Soros-Funded Think Progress, MoveOn Grumble Over Foreign Donations

MSNBC, NY Times glom onto 'professional left's' attack campaign on U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Jeff Poor

Rachel Maddow Alleges GOP 'Money Laundering' One Night, Hosts Alleged

Next up on The Rachel Maddow Show, human traffickers decry the suffering they witness in human trafficking ...At the rate she's going, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is on track to earn an Emmy for best cable comedy * (* -- unintentional category).On Sept. 30, the ever-excitable Maddow spoke with Congressman Pete DeFazio, 12-term paleo-Democrat from Oregon, about an organization called Concerned Taxpayers…
Jack Coleman

CBS's Jarvis Laments Lack of 'Political Will' for More Stimulus, Cheer

Appearing on Wednesday's CBS Early Show, business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis expressed disappointment in the lack of a new stimulus package, but hoped for other government action: "...while the government doesn't necessarily have the political will or the motivation to put a new stimulus into effect here in the United States, the Federal Reserve is prepared to step in and do that."Co-host…
Kyle Drennen

Media Parrot Far-left Blog's Smear Campaign Against Chamber of Commerc

A number of media liberals are up in arms over a far-left blog's inconclusive investigation - replete with innuendo and assumption - purporting to show that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has illegally spent funds obtained from foreign entities on political campaigns in the United States. Of course near-identical efforts by a handful of the most powerful labor unions have not been mentioned.…
Lachlan Markay

Sarah Silverman Tweets Crude Joke About 9/11 Widows

Standup comic and New York Times-bestselling author Sarah Silverman joked on Twitter that widows of the Sept. 11 attacks "give the best handjobs" on Oct. 6, attributing the quote to pseudonymous 19th century author and satirist Mark Twain. "‘9/11 widows give the best hand jobs.' -Mark Twain," wrote Silverman, adding the hashtag, "#notcooltwain." Later that day, the star of Comedy…
Alana Goodman

What We Have Here, Children, is a Failure to Communicate

Obama believes we're too dumb to appreciate him.
Dan Kennedy

Fox Chicago News Anchor: Sanchez Finds a Home at Fox News

On Tuesday, Fox Chicago News anchor Bob Sirott suggested that Rick Sanchez might land at the Fox News Channel. In his "One More Thing" commentary, Sirott pointed out that most people had never heard of Sanchez until CNN fired him last week.  Still, Sanchez could bounce back:Some believe Rick Sanchez's career is is over, but others think it's just beginning, and now that he's a nationally known…
Mike Bates

USA Today Frets Over the Possible Loss of (Democratic) Women in Congre

A headline in USA Today on Monday worried, "Elections are likely to trim number of women in Congress." It wasn't until the 15th paragraph of Susan Page's story that the numerous female Republican candidates running in the midterm elections were mentioned. Instead, the Washington Bureau Chief explained, "The prospects for female congressional candidates have been hurt by a combination of a tough…
Scott Whitlock

Dear NY Times: Spending Isn't the Problem

Keynesian mythology has it all wrong; lack of private investment is the worry.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

MRC's Bozell Discusses 'Tell the Truth' Campaign on 'Varney & Company

NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell sat down for a satellite interview this morning with Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney to discuss the recently-launched "Tell the Truth" campaign. It's a very simple proposition, Stuart. I think it's time that the American people say simply to the media, tell the truth! Stop distorting stories. Stop projecting an agenda and calling it objective truth. Start…
NB Staff

CBS Touts Private Todd Palin Email Leaked By Left-Wing Anti-Palin Webs

On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith highlighted supposed division between Sarah Palin and Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller: "...a controversial e-mail, reportedly from Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, that is burning up the internet, it was leaked by a left-leaning website called The Mudflats and is causing quite a stir in political circles."Smith explained that Todd Palin was upset…
Kyle Drennen

Lauer Tosses Softballs to DNC Chair Tim Kaine on Today

Just a day after NBC's Matt Lauer engaged in a rough interview with Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, Lauer engaged in a much more friendly chat, with DNC chairman Tim Kaine as he helpfully asked the former Virginia Governor, on Wednesday's Today show, what Democrats could do to best "chip away"at the GOP's lead in the polls and "counter" their messages. Lauer also jumped…
Geoffrey Dickens

MRC's Bozell Addresses Christiane Amanpour's Biased Townhall on Muslim

NB Staff

AP is 'Absolutely Protecting' MA-06 Dem Incumbent John Tierney Against

UPDATE: A 12:16 p.m. AP report gets to details the initial report (not labeled "breaking") should have contained.In an unbylined Associated Press story about the wife of incumbent Democratic Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney pleading guilty in a federal tax case, the wire service fails to mention which district Tierney represents. Far worse, it only reports that Tierney "is facing a…
Tom Blumer