Open Thread: This Environmental Disaster Brought to You by Solyndra

Today's starter topic for this Friday: Bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra didn't just bilk American taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars, it also seems to have created its own environmental mini-disaster and left others to clean it up:
NB Staff
February 24th, 2012 10:43 AM

MRC's Bozell on 'Hannity': Media Must 'Call Out' Obama's 'Systematic D

Appearing on the February 23 Hannity on Fox News for the weekly Media Mash segment, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell exposed the media attempts to downplay high gas prices and refusal to hold President Obama accountable for the rising energy costs. "Why is it, Brent, do you think the media is not so interested" in noting skyrocketing gas prices under President Obama's watch,…
NB Staff
February 24th, 2012 10:34 AM

WashPost Hails MSNBC's Newest Leftist Host as 'A Black Feminist, Anti

How left-wing is The Washington Post? That they devote a large chunk of Friday’s Style section to a column by Anna Holmes celebrating MSNBC’s appointment of radical leftist Melissa Harris-Perry as a weekend talk-show host. It’s quite hilarious that Holmes never quite places Harris-Hyphen on the left, or mentions her regular column in the hard-left magazine The Nation, and quotes a bevy of left-…
Tim Graham
February 24th, 2012 10:10 AM

Executive Summary -- Off Camera: Networks Ignore Liberal Hollywood’s

In January, the story broke that President Obama’s White House had been the scene of a lavish, star-studded 2009 Halloween party designed by director Tim Burton and including film star Johnny Depp. 
Matt Philbin
February 24th, 2012 9:07 AM

Savaging Santorum: The Top 10 Worst Anti-Santorum Quotes

Rick Santorum’s recent rise in the polls in the GOP primary has escalated the liberal media’s attacks on the former Pennsylvania Republican Senator, primarily on his socially conservative views. This is not surprising since journalists have admitted, in several surveys, to being far more liberal on social issues like abortion than even the general public. One such survey of journalists, from…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 24th, 2012 9:00 AM

Off Camera: Networks Ignore Liberal Hollywood’s Influence in D.C

It was the kind of story the media love: Glamorous liberal celebrities mingling with glamorous liberal politicians.
Matt Philbin
February 24th, 2012 8:58 AM

Schieffer Hosts Alan Simpson to Blast Santorum, Calls Simpson One of H

CBS “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer has a mid-week interview offered online called “Face to Face.” On Wednesday, Schieffer welcomed socially liberal former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson. He viciously attacked Rick Santorum -- Republicans "won't have a prayer" of winning with him -- and said the social issues will cause the voters to “take us all to Alaska and float us out in the Bering Sea…
Tim Graham
February 24th, 2012 8:16 AM

NYT's Charles Blow Tells Mormon Romney to 'Stick That in Your Magic Un

In an apparent fit of rage against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow took to Twitter to tell him to "stick that in your magic underwear" for supporting the idea that society ought to concern itself with the large numbers of children born outside of wedlock. That sentiment apparently set off Blow who tweeted the following at 8:56pm ET…
Matthew Sheffield
February 24th, 2012 5:22 AM

Bill Maher Gives $1 Million to Obama Super PAC

Vulgarian comedian Bill Maher Thursday gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action, the Super PAC supporting the reelection of Barack Obama. His PR company True Public Relations sent out the following announcement Thursday evening (video also follows):
Noel Sheppard
February 24th, 2012 12:41 AM

WaPo's Charles Lane: Gas Prices 'Are Not the President’s Fault

On Thursday, Media Research Center President and publisher of NewsBusters Brent Bozell told Fox News's Neil Cavuto that gas prices will keep climbing and the media will continue downplaying it to help President Obama get reelected. Proving his point just a few hours later on Fox News's Special Report was Charles Lane, the editorial writer for the Washington Post, who actually said, "Gas…
Noel Sheppard
February 23rd, 2012 7:36 PM

Global Warming Slapfight: NYTimes's Andrew Revkin Takes on Far-Left Cl

Andrew Revkin, former New York Times environmental reporter who now blogs at Dot Earth on nytimes.com, is in a spat with fellow global warming believers, over fraud committed by environmental ideologue Peter Gleick against the Heartland Institute, a skeptical group. Revkin’s initial coverage of the documents stolen from Heartland -- tax forms and donor lists, along with a “climate strategy”…
Clay Waters
February 23rd, 2012 7:16 PM

MRC’s Bozell on Gas: Prices Will Continue to ‘Escalate,’ Media W

MRC President and Newsbusters publisher Brent Bozell predicted on Feb. 23 that gas prices will keep climbing and the media will keep downplaying that fact to help President Barack Obama. “The prices are going to continue to escalate and the media are gonna continue to downplay it. This is the kind of story they don't want to cover. It goes against the narrative of the 2012 election and they'…
NB Staff
February 23rd, 2012 5:55 PM

NBC Admits: Obama Singing Gets 'Wall-to-Wall Goodwill Coverage Money C

In a gushing report on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Savannah Guthrie freely acknowledged how media coverage has been boosting President Obama this campaign season: "The commander in chief in song and in tune. It's getting to be a regular gig....spontaneous moments can give a president or candidate the kind of wall-to-wall goodwill coverage money can't buy." As blatant evidence…
Kyle Drennen
February 23rd, 2012 5:45 PM

Is Censorship MSNBC's Idea of the New Pluralism

Pat Buchanan might have seen the end of the line coming at MSNBC when last month network president Phil Griffin commented on his latest book, "Suicide of a Superpower," by saying, "I don't think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC." When Buchanan was let go last week after 10 years as a commentator on the network, no one was…
Cal Thomas
February 23rd, 2012 5:39 PM