BBC Director Admits Anti-Christian Shows Acceptable, While Anti-Muslim

Via Don Surber, we learn the London Daily Mail reported that BBC director-general Mark Thompson said that mockery of Christianity on British television was acceptable because Christianity was "an established part of our cultural-built landscape" which meant it was "a pretty broad-shouldered religion." Thompson made these remarks after large Christian protests of the 2005 BBC2 broadcast of "…
Tim Graham
February 28th, 2012 10:53 PM

Chris Matthews Begins MSNBC Primary Coverage Saying Santorum Wants to

That didn't take very long. Within five minutes of the start of MSNBC's coverage of the Arizona and Michigan primaries Tuesday evening, Hardball host Chris Matthews falsely claimed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum wants to "outlaw birth control" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 28th, 2012 8:40 PM

CNN Hastily Dismisses Veracity of Santorum's Attacks on Obama

Once again, CNN took offense at a Republican attack against President Obama and rushed to the President's defense, even without complete confirmation of the details. Fill-in host Soledad O'Brien dismissed GOP candidate Rick Santorum's attack on Obama as untrue, even though she couldn't even verify his true source of information. O'Brien aired Santorum's two swipes at Obama on his wanting…
Matt Hadro
February 28th, 2012 7:39 PM

Ex-Newsweek Editor: Santorum Poses a 'Fundamental Challenge to the Mod

Former Newsweek senior editor Howard Fineman on Tuesday slammed Rick Santorum as regressive, sneering, "Well, I think Rick Santorum is posing a more fundamental challenge to the modern world." Fineman made his mocking comment while talking to Hardball's Chris Matthews. The liberal anchor wondered who liberals should "fear" more, "Romney's elitist attitude towards the economy, where he looks…
Scott Whitlock
February 28th, 2012 6:12 PM

CBS Claims Focus on Social Issues 'Troubling' for GOP; Ryan Blames Med

On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose lobbed a series of questions from the left at Republican Congressman Paul Ryan. Rose wondered if the recent trend towards social issues in the Republican presidential race was "troubling." The Wisconsin Republican replied, "It's not troubling for me, and...I think that's more about the media, and maybe the Democrats, who are trying to move it in that…
Matthew Balan
February 28th, 2012 5:52 PM

Christian Conservatives Guard Religious Liberty

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution contains two clauses addressing religious liberty: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It's a shame that in their modern misguided zeal to read the first clause as mandating a complete separation of church and state, liberals do great damage to the second clause…
David Limbaugh
February 28th, 2012 5:35 PM

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