Newsweek's Line: 'Christ's Voice' Found in Rejecting 'Religion-based B

Newsweek has clearly sided against the social conservatives on the gay agenda. When he published a cover on "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage" last December, editor Jon Meacham dared conservatives to protest, since it was useless: "History and demographics are on the side of those who favor inclusion over exclusion." Nevertheless, Newsweek is still pushing the gay agenda on its website,…
Tim Graham

Nobel for Obama 'Ridiculous,' But Wash Post's Marcus Admits: 'I Voted

Hardly shocking news, but it's always good to note for the record whenever a mainstream media journalist admits – or boasts – of voting for the more liberal presidential candidate. The Nobel Peace Prize going to President Barack Obama prompted such an admission from long-time Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus, the paper's deputy national editor from 1999 through 2002 (bio) and now a columnist…
Brent Baker

Sarah Silverman Attacks the Pope: 'Sell the Vatican, Feed the World

A few years ago, comedienne Sarah Silverman disparaged God on her Comedy Central program by throwing him out of her apartment the morning after having sex with him. On Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Silverman expounding on her anti-theism by introducing a new video wherein she offered a solution to solve world hunger: "Sell the Vatican, Feed the World."As she chided the Pope for preaching…
Noel Sheppard

ABC: Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped By Global Warming

Global warming is helping America's sworn enemies al Qaeda as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan.So claimed ABCNews.com's "World News Webcast" Friday in a segment not only designed to increase America's fear of Al Gore's money-making bogeyman, but also give cover to President Obama as things in Afghanistan continue to spiral out of control.Talk about your amazingly convenient, two-fisted, win-…
Noel Sheppard

Same Old Song and Dance: As Fan and Fred Losses Balloon, Here Comes th

As if the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Fan and Fred) crackups weren't bad enough, IBDeditorials.com noted on Thursday evening that another bad-mortgage shoe is about to drop. This time it's at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). First, let's revisit Fan and Fred to remind readers just how complete the disaster has been at these decades in the making Democratic crony-controlled entities. A…
Tom Blumer

Shock at Obama's Nobel Angers Daily Kos: 'America Oblivious To Its Rei

Tim Graham

Saturday Sports Open Thread

Big day for college football as well as MLB playoffs, NHL, President's Cup, etc., etc.
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: you tell us.
NB Staff

So Far, Media Quiet on D.C. Gay-Left Activism/Protest Weekend

President Obama speaks tonight at a fundraising banquet for the gay-left Human Rights Campaign, the same group Ted Kennedy joked before last year about Jesse Helms being in Hell. The dinner will also feature entertainment by pop star Lady Gaga and the cast of the Fox prime-time show "Glee," made by infamously raunchy gay producer Ryan Murphy.The dinner and Sunday's National Equality March on…
Tim Graham

Bozell Column: David Letterman, Cad

Brent Bozell

NYT’s Brooks: Obama Nobel Prize Award a 'Joke' and 'Travesty'; WaPo

Remember just a week ago when New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the likes Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? Naturally, that led to the left-wing noise machine, and the media which uses that message for show prep, to suggest there was a split in the conservative movement and therefore attempt to marginalize the conservative message. However, will they be so eager to echo the sentiment of…
Jeff Poor

Obama a 'Figure of Hope' to World in Winning 'One of the Last Towering

ABC, CBS and NBC all led Friday night with the “surprise” pick of President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office and acknowledged the choice was meant as a slap at former President George W. Bush, but that didn't prevent the network journalists from touting the honor of the selection and, in one case, worrying about how critics will use the award against him. “…
Brent Baker

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Slams Limbaugh as 'Mullah Rush

Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter grouped conservative talk radio with Islamic radicals, specifically singling out Rush Limbaugh for attack, on Friday’s MSNBC Live. While acknowledging that “everybody agrees it was premature” to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, Alter singled out the two groups that, in his view, were actually voicing criticism: “You’ve got the mullahs in the…
Matthew Balan

Of All People: Lara Logan Supports McChrystal, Warns of Grave Dangers

That there has been little love lost between posters and commenters here at NewsBusters and CBS correspondent Lara Logan over the years is not exactly a secret (see previous NB posts by yours truly, Brent Baker, Kyle Drennen, and just warming up). I don't know what has happened in past couple of years (or is it months?) to knock some sense into Logan ("good war" Afghanistan vs. "bad war" Iraq?…
Tom Blumer