Liberal Civility: Cardinal Is ‘Bulls---ter,’ ‘Blowhard’ on Gay

It’s hardly a shock that the paragons of class at Jezebel hate the Catholic Church, what with its rules and morality and stuff. But shouldn’t people who write for a living be able to come up with a better epithet for a Church cardinal than “Catholic Bullshitter?” Is that the best enlightened progressives can do? Jezebel's Doug Barry blamed the Church for “deny[ing] gay people certain critical…
Katie Yoder
 

NY Times 'Dot Earth' Blogger Draws Cartoon of Christmas Trees Tying a

Environmentalists prefer plants and animals to humans. The latest proof? Through a panicky global-warming tweet from Think Progress blaring "Floods and heat cause mass Christmas Tree deaths," I came across a new cartoon drawn by veteran New York Times environmental reporter-turned-"Dot Earth" blogger Andrew Revkin. Revkin had several pine trees driving a car with a balding white guy tied to…
Tim Graham
 

President Obama Nominated Twice in PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year' Read

Corrected/clarified from earlier | President Obama's lie about having always said that there were caveats to "if you like it you can keep it" claim made it into the top 10 finalists for PolitiFact's 2013 Lie of the Year Readers Choice Award. PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan invited readers this morning to vote for their favorite false claim. Half of the nominees were conservative…
Ken Shepherd
 

NBC's Gregory Cuts Off GOP Congressman to Spew ObamaCare Propaganda

On Sunday's Meet the Press, as Republican Congressman Mike Rogers denounced ObamaCare's "unprecedented confiscation of people's health care," moderator David Gregory interrupted to parrot White House talking points defending the disastrous policy: "...you talk about confiscation, the reality is there's also a lot of people who are going to have the potential to get insurance who never had…
Kyle Drennen
 

CNN Walks Back Sunday's Report on Upgraded ObamaCare Website Crashing

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, CNN's New Day featured a segment wherein the newly upgraded ObamaCare website crashed when senior medical producer Matt Sloane tried to open up an account. Maybe that was too honest for on Monday's New Day, senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen painted a much rosier picture of the website's progress (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread Monday

For general discussion and comment...
NB Staff
 

WashPost: Democrats Never Careen to the 'Far Left,' They Can Only Beco

On Sunday, The Washington Post reported on its front page “Democratic Party feeling heat from a revived left.” They rarely acknowledge the Democrats have an ideological base, and almost never use the word “liberal” to describe it. Reporter Zachary Goldfarb did use the word “liberal” routinely, but when you want to push something really leftist, you aren’t getting extreme, you are growing…
Tim Graham
 

Scarborough: Obamacare Site Like A Hollywood Western Set—Nothing Beh

Potemkin Village, anyone?  Joe Scarborough has offered a scathing simile for the new-'n-improved Obamacare website.  On today's Morning Joe, he likened the site to the set of a Hollywood Western--pushing back the facade reveals that there's nothing behind it. Even former Obama spox Robert Gibbs—proudly sporting an Auburn jersey—acknowledged that big chunks of the system, including the…
Mark Finkelstein
 

You Read It Here First: George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causin

George Will marveled in his column late last week over how “a CNN anchor wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb. 15 was ‘an effect of, perhaps, global warming.’” That quote, however, isn’t new to you if you’ve been reading NewsBusters or attended the MRC’s 2013 “DisHonors Awards” where that was a runner-up in the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis.”
Brent Baker
 

'Movember' Is 'Divisive, Gender Normative, Racist

Poor Matt Lauer and Al Roker: they spent November growing out beards on NBC for “Movember,” to promote men's health, but the British magazine New Statesman has announced “Movember is divisive, gender normative, racist and ineffective against some very real health issues.”                      RedState’s Erick Erickson tweeted “You cannot parody the left. You just can't. You may think it is…
Tim Graham
 

Sign at Redskins Game: 'Hey Bob Costas I Don't Like Your Name Either

As NewsBusters previously reported, NBC's Bob Costas in October did a halftime rant about the name Washington Redskins. During Sunday night's game between the New York Giants and the Redskins broadcast on NBC, a fan had a sign marvelously reading, "Hey Bob Costas I Don't Like Your Name Either!":
Noel Sheppard
 

AP Joins the 'Semantically Committed Cadre' of Media Outlets That Cham

In June, libertine-left promoter-slash-reporter Lisa Leff of the Associated Press championed incorrect gender information on driver’s licenses on behalf of the “gender-fluid.” As November ended, Leff was the latest reporter to promote colleges that are dropping archaic pronouns like “he” and “she” for that same cause. The headline on Yahoo was “'Preferred' pronouns gain traction at US…
Tim Graham
 

Alec Baldwin Flip-Flops: 'I Am Glad Martin Bashir Is Still On

Alec Baldwin can't make up his mind. After complaining Tuesday about MSNBC's Martin Bashir still being on the air despite his vile comments about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Baldwin said Sunday he's glad Bashir still has a show:
Noel Sheppard
 

Lefties Fight: Daily Kos Infuriates Ted Rall By Accusing Him of Racist

Romenesko reports on a radical-versus-radical squabble over a cartoon image of Obama. Leftist cartoonist Ted Rall was lectured by a Daily Kos administrator that “your depiction of Barack Obama as ape-like is intolerable” and insisted “blacks have been subject to racist depictions of themselves as monkeys and apes. No excuse is acceptable for replicating that history, no matter what your intent…
Tim Graham