Schultz Blames Egypt on Food Prices, Bush 41 and Wall Street; No Menti

Ed Schultz on Tuesday spent a great deal of time blaming the crisis in Egypt on rising food prices tying commodity inflation to former President George H.W. Bush and Wall Street speculators. Not once in over fifteen minutes of air time were the name Bill Clinton or the two bills he signed into law that deregulated the financial services and commodity futures industries mentioned (videos…
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2011 12:02 PM

Lawrence O'Donnell: Democrats Made Huge Mistake Not Putting Severabili

In the wake of Monday's ruling by a Florida judge to toss out ObamaCare as a result of the individual mandate, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell asked liberal constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley Tuesday if the Democrats made a mistake not writing a severability clause into the law. Turley surprisingly answered, "It was a colossal mistake" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2011 10:28 AM

CBS 'Early Show' Blames Winter Storms on Global Warming

Speaking to physicist Michio Kaku on Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge fretted over the recent series of severe winter storms and wondered: "...nine storms in seven weeks, why is this happening?...a lot of people want to talk about global warming and thinking that that may actually come into play here. Is that accurate? Is that having an effect on what's going on?" Dr. Kaku…
Kyle Drennen
February 2nd, 2011 10:27 AM

Open Thread: Revisiting Obama's 'Socialist' Roots

In the latest series of the Hoover Institution's fantastic webshow "Uncommon Knowledge", Peter Robinson interviews author and National Review contributor Stanley Kurtz about his new book "Radical in Chief". The book explores Barack Obama's history as a leftist community organizer. Kurtz contends that Obama is, in fact, a socialist, though he admits that the term "socialist" has changed in…
NB Staff
February 2nd, 2011 9:47 AM

Al Sharpton Continues Politically Motivated Campaign to Censor Rush Li

Al Sharpton appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Monday night to once again demand that the federal government censor Rush Limbaugh. As he always does, Sharpton couched his clear political agenda in the language of racial righteousness. He cited Rush Limbaugh's satirical mocking of Chinese president Hu Jintao as evidence of "why we must have standards" for radio and television broadcasters. Of…
Lachlan Markay
February 2nd, 2011 8:45 AM

WaPo's Dana Milbank Decries 'Poisonous Years' of Robert Gibbs, Wonders

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tries to suggest in Wednesday's paper that the White House press corps is in some sort of Cold War with President Obama and Robert Gibbs, and that the new spokesman, former Time Washington Bureau Chief Jay Carney, may "usher in an Obama glasnost." Most Obama critics would have a hard time remembering all the negative Robert Gibbs coverage offered by the…
Tim Graham
February 2nd, 2011 8:33 AM

Bill O'Reilly Blows Up At Alan Colmes, Challenges Sam Donaldson to Com

As NewsBusters previously reported, Sam Donaldson on Sunday's "This Week" actually thanked the anti-American television network Al Jazeera for what they do in the Middle East. On Tuesday, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly invited Alan Colmes and Monica Crowley on his program to discuss the matter, and by the end of the segment, O'Reilly was practically screaming at Sean Hannity's former partner (video…
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2011 1:26 AM

Maddow Blames Beck and Other Conservatives for Her Getting Duped by Sa

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday got duped by a satirical website quoting from their spoof article about Sarah Palin advocating an attack on Egypt as if it was a serious commentary. On Tuesday, proving once again that it takes a lot of rationalizations to be a liberal these days, Maddow blamed her mistake on Fox News's Glenn Beck and other prominent…
Noel Sheppard
February 2nd, 2011 12:18 AM

How to Improve Black Education in America

In my "Black Education Disaster" column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. The public education establishment bears part of the responsibility for this disaster, but a greater portion is borne by black…
Walter E. Williams
February 2nd, 2011 12:05 AM

Bozell Column: The Media Never Loved Reagan

Is it not amazing that it’s taken the news media exactly 100 years to discover that Ronald Reagan was a role model? While he lived and even after he died, they shot every arrow and dropped every bomb they could on this man and his reputation. Now that it’s his 100th birthday and America is celebrating, they find him useful. They’re trying to rub Reagan’s magic all over a floundering Obama.…
Brent Bozell
February 1st, 2011 10:48 PM

Only Fox News and Don Imus Report Schumer's Branches of Government Gaf

On  Monday, NewsBusters asked, "Will Chris Matthews and MSNBC Spend Week Bashing Schumer's Branches of Government Gaffe?" It turns out that not only didn't Matthews or MSNBC mention Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) blunder on that network's extended prime time programs Monday, but a LexisNexis search identified that out of all America's many mainstream media outlets, only Fox News's Bret Baier…
Noel Sheppard
February 1st, 2011 8:19 PM

Chris Matthews Compares Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood

In just one segment, on Tuesday's Hardball, host Chris Matthews managed to hypocritically use violent "gun play" language, attack Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin and even likened the Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Matthews, who made many absurd pronouncements on tonight's show, saved his zaniest comment for the Tea Party as he actually compared their potential primary challenges of…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 1st, 2011 7:19 PM

Oops! NPR Mangles Planned Parenthood Sting Story, Is Forced to Correct

The pro-life group Live Action has posted an expose that should be deeply embarrassing to Planned Parenthood. In a visit taped on January 11, an office manager at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Perth Amboy, New Jersey greets a man and woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute by carefully explaining they want "as little information as possible" as they offer their contraceptive and abortion…
Tim Graham
February 1st, 2011 6:00 PM

Andrea Mitchell Spins Health Care Decision as the 'Most Politically Wr

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday repeated Democratic talking points in the wake of Monday's ruling by a federal judge that Barack Obama's health care legislation is unconstitutional. She spun the decision as " most politically written and charged ruling and the broadest ruling yet." Talking to Jeanne Cummings, an assistant managing editor for Politico, Mitchell repeated the White House's…
Scott Whitlock
February 1st, 2011 5:10 PM