CBS News Portrays $7 Gas as Positive

Expensive gas isn't so bad to the "CBS Evening News," as long as it promotes an agenda that caters to left-of-center sensibilities and makes Americans behave more like Europeans.  Economists from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) (NYSE:CM) forecasted $7-a-gallon gas prices by 2010, which according to some analysts would force 10 million vehicles off U.S. roads over four years. CIBC…
Jeff Poor

'Nightly News': Is General Motors Going Out of Business

General Motors has been in business since 1897, but there are fears now propagated in the media that the longtime American icon faces an uncertain future. Brian Williams raised the possibility of General Motors (NYSE:GM) going out of business on the June 26 "NBC Nightly News" to Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money." "[J]im, I know you talk about this, think about this everyday for a living…
Jeff Poor

London Times On War- We're Winning (Despite Western Media

Richard Newcomb

CBS ‘Early Show’ Warns: All Ice at North Pole May Melt This Summer

Kyle Drennen

Newsweek: Gun-banning Mayor 'Weighs Options' Post-Heller Ruling

The ink was hardly dry on the June 26 ruling overturning Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban when Newsweek started the hand-wringing about how the city's political establishment would react.Rather than profiling D.C. resident Dick Heller, the victor in the lawsuit, or officials from gun rights groups on their next move in challenging other gun bans with yesterday's precedent, Newsweek sought to press…
Ken Shepherd

Morning Shows Give a Combined Three and a Half Minutes to Historic Gun

Despite the "historic" nature of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment is an individual right, all three morning shows virtually ignored the decision, devoting a combined total of three minutes and 33 seconds to the story. And between CBS's "Early Show," NBC's "Today" and ABC's "Good Morning America," that's out of eight hours of programming. In fact, the three and a half…
Scott Whitlock

McClatchy Writer Describes Obama Flip-Flops as 'Nuanced

P.J. Gladnick

Hatch: FISA Modernization Critics Feed Delusions of 9/11 Truthers

NewsBusters readers are likely aware that Congress has for months been debating an amendment to 1978's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bring it up to date with technological and geopolitical changes in the past three decades.Folks on the left view this modernization as an onerous intrusion on privacy rights, and have been preventing this bill -- which was originally signed into law on…
Noel Sheppard

Time Touts Obama's 'Supreme Move to the Center

Tim Graham

Morning Show 'Depression' Obsession: Is Today Another 'Black Friday

NBC and ABC compare stock market to worst financial crisis in U.S. history.
Kelly Brown

Open Thread

NB Staff

Zero Outrage for Private-Financing Obama on the Left

The absence of liberal outrage over Barack Obama’s decision to reject public financing for his presidential campaign took a jaw-dropping turn on the hard-left Pacifica Radio network and its show "Democracy Now!" Host Amy Goodman, who regularly welcomes long screeds from Bill Moyers and his fervor about our bought-and-sold elections, welcomed two campaign "reformers" on Monday, and both failed to…
Tim Graham

NBC: Is GM Going Out of Business

Stock slumps to a 53-year low; Bloomberg TV analyst recommends bankruptcy for automaker.
Jeff Poor

NewsBusted

Topics in today's show: Barack Obama releases his first TV ads, CNN's Roland Martin comments on "weak" conservative men, and Massachusetts police crack down.Like the show and want more conservative comedy? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube channel and do battle with lefties who like to give bad ratings to anything that isn't politically correct.Want…
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