Alter Suggests Only 'Stupid' Voters Want Gas Tax Cut

Brad Wilmouth

Moyers Defends Obama and Wright with Democrat Talking Points

Do my tax dollars really have to support the anti-American vitriol that comes out of the mouth of PBS's Bill Moyers every week?Before you answer, consider that the host of "Bill Moyers Journal" followed up last week's much publicized sycophantic lovefest with Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's America-hating pastor by going on a six minute defense of the junior senator from Illinois…
Noel Sheppard

Foto Funnies: 'Bring Back Global Warming

Despite all the global warming hysteria emanating from the usual media suspects and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, it's been a cold, harsh, long winter throughout most of America.Apparently, some of the citizens in the small, Idaho panhandle town of Craigmont are so fed up with the cold weather that they placed a request to "Bring Back Global Warming" on the marquee of their local high school.With this…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Sports Open Thread

NB Staff

Open Thread

NB Staff

How Will 'SNL' Mock Reverend Wright? A Clapping School

John Kass, a right-leaning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, asked the obvious question in a Wednesday column: Obama can't worry about Clinton's troubles. He's got a few of his own. And he'll be thinking what every one of us would be thinking, if we were running for president as Barack Obama: How the heck will "Saturday Night Live" ridicule me and Jeremiah Wright?Kass had a few ideas of how SNL…
Tim Graham

The Goo Is Over? ABC Pounds Hillary on Gas Taxes, Iran, Wright

Tim Graham

Dire NBC: Seniors Forced to Live in Van as Golden Years 'Tarnished

On the day the government reported a tenth of a point drop in the unemployment rate and two days after news of a second straight quarter of 0.6 percent GDP growth proved the nation is not in a recession, Friday's NBC Nightly News delivered a ridiculously shallow story, based on two anecdotes and a couple of advocates, to prove rising prices are forcing the elderly out of their homes and into vans…
Brent Baker

Chris Matthews the Most Powerful Commentator in the US

Rudy Takala

Media Downplay Hawaii Uprising, Back Hawaiian Apartheid Bill

A real-life secessionist movement seizes a historic American landmark and major media outlets treat the uprising as a curiosity of mere passing interest. Meanwhile, that same media gives a thumbs-up to a seditious, balkanizing plan for Aloha State apartheid.AP's Mark Niesse reported yesterday, "Native Hawaiian sovereignty advocates" who are members of the group known as the Hawaiian Kingdom…
Matthew Vadum

Astounding TV Commentary: 'End of the Ethanol Dream

In the past couple of weeks, NewsBusters has been noting that as food prices around the world have soared causing an international crisis, typically green press members have been surprisingly reporting a rather pessimistic view of ethanol.Without question, the most comprehensive and daring commentary I've seen on this subject to date comes from a program north of the border called The National.…
Noel Sheppard

Time Lets Cuomo Honor Tim Russert, But Omits Russert Was His Aide

Tim Graham

While WaPo Opts to Caricature Exxon, FinTimes Reports Biz Fundamental

Big bad oil company ExxonMobil is "on the defensive in the face of consumer ire and congressional indignation" as it raked in a "huge" first quarter profit, Washington Post's Steven Mufson informed readers of his front page May 2 article.Mufson later noted that "[d]espite Exxon's colossal profit, the company's stock fell yesterday." Mufson blamed investors "shift[ing] gears" to turn to other…
Ken Shepherd

Media Yawn as Gay Activists Silence Conservatives at Smith, APA Conven

At Smith College, it was a few dozen student activists screaming, chanting and banging pots and pans.  With the American Psychiatric Association, it was angry letters from adult activists and bitter stories in the homosexual press.  The bottom line is the same: far-left homosexuals successfully intimidated a few cowardly officials and silenced voices they don't want the public to hear.Not a bad…
Brian Fitzpatrick