Morning Joe Libs Sweep Sherrod, Voter Intimidation Under Carpet: Let's

It's pretty hard—even for media liberals—to defend a guy in paramilitary duds swinging a billy club outside a polling site, or a government official bragging about having declined to do everything in her power to help someone because of the white color of his skin.  So on today's Morning Joe, Margaret Carlson, Norah O'Donnell and Mike Barnicle were obliged to engage in a modicum of hand-…
Mark Finkelstein
July 20th, 2010 8:10 AM

WaPo Obit Tones Down Climate Scientist's Recent Attack on 'Hitlerian L

The Washington Post obituary for liberal climate scientist Stephen Schneider, a media favorite over the years to promote the allegedly ironclad certainty of global warming, replayed a very recent jeremiad against "Hitlerian lies" by conservatives in the wake of Climategate. But the Post's version of his remarks toned him down and excised his attacks on "gun-toting rightwingers" who are Limbaugh…
Tim Graham
July 20th, 2010 7:42 AM

Broadcast Networks Ignore Racist Comments At NAACP Meeting

Despite all the attention given to last week's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's resolution against the Tea Party, all three broadcast evening news programs completely ignored Monday's revelations of racist comments made at one of the civil rights organization's meetings in March.At 8:18 AM Monday, Big Government reported that on March 27, Shirley Sherrod, the USDA's…
Noel Sheppard
July 20th, 2010 1:12 AM

NYT: WH Defending Health Ins. Penalties As 'Taxes' In Court Despite Ob

The truth comes out. Okay, it was always out there. It's just that the Barack Obama and the folks in his administration were denying it. The issue in question is whether the individual mandate and penalties for not purchasing health insurance in the statist health care legislation commonly known as ObamaCare should rightly be considered taxes, or if they are something else. In a report dated…
Tom Blumer
July 20th, 2010 12:43 AM

AP Promotes Playboy's 'Safe for Work' Sex Site

Report ignores dangers of pornography, lost time on non-work websites.
Katie Bell
July 20th, 2010 12:00 AM

Lifetime Movie: Prostitution the Answer to Tough Economy

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt empathizes with women who have 'no choice' but to sell sex to make ends meet.
Katie Bell
July 20th, 2010 12:00 AM

Book of Poetry, Cartoons Explains Conservative Views

Businessman's stories aimed at teaching kids conservative values through rhyme.
Melissa Afable
July 20th, 2010 12:00 AM

CNN Correspondent Touts Mangos as Tool to Fight Militants

Mango diplomacy, maybe.  Mango defense, not so much.It would be much less disconcerting to say the above headline is a joke, ripped from the headlines of The Onion.  But alas, it is frighteningly accurate.Hillary Clinton recently lauded the benefits of Pakistani mangos in a discussion of better trade cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.As Reuters reports, "Hillary Clinton has lots to…
Rusty Weiss
July 19th, 2010 8:59 PM

Daily Kos: Fox News the 'Only' Network To Inspire Cop-Shooters

San Francisco-area newspapers reported a heavily armed unemployed 45-year-old man in body armor named Byron Williams had a shootout with California Highway Police in Oakland, and apparently he was angry with left-wingers. Naturally, the Daily Kos blog was the first to see the would-be killer as inspired by...Fox News. So said blogger "Dem Beans" on Monday, who worried he might have targeted…
Tim Graham
July 19th, 2010 6:30 PM

Matthews to Tea Party: Tear Down Those Racist Signs and Then I'll Beli

Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, actually reported on two different Tea Party organizations condemning Mark Williams, of Tea Party Express, for penning a racially charged satire, however Matthews wasn't impressed, as he questioned the sincerity of the Tea Party movement's commitment to fighting discrimination, and demanded that they do more to remove "racist signs at the next Tea Party rally…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 19th, 2010 6:24 PM

CNN's Rick Sanchez: Nixon/Kennedy Debate Took Place in

Rick Sanchez stumbled again on-air on his CNN program on Monday, getting the year of the famous Kennedy-Nixon television debate wrong by a margin of two years. Sanchez, who was trying to describe South Carolina Democratic senatorial candidate Alvin Greene's first public speech as the "converse" of the debate, initially guessed 1962 as the year of the debate, but then broadened his answer to "…
Matthew Balan
July 19th, 2010 5:56 PM

ABC, CBS, WaPo, NYT Use Loaded Poll Questions to Tout Dem Unemployment

The New York Times today touted two polls that supposedly demonstrate support for the Democratic position on unemployment benefits. But a further examination of the poll questions reveals that their findings were inaccurate; the questions misrepresented the issues at play, and the Republican position on the matter."Two national polls published last week suggest that most Americans are on […
Lachlan Markay
July 19th, 2010 5:15 PM

MRC's Tim Graham Addresses 'Mainstream Media Meltdown' on Fox & Friend

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham appeared on Saturday morning’s Fox & Friends to discuss the emerging examples of liberal "mainstream" media meltdown over the Democrats being abandoned by the voters – and how the public is now a collection of "spoiled" brats, according to liberal talk show host Bill Press. Fox also highlighted Washington Post columnist/blogger Ezra Klein suggesting…
NB Staff
July 19th, 2010 5:07 PM

AP Shills for NAACP Against Wishes of Black Citizens in North Carolina

The Associated Press on Monday published a news item that would more correctly be called a shameless press release on behalf of the NAACP. Writer Allen G. Breed followed the liberal group to Raleigh for a recent show of kabuki theatre. The cause? Getting the Wake County school system to continue the antiquated method of forcibly busing students to far-flung neighborhoods in pursuit of racial…
Candance Moore
July 19th, 2010 4:51 PM