Latest Blogs
Just What Hillary Didn't Want to See
You're Hillary Clinton [work with me here] tuning into "Today" the morning after you've voted against funding the Iraq war . What's the one image you dread seeing pop up? But there it was.This isn't shaping up as Hillary's favorite day. As the Washington Post reports here, two books about Clinton have hit the shelves, and neither paint a flattering portrait of the former First Lady. What's…
WashPost: New Hillary Books Show Her Plotting to Destroy Bill's Bimbos
The Washington Post reports on the top of the front page Friday that it's been given copies of the new Hillary biographies by former Post star Carl Bernstein and New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don van Natta. Since they're media-elite fixtures and not "ideological enemies," they "could be harder to dismiss," the Post says. Reporters Peter Baker and John Solomon explained: "The Hillary…
AP: Advocating for High Gas Taxes Instead of Reporting "News
The Associated Press imagines itself a “news” organization. Ordinarily, “news” does not convey opinion, but only facts… at least that’s the ideal. That being the general understanding of what comprises news, it is interesting when we at Newsbusters find odd bits of opinion encased inside any particular AP “news” story. But, it is really odd to find a story that is predicated almost entirely on…
Rosie Ratifies Troops As Terrorists Suggestion on Her Blog
NewsBusters reader Bender messaged me earlier noting that, given an opportunity to explain her views on American troops and terrorism, Rosie O'Donnell made no effort to clear the air on her blog in a posting the evening of May 23 at Rosie.com.Here's the relevant exchange:
Memorial Day: It's Not Just for Heroes, Anymore
Presidential candidate John Edwards is urging people to crash Memorial Day ceremonies with anti-war protests....We're still waiting for the media outrage over this hijacking of a sacred day to honor the war dead.
Amnesty at Any Cost: the Media Support Illegals, Disparage Law Enforce
Isn't American culture and sovereignty worth defending?
Supporting the Troops by Saving Their Marriages
ABC's World News Tonight shines spotlight on program aimed at saving military marriages
MRC/NB's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes About Michael Moore's 'Sicko
Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which publishes NewsBusters, appeared live Thursday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes to discuss Michael Moore's latest far-left documentary, Sicko. IMDb describes it as “a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth.” Sean Hannity pointed out how the New York Times called it “a virtual love letter to…
'The View's' Joy Behar Calls Nixon a Constipated Orangutan and a Paran
On a day when Rosie O’Donnell was absent from ABC’s “The View,” an intelligent person would expect the discussion would be a bit more civil, right?WRONG!Instead, as co-host Joy Behar discussed her evening at the theatre to see the critically acclaimed “Frost/Nixon” – which she actually referred to as “Nixon/Frost” – the comedienne stated that the former president was “an orangutan who’s…
Using Corzine as Peg, CBS Evening News Scolds Bush for Not Wearing a S
As if President Bush needed any new actions for which to be criticized by the news media....In a Thursday CBS Evening News story on the federal government's Memorial Day weekend effort to get people to wear seatbelts, reporter Nancy Cordes maintained that President Bush “is taking heat” for not wearing a seatbelt while driving his pick-up truck at his Texas ranch. Cordes began with a new public…
Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib
In early 2004, when the first revelations about prisoners being tortured by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq appeared, the media covered the story on almost a daily basis for months.With that as a pretext, the website The Smoking Gun has obtained graphic sketches of various torture techniques being employed by al Qaeda, as well as pictures of victims that have undergone such…