FNC's Goldberg Hits Media Double Standard on Tea Party Protesters

On Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, substitute host Laura Ingraham and FNC analyst Bernard Goldberg discussed the mainstream media's double standard in highlighting bad behavior by extreme and atypical members of the Tea Party movement while ignoring bad behavior by left-wing protesters. After showing a clip of anti-war protesters burning an American flag and shouting incendiary…
Brad Wilmouth

Lefty Commentator: 'I Finally Found a Tax I Don't Like -- and it's Thi

On FBN, liberal attacks value-added tax from the left.
Anthony Kang

Network Morning Shows Trumpet 'Historic,' 'Landmark' Nuke Treaty, Only

The network morning shows on Thursday trumpeted Barack Obama's nuclear weapons treaty with Russia as "historic" and "landmark," with only Good Morning America allowing that the reduction plan could be "controversial." However, ABC's George Stephanopoulos also enthused, "But, [Obama and Russia's President] are here first and foremost to make history..."Reporting live from Prague, Stephanopoulos…
Scott Whitlock

Coburn: Maddow 'Comes At Me On The Basis Of Emotion. She Demonizes Me

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) got himself in some hot water this weekend when he said that Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is a nice lady while seeming to take a shot at Fox News.With this in mind, the folks at Daily Caller decided to interview the Senator to see if "the famously ferocious conservative from Muskogee [has] gone soft.""If we're gonna win things, we have to look at other side," said Coburn. "…
Noel Sheppard

Here We Go Again: NY Times Columnist Excoriates Racist, Sexist Augusta

On the eve of The Masters, tournament host and Augusta National chairman Billy Payne delivered a surprise public lecture to golfer Tiger Woods, giving New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey a chance to again make liberal political hay from Augusta's immaculate green fairway in Thursday's "Thanks for the Tasteless Sermon."They are worse than we knew.The people who run the Masters are not…
Clay Waters

HuffPo Columnist Asks if Pope Can Be Fired

The media simply cannot stop smearing the Catholic Church, especially Pope Benedict, over the alleged cases of sexual abuse. Huffington Post columnist Andy Ostroy was no exception in his April 7 article, “Can We Fire the Pope?” Ostroy blasted the Pope and called the church “diseased.”Ostroy seemed to base most of his column on New York Times articles. One article reported that as Archbishop, Pope…
Sarah Knoploh

Newsweek Editor Promotes Obama View that Opponents Are 'Afraid of the

Unsurprisingly, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham bowed deeply to New Yorker editor David Remnick and his new book on their agreed-upon hero, Barack Obama: "envy gives way to admiration" of Remnick’s skills, he wrote in his "Top of the Week" commentary in the magazine. Meacham hyped the notion that when asked about the "racial component of the opposition," Obama told Remnick "I tend to be fairly…
Tim Graham

Roseanne Barr: Church-going Catholics 'Should Lose Custody' of Their K

For some reason, washed up celebrities simply cannot resist weighing in on the Catholic Church's ongoing abuse scandal.The latest is Roseanne Barr, who last weekend wrote on her personal blog that Catholics who bring their children to church should lose custody. "Taking your kid where you know sex offenders hang out is inexcusable!!!"This is but the latest example of vitriol directed at the…
Lachlan Markay

CNN's Roland Martin Bashes NewsBusters in Twitter Chat About Racial In

The following is a Twitter conversation I had with CNN's Roland S. Martin on Wednesday. He was upset at Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.) issuing a proclamation declaring it Confederate History Month in the commonwealth without mentioning slavery. He had retweeted Donna Brazile's tweet that she was outraged that the RNC hadn’t condemned McDonnell. Her Tweet said:  "RNC Chair should have condemned this…
Kathleen McKinley

Lefty Commentator: ‘I Finally Found a Tax I Don’t Like – and it

Liberal commentator Nancy Skinner conceded there is one issue the right is right on - the value-added tax (VAT) is an absurd idea. Skinner who is a regular guest on the Fox Business Network, stated April 7 that the VAT will do absolutely nothing to help the ailing economy, concurring with the "Bulls and Bears" panel.     "Everybody, you're going to be surprised: I finally found a tax I don't…
Anthony Kang

AP Applauds Obama's 'Tax Cuts' Even Though Fewer People Taxed Under Bu

Pop quiz: how do you cut taxes on low and middle-income wage earners and end up with a greater percentage of people paying taxes?Such is a question the folks at the Associated Press should be asking themselves concerning a piece the wire service published Wednesday entitled "Nearly Half of US Households Escape Fed Income Tax: Recession, new tax credits have nearly half of US households paying no…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

Possible discussion point: Nancy Pelosi doesn't want you to worry your pretty little head about ObamaCare. Just trust her.It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest. All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on.Do I even need to pose a question?
NB Staff

Chris Rock: ObamaCare Opponents Like Those in ‘60s with ‘I Hate Ma

Commenting on the new health care law, on Wednesday’s Late Show with David Letterman, comedian/actor Chris Rock cracked: “I feel sorry for the people that were against it” since “that's going to be a tough one to explain to your grand kids.” Rock, on to promote his new movie, Death at a Funeral, barbed that ObamaCare opponents remind him of those against civil rights in the 1960s who years later…
Brent Baker

Is CNN Reaching Out to Conservatives for Publicity

In what is generally being interpreted by most as a surprise move, CNN has recently decided to cover the Tea Party movement from an angle foreign to most in the main stream media - combating stereotypes that are heavily promoted by liberals.  There is no doubt that the piece by Shannon Travis, Reporter's notebook: What really happens at Tea Party rallies, deserves credit for being one of the…
Rusty Weiss