The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: February 24 to March

"The View’s" Joy Behar demonstrated again this week that the ladies of the ABC program are committed leftists, determined to spread propaganda. Co-host Behar made this point clear when she slandered the Bush administration as "murderers." On the Al Gore front, "Today" co-anchor Meredith Vieira proclaimed the former Vice President to be the "coolest guy" at last Sunday’s Oscars. "The Washington…
Scott Whitlock

NPR Promotes Government-Subsidized Yoga for Combat Vets

Tim Graham

Baltimore Sun: More 'Is Obama Black Enough'? Now With Slave-Owning Anc

Obama's white ancestors owned slaves. So says the research of William Addams Reitwiesner, "who works at the Library of Congress and practices genealogy in his spare time", and who is featured in this morning's edition of the Baltimore Sun. Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family…
Warner Todd Huston

The '24' Quandary

There's a difference between action movies, often rated PG-13 or R, in which the viewers drive to the theater and choose the film, and national television, which can often be encountered almost involuntarily by a casual press of the remote.
L. Brent Bozell III

Couric Mulls: Do Deadly Tornadoes 'Have Anything to Do with Global War

After leading with the terrible toll of deadly “super-cell” storms with tornadoes which struck Missouri and Alabama on Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric's mind turned to global warming as the potential cause. She asked “CBS News weather analyst” Bryan Norcross, working out of the network's Washington bureau: “Bryan, I understand people have been asking you this all day” -- probably…
Brent Baker

Couric Stuck in NBC Mode? She Calls Letterman's Show by Its NBC Name

Brent Baker

On FNC's 'The Big Story,' NB/MRC's Rich Noyes Discusses NBC's Liberal

Rich Noyes, Director of Research at the Media Research Center and Senior Editor of NewsBusters, appeared at about 5:37pm EST Thursday afternoon on The Big Story with John Gibson on the Fox News Channel. He addressed the liberal bias at NBC News and how, after a ratings slide that has left NBC Nightly News in second place behind ABC's World News, NBC is replacing the Executive Producer of the…
NB Staff

Cal Thomas: Former Senator Allen Exonerated of Bogus Charges; Media Ya

Last week, the Senate Ethics Committee exonerated former Virginia Senator George Allen on charges that he failed to report stock options he earned during the time he served as a director of a biotech company. As Cal Thomas throughly documented in his current column, this determination of innocence has gone little noticed by the mainstream media. The accusations, however, which were made last…
Scott Whitlock

Dennis Miller Debates Patriot Act, Prods Walters to Call Pelosi 'Terri

Justin McCarthy

Chris Matthews Compares Bill Clinton to Jesus

Geoffrey Dickens

NRO's Nordlinger Lauds AP Report On Absurdities At The UN

Over at National Review Online Jay Nordlinger is praising a national media outlets for its reporting from the United Nations. The UN is not exactly a hot or hostile beat for liberal media outlets, who seem to like the intentions of the UN, and never seem to worry much about the follow-through. Oil-For-Food fraud? Yawn. Sexual harassment by UN brass? Yawn. This story is more pedestrian, about how…
Tim Graham

N.Y. Times Declares a 'Manufacturing Recession' -- But None Occurred I

According to the Times, the most recent four-month period, boxed in red below, represents a manufacturing recession; The Times has already declared it ("For Manufacturing, a Recession Has Arrived"; link may require registration):But the following periods boxed in orange from 1995-2000 did not:Any questions?
Tom Blumer

UFOs Can Solve Global Warming Says Former Canadian Defense Minister

This news out of Canada should give Americans an idea of just how out of control the reporting and the hysteria surrounding global warming has gotten: “A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change.”To put this in its proper perspective, it seems quite unlikely that America’s…
Noel Sheppard

Is the Formerly Mainstream Media Rooting for a Bad Economy

Two reports from earlier this week, one that warned of a "likely recession," and another that flat-out declared a non-existent "manufacturing recession," have to make you wonder, especially considering a positive report from the real world that came out earlier today. First -- On Monday, the Associated Press turned murky comments by Alan Greenspan into "Greenspan warns of likely U.S. recession…
Tom Blumer