Christian Science Monitor: Pentagon Shooter ‘Appears’ to Have Been

The Christian Science Monitor's Peter Grier wrote on Friday that the gunman who opened fire at the Pentagon on Thursday "appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings." The article’s headline screamed, "John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?" Grier did note that writings by Bedell, the shooter, "question whether Washington itself might…
Scott Whitlock

Actor/Liberal Loon Sean Penn's Death Wish for Critics

Last night I was on the Stage Right Show with the great Ben Shapiro and he alerted me to this story about Sean Penn’s latest addition to his growing list of butt-fetish statements — and what a sordid history it is: Here’s Penn discussing anal sex on (not safe for work)YouTube, going so far as to suggest his audience “f*ck some sense” into those gay conservatives who dare think for themselves as …
John Nolte

MSNBC Contributor Crawford Resigns, No Longer Willing to be 'Cartoon P

No longer capable of tolerating his colleagues at NBC, political contributor Craig Crawford announced he has resigned from MSNBC post.  "Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: ‘Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation with MSNBC has become so unrewarding for me that I've decided to move on,'" he wrote this morning on his…
Anthony Kang

Friedman on Obama's Last Push on Health Care: 'They Don't Get Somethin

Perhaps President Barack Obama might have preferred New York Times columnist Tom Friedman to reserve these comments for their golf outings together, but has Friedman recognized this path toward a larger government is unsustainable? On MSNBC's March 5 "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough recounted his childhood in the early 1970s and the poor economy. He explained there was a different focus -…
Jeff Poor

Jon Stewart Mangled Health Care Polls As He Satirized Megyn Kelly's Fo

Jon Stewart aired a long satire segment on Wednesday bashing Fox News and Megyn Kelly for suggesting the Democratic health-care reform bill was unpopular. But when Stewart turned to actual data instead of humor, was he innocent of manipulating the polls? A quick look proves Stewart and his researchers mangled the poll numbers he used on screen. Near the very end of his Megynoscopy, poll numbers…
Tim Graham

GetReligion.org's Excellent Take on WaPo's War on Catholic Church in D

Having closely examined this week's slanted coverage by the Washington Post of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington's decision to end spousal health care benefits, GetReligion.org's Mollie Z. Hemingway zeroed in on the heart of the media bias present in today's piece, "Catholic Charities' health-plan change called 'devastating'"*, which begins with a former Catholic Charities officer lamenting…
Ken Shepherd

Lauer Previews Exclusive Sitdown with Karl 'The Divider' Rove on Today

On Friday's Today show NBC's Matt Lauer offered viewers a sneak peak of next week's exclusive interview with Karl Rove and if today's segment is a suggestion of what's to come expect a lot of shots taken at his former boss's intelligence and blaming of Republicans and not Democrats for a divided country. In a highlighted portion of the interview Lauer asked Rove if he was pleased by the nickname…
Geoffrey Dickens

FNC's 'Fox & Friends' Discusses MSNBC Cropping President Bush Out of N

On Friday's Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy picked up an item reported on by NewsBusters on Wednesday about MSNBC cropping President George W. Bush's face out of the latest Newsweek cover. As Doocy explained: "...on MSNBC...They have cropped all of President Bush's face out. So why does the mainstream media have so much trouble giving him credit?"Doocy discussed the issue with a political…
NB Staff

WaPo's 'On Faith' Column Pushes Liberal Agenda on Homosexuality

Brian D. McLaren, a leading figure of the “emerging church” movement appears to have homosexuality all figured out in the religious sphere: traditional, conservatives – especially Evangelicals – are wrong. In a March 4 “On Faith” column, “The Church and the Sex Question,” the far-left former pastor explained how to become in favor of gay rights.In order to support homosexuality, according to…
Sarah Knoploh

Sex, Violence and Hate: The Top 10 Most Disgusting Attacks on Conserva

March is Women's History Month, in which we acknowledge the accomplishments and contributions of women in history and in society today. But for a select group of women - conservative women - their accomplishments and contributions are rarely celebrated but often demeaned and mocked in sexist - and crassly sexual - ways. The Culture & Media Insitute looked back at what the media had to…
Colleen Raezler

NBC Nightly News Leads with Brush Back Against Rove on Rationale for I

The night before NBC’s Today show on Friday had an “exclusive” with Karl Rove to plug his new book, ‘Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight’ in which he assured readers President George W. Bush did not “lie us into war,” the NBC Nightly News led by giving him a brush back, regurgitating the arguments the Bush administration went to war in Iraq for illegitimate reasons.…
Brent Baker

Sean Hannity Highlights NewsBusters Analysis of ABC Ignoring Rangel, O

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday highlighted a story on NewsBusters showing that ABC News spent far more time on Senator Jim Bunning and his non-scandal than the network did with Congressman Charlie Rangel's ethics violations. Speaking to Bunning, Hannity informed his viewers: "NewsBusters, this is Brent Bozell's website, had a piece out and said that ABC News covered your issue involving…
NB Staff

Open Thread

NB Staff

Hanks Mocks Fox

OK, it was kind of funny, but . . . Of all the networks Tom Hanks might have mocked during a little stunt on Morning Joe today, he just happened to settle on Fox. For good measure, he worked Tea Partiers and Ann Coulter into his mix. [H/t reader Ray R.]Morning Joe had just aired a clip of an actual fistfight that broke out live-on-camera between two TV producers at an Italian TV station. Cut to…
Mark Finkelstein