At Tea Party, 'Cheers' Alum Ratzenberger Frets U.S. Honors Failure, No

"At some point, I'm still trying to figure this out, we became a nation that honors failure and rewards it, instead of honoring success and rewarding it," actor John Ratzenberger told Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto on Wednesday's "Your World" program. The "Cheers" alum appeared at the Sacramento Tea Party to register his concerns about government tax and spend policies. [full video by Fox News…
Ken Shepherd

Weekend Captionfest

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
NB Staff

BMI's Dan Gainor Talks Tea Parties on FBN's Cavuto

Matt Philbin

Man Who Took on CNN's Susan Roesgen is a NewsBusters Reader

Remember the man at Wednesday's Chicago Tea Party who took on the astoundingly incompetent CNN correspondent -- and Fox News wannabe! -- Susan Roesgen?Well, it turns out he's a reader of NewsBusters.On Thursday, Norman aka namron was Mark Levin's guest.Early on in the interview, Norman said (audio available here h/t Hot Air):
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews' Rage over 'Bad Guy' Castro Surprises 'Morning Joe' Hos

During an appearance on Friday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews certainly didn't parrot the liberal line while discussing Fidel Castro and Cuban policy. In the midst of a an interview with host Joe Scarborough about the relaxing of certain rules towards the communist country, Matthews growled, "...I just am not a Castro fan. You know, he bought the wrong ticket. He bet on communism.…
Scott Whitlock

Networks Use Misleading Gun Statistic in Reporting on Mexican Drug War

While reporting on the ongoing drug war in Mexico, CBS, NBC, and ABC have all cited a dubious statistic that claims that 90% of the guns being used in the violence are from the United States. On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Bill Plante reported: "Mexican drug gang violence spilling into the U.S. is the urgent issue of President Obama's visit...A major sore point -- more than 90% of…
Kyle Drennen

Time Trashed Bernard Goldberg Book, But Tells Conservatives to Sit In

Two months ago, Time magazine trashed Bernard Goldberg’s book on liberal pro-Obama bias (A Slobbering Love Affair) as a book to "toss" instead of read in their mini-book review featured called The Skimmer. In the latest Time, Andrea Sachs praised the newest James Carville book, titled 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. It drew a "Skim" command instead of a "Read," but…
Tim Graham

'Anti-CNN' TEA Party Reporter Rejected for Gig at Fox News - Twice

CNN's Susan Roesgen, whose anti-TEA Party pseudo-reporting made her a legend in her own mind, and a biased Obama-flack hack in ours, is in the news on her own (de)merit again today.One peculiar line from one of her peculiar rant-filled reports was that the TEA Parties were being "anti-CNN" because they were "highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox."Well it turns out she wasn'…
Seton Motley

Media Hails Hillary, Picks on Palin

New twist on the old media double standard: Strong pro-life women shouldn’t accept far-flung speaking engagements. They should stay home (presumably barefoot and pregnant, too.) Strong pro-choice women, however, are welcome to “champion women’s rights,” wherever and whenever they please. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently gave a speech at a pro-life dinner in Indiana on April 16 and the media…
Erin R. Brown

Rachel Maddow and WSJ Columnist Paint Tea Party Revelers as Secessioni

Thomas Frank laughs at FOX News for 'embracing' tea parties' 'lunatic fringe.'
Julia A. Seymour

Newsweek Wrings Hands Over Deadly Force on Pirates

Oh, the Navy's gone and done it. They've made the pirates angrier, and hence more dangerous.Newsweek's Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff predicted in their April 15 piece that the future of pirate encounters off the Horn of Africa will only result in more "Blood in the Water," because it will "radicalize the [Somali] population" according to some insurance and shipping experts.Before the demise…
Ken Shepherd

Maddow Ignores Inconvenient Element to Gitmo Prisoner Calling Al Jazee

This journalism "thingy," a word used with cloying frequency by MSNBC political analyst Rachel Maddow, is proving problematic for the former Air America Radio host.On her cable show Tuesday night, Maddow informed viewers of "breaking news" that a terrorist suspect imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay had somehow called the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network on a cell phone.Here's how Maddow described it…
Jack Coleman

Bunch of Junk: The New York Times Is 'Bending Over Backwards' for Cons

Tim Graham

Another Obamessianic Headline: How 'Obama Resurrected The Dead

Well, shucks. Maybe Arizona State University should give Obama an honorary degree after all. After all, he can raise the Dead. The Grateful Dead, that is.John Rogers of the Associated Press explains in his April 17 story, "How Barack Obama resurrected The Dead" (h/t e-mail tipster Sarah Anne Hoyt): LOS ANGELES – He's still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama…
Ken Shepherd