Al Gore Calls Sarah Palin A 'Global Warming Denier

Nobel Laureate Al Gore Wednesday called former Alaska governor Sarah Palin a "global warming denier."Speaking with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gore also repeated his false claim about ClimateGate e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit: "the most recent one is like ten years ago."As Andrew Bolt reported Wednesday at Australia's Herald Sun, the most recent e-mail message…
Noel Sheppard

Prominent Lefties Tina Brown, Joe Klein in Uproar Over Palin Anti-Cope

Sarah Palin isn't getting much of a break these days from anyone on the left end of the political spectrum. In the Dec. 9 Washington Post, an op-ed appeared by the former Alaska governor, in which she called on President Barack Obama to boycott the current Copenhagen climate summit in the wake of the "Climategate" e-mail leak. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans…
Jeff Poor

Morning Joe's Barnicle to Michael Steele: What Are 'You People' For

“Morning Joe” was a little tense this morning.Fresh off Donny Deutsch’s defense of Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) slavery analogy, Mike Barnicle asked GOP Chairman Michael Steele about what proposals the GOP favored for health-care reform.  Along the way, however, he used an unfortunate choice of words:MIKE BARNICLE: [...] What are you people for?MICHAEL STEELE: You people? [starts laughing] Who are…
Mike Sargent

Anderson Cooper Recycles Two-Year-Old Segment on Glacier Melt

Anderson Cooper reused a segment from CNN’s 2007 special “Planet in Peril” on his program on Tuesday, where he traveled to Greenland with a climate scientist to visit a melting glacier. The same scientist, who believes in manmade global warming, also appeared live with Cooper, and dismissed the ClimateGate scandal. The CNN anchor did not have any skeptics of manmade climate change on his program.…
Matthew Balan

BMI's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009: From jobs 'saved or created

Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list: 10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian Shakedown of U.S. oil company9. Media Fail to Scrutinize Obama's Job Claims  8. Government Stimulus is the Answer to Our Economic Problems7. No Tax Increases for the Middle Class6. The Recession was Over ... by July…
Julia A. Seymour

Left-Wingers in Tizzy Over Palin Anti-Copenhagen WaPo Op-Ed

Daily Beast: 'Obama wrestling with the nitty gritty problems,' Palin 'grandstanding.' Time: Palin 'joining the right-wing hysteria chorus.'
Jeff Poor

The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of

BMI Staff

Brian Williams’ Self-congratulation Tour Rolls On; Access Hollywood

Nightly News host Brian Williams on Tuesday continued his self-congratulatory tour of NBC programs, touting his five years as a news anchor. He appeared on the tabloid program Access Hollywood to be lauded as "great" and "the man." Co-host Billy Bush oozed, "He only knows about winning. For five straight years, number one in the evening news, the great Brian Williams." Is there any show silly…
Scott Whitlock

NBC-Owned History Channel to Air Leftist Howard Zinn's 'The People Spe

Editor's Note: The following was originally published December 1, 2009 at Big Hollywood, where Nolte is editor-in-chief.Don’t believe for a second that the History Channel — which should now be called The Revisionist History Channel — will be the end of Matt Damon and Howard Zinn’s cinematic ode to trashing America. The obvious next step for the adaptation of Zinn’s “A People’s History of the…
John Nolte

CBS’s Rodriguez Challenges Howard Dean On Medicare Expansion

While interviewing former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean on Wedneday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez questioned his support for a plan by Senate Democrats to expand Medicare coverage: “...the criticism is that Medicare as it stands doesn’t work because the payments don’t cover the plan. Are we just not creating a bigger problem if we have to insure more people under Medicare?”…
Kyle Drennen

Gay-Left Lobby Gets Maine Reporter Fired Over a Personal E-mail (Updat

Tim Graham

The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of

From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are ten biggest stories the media got wrong this year.
Julia A. Seymour

Small Business vs. the Great Ozbama

A crash business course for the Community Organizer-in-Chief.
Dan Kennedy

USA Today: Fast Food Joints More Stringent with Meat Standards Than P

Every now and then, we at NewsBusters like to point out a solid piece of journalism, instances where the media report news that cuts against the liberal narrative of the world that the MSM usually churn out.And so today, I thought I'd pass along how USA Today noted today that "Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches" (h/t NB intern Mike Sargent ):In the past three years, the…
Ken Shepherd