NewsBuster Finkelstein On Joe-Mika Radio Show Spars On Fat Tax, Fox Ne

Earlier today, the Joe Scarborough radio show, with Mika Brzezinski, aired a wide-ranging interview with this NewsBuster.  Highlights:Mika justified her nanny-state proposal of a tax on fatty foods by saying eating habits are not a matter of personal choice because others must bear the health care cost.  Finkelstein's response: kill two birds with one stone by getting government out of the health…
Mark Finkelstein

FCC Goes Left to Analyze Future of Journalism

Chairman appoints liberal Beliefnet president who said McCain was trying to make Obama look like Antichrist.
Dan Gainor

Liberal PBS Host Slams Obama From Left For...Shooting Hoops with the G

Ken Shepherd

CNN's Brown Points Out Fox and MSNBC's Bias; Ignores Network's Own

CNN’s Campbell Brown was quick to point out the apparent biases of competitors MSNBC and Fox News during her program on Wednesday, but ignored that of her own network as she tried to portray it as unbiased: “Some of us, like my colleagues here at CNN, are still trying to do journalism....I’m not critical of what my friends at Fox News and MSNBC do, but it is apples and oranges when compared to…
Matthew Balan

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Joe Biden is the 'Greatest Vice President of

Update [Ken Shepherd, managing editor]: Scarborough responds via Twitter, insisting he was joking [see more at bottom of post]. Video embedded to the right.Joe Biden is the "greatest Vice President of our time."No, dear reader, I have not lost my marbles.  I'm merely citing MSNBC's token quasi-conservative Joe Scarborough, who said on this morning's edition of "Morning Joe":We understand that Joe…
Mike Sargent

Wanda Sykes on 'Today': Hoping Limbaugh's Kidneys Fail Just A 'Joke

Comedian Wanda Sykes, invited on Thursday’s "Today" show to plug her HBO comedy special and new late night talk show, was pressed by co-host Meredith Vieira to comment about her crass remark at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner that she hoped Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys would fail. The stand-up comic initially defended her Limbaugh death wish as she claimed, "I was having fun...and I meant what…
Geoffrey Dickens

WaPo Rips GOP Gov Candidate, Bizarrely Cites ‘Non-partisan’ Gay Gr

The Washington Post on Thursday continued its quest to defeat Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, bizarrely citing a "non-partisan" group that, in reality, has endorsed Bob McDonnell’s Democratic opponent. The article by Anita Kumar contained this loaded headline: "McDonnell critics question ideology: Some saw agenda in legal opinions." Kumar quoted Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, a lobbyist…
Scott Whitlock

Kudos to Rep. Steve King for Exposing NFL Hypocrisy Against Rush Limba

Congressman King's insistence for an apology yesterday is exactly what we have been calling on the media to do since they first misrepresented the fictitious, racist quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Rep. King set the record straight, exposing the outright fabrications and distortions attributed to Limbaugh. [see our "Tell the Truth" Web page detailing the media's smears of Limbaugh]  He…
Brent Bozell

Open Thread

NB Staff

Gainor Column: Eco-nuts, al Qaeda Hate Civilization Equally

Around the globe, environmental protesters tried “a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef,” according to The New York Times.The sweeping Oct. 24 protest was to bully developed nations like the United States into a climate change agreement when they meet in Copenhagen this December. The 350.org protesters, who want to drop CO2 in the…
Dan Gainor

Oops! WaPo TV Writer Asserts '2.9 Children Ages 2 to 11' Watched Broad

Tim Graham

In Pakistan, Hillary Says Obama-Bush Like 'Daylight And Dark

So much for politics ending at the water's edge . . . Hillary Clinton has gone to Pakistan and bragged of having opposed Pres. Bush during her entire Senate career. Clinton also depicted the difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush as being "like daylight and dark."  For good measure, Clinton played the moral equivalency card, declaring "we cannot let a minority of people in both…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN's Lou Dobbs Claims Shot Fired at Home, Wife

Recently a lot of hubbub had been made about the possibility that the peaceful tea party protests and some conservative voices would stir up emotions that could lead to violence. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was even one of those sounding that alarm. But what has gone unsaid by those same voices has been the possibility of violence against those who might take a position antithetical to…
Jeff Poor

Alan 'GOP Wants You To Die Quickly' Grayson 'Apologizes' a Month Later

In late September, Florida Congressional Democrat Alan Grayson earned attention and apparently fawning support from the far left by describing the Republican Party's health care plan, as "1. Don't get sick; 2. And if you do get sick, 3. die quickly." Grayson's supposed apology for these over-the-top remarks on the House Floor -- remarks that would surely have earned him censure and relentless…
Tom Blumer