CBS Slants Towards Supporters of Online Sales Taxes

CBS's John Blackstone apparently couldn't find many opponents of imposing sales taxes on online retailers for his report on Thursday's Early Show, as all but one of his sound bites came from proponents. Blackstone also warned that "states that are already suffering under huge budget deficits will lose more than $11 billion in uncollected sales taxes next year." The correspondent first…
Matthew Balan
July 21st, 2011 5:09 PM

Video Proves Chris Matthews Totally Distorted Ronald Reagan's Position

On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews took a clip from a 24 year-old Ronald Reagan press conference and disingenuously passed it off as the Republican's take on "raising taxes to deal with the ballooning deficit." Matthew's version was out of context and video from October 22, 1987 proves it. [See below for video. MP3 audio here.] After playing a snippet of Reagan that had nothing to do…
Scott Whitlock
July 21st, 2011 4:47 PM

NBC: Maybe 'Near Catastrophic Financial Reaction' Will Bring House GOP

Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd lamented no deal being reached on the debt ceiling and solely blamed House Republicans: "Nobody has a plan that can get through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives....that's the issue. House Republicans don't like any of these ideas that are coming out of the Senate." Co-host Matt Lauer wondered if a…
Kyle Drennen
July 21st, 2011 3:55 PM

Mika Brzezinski: Return Taxes to 'Normal Levels

MSNBC once again repeated the liberal line that returning to the higher pre-Bush tax rates is somehow not raising taxes. "If you just go back to normal tax standards, it's not a break of the [no tax hike] pledge that many of them signed" said Mika Brzezinski on Thursday's Morning Joe.
Eric Ames
July 21st, 2011 3:15 PM

Increased Scrutiny for BBC as It Announces Policy to Silence Global Wa

British media mogul Rupert Murdoch has spent the past few weeks facing ethics inquiries as a result of his News of the World phone hacking scandal. Now British-government-owned media giant BBC is being questioned for its journalistic ethics in muzzling global warming skeptics in its taxpayer-funded broadcasts. Because BBC believes skeptics' views "differ from mainline scientific opinion," the…
Aubrey Vaughan
July 21st, 2011 2:31 PM

Glass Houses: Soros-Funded Alternet Accuses GOP of 'Treason

Usually, it's easy to dismiss the moonbat ravings of the far left. But when liberals, always ready to indignantly accuse conservatives of "questioning my patriotism," start suggesting their political opponents are "committing treason," the hypocrisy merits notice. Doubly so when the allegation of treason is made on a website that takes money from George Soros. In a July 20 column on Alternet…
Matt Philbin
July 21st, 2011 1:46 PM

NYT's Stelter Paints Far-Left Fox-Bashers as Harmless 'Public Interest

Not content with its front-page drumbeat of stories related to the “News of the World” hacking scandal, the New York Times keeps uncovering multiple angles of attack against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp. Media reporter Brian Stelter made the front of Wednesday’s Business Day by relaying threats from the hard left – or rather “progressive activists and public interest groups” – that…
Clay Waters
July 21st, 2011 1:36 PM

Bozell: With Latest Lies About Reagan Regarding Debt Ceiling Debate, M

MSNBC is looking more and more like Pinocchio every day; its nose grows longer with every lie and the DNC obviously is pulling its strings. Ronald Reagan has absolutely nothing in common with Obama, especially not on taxes and the debt ceiling. It’s outrageous for this disgraced network to exploit the late President’s good name and his conservative economic brilliance. MSNBC is nothing more…
Brent Bozell
July 21st, 2011 12:56 PM

CNN's Obnoxious Question: Will GOP Listen to McCain's Warning to Raise

Although President Obama and the Democrats have stridently insisted that increased tax revenues be part of a debt ceiling deal, CNN is content to choose sides and paint only the conservative Republicans as stubborn extremists for opposing the revenue increases. Anchor Kyra Phillips asked Thursday morning if Republicans would listen to the warning of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to the House GOP…
Matt Hadro
July 21st, 2011 12:39 PM

NBC Touts Democrats Claiming Allen West Guilty of 'Sexual Harassment

On Thursday's NBC Today, congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell reported on a war of words between Republican Congressman Allen West and Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "...West, a freshman Republican who hit 'send' on a nasty e-mail to Wasserman-Schultz....Democratic congresswomen accuse West of sexual harassment." While O'Donnell quoted from West's email – in which…
Kyle Drennen
July 21st, 2011 12:25 PM

Politico Hires Democratic Staffer on Same Day Reporter Leaves to Work

The nation's elite journalists are forever denying that they have a liberal bias. Of course, the evidence in their reporting proves that claim false every day. One other thing belies their claims--the revolving door between the self-described "mainstream media" and Democrats. There simply is nothing like it for conservatives and Republicans looking to get into elite journalism.   The latest…
Matthew Sheffield
July 21st, 2011 12:19 PM

Al Sharpton to Join MSNBC As a Host; He's a Perfect Fit for Network

Update: Our good friend Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer was ahead of the curve with a post on July 14 about signals that Sharpton was joining MSNBC. When MSNBC shuffled Ed Schultz up to the 10 p.m. slot they placed left-wing blogger and radio host Cenk Uygur (pronounced jenk you-gur) in the 6 p.m. Eastern time slot that Ed vacated as an interim host. But Uygur has been curiously absent…
Ken Shepherd
July 21st, 2011 12:11 PM

The Global Warming Debate Al Gore Refused To Have

In April 2009, climate realist Christopher Monckton, a former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was invited to testify before Congress about global warming alongside Nobel laureate Al Gore. The following video of a debate that happened in Australia Tuesday will perfectly demonstrate why Monckton, after he had arrived at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.…
Noel Sheppard
July 21st, 2011 11:43 AM

Open Thread: Could the Senate Pass Cut, Cap, and Balance

After the House passed the Cut, Cap, and Balance act Tuesday evening with the support of five Democrats, Sen. Jim DeMint is circulating a Club for Growth video with 20 prominent Democrat senators previously announcing support for a balanced budget amendment in hopes of swaying their votes this weekend. Do you think any of these Democrats will maintain support for such an amendment? Check out…
NB Staff
July 21st, 2011 10:11 AM