
Ben Stein Links Muslim Brotherhood to Hitler, Warns Iran Gaining Power
On CBS’s Sunday Morning show, during his regular commentary, right-leaning CBS contributor Ben Stein gave a pessimistic view of the "Arab Spring" movement to topple authoritarian governments in the Middle East, charged that America would regret allowing Hosni Mubarak lose power in Egypt, and predicted that the radical Muslm Brotherhood would take over there.
He also gave rare attention to…
May 16th, 2011 5:58 AM

FNC’s Fox News Watch Highlights Cal Thomas Earning MRC’s ‘Excell
With “Cal’s High Honor” as the on-screen tag, the Fox News Channel on Saturday highlighted video of Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas receiving the Media Research Center’s “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” at the MRC’s May 7 annual Gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards.”
After the jump: Video of what Fox News Watch showed of MRC President Brent Bozell introducing Thomas and…
May 16th, 2011 1:01 AM

Roger Ebert and Joan Walsh Jump on David Gregory's Gingrich is Racist
NBC's David Gregory started a Newt Gingrich is racist trend Sunday that liberal media members across the fruited plain quickly embraced.
After the "Meet the Press" host accused the former House Speaker of racism for having the nerve to call Barack Obama "The most successful food stamp president in American history," Salon's Joan Walsh out in San Francisco jumped on the bandwagon as did…
May 16th, 2011 12:01 AM

AP Reporters Act As If Social Security's Reckoning Is 25 years Away; I
The opening paragraph of Saturday morning's Associated Press report by Stephen Ohlemacher and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar on the state of Social Security and Medicare and an additional sentence from the third paragraph give away the fact that theirs will not be a missive that should be taken seriously (bold is mine):
The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and…
May 15th, 2011 11:55 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Common Dreams
And now, this week's news from Lake Kosbegon, where Osama bin Laden sounded like a GOP campaign strategist, conservatives were hypersensitive, hysterical "dumbasses," and fetuses were likened to burglars.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
May 15th, 2011 11:12 PM

Soros-Funded Group Falsely Accuses Ron Paul of Comparing Social Securi
The depths the shills on the Left will go to impugn their enemies knows no bounds.
On Sunday, the George Soros-funded organization Think Progress falsely accused Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx.) of comparing Social Security and Medicare to slavery (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 15th, 2011 10:11 PM

Lawrence O'Donnell: 'I’m Not Policing Thought - I Encourage Thought
For many years I've been saying it takes a lot of rationalizations to be a liberal these days.
As additional evidence, I offer the following statement by Lawrence O'Donnell published in the June issue of Playboy:
May 15th, 2011 8:25 PM
To Stand Up and Serve
"I heard someone say yesterday that the last years had been completely wasted as far as he was concerned. I'm very glad that I have never yet had that feeling, even for a moment," Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in April of 1944.
Horrified by the Nazi treatment of Jews, the German Lutheran pastor would join the conspiracy against Hitler and ultimately be hanged in a prison camp the next…
May 15th, 2011 6:10 PM

CNN Anchor: Are Conservatives Angry About Common's White House Appeara
As NewsBusters has been reporting for months, Obama-loving media are busily depicting every criticism of the Administration as being racially motivated.
On Saturday, Don Lemon brought on a number of guests on "CNN Newsroom" to discuss how the recent controversy surrounding rapper Common's appearance at the White House is all because he's black (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 15th, 2011 5:49 PM

Chris Matthews Show: Mitch Daniels Presidential Candidate With 'Best S
Experience tells us that the Republican presidential candidate the media prefer is the one they believe is most easily defeated.
On this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show," seven of the twelve regulars said Mitch Daniels "has the best shot to overcome his obvious flaw" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 15th, 2011 3:39 PM

David Gregory Accuses Gingrich of Racism for Calling Obama a 'Food Sta
As NewsBusters has been reporting for several months, Obama-loving media are doing their darnedest to depict every potential Republican presidential candidate as a racist.
Doing his part, NBC's David Gregory on Sunday's "Meet the Press" accused Newt Gingrich of racism for having called Barack Obama "The most successful food stamp president in American history" (video follows with transcript…
May 15th, 2011 1:31 PM

Ted Koppel: Scrap the Notion of Arab 'Democracy,' It's Not Happening
Former ABC anchor Ted Koppel raised eyebrows when The Washington Post's Sunday Outlook suggested getting rid of things in a "spring cleaning," and Koppel said "Democracy." (Or "Democracy," in quotation marks, as if that's less shocking.) Koppel began:
"Democracy." Let's dump it; toss it on the scrap heap of history. The concept remains worthy, but the word is rapidly being exhausted of all…
May 15th, 2011 1:03 PM

Krugman: Democrats Should Risk Debt Default and Not be 'Blackmailed' b
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Sunday that Democrats should risk a debt default to avoid being blackmailed by Republicans that are holding a bomb "over our head" in the form of serious budget cuts.
This came moments after FDIC chair Sheila Bair told ABC's "This Week" panel, "I think maybe there's a little too much testosterone in this debate. It’s too much about winning and losing…
May 15th, 2011 12:54 PM

Former Olympian, Canadian Sports Anchor Blacklisted by Gays
Freedom of speech or political association is not a value the liberal media revere, at least not when it comes to blacklisting people who oppose homosexuality. Peter Vidmar, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist, had to resign as chef de mission for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team because as a Mormon, he donated $2,000 for Proposition 8 in California supporting traditional marriage and appeared at two Prop 8…
May 15th, 2011 8:25 AM