Left-Wing Talk Show Host Ed Schultz Lashes Out at MRC/NB Summer Intern

On his June 24 radio show, left-wing host Ed Schultz went on a rant against NewsBusters’ Matt Hadro, who earlier that day wrote a pretty inoffensive piece documenting how Schultz credited President Obama’s $862 billion stimulus package with more than doubling the size of his North Dakota construction firm. Schultz bizarrely (and incorrectly) tried to ridicule the Media Research Center summer…
NB Staff
June 26th, 2010 11:45 AM

Who Can Ignore and Downplay Democrat's Racist Statement? The Establish

To refresh, as posted at NewsBusters and Eyeblast.tv, Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski said the following on Wednesday while he was defending what Investors Business Daily has called "Financial Deform": We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, these are people — and they’re not minorities and…
Tom Blumer
June 26th, 2010 11:13 AM

Media: GOP Blocked Unemployment Bill to Hurt Economy Before Midterm El

On Thursday, a new unemployment bill died in Congress as Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) joined Republicans on the grounds that government spending can't go on forever. Instead of reporting both sides, the media couldn't seem to hide their anger. The bill was called a "jobless aid" package that "governors were counting on" to help "the poor" across the nation. Almost all news reports began from the…
Candance Moore
June 26th, 2010 11:02 AM

Open Thread: Schwarzenegger Urges Minimum Wage for State Workers Till

NB Staff
June 26th, 2010 10:28 AM

'Crossfire' Creator Slams New CNN Spitzer-Parker Show

The former CEO of CNN and the creator of its Crossfire show, Reese Schonfeld, has slammed the new CNN show that will be hosted by Kathleen Parker and Client Number Nine aka Eliot Spitzer. In his Huffington Post blog, Schonfeld not only blasts the proposed new show but provides some interesting background on the original Crossfire in its early years:As the former CEO of CNN, and the creator of…
P.J. Gladnick
June 26th, 2010 9:34 AM

Bozell Column: Bigotry Central

It’s been two months since Comedy Central censored Mohammed out of their cartoon “South Park.” Even the utterance of the name was bleeped. The blog Revolution Muslim quoted the world’s most notorious terrorist as an inspirational figure. “As Osama bin Laden said with regard to the cartoons of Denmark, ‘If there is no check in the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom…
Brent Bozell
June 26th, 2010 8:27 AM

Weigel-gate: WaPo Editor Brauchli Huffs They Won't Do 'Supreme Court J

In the Saturday Washington Post, media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote up the resignation of blogger David Weigel, whose disgust for conservatives was too much for the Post to defend for a man hired to cover conservatives. Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli lamented "we can't have any tolerance for the perception that people are conflicted or bring a bias to their work." Everyone brings some bias…
Tim Graham
June 26th, 2010 7:59 AM

Glenn Beck's Hilarious Sex Scandal Mock Interview With Al and Tipper G

The guys at the Glenn Beck radio show had some fun at Al and Tipper Gore's expense Thursday creating a mock interview where the host questioned the separated couple about the former Vice President's antics with a masseuse in a Portland hotel room back in 2006.The role of the Global Warmingist in Chief was marvelously played by Pat Gray with Stu Burguiere doing an adequate Tipper.The interview…
Noel Sheppard
June 25th, 2010 11:05 PM

Washington Post, Fox News Cite MRC Vice President Dan Gainor in Weigel

The inside-the-beltway media world was turned on its head with leaked e-mails that revealed Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel had some disparaging things to say about prominent conservative figures, including Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Byron York. This ultimately resulted in Weigel's resignation. However, some of Weigel's antics have been previously raised by his critics, including Media…
NB Staff
June 25th, 2010 8:20 PM

MSNBC's Matthews Compares Conservative Candidates to Suicide Bombers

"Being a suicide bomber is the new political role model," Chris Matthews told his Friday "Hardball" audience. "Just kill everything, destroy everything, blow it up, nothing gets done. You're dead, but who cares?" he added, referring to conservative Republicans running against Democrats in the 2010 midterms.The comment came at the end of a segment featuring Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Politico's…
Ken Shepherd
June 25th, 2010 6:40 PM

NYT Reporter Desperately Searches for Signs of Economic Progress to Pr

Please don't let it be Big Bob!Please don't let it be Big Bob!That fervent prayer by Harold of "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" as he desperately hopes that sound of the approaching footsteps don't belong to a sadistic guard named Big Bob comes to mind when reading a New York Times article by Michael Luo. In Luo's case he is hoping that the Republicans won't gain significant…
P.J. Gladnick
June 25th, 2010 6:22 PM

Stay Classy: AFL-CIO Economist Calls FNC’s Cavuto an 'A**hole' on Li

It's union thuggery, but at a higher echelon.Imagine you're representing the AFL-CIO, going on Fox News and trying to make a case that the $787-billion stimulus last year wasn't nearly enough and that more is needed, despite the prevailing argument being that Keynesian economics doesn't work based on this example.Well, Ron Blackwell - the chief economist for the AFL-CIO faced that on the June 25…
Jeff Poor
June 25th, 2010 5:13 PM

Milwaukee Dem: Arizona Is 'a Ways Removed from the Border

Bob Parks
June 25th, 2010 4:50 PM

CNN's Acosta and Costello Parrot Obama Talking Points on Offshore Dril

CNN's Carol Costello and Jim Acosta revealed their disdain for a federal judge's decision to overturn the Obama administration's 6-month moratorium on offshore drilling when the expert they interviewed on the June 25 "American Morning" made a convincing case against the moratorium.Tom Bower, an author who has written extensively on the oil industry, tried to explain the devastating economic…
Alex Fitzsimmons
June 25th, 2010 4:45 PM