UPDATE: Politico Apologizes; Politico Sanitizes Vile Playboy Attack on

UPDATED below: Politico removes item, writer explains/apologizes decision to highlight the list.Yesterday, Playboy writer Guy Cimbalo published a top ten list of conservative women against whom he would like to commit vulgar and violent sexual acts. His piece, which has since been removed by the skin mag's Web site, was actually promoted to conservative sites like NewsBusters by Playboy's PR…
Stephen Gutowski

Media: Tiller a Martyr, Abortion Not Killing and Pro-Lifers are Crazy

George Tiller, the Kansas doctor notorious for his commitment to performing late-term abortions, was killed May 31 while attending a Sunday morning church service. By his count, Tiller performed 60,000 abortions. His clinic, Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, was one of only three clinics in the United States that offered abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy. Loss of human…
Colleen Raezler

Open Thread

NB Staff

Liberals Blame O'Reilly for Tiller Murder, Silent on Military Recruite

While the far left is blaming Bill O’Reilly and the pro-life movement for the death of George Tiller, another shooting has left military recruiter William Long dead at the hands of an anti-military Muslim convert. Mainstream liberals like Keith Olbermann and news sources like NBC have already blamed O'Reilly for Tiller's death, as have websites like Salon, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Kos.…
Mitchell Blatt

MSNBC President 'Explains' Why His Network Went Hard Left

Although he sort of admitted it earlier, MSNBC President Phil Griffin seems to have problems stating the obvious: that his network has made a conscious decision to feature primarily leftwing hosts (Joe Scarborough being the sole exception in the lineup). Griffin makes yet another stab, in an interview with  Rory O'Connor of the Huffington post, at explaining why MSNBC went hard left and the…
P.J. Gladnick

Whoops! Montel Williams Claims Sotomayor Doesn't Need Senate Approval

Tim Graham

Foreign Press Assails Obama's Expensive 'Date Night,' U.S. Press Not S

It is interesting, instructive, and a little disheartening to notice that the foreign press is much more shocked than the U.S. press is by the arrogance and expense of the Obama's "date night" that cost the taxpayers nearly one million dollars last week. The Australian and British press, for instance, scoffed at the absurd cost of the one night visit to New York that Obama "sacrificed" for but…
Warner Todd Huston

NewsBusted

NB Staff

To the Media, Some Murders Matter More Than Others

Amy Ridenour

Bozell Column: Love Dies In a TV Bubble

Brent Bozell

Couric Advises Against 'Nastiness' -- In Speech That Mocked Rush, Pali

Tim Graham

Olbermann Blames FNC & O’Reilly for Murder of Abortion Doctor Tiller

Brad Wilmouth

NBC Suggests Bill O'Reilly Fueled Murder of Dr. George Tiller

NBC, frequently the object of Bill O'Reilly's scorn for its biased presentation of the news from the left, provided him with fresh evidence Monday evening as the NBC Nightly News, unlike the ABC and CBS newscasts, found it newsworthy in a story on the murder of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who performed abortions of viable fetuses, to highlight “on the Internet, questions from critics of…
Brent Baker

Matthews Berates 'Jealous, Little, Phony' GOP for 'Pathetic Swipe' at

Chris Matthews, on Monday's "Hardball," was outraged at the RNC's criticism of the Obamas wasting taxpayer money to go see a Broadway play as he railed that it was a "jealous, pathetic swipe at the First Couple," and remarked "What a jealous, little political party the Republicans have become." Matthews also took a shot at former President George W. Bush as he contrasted Obama's tastes with Bush'…
Geoffrey Dickens