Susan Crawford and the Media: Torture is as Torture Does

Susan Crawford's recent assertions of torture simply do not add up, and your main stream media isn't going to investigate anytime soon.  Had Crawford made an assertion that there was unequivocally no torture to speak of at Guantanamo, the media would be sifting meticulously through her statements with a fine-toothed comb, smearing her reputation at every turn.  Instead, her arguments seemingly…
Rusty Weiss

Absolutely Pathetic AP Headline: 'Bush address includes laundry list o

Wow. This unbylined Associated Press story (HT Michelle Malkin) doesn't really require any elaboration, except to note one thing -- It ends the debate over the existence of liberal/left media bias: Exit question:
Tom Blumer

Spike Lee: DC is 'Chocolate City

Discussing post-racial inauguration, CNN doesn't call Lee on outdated racial term.
Erin Brown and Matt Philbin

The Naked Truth About CBS and Teen Sex

The Early Show shows soft-core pics and hosts anti-abstinence advocates, but protests too much when confronted with teen sex.
Erin Brown

Minn. StarTribune Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Many in the Minneapolis area call the paper the RedStarTribune for its often overbearing leftist point of view, but whatever the case of its editorial direction the paper itself is headed for court to file for bankruptcy. And this is another one of the nation's largest papers looking to go belly up. The StarTrib (or Strib as its also called) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday.
Warner Todd Huston

MSNBC Follows Bush with Bush-Bashing Diatribe from Matthews

Democrats and Republicans have the class to allow a President to deliver his farewell address without having it immediately countered by a crass and petty rant from a political opponent trying to settle old scores while issuing cheap insults. Not MSNBC. Seconds after President George W. Bush completed his speech Thursday evening, MSNBC's Countdown featured a diatribe from Chris Matthews…
Brent Baker

Sam Champion Uses Freezing Cold to Tout Global Warming

On Thursday's "Good Morning America," weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion slipped some reassuring words about the validity of climate change into his report on the bone chilling temperatures hitting much of the country. After admitting that NASA had declared 2008 to be the coldest year since 2000, he added, "But they [NASA] caution this was caused in part by a cooling La Nina in…
Scott Whitlock

NBC Revives Barbara Walters' 'Disturbing' Label of Palin

During a report on Thursday’s Today show, NBC News correspondent Norah O’Donnell replayed Barbara Walters’ characterization of Sarah Palin’s recent interview as “disturbing” from Tuesday’s The View. O’Donnell highlighted how the Alaska governor’s comments about how the media treated her versus how it treated Caroline Kennedy “drew a reaction” from the ABC host, and that it was “one more sign that…
Matthew Balan

Time Skips Holder Controversy, But Implied Ashcroft Was Unfit in

Tim Graham

'Fox & Friends' Hosts Note AP's Double Standard on Inaugural 'Extravag

Presumably after having read NewsBusters Senior Editor Rich Noyes's January 14 blog on the matter, the hosts of "Fox & Friends" today discussed the Associated Press's double standard on presidential inauguration spending.STEVE DOOCY: When you look back at how the mainstream media described his [George W. Bush's second] inaugural, back when he spent about $40 million on it... critics, for…
Ken Shepherd

CNN Anchor: Ann Coulter Has Heart 'Three Sizes Too Small

Erin R. Brown

Cheers at The Washington Post Building for Obama's Arrival for an Inte

Tim Graham

Olbermann Omits Key Points from CAP Report to Bash GOP Senator

'Countdown' host accuses Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe of ignoring parts of a left-wing think tank's study on Fairness Doctrine, but does that himself.
Jeff Poor

Media Reality Check: The Media’s Inauguration Day Double Standards

The news media are giddy with excitement as Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day approaches — CNN’s Jim Acosta on Tuesday’s American Morning touted how "Obama has some big shoes to fill, roughly the size of the ones up on the Lincoln Memorial....Barack Obama’s inaugural address may be more than the speech of his lifetime. Historians and speechwriters say it could be one for the ages."But it would be a…
Rich Noyes