Hypocritical New York Times Smears Whistleblowing Conservative Council

Not content with casting doubt on charges made by New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran, Republican of Queens, of a union-authorized work slowdown during the infamous blizzard that hit Manhattan the day after Christmas, New York Times reporters Russ Buettner and William Rashbaum dove into his personal finances to discredit him in Wednesday’s “Evidence Is Elusive on Charge Of a Blizzard Work…
Clay Waters

AP's 'Fact Check' of HHS Scare Stat Also Factually Challenged

Ten days ago, on the eve of the House vote to repeal ObamaCare, Kathleen Sebelius's Department or Health and Human Services issued a fearmongering press release saying that "129 million Americans with a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage without new health reform law." Ten days later, on a Friday afternoon (naturally), the Associated Press's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar finally got…
Tom Blumer

Oops: AP Says GDP Report Was Causing Stock Market Rise in AM, Quietly

It seems that Associated Press Business Writer David K. Randall made a bad call yesterday. But he only has himself to blame for engaging in what he should have known was wishful thinking. Shortly after the government's report on economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2010 came in with an annualized 3.2% reading, Randall put out this this short report: Stocks edge up after stronger…
Tom Blumer

Professed Pothead Bill Maher: 'Kids Are Dumbasses Taking Drugs and Not

Bill Maher has for years bragged about his love for marijuana and his desire for drugs to be legalized. On HBO's "Real Time" Friday, the sometimes comedian linked our nation's education problems to drugs claiming, "The kids are dumbasses and their parents are dumbasses and they’re taking drugs and f--king and not learning" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard

Bozell Column: The 'Good News' About Gay Teens

If anyone doubts that our entertainment industry and our entertainment media are evangelists for a revolution of sexual immorality (or in their lingo, “progress”), he needs only to read the latest cover story in Entertainment Weekly magazine, a “special report” on gay teen characters on TV, and “How a bold new class of young gay characters on shows like 'Glee' is changing hearts, minds, and…
Brent Bozell

Just Say No to State Bailouts

The government will not put itself on austerity, only the people can force it to.
Dan Kennedy

CMI Commentary: Media MIA on Scrutiny of Skins Creator

A critique of the brains behind the vulgar show - given a pass by the press
Erin Brown

Accuracy-Indifferent Maddow Invents Alleged GOP Push for US to Leave U

Rachel Maddow's self-proclaimed "obsessive" devotion to the truth again proves fickle. As an example of what she sees as the resurgence of wedge issues, Maddow said this on her MSNBC show last night -- The culture war era conspiracy theories about black helicopters and a one-world government secretly pursued by America's elites, that stuff is back from the culture war eras too. The new…
Jack Coleman

MRC's Bozell Blasts Media Coverage of Obama SOTU on Friday's 'Fox & Fr

When Republican presidents in years past delivered their State of the Union addresses, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted this morning, "no sooner had the words, 'God bless America,' left their lips than the analysts were there... just pouncing on them, pointing out any discrepancy, pointing out any controversy, ridiculing any mistake." Now "along comes Barack Obama, and the same…
NB Staff

BBC Veteran: Liberal Bias 'In Its Very DNA

While liberal media bias is often easy to spot, it's rare to see veteran journalists come clean on the biases of their own news outlets. But when one does, it's hard to dispute the first hand account of the newsroom's consistently leftist politics. In his new memoirs, veteran BBC news anchor Peter Sissons details the startling depths of leftist politics that pervade coverage at Britain's…
Lachlan Markay

What Lies Beneath the Surface of Obama's State of the Union

In his State of the Union address, President Obama at times sounded like he was channeling Ronald Reagan: cutting the deficit, hailing private enterprise and individual initiative, talking about the future. But for all his eloquence, the president wrapped his liberal ideology in conservative sheep's clothing. On the surface, the president said many things with which conservatives might agree…
Cal Thomas

Newsweek's Ben Adler Thinks He's Found 'Rand Paul's Abortion Hypocrisy

Promising his Twitter followers a look at "Rand Paul's Abortion Hypocrisy," Newsweek staffer Ben Adler linked to a January 28 story he wrote for the magazine's The Gaggle blog misleadingly entitled "Rand Paul Wants to Ban Abortions and End Birthright Citizenship."
Ken Shepherd

Ex-Dem Aide Turned Journalist George Stephanopoulos Highlights Journal

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper on Friday addressed the fact that Barack Obama's New press secretary, Jay Carney, is the husband of ABC reporter Claire Shipman. Stephanopoulos, discussing the couple, declared, "He and Claire actually appeared many times on This Week when I was the anchor. And, of course, Claire will now not be covering the White House."…
Scott Whitlock

CBS's Cordes: Tea Party Causing 'Heartburn' for GOP

Reporting on the creation of a Senate Tea Party Caucus on Thursday's CBS Evening News, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes declared that while "Conservative crusader Jim Demint, and the freshmen Senators he worked to elect, planted their Tea Party flag," the movement's "assertiveness has caused some heartburn for GOP leaders." As evidence of the supposed indigestion, Cordes cited…
Kyle Drennen