LAT Jumps on PC Bandwagon, Ignores Islamic Beliefs of Ft. Hood Shooter

As reports of the Fort Hood shooting began to pour in yesterday, numerous news outlets neglected to mention that the shooter is a Muslim. Either the potential import of this fact was completely lost on these journalists, or they omitted the shooter's Muslim affiliations out of a concern for political correctness.CBS and NBC both omitted the shooter's faith in their East Coast feeds last night, as…
Lachlan Markay

Hollywood Morality: Teen Sex on TV Okay Because Real-Life Teens Do It

According to actress Sandra Bernhard, no "kid is going to watch something about sex and then run out immediately and do it." Bernhard commented during a Nov. 5 segment on CNN's "Joy Behar Show" that focused on the upcoming threesome episode of CW's "Gossip Girl." Behar asked Bernhard and her fellow panelists, actresses Aisha Tyler and Fran Drescher, what they thought about the Parents…
Colleen Raezler

Friday Funny: The Latest Notable Quotable Comedy Show

NB Staff

Unemployment Surges to 10.2 Percent, CNN Asks About Second Stimulus

President Obama lobbied for government stimulus almost as soon as he took office. In order to gain passage of that $787 billion spending spree, Obama warned of economic "catastrophe" including double-digit unemployment. Roughly 9 months later, we now have proof that those billions of taxpayer dollars spent didn't stop the unemployment rate from soaring to 10.2 percent. Still, that failure didn't…
Julia A. Seymour

Robert Reich: ObamaCare Won't Cut Costs OR Improve Health Care

Former Clinton Labor Secretary and current Obama economic adviser Robert Reich believes healthcare legislation currently being debated on Capitol Hill "won't offer most Americans any appreciable decline in the cost of their health insurance nor clear improvement in the efficiency or quality of the health care they receive."Contrary to what President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their…
Noel Sheppard

Buried: NY Times Plunks GOP Protest In Middle of A-15 Story Titled 'Ho

Tim Graham

ABC’s Diane Sawyer Repeats Concern of Wishing Muslim Shooter’s

All three morning shows on Friday identified the man who killed 12 at an Army base in Texas as a Muslim. However, Good Morning America’s Diane Sawyer repeated a concern from Thursday’s World News: "...We heard Martha Raddatz say last night that the wife of a soldier said ‘I wish his name had been Smith,’ so no one would have a reflexive question about [a religious motive]." In comparison, on…
Scott Whitlock

Unemployment Surges to 10.2 Percent, CNN Asks About Need for Second St

'American Morning' shares latest job numbers, inquires about stimulus 2.0 and refuses to point out failure of initial stimulus.
Julia A. Seymour

MRC-TV: Brent Bozell Double Feature: 'Hannity' and 'Fox & Friends

Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on "Hannity" last night and talked about the Fort Hood shooting as well as the conservative rally at the Capitol yesterday which drew thousands on short notice. [see video embedded at right]Regarding the latter Bozell quipped, "Spontaneous combustion! This wasn't an instant tea party. This was a coffee urn exploding…
NB Staff

Emerging Bias: Newsweek Claims Fort Hood Shooter Exposed Overstretched

Tim Graham

Maddow Wrongly Claims 'Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble

Did you know the United States Constitution doesn't have a Preamble?Well, that's what the oh so arrogant, high and mighty MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told her audience Thursday night.In a segment attacking the attendees of yesterday's "House Call" protests on Capitol Hill, Maddow chided Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for claiming he was quoting from the Preamble of the Constitution (video…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: how will apologists try to spin this one?Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. This is…
NB Staff

Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.2%; AP Reports 'Economy Is Rebounding

The October unemployment rate has just been released and it has jumped to  double digits at 10.2%, the worst rate since 1983. Just a little over half a point higher would make this the worst recession since the Great Depression. So how is the Associated Press reporting the growing unemployment numbers? "The economy is rebounding." I kid you not. This AP report by Christopher S. Rugaber was…
P.J. Gladnick

'Noisy Rally' By 'a Few Thousand' Matched by 'Powerful' AARP and AMA E

Despite the mass shooting at Fort Hood, the ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts Thursday night squeezed in full stories pegged to a “kill the bill” anti-Pelosi/ObamaCare rally outside the U.S. Capitol attended by “angry protesters” as all the stories also stressed how President Obama got a “boost” from “big,” “powerful” “key” and “major” endorsements from the AARP and AMA. NBC's Brian Williams contrasted…
Brent Baker