Times Botches Quote By Limbaugh Guest Host on Obama's Address to Schoo

After getting wrong a quote from conservative journalist Mark Steyn in a hostile front-page story, the Times runs a correction.
Clay Waters

Chicago Tribune Ignores Thousands at Tea Party Express Protest

You might think a major metropolitan newspaper that boasts "The Midwest's largest reporting team" on its front page would report on a suburban demonstration attracting thousands of people.  In the case of the Chicago Tribune, you'd be wrong.Today's Tribune print edition makes no mention of yesterday's Tea Party Express protest in New Lenox, Illinois, located only 36 miles from Chicago's Loop. …
Mike Bates

Economists Warn Obamanomics Could Create Depression; WSJ's Moore Respo

It's clear that President Barack Obama's $787-billion stimulus hasn't worked as advertised, but some economists are worried it could backfire and cause something much worse. According to a new study by economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute and endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan, the Keynesian tactics employed by Obama "will…
Jeff Poor

The View's Joy Behar Gets Own Show on CNN Headline News

See? It really does pay to be a Bush-hating conspiracy theorist.Just ask The View's Joy Behar who just landed herself a job as the host of her own program on HLN, the network formerly known as CNN Headline News.Even though this is clearly a joke, I kid you not.Just try to keep a straight face as you read the following Associated Press report (h/t Big Hollywood):
Noel Sheppard

Worse Than Waterboarding: Maimed Man at MoveOn Protest Is Butt of Rach

Tim Graham

WSJ: Jones Resignation Deals Blow to Obama and the Left

While media predictably blame Obama adviser Van Jones's resignation on a right-wing smear campaign, the inconvenient truth is that this episode says a lot about the current White House resident and how he was just as poorly vetted by news outlets during the campaign last year as his administration members are now that he's the Commander-in-Chief.More to the point: if so-called journalists had…
Noel Sheppard

Economists Warn Obamanomics Mistakes Will Worsen Economy; WSJ's Moore

Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore says recovery inevitable, but warns Obama economic policy could hurt job growth.
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: here's the text of Obama's speech to America's kids today.Read it and offer your thoughts.
NB Staff

CNN's Gergen on Van Jones: 'Sad to See a Man of Good Work Get So Littl

“It's a sad day to see a man of good work get so little credit,” CNN senior political analyst David Gergen regretted about Van Jones on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, complaining about the coverage of the Obama “green jobs” czar who resigned late Saturday night after his radical views were exposed: “I mean, there's no balance to understanding just how many good things he's done.”Jones signed a…
Brent Baker

Van Jones: On the 9/11 Attacks, Not Just a 'Truther,' But Also a 'Dese

The "resignation" shortly after midnight on Sunday morning of President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has generally been seen as a convenient holiday weekend move. By Friday, after White House Secretary Robert Gibbs would only say that he still was a part of the administration, it was obvious that Jones's resignation was only a matter of time. The 9/11 truther and other evidence…
Tom Blumer

Don Imus: Obama's a 'Hypocrite and a Phony'; Biden's a 'Moron

Radio's Don Imus appeared on a special Labor Day edition of "Hannity" Monday evening, and really let President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have it.In a no holds barred discussion on Fox News, Imus said he thought Obama "was a hypocrite and a phony," and that Biden, in the 100 times he's interviewed him, has said "far worse things" than he's ever said on radio.In Imus's view, Biden's…
Noel Sheppard

Two Women Anchors of Network News? N.Y. Times Insists TV's Still Sexis

Tim Graham

More Name Calling – Lib Columnist Sirota Calls Obama School Address

If you don't see eye-to-eye on an issue with your ideological counterparts - rather than debate the issue, you can go on national TV and call them derogatory names like liberal talking head David Sirota has done. Earlier on CNN's Sept. 7 "American Morning", as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard pointed out, Sirota called Fox News host Glenn Beck a "right-wing political terrorist" and added that Van…
Jeff Poor

Arianna Huffington Thanks Glenn Beck for Making Van Jones Resign

With each passing day, it becomes clear the liberal media are imploding along with the man they corruptly put in the White House. Today's example: according to Arianna Huffington, Glenn Beck has done Van Jones a big favor by putting so much pressure on Barack Obama's "green jobs czar" that he was forced to resign in disgrace.Honestly, only a liberal media member could spin someone's resignation…
Noel Sheppard