Sotomayor Backers Urge Press to Attack Fireman, Will Media Comply

On the eve of Senate hearings on the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, her supporters are urging the media to attack the Connecticut fireman in the middle of a key ruling she made that could impact the proceedings.The only question is whether or not Obama-loving press will comply with these wishes...or is that really even a question?While you ponder, the following was reported…
Noel Sheppard

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NB Staff

Pope, Schmope: WaPo Oozes 'You Could Have Heard a Pin Drop' When Obama

Saturday’s Washington Post is topped by a photo of Barack and Michelle Obama with Pope Benedict, but the image might be misleading, if you think there’s an actual story on the Vatican visit in the Post. Instead, the visit is buried in the last two paragraphs in an article praising Obama’s personal and racial charisma in Italy. Post reporter Michael Fletcher found great import in the color of the…
Tim Graham

David Brooks: GOP Senator Had Hand On My Thigh During Dinner

In today's "That's WAY Too Much Information" segment, New York Times columnist David Brooks claims that while he was dining with a Republican senator, the guy had his hand on Brooks's inner thigh the whole time.Now, isn't that special?Requiring no further setup, the following REALLY strange discussion occurred on MSNBC Friday (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):
Noel Sheppard

Cramer’s Cure for Ailing Stock Market: News Media Blackout of 'Bolsh

CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer often showcases erratic and unpredictable behavior and the same goes sometimes for his analysis of the stock market. While the economy continues to struggle through the recession, the forward-looking indicators known as the financial markets continue to perplex Cramer for not going up when some positive signs, also known as "green shoots" by the financial media,…
Jeff Poor

Schultz Shills For Government Motors

This was inevitable.  When the Obama administration effectively took over General Motors, Obama-friendly media hacks were going to tout the company's products . . .And so it was that on his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz offered up an unpaid infomercial for GM's new Camaro.  Most grotesque was Schultz's boast that the Camaro was outselling the Ford Mustang. Take that, private-sector company…
Mark Finkelstein

Friday Funnies: Sweatin' With the Socialists

For your Friday entertainment pleasure, do the Nancy Pelosi exercise program that's sweeping the nation -- and sending it into bankruptcy. Put on those workout clothes and get ready to do some Sweatin' With the Socialists (please consult a physician before beginning this or any other exercise program!):
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC Labels Obama Stare Photo 'Right Wing Smear;' Singles Out Drudge

MSNBC’s David Shuster and Tamron Hall labeled the circulation of a photo of President Obama allegedly glancing at a teenager’s posterior a “right wing smear,” and singled out Fox News and Drudge as culprits. They brought on a Media Matters spokesman, who accused these sites of being motivated by a “racist stereotype of an oversexed black man being a predator.” They let this accusation go…
Matthew Balan

USAT's Pathetic Pic At Story About Proposed Military Tobacco Ban

Call it "Yankee Imperialist Corrupts Impressionable Iraqi Youth":Am I supposed to believe that USA Today had no other more relevant pictures they could have used? The fact that they went back to an AP file photo from 2007 is pretty strong evidence that USAT's page-fillers were looking to make a point.Here are selected paragraphs from the related report by Greg Zoroya:
Tom Blumer

Buffett: 'We Need More Taxes

'Billionaire-next-door' again calls for taxing the wealthy on 'Good Morning America.'
Sarah Knoploh

NPR's Terry Gross Suggests Rush Limbaugh Damages GOP By Saying 'Extrem

Tim Graham

Twitter Suspends NewsBusters; UPDATE: NewsBusters is Back

UPDATE: Newsbusters's Twitter account has been reactivated.  Follow Newsbusters here. ---NewsBusters’s Twitter account was suspended today by Twitter for an as yet unknown reason. Conservative social media accounts have been attacked the past few years by liberals who flag them as spam. Matthew Sheffield wrote in 2008:
Mitchell Blatt

Woman Professor Arrested for Child Endangerment? Blame Palin, Says NYT

New York Times columnist Judith Warner's latest web column, "Dangerous Resentment," sees "archaic, phantasmagoric" hatred in the case of Montana State professor Bridget Kevane, arrested for child endangerment for leaving five pre-teen kids (three of them her own) at a mall so she could get some rest. In a piece for a parenting magazine, Kevane painted herself as a victim of the country's hatred…
Clay Waters

Fox News Notes Communist Past of the 'Green Jobs' Czar

The administration’s “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones, has a “very checkered past” deep-rooted in radical politics, including black nationalism, anarchism, and communism. The broadcast network newscasts have mostly failed to report on Mr. Jones’s past political affiliations which are lock-step with the network’s downplay of coverage regarding President Obama’s associations with the former radical and…
Sam Theodosopoulos