Bad News for Wall Street Protesters: It's Going To Be a VERY Cold Wint

The Occupy Wall Street protesters either better get their point across quickly or buy themselves - from small, non-profit, non-publicly traded companies, of course! - warmer clothing and higher quality sleeping bags. Although the global warming obsessed media are mostly ignoring this, scientists are predicting a very cold winter in the northern hemisphere:
Noel Sheppard
October 10th, 2011 11:08 AM

Shocking AP Headline: 'Obama Disconnects Rhetoric, Reality

Many right-thinking Americans have been wondering when Obama-loving news outlets would notice that even Democrats don't support the president's new jobs bill. On Monday, the truth came from a surprising source - the Associated Press:
Noel Sheppard
October 10th, 2011 10:22 AM

Van Jones Praises ‘Non-Violent’ Arab Spring – ‘We Should Have

Speaking at the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) on Friday, former Obama administration green jobs czar and political activist Van Jones praised the Arab Spring movement in the Middle East as “people powered” and “non-violent” and called for the United States to follow suit. “They had the Arab spring, which was a people-powered, non-violent opportunity to change the conversation in…
Penny Starr
October 10th, 2011 9:50 AM

Open Thread: Have TV Debates Adversely Changed the GOP Race

After the debate tomorrow night, the crop of current GOP presidential candidates will have participated in four nationally televised debates in just over one month, attracting record audiences and affecting poll numbers drastically each time. According to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fred Barnes, the increased number of debates has had a major impact on the race, giving also-rans free…
NB Staff
October 10th, 2011 9:35 AM

Russell Simmons Called Out by FBN's Charles Payne on Complaints Taxes

As FNC's Geraldo Rivera appeared in New York City for his Geraldo at Large show on Sunday night to give attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests, participant and music mogul Russell Simmons sparred with FBN's Charles Payne after Simmons complained that his taxes were too low and claimed that his employees pay more taxes then he does.
Brad Wilmouth
October 10th, 2011 9:04 AM

Occupy 15th Street: The Washington Post Anti-Business Section

Leftist media critics resent that newspapers have a "Business" section or that PBS used to show "Wall Street Week," as if reporting on business automatically means you're pro-business. The Washington Post on Sunday seemed to be working overtime to publish an Anti-Business section, with two columns endorsing the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, an enormous article by liberal Post wunderkind Ezra…
Tim Graham
October 10th, 2011 8:51 AM

Politico's Top Stories Suggest Site's Liberal Tilt

Politico's "Daily Digest" is an email the blog blasts out in the morning, touting the day's top stories.  As a subscriber, this NewsBuster was struck by the left-friendly lean of five out this morning's six featured stories. To be sure, "Post-recession income falls" is not good for President Obama, reporting as it does that Americans' incomes have fallen faster during his presidency than…
Mark Finkelstein
October 10th, 2011 8:04 AM

ABC Enters Full Cheerleading Mode for Leftist Protests ‘Growing in S

ABC stepped up its promotion Sunday night on behalf of the far-left protesters, which they failed to label, making a special effort to explain and frame their grievances – a service they never provided to the Tea Party. “Tonight, the anger spreads,” anchor David Muir hailed in teasing World News on Sunday night. “Those Wall Street protests now going global. This evening here, we learn about the…
Brent Baker
October 10th, 2011 2:09 AM

Krugman on Wall Street Protests: 'There Has in Fact Been Nothing So Fa

It seems New York Times columnist Paul Krugman thinks the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been better behaved than Tea Party attendees. Read the following paragraph from Monday's "Panic of the Plutocrats" and you be the judge:
Noel Sheppard
October 10th, 2011 12:04 AM

AP Whitewashes Chavez's Planned Island Property Expropriation, Waters

In a report carried at the Washington Post on Thursday and updated early Friday, the Associated Press's Christopher Toothaker wrote a lengthy report about how Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chavez plans to "expropriate homes on the Caribbean resort islands of Los Roques, saying the structures were built on plots bought in shadowy business deals." By the end of the day Friday, the report turned into four…
Tom Blumer
October 9th, 2011 11:17 PM

Fox's Chris Wallace Hits Santorum from Left on Gays in Military

On today's Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace devoted the last five minutes of a 13-minute interview to sparring with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, as the Fox host challenged the former Pennsylvania Senator for his opposition to gays serving openly in the military. After playing a clip of Santorum from a recent debate arguing against the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,…
Brad Wilmouth
October 9th, 2011 10:37 PM

GE CEO Immelt's Conservative Fox News-Watching Mother Didn't Want Him

There was another fascinating part of GE CEO aka White House jobs czar Jeffrey Immelt's interview on 60 Minutes Sunday besides him asking Lesley Stahl why she doesn't root for his company's success. His conservative, Fox News-watching mother didn't want him working for the Obama administration (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 9th, 2011 9:01 PM

ABC’s Pan Am: ‘Kennedy Loves Stewardesses

Tonight (Sunday at 10 PM EDT/PDT, 9 PM CDT), ABC’s new Mad Men-inspired (though much shallower) drama set in 1963, Pan Am, about New York City-based flight crews for Pan Am airlines, will have a plot revolving around President John Kennedy’s visit to Berlin. In the promo, run at the end of last week’s episode, a stewardess character excitedly exclaims: “Kennedy loves stewardesses!” Sound…
Brent Baker
October 9th, 2011 8:39 PM

GE Immelt's Stunning Question To Stahl: Why Don't You Want Us To Win

It was literally a show stopper.   At the end of his "60 Minutes" interview with Lesley Stahl this evening, GE CEO Jeff Immelt asked her: "I don't know why you don't" root for GE, and by extension for American business, the way company employees do?  Did Immelt leave Stahl speechless? Rather than providing an answer, 60 Minutes could only cut to its tick-tick-tick stopwatch.  View video…
Mark Finkelstein
October 9th, 2011 8:35 PM