Leno Joke about Weiner Includes Pro-life Terminology: 'Unborn Son

Tonight Show host Jay Leno demonstrated June 17 that getting a laugh is much more important than political correctness to a comedian. Although Leno is married to pro-abortion feminist Mavis, he knew “male fetus” just wouldn’t get the response “unborn son” would. Watch the clip beginning at 12:28 for Leno’s quip, “Trending tomorrow, Weiner’s unborn son tweets his sonogram picture to over…
Jill Stanek
June 20th, 2011 12:17 PM

CNN.com Offers Readers Inaccurate, Biased Take on Supreme Court Wal-Ma

Weighed in the balance and found lacking. That biblical admonition could well describe CNN.com's shoddy "breaking news" take on today's Supreme Court ruling in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes. Simply put, CNN.com gave readers a woefully inaccurate and incomplete story on the case, chalking up the Court's ruling as holding that a "sweeping class-action status that could potentially involve hundreds…
Ken Shepherd
June 20th, 2011 12:02 PM

NBC's Gregory Frets Greece-Like Rioting if U.S. Makes 'Draconian' Spen

On NBC's Sunday Meet the Press, host David Gregory took on an alarmist tone as he worried that any significant attempts to address the nation's enormous debt could lead to violence: "Look at the images that came out of Greece this week as you've got...big cuts in public spending. And this is the result, rioting in the streets....Could we have that kind of reaction here?" Gregory posed that…
Kyle Drennen
June 20th, 2011 11:21 AM

Texas Governor Sounds Like A Candidate in Speech to Republican Gatheri

A standing ovation and cries of “Run, Rick, Run” greeted Texas Gov. Rick Perry following his campaign-like speech to a gathering of conservatives in New Orleans on Saturday. Addressing the Republican Leadership Conference, Perry wasted no time in criticizing the Obama administration for believing that government is the answer to every need and is most qualified to make essential decisions for…
Susan Jones
June 20th, 2011 10:31 AM

Dems Try to Discredit Survey Showing Flaws in Obamacare

Top House Democrats are going on the offensive against business consulting firm McKinsey & Company over a study the company conducted that found that significant numbers of employers would stop offering health insurance due to Obamacare’s mandates. The McKinsey study found that 30 percent of employers would “definitely or probably” stop offering their employees health insurance due to…
Matt Cover
June 20th, 2011 10:26 AM

Open Thread: Democrats Punishing, Not Reforming, Big Oil

In typical Obamanomics fashion, the tax code is being used as a conniving way to promote favored activities and discourage others, in this case, punishing a small handful of profitable big oil companies by forcing a different set of tax laws only on them and not across the board. The Washington Examiner's Tim Carney explains the flawed policy of a bill that would raise taxes on Exxon, Chevron…
NB Staff
June 20th, 2011 10:00 AM

New Republic Writer Admits Bush Tax Cuts Good for Economy

"HERETIC!!!" That is what leftwingers will be screaming at their computer monitors when they read The New Republic article by Ruy Teixeira in which he praises President Barack Obama for agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts which are so hated by liberals. Even worse, he claims that the Bush tax cuts extension will improve the economy to the extent that they could improve Obama's re-election…
P.J. Gladnick
June 20th, 2011 9:04 AM

Maureen Dowd Wages War on the 'Starchbishop' of New York for Having th

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is a nominal Catholic. She doesn’t believe at all in the church’s teaching that homosexuality is a sin. When Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, opposes “gay marriage” in New York, the best Dowd could do in her Saturday column was call him the “Starchbishop” and drag out (repeatedly) the sexual abuse scandal of the 1960s and 1970s. If this kind of…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2011 8:23 AM

Mark Steyn Wallops Lindsey Graham On Latest Call to 'Shut Up

On Sunday's Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham said “Congress should sort of shut up and not empower Qaddafi” by discussing the possibility of cutting off funding for military operations there. He also said it was a boo-boo for Republican candidates to think that getting “to the left” of Obama on war is a path to victory in the GOP primary. At National Review's The Corner, Mark Steyn joined…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2011 6:44 AM

Howard Kurtz Shocked Dick Morris Toes Republican Line

Howard Kurtz didn't have a good Father's Day. After being shocked that Republicans would actually prefer Obama jokes over those about Republicans, the "Reliable Sources" host expressed dismay that Fox News analyst Dick Morris would actually toe the GOP's line (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 20th, 2011 12:01 AM

AP's Error-Riddled Report on Taxing Internet Sales Taxes Patience (See

Update, June 20, 12:30 p.m.: Revised to reflect another AP math error not caught the first time around. Update 2, June 20, 3:20 p.m.: The AP has issued a correction indicating that lost sales taxes are $23 billion and teachers' salaries which could be paid are 460,000. The contradiction explained below about California's claim that it is failing to collect only $200 million (less than 1% of…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2011 11:52 PM

AP's Bauer, Obsessed With 'Polarizing' Law, Actually Understates the P

Gosh, I would have thought that someone in Wisconsin's or America's labor movement would have caught Scott Bauer's clear June 15 understatement of the net pay hit many unionized public sector workers in the Badger State will be taking as a result of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, commonly known as the "Budget Repair Bill," once the law's provisions become effective on July 1. That error is in the…
Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2011 10:15 PM

Howard Kurtz Shocked Republicans Prefer Obama Jokes Over Those About R

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, some liberal media outlets were spreading the idea that a Barack Obama impersonator was pulled off the stage at a Republican event this weekend because he was telling racial and gay jokes. Although CNN's Howard Kurtz at least figured out that the real reason Reggie Brown was yanked was because he was starting to insult Republicans, the "Reliable Sources" host…
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2011 10:04 PM

Norah O'Donnell: Republicans More Uncomfortable With Fox Commentator a

UPDATE AT END OF POST: O'Donnell contacts NB to clarify poll numbers. CBS's new chief White House correspondent said this weekend that Republicans are more uncomfortable with a Fox News commentator as presidential candidate than they are a Mormon. She claimed on "The Chris Matthews Show" she found this information in the crosstabs of a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
June 19th, 2011 8:24 PM