Scarborough Attacks Palin E-mail Hunt, Time's Halperin Says the Reason

In the wake of the release of 24,000 emails from the office former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the media’s obsession with the former Vice Presidential candidate has reached such a fever pitch that even Morning Joe can no longer stand it.“Did you see the obsessive countdown to Sarah Palin's e-mails being released? Did they not make themselves look like fools and - and just prove - and again we…
Eric Ames
June 13th, 2011 6:09 PM

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Find Media 'Sifting Through' Palin's Ema

When lefties Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore think the media's Palin Derangement Syndrome has gone too far, you know the press are hitting new depths of indecency. Judging from the couple's Twitter accounts, the recent feeding frenzy over the former Alaska governor's email was all they could stand:
Noel Sheppard
June 13th, 2011 5:15 PM

In Speech On Tough Times For Americans, Obama Brags 'I Have Better Pla

Imagine a Republican president giving a speech on tough economic times in which he claimed that the plight of Americans who are hurting is what is on his mind every day as he walks to the Oval Office. Imagine that same Republican president, in that same speech, bragging that he has "a better plane" and "a bigger entourage" than when he was a candidate.  Now imagine the howls from the MSM about…
Mark Finkelstein
June 13th, 2011 5:04 PM

NPR Airs Misleading, Unbalanced Story on 'Catholic Womenpriests

It's Sunday evening. What better way to wind down the Lord's Day than tuning into National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" for an unbalanced story on the "ordination" of four supposedly Catholic women "priests"?  Yesterday evening, NPR's Lily Percy profiled two of four women "ordained" in a "Roman Catholic Womenpriests" ceremony on June 4 held at St. John's United Church of Christ…
Ken Shepherd
June 13th, 2011 4:20 PM

Mr. Hard News: NY Times's Michael Shear, Bitter About Talking Weiner

Michael Shear, chief writer for the New York Times’s “Caucus” blog, sounded sarcastic and bitter, almost angry, at the opening of the paper’s last “Caucus” podcast on Thursday about having to talk about the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. Host Sam Roberts: “But you pointed out that this is a particularly inopportune time for this latest sex scandal to break in Washington. Why is that?” Michael…
Clay Waters
June 13th, 2011 3:59 PM

Notable Quotables: Targeting Palin’s Outlaw Bus; Tea Party 'Not the

The June 13 edition of MRC’s Notable Quotables has now been posted over at www.MRC.org, showcasing the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes from the liberal media over the past two weeks. This edition features: CNN’s Piers Morgan snootily slamming the Tea Party as “not the brightest” and perhaps similar to the mobs Hitler and Mussolini employed in the 1930s; MSNBC’s Martin Bashir…
Rich Noyes
June 13th, 2011 3:49 PM

Caught Up in Own Hyperbole, MSNBC Host Says Obama Has 'The Worst, Most

Remember the movie "Say Anything"? Same can be said for Cenk Uygur's approach to criticizing Republicans. Chatting with his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow on her show Friday night, Uygur apparently forgot he was on the air and described President Obama's opponents in a way one might expect if the audience consisted solely of liberals. (Then again, it was MSNBC). Here's what Uygur told…
Jack Coleman
June 13th, 2011 2:49 PM

CNN's 'Objective' Don Lemon Uses Joy Behar to Smear Rick Santorum

Openly-gay CNN anchor Don Lemon dug back to a May 16 interview with liberal Joy Behar to smear GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum just before Monday night's Republican primary debate. Behar then said of the socially-conservative Santorum that he "seems like a big homophobe," and Lemon made sure Friday to reference that smear and put Santorum on the defensive. As NewsBusters reported…
Matt Hadro
June 13th, 2011 1:30 PM

USA Today Religion Reporter Slams Baptist Preacher for Tweeting That R

A Baptist preacher calling a sinner to repent and trust in Jesus Christ for salvation is hardly news. Except, perhaps, when it's done via Twitter. USA Today religion blogger Cathy Lynn Grossman yesterday took seminary president and Twitter user Albert Mohler to task for this tweet sent on Saturday:  
Ken Shepherd
June 13th, 2011 1:03 PM

NBC's Gregory: Are Americans Really 'Better Off' with 'Freedom

While grilling former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on NBC's Sunday Meet the Press, host David Gregory was skeptical of the idea that Americans should be able to choose their own health care plan: "They're better off with the freedom that they've got in the vagaries of the private insurance market?" Gregory was responding to Santorum's criticism of ObamaCare: "[…
Kyle Drennen
June 13th, 2011 1:03 PM

Thomas Roberts Mocked Palin's Revere 'Flub,' But Says LBJ Was 'Never E

According to MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, who last week seemed to enjoy correcting Sarah Palin for her historical "flub," President Lyndon Johnson "was never actually elected Commander in Chief." The cable anchor relayed that piece of false information on Monday in a segment downplaying the chances of another Texan, potential 2012 candidate Rick Perry. In fact, Lyndon Johnson won the 1964…
Scott Whitlock
June 13th, 2011 1:01 PM

Update: In Two Monday E. Coli Reports, AP Avoids Describing Involved F

Yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted a reluctance on the part of Associated Press reporters to describe the farm involved in "the world's deadliest known outbreak of E. coli" as "organic." The wire service issued two additional reports this morning, both of which failed to use the "O-word." The case for the use of the word in these reports is as strong, if not stronger, than it…
Tom Blumer
June 13th, 2011 11:48 AM

A Different Kind of Father's Day

"Every man, by the nature of his being, is called to generate love." So the Rev. James A. Wehner tells his seminarians, from his perch as rector of the Josephinum, a pontifical college and seminary in Columbus, Ohio. His is a message necessary to the training of priests to a calling that has been marred by scandal, but also to a society that has been afraid to talk frankly about how essential…
Kathryn Jean Lopez
June 13th, 2011 10:37 AM

Open Thread: Should Gay Judge Have Recused Himself in California Prop

For general discussion and debate about politics, the economy, sports, and whatever else tickles your fancy. Possible talking point: Should a gay judge have recused himself in California's Proposition 8 case?
NB Staff
June 13th, 2011 10:34 AM