AFP Report on 'Potential Breakthrough' Flags Embryonic Stem Cell Resea

An unbylined Agence France-Presse report Wednesday opens by telling readers that Japanese researchers "have succeeded in growing human kidney tissue from stem cells for the first time, in a potential first step towards helping millions who depend on dialysis." Another version of the report at another website identifies the reporter as Harumi Ozawa; an accompanying picture caption describes the…
Tom Blumer
January 23rd, 2013 10:30 AM

PBS: Liberal Slant Made Obama’s Inaugural Address One of Best in Pas

Barack Obama’s second inaugural address had a distinct liberal flavor, particularly on social issues, and many media outlets have admitted as much. However, according to quasi-conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, the ideological slant of the speech actually made it one of the best inaugural addresses of the past fifty years. Appearing on the Monday January 21 edition of the…
Paul Bremmer
January 23rd, 2013 10:21 AM

On ‘Roe’ Anniversary, Andrea Mitchell Laments Abortion Restriction

In the 40 years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, more than 56 million children have been legally killed in the womb. By it’s own accounting, the nation’s largest abortion mill, Planned Parenthood, performed a record high 333,964 abortions in 2011 alone, even as it was cutting back on the other women’s health services it likes to tout. (It provided more than 100,000 breast-health…
Matt Philbin
January 23rd, 2013 10:20 AM

Leno: Twice As Many People Attended 2009 Inauguration Because Twice as

Jay Leno went counter to the rest of the media's gushing over the Obama Inauguration Tuesday by actually taking some shots at the current White House resident. Early in his opening monologue, the NBC Tonight Show host said, "There were twice as many people at his first inauguration...because four years ago, twice as many people could afford to stay in hotels” (video follows with transcribed…
Noel Sheppard
January 23rd, 2013 10:15 AM

On ‘Roe’ Anniversary, Andrea Mitchell Laments State Abortion Restr

Four decades later ‘only 17 states’ fund low-income abortions.
Matt Philbin
January 23rd, 2013 10:11 AM

CNN Religion Writer Praises 'Religious Pioneer' Obama

The producer of CNN's Belief Blog lauded President Obama as "exceptional" and a "religious pioneer" for supporting same-sex marriage and hosting his inaugural prayer service at National Cathedral. "Well, I think it's part of what makes Obama exceptional. We think of him as a racial pioneer, the first African-American president, but I think he's also a religious pioneer," John Blake said of…
Matt Hadro
January 23rd, 2013 9:52 AM

Dan Rather Applauds Israel's Iron Dome For Saving 'More Palestinian Li

Dan Rather on Tuesday applauded Israel's new missile defense system known as Iron Dome. In a bizarre analysis published at the Huffington Post, the former CBS Evening News anchor cheered, "In the recent conflict, the Israeli missile defense system may have saved more Palestinian lives than Israelis."
Noel Sheppard
January 23rd, 2013 9:03 AM

Bozell Column: Obama 'Cements His Legacy

Newsweek stopped its print edition at the end of 2012, but they still tried to scandalize the country by producing a fake cover honoring Obama’s second inauguration as “The Second Coming.” This absurd attempt at myth-making is a natural progression. The “cover” story was written by Evan Thomas, who proclaimed on MSNBC a few years ago that Obama was “sort of like God” in being above the gritty…
Brent Bozell
January 22nd, 2013 10:40 PM

Schultz Excited: Obama Plans To 'Grab The Jugular' Of Republicans

Remember then-obscure Senator Barack Obama's speech to the 2004 DNC? All the no blue state, no red state stuff?  Fugedaboutit.  Now, he's all about killing—figuratively of course—his political opponents. Ed Schultz sees Obama for what he is: and applauds him for it, of course.  On his MSNBC show tonight, Schultz repeatedly claimed--polls notwithstanding--that America is a center-left,…
Mark Finkelstein
January 22nd, 2013 9:20 PM

Slanted ABCNews.com Marks Roe Decision by Worrying About How It Might

Supreme Court reporter Ariane deVogue of ABCNews.com covered the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision in a strange and very slanted way: in light of how an "abortion backlash persists" and the high court will rule on “gay marriage” in the coming months. At this point, her liberal experts are willing to admit Roe was too broadly decided – at least in terms of how it…
Tim Graham
January 22nd, 2013 7:31 PM

CBS News Political Director Dickerson Doubles Down On Obama Destroying

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, CBS News political director John Dickerson advised the current White House resident to destroy the Republican Party. On Tuesday, Dickerson doubled down in a Slate piece titled "They Hate Me, They Really Hate Me: Conservatives despise my analysis of Obama’s second-term options. But it was analysis—not advice."
Noel Sheppard
January 22nd, 2013 6:49 PM

In 2005, WashPost Noted Area Residents Unimpressed with Inaugural; No

Native and long-time Washingtonians see presidential inaugurations every four years, and, for them, they're pretty run-of-the-mill, regardless of one's party affiliation. This is especially true when they're the second go-around for a given president. Washington proper is heavily liberal Democrat, and the outlying suburbs are so too, to a lesser degree, but still, enthusiasm for a presidential…
Ken Shepherd
January 22nd, 2013 6:45 PM

PBS Panelists Call Obama’s Inaugural Address ‘Communitarian’ Rat

During PBS’ coverage of the 2013 Inauguration, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, Gwen Ifill, and Yale University’s Beverly Gage seemed to have forgotten what the definition of liberal is within the context of Obama’s second inaugural address.  In fact, Gage said that this wasn’t an “endorsement of collective liberalism,” and Shields called it more “humanitarian.”  The non-taxpayer subsidized…
Matt Vespa
January 22nd, 2013 6:27 PM

‘FrackNation’ Documentary Exposes Shoddy, Anti-science Journalism

Explosions and fires are a common feature of today’s fictional movies as heroes dodge bullets and conflagrations in pursuit of justice. That might explain why opponents of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) have decided to dramatize their case against scientific progress by lighting water on fire and then falsely blaming fracking for the blaze. Thanks to a new film called FrackNation (watch…
Kevin Mooney
January 22nd, 2013 6:15 PM