O'Reilly, Kurtz Spotlight MSNBC's Double Standard for Offensive Rhetor

During Wednesday night's edition of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, Bill O'Reilly slammed Martin Bashir for his vulgar comments about defecating and urinating on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and guest Howard Kurtz said it's “stunning” that MSNBC has yet to discipline its weekday afternoon anchor. Even though Bashir apologized for his disgusting remarks on Monday, Kurtz --…
Randy Hall
November 22nd, 2013 8:37 PM

Tom Brokaw: Don't Blame Dallas for JFK's Death, Oswald Was 'A Far-left

Despite former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw’s account of right-wingers who were delighted John F. Kennedy was killed, he also suggested on MSNBC Friday that “Dallas didn’t have anything to do with the assassination,” and assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was “a far-left guy, not a far right guy.” It came up on “Now with Alex Wagner,” and she was pushing a New York Times article by Sam Tanenhaus, where JFK…
Tim Graham
November 22nd, 2013 7:21 PM

Krauthammer: Filibuster Change ‘Turned All Republicans Into Sicilian

The best line concerning Thursday’s filibuster rule change by the Democrats goes to syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report Friday, Krauthammer said, “What’s essentially happened is that this action has turned all the Republicans into Sicilians.”
Noel Sheppard
November 22nd, 2013 7:07 PM

Flip-Flop-Flip: NY Times Opposes Filibusters... When They Frustrate De

"Look, folks, we love the filibuster when Democrats use it against Republicans, but really hate it when Republicans use it against Democrats." If the New York Times editorial board were completely honest, that's exactly what they'd admit in print to their readers. Instead the Gray Lady keeps shifting her point of view on the parliamentary maneuver depending on whose ox is gored. On January 1…
Ken Shepherd
November 22nd, 2013 6:49 PM

Brokaw: People In Conservative States Wanted Kennedy Shot

Is it possible for Americans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death without the media taking potshots at the Right? Consider former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw who while on MSNBC’s The Cycle Friday recounting where he was when Kennedy was shot decided he needed to make the case that people in conservative states wanted the president killed (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
November 22nd, 2013 6:21 PM

Morning Joe Package Falsely Implies Right Wing Hate Led to JFK Assassi

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago by a Communist sympathizer, yet Friday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC ran a package that emphasized right-wing hate in Dallas while failing to mention Lee Harvey Oswald or his ideological leanings. The package, narrated by Brian Shactman, focused on the “unspoken speech” that President Kennedy was planning to give on the day he was shot.…
Paul Bremmer
November 22nd, 2013 5:35 PM

ABC, NBC Minimize Senate Democrats Dropping Nuclear Option, Tout 'Bold

ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today on Friday did their best to downplay Senate Democrats' Thursday move to curtail the Republican Party's filibuster power. The two newscasts devoted a combined 39 seconds to the controversial vote, which ABC's Dan Harris labeled a "bold move". GMA apparently thought the potential marriage of serial killer Charles Manson was more important, as it devoted…
Matthew Balan
November 22nd, 2013 4:16 PM

Sacramento Station Features 'Hookers For Obama

Earlier this month, NewsBusters reported on the "Healthy Ho's Party" in San Francisco where prostitutes signed up for ObamaCare. On Thursday, Sacramento's ABC affiliate KXTV did a piece featuring "Hookers for Obama" that included a number of prostitutes at a Carson City, Nevada, brothel touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 22nd, 2013 4:14 PM

GOP Destroying Islands with Climate Change, Businessweek Says

Climate change hysteria requires increasingly taller tales. The latest issue of Businessweek blamed Republicans for the alleged future destruction of a small chain of islands in the South Pacific. Despite this finger pointing, this same article contradicted many of its own arguments. The islands, called Kiribati, are in danger from rising sea levels, according to a Nov. 21 cover article by…
Sean Long
November 22nd, 2013 3:53 PM

Shorter MSNBC.com: It's Racist to Move a City Election to July

In compliance with a new state law, Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia, is moving up the date for its nonpartisan elections from the month of November to July, when primary elections are held. Although such a move will synchronize the jurisdiction's non-partisan municipal election date with that of other counties in the Peach State, some Democrats are crying foul and playing the race card.…
Ken Shepherd
November 22nd, 2013 12:52 PM

Obama Had 2007 Office 'Portrait Session' With Pornographer

Over at our sister site CNSNews.com, reporter Barbara Boland has discovered that Barack Obama welcomed a pornographer into his Senate office in 2007 for a photo shoot for the hip-hop magazine Vibe. The cover featured Obama looking at his watch with the headline “It’s Obama Time.” Vibe editor Danyel Smith lamely claimed to NPR back then “it is not an endorsement, even though I've had people…
Tim Graham
November 22nd, 2013 12:40 PM

What ObamaCare Disaster? NBC Continues Blackout of Failing Health Care

After going 72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare on its air waves, NBC's continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday's Nightly News or Friday's Today brought that total up to 96 hours. Amazingly, Friday's Today had the audacity to include two segments about Vice President Joe Biden buying lunch at a Washington D.C. sandwich shop rather provide any ObamaCare updates.…
Kyle Drennen
November 22nd, 2013 12:26 PM

Bozell on Fox: Obama Should Be Asked When He'll Be Interviewed By a 'N

On Thursday's "special edition" of "Media Mash" on Fox News, Sean Hannity talked to Juan Williams about a meeting of journalists and cable-news hosts he was invited to by the Obama White House. Williams said attendees included MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, David Corn of Mother Jones, Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post, and Washington Post bloggers Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent.…
NB Staff
November 22nd, 2013 11:48 AM

Barbara Walters to Interview the Obamas Day After Thanksgiving

With ObamaCare and his poll numbers in total freefall, the President is doing what any smart Democratic president would do. Finding a friendly media member to sit down with the day after Thanksgiving so that he and his wife are welcomed into millions of living rooms in a cozy setting that allows them to show the nation how lovable they are despite his lies about being able to keep your health…
Noel Sheppard
November 22nd, 2013 11:17 AM