Gillis of NYTimes Again Discredits Warming Skeptics Who 'Plaster the I

The New York Times's confessed climate activist (and journalist) Justin Gillis made Tuesday's front page with a 2,500-word story on what he called the last line of defense for climate change skeptics: "Clouds' Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters." Gillis, a true believer, proudly told the Columbia Journalism Review in April that it was a "scandal" the media was failing to…
Clay Waters
May 1st, 2012 3:13 PM

Andrea To Daschle: Republicans Saying 'We', Uh, I Mean, White House, P

A brief but telling episode from As The MSM Mask Slips . . . On her MSNBC show this afternoon, chatting with chum and fellow Obama fan Tom Daschle about the anniversary of the killing of OBL, Andrea Mitchell said: "What do you think of the Republican criticism that we are politicizing it, that the White House, I should say, is politicizing it"?  View the video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
May 1st, 2012 2:46 PM

Parker Finds Rap on Romney as 'Dull and Vanilla' Unfair, But She Contr

New York Times campaign reporter Ashley Parker looks back semi-fondly at Mitt Romney's apparently successful run for the Republican nomination in her Sunday "news analysis," "A Romney Rambler Looks Back." The people who said that this race was boring and that it couldn’t possibly compete with the excitement and stature of 2008 may yet be right. But they, too, will be back out on the trail.…
Clay Waters
May 1st, 2012 2:44 PM

Dr. Drew Mistakes Jon Lovitz's Critique of Class Warfare for Violent T

Former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz is learning the hard way that despite liberals' claims to love humor and comedy, they can't stand it when their own side is being criticized. The liberal comic is facing a huge amount of criticism on Twitter for taking exception to President Obama's continual assertions that wealthy Americans don't pay a "fair" amount of taxes. While Lovitz has been…
Matthew Sheffield
May 1st, 2012 2:04 PM

NBC's Gregory Defends Obama Exploiting Bin Laden Killing: Bush Did 'Sa

In an interview with senior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie on Sunday's Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory noted how President Obama was "certainly using" the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden "against Governor Romney" and quickly justified the crass political move by claiming "the same sort of tactics that were used in a lot of people's eyes" by President…
Kyle Drennen
May 1st, 2012 1:45 PM

Shorter MSNBC: Same-sex Marriage Should Be 'Social Justice' and 'Civil

Leave it to MSNBC to attempt to guilt socially conservative African-American Christians into acting against their religious convictions on same-sex marriage in the name of civil rights and "tolerance." Anchor Thomas Roberts, who is openly gay, conducted a softball interview with an African-American Baptist pastor from the Tar Heel State who opposes Amendment 1, the pro-traditional marriage…
Ken Shepherd
May 1st, 2012 1:43 PM

Longtime Admirer Brian Williams Rewarded With (Another) Obama-Promotin

Three years ago, then-CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric fawned over Barack Obama: “You’re so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken?” On ABC’s World News, Diane Sawyer often softens her interviews with the President by tossing in questions about college basketball, asking, at the start of the U.S. military operation against Libya last year, “How much do you…
Rich Noyes
May 1st, 2012 1:14 PM

ABC Sanitizes May Day's Communist Ties, Touts the 'Traditional Day of

According to the reporters at Good Morning America, May Day is a "traditional day of protest," one in which members of the Occupy movement can get "fired up about." Reporter John Berman ignored the communist influence that has held sway over May Day. Instead, he blandly announced, "Well, May Day is International Workers Day, a traditional day of protest. And the Occupy movement is expected…
Scott Whitlock
May 1st, 2012 12:58 PM

CBS's Gayle King: 'Obama is Doing A Very Good Job'; Supports Buffett R

CBS anchor Gayle King, an admitted friend of Michelle Obama and a donor to Mr. Obama's reelection campaign, trumpeted the President's record during an interview with Nicholas Ballasy of The Daily Caller on Saturday: "President Obama has done everything that he said he was going to do, and I think people keep forgetting that....if you ask me, I think President Obama is doing a very good job…
Matthew Balan
May 1st, 2012 12:04 PM

Thom Hartmann: Bush 'Bluster and Bravado' Inferior to Norway's 'Ballad

In Tuesday’s Washington Post, columnist (and former reporter) Charles Lane argued it’s strange to abolish the death penalty even in the extreme cases, like Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass-murderer of children at a summer camp. He found "threatening Breivik with prison is the reductio ad absurdum of death-penalty abolitionism." But last Thursday, liberal radio host Thom Hartmann lauded the…
Tim Graham
May 1st, 2012 11:59 AM

How Original: Behar Makes Fat Joke About Christie

On the April 30 edition of ABC’s The View, co-host Barbara Walters started a discussion about the preceding Saturday's White House Correspondent’s Association (WHCA) dinner. However, as usual, liberal comedian Joy Behar had to throw in a few cheap shots at a Republican. During their discussion, most of the panel discussed the night's memorable jokes, including one made by comedian Jimmy…
Josh St. Louis
May 1st, 2012 11:29 AM

CNN Grudgingly Concludes on Maddow-Castellanos Debate: Men Make 'About

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Republican strategist Alex Castellanos got into quite a heated debate about the gender wage gap on NBC's Meet the Press. CNN's Situation Room decided to find out who was right about this controversial issue Monday, and despite going to great lengths to side with Maddow, correspondent Lisa Sylvester grudgingly admitted at the very end…
Noel Sheppard
May 1st, 2012 10:45 AM

Open Thread: Big Spending Harming Dollar on World Market

It's a given that despite the trillions of dollars in government spending, the U.S. economy is continuing to limp along instead of growing rapidly as is normally the case after bad recessions. So spending isn't the best way to stimulate a flagging economy. Besides the future debt problem, there's another one that the free-spending is causing America: the possibility that the dollar will lose…
Matthew Sheffield
May 1st, 2012 10:37 AM

NPR Highlights Authors Who Say GOP Is Extreme and Rejects 'Evidence an

On Sunday, the Washington Post’s Outlook section was dominated by an article with a headline imposed over an elephant’s rear end: “Admit it. The Republicans are worse. Don’t blame both sides for gridlock. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein say it’s the GOP’s fault.” Within about 24 hours, there were Mann and Ornstein, being interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Anchor…
Tim Graham
May 1st, 2012 8:14 AM