Open Thread

NB Staff

NPR's Mara Liasson Apologizes for Comparing Cash for Clunkers to Katri

Tim Graham

GOP Congressman Booed for Telling People to Turn Off Glenn Beck

The media would like folks to believe that only Democrats are hearing it from constituents at town hall meetings this August, but given what happened to Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) Thursday evening, nothing could be further from the truth.As he spoke to a group of 350 citizens at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs, he asked an outspoken attendee why she was afraid of Barack Obama.…
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC's O'Donnell Performs Possibly the Worst Interview in History

Is it a requirement at MSNBC that program hosts interrupt conservative guests whenever possible thereby preventing anyone other than liberals to make a point?Such certainly appeared to be the case Thursday evening when Lawrence O'Donnell filled in on "The Ed Show" and treated his guest, Peter Schiff, more poorly and unprofessionally than just about anything I've ever witnessed.It was so bad that…
Noel Sheppard

CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care

There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound…

Rich Noyes

Media Ignore Democrat Astroturfing at Pelosi Event

As media members fell all over themselves last week calling town hall meeting protesters part of an angry mob financed by conservative organizations, they were totally disinterested in evidence of astroturfing by Democrats at an event attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.).To highlight the supposed impact of stimulus funds on healthcare services, Pelosi joined Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo…
Noel Sheppard

Atlanta TV Exposes Dem Congressman Yelling At Healthcare Questioner

As national media outlets and their employees depict town hall meeting protesters as right-wing outsiders organized by conservative organizations, the Atlanta affiliate of NBC aired a segment Friday evening that should act as a fine example of how this uprising in America should be covered.11 Alive reporter Duffie Dixon not only showed a heated exchange between Rep. David Scott (D-13th District)…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: It's Saturday...you tell us.
NB Staff

Bacon: Weapon of Mass Destruction

Tim Graham

AP Dispatch Spikes Conservatives in Gay Therapy Story (Updated

Tim Graham

Bozell Column: The Quiet War Movie

Brent Bozell

Pro-Lifers To CBS On ObamaCare Abortion Coverage: It's In There

What follows is not meant in any way to make light of a literally life-and-death issue. It is instead meant to perhaps (we can always hope) drill a little truth into the thick heads of the establishment media's alleged "journalists" who continue to refuse to see what's right in front of them in ObamaCare (or in many cases to even read the legislation in the first place).You see, abortion coverage…
Tom Blumer

Cynthia Tucker: 45-65% Of Townhall Protesters Are Racists

Are you opposed to ObamaCare?  Willing to attend a town hall to express your disapproval?  Odds are good you're a racist.  Just ask Cynthia Tucker . . . As Clay Waters has noted, Paul Krugman alleges that racist motives are at the heart of the town hall protests against ObamaCare.  On this evening's Hardball, Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was willing to get specific,…
Mark Finkelstein

Victim of Alleged SEIU Town Hall Assault in St. Louis Interviewed on C

On Friday’s Your World program, Fox News Channel’s interviewed Kenneth Gladney, the victim of an assault outside a health care town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, along with his lawyer David Brown. A video of the immediate aftermath of the attack (posted earlier on NewsBusters by Seton Motley) showed some of the suspects wearing t-shirts bearing the logo of the SEIU union, which is a…
Matthew Balan