- noting Republican laughter during the Obama speech (especially the line "This isn't political grandstanding") and Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) reading the newspaper -- TV critic Hank Stuever sat at the Tom Shales Desk of Obama Speech Puffery. "Obama reiterates his mastery of medium" was the headline on the…
Tim Graham
September 9th, 2011 7:44 AM

New MRC Special Report on Ten Years of Terror Coverage: 'Red, White, a

The premeditated murder of thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001 unified the United States, in grief over the attacks and in resolve to never let it happen again. Just as Members of Congress stood together as one on the Capitol steps to sing “God Bless America,” the American major media united with the people in their collective shock and outrage.     But that feeling did not last.…
Tim Graham
September 8th, 2011 11:05 PM