AP's Citi Deal Report Avoids 'Nationalization,' Plays 'Name That Party

There's an N-Word you apparently write at your own risk if you're in the establishment media. It's "nationalization." The Associated Press's Stephen Bernard, with the help of old reliables Jeannine Aversa and Martin Crutsinger, blew through almost 800 words (link is dynamic; 12:49 p.m. version is saved here for future reference, is now authored by Crutsinger, and is longer than what I originally…
Tom Blumer

NewsBusted

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Tina Brown: Liberal Ad Elevates 'Blow-hard Bullfrog' Rush Limbaugh

Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown appeared on Friday's "Morning Joe" to lament that a new liberal ad featuring Rush Limbaugh would only elevate the status of the "blow-hard bullfrog" conservative host. The liberal group Americans United for Change has a spot running that slams Republicans as a party of no and features a clip of Limbaugh's now famous comment that he wants Obama's…
Scott Whitlock

SanFran Chron Columnist: Obama is 'Articulate, Zen-like, Brave,' There

Well, the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Morford out does himself with sycophantic, hyperbole over his Obammessiah, today, February 27. He so revels in hero worship for The One, it's amazing that the White House doesn't feel compelled to get an order of protection against this creepy columnist. No one in the Old Media is more sold on The One and less credible for his girlish crush than Morford.…
Warner Todd Huston

NewsBusters @ CPAC Day Two

Once again NewsBusters is at CPAC. We'll be covering the events and speakers, giving you a flavor of everything via our page on Twitter, @TheMRC. Log on to our Twitter page and check it out. Right now NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is addressing the role the biased media have to play in pushing a gun control agenda.  
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Open Thread

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MSNBC Headline Focuses on 'Assault Rifle' in Killing -- No Other AP He

MSNBC took the occasion of a triple homicide on Chicago's south side to push its own anti-"assault rifle" meme on February 27 by including the words "assault rifle" in the headline of its story on the incident. No other media source, however, took this unusual step. So, here we have some old fashioned bias by MSNBC. MSNBC's version of the story clumsily screams "Man charged in assault rifle…
Warner Todd Huston

New Republic 'Modest' Proposal: Sen. Michelle Or Sen. Mother-in-law

Keep in mind this is supposed to be a "modest," not laughable, proposal by the New Republic: replace Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate with Michelle Obama. And if she is not available, then send Barack Obama's mother-in-law to the Senate. I kid you not. Stand by for yet the latest chapter in Obama worship as you read this "modest" proposal by Jason Zengerle of the New Republic titled, "A Modest…
P.J. Gladnick

Olbermann & Garofalo See ‘Self-Loathing’ ‘Black Guy’ Michael S

On Thursday’s Countdown show, left-wing actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo appeared to talk about a recent poll finding that Rush Limbaugh is substantially less popular with women than with men. Evoking laughter from host Keith Olbermann, Garofalo remarked that "the type of female that does like Rush is the same type of woman that falls in love with prisoners." After mentioning serial…
Brad Wilmouth

CNN'S Kyra Phillips to Stevie Wonder: 'Come Back and See Us Again, OK

It admittedly doesn't come close to her ladies' room rant about her sister-in-law, but CNN Newsroom anchor Kyra Phillips experienced another oops moment Wednesday.  She devoted almost seven minutes to interviewing singer Stevie Wonder.  The musician was awarded the Gershwin Prize, and Wednesday evening would be honored in the White House.  So she let Stevie enthusiastically speak of someone she…
Mike Bates

A Commercial for Adultery

A dating service for married people claims it's not enabling cheaters. Their slogan, Life's short, have an affair, says otherwise.
L. Brent Bozell III

MSNBC's David Shuster: 'Good Grief!' Joe the Plumber Makes CPAC a Joke

Tim Graham

More Obama Adulation on CNN from Jack Cafferty and David Gergen

CNN personalities Jack Cafferty and David Gergen continued the chorus of praise for President Obama on Wednesday evening for his first address to a joint session of Congress, twenty-four hours after he had given it. During his regular “Question of the Hour” segment on The Situation Room, Cafferty gushed that the Democrat “had that place in the palm of his hand for the entire time he was in that…
Matthew Balan

CBS: School Mentioned in Obama Speech ‘Shares the Audacity of Hope

At the end of Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric introduced a segment on Tysheoma Bethea, a 14-year-old girl who attended Obama’s address to Congress: "President Obama has said one of the biggest adjustments of his new job is living in a bubble. Now, to combat that problem, he started to read a handful of letters everyday from average Americans. One letter, written by an eighth…
Kyle Drennen