MRC's Graham Discusses Newsweek Columnist's Discovery: Media Infatuate

Appearing on the June 3 "America's Newsroom" program, Graham discussed Newsweek economics columnist Robert Samuelson's gripe that the media's "Obama infatuation is a great unreported story of our time."  Samuelson "is a reasonable guy" who "has got to know that we've had years of pro-Obama bias, and certainly in the pages of his own magazine, where there are syrupy pictures of Barack and/or…
NB Staff

ABC Turns to Doomsday Propaganda to Push Global Warming Solutions

As Newsbusters has been covering for nearly a year, ABC developed and heavily promoted a nightmare "documentary" of our future (unless we listen to the einironmentalists). The Business & Media Institute's Dan Gainor watched "Earth 2100" when it aired last night:ABC’s “Earth 2100” tried to tell the story of the future but ended up a documentary about the present. The global warming Armageddon-…
Matt Philbin

Journalists Ignore Reality That 'Post-Racial' President Isn't

In the run-up to Obama’s election, journalists were promoting him as a “post-racial” candidate. Now with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court we know that both the media and the candidate were lying to us.As USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham wrote on May 5, 2009, “For many people in the USA, Obama's election ushered in a post-racial era that was expected to push race to the back…
Dan Gainor

You Will Wear White, and You Will Like It

Our emerging dicatorship of clowns.
Dan Kennedy

Open Thread

NB Staff

Reid Hasn't Read One of Sotomayor's Opinions, Media Mostly Mum

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) admitted Tuesday that he "[hasn't] read a single one" of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's opinions despite praising her as "the whole package."Not surprisingly, the Obama loving media gleefully reported the latter while almost completely ignoring the former.What a shock, huh?Here's how Reid on Tuesday responded to the questions: "Is there anything…
Noel Sheppard

ABC Rues 'It's a Lot Easier to Make Cuts Than It is To Raise Taxes

Two weeks after ABC's Laura Marquez blamed California's budget deficit on an “unwillingness to raise taxes” tied to 1978's Proposition 13 “mandating an almost unachievable two-thirds vote by the legislature to raise taxes,” on Tuesday night she repeated herself as she lamented “education and social services continue to end up on the chopping block” because “it's a lot easier to make cuts than it…
Brent Baker

Biased PolitiFact.com Covers for ACORN, Attacks Michele Bachmann

Matthew Vadum

Inhofe: Senate Will Not Pass Cap-and-Trade

Oklahoma senator cites recent trend against global warming legislation; dismisses House efforts and claims EPA action to impose it can be stalled.
Jeff Poor

'State-Run' Media of North Korea and USA Eerily Similar in Fawning Lea

Rush Limbaugh has recently begun referring to the mainstream media as the "state-run" media. Think he is exaggerating? Well, compare what we know to be the state-run coverage of the Korean Central News Agency of North Korea reporting on their Dear Leader with the coverage of Barack Obama by our own media and you decide. First let us take a look at Brian Willams gushing over Obama munching on M…
P.J. Gladnick

MSNBC's Wolffe: Abortionist Murder Has 'Direct Link' to 'Kill Him' Cal

Tim Graham

FNC's O'Reilly Interviews Liberal Attorney Who Witnessed Black Panther

On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed liberal civil rights attorney Bartle Bull about the Justice Department’s recent decision to drop charges against Black Panther members who engaged in voter intimidation in Philadelphia polling place last November. Bull – who worked for both Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter – was an eyewitness to some of the intimidation, and…
Brad Wilmouth

Journo Award Goes to... Arianna Huffington

Well, I am just as shocked as Simon Dumenco over at AdvertisingAge.com is that the leading anti-journalist of our day, Arianna Huffington, was just awarded the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award. I mean, Huffington a "journalist"? Come on, isn't that stretching things just a tad?Dumenco is flabbergasted that Huffington won this award even though she "thinks journalists should work for free…
Warner Todd Huston

Kos Kids Back at it – Wishing Death upon Michelle Malkin

Wasn't it just a couple of days ago that the crew over at the Daily Kos was fretting about how conservatives as a whole are equally as complicit in the murder of George Tiller as the shooter himself?  And of the details being reported to better understand the background of the actual killer, Scott Roeder, doesn't one major detail involve the posts that he left on anti-abortion Web sites? With…
Rusty Weiss