AP Shills for MoveOn, Daily Kos Campaign Against Fox News

On Saturday, NewsBusters reported an Associated Press story about the campaign by MoveOn.org and Daily Kos to get sponsors to pull their ads from Fox News. According to Advertising Age magazine, "MoveOn has been pitching this story for weeks now," and has "been trying, with absolutely no success, to target Home Depot." As a result, in AdAge's view, the AP bit on a story that nobody else was…
Noel Sheppard

HuffPost Blogger: Special Gay Decoder Glasses Needed to Understand 'Ch

P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

Sundays would be much better if they weren't followed by Mondays...
NB Staff

Uh-Oh: Washington Post Sending Repeat Offender at Corrections Box to I

Tim Graham

SFChronicle: Helping Clinton Make Up With the Nutroots of Daily Kos

It is well known that Hillary Clinton is not the most well-liked Democratic candidate with the Nutroots and the kids at the Daily Kos. She is often excoriated for not being enough of an anti-war candidate and many feel she betrayed the "cause." Still, most left leaning Americans assume that she will be the Democrat Party's nominee and some, like the San Francisco Chronicle, are interested in…
Warner Todd Huston

Weekend Captionfest II

NB Staff

Bozell: Michael Vick Is Sick, But Many Pro Athletes Are Still (Unpubli

Tim Graham

R-i-i-p-p-p: Pinkerton Makes Like Mika Over Lohan Story

Jim Pinkerton found a graphic way to express his displeasure over Fox News Watch's decision to devote a segment to Lindsay Lohan's latest run-in with the law. With a nod to MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski, who as I chronicled here had torn up a Paris Hilton story in protest, Pinkerton ripped a page or two on tonight's show.FOX NEWS WATCH PANELIST JIM PINKERTON: This speaks to formula, right…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC Implies NYC Cop Killer Bought Gun from Dealer, Ignores Original Le

Brad Wilmouth

Cold Snap in Peru Kills 70 Children, Media Couldn’t Care Less

By now, you've likely heard about the floods in England, and how the media believe them to be caused by global warming. However, have you heard about the cold snap in Peru that has already killed 70 children? You haven't? Well, how could you? After all, no American media outlet has felt it to be newsworthy. Yet, the following was reported by the BBC on Wednesday, and, as amazing as it might…
Noel Sheppard

'Today': Ventriloquist Voices Crack About 'Dummy' President

No matter how obscure the corner of our culture it might be covering, the MSM often manages to inject its politics. And so it was on this morning's "Today," on what had been shaping up to be a harmless feature on ventriloquists.NBC's Brian Balthazar narrated the segment, which focused on a ventriloquists' convention in Kentucky. At one point, this dialogue between a ventriloquist and his dummy…
Mark Finkelstein

BBC Forcing Employees To Take Honesty Training

This is certainly an initiative right-thinking people around the world should welcome: in response to identifying several instances of fraudulent audience phone calls made by staffers during some of its programs, the BBC has decided to send its employees to - wait for it! - honesty training. You really can't make this stuff up! As reported by England's Telegraph Thursday (extremely…
Noel Sheppard

Left-wingers Target FNC Advertisers

Ah to be a liberal, to proclaim my tolerance and open-mindedness with a few tacky bumperstickers and then turn around and try to silence any type of political divergence: Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking…
Matthew Sheffield

England Floods Neither Biblical Nor Caused By Global Warming

As NewsBusters has reported, American media have been relaying to the citizenry that the recent floods in England are caused by - what else? - manmade global warming. Addressing such nonsense Friday was London-based geological-, biological-, and political-history researcher Don Stewart. In an article published at PR-GB.com, Stewart mocked the hysteria surrounding England's floods, and…
Noel Sheppard