The Da Vinci Speech Code? WaPo’s 'On Faith' Invokes Mary Magdalene t

Things are getting pretty surreal around the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog when a supposedly credentialed cleric turns to the loopy fiction of “The Da Vinci Code” for ammunition to attack Rush Limbaugh.  Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a minister in the United Church of Christ and a senior fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, attacked Limbaugh by comparing…
Paul Wilson
March 8th, 2012 3:00 PM

The Da Vinci Speech Code? WaPo’s “On Faith” Invokes Mary Magdale

Things are getting pretty surreal around the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog when a supposedly credentialed cleric turns to the loopy fiction of “The Da Vinci Code” for ammunition to attack Rush Limbaugh.  
Paul Wilson
March 8th, 2012 2:48 PM

'Joe the Plumber' Fires Back at CNN Host: 'So This Is TMZ

In a heated exchange Thursday between CNN’s Zoraida Sambolin and Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as “Joe the Plumber,” Sambolin dug up comments he made about “gay people” in 2009, causing Wurzelbacher to quip that "this is TMZ. This isn't CNN, is what you're saying." Sambolin also questioned his qualifications to run for office, and mislabeled his liberal opponent as a "conservative Democrat…
Josh St. Louis
March 8th, 2012 2:46 PM

Tyrrell Column: Miss Sandra Fluke's Fluke

I like to think of Miss Sandra Fluke's contretemps with the madly admired Mr. Rush Limbaugh as, well, a fluke. She objected to his joke about her being "a slut" and "a prostitute," and hesto presto the part-time Georgetown University law student struck pay dirt. You object to my characterization of her as "part-time"? How could she be a full-time law student and still be appearing before…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
March 8th, 2012 2:28 PM

Atheist ‘Slave’ Billboard Attacks the Good Book

Is it Christmas again? It sure feels like it, with aggressive atheists popping up to take gratuitous shots at believing Christians. Ernest Perce V, the Pennsylvania director of American Atheists, is demanding state lawmakers rescind a decision to celebrate 2012 as the “Year of the Bible,” according to FoxNation. The Bible, he says, is “barbaric.”
Lauren Thompson
March 8th, 2012 1:33 PM

War on Rush Update: NB Publisher Bozell Addresses Hypocrisy In Letters

Updated at bottom of post | This morning, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell sent letters to Jay Farner and David Friend, the presidents of Quicken Loans and Carbonite, respectively, addressing the hypocrisy of how their companies pulled out of the Rush Limbaugh program over comments for which the conservative talker has since apologized, even as they continue…
Ken Shepherd
March 8th, 2012 12:26 PM

NBC's 'Today' Brings On Scarborough to Promote MSNBC Line That GOP is

Beginning an interview with MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry wondered: "If you were head of the Republican Party trying to defeat Barack Obama in November-" Scarborough promptly interrupted her: "I'd quit." That defeatist attitude set the tone for the rest of the Obama-campaign-approved segment. Giving a supposedly "serious" response to Curry'…
Kyle Drennen
March 8th, 2012 12:08 PM

MSNBC's Jansing Pushes 'War on Women' Meme on Intl. Women's Day, Carts

What better day for MSNBC to push its phony "War on Women" meme than International Women's Day? Morning anchor Chris Jansing neatly tied today the network's war on Rush Limbaugh with its epic battle to distort the political fight over the contraceptive mandate into an imagined titanic clash over "women's health." For the segment, Jansing tag-teamed with colleague Alex Wagner as well as…
Ken Shepherd
March 8th, 2012 11:45 AM

Lefty Group Uses Pink to Camouflage Green Activism, Attack Business

Media ignore that BCF is really eco-group in disguise that supports Markey legislation to ban chemicals like BPA.
Julia A. Seymour
March 8th, 2012 11:38 AM

Two Groups Trying to Prevent Breitbart Video Release Also Soros-Funded

Access to the controversial video released of President Barack Obama embracing a radical professor was prevented by two groups funded by left-wing donor George Soros. The two – WGBH and Harvard University – were granted more than $3.5 million was granted to WGBH and Harvard by Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2000. The late Andrew Breitbart’s websites posted the edited version of this…
Iris Somberg
March 8th, 2012 10:57 AM

Lefties Accuse Kirk Cameron of Hate Speech for Christian Beliefs

There’s nothing the Hollywood left prizes more than the right to free expression. Just not Kirk Cameron’s free expression. The former “Growing Pains” actor appeared on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on March 2, where the host prodded him relentlessly about his traditional, Christian stance on gay marriage. When he didn’t back down from his beliefs, Hollywood screamed for him to be silenced…
Lauren Thompson
March 8th, 2012 10:44 AM

WashPost TV Critic Reveals HBO Fighting Back Against Conservatives at

Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever praised HBO’s “Game Change” flick on Thursday, hailing Julianne Moore’s “eerily perfect take on Palin” and not only hailed the movie, but the cinematic hackwork that preceded it on HBO, the “Recount” movie on Al Gore’s “win” in Florida in 2000 (from the same producers and writers). “The two films could easily stand as a matched set of quasi-historical…
Tim Graham
March 8th, 2012 10:31 AM

More Grading on the Curve: At RTT, Acceptable Weekly Unemployment Clai

The Department of Labor reported today that initial claims for unemployment benefits increased to 362,000 from an upwardly revised (as usual) 354,000 the previous week. Expectations were for a reading of 351,000 (Business Insider's email) or 352,000 (Bloomberg). Over at the Associated Press, also known as the Administration's Press, the headlined reaction in its 9:17 a.m. report was: "…
Tom Blumer
March 8th, 2012 10:29 AM

Maddow Ends Show With Santorum's Vulgar 'Google Problem,' Calls Dan Sa

Having spent the past week mercilessly attacking conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for his comments concerning Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow closed Wednesday's program by discussing at length Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's vulgar "Google problem." You see, calling a liberal woman a slut is…
Noel Sheppard
March 8th, 2012 10:07 AM