Herman Cain Cites MRC, Bozell to Correct Farrakhan Whine

Appearing on Fox News's Hannity on Monday, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain refuted the notion put forward by Louis Farrakhan that, "Never has a sitting president been spoken of in the manner that President Obama and his family have had to endure." [Watch the video after the jump] Cain demolished the baseless claim: "If you go to the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell,…
NB Staff
February 28th, 2012 5:30 PM

How Network News Has Twisted Obama’s War on Religion Into a Conserva

It’s been nearly three weeks since President Obama faced a political backlash over his plan to force religious institutions to bow to government bureaucrats when it came to supplying birth control coverage to their employees. Since then, the liberal media — led by the broadcast networks — have helped re-script the story to suit the President’s political needs. Instead of a story about the…
Rich Noyes
February 28th, 2012 5:06 PM

NBC's Lauer Pushes Gingrich to Attack Santorum on College Comments

In an interview with Newt Gingrich on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer hoped to get the former speaker to denounce recent comments by Rick Santorum about higher education: "Santorum said, 'President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college, what a snob.' As a former college professor, how did you feel about that exchange?" Despite Lauer's attempt to appeal to his…
Kyle Drennen
February 28th, 2012 4:48 PM

MSNBC's Wagner Jumps on School Shooting Tragedy to Bemoan Lack of Acti

Sure, there is really "no way, theoretically or otherwise" that yesterday's school shooting in Chardon, Ohio, could have been prevented, self-confessed Second Amendment opponent MSNBC's Alex Wagner noted in a closing commentary on her eponymous program this afternoon. She then immediately delving into a gripe that America's fruited plain is riddled with incredibly lax gun laws thanks to that…
Ken Shepherd
February 28th, 2012 4:27 PM

NYT's Charles Blow Rants: 'Rick Santorum Scares the Bejesus Out of Peo

According to liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow, "Rick Santorum scares the bejesus out of people" and could never be elected President. The journalist appeared on MSNBC, Tuesday, to dismiss the idea that the Republican could appeal to independents, should he get the nomination. Blow, who just last week made an ugly, anti-Mormon remark about Mitt Romney, did his best to portray…
Scott Whitlock
February 28th, 2012 3:15 PM

More Crud From AP's Crutsinger: Failure to Cite Seasonality in Steep D

At the Associated Press, covering today's durable goods report from the Census Bureau, Martin Crutsinger wrote that "Orders for durable goods fell 4 percent last month." No they didn't. They fell by a seasonally adjusted 4%. The raw data before seasonal adjustment says that they fell by over 15%:  
Tom Blumer
February 28th, 2012 3:04 PM

The Dog That Didn’t Bark

There is a question David Gregory didn’t ask California Gov. Jerry “Déjà vu” Brown on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past Sunday. Gov. Brown said that the solution to our porous southern border is not to seal it but to “invest” in Mexico!  
Dan Kennedy
February 28th, 2012 3:03 PM

Senator Inhofe Debates Global Warming With Alan Colmes

As NewsBusters readers are aware, Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok.) has been one of the nation's most outspoken critics of Nobel laureate Al Gore's favorite money making scheme anthropogenic global warming. On Monday, the Senator debated this issue with Fox News Radio's Alan Colmes (video follows with rough transcript):
Noel Sheppard
February 28th, 2012 1:42 PM

Bill Maher Slams America, Where 'Guns Are a Religion

In light of Monday's deadly school shooting in Ohio, both CNN host Piers Morgan and liberal comedian Bill Maher embarked on a lengthy liberal screed against the current gun laws in America. Maher went so far as to castigate gun owners for making their ownership a "theology," on Monday night's Piers Morgan Tonight. "And Rick Santorum likes to talk about theology. This is a theology in this…
Matt Hadro
February 28th, 2012 1:01 PM

New York Magazine’s John Heilemann: Santorum Has Tourette's on Socia

Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, John Heilemann introduced a new level of attack on Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum by snarking that the conservative former senator has Tourette's syndrome.   In response to host Joe Scarborough assessing the Santorum candidacy as an amateur operation, Heilemann fired back with the following absurd and disgusting comment, “The…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 28th, 2012 1:00 PM

NYTimes Again Tries to Get Feds Interested in Probing GOP Fundraising

Another campaign cycle, another chance for the New York Times to sic the government on GOP fund-raising groups? The gang from 2010 (Mike McIntire and Michael  Luo, pictured) got back together for Sunday’s front-page story, “Fine Line Between ‘Super PACs’ and Campaigns.” Luo in particular wrote several articles in 2010 suggesting the IRS and the Federal Election Commission might find it…
Clay Waters
February 28th, 2012 12:43 PM

For Whom Would America's Founders Vote for President

When New York churches no longer can meet in public school settings, a federal court orders a Rhode Island public school to remove a prayer banner that has been posted for more than five decades (and it complies), the federal government mandates that Catholic institutions cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization (at no cost to the patient), the U.S. Air Force removes "God…
Chuck Norris
February 28th, 2012 12:35 PM

Liberal Panel on 'Today': Romney's 'Arrogance Without Empathy' Guarant

A panel packed with liberal pundits on Tuesday's NBC Today concluded that Mitt Romney "cannot relate to average people" because he is "just an awkward human being" and "robot" who is "not likable" due to his wealth "mixed with arrogance without empathy" that gives him "the image of a robber baron." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] As if that DNC-approved analysis wasn'…
Kyle Drennen
February 28th, 2012 12:17 PM

WashPost's Kumar: It's 'Contentious' to Repeal Mandate Forcing Girls t

In a Metro section front-page article today, the Washington Post's Anita Kumar labeled as "contentious" a bill that the Virginia Senate scuttled that "would have repealed a requirement that schoolgirls be immunized against a virus linked to cervical cancer before entering the sixth grade." Yes, this is the same Washington Post that is slamming as intrusive and medically unnecessary a pre-…
Ken Shepherd
February 28th, 2012 11:34 AM