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NB Staff

Denver Post Helps Left Re-Define Astroturfing

Joshua Sharf

States Can't Afford to Track Stimulus - Denver Post, AP Forget to Ask

Joshua Sharf

DNC Chairman Denies Obama Admin Requested Christ Symbol Cover-Up

Is this the new politics Barack Obama promised to bring to Washington?  His hand-picked DNC Chairman just went on national TV and denied that the Obama administration requested Georgetown University to cover up the IHS monogram representing the name of Christ.  Confronted with a CNSNews.com article flatly reporting that such a request had indeed been made, Tim Kaine resorted to the hoary dodge of…
Mark Finkelstein

NPR Finds Tea Parties Channel 'Pet Peeves,' Organized by Conservative

Tim Graham

Leftwing Media 'Group Think' Not Just in America

Andrew Bolt has a fine takedown of The Age newspaper in Australia's Herald Sun today, April 17. It details quite nicely that not just the U.S. media is wallowing in leftwing "group think." His is headlined "Picture is kiss of death for George Bush prejudice" and lays out the complete lack of historical research of even recent events perpetrated by The Age newspaper in its unthinking assumptions…
Warner Todd Huston

'D.N.C.'s A.T.M.' Steven Rattner Allegedly Under SEC Scrutiny in Kickb

Update below: Wall Street Journal Removes 'Probe' From Headline, edits article text. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the man lovingly referred to as the "D.N.C.'s A.T.M.," by the New York Times is under scrutiny by the SEC in an alleged kickback scheme involving New York state's pension fund. The pay to play scheme has already resulted in the arrest of a top political fundraiser in a "…
Terry Trippany

Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President

During last year's election campaign, liberal media members treated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with a hatred most Americans had never witnessed from the press.On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.Garofalo actually called Party-goers…
Noel Sheppard

Surprise Video: Colbert Defends Bible and Christ's Divinity, Slams 'Ha

Here's a rare sight: A host of a major television show forcefully defending the Bible and central tenets of Christianity. It happened recently on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, when host Stephen Colbert - in his own inimitable way - rebutted the assertions of Bart Ehrman, a self-described "happy agnostic" who has written a number of books attempting to discredit the Bible and the central…
Dave Pierre

Avoiding Criticism: CNN Shuts Down Anti-Tea Party Reporter's Email Add

So, we are all well aware of the so-called reporter from CNN, Susan Roesgen whose on-air haranguing of those she was ostensibly reporting on made obvious her anti-Republican bias. Well, for the past day Americans have been emailing her to let her know how they feel about her unprofessional attitude. Apparently, CNN does not appreciate hearing from its viewers, though, because all of a sudden…
Warner Todd Huston

ABC Upset 'Chilling' Memos Reveal Zubaydah 'Tortured with an Insect

ABC's Charles Gibson, Jan Crawford Greenburg and George Stephanopoulos all stressed Thursday night how, Bush administration Justice Department memos clarifying what techniques interrogators could use with suspected terrorists, included what Stephanopoulos described as “torture with an insect” -- a method ABC failed to note was not ever employed. “Tonight, secret memos,” anchor Charles Gibson…
Brent Baker

Thursday Funnies: 9-year-old Has Better News Skills Than Roesgen

CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen showed America Wednesday exactly how journalists shouldn't behave when interviewing regular citizens; she should take some tips from this endearing nine-year-old who masterfully covered yesterday's Tea Party in Santa Clarita Valley, California (presented with Daddy's permission):
Noel Sheppard

CNN Questions 'Rationality' of Tea Parties, Hints They're 'Out of Step

On Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Jeffrey Toobin voiced their skepticism about the hundreds of Tea Party protests across the U.S., with Toobin stating how it was “disturbing” that there was a “edge of anger at the government” at the rallies. He continued, “There is a real -- a real hostility that is not just politics as usual among some of these people....I…
Matthew Balan

Joe Scarborough Takes on MSNBC? Attacks Reporters Who Mock Tea Parties

Has "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough had enough of MSNBC's mocking, sexually-laced taunts about "teabagging?" Several anchors on the liberal cable network, including David Shuster and Rachel Maddow, have used crude references and language to deride the tax day protests that occurred on Wednesday. On Thursday, Scarborough complained, "You look at these huge rallies, and I'm not going to mention…
Scott Whitlock