Open Thread: 'The Only Good Conservative Is a Dead Conservative

That's how Jonah Goldberg facetiously begins his latest column at National Review. NewsBusters and the Media Research Center have, of late, been documenting the media's newfound love for Ronald Reagan, and helpfully reminding them that most journalists were not just ambivalent to Reagan when he was alive, but were ourtight hostile to him. Goldberg describes this revisionist effort as "an almost…
NB Staff

Public Radio Lobbyists Deny Obvious Liberal Tilt

It's hardly surprising that The Washington Post would run an op-ed on Friday that argues about maintainting taxpayer-funded broadcasting in its current liberal-pleasing status quo. But it is surprising that the writers, Laura Walker and Jaclyn Sallee, would be so feckless in denying the bias of PBS and NPR. As usual they use a liberal poll instead of a content analysis: Some will argue that…
Tim Graham

Cenk Boasts About Conservatives: 'I'm Going To Rip 'Em Apart

Guess the post-Tucson kumbayah period is officially over. So much for "civility."  On his MSNBC show this evening, a vainglorious Cenk Uygur, speaking of conservatives, boasted "I'm going to rip 'em apart."   What set Cenk off, supposedly, was his righteous anger at the right over its criticism of Pres. Obama's handling of Egypt. Whatever.   View video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein

The New York Times Lumps the Catholic Church with the Mafia and the Mu

 The New York Times is not known for delicate restraint in its treatment of the Catholic Church. Executive editor Bill Keller (despite somehow marrying his second wife in the Church) trashed Pope John Paul the Great in 2002: "One paradox of the Polish pope is that while he is rightly revered for helping bring down the godless Communists, he has replicated something very like the old Communist…
Tim Graham

In Brewing ObamaCare Contempt Showdown, Mark Levin Rips Into Press

On Wednesday, the inarguably correct Mark Levin, aided by flashbacks to monologues earlier in the week, laid out in detail the rule of law standoff the Obama administration has created in choosing to defy Monday's federal court decision declaring Obamacare null and void and continuing its implementation as if the ruling doesn't exist. In the process, he also ripped in to the clear…
Tom Blumer

Time's Halperin Raves: Obama Has Level of 'Sophistication and Skill' T

It's rare when Chris Matthews is outdone in his praise of Barack Obama but Time's Mark Halperin, on Thursday's Hardball, managed to top the MSNBC host as he delivered a rave review of Barack Obama's performance at the National Prayer Breakfast. After playing a clip of the speech, Matthews merely offered a "That's pretty good" but the Game Change co-author did him one better, going as far to…
Geoffrey Dickens

YouTube May Remove Expose of Planned Parenthood, Conservative Eyeblas

This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows the political leanings of YouTube and its past of banning controversial conservative videos. Here are the details from LifeNews: The popular video sharing web site YouTube is threatening to censor a new video that exposes how a Planned Parenthood center in New jersey aided and assisted actors in an undercover investigation with sexual…
EyeBlast.tv Staff

Rewriting Ronald Reagan: Reagan and National Defense

Ronald Reagan may have won the Cold War by forcing the Soviet Union to realize that it could not compete financially or technologically with a revitalized United States. But to the American media, the Reagan defense buildup seemed like a plot designed to deny government aid to poor and hungry people. It was seemingly the only spending that caused the budget deficit, even bankrupted the country…
Tim Graham

Fox Entertainment Network Denies Super Bowl Slot to 'John 3:16' Ad Buy

Apparently the Fox entertainment network, which will broadcast Super Bowl XLV on Sunday, rejected an ad for LookUp316.com, as in the biblical verse John 3:16,  because it "[advances] particular beliefs or practices." [h/t Big Hollywood] However the ad itself -- see the embedded video below -- doesn't proselytize, it merely depicts a man watching a football game looking up "John 3:16" on his…
Ken Shepherd

'Glee': Sex, Songs and Sleaze

The hit show is not a 'sweet' musical but rather a raunchy showcase of lewd behavior.
Erin Brown

Time Reporter Lindenberger Misinterprets Scope of Florida Federal Judg

"If the majority [of the U.S. Supreme Court] agrees with [Judge Roger] Vinson, President Obama would find not only his health care bill undone, but also face the most significant scaling back of the government's power to use legislation to solve its problems in decades," Time's Michael Lindenberger warned in a February 2 post at the magazine's website. To reach such a conclusion, however,…
Ken Shepherd

AP's Crary Does All He Can to Instill Doubt About LiveAction.org's Pla

Poor Associated Press National Writer David Crary. He doesn't seem to like what LiveAction.org did at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in mid-January, and wants to make sure his readers leave his writeup with some level of doubt about the legitimacy of the group's undercover video showing a clinic manager willing to provide assistance to a pimp for his underage hookers.…
Tom Blumer

Networks Still AWOL as Now Fox News Covers Planned Parenthood Sting

On Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor, guest host Laura Ingraham devoted two segments to Lila Rose's latest undercover video showing how Planned Parenthood aiding and abetting the covering up of sex crimes. During the first segment, Ingraham interviewed the pro-life activist. The conservative talker then debated Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene, who defended Planned Parenthood. On the other hand,…
Matthew Balan

Will Matthews Ask Clinton If He's 'Behaving

This year, MSNBC celebrates Presidents' Day with Chris Matthews's February 21 documentary “President of the World: The Bill Clinton Phenomenon.”  The Impeached One has become, says MSNBC in its press release, "a hero to peoples across the globe." It'd be great if Matthews questioned Clinton on a matter that, at least for a time, was a subject of considerable interest to the MSNBC host:  the…
Mike Bates