Olbermann Warns Voters Against 'Cataclysm' of Tea Party, 'Would Destro

 On Wednesday’s Countdown show, during a 21-minute "Special Comment," MSNBC host Keith Olbermann warned American voters against electing Tea Party Republicans to power, whom he suggested are "unqualified, unstable individuals" who will take America "backward to Jim Crow, or backward to the breadlines of the ‘30s, or backward to hanging union organizers." He then made a play off MSNBC’s "Lean…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Former President Jimmy Carter Blames 'Irresponsible News Media' for Ob

If you’re a left-of-center media personality and you use your national TV platform to call a candidate for the United States Senate a “bitch,” how might you be rewarded? Apparently in this day and age, you’re granted an interview with a former sitting president of your political party. Even though he wasn’t one of the most distinguished presidents of the United States, former President Jimmy…
Jeff Poor
 

NPR Uses Jon Stewart to Try to Make Fox Into the Villain in Juan Willi

NPR and other liberals are trying to convert the firing of Juan Williams into another episode of bullying conservatism. NPR deployed Jon Stewart in self-defense on Tuesday’s Morning Edition. Anchor Steve Inskeep noted Stewart’s arrival in Washington, DC marked his first show since the Williams purge, and they ran this joke: STEWART [From the Daily Show]: Are you kidding me, NPR? Are you…
Tim Graham
 

Hype: Despite Allegations of Secret Money, Democrats Flaunt $270 Milli

Politico reports Democratic Party machinery dominating Republican counterparts by sizeable advantage with little to no notice by mainstream media.
Jeff Poor
 

Desperate Schultz Slews 100% Negative

How desperate is the liberal media? How totally has it abandoned any attempt to run on the Obama record?  Ed Schultz's MSNBC show this evening was 100% Obama-record free.  It was—entirely and without exception—devoted to Republican bashing. Come along, if you dare, down Ed's miserable, fly-blown landcape, as we break down the sorry show, segment-by-segment . . .  
Mark Finkelstein
 

SPUN-employment

Networks twist unemployment reports to boost Obama, bash Bush.
Dan Gainor
 

This Year's Midterm Elections Are All about Freedom

The federal government has pursued arbitrary, rather than constitutional powers; the voters will decide if the nation will continue to drift away from freedom.
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.
 

Matthews: How Long Before We See Tea Partiers Start Showing Up in Unif

  Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, not so cryptically compared the actions of Republican volunteers to that of Nazi-style tactics from the 1930s as he claimed the restraining of a MoveOn.org activist by a Rand Paul supporter reminded him of what "we saw from hoodlums in the thirties in another country I will not mention" and added: "I mean it isn't far from what we saw in the thirties,…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

London Fog

The mother country offers a glimpse of our near future.
Dan Kennedy
 

Raleigh News & Observer Neglects to Mention Amazing Etheridge Refusal

An oatmeal cookie! An oatmeal cookie to the first  reporter who gets around to asking North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge (D) why he refused to answer a crucial ObamaCare question during his debate last Saturday with his Republican challenger, Renee  Ellmers. The fact that he refused to answer was amazing. And the fact that the Raleigh News & Observer completely neglected to report…
P.J. Gladnick
 

ABC Alone Features Obama Exhorting Latinos to 'Punish Our Enemies,' St

Good Morning America on Wednesday was the only network morning show to highlight Barack Obama's exhortations that Latinos should help him "punish our enemies." Host George Stephanopoulos played the clip while discussing the issue with conservative Laura Ingraham. At the same time, he attempted to downplay the President's comments, given during an interview to Univision.  After the radio host…
Scott Whitlock
 

Maher Mocks American Electorate: 'They’re Like a Dog,' 'Too Stupid

It’s hard to tell what the end goal of HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher’s is with his constant barrage of elitist shots at the American public. Does he think demeaning the average citizens is the best way to win people over on whatever issue he is carping about on that given day? On the Oct. 26 broadcast of TBS’s “Lopez Tonight,” Maher took a couple of cynical and contemptible jabs at the…
Jeff Poor
 

Juan Williams: Fox Bosses are 'Much More Enlightened' Than NPR or CNN

Fired NPR news analyst Juan Williams is firing back at critics of Fox News Channel. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, Williams said Fox management is "much more enlightened" than executives at other news outlets, from NPR to CNN: "At NPR they don't know this: A third of the audience for Bill O'Reilly's show is made up of people of color," Williams said. "At NPR, they think, `Oh, these…
Tim Graham
 

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Discusses NPR President's Push to Tax Ame

The National Public Radio (NPR) executive who fired Juan Williams is behind an effort lobbying for a new tax to be levied on private media outlets in order to finance a BBC-style state media, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center Brent Bozell told viewers of Fox Business Network's "Varney & Company" at 10:45 a.m. today. NPR president Vivian Schiller is "part of a group which…
NB Staff