Mark Levin Rips Bill Maher for Saying Founding Fathers Would Have Hate

Bill Maher on Friday made the indefensible claim that the Founding Fathers if they were alive today would hate members of the Tea Party. On Monday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin responded to the "stupid, little, white, comedian guy" (partial transcript and commentary follows, audio available here courtesy Right Scoop):
Noel Sheppard
January 18th, 2011 2:55 PM

NewsBusted for Tuesday

It's Tuesday, and you know what that means: a new episode of NewsBusted! Topics in today's show: -- ObamaCare repeal
NB Staff
January 18th, 2011 1:58 PM

Palin Calls Out Media for Implicating Her in Tucson Shooting, CBS Has

On Tuesday's CBS Early Show, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on Sarah Palin's first interview since the Tucson shooting: "She accused the Left and the news media of trying to destroy her message, trying to destroy her, said she was being accused of being an accessory to murder." Cordes forgot to mention her role in furthering those accusations against the former Alaska…
Kyle Drennen
January 18th, 2011 1:35 PM

NYT Public Editor Arthur Brisbane Almost Admits Liberal Bias Skewed Tu

On Saturday, the New York Times's Public Editor offered a milquetoast apologia for the paper's leading role in falsely ascribing blame for the Tucson massacre to conservative pundits and politicians. Nowhere in the column did Public Editor Arthur Brisbane address columnist Paul Krugman's false smear of Rep. Michele Bachmann, noted in a letter sent by NewsBusters to Brisbane's office on Friday…
Lachlan Markay
January 18th, 2011 1:10 PM

ObamaCare's Baby Death Panels (Part

I finished Part 1 last week informing you that in just a single year, from 2008-09, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million in government grants and contracts, a $13.6 million increase from the previous year, which resulted in 324,800 abortions. I then left you to ponder this question, which Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, asked more than a year ago: "Why should people of conscience be forced to…
Chuck Norris
January 18th, 2011 12:37 PM

ABC Touts Ron Reagan Jr.'s Alzheimer 'Revelations' About his Father fo

Over a span of five days and three programs, ABC donated 24 minutes of coverage to Ron Reagan's new book and the allegations that his father had symptoms of Alzheimer's while being President. On Tuesday, he appeared on Good Morning America for almost eight minutes of promotional coverage. Guest co-host Elizabeth Vargas teased the segment by proclaiming, "Coming up in just a moment, new…
Scott Whitlock
January 18th, 2011 12:36 PM

Olbermann Cherry Picks Poll to Bash Tea Party as Violent Threat to Ele

Keith Olbermann on Monday cherry-picked a new poll to bash the Tea Party as a violent threat to elected officials. As he discussed new findings in a Daily Kos/Public Policy Polling survey about who thinks violence against the current American government is justified, the "Countdown" host highlighted the Tea Party's number while conveniently ignoring demographic groups that responded at an…
Noel Sheppard
January 18th, 2011 10:34 AM

Open Thread: Hugh Hewitt Takes on Politico Editor Over Liberal Bias

On Monday, conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt hosted Politico.com editor John Harris to discuss Politico's coverage of the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Hewitt charged that Politico's reporting - both on the Tucson massacre and in general - has been driven hard to the left in recent years. Here's full audio of the exchange, via Breitbart.tv:
NB Staff
January 18th, 2011 9:06 AM

Swiping At Sarah As 'Ignorant', It's Bernstein Who Looks Befuddled

Paging Dr. Ron Reagan, Jr. . . . On Morning Joe today, Carl Bernstein insisted Sarah Palin was "ignorant," but couldn't remember why.  When pressed, he claimed she didn't know where Russia was.  Oops. Bernstein began by denouncing Palin as a "demagogue."  When Joe Scarborough asked him why he had written a column branding Palin as "ignorant" the day after McCain announced her as his…
Mark Finkelstein
January 18th, 2011 8:33 AM

NY Times Reporters Defend Paper's Coverage of Tucson Shootings, Dubiou

New York Times media reporters Jeremy Peters and Brian Stelter sounded a little defensive in Monday’s Business section story on the political blame game that immediately followed the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others in Tucson. The confusing headline: “After Tucson, Blanket Accusations Leave Much to Interpretation.” For every action in politics today, there’s…
Clay Waters
January 18th, 2011 7:56 AM

Olbermann: If a Conservative Tried to Kill a Liberal the Right Would B

Keith Olbermann started his Special Comment Monday boasting that he was the only political commentator in America that has "expressed the slightest introspection, the slightest self-awareness, the slightest remorse, the slightest ownership of the existence" of violent rhetoric in the nation. Roughly twelve minutes later, the "Countdown" host concluded his nonsensical blathering by stating, "…
Noel Sheppard
January 18th, 2011 1:19 AM

Contrasts in Black and Red

The contrast between what Illinois Democrats did last week and what Republicans have done in Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia and New Jersey, could not be clearer. In Illinois, Democratic legislators and a Democratic governor pushed through a massive 67 percent personal income tax hike (and a 46 percent boost in corporate taxes), claiming an accompanying "cap" would mean no new spending.…
Cal Thomas
January 18th, 2011 12:01 AM

ABC Fuels Myth Discourse Caused Shooting, Sawyer Astounded by Falling

“The country is pretty unified behind the idea that President Obama found the right words, the right tone at the right time,” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos announced Monday night in touting how a new ABC News/Washington Post poll found “78 percent approve of how he handled” the Tucson shooting, in contrast to Sarah Palin, “not so much, only 30 percent approve of her response.” When…
Brent Baker
January 17th, 2011 8:18 PM

Schultz: The Republican Devil Makes Me Do It

Ed Schultz would like to be more civil.  Really, he would. It's just that those reprehensible Republicans, by failing to agree with him, force poor Ed to advocate things like ripping out Dick Cheney's heart. That was the Schultz's oft-repeated theme on his MSNBC show this evening. View video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
January 17th, 2011 7:45 PM