WaPo Wrongly Accuses Gun Rights Advocate of Breaking Ranks With NRA on

The anti-gun media will do anything in their power to undermine and discredit the National Rifle Association. Doing its part Tuesday was the Washington Post with an article that wrongly accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation of breaking ranks with the NRA on background checks:
Noel Sheppard
March 7th, 2013 3:10 PM

Networks Demand Bush Release Strategic Petroleum Reserve Over 3 Times

It is well-established that the broadcasts networks covered rising gas prices different under President George W. Bush’s administration than they did President Barack Obama, in tone and even the amount of coverage. In addition to fueling discontent with many gas price reports, one of the networks’ frequent suggestions for lowering gas prices during the Bush years was for the federal…
Mike Ciandella
March 7th, 2013 2:25 PM

Yahoo News Asks: 'Was Mother Teresa Actually Sort of a Jerk

Former Time.com writer Keith Wagstaff has just joined a different magazine, The Week, but he’s still sounding like the old employer. He has a new piece posted on Yahoo! News titled “Was Mother Teresa actually sort of a jerk?” Catholic-bashing is a much more acceptable journalistic pastime than snarky revisionist histories of hallowed liberals like Thurgood Marshall (honored as a saint by the…
Tim Graham
March 7th, 2013 1:59 PM

MSNBC’s ‘Tweet Of The Day’ Highlights Politico’s Thrush Making

A daily feature on MSNBC’s Jansing & Co. is the ‘tweet of the day’ in which host Chris Jansing showcases a tweet from a politician or a member of the media that is topical to a major news event. Most of Jansing’s featured tweets are from liberal journalists, and on March 7, things weren’t much different.  Following coverage of Senator Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) 13-hour filibuster over the…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 7th, 2013 1:06 PM

NBC Whines About Vatican 'Secrecy' And Media 'Clamp Down

In a report from the Vatican on Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons fretted over Church officials limiting press access to cardinals as they prepare to elect the next Pope in Conclave: "The U.S. cardinals have been told to stop talking, to close ranks. Since Monday, they've been holding news conferences....The last, abruptly cancelled before it began, the Vatican imposing immediate…
Kyle Drennen
March 7th, 2013 12:48 PM

Video: Noyes, Varney Discuss Media's Hype of Sequester, Befuddlement T

In the fortnight leading up to the sequester, the broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC wrung their hands about "all the catastrophes that would happen if these cuts went through," NewsBusters senior editor Rich Noyes noted on the March 7 edition of Fox Business Network's Varney & Co. Since, then, however, "they've spent no time asking how is the White House going to decide where these cuts…
Ken Shepherd
March 7th, 2013 12:42 PM

ABC Skimps on Filibuster Coverage, Offers Confusing Explanation of Ran

ABC's World News on Wednesday and Good Morning America on Thursday offered confusing, incomplete and brief explanations for why Rand Paul filibustered John Brennan, Barack Obama's Central Intelligence Agency nominee. According to GMA news reader Josh Elliott, "Paul was protesting the Obama administration's use of drone strikes against Americans." [Video of the terse explanations can be found…
Scott Whitlock
March 7th, 2013 12:38 PM

CNN Gives 8 Times More Coverage to Beyoncé Lip Sync Than Obama Seques

CNN gave over eight times more coverage to Beyonce lip synching the national anthem than it did to President Obama's falsehood on the sequester last Friday. After the President claimed in last Friday's presser that Capitol Hill janitors and police would receive a pay cut because of the sequester, CNN correspondent Dana Bash fact-checked it and found it not to be the case. Her report aired…
Matt Hadro
March 7th, 2013 11:47 AM

Pelosi: 'I Hope the Democrats Will Use the Filibuster Some Time as Wel

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) commented Thursday on Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) historic filibuster the previous day. 'I hope the Democrats will use the filibuster some time as well in that way."
Noel Sheppard
March 7th, 2013 11:45 AM

Jessica Simpson: ‘I Keep Planning on Getting Married But I Keep Gett

Actress and singer Jessica Simpson made a comment Wednesday that is so preposterous in the year 2013 – especially from a woman that is estimated to be worth $100 million! – that it completely defies reason. Appearing on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the once again pregnant Simpson said, “I keep planning on getting married but I keep getting knocked up.”
Noel Sheppard
March 7th, 2013 10:43 AM

On Morning Joe, An Intra-Squad Liberal Dogfight Over Drones

As Joe Scarborough said, "this is liberal on liberal on liberal violence. I love watching it."  He was referring to the intra-squad liberal dogfight, spurred by Rand Paul's filibuster, that broke out on Morning Joe today over the use of drones by the U.S. government. H/t NB reader Ray R. Though former car czar Steve Rattner played a supporting role, the two main combatants were Sam Stein of…
Mark Finkelstein
March 7th, 2013 10:42 AM

USA Today Hypes Anti-Gun Study by Lefty Advocacy Group on Front Page

USA Today highlighted a study on gun violence, giving it top billing on its front page March 5. The headline read: “Gun Violence Annual Cost: $12 Billion.” But the USA Today story didn’t give any indication of the left-wing inclinations of the group behind that study. The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, or PIRE, is a Maryland based advocacy group that is anti-alcohol, anti-…
Liz Thatcher
March 7th, 2013 10:04 AM

NYT's Severson: 'Some' Say ID Stripe on Illegals' Drivers Licenses Are

No good deed goes unpunished? In a compromise move, North Carolina officials will issue drivers licenses to young illegal immigrants who have won deferrals from deportation, but with a distinguishing colored marking on the licenses – a pink stripe. New York Times Atlanta bureau chief Kim Severson likened the stripe to "a modern-day scarlet letter" in "North Carolina to Give Some Immigrants…
Clay Waters
March 7th, 2013 8:59 AM

Pledge to PBS! You're Not Consumers, You're Neighbors...and Check Out

I was flipping channels on Wednesday night when I came across a pledge campaign on D.C. PBS station WHUT (Howard University Television). Travel-show host Rick Steves was doing the usual spiel about how PBS is a “national treasure” that assumes we’re intelligent people. But then came the usual hustle: Steves said PBS “is a TV station that treats us not like consumers, but like neighbors.”…
Tim Graham
March 7th, 2013 7:30 AM