Reuters Notices OWS Dying...While Tea Party Thriving

We begin tonight with what has become by any measure a pretty massive protest movement. While it goes by the official name ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ it has spread steadily and far beyond Wall Street, and it could well turn out to be the protest of this current era. ---Brian Williams on Oct. 5, 2011 gushing with extreme hype over OWS. Despite all the friendly hype given to the Occupy Wall Street…
P.J. Gladnick
June 8th, 2012 7:19 PM

NBC's Nancy Snyderman: It's 'Pro-Science' to Abort Children With Genet

On Friday's NBC Today, chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman explained to viewers that it's just good science to abort an unborn child that may have a genetic disorder, explaining that testing for such conditions, "gives parents a chance to decide whether they're going to continue that pregnancy or not. This is the science of today." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]…
Kyle Drennen
June 8th, 2012 4:57 PM

Chris Matthews Calls Obama's Jobs Plans 'Pissant

MSNBC's Chris Matthews is clearly worried the President that once gave him a thrill up his leg is not going to get reelected. Appearing on Jansing and Company moments before Barack Obama's press conference Friday, the Hardball host said the President has "got to be aggressive. He’s got to be big time. Stop this nickel and dime, a couple of bucks for the teachers, a couple of bucks for the…
Noel Sheppard
June 8th, 2012 4:20 PM

As Obama-Care Decision Looms, NYTimes Fronts Odd Poll Saying Conservat

Is the New York Times trying to soften up the Supreme Court before its Obama-care ruling, which may come later in June and could see the law declared unconstitutional? An unusual poll conducted by the Times and poll partner CBS News and plastered on Friday's front page is food for thought. Friday's off-lead by Adam Liptak and Allison Kopicki insisted, "Approval Rating For Justices Hits Just…
Clay Waters
June 8th, 2012 3:22 PM

HuffPo, The View Blame Sexism, Politics for Vatican Denunciation of Nu

American liberals continue to be clueless (willfully or otherwise) as to the nature and purpose of the Catholic Church and its relationship to its members. The latest proof comes in the case of theVatican’s condemnation of left-wing nun Margaret Farley’s book, “Just Love, A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” which advocates gay sex and marriage, divorce, and female masturbation. These…
Scott Robbins
June 8th, 2012 2:26 PM

‘True Blood’ Creator Says Conservatives Are the Same as Vampires

When you’re producing the fifth season of a show notable mainly for bloody pornography, how do you keep viewers interest up? Evil conservatives! That’s exactly what HBO’s filthy, sex-obsessed vampire series “True Blood” is doing for its June 10 premiere. Creator Alan Ball told TVLine.com to expect a "church and state" theme for the season.
Lauren Thompson
June 8th, 2012 2:24 PM

Bob Schieffer Laughs Off 'Campaigner-In-Chief' Charge Against Obama

Bob Schieffer didn't think much of the accusation that President Obama is the "campaigner-in-chief" on Friday's CBS This Morning. When anchor Erica Hill wondered if that charge could be "harmful" to the President, Schieffer laughed aloud and replied, "If he raises enough money, it won't hurt him at all." Just a day earlier on the morning show, correspondent Bill Plante actually pointed out…
Matthew Balan
June 8th, 2012 2:03 PM

NBC Medical Editor Claims Saudi Arabia Better Than U.S. on Equal Pay f

Making an absurd declaration on Friday's NBC Today, chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman asserted that the oppressive regime in Saudi Arabia was fairer to working women than the United States: "We still make 77 cents to the dollar as men. It's ridiculous. In a country like Saudi Arabia, where we question their rights, it's against the law to pay women less than men." [Listen to the audio or…
Kyle Drennen
June 8th, 2012 1:39 PM

Political Cartoonist: Contraception Debate’s About Controlling You

Chalk another one up for media anti-Catholic bigotry. Syndicated editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich, working for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, created a cartoon bashing the Catholic Church for controlling women. The cartoon features a wizened old bishop in a confessional, saying to a woman that “The contraception debate’s about controlling you.” The cartoon has the caption “Confession”…
Paul Wilson
June 8th, 2012 1:19 PM

WashPost's Sally Quinn Finds No Pleasure in Church's Teaching on Mastu

Sister Margaret Farley probably would have had Sally Quinn's respect when she endorsed same-sex marriage in her 2006 book Just Love, which has recently been denounced by the Vatican as unsuitable for use in Catholic theological or moral instruction due to its various departures from Church teaching. But by golly, it's the Church's rebuke of Farley's defense of masturbation that Quinn thinks…
Ken Shepherd
June 8th, 2012 1:13 PM

Alarmist NYTimes Environmental Reporter Justin Gillis Fears 'Mass Exti

Justin Gillis, the New York Times' s alarmist environmental reporter, was at it again in a post to the paper's "Green" blog, "Are We Nearing a Planetary Boundary?" Gillis's preoccupation with the alleged dangers of overpopulation and overuse of natural resources are reminscent of the alarmism created by Paul Erlich's book The Population Bomb, which notoriously predicted in 1968 that 65…
Clay Waters
June 8th, 2012 1:06 PM

Wolf Blitzer Fawns to Bill Clinton Over Chelsea: 'She Got the Best of

CNN was called the 'Clinton News Network' during the 90s for a reason. After letting Bill Clinton get away with his ridiculous excuse for supporting a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts, Wolf Blitzer kissed up to the former president by fawning over his daughter Chelsea in the Thursday interview. And Blitzer had a sugary introduction ready. "[W]hen we spoke about the President's…
Matt Hadro
June 8th, 2012 12:33 PM

Boy Scouts Correct Cablers on Gay Falsehood

Contrary to false impressions that gay activists went on to CNN and MSNBC to try and drive on Thursday morning, Patrick Burke at CNSNews.com reports the Boy Scouts of America are not reconsidering their ban on homosexual scout leaders. When the BSA specifically contacted MSNBC to correct the gay-left publicity line, anchor Thomas Roberts then went on air Thursday morning and asserted that…
Tim Graham
June 8th, 2012 11:14 AM

Open Thread: 'Republicans Now Believe Romney Can Win, and Democrats Be

Time's Mark Halperin published a piece yesterday with a rather shocking opening sentence. "With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose."
NB Staff
June 8th, 2012 11:04 AM