Book Review: 'Climate of Corruption' Digs Deep Into Climate Change Age

Unlike the network news media that have campaigned against global warming for years, new book details the politicization of climate science.
Julia A. Seymour
January 31st, 2011 11:04 PM

Chris Matthews Announces Fawning Special on Bill Clinton Titled 'Presi

The folks at MSNBC's "Hardball" announced a new hour-long special on Monday, slated to air in late February. Titled "President of the World", the special will focus on "former U.S. President turned humanitarian and diplomat extraordinaire" Bill Clinton. But don't worry, like all "Hardball" episodes, this one will be "absolutely nonpartisan."
Lachlan Markay
January 31st, 2011 5:57 PM

WaPo Grants Op-ed Space to Disgraced Former Obama Car Czar Banned From

As I've noted previously, the Washington Post has repeatedly buried stories about Steven Rattner's late legal woes with the SEC and then-N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. The former Obama's "car czar," was accused last year of bribing "a political consultant to win business from New York's pension fund for his former investment firm." The liberal Democratic financier subsequently worked out…
Ken Shepherd
January 31st, 2011 5:04 PM

Scarborough Says 'Perhaps' Obama's Cairo Speech Inspired Egyptian Prot

On Monday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough hinted that President Obama may have been a major catalyst of the current protests against the authoritarian Mubarak regime in Egypt. Scarborough referred to the president's 2009 Cairo speech and wondered if it inspired the present protests. "Barack Obama, he goes to Cairo, he gives a speech, and he inspires – perhaps he's the one who…
Matt Hadro
January 31st, 2011 4:49 PM

Civility Update: House Democrats 'Target' 19 Vulnerable Republicans

Within minutes of the tragic shootings in Tucson, the Left and their media minions were sure that violent rhetoric and gun imagery were responsible for inciting Jared Lee Loughner to that heinous act. Now, just 23 days since that horrible event and after all kinds of calls for a toning down of such rhetoric, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has issued a press release entitled "…
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2011 4:29 PM

Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Like Christian Conservatives in U.S

The Daily Beast contributor who once insisted that there's "no such thing as sharia law" is at it again, dismissing the threat of radical Islam presented by the political instability in Egypt. In a January 30 post at Washington Post/Newsweek's "On Faith" feature yesterday, Reza Aslan dismissed fears that the Muslim Brotherhood is a radical group that could take Egypt in a theocratic direction…
Ken Shepherd
January 31st, 2011 3:27 PM

MRC Remembers Media's 'Rewriting Ronald Reagan' With Special Report

As the nation prepares to pay tribute to former President Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth on February 6, it is amazing to consider that his success at turning the U.S. away from 1960s-style liberalism was accomplished in the face of a daily wave of news media hostility. The media’s first draft of history was more myth than reality: that Reagan only brought the nation poverty…
Tim Graham
January 31st, 2011 2:45 PM

Tom Brokaw: MSNBC Will Be Just Fine Without Olbermann

Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune interviewed former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, and asked the question: Are NBC and MSNBC better off  now that Keith Olbermann is gone? "You're not going to get me to go there," Brokaw said. With a little prodding, he said he believes MSNBC will do just fine. "All of our component parts — NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC — are much bigger than one player, and I include…
Tim Graham
January 31st, 2011 1:53 PM

CBS 'Early Show' Touts Government Banning Incandescent Light Bulbs

At the top of the 7:30AM ET half hour on Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge happily proclaimed: "After 130 years, [Thomas] Edison's invention is basically being phased out....The government is replacing the incandescent bulb with a much more energy efficient light." Wragge portrayed the government ban as a new "choice" for consumers: "Consumers will now have a choice of two…
Kyle Drennen
January 31st, 2011 1:35 PM

ABC News Publishes, Then Quickly Removes Lefty Mother Jones Article on

ABCNews.com on Monday republished, then removed an article from Mother Jones magazine on Republicans "redefining rape." The piece briefly appeared on the network's website with no explanation that it was by the associate editor of the liberal magazine. The article, by Nick Baumann, featured both the incendiary headline from Mother Jones, "The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape" and the nasty…
Scott Whitlock
January 31st, 2011 11:18 AM

At AP, 'Waivers' Are For Sports, Not Health Care; NYT Saves Outrage fo

It would appear that if it weren't for the center-right blogosphere, Fox News, a few business dailies, a few conservative pundits, and talk radio, very few people would know about the hundreds of waivers granted by the Obama administration to companies, unions, not-for-profits, states, and other entities wishing to be spared the burdens of complying with Obamacare for at least another year.…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2011 10:53 AM

Actor Richard Dreyfuss Defends Anti-Cheney Death Wish by Ed Schultz as

Last fall, Richard Dreyfuss launched a civics education program called the Dreyfuss Initiative that promised among other things to look at "a purposeful diverse variety of websites representing disparate political opinions... to foster a discussion related to the future of America." But the Academy Award-winning actor apparently thinks civil political discourse includes left-wing radio hosts…
Ken Shepherd
January 31st, 2011 10:18 AM

Will Chris Matthews and MSNBC Spend Week Bashing Schumer's Branches of

As NewsBusters has been reporting, the folks at MSNBC last week - in particular Chris Matthews - spent a great deal of time attacking former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for comments they erroneously felt disqualified the conservative women from public office. Will this network and its commentators pay as much attention to Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.…
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2011 10:17 AM

Open Thread: Billionaire-funded Leftists Protest Conference Held by Bi

Over the weekend, libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch convened a conference of like-minded businessmen and policymakers at the Rancho Las Palmas resort to discuss election strategy and the future of classical liberalism. Outside, a hodgepodge of lefty protest groups gathered to whine about the influence of money in politics. In a completely unsurprising show of hypocrisy, Soros-…
NB Staff
January 31st, 2011 9:18 AM