CBS Online Editor Refers to Town Hall Protesters as 'Teabaggers

Why does CBS employ as one of its online editors a blogger who refers to town hall meeting protesters as "teabaggers?"For those that have chosen to block it out, teabagging is a sexual reference unsuitable for further explanation here.Yet, Charles Cooper, an editor for CBSNews.com, wrote the following headline at his Coop's Corner blog Thursday (h/t and image courtesy Doug Ross):
Noel Sheppard

Tampa Paper Tampers with Town Hall Story

Blogs on both sides of the political aisle exploded last night, as first reports rolled in about a union event breaking out at a fight. That’s an exaggeration, of course.  However, here are the facts, as far as we’re able to tell.Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) scheduled a last-minute town hall meeting for yesterday evening, essentially tagging along on Florida State Rep. Betty Reed’s (D) already-…
Mike Sargent

ABC's Nightline Celebrates Sotomayor's 'Jackie Robinson Moment

ABC’s "Nightline" on Thursday celebrated Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as a "Jackie Robinson moment" and also highlighted cheering crowds at an event put on by the left-wing Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (PRLDF). Correspondent John Donvan failed to identify the liberal bent of the organization, which has vociferously lobbied for abortion rights, though he did note that…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Finally Acknowledges Problems With ‘Cash for Clunkers

After touting the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program as a "runaway success" and "great for the environment," Friday’s CBS Early Show finally reported on problems with the plan as co-host Maggie Rodriguez declared: "And find out why the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program could actually end up costing you long term."While previous Early Show segments on the plan gave only passing attention to its critics,…
Kyle Drennen

CNN Exposes Government's Funny Math for Clunker Program

It turns out trucks and SUV, not small cars, are top 'clunker' buys.
Julia A. Seymour

WaPo Columnist Smears GOP as 'Political Terrorists' on Health Care, Bu

In Friday’s Washington Post business section, columnist Steven Pearlstein — who last week condemned the conservative “fantasy” that raising taxes is damaging to the economy — blasted Republicans as “political terrorists” who are “poisoning the political well” by peddling “lies” about liberal health care plans, lies that are “so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a…
Rich Noyes

Bill Press: Town Meeting Protestors 'Taking a Page Right Out of a Nazi

Taking a page right out of Nancy Pelosi's playbook of stating that town hall meeting protestors are sporting swastikas thus implying that they are Nazis, low rated radio host Bill Press is now accusing them of using Nazi tactics in a sanity-challenged column. This follows on the heels of Press' attack on the protestors on Fox News as reported earlier this week by Seton Motley here in NewsBusters…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Congress is terrifying us!The passions of the protesters, on the other hand, are not a surprise. They hired a man to represent them in Washington. They give him a big office, a huge staff and the power to tell people what to do. They give him a car and a driver, sometimes a security detail, and a special pin showing he’s a congressman.…
NB Staff

Libtalker Malloy Says Pat Buchanan Wants Every Jew Hanged

"[Pat] Buchanan is a bonafide anti-Semite. He, as a member of Opus Dei, he would like to see every Jew hanged..."So said liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy within days of calling for Fox News's Glenn Beck to commit suicide.What follows is a YouTubed audio of these appalling comments along with a transcript (readers are encouraged to hang in long enough to hear Buchanan equate Al Gore to birthers…
Noel Sheppard

NewsBusted

NB Staff

Violence At Townhall - Against A Conservative; Six Arrested, Including

UPDATE: We have some video of the attack.  It appears that it is members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doing at least some of the dirty work. But it's conservatives who engage in violence and hate speech, right? The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that one of their own, reporter Jake Wagman, was one of six people arrested in connection with the beating of a…
Seton Motley

Post Pulitzer Prize Winner: GOP 'Political Terrorists

Paper's business columnist says Republicans 'willing to say or do anything' to stop consensus on problems.
Dan Gainor

Behar: Dolls 'Programming' Tool for Young Girls

Of all the arguments against a breastfeeding doll, the 'View' panelist goes for feminism.
Colleen Raezler

A Kidnapped Fetus

A baby that first saw the light of day in such a foul and violent fashion deserves better than to be described merely a fetus.
L. Brent Bozell III