'Fanning the Flames': NBC Claims Santorum's Mention of Jeremiah Wright

At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry admonished Rick Santorum for accurately describing President Obama's religious history: "Fanning the flames. Rick Santorum takes a new shot at President Obama's faith by mentioning his controversial former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright." In a later report, correspondent Peter Alexander announced: "Rick Santorum isn't backing down from…
Kyle Drennen
February 21st, 2012 4:36 PM

UPDATED |WashPost Runs Cartoon Depicting Drunken Bishop, Refused to Ru

Updated at 22:51 EST (see bottom of post) | Wiley Miller's "Non Sequitur" strip is syndicated in newspapers throughout the country, including the Washington Post. To the extent Miller delves into politics and social or religious critique, it's generally from the left. Today, the day before Ash Wednesday, Miller's February 21 cartoon was entitled "Divine Intervention" and depicted a bishop in…
Ken Shepherd
February 21st, 2012 4:11 PM

CBS's Rose to Gingrich: Are You 'Questioning the Patriotism' of Obama

Charlie Rose sparred again with Newt Gingrich on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, hounding the former House Speaker for apparently casting aspersions on President Obama's patriotism: "By saying...that the President of the United States is running over the Constitution...you seem to be saying that the President is not patriotic. You seem to be questioning [his] patriotism" [audio available here;…
Matthew Balan
February 21st, 2012 4:02 PM

Chris Matthews Concedes: 'Liberals Don't Want to Pay More Taxes'; 'It

Liberal MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews conceded on Monday night, "Liberals don't want to pay more" in taxes. "It's all a game," The Hardball host admitted this while appearing at Ford's Theater on Monday night to discuss presidential leadership. The wide-ranging discussion included historians Harold Holzer and Michael Beschloss. Matthews wandered off the main topic of Lincoln and Kennedy. In a…
Scott Whitlock
February 21st, 2012 3:51 PM

While Beating Up Republicans, Press Lets Obama Super-Sized Fib About H

Since when does a "few" mean thirteen? The answer appears to be: "When Barack Obama says it does, and when the press won't call him in it." Rush Limbaugh today talked about a January 25 speech President Barack Obama made at Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and pointed to a particular segment demonstrating in his view that Obama was deliberately "downsizing the…
Tom Blumer
February 21st, 2012 3:45 PM

Al-Jazeera English Wins Prizes, Leftists Want More Access to American

The liberal media are increasingly bold in trying to “mainstream” al-Jazeera English by offering them journalism awards. Fox News is excluded from these honors -- because they're owned by an Australian-American? But networks owned by an Arab monarch like Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani are included. The “nationally renowned George Polk awards in journalism” – that’s what they call it…
Tim Graham
February 21st, 2012 3:36 PM

The Way Black History Month Is Presented Ignores Contributions of Cons

Black History Month honors the achievements of African Americans throughout history and that is a good thing. Unfortunately, a reliance on family and faith, which allowed many African Americans to survive the horrors of Reconstruction, racial injustice and violent acts of discrimination, has become a casualty of the modern welfare state, which has contributed to the destruction of family…
Cal Thomas
February 21st, 2012 3:25 PM

NYT's Carl Hulse Indulges Russ Feingold's Preening Liberal Melodrama

New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse’s “Congressional Memo” Tuesday was a late valentine to former Wisconsin senator and preening liberal hero Russ Feingold, “In New Book, Ex-Senator Says Fear Clouded Judgment After 9-11.” Hulse, who has a history of promoting Democrats while dismissing Republicans, portrayed Feingold as a brave maverick trying to thwart a rising tide of fear.
Clay Waters
February 21st, 2012 3:14 PM

MRC Invades Times Square with Mammoth 'Don't Believe the Liberal Media

Editor's Note: This morning as part of the ongoing Tell the Truth! 2012 campaign, two massive Media Research Center (MRC) billboards totaling 1,684 square feet were hoisted in one of the world’s busiest pedestrian intersections – New York City’s Times Square. The objective: to hold the liberal media accountable. MRC is the parent company of NewsBusters.org. What follows is a statement…
Brent Bozell
February 21st, 2012 3:01 PM

NYT's David Carr, Who Called Midwesterners 'Low-Sloping Foreheads,' Cr

Veteran New York Times media reporter David Carr’s Monday column self-righteously attacked an unfortunate headline on an ESPN mobile website, “Chink in the Armor,” that was widely interpreted as a purposeful slur on the ethnicity of benchwarmer-turned-NBA-sensation Jeremy Lin: “Media Hype For Lin Stumbles On Race.” Giving no benefit of the doubt to the ESPN editor, who has since been fired,…
Clay Waters
February 21st, 2012 1:45 PM

Stephanopoulos Gripes: High Gas Prices Are Something Republicans 'Thin

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday highlighted skyrocketing gas prices, sympathetically wondering "What, if anything, can the White House do about" them. Stephanopoulos focused on Republican congressional response to gas prices, warning that the GOP is "talking about these high gas prices over this February break. This is something they think they can exploit." On April…
Scott Whitlock
February 21st, 2012 1:15 PM

Chris Matthews Claims Hardball 'A Great Positive Thing For American Ci

Putting a question to MSNBC's Chris Matthews at the end of a President's Day panel discussion at Ford's Theater on Monday, I challenged him about the American people growing cynical of media coverage, the left-wing Harball host responded by proclaiming that his own program was "a great positive thing for American civilization." The largely liberal audience applauded the notion. [Listen to the…
Kyle Drennen
February 21st, 2012 12:49 PM

WashPost Portrays Conservatives As Eager to 'Turn Back the Clock' On C

"Birth control has ­become a surprise ­obsession among the GOP presidential can­didates this year." That's the misleading teaser headline on page A1 of the February 21 Washington Post. After all, it was a liberal Democratic Congress that passed and a liberal Democratic president who is enforcing provisions of ObamaCare that will force religious institutions to provide contraceptive coverage…
Ken Shepherd
February 21st, 2012 12:36 PM

CNN Lobs Softballs as Contributor Says GOP Isn't Fighting for Liberty

Republicans are deceitfully playing with words to avoid being slammed as homophobes, racists, and bigots, claimed CNN contributor L.Z. Granderson on Tuesday morning's Newsroom. Anchor Kyra Phillips simply let Granderson air his liberal diatribe without any challenge, and no conservative guest was brought on to respond. Republicans "aren't fighting for Muslims and mosques," said Granderson of…
Matt Hadro
February 21st, 2012 12:15 PM