This Week's PBS Quiz: Does David Brooks Read the News

Does David Brooks read the news?  I’m sure he does, but with the liberal media failing to report on the spike in gas prices – it’s no surprise that this New York Times Republican thinks the price of oil has gone down...instead of the "worst February on record." On the PBS Newshour last night, Ruth Marcus filled in for Mark Shields, and said that the new jobs numbers are a positive development…
Matt Vespa
March 9th, 2013 2:56 PM

Americans Guilty of Promoting Guns as Source of Power, 'Snoop Lion' Te

During Thursday night's edition of CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight,” the musician previously known as Snoop Dogg told the leftist British host that guns have become a part of everyday life, a fact he laments in a new reggae song entitled “No Guns Allowed.” “We are guilty as Americans of promoting the gun as one of the most highly touted things that you can have in your life,” Calvin Broadus, aka…
Randy Hall
March 9th, 2013 2:49 PM

Maddow Laughs at RNC Chair for Suggesting GOP Debates on MSNBC Were a

On Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow mocked Republican party chairman Reince Priebus for listing as a lesson from 2012 "controlling the debate process, getting involved in moderators and networks and all of these other issues so that we don`t have chaos." Maddow found it odd that the GOP chair would (very sensibly) say "we just can`t have MSNBC, you know, hosting a debate at the Reagan…
Tim Graham
March 9th, 2013 1:07 PM

Sports Illustrated Names Obama One of the Most Powerful People in Spor

The media's adoration of Barack Obama knows no bounds. This week, Sports Illustrated actually named the current White House resident one the most powerful people in sports.
Noel Sheppard
March 9th, 2013 11:28 AM

CBO: Feb. Deficit Will Be Over $200 Billion; Year-to-Date Spending Up

With all the talk of sequstration and its supposed "austerity on autopilot" (as characterized at Voice of America -- your tax dollars at work against you), it's useful to look at what has really been happening with federal spending over the past six years, something the establishment press is very reluctant to do. On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office released its February Monthly…
Tom Blumer
March 9th, 2013 9:17 AM

Bozell Column: ABC's Porn Pinup for Teenage Girls

Sometimes it’s hard to measure the distance between the supposedly establishment, respectable press and the seediest corners of hardcore pornography. On March 1, ABC’s "Nightline" celebrated a porn star named "James Deen" (real name: Bryan Sevilla). The apparent "news" hook is his role in a forthcoming movie with the evermore pathetic Lindsay Lohan. ABC reporter Cecilia Vega sold Deen as a 27…
Brent Bozell
March 9th, 2013 8:30 AM

Comcast Devotes $1.5 Million to Ad Time for the Gay Left

Film director Brett Ratner will debut his new pro-gay "public service announcements" at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Media Awards on March 16 in New York. A big television partner of this libertine-left cultural politics is once again Comcast, which will contribute "$1.5 million in national airtimes on its Xfinity TV cable systems, relayed The Hollywood Reporter. Comcast…
Tim Graham
March 9th, 2013 7:49 AM

HuffPo Live Links Fox News, Dobbs with ‘Right Wing Patriot Groups

Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman and other liberals demonize conservatives.
Kristine Marsh
March 9th, 2013 12:42 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Slanted and Disenchanted

Regular readers of NewsBusters are by definition familiar with liberal media bias. For Kossacks, however, the concept is a non sequitur, since they consider the mainstream media to be water-carriers for corporatist, right-wing Republicans. Go figure. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
March 8th, 2013 11:13 PM

Lawrence O’Donnell Rages Against ‘Stark Raving Mad’ Rand Paul

If you’re going to hurl insults petulantly at someone with whom you disagree, it helps if (1) you have some evidence to support your insinuations, and (2) the descriptors you use can’t be easily turned back on you. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell failed on both counts on Thursday’s “The Last Word.” The hot-tempered O’Donnell, who famously challenged Mitt Romney’s son to a fist fight on air, went…
Howard Portnoy
March 8th, 2013 11:09 PM

Roger Friedman: Brooke Shields 'Likely' to Replace 'Extremely Right Wi

This posts builds on another by Noel Sheppard which appeared earlier today at NewsBusters. At ShowBiz411.com, Roger Friedman, who worked at Fox News for a decade until he was fired in 2009 over alleged film piracy, claims that Brooke Shields is “Likely” to join “The View” as Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck depart. "Likely"? Wow, Rog, way to put yourself on the line. Friedman went heavy on…
Tom Blumer
March 8th, 2013 11:07 PM

Krauthammer: Obama Took 12 Senators to Dinner - Same as the Number of

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer made a humorous observation Friday about President Obama's recent dinner with Republican Senators. Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Krauthammer joked, "It was twelve Senators at dinner. That's the same number as the number of Apostles."
Noel Sheppard
March 8th, 2013 7:03 PM

Cal Thomas Column | Sequesterville: We've Heard This Song and Dance Be

The Broadway musical "Annie" is enjoying another revival on Broadway. The show opened during the Carter administration when America was in need of some optimism. "The sun'll come out tomorrow," sang Annie, and with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, for a while, it did. Now we're back in "Hooverville," the name given to shanty towns that popped up during the Great Depression. It isn't…
Cal Thomas
March 8th, 2013 6:57 PM

Ed Schultz to Radio Show Caller: I Don't Shill for GE! I Shill for Oba

Ed Schultz touts his radio program as the place "where America comes to talk" -- providing that "America" agrees with Schultz. Good example of the habitually acerbic Schultz's response to criticism was heard on the show yesterday when a caller questioned the basis for Schultz's support of President Obama's use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. (audio clip after page break)
Jack Coleman
March 8th, 2013 5:53 PM