ABC News Spins: GOP 'Perfectly Content' to Watch Student Loan Rates Do

ABC News’s John Parkinson parroted liberal talking points on student loan rates Monday, claiming the GOP “seemed perfectly content to watch rates double” while Democrats prepped a Wednesday vote in the Senate to keep rates at 3.4 percent. In an online article, Parkinson pitted the “unrelenting” Democratic Party against a gleefully partisan GOP, apparently buying into Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev…
Andrew Lautz
July 9th, 2013 1:10 PM

Half of Fracking Stories Rely on Hollywood Hit Jobs

The flaming water faucet shown in the anti-natural gas drilling film “Gasland,” has become the first thing many people think of when they hear of gas drilling, or “fracking.” But that claim turned out to be completely wrong. Investigators determined that Colorado water well had been drilled into a pocket of methane and had nothing to do with fracking. Josh Fox’s follow up, “GasLand II” debuted…
Julia A. Seymour
July 9th, 2013 1:06 PM

NBC Keeps Texas 'Battle Over Abortion' Alive, Frets Over 'Controversia

Two weeks after Texas state senator Wendy Davis and a mob of abortion activists prevented popularly supported pro-life legislation from being passed in the Lone Star State, on Tuesday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales warned of another upcoming vote on the bill: "The battle over abortion rights is focused on Texas, where a controversial bill that failed last month will be back up for a…
Kyle Drennen
July 9th, 2013 12:30 PM

ABC Again Touts Eliot Spitzer: 'Infamy Might Work to His Advantage,' S

For the second day in a row, the journalists at Good Morning America failed to identify prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat. Yet, in a story on the politician's comeback, reporter Claire Shipman made sure to highlight former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford as a Republican. Regarding Spitzer's bid to be the New York City comptroller, Shipman enthused, "A new political lesson for…
Scott Whitlock
July 9th, 2013 12:06 PM

Government-Funded NPR Hypes ObamaCare Push in Sports Leagues

Government-funded National Public Radio has a vested interest in seeing liberal programs succeed, as their funding could evaporate under a conservative administration. Given NPR’s heavy reliance on federal dollars, it should come as no surprise that they have weighed in on the side of the Obama administration in its decision to lobby sports leagues to promote the controversial health care law…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 9th, 2013 11:52 AM

Open Thread Tuesday

For general discussion and comment...
NB Staff
July 9th, 2013 11:20 AM

Nothing to See Here: CNN Largely Omits Tainted Eliot Spitzer Was Once

CNN mentioned Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal in every single report on his comeback bid in politics on Monday and Tuesday, but hid that he was recently a CNN prime-time host in five of the seven reports. Spitzer was originally hired by CNN as a liberal voice, to co-host a prime-time show with "conservative" Kathleen Parker that debuted in October of 2010. When Parker left the show…
Matt Hadro
July 9th, 2013 10:36 AM

Spitzer's Feeble Defense: Hey, Politicians Lie All The Time About All

As defenses go to the charge of having lied to the people of New York about illegal activities, Eliot Spitzer's was feeble at best. Hey, politicans lie all the time about all sorts of stuff, was the essence of Client #9-turned-Comptroller-candidate's response. Spitzer's lame defense [he literally said: "I think we all know that politicians dissemble all the time about negotiations, on…
Mark Finkelstein
July 9th, 2013 10:20 AM

David Limbaugh Column: Obamacare: A Law Born and Remaining in Hell

Could the boondoggle we call "Obamacare" be a bigger disaster? Is there any better example of the arrogance, incompetence and remorselessness of top-down central planning? The very name of the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a deceptive euphemism, as it neither protects patients nor makes health care more affordable.
David Limbaugh
July 9th, 2013 9:50 AM

Zimmerman Attorney: 'My Client Will Never Be Safe' If Acquitted

George Zimmerman's attorney said something Monday that is a truly sad statement about our society and the current state of America's media. Appearing on CNN's Piers Morgan Live, Mark O'Mara said that if Zimmerman is acquitted of all charges, "He'll never be safe" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
July 9th, 2013 9:48 AM

HuffPo Live Gloomy Over ‘Shortage’ of Abortionists

Abortionists are going gray and there could be a “women’s health” crisis unless younger docs learn the baby-killing trade. That was the attitude of a HuffPo Live panel on Monday afternoon, complaining that younger generations of doctors don’t get oodles of abortion training. Accusing medical schools of failing to provide sufficient abortion training for medical students, host Ricky Camilleri…
Lauren Enk
July 9th, 2013 8:58 AM

Washington Post Profiles ‘Outlaw’ Raisin Farmer Fighting to End th

 Paper highlights problem of government intervention about outdated law stealing from farmers.
Kristine Marsh
July 9th, 2013 8:22 AM

HuffPo Live Gloomy Over ‘Shortage’ of Abortionists

Panel decries supposed decline in abortion training.
Lauren Enk
July 9th, 2013 8:01 AM

The New Book 'Collusion' by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham Debuts Today

The media have always been liberal, but never have they shown such obvious bias as in the 2012 election. Today, the book “Collusion” by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham is available online and in book stores. The authors present detailed evidence of the liberal media’s unmistakable – and highly successful -- efforts to reelect Barack Obama and to demonize his rival. In the 2012 election, decades…
NB Staff
July 9th, 2013 6:48 AM