ABC Uses Michelle Obama's NAACP Speech to Accuse Tea Party of Racism

ABC News on Monday used Michelle Obama's speech before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to accuse the Tea Party movement of racism.The news network prominently featured at its website a story with the headline "Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party."The problem is the First Lady didn't talk about the Tea Party at her…
Noel Sheppard

Video: Jimmy Kimmel's Rent-A-Cops Pose as Active Duty While Film Crew

Read backstories here, here, and here. In my last post I said Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust would soon upload video of retired and off-duty rent-a-cops posing as on-duty cops at the Jimmy Kimmel stunt shoot, when cameramen turned their spotlights on a teen pro-life protester. Following are a couple. In this 1st video Troy Newman of Operation Rescue realizes the pretense and calls the…
Jill Stanek

Conflict of Interest: After Lobbying for Gay Rights on MSNBC, Contessa

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, who on Monday argued that overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a "civil rights issue," will appear at a July 24 fundraiser in Kentucky to support gay rights in the state. According to a press release: "As the evening’s featured guest, MSNBC’s Brewer, who has several family ties to Kentucky, will speak on the need for a statewide anti-discrimination Fairness law in the…
Scott Whitlock

MarketWatch Writer Praises Maddow as ... Wait for It ... 'Voice of Rea

I'm fairly confident but not certain this didn't initially come from The Onion -- a fawning profile of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow written by MarketWatch's Jon Friedman."This is the rare 21st-century TV news star," Friedman writes, "an un-self-absorbed celebrity.""Maddow, 37, is the voice of reason at MSNBC," Friedman elaborates. "Notable for their verbal brawn, the hosts of cable news shows often…
Jack Coleman

Open Thread: Another Dem Lets Loose on a Constituent

NB Staff

The F-word Habit: AP Reports on Death of 'Fetus' in Boston Nail-Salon

Last year, Brent Bozell lamented the murder of Darlene Haynes in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her baby cut out of her womb, and how the media called it a "fetus" -- even after the baby was born in a violent kidnapping. Now there's a Massachusetts repeat, except this time, it was the baby that was killed in a Boston-area nail salon assault. On the Boston Herald website, the AP headline was "…
Tim Graham

Japanese Voters Reject Ruling Party and Doubling 'VAT Tax'; AP Calls I

An outraged electorate has just handed Japan's ruling party its hat in elections for half of the seats in the upper house of that country's parliament in a direct reversal of election results from a year ago. Opposition parties made major gains. The results constitute a resounding rejection of a massive value-added tax increase proposed by a guy whose immediate predecessor of the same party…
Tom Blumer

Environmentalists Using Religion, Oil Spill to Promote Green Agenda

Media see 'opportunity' to push cause, suggest embracing environmentalism as faith-based response to disaster.
Jeff Poor

Matthews to Democrat: What Percentage of Republicans Would You Put In

Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, brought on his own personal congressman, Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, to review how his party was going to distinguish themselves from the GOP in the midterms with Matthews asking the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee head if they were focusing on all the "crazy" Republicans, or in other words "nut collecting." Matthews, after playing a clip…
Geoffrey Dickens

On PBS, Oliver Stone Loved Hugo Chavez Calling Dubya the 'Devil': 'It

Here’s another slightly dated example of leftist America-bashing on the taxpayer-funded airwaves over the patriotic holiday weekend. PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley interviewed leftist director Oliver Stone on July 2 about his Hugo Chavez-smooching documentary South of the Border. Stone denounced Hillary Clinton as "an agent of the old empire game," and when Smiley nudged Stone about Chavez’s…
Tim Graham

Most Transparent Administration Ever Makes Effective Reporting from Gu

UPDATE - 7/13, 1:30 pm: In the face of criticism, the Coast Guard just rescinded this policy, allowing reporters free access to Gulf spill recovery efforts. Details below.Effectively reporting on the Gulf oil spill is now a Class D felony, punishable by a fine of up to $40,000.That's right, the most transparent administration in history has made it a felony, effective July 1, to get within 65…
Lachlan Markay

Ratigan Gets 'Raw': Says America Didn’t End Slavery, Just Outsourced

Leave it to Dylan Ratigan, one of the star personalities at MSNBC who seems to be constantly looking for a reason to be angry. On his July 12 show, Ratigan posed his view on how trade between China and the United States operates. According to Ratigan, importing products where labor costs are significantly lower is akin to slavery. He specifically named Foxconn, a company that manufactures…
Jeff Poor

New Financial Regulations Create Diversity Czars for All Federal Finan

The financial regulations package recently passed by the House of Representatives would create a new diversity overseer at each of the major federal financial regulatory agencies, including the new ones created by the legislation itself. This new office, called the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, would take over from any existing diversity or civil rights office already working at…
Matt Cover

Media Applaud Teen Abortion on 'Friday Night Lights

NBC's "Friday Night Lights" wants to tackle more than football players. In a bold move for scripted dramas, which usually shy away from taboo issues, the July 9 episode of the network drama featured a high school-aged character deciding to have an abortion, declaring it was "the right thing to do." The plotline earned praise from many in the media. Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker praised "…
Melissa Afable