Attention Media: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are World's Richest One

While the media champion the Occupy Wall Street movement as if it's the American version of the Arab Spring, they're predictably missing a crucial distinction. As the Motley Fool reported Friday, those sleeping in tents and skipping showers in cities around the country are actually part of the world's richest one percent:
Noel Sheppard
October 31st, 2011 8:47 AM

Politico's Martin Dodges Question On Cain Details

Herman Cain has been taking heat for his response to questions about Politico's story on alleged sexual harassment.  But today on Morning Joe, it was Politico's own Jonathan Martin, lead author of the story, who was being evasive about the details of the allegations against Cain. Incredibly, when Willie Geist asked him to describe specifically what Politico is accusing Cain of having done,…
Mark Finkelstein
October 31st, 2011 8:19 AM

Ann Coulter Calls Politico's Herman Cain Hit Piece 'Another High-Tech

Politico stunned the presidential campaign Sunday night with a hit piece on Herman Cain alleging with unnamed sources that two women accused the Republican candidate of "inappropriate behavior" decades ago. Appearing on Fox News's Geraldo At Large moments after the story broke, conservative author Ann Coulter said, "It's outrageous the way liberals treat a black conservative. This is another…
Noel Sheppard
October 31st, 2011 1:39 AM

ThinkProgress Selectively Edits Bill Gates to Misrepresent His Views o

One of the leading liberal propaganda outlets in the nation is the website ThinkProgress which specializes in selectively editing news reports and spreading misinformation to receptive media outlets from coast to coast. A fine example of how they deceptively operate transpired Sunday with an article promoted at their website with the teaser "Bill Gates 'In Favor' Of Higher Taxes On Wealthy" (…
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 10:52 PM

ClimateGate II: How Will Al Gore and His Global Warming-Loving Media R

CRITICAL UPDATE AT END OF POST As NewsBusters reported Sunday, a new ClimateGate scandal has erupted involving a University of California at Berkeley professor accused of trying to mislead the public by hiding that his research determined global warming has stopped. Some on the Left heralded the now questionable study including Nobel laureate Al Gore whose excitement was published at the…
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 8:49 PM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Idiot Wind

The left's standard ad hominem allegations against conservatives are that they're dumb, crazy,  corrupt, or a combination thereof. The DKos gang resorted to all of them this week. Moreover, in not-especially-surprising news, Rosie O'Donnell reaches out to a Kossack. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
October 30th, 2011 7:33 PM

Tom Brokaw Defends Obama Adviser Plouffe's Attack on Mitt Romney

White House senior adviser David Plouffe said on Sunday's Meet the Press that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "has no core" and would say "the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election." After Republican strategist Mike Murphy took exception with these comments during the program's roundtable segment, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw came to Plouffe's…
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 6:20 PM

Sour Schieffer Scolds Cain for Ad: ‘It’s Not Funny to Me...I Don

CBS’s Bob Schieffer unintentionally played the foil to Herman Cain on Sunday’s Face the Nation as Schieffer expressed his politically-correct displeasure with Cain’s “downright bizarre” Web video which briefly shows Cain’s chief of staff smoking, was flummoxed by Cain’s sense of humor (“You also said at one point that you might want to back that fence up with a moat and fill it with alligators…
Brent Baker
October 30th, 2011 4:09 PM

Bill Gates Laughs At Buffett Rule: 'You Can't Raise the Taxes We Need

America's richest man isn't going to make President Obama, the folks in the Occupy Wall Street movement, or their respective supporters in the media happy. Appearing on ABC's This Week Sunday, Bill Gates laughed when asked about the Buffett Rule saying, "You can't raise the taxes we need just by going after that one percent...to really deal with the deficit gap we're talking about, that alone…
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 3:51 PM

Politico's Roger Simon: Being Racist Helps in Republican Primaries

There are times when I'm sickened by what I see so-called journalists do on television. Sunday was one of those times when Politico's Roger Simon, appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources, said being "a little bit racist perhaps, gives you good bona fides in a Republican primary. It shows them you're on the same side as they are" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 2:47 PM

Politico's Dirty Mind on the Herman Cain Smoker

Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer identified the dirty mind Politico writer Glenn Thrush brought to talk radio (although if it's liberal talk radio, it's probably not safe for young audiences anyway). On the October 27 edition of the Bill Press show, Press and Thrush were discussing the very buzzworthy Herman Cain ad that concludes with Cain chief of staff Mark Block blowing cigarette smoke…
Tim Graham
October 30th, 2011 1:06 PM

With Millions Out of Work Bob Woodward Claims Obama's Top Priority Is

Millions of Americans are out of work, some of them for several years. Yet the Washington Post's Bob Woodward said on the Chris Matthews Show this weekend that Barack Obama's top priority is getting reelected (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 12:38 PM

After Meeting With Ahmadinejad Fareed Zakaria Wants U.S. to Soften Ira

After his much-publicized interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week, CNN's Fareed Zakaria thinks America has to change its attitude towards one of its biggest enemies. On Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday, the host began the show declaring "Obama's Iran policy looks a lot like George W. Bush's - pressure and more pressure," and that "Obama should return to his original approach and test the…
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2011 10:51 AM

Climategate II? 'Science-Settling' Study 'Proving' Global Warming Alle

CRITICAL UPDATE AT END OF POST A week ago (at BizzyBlog; at NewsBusters), I noted how Charleston Daily Mail blogger Don Surber quickly determined through all of a few minutes of Internet research that Berkeley professor Robert Muller, who convinced Washington Post Plumline blogger Brad Plumer that he was a "climate skeptic," has been a believer in human-caused global warming since the early…
Tom Blumer
October 30th, 2011 9:02 AM