Chris Matthews Calls Uber-liberal Dianne Feinstein a 'Centrist' and 'T

In 2008, she achieved a 100% liberal rating by the group Americans for Democratic Action. The same year she voted with conservatives just 4 percent of the time, according to the American Conservative Union. Her lifetime ACU rating is also in the single digits at a mere 9.06.So let's not tell Chris Matthews, shall we. [audio available here] The "Hardball" host today described the California…
Ken Shepherd

TV Viewing Alert: Scott Brown to Appear on Tonight's 'Jay Leno Show

Brent Baker

Media Reaction to 'Ellie Light' Scandal: You're Welcome for the Letter

After getting caught with their pants down on letter-to-the-editor pages, newspapers around the country apparently haven't embarrassed themselves enough yet. Instead of admitting Ellie Light's submission should never have gotten published, editors have recently tried to save face by using remarkable spin: opinion pages are a "privilege" that people should be thankful for, even if they are full…
Candance Moore

Washington Post Gives Obama Great Grades for Promises 'In Progress

The Washington Post launched an interactive page this week to profile President Obama's record on his campaign promises after one year in office. The Post put promises into three categories: "To Do," "In Progress" and "Completed."Based on the president's record, most people would be surprised to learn the Post put most of the promises in the "In Progress" category -- and didn't even include a "…
Amy Menefee Payne

GOP Senator Rips Into MSNBC Host For ‘Absurd,’ ‘Dishonest,’ St

On the soon-to-be canceled ‘It’s the Economy’ program on MSNBC on Thursday, co-host Contessa Brewer grilled Republican New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg on his calls to reduce out-of-control government spending: “Which programs are you willing to cut? Are you willing to tell schools, no money for you?” Gregg shot back: “What an absurd statement to make. And what a dishonest statement to make.”…
Kyle Drennen

CNN's Liberal Panelists Run to Obama's Defense on Supreme Court Rebuke

During CNN’s post-State of Union coverage on Wednesday night, three  liberal commentators- Paul Begala, James Carville, and Roland Martin- put up an energetic defense of President Obama’s rebuke of the Supreme Court during the address. Begala and Carville took issue with Republican panelist Alex Castellanos’s reproof of the President, while Martin rebuked Justice Samuel Alito’s reaction.Anchor…
Matthew Balan

ABC’s Robin Roberts Frets to Teresa Heinz Kerry: What's Up With Scot

Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts on Thursday implored Teresa Heinz Kerry to explain how Republican Scott Brown could have won his Senate race in Massachusetts. Talking to the wife of Democrat John Kerry, she lamented, "What’s happening?" Prefacing this question, a bewildered Roberts recapped, "We have the election, recent election in Massachusetts, where Ted Kennedy had been senator…
Scott Whitlock

DiCaprio Joins Hollywoodans In Ad Promoting Cap and Trade

Leonardo DiCaprio and a list of Hollywood's finest have just released a public service announcement encouraging people to petition Congress to pass the Clean Energy & American Power Act aka cap and trade.The ad was paid for by the left-leaning NRDC Action Fund, a group whose board of directors includes Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and John Podesta, Bill…
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC Brass: Shuster Tweets 'Inappropriate'--Breitbart Forces Retracti

A spokesperson for MSNBC told Politico today that the channel's brass has reprimanded David Shuster for derisive tweets he directed at James O'Keefe Tuesday. Within hours, he had retracted portions of his tweeted comments on air during an interview with Andrew Breitbart.This humble blogger documented the Twitter exchange yesterday, and pointed out that Shuster was much quicker to assume O'Keefe's…
Lachlan Markay

Forget Sham Spending 'Freeze,' Obama's SOTU Proposals Would Cost

President Barack Obama's plan to "freeze" a tiny portion of the federal budget hit Washington with a "thud" Jan. 26. Conservatives argued that the spending freeze Obama would highlight in his State of the Union address Jan. 27 wasn't enough. Liberals, including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called it "appalling on every level." Krugman denounced the plan as "bad long-run fiscal policy…
Julia A. Seymour

Establishment Media Negligence in '08 Campaign Enables Obama Foreign C

In his State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama had this to say about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on campaign finance: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think…
Tom Blumer

Forget Sham Spending 'Freeze,' Obama's Proposals Would Cost $70.5 Bill

Taxpayer group releases line-by-line price tag of State of the Union speech.
Julia A. Seymour

PBS Talks of GOP Takeovers -- and Their Eventual Ruin by 'Tea Baggers

Former Wall Street Journal editor Al Hunt (now with Bloomberg News) expressed grave pessimism about the Democrats on PBS’s Charlie Rose show Wednesday night, to the point where he said they need to jam through a health bill, or lose the House. AL HUNT: They’re going to have to persuade the House to pass the Senate bill...you have to persuade some liberals to swallow hard. I spoke to Nancy Pelosi…
Tim Graham

January 27 'MRC Live!' Now Available On Demand

Yesterday evening before the State of the Union address, CNSNews.com editor-in-chief Terry Jeffrey sat down with NewsBusters Publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell for another edition of "MRC Live!", a live webcast taking questions from friends and fans of MRC and NewsBusters.If you missed it, you're in luck. We recorded the whole thing and uploaded it to EyeBlast.tv,…
NB Staff