NYTimes' Alarmist Climate Reporter Hails Lefty College Divestment Push

The New York Times's alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis made the front of Business Day Wednesday with a left-wing protest movement at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, which is apparently "at the vanguard of a national movement": "The Divestment Brigade." A group of Swarthmore College students is asking the school administration to take a seemingly simple step to combat pollution…
Clay Waters
December 6th, 2012 11:34 AM

Joe Scarborough: President Obama's Been Treated Like a Second-Class Ci

MSNBC's resident RINO Joe Scarborough has resumed his regularly-scheduled conservative bashing on Morning Joe.  While discussing the impending fiscal cliff on Thursday, co-host Scarborough said that following President Obama’s “great victory” in November, it will be very hard for the president, who, “for four years, was told that he was an illegitimate president, that he was a socialist” to…
Jeffrey Meyer
December 6th, 2012 11:20 AM

NBC: Republicans Make Disabled People Cry on 'One of the Saddest Days

Employing sanctimonious rhetoric to paint Senate Republicans as cruel and heartless for opposing a U.N. treaty on disabled rights completely redundant to the Americans With Disabilities Act, on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams lectured: "If you want to know how broken, how partisan our Congress and our government has become, all you need to look at is this one day in Washington…
Kyle Drennen
December 6th, 2012 11:10 AM

Piers Morgan Renews Gun Debate With Twitter Foe On His Show

When CNN's Piers Morgan ranted about gun control on Twitter the other day, business strategist Carol Roth educated him about the Second Amendment in an exchange that made headlines. Roth then appeared on Morgan's Wednesday night show for more gun debate. "I think what it boils down to is the ability to protect yourself, Piers," she told Morgan. "As a gun owner, you want to be able to protect…
Matt Hadro
December 6th, 2012 11:00 AM

Open Thread: Budget Chicken With Harry Reid

NB Staff
December 6th, 2012 10:59 AM

Krugman vs. CNBC

Nobel prize winning liberal economist Paul Krugman, who has often argued that President Obama’s $831 billion stimulus was too small, has now decided he knows what’s good for everyone’s health (besides government-controlled healthcare). His health advice? “Don’t spend much time watching CNBC” because it is “bad for your financial and intellectual health.”
Liz Thatcher
December 6th, 2012 10:02 AM

Occupy Wall Street Supporters Among Forbes 25 Top Earning Musicians of

On Nov. 28, 2012, Forbes released a report on the 25 highest paid musicians of the year. Ironically enough, four of this year’s top earners were outspoken supporters of the Occupy Wall Street Movement last year. Apparently they didn’t see hypocrisy of being a top earner in an industry while speaking out against other top earners.
Liz Thatcher
December 6th, 2012 9:50 AM

ABC's Avila Launches Another Fishy Food Attack

Dinner at Jim Avila’s house must be a real party – that is, if Avila himself believes his hysterical food scaremongering. The ABC senior national correspondent has launched job-killing attacks against the beef industry and the poultry industry, and now he’s having a go at the fish. Avila’s latest bogie-food is a new breed of salmon he worries could cause cancer, and he’s going after the…
Mike Ciandella
December 6th, 2012 9:10 AM

Apple To Bring Some Manufacturing Jobs Back From China

Tech giant Apple announced Thursday that it will be bringing some manufacturing jobs back from China to the United States. In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the company  plans to spend more than $100 million next year on building Mac computers here.
Noel Sheppard
December 6th, 2012 8:43 AM

Newsweek: What's Next for Michelle Obama, Our 'Superwoman' and 'Incred

If you’re not one of the people in “Everyone” who loves Michelle Obama, you must not be following the collapse of Newsweek. In one of the magazine’s last print editions, Allison Samuels is asking “What's next for our incredibly popular first lady? Samuel L. Jackson and other super-fans weigh in.” Jackson is in love: “Michelle is Superwoman. What can’t she do?...That’s why people love her.…
Tim Graham
December 6th, 2012 8:25 AM

Is Elmo Damaged Christmas Goods

TV Guide asks this question after the Kevin Clash sex scandal inside Sesame Street: "Is Elmo a No-Go?" They noticed that Hasbro's mid-November press release on its "must-have" toys only has a new "Flying Super Grover 2.0" doll, and no Elmo merchandise. "This motion-activated Super Grover 2.0 character comes to life when kids pick him up and 'fly' him around the room," Hasbro promised. "His…
Tim Graham
December 6th, 2012 8:08 AM

Ed Asner Asks Fox News Producer If He Can Urinate On Him

As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Ed Asner narrated an animated video for the California Federation of Teachers wherein a rich man urinated on a group of poor people. In an interview aired on Fox News's Hannity Wednesday, Asner asked one of the program's producers if he could urinate on him (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 5th, 2012 11:30 PM

Not News: Syria's Rebels Want Israel's Destruction Next

In August, President Barack Obama "secretly" authorized support for Syria's rebels. It was so "secret" that Reuters had a story about it. It "broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad." At the Daily Beast, former Obama administration State Department member P.J. Crowley believes that " Later this year or early next, Washington may…
Tom Blumer
December 5th, 2012 9:11 PM

Republicans Can't Govern Because They Hate Government, Bill Press and

In their reverence for all matters governmental, more liberals should know the difference between conservatives and anarchists. Instead, it's the left winger's most hackneyed conceit -- that because Republicans see immense and wasteful government as undesirable, they are intent on wrecking instead of reforming it. Hardly a week passes that I don't hear this argument, just as that length of…
Jack Coleman
December 5th, 2012 7:30 PM