MSNBC's Brewer Scoffs at Values Voters Despite History of Gay Rights A

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer mocked attendees of the Values Voter Summit today, directing her ire at former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, and the entire conservative movement."So, they're calling themselves values voters, but isn't this election really about the economy and not so much what we think of as values?" sniveled Brewer, who…
Alex Fitzsimmons
September 17th, 2010 3:51 PM

Taxpayers Paid At Least $9 Million for Signs Promoting Obama's Economi

At a minimum, taxpayers have spent $9.1 million as of July 2010 on signs advertising the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus law, according to federal officials reporting estimates to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.But the cost is probably much higher since the six government agencies that spent stimulus dollars relied…
Fred Lucas
September 17th, 2010 3:18 PM

HuffPo Asks, 'Women of the Tea Party: Who Are You, and What Do You Wan

What a funny but telling title, the sort of question asked only in war zones or when spotting aliens. Had I received that query in person I would have responded in kind, “Who goes there, friend or foe?” But in this case I was pretty sure I already knew, given the news outlet from whence the question came. And sure enough, I wasn’t long into reading the HuffPo piece when learning the answer…
Jill Stanek
September 17th, 2010 2:48 PM

Savannah Guthrie's Soak-the-Rich Obsession: Higher Taxes Only Means of

Isn’t it odd after the passage of TARP, the stimulus and ObamaCare that left-wing politicians and their cheerleaders in the mainstream media are suddenly worried about budget deficits? As opposed to reining in deficit spending, the new public policy stance for the Democratic Party going into the 2010 midterm election is to call for a tax hike on the top-income earners by letting the Bush tax…
Jeff Poor
September 17th, 2010 1:53 PM

Howard Kurtz, White House Mouthpiece? Article Rains 'Fact' Fire on For

On Friday, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote a "White House rips Forbes" article. Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a "torrent of criticism" for writing that President Obama is motivated by his African father's "anti-colonial" views, Kurtz wrote, but emphasized how the White House is training its fire on Forbes magazine for publishing it, suggesting it's un-factual. Obama spokesman Robert…
Tim Graham
September 17th, 2010 12:51 PM

CBS's Smith: Tea Party and Palin Could Bring GOP to 'Edge of the Abyss

Appearing on Friday's CBS Early Show, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer continued to compare the rise of the tea party and possible candidacy of Sarah Palin in 2012 to the 1964 campaign of Barry Goldwater. In response, co-host Harry Smith remarked that Palin could take Republicans "to the edge of the abyss, as it were." On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Schieffer argued: "...it is very much like…
Kyle Drennen
September 17th, 2010 12:28 PM

Mika Mortified By Criticism of Carter's Kennedy Bashing

Mika Brzezinski is no poker face, regularly letting her feelings show as she reacts to the stories of the day.  But when it comes to emoting, the Morning Joe co-host outdid herself today, reacting to the criticism the panel leveled at Jimmy Carter for his ungracious bashing of the late Ted Kennedy.  In a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, a clip from which Morning Joe aired, an embittered…
Mark Finkelstein
September 17th, 2010 12:19 PM

MRC's Bozell Addresses Anti-Tax Cut Bias, 'Islamophobia' on 'Hannity

Closing out the "Media Mash" segment on the September 16 edition of his eponymous "Hannity" program, the Fox News host asked for NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell's reaction to NBC's Meredith Vieira telling House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that the Bush tax cuts "didn't succeed" and asking him "what's so good about them?":Memo to Meredith [Vieira]: You can have a debate about what future…
NB Staff
September 17th, 2010 11:49 AM

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Announce Dueling Marches on Washington

The liberal media just can't stand all the attention Glenn Beck got for his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C., last month.On Thursday, left-leaning comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced dueling marches on our nation's capital to take place three days before Election Day.Stewart is calling his the "Rally to Restore Sanity," and Colbert's is the "March to Keep Fear Alive."…
Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2010 11:23 AM

The Oxymoron of Campus Tolerance

So at Palm Beach State College last week, an administrator kicked the conservative group, Young Americans for Freedom, out of some event. The ejector, Olivia Morris Ford, claims she didn't recall giving the scamps permission to be there.But the group claims Olivia had responded, and there's evidence: an e-mail from student Christina Beattie to Olivia, and Beattie's phone log showing the call from…
Greg Gutfeld
September 17th, 2010 11:15 AM

CNN: What Did Kiran Chetry Do That Made John Roberts Snap at Her on th

Take a quick break from speculating about the outcome of the elections this November. There is a new topic that is causing quite a bit of speculation: just what did Kiran Chetry of CNN's American Morning do last Wednesday that caused co-host John Roberts to pause in the middle of introducing guest David Axelrod and snap at her in a fit of extreme irritability? Almost as funny watching it on TV…
P.J. Gladnick
September 17th, 2010 10:56 AM

David Brooks Praises Tea Party Just Before He Bashes It

New York Times columnist David Brooks on Friday defended the Tea Party from many of the criticisms commonly uttered by mainstream media members.In so doing, he took a couple of slaps at the conservative movement that continues to usher in surprising election results across the fruited plain.By the end of "The Backlash Myth," Brooks went so far as to say "the Tea Party doesn't matter."But prior to…
Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2010 10:21 AM

ABC Promotes Jimmy Kimmel Masturbation Jokes as 'News

ABC News has changed the headline of an online video to "Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation Argument" from the more inappropriately suggestive "Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation Stance," but that doesn't mean the network has grown up about the sex-related beliefs of conservative candidates.ABC posted video on its news website Sept. 16 from a monologue by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts a late…
Nathan Burchfiel
September 17th, 2010 9:33 AM

Erick Erickson Smacks Down CNN's Bash for Calling Voter Anger Racist

Are you getting tired of hearing liberal media members claim the voter anger around the country is all because Barack Obama is black?RedState Editor and CNN contributor Erick Erickson is, for on Wednesday's "John King USA," he let Dana Bash have it for reiterating this insulting accusation."Talking to Democrats, I know you have, privately, will say some of the anger they hear in their districts…
Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2010 9:07 AM