Chuckles Ahoy for NYT's OWS-Comedy Coverage: Sometimes 'You Need a Lit

Attempting to humanize the Occupy Wall Street protesters, New York Times Metro reporter Corey Kilgannon laughed off comedic threats of violence in Friday’s  Metro section story on a show hosted by comedian/activist Randy Credico for Occupy Wall Street protesters in Greenwich Village this week, “Protesters’ Night Out: Jokes, Laughs, and an Anthem on Autoharp.” Read the excerpt, especially in…
Clay Waters
October 28th, 2011 4:31 PM

Toure, MSNBC's Resident 9/11 Truther, Slams Rick Perry as a Birther

MSNBC analyst Touré, who is a 9/11 truther, appeared on the News Nation show to denounce Rick Perry as a birther. Speaking of the Republican presidential candidate, he slammed, "...I see Trump and the other birthers, Perry, virtually going to the White House and knocking on the door saying can we see your documentation to make sure you are actually an American?" It's odd that MSNBC would…
Scott Whitlock
October 28th, 2011 4:15 PM

WaPo Laments How 'Solyndra Fallout' Places Obama's Energy Secretary 'a

Poor Steven Chu. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Obama's Energy Secretary stands "at [the] center of [the] Solyndra policy storm," where he's learning "lessons in political science" according to Washington Post staffer Steven Mufson's 45-paragraph front-page article in the October 28 paper. Although the Post has done a decent job thus far in following the Solyndra scandal and reporting…
Ken Shepherd
October 28th, 2011 3:42 PM

After Lying About His Wealth on National TV, Michael Moore Admits He's

On Wednesday NewsBusters exposed Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore for lying on national television about his wealth. Clearly feeling the pressure to come clean, the schlockumentary filmmaker took to his blog Thursday to set the record straight - kind of:
Noel Sheppard
October 28th, 2011 2:40 PM

NYTimes Almost Ignores Anti-Cop Violence at Occupy Oakland

The thrust of the New York Times’s coverage of the violence in Oakland begs the question: When even the left-wing magazine Mother Jones reports of police in Oakland being assaulted with eggs, glass, and vinegar, what is the “objective” Times excuse for virtually ignoring the protester violence? Yet Jesse McKinley and Malia Wollan’s report from the “Occupy Oakland” protests Friday focused not…
Clay Waters
October 28th, 2011 1:44 PM

NBC and ABC Tout Injured Protester as 'Rallying Cry' for Occupy Wall S

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed: "Protesters across the country and a lot of Americans who are sympathetic to this Occupy Wall Street protest movement are tonight rallying around a 24-year-old Iraq war veteran who was seriously injured during a violent confrontation with police in Oakland, California on Tuesday." On ABC's World News, fill-in anchor George…
Kyle Drennen
October 28th, 2011 12:46 PM

Open Thread: Will Tea Parties Be Reimbursed

Nationwide, Tea Party groups are upset by the double standard applied to their rallies and Occupy Wall Street protests. While Tea Party groups typically are required to pay a fee to use a park for a one-day rally, OWS protestors have set up camp in the same parks for days at no cost. One Tea Partier, Colleen Owens of Richmond, VA, is taking action, demanding that the Richmond City Council…
NB Staff
October 28th, 2011 12:08 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Media Are 'Hoping Some Sort of Kent State-type Massacre

Taking a page from Donny Deutsch, Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday said the media are "hoping some sort of Kent State-type massacre is gonna take place" at an Occupy protest rally. The conservative talk show host also used a video created by the Media Research Center to illustrate his point about how crazy some of these demonstrators are (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 28th, 2011 11:45 AM

New Poll: Only 52 Percent of Democrats Support ObamaCare; Will the Net

A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds the support for ObamaCare has dipped yet again, with just 34 percent of Americans favoring the president's signature health care overhaul. What's more, just 52 percent of Democrats support the law, a troubling sign for President Obama a year before Election Day. Thirty-one percent of Democrats view the law either "somewhat" or "very" unfavorably. We…
Ken Shepherd
October 28th, 2011 11:42 AM

Gregory's Surprising Praise: McConnell's Obama Knock 'Really Resonate

If not an unmitigated frozen-flying-pig-in-Hades moment, then certainly something noteworthy for its rarity, coming from the lips of David Gregory . . . On today's Morning Joe, the Meet The Press moderator, in one surprising swoop, managed to praise a statement from Mitch McConnell while simultaneously seeming to acknowledge that President Obama's economic program has failed. Video after the…
Mark Finkelstein
October 28th, 2011 8:58 AM

NYTimes Shows Pro-OWS Ickiness: 'For Children's Sake, Taking to the St

In the New York Times's Thursday Styles section, contributor Helaine Olen talked to some liberal Manhattanites who took their children to Zuccotti Park to enrich them with “teachable moments” (i.e. using them as political props) and "to enlighten them on matters ranging from income inequality to the right to protest":“For Children’s Sake, Taking to the Streets.”
Clay Waters
October 28th, 2011 8:50 AM

CBS Highlights Public Opposition to Gun Control

On Friday's The Early Show, CBS correspondent Whit Johnson filed a report highlighting a recent Gallup poll finding a majority of Americans opposing new gun control laws at the highest rate ever recorded. After beginning the piece by highlighting a woman who just recently decided to become a gun owner for the first time in her life, Johnson detailed some of the poll's findings:
Brad Wilmouth
October 28th, 2011 8:44 AM

Post/NYT: 182,000 Words on Occupy Wall Street and Counting

Occupy Wall Street isn’t just seizing city squares or the Brooklyn Bridge. The socialist/communist/anarchist revolutionary movement has also seized an incredible amount of coverage from the adoring media. In the nation’s two most well-known liberal newspapers – The New York Times and Washington Post – the amount of space devoted to Occupy Wall Street has taken on epic proportions. In the…
Dan Gainor
October 28th, 2011 8:30 AM

Liberal Radio's Randi Rhodes Finds 'Class Warfare' in Oakland Police R

On Wednesday, liberal talk radio host Randi Rhodes found nothing wrong with Occupy Oakland protesters throwing rocks and bottles at police (and even Mother Jones confirms that). She seemed to ignore reality entirely, asking “If you conservatives are so against class warfare, why are the cops using warfare tactics against peaceful demonstrators?” Some may have been peaceful, but the police…
Tim Graham
October 28th, 2011 8:02 AM