Biden: 'Will and Grace' Increased Acceptance of Homosexuality

During an interview on yesterday's edition of 'Meet the Press,' Vice President Joe Biden stated that he is “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage and praised a long-running situation comedy for “educating” the American public on homosexuality. However, Biden first had to defend his record of “evolving” views regarding homosexual issues, just as President Barack Obama, who says he…
Randy Hall
May 7th, 2012 4:45 PM

Martin Bashir: 'Romney Is the European Socialist' Not Obama

MSNBC's Martin Bashir practically had an on air meltdown Monday over comments Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made about President Obama and the European economy. "He supports Paul Ryan’s budget. He wants to go cut, cut, cut. It’s not president – it’s him. He’s the European Socialist" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
May 7th, 2012 4:33 PM

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Attacks RNC Chief's Conservatism Over Issue of

Perhaps inspired by comments made by Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press a day earlier, Andrea Mitchell continued MSNBC's drumbeat of activism on gay marriage on her May 7 program. Mitchell seized on Biden's categorical support for same-sex marriage as an opportunity to litigate the issue with Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus. During her interview with the…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 7th, 2012 4:23 PM

Washington Post Still Avoiding Describing Chinese Dissident Chen As a

In the domain of what properly constitutes human rights issues, forced abortions and sterilizations have to fall in that category. So why isn't the Washington Post describing Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng as a "human rights activist"? In two stories packaged side-by-side on page A9 of the May 8 paper, the Post's Andrew Higgins and Keith B. Richburg failed to use the term to describe Chen…
Ken Shepherd
May 7th, 2012 4:10 PM

Soledad O'Brien Tries to 'Correct' Romney Aide, Says Economic Trend Fa

CNN's Soledad O'Brien once again jumped to the defense of the Obama campaign, as she tried to argue on Monday that the economy is "trending" in the President's favor. She countered Romney aide Andrea Saul who hit Obama's record of net job loss while in office. "When you say 'hasn't created net jobs,' of course you are talking about there was so much job loss that even started to happen…
Matt Hadro
May 7th, 2012 3:32 PM

Robert Reich Spins French Socialist's Win on CBS: No 'Dramatic Effect

Monday's CBS This Morning brought on former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich to brush off the effect of French socialist Francois Hollande's election on the world economy, despite the immediate decline in global stock markets: "I don't think there's really much danger." Anchor Erica Hill had asked the pundit if there was "a danger in throwing off the French economy and the ripple effect…
Matthew Balan
May 7th, 2012 3:30 PM

Crackdown in Asia on Powdered Human Fetus Pills

In gross-out news, London's Daily Mail reports "Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today." "The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born." This could be a new income stream for Planned…
Tim Graham
May 7th, 2012 3:12 PM

Mike Papantonio Actually Claims Huffington Post is 'Not Left Leaning

... which proves one thing, namely that attorney and "Ring of Fire" radio show cohost Mike Papantonio doesn't read The Huffington Post. How can you tell you're dealing with someone whose politics could not be more obviously, obliviously liberal? When he or she denies being liberal. Conservatives, on the other hand, don't scurry from their conservatism. (audio clips after page break)
Jack Coleman
May 7th, 2012 12:49 PM

NBC: Romney Must 'Backtrack' From the Right, But Obama Will Suffer 'Da

Talking to Meet the Press host David Gregory on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry pushed for Mitt Romney to move away from conservatives: "...does he have to work really hard now to backtrack off of some of his positions in the past, as he was trying to win the primary...?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In a stunning double standard, in her very next question,…
Kyle Drennen
May 7th, 2012 12:30 PM

Uncritical John Berman: 'What the President Seems to Want Is Space' on

Perhaps previewing the winking and nodding that will follow in the general election campaign, ABC's John Berman on Monday uncritically parroted the White House line on gay marriage: "What the President seems to want is space." The Good Morning America correspondent added that the President is looking for "space to say that perhaps in a second term he might change the policy. But for it not…
Scott Whitlock
May 7th, 2012 12:15 PM

Tyrrell Column: Osama bin Laden a Year Later

It has now been a year since Osama bin Laden became a ghost courtesy of the United States SEALs. I had long since come to the conclusion that Osama became crˆpes suzettes for the worms back in Tora Bora in December 2001, and I was somewhat stubborn in my belief. Yet he fooled me and the student of Araby Mark Steyn and a few other pundits. I shall be a big enough man to admit it. I was wrong.…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
May 7th, 2012 12:07 PM

WashPost Seeks to Spin Positive Poll Numbers As Negative for Potential

Fifty-six percent of Virginians approve of Republican Bob McDonnell's job as governor and 49 percent believe the Old Dominion is on the right track. That contrasts with a 47 percent average approval rating for President Obama and an average of 32.7 percent of Americans who believe the country is on the "right track." Yet the Washington Post chose to spin the polling numbers as a negative,…
Ken Shepherd
May 7th, 2012 11:40 AM

NewsBusters' Sheppard Debates Media Firestorm Over Gay Romney Adviser

An openly gay adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney resigned last week, and the Obama-loving media interested in discussing anything but the poor economy jumped all over it. NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard discussed this with Don Lemon on CNN Newsroom Saturday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
NB Staff
May 7th, 2012 11:34 AM

Open Thread: Le Boot

Over the weekend, French president Nicolas Sarkozy went down in defeat to Socialist Francois Hollande. Do you see the election as having any bearing on the American elections or is it just an anomaly?
NB Staff
May 7th, 2012 11:09 AM