NY Times' Kristof, MSNBC's Snyderman Hype the Bisphenol A Boogeyman

Left-leaning media voices hype threats of substance based on tenuous circumstantial similarities and 'soft science.'
Jeff Poor

EPA Threatens Own Lawyers Over Video Critical Of Cap and Trade

The Environmental Protection Agency has threatened two of its own attorneys over a video they posted at YouTube which was highly critical of pending global warming legislation.This wasn't the first time the agency came down on its own people for having views contrary to the Obama administration, for in March it suppressed an internal report which challenged the connection between rising…
Noel Sheppard

Conservative Activist, Author Talks to Bloggers About New Book on

Earlier today I had the pleasure of attending the weekly blogger's briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Conservative activist and public relations consultant Craig Shirley was the featured guest, and he spoke about his new book "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America."Shirley noted the remarkable parallels between the Republican Party that Reagan and…
Ken Shepherd

Prejean Slams Olbermann, Calls Out Liberal Media Double Standards on T

Invited on Tuesday's Today show to promote her new book, Carrie Prejean defended the latest scrutiny surrounding her as the latest example of "liberal bias in the media," of "conservative women" being attacked. When confronted by Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira about her assertion she's been "Palinized," Prejean threw back "Do you think Sarah Palin has been attacked," to which Vieira dodged the…
Geoffrey Dickens

HuffPo Ponders Separate NY Times Bestsellers List for 'Conservative Bl

According to The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and other right-of-center stars that regularly dominate the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestsellers List are - or should be - in a league of their own. No, that isn't Arianna Huffington's blog heaping praise on conservative authors. It's a literal suggestion. With right-leaning books and authors holding so many…
Jeff Poor

First Day Contrast: Olbermann Called Tiller Shooting 'Terrorism' and a

Tim Graham

MSNBC Frets About ‘Far Right’ and ‘Super Conservatives Alienatin

MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan anchored a segment on Tuesday’s Morning Meeting that worried about the "far right" and wondered whether "super conservatives" are alienating "GOP centrists." The host hyperbolically spun, "But are the super conservatives of our country careening the GOP toward the edge of irrelevance, leaving centrists Republicans fighting for control of their own party?" Later, his…
Scott Whitlock

Fox News Hating White House Aide Anita Dunn to Step Down

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn is stepping down at the end of the month.NewsBusters readers should remember Dunn as the outspoken Adminstration official who made quite a splash in October when she said the Fox News Channel "really is not a news network at this point."Now, according to the Associated Press, she's passing the baton:
Noel Sheppard

NBC's Todd Calls Liberal Senators Lieberman and Sanders Ideological 'P

Only in the mind of a liberal media journalist would Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders be considered ideological "polar opposites," but that’s what NBC's Chuck Todd, during a piece aired on the health care debate on Tuesday's Today show, declared.CHUCK TODD: Meanwhile, the Senate's two Democratic independents, polar opposites ideologically, are split over the bill's government-run…
Geoffrey Dickens

Pfizer Leaving New London, CT; Just Don't Mention 'Kelo' While Reporti

It's a development that I wouldn't wish on anybody, but one that the City of New London, Connecticut largely brought upon itself by pursuing and winning the Kelo v. New London case at the Supreme Court in June 2005. Some "win." In what Ed Morrissey at Hot Air calls "a fitting coda to a chapter of governmental abuse," pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer is leaving the global research and…
Tom Blumer

Olbermann: Obama 'Target of Racism from Right,' 'Hated' for Being 'Bla

On Monday's Countdown show, responding to Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour's recent contention on NBC's Meet the Press that President Obama has personal popularity -- based partially on being the first black President -- that is separate from the unpopularity of Obama's policies, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann labeled Barbour's words as "incoherent," and charged that President Obama is…
Brad Wilmouth

Reuters, PBS Noted Faith's Role in Fall of Berlin Wall

I believe in miracles. They happen everyday. Like Reuters, of all news outlets, acknowledging the role that religious faith played in the dissident movements in East Germany leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.Sarah Pulliam Bailey picked up on that in a November 9 post at Get Religion yesterday:With Bon Jovi, Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev likely to steal the spotlight at the…
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread

NB Staff

Blitzer and Dobbs Casually Discuss Pot's Smell and Appearance

There were some potentially interesting and concerning admissions on CNN Monday night when Wolf Blitzer said he thought he could identify a marijuana plant by its smell, and Lou Dobbs followed by saying he could recognize it "rather readily" by sight.Unfortunately, neither mentioned whether or not they inhaled.Somewhat comically, Dobbs, speaking with Blitzer and Jessica Yellin during the 6PM…
Noel Sheppard