Vote for the Most Outrageous Liberal Media Quotes of 2010 at MRC.org

Every year a panel of leading conservative media observers and experts picks the most-biased media quotes for the Media Research Center's annual awards for the year's "worst reporting." And these judges have done so again this year to decide the 2010 award "winners" with the choices to be announced on Monday, December 20. Today is your last chance to vote. The deadline for your ballot is 3 p.…
NB Staff
December 16th, 2010 12:00 PM

'A Fire In My Belly

The big news this week is that in the Senate, the Democrats have joined with the Republicans to pass tax relief contained in an extension of the hated Bush tax cuts. Certainly by early next week, the House of Representatives will have done the same. Thus, the burden overhanging the economy of a huge tax increase is eliminated for two years. After that, it sounds as if our president, if he still…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
December 16th, 2010 10:25 AM

Olbermann Incompetently Bashes Neil Cavuto With Poorly-Researched Cher

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Olbermann responds via Twitter. As NewsBusters previously reported, Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Monday went after MSNBC's Chris Matthews for making fun of New Jersey governor Chris Christie's weight. Choosing to defend their colleague, Keith Olbermann and his crack research team on Wednesday incompetently responded with a poorly-researched cherry pick from a July 2009…
Noel Sheppard
December 16th, 2010 10:25 AM

N.Y. Times Writer David Leonhardt: ObamaCare on Same Level as Civil Ri

New York Times writer David Leonhardt is not happy with a judge’s ruling a vital part of Obama-care – the individual insurance mandate – is unconstitutional. In his latest front-page “Economic Scene” column, “In Health Law, Old Arguments Get New Airing,” the paper’s neo-liberal conscience on economic matters compared conservative opposition to Obama-care not only to past opposition to Medicare…
Clay Waters
December 16th, 2010 10:22 AM

Culture Notes: Christmas Without Christ

2,000 years ago, there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn in Bethlehem. Fittingly enough, in the past two years, there was no room for their baby at the network evening news shows. Every year, millions of Americans celebrate the most important Christian holiday by reflecting upon the significance of the birth of Christ. Families attend church, count blessings and exchange gifts, and yet…
Erin R. Brown
December 16th, 2010 10:08 AM

CNN Becoming Irrelevant: Lowest Prime Time Ratings In At Least 13 Year

Is CNN becoming irrelevant? According to TVByTheNumbers.com, the self-proclaimed most trusted name in news's prime time ratings this year are the lowest since at least 1997:
Noel Sheppard
December 16th, 2010 8:57 AM

WaPo Promotes Gay-Art Exhibitors Calling Conservatives 'American Talib

The Washington Post once again promoted the cultural leftists fighting the Smithsonian's removal of an ants-on-Christ video from a gay-left exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. In a story headlined "Video outcry flares anew," art critic Philip Kennicott covered a very one-sided panel discussion in New York with the exhibit's very political activists. The nod to conservatives came at the…
Tim Graham
December 16th, 2010 8:36 AM

Name That Party: As Usual, Again-Indicted Former Detroit Mayor Kilpatr

It seems to be almost required by now that any indictment of Kwame Kilpatrick must be accompanied by two or more establishment media outlets reports that fail to inform readers that the former Detroit Mayor is a Democrat -- in fact, a Democrat who was singled out for copious praise during the early stages of Barack Obama's campaign for president. In unbylined reports, CBS News in Detroit and…
Tom Blumer
December 16th, 2010 8:00 AM

Scarborough Says 'Judge Not' . . . Then Calls Kyl And DeMint 'Un-Chris

Update: Joe denies judging Kyl and DeMint.  See video after the jump. Call it an episode of Short Self-Attention Span Theater . . . Mere moments after citing Matthew 7's instruction to "judge not, that ye be not judged," Joe Scarborough judged Jon Kyl and Jim DeMint to be "un-Christlike." Scarborough's strange self-contradiction came in the course of his diatribe against the two…
Mark Finkelstein
December 16th, 2010 6:50 AM

Maddow More Rational Than Letterman Who Argues WikiLeaks Could Have Sa

Searching for an upside to the WikiLeaks release of secret documents, Late Show host David Letterman on Wednesday night pointed to how such disclosures could have possibly prevented the 9/11 attacks since former President George Bush had disregarded “for months and months and months” the warning “that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were interested in hijacking planes and flying them into buildings,”…
Brent Baker
December 16th, 2010 1:17 AM

The Top 10 Worst Julian Assange Metaphors

Besotted lefty media falls over itself conjuring comparisons to anti-American hacker.
Alana Goodman
December 16th, 2010 12:00 AM

Salon Writer Greenwald: Bradley Manning Being Tortured By Being Held I

Yesterday on Twitter, Salon's Glenn Greenwald promised followers a forthcoming story detailing allegations of torture against Private First Class Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking to WikiLeaks. Manning, you may recall, is currently in the brig at Marine Corps Base Quantico. "A major story brewing is the cruel, inhuman treatment - torture - to which Bradley Manning is being…
Ken Shepherd
December 15th, 2010 11:35 PM

Ed Schultz: Obama Did Better Job Selling Bush Tax Cuts Than Bush Ever

As one of the liberal media members that have expressed feeling betrayed by the President's recent tax compromise proposal, Ed Schultz on Wednesday said Barack Obama did a better job of selling the Bush tax cuts than George W. Bush ever did. So dismayed by today's 81 to 19 Senate vote in favor of the measure was the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" that he asked Nation magazine editor Katrina…
Noel Sheppard
December 15th, 2010 8:39 PM

CNN's Yellin: Congress's Low Polls Numbers Due to Failure to Repeal DA

On Wednesday's Newsroom, CNN's Jessica Yellin bizarrely implied that Congress's low poll numbers was linked to their failure to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." After noting the public's support for repeal, Yellin stated that "Congress has its lowest approval rating in the history of polling...So it's clear that the American people are in one place, and one place where they're not so happy with…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2010 7:36 PM