Big Hack Attack: Global Warming Exposed as 'Globaloney

UPDATE: Also see Noel Sheppard's post on the same topic, where more names are named. Two months ago, there was the "Dog Ate My Global Warming Data" episode. As noted at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog (original source: National Review Online), we learned that important original information forming the underpinning of global warming alarmists' claims about the earth heating up has vanished. It is…
Tom Blumer

WaPo Buries Faulty GAO Data Story on Page A22; No Mention of Fake Cong

In what could easily be labeled the understatement of the week and probably of the entire month of November, the Washington Post today headlined a page A22 story today "GAO warns stimulus jobs data could contain inaccuracies."The print story is accompanied by a screenshot of Recovery.gov, which the caption beneath it notes "is the government's stimulus-tracking Web site." Of course, the biggest…
Ken Shepherd

MSNBC’s Ratigan Wonders If Americans Should ‘Stop Whining

Citing a Democratic congressman who recently proposed a no whining day, on Friday’s Morning Meeting on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan asked: “...unemployment, health care, a couple of wars, Americans got plenty to be frustrated about these days...But some people say stop the whining....Is ‘shut up and deal’ the new American mantra?” Ratigan made that question the topic of discussion for the ‘Trend or…
Kyle Drennen

ACORN Controversy Provides Case Study in Combating Media Liberalism

The scandal surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has provided a number of case studies in liberal media bias. The initial silence of the vast majority of media outlets on the story, the attempts by leftist commentators to excuse ACORN and discredit the group's critics, and Andrew Breitbart's strategy of rolling out video exposes periodically to counter those…
Lachlan Markay

On MSNBC, Ebony Honoree Dyson: Obama's 'Brought Sexy Brilliance Back t

Brent Baker

CBS’s 'Early Show' Skips Grilling of Geithner, Lawmakers Calling for

CBS’s Early Show on Friday completely ignored the grilling Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner received on Capitol Hill on Thursday and the calls for his resignation by members of Congress. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both covered the contentious exchanges. ABC’s Good Morning America provided the most coverage. Correspondent Bianna Golodryga observed that "a handful of Republicans and…
Scott Whitlock

NBC's Vieira and Gregory Write Off Obama Struggles as Merely 'Percepti

At first glance it appeared that NBC's Meredith Vieira and David Gregory, on Friday's Today show, did a decent job of recounting all of the struggles the Obama administration is dealing with from unemployment to foreign policy, but ultimately the pair concluded, in every instance, they weren't actual problems, but merely problems of "perception." First up Vieira mentioned Treasury Secretary…
Geoffrey Dickens

Joy Behar, George Lopez Label Todd Palin a 'Bum' for Being a Stay-at-H

After introducing Lopez on her CNN Headline News program last night, Behar played a clip of Lopez's HBO special in which he said, "There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She's got all the signs. She works and her husband don't."   Later in the segment, after commenting about Palin's lack of experience, Lopez stated…
Colleen Raezler

Psychology Today Writer: Palin ‘A Very Special Liar

The Associated Press "fact check" of Sarah Palin's new book wasn't enough. Now the left is just coming out and claiming Palin is a flat out liar. That was the argument made by Bella DePaulo in a Psychology Today blog entitled "Sarah Palin's Lies." DePaulo, who has a Harvard Ph.D. in psychology and experience in analyzing lying, claims Palin excels at it. "From my post as an outside observer, it…
Dan Gainor

Huffington Argues Glenn Beck Should Be Excluded from Constitutionally

Want to know how the left really feels about free speech?  Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 "Countdown" to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is "the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke fires of anti-government anger" and…
Jeff Poor

CNBC's Santelli Rebuts Lou Dobbs' Populism in Kudlow Appearance

Now that former CNN host Lou Dobbs has been freed of his duties with his former network, he has been making the rounds on other networks - Fox News "The O'Reilly Factor," Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and now with his long-time rival's show CNBC's "The Kudlow Report."  One of the issues debated among a panel consisting of Dobbs, host Larry Kudlow, former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert…
Jeff Poor

CNBC's Santelli Rebuts Lou Dobbs' Populism

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs appears on long-time rival Kudlow's show to make case that government policy is needed to improve middle class standard of living.
Jeff Poor

GMA Over-indulges on CSPI Food Attacks

As reported on NewsBusters recently, the kill-joy food police are here just in time for the holidays.  On Nov. 19 ABC's "Good Morning America" aired a recycled study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a liberal activist group that, if it were given the power, would ban everything from remote controls to Chinese food to donuts to casual dining. But even without that power, the…
Carolyn Plocher

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