Suspended: Is the Era of David Shuster Lashing Out at 'Nutty,' Far Rig

April 6th, 2010 12:16 PM
MSNBC on Tuesday announced that anchor David Shuster has been "suspended indefinitely" after filming a pilot at CNN. If this is the end of the liberal host's tenure on MSNBC, he'll leave behind a long legacy of viciously attacking "conservative fear mongering." During the Obama era, Shuster, supposedly a straight-news journalist, has been quick to deride the opponents of the President. On…

Coulter Defends Steele, DNC ‘In No Position’ to Complain...With De

April 5th, 2010 8:17 PM
Ann Coulter for one has refused to pour gasoline on the Voyeur fire - pledging her full support and offering praise for RNC Chairman Michael Steele. As Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos so touchingly pointed out to Steele, a few Republican leaders have been publicly highly critical of Steele and according to a "poll of insiders" only 20 percent consider him an asset to the party. "…

Fox & Friends Saturday Highlights Media Bias Toward Tea Party

April 5th, 2010 6:58 PM
Near the end of the Saturday edition of Fox & Friends on Fox News, co-host Clayton Morris introduced a segment on the media's double standard when it comes to covering the tea party movement versus left-wing protestors: "Mainstream media casting tea party protesters as violent and racist, the same media that characterized leftist protests against President Bush as patriotic."Morris brought on…

ABC's George Stephanopoulos Touts GOP Discord Over Michael Steele, Hig

April 5th, 2010 12:29 PM
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Monday played up GOP divisions over Michael Steele and even touted a "poll of insiders" that showed party leaders think the Republican National Committee Chairman (RNC) should resign. Stephanopoulos also prompted Steele to blame recent struggles on race. The former Democratic operative turned journalist related, "The National Journal magazine,…

ABC to Re-Run Episode Tonight: GOP Character Under Siege from ‘Conse

April 4th, 2010 8:28 PM
Just three weeks after it first aired on March 14, tonight at 10 PM EDT/PDT, 9 PM CDT, ABC will re-run the “Freeluc.com” episode of Brothers and Sisters which centered around “Kitty Walker-McCallister,” a Republican candidate for Senate in California played by Calista Flockhart, coming under attack from conservative rubes who think she used her influence to get the visa renewed for her older…

Libtalkers Use Sarcastic 'Tim McVeigh' Remark to Smear Hannity

April 4th, 2010 2:48 PM
Facts, apparently, will not interfere with the left's quest to slander Sean Hannity. What's worse, many of the mistruths are being peddled by Hannity's cable news competition, adding financial gain to the cheap political incentives for delegitimizing him.Even after facts debunked the bogus claim that Hannity had improperly used funds raised by the Freedom Alliance charity, MSNBC libtalker Ed…

Mattera: Media Treat Dems as 'Though They are at a Jonas Brothers Conc

April 3rd, 2010 3:22 PM
Jason Mattera, author of "Obama Zombies" and newly appointed editor of Human Events, said "members in the media treat leftist politicians as though they are at a Jonas Brothers concert." He also had rather choice words for young Obama supporters stuck in a "brainless slumber" on Fox Business Channel's April 2 broadcast of "Imus in the Morning." "Somebody about your age - mouthpiece of Franken -…

At Least One Arrested Militiaman a Registered Democrat

April 2nd, 2010 4:04 PM
Liberals in the media have been busy parading around Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center to bash the right. As befits his organization's MO, Potok, pictured right in a file photo, has done the best he can to link recently-arrested militia members to the Tea Party movement and conservatism generally.Potok's job may have just gotten a bit harder, and the liberal media may need to find…

HuffPo Columnist: Media Didn't Do Enough to Shill for Health Care

April 2nd, 2010 2:42 PM
A lefty columnist for the Huffington Post believes that the media's coverage of the health care debate was sorely lacking. NewsBusters wholeheartedly agrees. Yes, we agree with the Huffington Post.You see, we were under the impression that columnist Allison Kilkenny was less than honest after she used the staged homicide of a census worker to claim that conservatives were fomenting violence. In…

CBS's Smith Asks Obama About Talk Radio 'Enmity': 'Does it Bother You

April 2nd, 2010 2:33 PM
In a fawning interview with President Obama on Thursday, CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith spoke of the "enmity" of conservative talk radio and sympathetically wondered: "Does it bother you a little bit?" The President replied: "you end up getting a pretty thick skin in this job....I am concerned about a political climate in which the other side is demonized." [Audio available here]As…

Ed Schultz: I've Never Spewed Hate on My MSNBC Show; Our Video Proves

April 2nd, 2010 11:03 AM
Vituperative left-wing radio host Ed Schultz took to the air on Monday and insisted that he hasn't said anything hateful on his MSNBC program in the last year:Look, we all get carried away in talk radio but I do not think that on 'The Ed Show' on MSNBC in the last year I've said anything *hateful.* Hateful?! ... Hateful stuff? No, no, no, we point out the hateful stuff and sometimes it lands in…

O'Reilly Tackles Charge of Racism at Tea Parties

April 2nd, 2010 7:04 AM
On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O’Reilly took the time to speak with an African-American Tea Party activist named Kevin Jackson about his experiences at Tea Party events and what he thinks of liberal commentators – presumably referring to a number of MSNBC hosts – who have charged that racism is common among Tea Party activists. O’Reilly asked of Jackson: "Okay, now obviously…

Another Media Double Standard: Dems Also Use 'Target Maps' for Electio

April 1st, 2010 2:55 PM
As we've reported here at NewsBusters, the mainstream media has been in a tizzy over Sarah Palin's potentially violence-engendering "target map" for the upcoming midterm elections.Of course, what the liberal media isn't telling you is that the Democratic Leadership Council used similar "target maps" in the 2004 election. Verum Serum blogged about this yesterday morning (h/t Gateway Pundit): The…

Olbermann: My Ancestors Came to U.S. 'Trying to Get Away from People L

April 1st, 2010 1:24 PM
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann used his regular "Quick Comment" segment to lecture Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio for recently remarking that people like Olbermann "hate America" and should be traded to other countries in exchange for immigrants who love America. As the MSNBC host referred to his own great grandparents who immigrated to America "for its…