Arab TV Director: ‘Muslim Anger’ Over Ground Zero Mosque Protests

The director of the popular Arab-language TV station Al Arabiya says that the Muslim world is not angry over increasing American opposition to a proposed mosque at Ground Zero, and that any claims to the contrary are attempts to "fabricate a conflict." "The lack of a unified stance throughout the Islamic world should be seen as response to the current attempt by some to 'fabricate' a…
Alana Goodman
September 1st, 2010 3:36 PM

Vanity Fair Attacks Palin as Volatile, Angry, Fake

Another day, another media hit piece aimed at Sarah Palin. Surprise, surprise. A 10,600-word article in the October issue of Vanity Fair reads like the rambling diaries of a spurned middle school student. Writer Michael Joseph Gross ran through a list of ill-sourced, hearsay attacks on Palin designed to depict her as a raging psychopath - a far cry from the down-to-earth "hockey mom" she…
Nathan Burchfiel
September 1st, 2010 2:55 PM

Cries of 'Not Me' From the First Family Circus

Media downplay presidential blame game on everything from Iraq to economy.
Dan Gainor
September 1st, 2010 2:44 PM

Labor Day Special: Top 10 Union Highlights of the Obama Administration

Big Labor has reasons to celebrate: an ally in White House and a cheerleading left-wing media.
Jeff Poor
September 1st, 2010 2:29 PM

Psycho Talk: Jealous Ed Schultz Claims He Could Easily Rally 300k on N

KEY UPDATES below the fold, including Beck's response to Schultz. There's not really much you can say about this claim, beyond "suuuuure."Ed Schultz, who attracts just over a quarter of Glenn Beck's viewership (700,000 vs. 2.6 million viewers), claimed he could out-rally the Fox News host, whose "Restoring Honor" event attracted an estimated 300,000 people to the National Mall on Saturday."I…
Lachlan Markay
September 1st, 2010 2:13 PM

HuffPo Climate Hysterics: BP Spill, Cap & Trade 'Missed Opportunity' i

With any luck, we're going to be seeing a lot more commentary like Jim Garrison's Aug. 31 Huffington Post piece. What's positive about it isn't the apocalyptic hysteria of his descriptions of "climate shock," entertaining as they are. Rather, it's his lamentation that President Obama, Al Gore and the global warming industry missed the perfect opportunity to dismantle the U.S. economy and…
Matt Philbin
September 1st, 2010 12:40 PM

HuffPo: 'Missed Opportunity' of BP Spill, Cap and Trade, are 'Point of

Jim Garrison laments the failure of the eco-left to legislate change on climate issues, surprisingly suggests private sector might be quickest route to change.
Matt Philbin
September 1st, 2010 11:34 AM

YouTube Jihad: American Terror Imam Radicalizing Muslim Youth Online

He may be playing hide-and-seek from drone missiles in the caves of Yemen, but Al Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki is still attempting to poison the minds of young Muslim Americans through the use of YouTube and other social media. The extent of Al-Awlaki's reach on the internet is outlined in a new report released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Aug. 28. The report…
Alana Goodman
September 1st, 2010 11:10 AM

NBC's Matt Lauer Repeatedly Presses Joe Biden on Iraq War: Was It Wort

NBC's Matt Lauer wanted one question to stick in the minds of his Today show viewers, as from the top of Wednesday's show, to his interview with Vice President Joe Biden, the Today co-anchor repeatedly asked was the Iraq war "worth it?" As part of the analysis of the President's Oval Office speech last night, in which Barack Obama announced an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, Lauer invited…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 1st, 2010 10:54 AM

Glenn Beck Destroys NAACP President's Malicious Suggestion of Racism R

On Saturday, NewsBusters sister site Eyeblast.tv sent contributing editor Joe Schoffstall to see what exactly Al Sharpton’s protest rally was all about. While there, he was able to get an interview with NAACP President Ben Jealous regarding his thoughts on Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally. Jealous claimed that those at Restoring Honor wouldn’t applaud Dr. King's historic 1963 "I Have a Dream…
Ken Shepherd
September 1st, 2010 10:24 AM

Open Thread: Sen. Murkowski Concedes to Palin-backed Joe Miller

NB Staff
September 1st, 2010 9:48 AM

Engel Falsely Accuses Fleischer Of Alleging Osama-Iraq Ties

NBC's Richard Engel has done some good reporting from Iraq.  But scratch the reporter's surface, and you find a political partisan eager to echo the anti-Bush party line.   Witness his exchange with Ari Fleischer on Morning Joe today.  Engel twisted the former Bush press secretary's words, accusing him of alleging an Osama Bin Laden connection with Iraq.  Fleischer had palpably said no such…
Mark Finkelstein
September 1st, 2010 7:52 AM

Typically, Kathleen Parker Finds It Ridiculous That Beck or Palin Can

Washington Post columnist and incoming CNN prime-time talk-show host Kathleen Parker is still auditioning for liberal-media accolades. In Wednesday's Post she offered another shovel of her frenzied distaste for prayer and G-O-D talk in public as she dismissed the Glenn Beck rally, especially the notion that Beck or Sarah Palin could blame the news media for hostility and bias. The media made…
Tim Graham
September 1st, 2010 7:08 AM

Arab TV Director: Alleged 'Muslim Anger' Over Ground Zero Mosque Prote

Media claims that controversy is fomenting 'Muslim extremism' are not based in fact.
Alana Goodman
September 1st, 2010 12:00 AM