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While Housing Starts Languish, AP's Kravitz Trumpets Increase in Permi
You've got to admire the determination of Derek Kravitz at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, to find lemonade among the lemons known as the monthly new-home construction statistics from the Census Bureau. Why, he was even able to find a guy who said that "housing permits-not the starts" are more relevant in gauging the health of the market. Did it ever occur to these guys…
March 21st, 2012 11:54 PM
Media Uses Flimsy 'Dutch Castration' Story to Smack Catholic Church
The media are falling over themselves to relay a salacious report that the Catholic Church in the Netherlands may have surgically castrated "as many as 10 young men" over a half a century ago, in the 1950's.
Perpetual Catholic bashers such as the New York Times, NPR, and the Boston Globe are having a field day trumpeting the tale.
The message from these outlets is clear: "The Catholic…
March 21st, 2012 10:46 PM
Maddow's Insipid 'Amish Bus Driver' Analogy Does Apply - to Sandra Flu
Back on Feb. 7, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared on the "Today" show to talk with Matt Lauer about criticism of the new Obamacare rule mandating health insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations and contraception.
"Is there traction to this?" Lauer asked. "Is this an issue that's going to last well into the election or the campaign or is this going to be something that's…
March 21st, 2012 6:40 PM
Andrea Mitchell to Obama Interior Secretary: 'I Appreciate' You 'Corre
"I appreciate that you are correctly fact-checking the Republican claims."
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell actually said this to Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday in a discussion about oil and gas prices (video follows with transcript and commentary):
March 21st, 2012 5:13 PM
Liberal CNN Guest Derides Santorum as a 'Homophobe
Liberal comedian John Fugelsang has appeared for three straight days on CNN's Starting Point as a panel member. Although simply listed as a "political comedian," Fugelsang has offered some outrageous liberal commentary during his time as a CNN guest.
For instance, on Wednesday morning he cracked a joke about Rick Santorum being a "homophobe." He previously called Arizona Governor Jan Brewer…
March 21st, 2012 4:40 PM
National Debt Increases More Under Three Years of Obama Than Eight of
CBS's Mark Knoller reported Monday evening at CBSNews.com that "The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency." "The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office," the veteran White…
March 21st, 2012 4:33 PM
Another NYTimes Hit Piece on Sarkozy, Suggesting Appeals to 'Far Right
What did French president Nicolas Sarkozy ever do to the New York Times to incur such outsized wrath?
In a line of attack reminiscent of the Times's sordid attempt to link the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to the conservative movement, Paris bureau chief Steven Erlanger on Wednesday used the killings at a Jewish school in France ("Killings Could Stall Elections' Nationalist Turn") to…
March 21st, 2012 4:25 PM
On MSNBC: Leftist Writer Smears Tim Tebow as Wanting to Set Gays Back
MSNBC can't even keep liberal politics out of sports. Nation sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on the cable network, Wednesday, to hyperventilate over the announcement that Tim Tebow has been traded to the New York Jets. Zirin berated, "...There are a lot of LGBT people that live in New York City who are also football fans and they might want to know why the new, possibly, starting quarterback…
March 21st, 2012 3:58 PM
Malkin Column: Obama's Algae Racket
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded "investments" in politically connected biofuel companies. While the president embarks on a green rehabilitation tour this week to quell growing public outrage about big green boondoggles, the White House continues to cultivate a cozy algae racket.
Obama's promotion of algae as a fuel source at a campaign speech…
March 21st, 2012 3:25 PM
Not National News: 29 'Impartial' Wis. Judges Sign Scott Walker Recall
If Scott Walker somehow loses his recall election in Wisconsin, will that be national news? Of course it will.
Well, if the Walker recall really is a national story, why isn't it news that 29 judges who are supposed to be impartial in their rulings and who are under strict prohibitions against political activity were found by Gannett News to have signed petitions supporting Walker's recall…
March 21st, 2012 3:19 PM
Newsweek Honors Cronkite: 'The Voice of God On TV
The March 26/April 2 edition of Newsweek is all Sixties-themed, and on the last page is a gushy Walter Cronkite piece from liberal historian Douglas Brinkley -- you know, the man who kept having to revise his John Kerry hagiography in 2004 to include stubborn facts. Newsweek headlined it "The Voice of God on TV."
The God terminology came from angry black radical Julian Bond in describing how…
March 21st, 2012 3:16 PM
Shorter LA Times: Problem with ObamaCare Is It's Not Taking Effect Bef
With recent polls showing up to 2/3rds of Americans opposing ObamaCare in some fashion, the Los Angeles Times set out to spin the bad news for President Obama. The paper basically griped today that ObamaCare's gradual rollout was to blame for the law's poor public reception.
"As President Obama and his allies gear up to defend the landmark healthcare law he signed two years ago, they confront…
March 21st, 2012 3:15 PM
ESPN Leads With 'Polarizing Quarterback Tim Tebow
It didn't take ESPN.com long to attack Tim Tebow in its piece about him being traded to the New York Jets.
In the very first sentence, the football star was referred to as a "polarizing quarterback":
March 21st, 2012 1:37 PM
Actual CNN Money Headline: 'Rising Gas Prices Aren't as Bad as You Thi
As NewsBusters has been reporting for weeks, the Obama-loving media - quite contrary to what they did when George W. Bush was in office - are doing their darnedest to downplay the seriousness of the exploding prices people are paying at the pump.
Doing its part Wednesday was CNN Money which actually published a piece with the laughable headline, "Rising Gas Prices Aren't as Bad as You Think."
March 21st, 2012 1:10 PM