
Biographer of Obama's Mother Won't Discuss Debunking of His Health Ins
For having made a shocking revelation that deeply undermined one the most repeated stories of Obama's 2008 campaign and 2009 health care debate, Janny Scott is staying extremely quiet. Scott's new book, 'A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother,' proved false Obama's claim that his mother was fighting with insurance companies from her death bed, one of Obama's favorite lines…
July 18th, 2011 4:29 PM

NBC's 'Today' Wonders Why Americans Are 'Obsessed' With Breasts, Then
Monday's NBC Today decided to devote a six-minute segment in the 8 a.m. ET hour to America's "obsession" with breasts, with co-host Ann Curry declaring: "...they have become an object of sort of undue fascination." As the report was teased throughout the broadcast and during the segment itself, 54 pairs of breasts appeared on screen, with some images repeated.
Update: It turns out that in…
July 18th, 2011 3:52 PM

David Frum Blasts GOP's 'Dangerous Tactics' on Debt Ceiling Debate
David Frum is bashing conservative Republicans again – this time for playing hardball with President Obama and using the debt ceiling deadline as blackmail to get what they want. Frum writes in a CNN.com op-ed that the GOP demand for "total surrender" by the president on the debt ceiling debate gives him "horrible flashbacks" to the party's staunch opposition to the health care bill – which…
July 18th, 2011 3:30 PM

Days Later, New York Times Plants Bachmann 'Gay Therapy' Story on Sund
Marcus Bachmann, husband to Minnesota congresswoman and G.O.P. presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, runs a Christian counseling center in Minnesota that has come under fire from liberals for allegedly promoting “reparative therapy” for homosexuals. Several days after a hidden-camera investigation from a gay activist group was played on ABC and NBC, the story was prominently displayed on the…
July 18th, 2011 3:09 PM

WaPo Plugs Native American 'Climate Change' Exhibit
The top recommended item in Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine was a new exhibit pushing against “climate change” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian:
Varying opinions are constantly thrown around regarding global warming,but rarely are the voices of indigenous people among those heard in the discussion. "Conversations With the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change…
July 18th, 2011 2:55 PM

ABC, CBS and NBC All Skip NYT Revelations of Obama Falsehood on Mother
Is this, sadly, going to be the second campaign in a row where the so-called mainstream media will make a fetish of fact-checking the Republican candidates while ignoring the misstatements and gaffes of the Democratic candidates — of which there is now just one, President Barack Obama?
Last week, as both Newsbusters and the MRC documented, the New York Times (Kevin Sack) published a lengthy…
July 18th, 2011 2:54 PM
Maddow Dishonestly Claims Texas Voter ID Law Exempts Residents with Co
Never trust a source as cited by Rachel Maddow.
It's not the sources themselves that are deceitful, at least much of the time. It's what she does with the information they provide that is.
On her MSNBC show Friday night, for example, Maddow was riding one of her favorite hobby horses, alleging that new voter ID laws enacted or proposed in 40 states are little more than GOP-led efforts to…
July 18th, 2011 1:37 PM

Numbers Don't Lie: "Daily Show's" Stewart Hammers Right Nearly Four Ti
Comedy Central host averaged 23 percent of broadcast time attacking GOP and Fox.
July 18th, 2011 1:29 PM

WaPo Whaps 'Fervent Budget Cutters' in GOP for Spending Too Much on Ta
How far would The Washington Post go to try to embarrass Tea Party conservatives about being hypocrites? Well, here’s an easy Washington tactic. On Monday, Post reporter David Fahrenthold took a dozen of them to task for sending too much “franked” congressional mail and other outreach:
They are among the House's fervent budget-cutters: 13 legislators who have said they won't raise the debt…
July 18th, 2011 1:09 PM

ESPN Turns from Sports to Gay-Marriage
From "Play of the Week" to contentious social issues.
July 18th, 2011 1:07 PM

NYTimes Critics Vindicated: Public Editor Dresses Down Dubious Article
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane gave a dressing down to reporter Ian Urbina’s heavily criticized recent Sunday front-page article on natural gas extraction, “Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush,” in his Sunday column, “Clashing Views on the Future of Natural Gas.” The benign headline concealed a reasonably incisive critique, accusing Urbina of making unsubstantiated…
July 18th, 2011 12:46 PM
The Expanding Catalogue of ObamaCare Fables
Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic license than a convention of Photoshoppers. Now, a prominent sob story shilled by President Obama himself about his own mother is in doubt. It's high past time to call their bluffs.
July 18th, 2011 11:58 AM

Jane Fonda Outraged at 'Far Right' Over Being Canceled by QVC
Actress Jane Fonda said in a statement posted on her website today that the QVC television channel cancelled an appearance they had scheduled with her today to promote her new book "Prime Time," blaming the cancellation on what she called "well funded and organized political extremist groups."
In the same statement Fonda said, "I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and…
July 18th, 2011 11:50 AM
GOP: Please Do Call Obama's Bluff, Man Your Battle Stations
Ordinarily, I'd have difficulty grasping the magnitude of arrogance driving President Obama in budget negotiations that could determine the survival of our nation, but after several painful years of observation, I've come to expect it from him.
Obama's personality type does not well handle opposition, so when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor refused to budge on Obama's unreasonable demand…
July 18th, 2011 11:43 AM