Christian NASCAR Driver Blake Koch Loses Sponsor after ESPN Pulls Ad

The liberal media are again attempting to silence another Christian voice in their crusade for “tolerance.” ESPN refused to air NASCAR driver Blake Koch's advertisement, which encourages American youth to vote, because of Koch’s Christian faith. Koch partnered with "Rise Up and Register" to produce the voting advertisement. After ESPN’s refusal, the non-religion based campaign pulled its…
Lauren Thompson
March 30th, 2012 12:07 PM

Breaking News on NBC's 'Today': Obama's Chili Recipe Sparks Online Deb

While supposedly updating viewers on important news of the day on Friday's NBC Today, fill-in news anchor Savannah Guthrie touted an Obama campaign public relations effort: "Well, just days after joining Pinterest, that online scrapbook, President Obama's catching some good-natured heat. He posted a family recipe for chili, always a topic of culinary debate." [Listen to the audio or watch the…
Kyle Drennen
March 30th, 2012 11:49 AM

Mike Tyson: Bigoted Tea Party Can't Stand Seeing Obama as 'Strongest M

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson believes America has become more racist since Barack Obama was elected president, and that groups like the Tea Party have surfaced through that racism. Tyson's interview by CNN's Piers Morgan aired on Thursday night's Piers Morgan Tonight. Tyson professed that "there's a great possibility" that America has become more racist since Obama's…
Matt Hadro
March 30th, 2012 11:00 AM

Bozell on Hannity 'Media Mash': NBC Deliberately Skewed Travyvon Marti

Reacting angrily to selective editing by NBC that suggested racial animus by George Zimmerman, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained to Fox News's Sean Hannity last night that NBC News was engaged in an "all-out falsehood." The story in question was a March 27 Ron Allen report on NBC's 'Today' in which 911 audio was edited to make it sound like George Zimmerman said "he looks black"…
NB Staff
March 30th, 2012 10:52 AM

Book Review: The Roots of Tea

'Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological origins of the Tea Party Movement' by Michael Patrick Leahy
Catherine Maggio
March 30th, 2012 9:31 AM

Did ABC News Purposely Use Unnecessary Chyron to Cover Up Zimmerman's

Get that totally unnecessary chyron out of there, ABC News! Why is your "ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE" chyron covering up the back of George Zimmerman's head in the police surveillance video of him arriving at the police station soon after Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida? There is a big controversy out there as to whether Zimmerman actually did suffer certain injuries including a bruise…
P.J. Gladnick
March 30th, 2012 9:04 AM

WashPost Sides with Late-Term Abortion Activist's Counter-Harassment

One might think that a landlord that welcomed in one of the nation's most notorious late-term abortionists could be labeled "controversial." But in The Washington Post, he's just the Neat Idea Man. In Friday's Post, columnist Petula Dvorak began, "Regardless of how you feel about abortion, the way Todd Stave flipped the script on his bullies is pretty dang clever." Wrong. If you feel abortion…
Tim Graham
March 30th, 2012 8:50 AM

Losing the Keys to Prosperity

Here is a simple story any news media type could manage or a candidate like Governor Romney should be able to tell.
Dan Kennedy
March 30th, 2012 8:32 AM

Gail Collins, the NYT's La-La-La Liberal: 'Really, I Have My Hands Ove

The New York Times has previously reported on the dangers of the arcane problem of "epistemic closure," whereby the conservative movement (but evidently not the liberal one) suffers from "a kind of closed-mindedness in the movement....a high-toned abbreviation for ideological intolerance and misinformation." Speaking of which...In Wednesday's edition of the weekly online chat at nytimes.com…
Clay Waters
March 30th, 2012 7:42 AM

Another NBC Donation: Michelle Obama to Work Out on 'The Biggest Loser

The new issue of TV Guide magazine has this headline on the top of the cover: "Exclusive: The Biggest Loser Works Out With The First Lady!" Inside, TV Guide spotlighted the latest Michelle Obama pop-up in TV Land -- in two episodes, on April 3 and 10. "I've been a fan of The Biggest Loser for years," proclaimed the First Lady in a photo caption of her working out with the show's trainers. "…
Tim Graham
March 30th, 2012 7:38 AM

Open Thread: Obamacare's Fate May Be Decided Today

Today's starter topic: While the verdict of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of President Obama's signature healthcare law won't likely be known by most people until the end of June, the justices on the court very likely will know its fate later today when they meet to cast their first informal votes on the case. In an interesting look at how voting on the Supreme Court works, the…
NB Staff
March 30th, 2012 7:30 AM

Daily Beast's Beinart Blames Israel for No Peace with Palestinians, Pr

Plugging his new book, The Crisis of Zionism, on Thursday's The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, the Daily Beast's Peter Beinart - formerly of Time magazine - advanced the irrational view that it is the Israeli government and those who support the existence of Jewish settlements in the West Bank who are the obstacles to peace with the Palestinians. (Video below)
Brad Wilmouth
March 30th, 2012 6:18 AM

DOL's Seasonal Initial Jobless Claims Revisions Increase Past 4 Weeks

Earlier this year, a reporter informed me of what is apparently a common belief in the business press, namely that "the Labor Department considers the (seasonally adjusted, or SA) numbers to be much more reflective of what’s actually going on in the economy" than the raw (i.e., not seasonally adjusted, or NSA) economic data. That's interesting, given that you can't even do seasonal adjustments…
Tom Blumer
March 29th, 2012 11:56 PM

False: Beware Facebook Satire of Santorum Seeing 'Eye to Eye' with the

In the age of social media, there are dangers when presidential candidates are satirized with fake quotes. Snopes.com has waved a red flag about a false quote some liberals are passing along seriously that has Rick Santorum saying his view on pornography is "one of only a few things I see eye to eye with on the Taliban." One would think it doesn't sound plausible that Santorum would be…
Tim Graham
March 29th, 2012 10:47 PM