Bloomberg Blames Guns, Not Gunners, For Violent NYC Weekend

Serious question: can the supposedly-very-smart Mayor Michael Bloomberg really be this foolish, or is there something else at work?  Commenting on the outbreak of gun violence in NYC over the Labor Day weekend, in which 42 people were injured or killed, Bloomberg uttered [at least according to this report] not a word of condemnation directed toward the criminals themselves.  Instead, the Big…
Mark Finkelstein
September 5th, 2011 8:08 PM

Hoffa Before Obama at Detroit Labor Day Rally: 'Let’s Take These Son

That civility thing which Democrats and the Left thought to be all-important earlier this year is sooooo January. Unless it changes its stripes overnight, the incivility and hostility on display today in Detroit, which hasn't been seen much in establishment press reports to this point, won't appear on the Big 3 Networks' morning shows tomorrow. The American people really need to see what has…
Tom Blumer
September 5th, 2011 7:27 PM

Dana Loesch Brings Tea Party Views to 'This Week

St. Louis Tea Party co-founder Dana Loesch was one of Christiane Amanpour's roundtable guests on Sunday's "This Week." At the end of the lengthy segment, Loesch, who is also editor of Big Journalism, offered an interesting view about next year's elections (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 5th, 2011 5:27 PM

NPR Lets Abortion Lobby Smear Pro-Lifers As Potential Terrorists

On Thursday's Morning Edition, NPR's touted the Obama administration's "more aggressive legal approach" towards pro-life demonstrators with the stepped-up prosecution of alleged violations of the controversial FACE Act. Correspondent Carrie Johnson highlighted the prosecution of an elderly pro-lifer, and let an abortion lobbyist denigrate pro-lifers as possible terrorists. Host Steve Inskeep…
Matthew Balan
September 5th, 2011 4:24 PM

'Lifelong Catholic' Michael Moore Bashes Pro-Lifers as 'Really, Reall

When the Washington Post promoted snippets from Michael Moore's forthcoming book on Sunday, they portrayed Moore as a "lifelong Catholic" -- which is a bit of a strange label when a paragraph later, the Post was bashing the "uterus police" who oppose abortion as "really, really weird." But then, the "Catholic" blurb the Post picked let Moore imagine himself as a playwright composing an "avant…
Tim Graham
September 5th, 2011 3:17 PM

Doonesbury Makes Sexist Breast Jokes About Palin and Bachmann

When it comes to debasing conservative women, is there nothing considered off-limits by the liberal media? Consider Sunday's Doonesbury which joked about the bra sizes of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Noel Sheppard
September 5th, 2011 12:10 PM

Did WaPo Tell a Tall Tale About the Labor Secretary's Childhood in 'K

It might seem natural that on Labor Day weekend, The Washington Post would offer a profile of the Labor Secretary in their Sunday "Kids Post" section. Next to a large picture of Hilda Solis holding a doll from Central America she keeps in her office, the headline was "Secretary of Hard Work: Hilda Solis has been working since she was 10. Her main job now is helping other people find employment…
Tim Graham
September 5th, 2011 11:43 AM

Krugman's Delusion: The Past Year Proves Cutting Spending Doesn't Crea

Exactly what country does New York Times columnist Paul Krugman actually reside in? Before you answer, consider the following sentence from his article Monday:
Noel Sheppard
September 5th, 2011 10:31 AM

Hilda Solis: Labor Secretary . . . Or Central Planning Commissar

Check out Labor Secretary Hilda Solis [she of the solicitude for the rights of illegal immigrants at the expense of American workers] on the CBS Early Show this morning.  She ticks off a list of industries in which the government will make "investments" because "we know" they will be growing in future years.  Kinda like the Obama admin "knew" solar energy was the wave of the future when it "…
Mark Finkelstein
September 5th, 2011 9:05 AM

Wallace Shows Cheney the Today Show’s ‘Investigate Cheney’ Prote

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace displayed to former Vice President Dick Cheney how NBC’s Today show on Tuesday had ended Matt Lauer’s interview with him by pulling back to highlight an Amnesty International protest sign (“TORTURE IS A CRIME: INVESTIGATE CHENEY”) in the crowd on the street. Wallace wondered: “What do you make of that? I mean, I somehow doubt that if Hillary Clinton or…
Brent Baker
September 5th, 2011 1:57 AM

Labor Secretary Solis Again Politicizes Labor Day With an Error-Riddle

A year ago (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), yours truly wrote up how Labor Secretary Hilda Solis had produced a Labor Day video which was both a propaganda vehicle glorifying the Obama administration's alleged economic accomplishments and a straw-man attack piece targeting "some who will suggest that, when times are tough, it’s time to get tough on working people." This year, she's done it…
Tom Blumer
September 5th, 2011 12:05 AM

Nancy Pelosi: GOP Wants to 'Destroy Government,' Asks 'Do Their Childr

During a Democratic fundraising event in San Francisco late last month, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D- Calif.) declared Republicans are ‘hijacking’ the deficit issue in order to ‘destroy the public space’ and wondered aloud “Do their children breathe air?” An audience member recorded Pelosi’s address at the August 21, 2011 fundraiser where the California Democrat attacked Republicans…
Eric Scheiner
September 4th, 2011 9:20 PM

Erika Smith at Indy Star: 'I Really Don't Care' About Truth of Andre C

On Wednesday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), quoting Indiana Congressman Andre Carson's inexcusable, hateful comment at a Congressional Black Caucus event on August 22 (key sentence: "Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree"), I observed that "Carson was obviously accusing some of his congressional colleagues, whom he gutlessly…
Tom Blumer
September 4th, 2011 8:40 PM

Tom Friedman: All the Interest in Sarah Palin 'A Sign of the Apocalyps

If it's Sunday, someone must be bashing Sarah Palin on "Meet the Press." On this holiday weekend, it was New York Times columnist Tom Friedman who said of all the interest in the former Alaska governor, "That’s a sign of the apocalypse" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 4th, 2011 7:27 PM