Will Other Journalists Follow Martin Bashir and Highlight Anti-Semitis

The reliably liberal Martin Bashir on Tuesday questioned anti-Semitism at the Occupy Wall Street protests, pushing artist/activist Russell Simmons to respond to bigoted signs and messages seen in New York. Simmons bristled at having to deal with the subject, replying to Bashir's question by dismissing, "Where'd you get that from? Bill O'Reilly or somebody?" Bashir played a commercial by the…
Scott Whitlock
October 18th, 2011 5:09 PM

NYTimes: 'Occupy Wall Street' Like Tiananmen Square; Tea Party Protest

The romantic treatment of the leftist sit-in at Wall Street by Michael Kimmelman in his Sunday Review “news analysis” “The Power of Place in Protest" was bad enough, with talk of Aristotle and “the size of an ideal polis” and how “Zuccotti Park has in fact become a miniature polis, a little city in the making.” But the real offense came in the New York Times's choice of comparison photos.…
Clay Waters
October 18th, 2011 4:40 PM

Anderson Cooper Whacks Cain Again In 'Keeping Them Honest' on...Jokes

CNN's Anderson Cooper opened his Monday night show hitting GOP candidate Herman Cain for his comments on immigration, which Cain claimed were meant in jest. Cooper continued lock-step with his trend of hitting Republicans with critical "Keeping Them Honest" reports at a much higher rate than Democrats. It was Cooper's third "Keeping Them Honest" report on Cain in less than two weeks, which…
Matt Hadro
October 18th, 2011 4:05 PM

Matt Bai's NYT Mag Cover Story Deals with 'Extremist,' 'Far-Right Repu

Political reporter Matt Bai’s 7,000-word cover story for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, “‘ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS LOOK AT THESE GUYS AND SAY, "YOU’RE NUTS!"' – The G.O.P. elite tries to take its party back,” was not as slanted as that headline (mining a convenient quote that just happens to link the GOP with the insult "nuts"), but it was dotted with condescension and "far-right" labels…
Clay Waters
October 18th, 2011 3:50 PM

'Spock' Coming Out Inspires ABC Anchor to Say He's Gay

The blog called Queerty reported a substitute anchor on ABC's middle-of-the-night newscast World News Now coming out of the closet on air on Monday. "Reporting on actor Zachary Quinto’s own recent admission he was gay, Kloeffler, 35, joked he would break his rule about dating actors for the Star Trek star." Queerty applauded the notion "that Kloeffer realizes acknowledging your full self…
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2011 3:46 PM

Big Three Networks Devote a Mere 40 Seconds to ObamaCare Fail

Add the CLASS Act to the ever growing list of damaging stories (Solyndra, Fast and Furious) to the bungling Obama administration that the media are, for the most part, whistling by. The news last Friday that a key part of Obamacare, the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act (CLASS), meant to provide long-term care for the elderly – was deemed not sustainable by the Obama…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 18th, 2011 3:36 PM

'Occupy Wall Street' and Obama Are One

President Obama acts as though he merely sympathizes with the Wall Street occupiers' "broad-based frustration" about how America's financial system works, but he's doing a lot more than sympathizing. He's fanning their flames. Perhaps we should take a look at what, exactly, Obama is supporting and contrast it with the tea party movement he so roundly condemns.
David Limbaugh
October 18th, 2011 3:14 PM

Eight Miracles That Saved America

As I recently tweeted (@chucknorris), I read through the book "The Miracle of Freedom: Seven Tipping Points that Saved the World," by Chris and Ted Stewart. I highly recommend it. Immediately afterward, I started reading their other book, "Seven Miracles That Saved America," and I have been equally inspired by it. But it has prompted me to wonder: Is there an eighth miracle coming and needed…
Chuck Norris
October 18th, 2011 3:05 PM

CBS's Dickerson: Herman Cain Needs to 'Moderate the Jester Act

CBS political analyst John Dickerson might have stepped too close to calling GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain a minstrel on Tuesday's Early Show: "Now that he [Cain] is a top-tier candidate...he probably has to moderate the jester act a little bit, and show that he can...be seen by voters as a president." Dickerson was replying to Cain's recent controversial remark about an electrified…
Matthew Balan
October 18th, 2011 2:15 PM

Paranoid Much? Ed Schultz Wants Obama 'Infiltrating' Wall Street Prote

After all, who knows what these loose-cannon layabouts might do next. Easily irritated radio host and aspiring MSNBC flamethrower Ed Schultz has become a huge fan of Occupy Wall Street, even while keeping his distance from the protesters after many of them jeered him as a "corporatist" during a broadcast of "The Ed Show" from lower Manhattan. (audio after page break)
Jack Coleman
October 18th, 2011 1:39 PM

Susan Sarandon: Pope Benedict XVI a 'Nazi

Actress Susan Sarandon is notorious for espousing liberal causes and bashing conservatives. Now, she is attacking the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI. In a public interview with Bob Balaban at the Hamptons Film Festival, Sarandon told an audience that she had sent a copy of a book to Pope John Paul II. She then said: “The last Pope, not this Nazi one we have now.” When chided…
Paul Wilson
October 18th, 2011 1:29 PM

Daily Kos Smears the 'Rapeublican Party' Again

In February, Dante Atkins of the Daily Kos attacked the GOP as the "Rapeublican Party" becuause they're all about "punishing women for daring to have sex." On Monday, the Daily Kos has circled around to that smear all over again. The Kosmonaut known only as "Otto" insisted on hammering the "Blame the Victim" party when it came to sexual assault:
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2011 1:26 PM

Bozell: Liberal Media Shamelessly Coddling 'Occupy Wall Street'; Publi

Editor's Note: A new USA Today/Gallup poll that finds Americans blame Washington for the country's economic woes much more than Wall Street and financial institutions. NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell is not surprised and issued the following statement. The American people see right through the liberal media’s favorable spin on Occupy Wall Street. While they shamelessly coddle these…
Brent Bozell
October 18th, 2011 12:43 PM

Time's Tharoor: 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement 'Believes in Politics

Four days after romanticizing how the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement "star[ed] down the NYPD," Time magazine's Ishaan Tharoor set out on the magazine's Global Spin blog to explain "Why You Shouldn't Compare Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party." Tharoor essentially argued that the "occupiers" were a global youth movement, that it was populated by the "have nots," and that, unlike the Tea…
Ken Shepherd
October 18th, 2011 12:31 PM