Another Bogus NYT Story Baselessly Assumes Contraception Fight Hurting

On Monday the New York Times offered yet another unsubstantiated tale of the GOP scaring away female voters. Reporter Ashley Parker's story, under the headline "Romneys Court Women Alienated by Contraception Issue," not only fails to back up the headline, but contradicts itself. The paper's own recent poll finding, buried by the paper last week, found most women oppose the Obamacare mandate…
Clay Waters
March 19th, 2012 2:38 PM

Fareed Zakaria to Grover Norquist: 'Aren't You to Blame' for Rising De

Apparently, Grover Norquist and the Republican Party are to blame for the rising debt, according to CNN's Fareed Zakaria. In his Sunday interview with Norquist, Zakaria argued that the GOP tax-cutting agenda failed to also cut spending, which led to the country's increase in borrowing. Zakaria's sloppy logic also revealed itself later when he posed to Norquist that tax cuts didn't…
Matt Hadro
March 19th, 2012 1:00 PM

NBC's Gregory Parrots Dem Talking Points to McCain: Is There a GOP 'Wa

While interviewing Arizona Senator John McCain on Sunday's Meet the Press, host David Gregory took a line from the Democratic script as he wondered: "Are you concerned at all to see a focus with certain elements of the Republican Party on social issues?...Do you think that there is something of a war on women among Republicans?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Kyle Drennen
March 19th, 2012 12:45 PM

Williams Column: We Americans Are Too Compliant with the Freedom-choki

Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn't meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was deemed nonnutritious. She replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl's home-prepared lunch was nutritious; it consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, potato chips, a banana and apple juice.…
Walter E. Williams
March 19th, 2012 12:15 PM

Gayle King Attends Obama Fundraiser; ABC Omits She's a CBS Anchor

On Saturday, ABC's Devin Dwyer reported how President Obama gave "a rousing speech to 600 donors in Chicago and closed it with an intimate appeal before 40 'friends' that included...Oprah Winfrey....Oprah was flanked at her table by...longtime friend and companion Gayle King [and] Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett." However, Dwyer failed to mention that King is co-anchor of CBS This Morning.…
Matthew Balan
March 19th, 2012 11:51 AM

NB Publisher Bozell to MSNBC President: Al Sharpton Is More Evidence T

Editor's Note: What follows is a letter that NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell sent to MSNBC President Phil Griffin early today. Dear Mr. Griffin, Last week, in my open letter to you I called for Ed Schultz’s termination.  I also called for you to resign as President of MSNBC because you hired Ed Schultz.  Today, I have yet another reason you should step down - one which some might argue…
Brent Bozell
March 19th, 2012 11:03 AM

Latest Notable Quotables: Media Liberals Trashing Rush Limbaugh

Just posted at www.MRC.org, the latest edition of MRC’s Notable Quotables, our bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week’s issue was heavy with opportunistic quotes from liberal journalists attacking conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh (and slamming Republicans for failing to attack Rush with the same vigor as exhibited on the left) — even though…
Rich Noyes
March 19th, 2012 10:06 AM

George Clooney: If Obama Were a Republican He’d Be Considered ‘Ver

If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats, actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just very poor...at explaining” their accomplishments. The assessment from Clooney, who also declared “the President that I voted for, I’m very proud of,” came in a Meet the Press online “Press Pass” sit-down with…
Brent Baker
March 19th, 2012 9:41 AM

Santorum To Scarborough: Yeah, You're Pigeonholing Me On Religious Fre

A rather testy exchange on today's Morning Joe, with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski going at it with Rick Santorum.  A full five minutes of Santorum's segment were devoted to questioning him on his views on contraception and religious freedom.   Toward the end, seemingly to Scarborough's surprise, Santorum said that "yeah, sure" he thought Scarborough, like the MSM at large,…
Mark Finkelstein
March 19th, 2012 9:21 AM

Former Staffer on Working With Rosie O'Donnell: 'A F--king Hellhole

As NewsBusters reported, The Rosie Show on Oprah Winfrey's struggling television network OWN was canceled last Friday. According to the Daily Beast which spoke to former staffers of the program, Ms. O'Donnell was no joy to work with (vulgarity warning):
Noel Sheppard
March 19th, 2012 8:52 AM

NPR Game Show Host Unloads the Pope Jokes, Starting with He's a 'Gay I

NPR's weekend game show "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!" usually saves most of its topical humor for supposed White House drunk George W. Bush or Dick Cheney the Grim Reaper for all the usual smug-liberal laugh lines. On Saturday, host Peter Sagal went on an extended comedy routine with five jokes mocking Pope Benedict XVI, beginning with the notion that he's "another famous gay icon." By…
Tim Graham
March 19th, 2012 8:28 AM

ABC's Kerley: 'Republicans Handed [Democrats] a Gift When They Started

On ABC's World News on Saturday, host David Muir played a clip of an ad from the far left group MoveOn.org attacking Republicans on the issues of abortion and contraception, and asked correspondent David Kerley for his take on the ad. Without noting that President Obama raised the issue of contraception by requiring some religious institutions to pay for contraceptives for their employees,…
Brad Wilmouth
March 19th, 2012 2:14 AM

Andrew Sullivan: Romney 'Most Dreadful Candidate Since Kerry' - Whom H

The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan this weekend called Mitt Romney "the most dreadful candidate since John Kerry." Appearing on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Sullivan must have forgotten that in 2004 he endorsed Kerry over George W. Bush (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 18th, 2012 10:55 PM

Michael J. Fox Proclaimed On CNN That Rick Santorum Opposes Science an

CNN and Piers Morgan Tonight guest host Donnie Deutsch didn't just cue up Michael J. Fox to attack Rush Limbaugh on Thursday night. They also tossed a whiffle ball named Rick Santorum, who opposes embryo-killing stem-cell research (but not research on adult stem cells that doesn't violate pro-life ethics). To a liberal like Deutsch, Santorum is "very vociferous." Earth to Donnie: And Michael J…
Tim Graham
March 18th, 2012 10:13 PM