BMI Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climat

For years the global warming alarmists' mantra has been "the science is settled." But a recent series of shocking disclosures about climate science has shaken the credibility of that claim. The first scandal - ClimateGate - came Nov. 20, 2009, after someone leaked thousands of e-mails from a major climate science group: University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The e-…
Julia A. Seymour

CNBC Reporter to Obama: Is Wall Street As 'Harmful' To Us as Big Tobac

CNBC's John Harwood, in an interview aired on Thursday's Today show, pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the President if Americans needed to view them in the same way they view Big Tobacco as "companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?" Obama declined to make the comparison to the tobacco companies, but went on to insist Wall Street…
Geoffrey Dickens

NPR's Nina Totenberg Distorts Conservative Legal Scholar to Cast Clare

National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg severely misquoted a conservative legal scholar to make it seems as if he considered Clarence Thomas a radical Supreme Court justice. An examination of his full statement clearly demonstrates that this was not what he actually said.In an April 16 NPR segment, Totenberg, picture right in a file photo, sought to paint radical Berkeley law professor…
Lachlan Markay

USA Today Special Calls for More Government Action on the Environment

USA Today featured a special article to help celebrate Earth Day by Mark Thoreau, an indirect descendant of author Henry David Thoreau. In “Thoreau Descendant Reflects on Walden Pond, Earth Day,” Thoreau, however, took the opportunity to call for more government involvement on environmental issues and even praised the Sierra Club, the left-wing environmental group.Thoreau, an Englishman,…
Sarah Knoploh

ABC's Sam Donaldson Hypes: Al Gore for the Supreme Court

On Thursday's Good Morning America, ABC journalist Sam Donaldson touted a liberal hero for the Supreme Court, one that even made George Stephanopoulos chuckle: Al Gore. After arguing that Barack Obama should choose a politician, Donaldson enthused, "Let's go further...I give you Al Gore." [Audio available here.]The veteran reporter, who was participating in GMA's Morning Mix panel, argued his…
Scott Whitlock

MSNBC's Maddow, Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Pa

So you do your part and pay your taxes to the federal government. However, you feel you pay too much and you don't like how that same government uses that money. Do you have the right to petition and protest that government? If it's on federal land that your tax dollars paid for, then your protest is hypocritical nonsense, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. To her, the tea partiers, who…
Jeff Poor

Lawrence O'Donnell Defends GEICO Voice-over Actor Who Called Tea Parti

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday defended a GEICO voice-over actor who referred to Tea Party members as mentally retarded killers.Last week, Lance Baxter aka D.C. Douglas left the following voice-mail at the offices of FreedomWorks (audio available here):Hi there. I`m doing a paper about FreedomWorks and I was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. I`m wrapping up and I just have…
Noel Sheppard

MRC's Brent Bozell on 'Fox & Friends' to Discuss Networks' Meager Repo

Brent Bozell joined "Fox & Friends" on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to discuss a new Business & Media Institute Special Report about the broadcast networks' distorted coverage of ClimateGate and other climate scandals. Bozell highlighted the way the networks have barely reported ClimateGate and the other climate science scandals that have eroded the credibility of the global…
Julia A. Seymour

MSNBC's Maddow, Penn. Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Party Too

Liberal host and Dem. politician argue the 'mainstream media' have made tea party movement more of a force than warranted.
Jeff Poor

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WaPo Earth Day Story Finds Glum Greens Struggling to Sell 'Slippery' C

In its puffy celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, The Washington Post found the green movement in "midlife crisis." Sadly, reported David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, the American people aren't grasping the immediacy of global warming, or seeing their exhalations as pollution: The problems are more slippery: pollutants like greenhouse-gas emissions, which don't stink or sting the eyes. And…
Tim Graham

Pentagon Rescinds Graham's Invitation, while Sharpton is Welcome at Wh

Caving to 'Religious Freedom' group on National Day of Prayer event shows which religious figures the Obama administration deem important.
Colleen Raezler

Shocking Report: Police Find TEA Parties More Peaceful Than Anti-war P

On Monday, the Christian Science Monitor bucked its mainstream peers by reporting something truthful about the TEA party movement: police officials have begun to relax security requirements at conservative rallies because of the remarkable absence of violence. Yes, you read that right: despite nonstop media warnings about hateful protests, violence from TEA party attendants is so nonexistent…
Candance Moore

O'Reilly Remarks on Post-9/11 Racial Rapprochement Echoed -- by Freque

Occasionally a lefty gets it right. Then a conservative says much the same thing. Followed by liberals denouncing him for it.Latest example -- Bill O'Reilly's remarks on race at the Sharpton-organized National Action Network conference on April 14 in New York City. Speaking after O'Reilly was liberal action hero Ed Schultz, who spun what was said at the conference on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" that…
Jack Coleman