DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration 'Should be a Crime

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.” “I think the president was clearly articulating that his position – the Democratic position – is that we need comprehensive immigration reform,” said Wasserman Schultz, a U.S. House member from Florida at a Christian Science Monitor…
Fred Lucas
May 31st, 2011 2:36 PM

NYT's Michael Shear Sour Over Sarah Palin's Lack of Respect for Mainst

New York Times chief political blogger Michael Shear is a bit annoyed that Sarah Palin is successfully attracting media attention while ignoring reporter’s inquiries and playing hide-and-seek with the press on her "One Nation" bus tour. (Photo by the Times's David Winter.) Shear, who has filed multiple blog posts on the Palin family's historical trail through the Northeast, made Tuesday’s print…
Clay Waters
May 31st, 2011 1:25 PM

NBC Falsely Paints Palin as Uninvited 'Distraction' at Rolling Thunder

On her Friday 1 p.m. ET MSNBC show, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell characterized Sarah Palin participating in the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington as a "distraction," with the headline on-screen wondering if the former Alaska Governor was "stealing their thunder." After declaring that Palin was "once again showing that she sure knows how to seize the political…
Kyle Drennen
May 31st, 2011 12:41 PM

MSNBC Gives RFK Jr. Soapbox to Bewail 'Fuels From Hell

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lobbed incendiary accusations at the coal industry on "Morning Joe" today in a segment that devolved into a nearly 10-minute advertisement for his new anti-coal documentary. The left-wing environmental activist juxtaposed fossil "fuels from Hell" with "patriotic fuels from Heaven," though neither co-host Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski pushed back. "Right now the…
Alex Fitzsimmons
May 31st, 2011 12:20 PM

ABC Gins Up 'Epic Political Showdown' Between 'Female Favorites' Palin

ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday offered a dismissive take on two conservative females, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Reporter Jon Karl brushed aside Palin's bus tour as "another reality TV show" and wondered if the former governor is "just playing tourist." George Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, played up conflict between the two. He prefaced a question to Bachmann by admitting it may…
Scott Whitlock
May 31st, 2011 12:19 PM

'Far Right' Playwright David Mamet Gets Testy Treatment from NY Times

Acclaimed playwright David Mamet is featured in the New York Times Sunday magazine’s "Talk" feature (formerly "Q&A") on the eve of the publication of "The Secret Knowledge," his dramatic intellectual break with the political left. Early reviews suggest Mamet’s message is bracing, and the left has responded in kind with vicious cries of sellout. Perhaps that’s why Andrew Goldman’s Q&A…
Clay Waters
May 31st, 2011 11:51 AM

Open Thread: Rolling Stone's Descent into Liberal Paranoia

In a 10,000 word poison-pen biography on Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes, containing all expected anti-FNC paranoia, Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson engages in what has sadly become standard practice for the left's Fox haters: he slimes the channel, then fails to produce a single quote from a supporter of the network. And for all of Dickinson's concern over Fox's supposed influence on…
NB Staff
May 31st, 2011 9:55 AM

Leftist ‘Consumer Interest’ Groups Are Only Interested in Big Gove

Editor's Note: This first appeared in BigGovernment.com. We have oft discussed the Orwellian manner Leftists do, well, everything. And specifically how they go about naming their gaggles – the groups they form to advance their Leftist agenda. The Media Marxists looking to eradicate all private ownership of news and communications – so as to have the government be your sole provider of…
Seton Motley
May 31st, 2011 9:15 AM

Stuck in the Past? WaPo Champions Poet of the 'Beautiful Revolution' o

Why must The Washington Post promote communists with more ardor than they could muster for any American Republican? Tuesday’s front page of the Post oozed: “‘El Padre,’ still preaching.” The subject was Ernesto Cardenal, a defrocked Catholic priest and the culture minister of the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Surrounding a huge photo on the front of the Style section was…
Tim Graham
May 31st, 2011 8:50 AM

NBC’s Harwood: Palin ‘Next to Zero Chance of Being Elected Preside

 As broadcast news programs over the weekend gave attention to Sarah Palin’s bus tour which was viewed as a possible prelude to a presidential run, NBC correspondent John Harwood had one of the most negative views of the former Alaska governor’s chances of being elected President as he appeared on Sunday’s NBC Nightly News and predicted that she "has next to zero chance of being elected…
Brad Wilmouth
May 31st, 2011 8:45 AM

NewsBusted: Barack O'Bama

Good morning, NBers. We hope everyone's Memorial Day was a thoughtful and restful one. And what better way to start one's week than an all-new episode of NewsBusted! Check it out below the break, and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.
NB Staff
May 31st, 2011 8:44 AM

Newsweek Science Editor on Global Warming: This Year's Weather Extreme

NewsBusters readers are quite familiar with the frantic hyperbole that often come from the keystrokes of Newsweek's so-called science editor Sharon Begley. On Saturday she penned another breathless doozy with the Hitchcockian sub-headline "In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future":
Noel Sheppard
May 30th, 2011 11:39 PM

Wrong, Rachel - US Began Negotiating With Aide to Mullah Omar Before b

Does anybody at MSNBC vet this stuff before it comes from Rachel Maddow? Because much of it wouldn't pass muster at a halfway decent high school newspaper. Case in point -- Maddow's blatantly inaccurate claim on her show Friday that US negotiations with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar began after bin Laden's death. (video after page break).
Jack Coleman
May 30th, 2011 11:33 PM

Video: ‘Bastard in the Sand’ Parody Sung by Martin Short Accompani

A couple of weeks ago, actor/comedian Martin Short celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden by singing, on the Late Show with David Letterman, “Bastard in the Sand,” a parody set to the tune of Elton John's “Candle in the Wind.” As he played the piano and sang, he was accompanied by five people dressed as Navy SEALs whom the Late Show blog, the Wahoo Gazette, called “the Singing Navy SEALs…
Brent Baker
May 30th, 2011 11:04 PM