In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart

This morning the unexpected news came that conservative internet publisher Andrew Breitbart has passed away. His business manager Larry Solov has posted the following announcement on websites affiliated with Breitbart. [This is a developing story, see below for statements from his former boss Matt Drudge, Brent Bozell, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Michelle Malkin.]
Matthew Sheffield
March 1st, 2012 9:35 AM

New Yorkers React to MRC's 'Don't Believe the Liberal Media' Billboard

The crew from MRCTV headed to heart of New York City to see what passers-by thought of the Media Research Center's two giant 'Don't Believe the Liberal Media' billboards in Times Square. Considering New York is the center of the liberal media universe, the response from average New Yorkers was quite positive. Take a look after the jump:
NB Staff
March 1st, 2012 9:33 AM

Alan Cowell the Anti-Capitalist Sees Still More 'Greed' in His New Yor

London-based New York Times reporter Alan Cowell sympathized with the British off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday: "British Authorities Demolish Protest Camp at St. Paul's Cathedral." Moving after midnight, bailiffs supported by police officers dismantled a tent encampment outside St. Paul's Cathedral here early Tuesday, ending a four-month protest that caused tension within the…
Clay Waters
March 1st, 2012 6:48 AM

'African-Americans for Obama' Revived; Media Double Standard Obvious

It wouldn't take more than a nanosecond for the establishment press and TV talking heads to rip into any white political candidate -- Democrat or Republican -- who carved out a web site devoted to "Whites for Candidate X." About a week ago, President Obama, with his powers of incumbency in tow, decided to revive something he created back in 2007: "African-Americans for Obama." And, as seen in…
Tom Blumer
February 29th, 2012 11:36 PM

Joan Walsh: GOP 'The Party of Old White Men

Less than 24 hours after Salon's Joan Walsh trashed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, she was invited on MSNBC to attack him and his colleagues further. Appearing on Hardball, Walsh said of the GOP, "They’re writing off women, they're writing off Latinos, they’re writing off Asians, they’re writing off young people. It’s really the party of old white men basically…
Noel Sheppard
February 29th, 2012 6:25 PM

Shorter Alex Wagner: Don't Let a Tragic School Shooting Go to Waste

Former Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel is infamous for counseling to "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Well, self-confessed Second Amendment foe Alex Wagner seems determined to not let Monday's deadly school shooting go to waste. For a third day in a row, Wagner complained about the nation's political climate when it comes to gun control legislation, even as Wagner seems to concede…
Ken Shepherd
February 29th, 2012 6:04 PM

Soledad O'Brien Implies That Santorum Lost Catholic Voters by Attackin

John F. Kennedy may be a hallowed name within Democrat circles, but CNN's Soledad O'Brien seemed to argue Wednesday that he is revered among Catholics too, so much so that they won't vote for a candidate who attacks him. After Tuesday night's Michigan GOP primary, O'Brien tried to get Rick Santorum's press secretary to admit that the candidate lost Catholic voters in the state because he…
Matt Hadro
February 29th, 2012 6:03 PM

MSNBC Lectures: Lesbian Denied Communion Explains Why Religion 'Turns

According to MSNBC's Tamron Hall on Wednesday, a Catholic priest denying Communion to a lesbian in Maryland is an example of "the very reason so many young people are turned off or are cautious about religion when you see moments like this." The News Nation program featured a one-sided take on the story, which was given front page play by the liberal Washington Post. Hall interviewed Barbara…
Scott Whitlock
February 29th, 2012 5:43 PM

Politico: Liberal Sens. Lieberman, Conrad Are 'Moderate

In a recent article on Politico.com,  Jonathan Allen laughably labeled two out of three soon-to-be retired Democratic senators -- Joseph Lieberman(I-Conn.)* and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) -- alongside Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine).   Allen did correctly label the retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) as a moderate, a tag that makes more sense given his voting record. [h/t e-mail tipster James…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 29th, 2012 5:33 PM

MSNBC Misspells 'Tuition' TWICE in Segment About a College's 'Free Tui

If you needed any more evidence of what a joke MSNBC is as a so-called "news" network, consider what happened on Wednesday's Dylan Ratigan Show during a lengthy segment about a "free tuition competition" being held at the University of New Haven's College of Business. Some genius at the "Lean Forward" network actually spelled "tuition" wrong in two different on-screen graphics (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
February 29th, 2012 5:29 PM

NBC Uses 'The Lorax' to Push Environmentalism, Mocks Idea of Movie Hav

While interviewing actor Ed Helms about his role in 'Dr. Seuss' The Lorax' On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seemed puzzled that anyone would question the environmentalist message of the book or movie: "...believe it or not, Dr. Seuss has sparked controversy with this movie because Lou Dobbs weighed in on this..." Lauer quoted criticism from Dobbs: "The Lorax is an example of the…
Kyle Drennen
February 29th, 2012 4:52 PM

MSNBC's Wagner Again Distorts Santorum 'Snob' Comment, Campaign Staffe

In the past few days, Brown University-educated journalist Alex Wagner has shown a penchant for deliberately distorting a remark that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) made on the campaign trail, wherein he slammed as a "snob" President Obama for, as Santorum believes it, Obama's having said every American should go to college. Wagner repeated the distortion again on the Leap Day edition of…
Ken Shepherd
February 29th, 2012 4:42 PM

MSNBC's Tamron Hall Insists Santorum's a 'Frightening Character

Trashing Rick Santorum as an extremist for his social conservatism and faith has become a daily, if not hourly, ritual on MSNBC. On Wednesday’s episode of NewsNation, anchor Tamron Hall took up the torch, furthering the sort of spin one would expect from a partisan Democrat about how Santorum is too far right for the general electorate:     [H]e's great ad libbing and giving a speech that…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 29th, 2012 4:13 PM

The God Gap Is Widening

There have been many "gaps" in modern politics. There is the gender gap, the generation gap and now the God gap, which is the gulf between people who take God's instructions seriously and those who don't. Which side of the gap you're on could influence your vote. The God gap is growing wider.
Cal Thomas
February 29th, 2012 3:22 PM