NewsBusted for Friday

As you surely already noticed, the most recent episode of NewsBusted is not yet posted on the player to the right. We know you're all jonesing for your Friday dose of Jodi Miller, so here's the most recent episode. Enjoy!
NB Staff
December 10th, 2010 12:06 PM

The Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of

Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2010 list: 10. GM Repayment Shows Taxpayer Bailout Worked 9. All the Economy Needs is More Stimulus 8. Soda is Like Cocaine and Ads Cause Obesity 7. Obama the Tax Cutter 6. The Tea Parties are Astroturf, but Green Groups Aren't. 5. Despite Largest…
Julia A. Seymour
December 10th, 2010 11:55 AM

WaPo Arts Critic Mangles Modern History, William F. Buckley In Essay P

The Washington Post keeps adding to its sympathetic portrayal of the radical-left gay artist whose work was removed from the National Portrait Gallery for putting ants on a crucifix, mocking Jesus Christ. Three days ago, The Post's Style section lamented on the front of the Style section about how the "pesky ant video refuses to die." But on Friday morning, a huge (8 by 8) black-and-white photo…
Tim Graham
December 10th, 2010 11:28 AM

Vieira to Michele Bachmann: Why Won't You 'Mean Spirited' Republicans

Michele Bachmann had a formidable task, on Friday's Today show, as she tried her best to explain to NBC's Meredith Vieira that Republicans wanted to keep taxes low on the job producers to create more jobs, but Vieira wasn't having any of it, as she accused her and the GOP of being "mean spirited" to the jobless for not being more generous on unemployment benefits. Vieira argued that the…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 10th, 2010 11:13 AM

Bozell, Hannity Tackle Media Misrepresentation of Tax Debate on Decemb

"This is journalistic insanity," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell protested after watching a montage of liberal journalists misrepresenting the tax policy debate before Congress. "There is no tax cut going on here at all.... What we're talking about is preventing a tax increase, a tax increase which, by the way,  economists are saying, is going to throw this country into a double-dip…
NB Staff
December 10th, 2010 10:41 AM

Open Thread: Is Obama's Tax Deal a Political Masterstroke

Charles Krauthammer certainly seems to think so. He posits that the deal the president struck with Republicans was simply Stimulus II - with a large dose of class warfare rhetoric thrown in, he might have added. Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in…
NB Staff
December 10th, 2010 10:00 AM

Olbermann Slammed 'Racist' Conservatives for Calling Obama ‘Arrogant

 Last January, when a number of white conservatives used words like "arrogant" and "cocky" to refer to President Obama’s State of the Union speech, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann asserted that they really meant Obama was an "uppity" black man: "When racist white guys get together and they don't want to be caught using any of the popular epithets in use every day in this country about black people…
Brad Wilmouth
December 10th, 2010 6:35 AM

Palin to Walters: The Media Made People Think I'm Scary, Polarizing an

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, Barbara Walters during an interview to be aired hours later claimed the public find the thought of Sarah Palin as president "scary" because she's "uninformed." When the full segment aired later that evening, Palin fired back saying, "I think it's because the media has shaped that persona and allowed that to be out there as a misconception and a misperception…
Noel Sheppard
December 10th, 2010 1:10 AM

Fineman To Olbermann: Democrats Said of Tax Plan 'F the President,' 'N

Roll Call reported Thursday that during a heated meeting of House Democrats to discuss Barack Obama's tax compromise plan, an unknown member was heard saying, "F--k the President." According to Howard Fineman, appearing on MSNBC's "Countdown," that was not the sole F-word expressed in disgust for the President at this contentious gathering (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2010 11:32 PM

Chris Matthews Shows It Wouldn't Matter How Palin Answered Couric's Re

For well over two years, the liberal media have made fun of how Sarah Palin answered Katie Couric's ridiculous question concerning what she reads. On Thursday, Chris Matthews, along with MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe, made it clear that no matter how the former Alaska governor answered that question, she was going to be ridiculed (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 9th, 2010 8:41 PM

CNN Perpetuates Liberal Talking Point on 'Cost' of Extending Tax Rates

On Thursday's Newsroom, CNN's Brooke Baldwin continued her network's liberal spin on the proposed compromise between President Obama and congressional Republicans to extend the current Bush-era tax rates, treating it as government spending. Baldwin hyped the apparent "two-year cost of this new cut" and how letting taxpayers keep their money would supposedly add to the deficit. The anchor…
Matthew Balan
December 9th, 2010 8:06 PM

Matthews Accuses Republican Ken Cuccinelli of Wanting to Take America

The Republican Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, accomplished what many others have failed to do and that is stay calm and collected in the midst of Chris Matthews' increasingly absurd charges, that even bordered on accusations of racism. Invited on Thursday's Hardball, to discuss a possible repeal amendment to the Constitution, Cuccinelli faced down a series of Matthews distortions…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 9th, 2010 6:57 PM

Questions for Democrats

The "grand bargain" agreed to by the White House to preserve the Bush-era tax rates, extend unemployment insurance for another year and reduce the payroll tax for 2011 doesn't get to the heart of the country's main financial problem: overspending. The Irish were told this week they are going to have to bite the bullet and sharply reduce their expectations of what government can do for them,…
Cal Thomas
December 9th, 2010 5:52 PM

Obama Appears on 'Mythbusters,' But His Mythical Policies Aren't Buste

Anyone who’s occasionally watched Discovery Channel over the better half of the decade is familiar with Mythbusters.  The President of the United States includes himself on the large list of Americans who appreciate the efforts of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to explode myths—literally—while making science fun.
Doug Ernst
December 9th, 2010 4:22 PM