Oliver Stone’s Vindication of Hitler is a Crime Against History

Hollywood director Oliver Stone - who previously tried to rewrite history with his ultra-left conspiracy work of fiction "JFK" is at it again. But this time he's not accusing the American government of murdering its own president.Instead, he's simply trying to stop the "Jewish domination of the media," so that the film industry can put Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "in context," as an "easy scapegoat…
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
July 30th, 2010 5:32 PM

Randi Rhodes: Jefferson Would Slap Rush Limbaugh, and Ben Franklin Wou

Randi Rhodes believes she knows the original intent of the Founding Fathers -- and that it was their intention to brutalize conservative talk-radio stars Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. On Wednesday afternoon's show, she was ripping into Arizona's immigration law, and how conservatives aren't democratic, and liberals are the forces of freedom and the Constitution:  Because they’re not democratic.…
Tim Graham
July 30th, 2010 5:23 PM

Five for Five: Top Five Times NewsBusters Embarrassed the Media | Roun

Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post. Click here to enter the contest.Last week we debuted the first installment of "Five for Five," a set of five top five lists comprising the best NewsBusters posts of our first five years. Last week we began on a light note with The Top Five Media Flubs Caught by NewsBusters.We continue on the lighter…
NB Staff
July 30th, 2010 5:00 PM

MSNBC Confuses Screaming Democratic Congressman With Grizzly Bear

Scott Whitlock
July 30th, 2010 4:22 PM

Newsweek's Clift Laments Rangel's Fall From Grace, Presents Harlem De

Imagine that it's 2006, and an elderly, long-serving conservative U.S. congressman from a deep-red congressional district is facing congressional hearings regarding charges of corruption and tax evasion. Also imagine that this congressman was caught on camera being exceedingly condescending and dismissive when asked about these charges by a young reporter. The media drumbeat of indignation would…
Ken Shepherd
July 30th, 2010 4:00 PM

AP Cites Discredited NOAA Bureaucrat to Push Global Warming Alarmism R

Who needs a public relations department when you have a willing accomplice like the Associated Press? A July 28 story written by AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid took a very uncritical look at the recently released "State of the Climate" report. According to Schmid, this report, which has a fair share of critics, makes a definitive call about climate change. (h/t Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.…
Jeff Poor
July 30th, 2010 3:41 PM

NewsBusters 5th Anniversary: A Look Back at Some of Our Top Posts on E

NB Staff
July 30th, 2010 3:34 PM

CNN Analyst Echoes Liberal Talking Points on Arizona Immigration Judge

On Wednesday night's "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin claimed that the federal judge in the Arizona immigration case doesn't possess "a strong political profile one way or another," which is a sign the decision is well-supported by the law.Cooper asked Toobin if Judge Bolton, who decided the case, was a liberal, noting that she was appointed to the post by President Clinton."She'…
Matt Hadro
July 30th, 2010 3:26 PM

WikiLeaks Proves We Need the MSM

If Anne Applebaum is to be believed, the existence of primary sources is in and of itself the reason the dead-trees should be kept around. She writes for Slate:I didn't think it was possible, but Julian Assange has now done it: By releasing 92,000 documents full of Afghanistan intelligence onto the laptops of an unsuspecting public, the founder of Wikileaks has finally made an ironclad case for…
Matt Robare
July 30th, 2010 2:44 PM

Keith Olbermann's Colleague Chuck Todd Calls Andrew Breitbart a 'Propa

Chuck Todd works for the same network that employs the likes of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, liberal propagandists all, yet it's doubtful Todd would ever call them that, however he did attach that "p" word to one Andrew Breitbart. During a segment, on Friday's Today show, headlined: "White House Distractions, Sherrod Story Lingers with Lawsuit Plans" Todd relayed…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 30th, 2010 1:49 PM

Chris Matthews' Opinion of Sherrod's Breitbart Suit Changes in Two Hou

Chris Matthews in the course of less than two hours Thursday appeared to radically change his opinion about Shirley Sherrod's pending lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart.As NewsBusters previously reported, Matthews during the 5 p.m. installment of "Hardball" got into a heated argument with former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean about the contents of the controversial video…
Noel Sheppard
July 30th, 2010 1:44 PM

Leftwing Talk Show Host Inadvertently Produces Campaign Commercial Aga

Does the host of the leftwing "The Young Turks" internet talk show, Cenk Uygur, realize that he has provided some really good reasons to defeat Harry Reid in November? I'm sure that wasn't his intent when Uygur went into some detail on the sad state of the Las Vegas economy which sure wasn't helped when President Obama openly discouraged businesses from making trips there last year despite the…
P.J. Gladnick
July 30th, 2010 1:10 PM

Only Fox News Hits Gibbs With Questions on Possible Plans to Bypass Co

Robert Gibbs on Friday appeared on all three network morning shows, as well as Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, but only FNC quizzed the White House press secretary about whether the White House would try and force immigration reform without Congress. Co-host Steve Doocy challenged, "There are some memos circulating...up on Capitol Hill, and probably at the White House as well, about how the…
Scott Whitlock
July 30th, 2010 12:57 PM

Left-wing Black Activist Acknowledges Race Attacks on Tea Party Are Bo

What will it take for the media to acknowledge that the Tea Party is not a racist movement, and that liberals have smeared it as such in a naked politicization of race relations? How about a lefty activist admitting just that.UPenn professor Mary Frances Berry, a leader of the "far-left black political scene," as NB Executive Editor Matt Sheffield wrote,  penned this astonishing email to Politico…
Lachlan Markay
July 30th, 2010 12:24 PM