MSNBC Gives RFK Jr. Soapbox to Bewail 'Fuels From Hell

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lobbed incendiary accusations at the coal industry on "Morning Joe" today in a segment that devolved into a nearly 10-minute advertisement for his new anti-coal documentary. The left-wing environmental activist juxtaposed fossil "fuels from Hell" with "patriotic fuels from Heaven," though neither co-host Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski pushed back. "Right now the…
Alex Fitzsimmons
May 31st, 2011 12:20 PM

ABC Gins Up 'Epic Political Showdown' Between 'Female Favorites' Palin

ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday offered a dismissive take on two conservative females, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Reporter Jon Karl brushed aside Palin's bus tour as "another reality TV show" and wondered if the former governor is "just playing tourist." George Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, played up conflict between the two. He prefaced a question to Bachmann by admitting it may…
Scott Whitlock
May 31st, 2011 12:19 PM

'Far Right' Playwright David Mamet Gets Testy Treatment from NY Times

Acclaimed playwright David Mamet is featured in the New York Times Sunday magazine’s "Talk" feature (formerly "Q&A") on the eve of the publication of "The Secret Knowledge," his dramatic intellectual break with the political left. Early reviews suggest Mamet’s message is bracing, and the left has responded in kind with vicious cries of sellout. Perhaps that’s why Andrew Goldman’s Q&A…
Clay Waters
May 31st, 2011 11:51 AM

Open Thread: Rolling Stone's Descent into Liberal Paranoia

In a 10,000 word poison-pen biography on Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes, containing all expected anti-FNC paranoia, Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson engages in what has sadly become standard practice for the left's Fox haters: he slimes the channel, then fails to produce a single quote from a supporter of the network. And for all of Dickinson's concern over Fox's supposed influence on…
NB Staff
May 31st, 2011 9:55 AM

Leftist ‘Consumer Interest’ Groups Are Only Interested in Big Gove

Editor's Note: This first appeared in BigGovernment.com. We have oft discussed the Orwellian manner Leftists do, well, everything. And specifically how they go about naming their gaggles – the groups they form to advance their Leftist agenda. The Media Marxists looking to eradicate all private ownership of news and communications – so as to have the government be your sole provider of…
Seton Motley
May 31st, 2011 9:15 AM

Stuck in the Past? WaPo Champions Poet of the 'Beautiful Revolution' o

Why must The Washington Post promote communists with more ardor than they could muster for any American Republican? Tuesday’s front page of the Post oozed: “‘El Padre,’ still preaching.” The subject was Ernesto Cardenal, a defrocked Catholic priest and the culture minister of the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Surrounding a huge photo on the front of the Style section was…
Tim Graham
May 31st, 2011 8:50 AM

NBC’s Harwood: Palin ‘Next to Zero Chance of Being Elected Preside

 As broadcast news programs over the weekend gave attention to Sarah Palin’s bus tour which was viewed as a possible prelude to a presidential run, NBC correspondent John Harwood had one of the most negative views of the former Alaska governor’s chances of being elected President as he appeared on Sunday’s NBC Nightly News and predicted that she "has next to zero chance of being elected…
Brad Wilmouth
May 31st, 2011 8:45 AM

NewsBusted: Barack O'Bama

Good morning, NBers. We hope everyone's Memorial Day was a thoughtful and restful one. And what better way to start one's week than an all-new episode of NewsBusted! Check it out below the break, and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.
NB Staff
May 31st, 2011 8:44 AM

Newsweek Science Editor on Global Warming: This Year's Weather Extreme

NewsBusters readers are quite familiar with the frantic hyperbole that often come from the keystrokes of Newsweek's so-called science editor Sharon Begley. On Saturday she penned another breathless doozy with the Hitchcockian sub-headline "In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future":
Noel Sheppard
May 30th, 2011 11:39 PM

Wrong, Rachel - US Began Negotiating With Aide to Mullah Omar Before b

Does anybody at MSNBC vet this stuff before it comes from Rachel Maddow? Because much of it wouldn't pass muster at a halfway decent high school newspaper. Case in point -- Maddow's blatantly inaccurate claim on her show Friday that US negotiations with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar began after bin Laden's death. (video after page break).
Jack Coleman
May 30th, 2011 11:33 PM

Video: ‘Bastard in the Sand’ Parody Sung by Martin Short Accompani

A couple of weeks ago, actor/comedian Martin Short celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden by singing, on the Late Show with David Letterman, “Bastard in the Sand,” a parody set to the tune of Elton John's “Candle in the Wind.” As he played the piano and sang, he was accompanied by five people dressed as Navy SEALs whom the Late Show blog, the Wahoo Gazette, called “the Singing Navy SEALs…
Brent Baker
May 30th, 2011 11:04 PM

Kurtz Offers Clinton, Edwards and Spitzer as Examples of Media's Balan

CNN media analyst Howard Kurtz on Monday offered Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Eliot Spitzer as examples of how the press don't give Democrats the benefit of the doubt when it comes to sex scandals. Responding to questions about why the media have either ignored or taken sides on this weekend's brouhaha surrounding Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), Kurtz sent the following absurd message…
Noel Sheppard
May 30th, 2011 6:14 PM

Krugman: Government Should Solve Unemployment By Hiring People To Repa

Despite Obamanomics' failure to stimulate the economy, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman still believes Washington can solve all that ails us if we would just spend more money we don't have. Toward that end, the avowed liberal in his Monday New York Times column called for a new New Deal-like program to hire unemployed people to - wait for it - repair roads:
Noel Sheppard
May 30th, 2011 1:49 PM

Los Angeles Radio Host Uses Witch-Hunt Logic to Defend Ed Schultz's Sm

How about that, he's a lawyer to boot. Angered by Ed Schultz's quick apology and suspension from MSNBC for maligning Laura Ingraham as a "right-wing slut" and 'talk slut," Los Angelese-based radio host Bill Handel has come up with a decidedly peculiar response to the controversy. Is there "any proof that she's not" a slut, Handel asked on his KFI AM radio show. It was such a warped take…
Jack Coleman
May 30th, 2011 12:45 PM