Could 'Bully' Collapse the Movie Ratings System

Since the MPAA would not budge on its "R" rating for the movie "Bully," the Weinstein Company announced plans to release its multiple-F-bomb version as unrated on March 30. Many theater chains have a policy refusing to carry unrated films, but since "Bully" has a massive liberal PR blitz behind it, some chains will knuckle under to this crusade. (See AMC Theatres, for one.) This is not a…
Tim Graham
March 27th, 2012 4:20 PM

As Pope Draws Crowds in Cuba, NYT Suddenly Remembers Big Crowds Are Pr

The New York Times coverage of the Pope's trip to the dictatorship of Cuba has a strange, cheap-shot emphasis on how the Cuban people are coerced to attend such rallies, an authoritarian power play, but one the paper rarely if ever bothers to address during Cuban May Day rallies held in celebration of communism. A nytimes.com search suggests the Times has never previously used the words "…
Clay Waters
March 27th, 2012 3:54 PM

CNN Hypes Family's 'Fear' of SCOTUS Striking Down ObamaCare

For the second day in a row, CNN appealed to emotion and aired the story of an innocent chid that made the case for ObamaCare. On Tuesday morning they featured a heartrending account of an epileptic three year-old girl who will soon reach her lifetime benefit limits on health insurance – if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare. CNN correspondent Elizabeth Cohen made the Court's decision…
Matt Hadro
March 27th, 2012 3:51 PM

ObamaCare: Will the Court Vindicate Itself

If there has ever been a case that could vindicate the Supreme Court as a guardian of liberty or incriminate it as freedom's thief, it is the court's present consideration of the Affordable Care Act. At the founding of the republic, the Anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution warned that to grant the power to declare laws unconstitutional to an unelected and life-tenured Supreme Court…
David Limbaugh
March 27th, 2012 3:41 PM

Not All Presidential Orders Are Created Equal (Part

In his typical duck-'n'-dodge fashion, President Barack Obama spewed his 115th executive order upon the American public on a late Friday afternoon, March 16. Cloaked in one of Obama's candy-coated, grandiloquent titles, the "National Defense Resources Preparedness" executive order set the blogosphere ablaze this past week. Canada Free Press ran an article titled "Obama Executive Order:…
Chuck Norris
March 27th, 2012 3:14 PM

CNN's Toobin Reverses, Predicts Obamacare Will Be Scrapped by SCOTUS

[UPDATED with transcript and audio.] Because the left so utterly dominates America's biggest media outlets, part of being a liberal journalist oftentimes involves being utterly ignorant of conservative viewpoints. Since so many journalists, as former CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg has said repeatedly, don't really know people who are center-right, they generally tend to have very truncated…
Matthew Sheffield
March 27th, 2012 2:47 PM

Memo to All AP Propagandists: It's Okay to Call It 'ObamaCare' Now

Apparently most reporters at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Propagandists, lost the memo that Reuters got ("Obama Campaign: Obamacare Not a Bad Word After All"). Either that, or they haven't been paying attention their Obama For America emails. OFA and President Obama himself both say it's now okay to call the fraudulently named Affordable Care Act which became law in March…
Tom Blumer
March 27th, 2012 1:16 PM

ABC Hyperventilates: 'Sour' Santorum 'Lashes Out' and 'Goes to War' Wi

The journalists at Good Morning America on Tuesday appeared shocked that a "sour" Rick Santorum dared to aggressively oppose a New York Times reporter, hyperventilating that the Republican presidential candidate has gone to "war against the media." Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos insisted that the "wear and tear of a long, tough campaign" is beginning to…
Scott Whitlock
March 27th, 2012 12:24 PM

Maddow On 'Today': ObamaCare Decision Will Be 'Referendum' On 'Conserv

Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow spun the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare as being a judgment of how partisan the high court has become: "...this may as much be a referendum on the Supreme Court and whether or not the Roberts court is so conservatively politicized that it will make a decision to hurt the President, rather than sticking closely to precedent…
Kyle Drennen
March 27th, 2012 12:00 PM

WaPo Defends Individual Mandate; But In 1995 They Cautioned Congress

It was as predictable as the sun rising in the east, but today the Washington Post defended as constitutional ObamaCare's individual mandate. The mandate is defended by the administration as being legitimate under the Constitution's commerce clause, a defense the Post editorial board agreed with while conceding that the arguments against the mandate are "serious." To justify the individual…
Ken Shepherd
March 27th, 2012 11:51 AM

Laughable: Chris Matthews Proclaims He's 'Centrist

Here's a joke for you this Tuesday morning. Did you know that hyperpartisan Democrat Chris Matthews sees himself as a "centrist?" In an aside during a conversation with MSNBC contributor Joan Walsh, the leg-thrilling pundit emphatically claimed the moderate label for himself, stating that he could understand President Obama being criticized by both liberals and conservatives on the Keystone…
Matthew Sheffield
March 27th, 2012 11:45 AM

ABC: Crusade Against Beef Costs 600 Jobs

Some journalists aren’t content with covering the news; they have to make it, too. That’s been ABC’s strategy as the network has led the charge against USDA-approved beef. That agenda has put at least 600 jobs in jeopardy as the targeted company suspended operations in three separate plants. ABC’s Jim Avila has been out in front of the issue, repeatedly calling the beef “pink slime,” a…
Dan Gainor
March 27th, 2012 11:07 AM

Open Thread: Santorum Says He'd Accept VP Nomination

Today's starter topic: With his chances of winning the GOP nomination decreasing as time goes by, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum said in an interview that he would accept an offer to be the Republican vice presidential candidate if he were offered it by likely presidential nominee Mitt Romney:
NB Staff
March 27th, 2012 10:37 AM

New York Times Finally Notices: Women Like Rick Santorum

Saturday's front-page New York Times story by Susan Saulny focused on the Santorum campaign in Louisiana before Santorum's easy win in the Republican primary there: "On the Right, Santorum Has Women's Vote." Saulny emphasized the religious angle of Santorum's appeal. The condescending story provided slight corrective to the paper's misleading previous coverage assuming Santorum lacked support…
Clay Waters
March 27th, 2012 8:58 AM