
At AP, Fewer Unemployment Claims 'Suggests' That 'Employers Kept Hirin
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that Associated Press CEO Dean Singleton's lavish praise of President Barack Obama noted earlier this week by Matt Sheffield at NewsBusters hasn't trickled down to the beat reporters and affected their day-to-day coverage.
Take this opening sentence from the AP's Christopher Rugaber written shortly after the Department of Labor released its…
April 5th, 2012 11:38 AM

Networks Freak Out Over All Male Golf Club; Katie Couric Lectures: 'Ge
ABC and NBC could barely contain their contempt while covering the controversy over the all-male Augusta golf club. Katie Couric, guest anchoring Good Morning America on Thursday, lectured the organization hosting the Masters tournament to allow a woman in: "I mean, really. Get with the program. Seriously?"
Reporter Josh Elliott lamented that Augusta has remained "cloistered," "a secretive…
April 5th, 2012 11:32 AM

NYT's Calmes Thinks Dems Can Run Against SCOTUS: No Criticism of Obama
Wishful thinking on behalf of Obama? New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes fancies that criticizing the Supreme Court might be a winning issue for Democrats for a change, in Thursday's "Court's Potential to Goad Voters Swings to Democrats."
For decades, Republicans have railed every four years against the Supreme Court and its perceived liberal activism to spur conservatives to…
April 5th, 2012 11:12 AM

Huffington Post Promotes ‘Queer Christ
Those who adhere to the gospel of liberal sexuality fall into two different camps when they discuss Jesus. Religious feminists argue that Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene. Religious homosexuals, on the other hand, portray Christ as gay, as the Huffington Post’s Kittredge Cherry did in a piece titled “Queer Christ Arises to Liberate and Heal.”
Cherry, herself a lesbian…
April 5th, 2012 11:00 AM
Coulter Column: Turns Out Obama's an Even Worse Lawyer Than His Solici
The reason tea partiers carried signs saying "Read the Constitution!" was that we were hoping people would read the Constitution.
Alas, we still have Rick Santorum saying Obamacare is the same as what he calls "Romneycare"; the otherwise brilliant Mickey Kaus sniffing that if states can mandate insurance purchases, then we're "not talking about some basic individual liberty to not purchase…
April 5th, 2012 10:54 AM

Examiner Fails to Note Soros’ Funding of Voter ID Controversy
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner wrote a piece entitled “Democrats boycott Coke, Walmart over voter ID laws” on April 4. The piece reported the situation well, with one exception: it didn’t mention that one side of the voter identification debate is almost completely fought by Soros-backed organizations.
The focus of the article was on a push by Color of Change, the Center for…
April 5th, 2012 10:19 AM
Open Thread: Crony Capitalism Continues to Collapse
Unconventional energy is certainly an interesting concept, it's just not ready for the market yet. And the repeated failures of companies that have been given cash by Uncle Sam are continuing to pile up. And, it turns out, that the Solyndra debacle is continuing to get even more embarrassing:
April 5th, 2012 10:05 AM

Zimmerman Attorney: 'It's Been Open Season' - 'The Media Has Just Abso
As NewsBusters has been reporting since the Trayvon Martin shooting occurred in Sanford, Florida, America's press have predictably declared George Zimmerman guilty before an arrest has even been made with some actually calling for his head on a platter.
On Wednesday, Zimmerman's attorney Craig Sonner appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight saying, "It's been open season on just destroying this…
April 5th, 2012 9:12 AM
Daily Kos Lays an Easter Egg: Religion Is Insanity, 'Emotional Blackma
This is how the Daily Kos folks say Happy Easter: a diarist with the byline "maf1029" absolutely, positively refuses to grant any respect to anyone holding those foolish religious beliefs. The headline was "I will NOT respect your beliefs...." He's a cradle Catholic who escaped the church with 'the icky wood carvings of torture and a 25 foot tall hanging statue of a bleeded and brutalized…
April 4th, 2012 11:03 PM
Libtalker Malloy: How Long Before Menstruating Women 'Can Be Shot' for
This could qualify as one of the craziest liberal rants ever broadcast on radio.
On Tuesday, libtalker Mike Malloy, whilst shouting about the Trayvon Martin shooting, asked, "How long before there'll be a 'Stand Your Pregnancy' law passed where any woman who starts menstruating can be shot dead because she wore a hoodie when she went out to buy a box of tampons?" (video follows with…
April 4th, 2012 10:24 PM

Ed Schultz Begins Show Saying 'Suck It Up Righties
Are the folks at MSNBC the slightest bit concerned anymore with showing even a hint of impartiality in their so-called "news" programming?
On Wednesday, Ed Schultz began the nationally televised show bearing his name saying, "Suck it up Righties!" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 4th, 2012 9:10 PM

CNN Asks 'How Ethical Is Your Easter Basket
Four days before the holiest time of the year for Christians, CNN.com actually asked, "How ethical is your Easter basket?"
This was the headline for the video of a CNN Newsroom segment Wednesday about child slaves being used to harvest cocoa in West Africa (video follows with fuller transcript and commentary):
April 4th, 2012 8:22 PM

Charlie Rose to McCain: Ryan Plan a 'Prescription for American Decline
Charlie Rose boosted two of the left's talking points about Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday's CBS This Morning. Rose asked Republican Senator John McCain, "Does Mitt Romney have to redefine himself...against the charges that he's out of touch, and that by endorsing the Ryan budget, it is a prescription for American decline?"
Rose also…
April 4th, 2012 6:10 PM

Limbaugh Rips Olbermann: 'You Are Not a $10 Million Chandelier - You'r
Recently fired and disgraced liberal commentator Keith Olbermann boasted on CBS's Late Show Tuesday that he's a $10 million chandelier.
Rush Limbaugh on his radio program marvelously responded Wednesday saying, "Keith, you are not a $10 million chandelier. You're the guy wearing a $50 lampshade sitting in the corner of the room that nobody else wants to go in" (video courtesy Daily Rushbo…
April 4th, 2012 5:52 PM