Schultz to Valerie Plame's Hubby: Didn't Cheney 'Torture' Your Family?

With 2015 only a couple of weeks away, Ed Schultz just managed to sneak under the wire in the race for Most Inane Question of the Year by an MSNBC Host.  Speaking to Valerie Plame's husband Joe Wilson on the The Ed Show this evening, Schultz suggested: "Your wife was outed by the Vice-President and now he's saying he has no problem with torture. How do you feel about that? I mean isn't it torture…
Mark Finkelstein
December 15th, 2014 6:40 PM

UVA Student on CNN: Rolling Stone Writer Had An 'Agenda'

On CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday, University of Virginia student Alex Pinkleton revealed how Rolling Stone's Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the disputed Rolling Stone story on alleged rape at the college, acted more like an "advocate" than a reporter as she interviewed people for the article. Pinkleton, a friend of the woman who made the rape accusation, asserted that Erdely "did have an…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2014 4:54 PM

Gun-Despising WashPost Columnist Now Admits Fear of...Candles?!

Washington Post metro columnist John Kelly has come under scrutiny here at NewsBusters for his disdain of gun rights and his push for more stringent gun control. So it is all the more amusing, in the Advent season no less, to read his December 15 column devoted to his disdain for... candles?!
Ken Shepherd
December 15th, 2014 4:19 PM

Washington Post Avoids F-Word in Story About Falling Oil Prices

An article about a dramatic decrease in the price of oil appeared in the Washington Post's WonkBlog. However a certain F-word is notable by its very obvious absence. So what is that word? "Fracking."
P.J. Gladnick
December 15th, 2014 3:57 PM

Merry Christmas? ACLU Stops School From Feeding African Orphans

Thank Gaia for the ever-vigilant ACLU! Who else would have discerned the dire threat to civil liberty lurking in a California school’s effort to raise money for starving children in Africa?  A middle school in San Marcos, Cal., partnered with a local charity, Friends and Family Community Connection (FFCC), to raise money to send meals to children in Tanzania – innocent enough, right? Wrong. It…
Matt Philbin and Kristine Marsh
December 15th, 2014 3:47 PM

‘Do They Know It’s Christmastime?’ ACLU Stops School from Feedin

Anti-Christian totalitarianism reaches absurd level.
Matt Philbin
December 15th, 2014 3:21 PM

Politico Mag Pegs Center-Right Sites With More Traffic As 'Fringier'

One of the more amusing aspects of observing today's left-biased establishment media environment is seeing agenda-driven journalists directly or indirectly convey a clearly inflated sense of their outlets' self-importance. A recent example of this came Friday from Jacob Silverman at Politico Magazine. In his writeup on conservative firebrand Charles Johnson, Silverman employed the comparative…
Tom Blumer
December 15th, 2014 2:33 PM

New Yorker’s ‘Climate Change' Carols: ‘Silent Night’ Cannibalism

Oh look, our betters at the New Yorker have found a way to trivialize a Christian holiday while warning us what happens if we don’t convert to their environmental religion. And it’s supposed to be funny, too!  For the New Yorker’s Christmas issue (Dec. 22, 2014) contributor Ethan Kuperberg published his “Climate-Change Christmas Carols.” Using traditional Christmas songs, he changed the lyrics…
Katie Yoder
December 15th, 2014 2:18 PM

'Eunice the Uterus' Puppet Draws Attention to 'The Abortion Desert'

So apparently there’s a uterus puppet going around the country making videos about abortion clinics and lack thereof.  Yes, there’s a puppet named Eunice, and she’s a sad uterus. Hans Johnson from JillStanek.com found this great little gem and we just had to share. In the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” category comes a video called “The Abortion Desert.”
Melissa Mullins
December 15th, 2014 2:01 PM

CBS: Americans 'Divided' Over CIA Interrogations; Only 36% Oppose

On Monday's CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King claimed that Americans were "divided" over the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques after September 11th. However, the latest CBS News poll she cited "shows that 49% of Americans feel aggressive interrogation techniques like waterboarding are sometimes justified. 36% say they are never justified." The remaining 14% said that it "depends"…
Kyle Drennen
December 15th, 2014 12:22 PM

CBS: Voter ID Laws Are Like Violent Attacks on Blacks at Selma

The journalists at CBS This Morning compared the violent, bloody attacks on African Americans during civil rights marches in 1965 to voter ID laws passed by various states in the last few years. Co-anchor Norah O'Donnell talked to Oprah Winfrey, producer of the new film Selma and the movie's star. O'Donnell marveled, "...Given the Voting Rights Act, 1965, I went back and looked. Thirteen states…
Scott Whitlock
December 15th, 2014 12:19 PM

So-Called WashPost 'Conservative' Blogger Shreds Ted Cruz

The most dishonest advertising in The Washington Post isn’t selling soap or shoes or automobiles. It doesn’t come phonier than this: “Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective.” Rubin spent 2012 insisting that every conservative presidential contender was unelectable except Mitt Romney, who was neither conservative nor…
Tim Graham
December 15th, 2014 11:55 AM

Barbara Walters To David Koch: People Call You ‘An Evil Billionaire’

On Sunday night, ABC’s Barbara Walters hosted her annual 10 Most Fascinating People program which featured billionaire businessman and conservative donor David Koch as one of the “most fascinating people of 2014.” A preview of the interview aired during Sunday morning’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos portraying Koch as “one of the biggest Republican donors, a reclusive billionaire, David…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 15th, 2014 11:18 AM

MRC's Notable Quotables: Are We 'Morally' No Better than Our Enemies?

This week, journalists seize on a partisan Senate Democratic report to scold the CIA for its conduct of the War on Terror during the Bush era, but deny there's any news value in Jonathan Gruber's admission that ObamaCare was sold using duplicitous tactics, calling it a "nothing burger."
Rich Noyes
December 15th, 2014 8:40 AM