Libtalker Mike Malloy: Tornado Victims Are 'Little Grease Spots on the

Oh look, another unhinged left winger who other liberals will ignore while they continue their feigned indignation against Rush Limbaugh. This time it isn't Maher or Olbermann or Matthews or Schultz or any of the usual suspects who warrant nary a glance from their ideological brethren when they spew hate that if uttered by anyone right of center would warrant immediate formation of a media…
Jack Coleman
March 6th, 2012 7:58 AM

NYTimes 'Takes Issue' With Santorum's Catholic Faith, Which Is Not Ope

Sheryl Gay Stolberg and religion reporter Laurie Goodstein profiled GOP candidate Rick Santorum for the front of Sunday's New York Times and seemed uncomfortable with the candidate's brand of strong Catholicism: "From 'Nominal Catholic' to Clarion of Faith – In Santorum's Religious Journey, Wife and Family Were Key." The Times described how Santorum's dinner-table discussion with his future…
Clay Waters
March 6th, 2012 7:28 AM

Karl Rove: 'God Bless Gingrich for Taking Gregory Out Behind the Barn

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich scolded Meet the Press host David Gregory for beginning their interview with a question about the Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy. On Fox News's On the Record Monday, Karl Rove said of this exchange, "God bless Speaker Gingrich for taking David Gregory out behind the barn and giving him a whooping" (video…
Noel Sheppard
March 6th, 2012 12:06 AM

NYT's Maureen Dowd Tackles Brutal Limbaugh, Santorum's 'Medieval' View

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd made the front of the Sunday Review describing how she once had her feelings hurt by Rush Limbaugh, who is drawing liberal fire by calling leftist birth-control activist Sandra Fluke a "slut" on his radio show (he has since apologized): "Have You No Shame, Rush?" Also: Rick Santorum has a "medieval" view of women. As a woman who has been viciously slashed…
Clay Waters
March 6th, 2012 12:03 AM

Joan Walsh: Limbaugh 'Like Crack' to GOP - 'They Need More and More of

Not surprisingly, MSNBC has spent much of the day trashing conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh's apology to Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke. Doing her part was Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh who appearing on The Ed Show said, "Rush has been like crack for the Republican Party, and they need more and more of it to get them high. And he needs, he…
Noel Sheppard
March 5th, 2012 9:24 PM

ABC Scolds GOP Candidates as ‘Cowards’ for Inadequately Rebuking L

ABC on Monday night rebuked the Republican presidential field for not adequately condemning Rush Limbaugh for his “slut” characterization of Sandra Fluke, for which he apologized on his Monday radio show. “The Republican presidential candidates still tried to dodge having to make tough comments about the power broker,” anchor Diane Sawyer announced in framing the World News story. Reporter…
Brent Baker
March 5th, 2012 8:52 PM

Brent Bozell: The Get-Rush Campaign Isn't About What He Said

Rush Limbaugh was broadsided last week for attacking a star witness for the Democrats who demanded government force insurers to subsidize contraceptives. He called 30-year-old Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” Let’s all agree Limbaugh crossed a line. He agrees. He posted an apology to Fluke “for the insulting word choices.” The scandal-ette should be over. So…
Brent Bozell
March 5th, 2012 7:52 PM

Fox Liberal: Anti-Rush Campaign 'Isn't About Misogyny' - 'It's a Proxy

As NewsBusters reported, liberal Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers published a rather surprising column at the Daily Beast Sunday called "Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist." On Monday she appeared on Fox's America Live taking this issue even further saying, "This isn't really about misogyny...It's a proxy war for the Democratic Party: they can use it in the election for part of…
Noel Sheppard
March 5th, 2012 7:36 PM

Chris Matthews Laments: GOPers Haven't Stood Up to 'Horse's Ass' Rush

Liberal cable host Chris Matthews, who once dismissed Michele Bachmann as a "balloon head," on Monday derided the supposed sexism of "horse's ass" Rush Limbaugh. The Hardball anchor sparred with Senator Rob Portman. Speaking of Matthews' coverage of the Sandra Fluke controversy, the Republican  mocked, "...It sounds like maybe you're keeping it alive more than [Limbaugh] in the eyes of the…
Scott Whitlock
March 5th, 2012 6:42 PM

Sign Our Petition Defending Rush Limbaugh at IStandWithRush.org

Today NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) president Brent Bozell launched a new website: IStandWithRush.org, where visitors can sign a petition denouncing "attempts by radical left-wing organizations and the media to censor Rush and his commonsense conservative message." Rush apologized for his initial comments, "but the Left won't accept the apology" and "won't be satisfied…
NB Staff
March 5th, 2012 6:06 PM

Hate and Bile: Left-Wing Attacks on Women Get Little Press

Violent, sexual language, crude epithets, even death wishes – conservative women get the worst in liberals. 
Matt Philbin
March 5th, 2012 5:37 PM

Bashir and Sharpton Argue There's Racist Motivations Behind New Voter

Joining a daylong drumbeat of hourly segments to hype colleague Al Sharpton's latest project, MSNBC's Martin Bashir pushed on viewers of his 3 p.m. program today that Republicans are trying to suppress if not downright disenfranchise minority voters across the nation. Bashir opened up the Sharpton "interview" by rhetorically asking if “there is a deliberate attempt at voter suppression being…
Jeffrey Meyer
March 5th, 2012 5:13 PM

CNN Lets NOW Say Why They Want Limbaugh Fired -- But Never Held Ed Sch

In the wake of Rush Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a "slut," CNN hosted the president of the liberal National Organization for Women who called for Limbaugh to be fired, on Monday morning's 10 a.m. hour of Newsroom. They did not give such a voice to supporters of conservative women last year when those women were under attack from liberals. When liberal radio host Ed Schultz…
Matt Hadro
March 5th, 2012 4:54 PM

NBC Reporter Warns Obama Call to Fluke an 'Overreach' and 'Nakedly Pol

On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, after the panel roundly bashed Rush Limbaugh and Republicans for not denouncing him enough, correspondent Savannah Guthrie surprisingly criticized President Obama's response to the controversy: "The President also in danger, perhaps, of an overreach by calling this law student [Sandra Fluke]....that seemed a little nakedly political."
Kyle Drennen
March 5th, 2012 4:48 PM