Media Ignores Pro-Obama Merchandise in Hamas-controlled Gaza

Souvenir shop products could indicate problems with Obama's approach to the peace process.
Alana Goodman
 

Matt Lauer Walks Rapper Kanye West Through Bush Apology -- But Utterly

On Thursday's Today, NBC host Matt Lauer played an interview he taped with rapper Kanye West about his charge that President Bush didn't “care about black people.” Lauer began by implying strongly that Bush is strange to pick this out as his presidency's worst moments, when Bush was responsible for so many: “He was a two-term president who ran the country during Katrina, 9/11, wars in Iraq and…
Tim Graham
 

Market to Take 'One Hell of a Hit' in Mid-December if Bush Tax Cuts Ex

Tax specialist Rial Moulton tells CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' investors will pull money out of markets to avoid taxation hit.
Jeff Poor
 

Parker Brags: I Led Media Assassination Of Sarah Palin

In the promo fluff for its future flop, CNN calls Kathleen Parker a "conservative" commentator. So what's a "conservative" in CNN's book?  Someone who, when accused of taking part in the media "assassination" of Sarah Palin, brags that she didn't merely take part—she "led it." Supposed conservative Kathleen Parker made her bizarre boast on this evening's Parker Spitzer. It came in…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Rachel Maddow Clings to Baathist Party Line That 'Saddam Wasn't Pursu

Not to worry, Baghdad Bob, MSNBC's got your back. Criticizing former president George W. Bush's newly released memoir, "Decision Points," Maddow said this on her cable show Monday night (video below page break)  --
Jack Coleman
 

Olbermann's Return Performance Ratings Bounce Fading Already

As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Keith Olbermann's return performance ratings bounce was less than spectacular at a 35 percent increase over his pre-suspension show. In his second night back, the "Countdown" host lost almost 40 percent of this gain:
Noel Sheppard
 

'Explosive' Debt Commission Recommendations Include $961 billion Tax H

But only one of three evening news broadcasts report aggregate tax increase.
Julia A. Seymour
 

WaPo Buries, NYT Print Edition Ignores Govt. Investigation Finding Oba

During the Bush administration, the media made much of political appointees supposedly editing and otherwise interfering with the integrity of the work of career federal government scientists, particularly on studies pertaining to global warming/climate change. Well now the Associated Press is reporting that an inspector general's report from the Interior Department released yesterday found…
Ken Shepherd
 

MRC-Radio: Bozell Discusses Media's Anti-Tea Party Bias, Olbermann on

"Think of a caged rat, a cornered rat. What does a cornered rat do? It instinctively goes for the jugular. That's where the media are going right now," following the November 2 elections, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Ernest Istook in a radio interview. The  Media Research Center founder appeared by telephone on the November 11 edition of Bill Bennett's Morning in America, where…
Ken Shepherd
 

Fallacious Time Magazine Post Alleges Tea Party Will Cause Hyperinflat

Time Magazine is having some problems with very basic issues of logic. First, it doesn't seem to understand the difference between correlation and causation. The notion that debt is equal to income minus expenditures also eludes the folks at Time. A blog post on the magazine's website on Wednesday alleged that the Tea Party will cause hyperinflation. If that seems counterintuitive, take…
Lachlan Markay
 

Scarborough: Palin Is To Blame For GOP Failure In Capturing Senate

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blames Sarah Palin for the GOP's failure to capture the Senate because of her efforts in drafting candidates who were defeated in Delaware and Nevada. "But for Sarah Palin, the Republican Party would control the Senate right now," the former Florida congressman stated on ABC's "The View" Thursday. "She's not a national ticket," he added when the conversation…
Matt Hadro
 

New York Times Editor Sneers at Media Reporters as 'Oxpeckers' to His

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has a funny way of expressing humility. Slate’s Tom Scocca found he expressed surprise that media reporters are obsessed with his newspaper, so much so that one writer live-blogged his recent appearance on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook. But his metaphor – the media reporters are “oxpeckers” while he is a massive African rhinoceros -- sounded more…
Tim Graham
 

Jesse Jackson to CNN's Soledad O'Brien: 'You Don't Count' as Black

CNN personality Soledad O'Brien revealed in her new book that liberal activist Jesse Jackson put her down for her skin color during a private meeting in 2007. During the meeting, Jackson complained to O'Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren't any black anchors on CNN. When she pointed out that she was the anchor of American Morning, the activist replied, "You don't…
Matthew Balan
 

Liberal Newspapers' Fascination With Morbidity

The other day, I sat down to breakfast. It was a normal day. Five daily newspapers were laid out before me. As I went over the front pages, I downed orange juice and a bowl of oatmeal powdered with brown sugar and flaxseed. Then I went off to my library with the newspapers and a cup of coffee. By then, incidentally, I was revolted. The New York Times carried on its front page a perfectly…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.