Frank Rich Calls Out GOP for Racism, Dishonestly Links Sarah Palin to

In Frank Rich's Sunday column for the New York Times, "Small Beer, Big Hangover," Rich drained the last dregs out of the White House beer summit, involving the president, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, but not before using it to launch his grand unified field theory of the re-emergence of racism among conservatives in the wake of Obama's victory. …
Clay Waters

Flashback: 35% of Democrats Think Bush Knew of 9/11 Attacks in Advance

Certain MSNBC hosts have been fixated over using the “birthers” to discredit conservatives, highlighting a poll commissioned by the far-left Daily Kos site which found a majority of Republicans (58 percent) either believe Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S. (28 percent) or are not sure he was (30 percent). Chris Matthews led Friday's Hardball with the beliefs of the GOP's “lunatic fringe” and “…
Brent Baker

Is Another Salon Smear In the Works on Conservatives for Patients' Rig

Tim Graham

The Great Lie: ‘Americanism’ Doesn’t Sell Overseas

If you think the national news media is biased, spend some time rummaging through the world of entertainment news. Today’s L.A. Times piece about the marketing of “G.I. Joe” has an especially priceless whopper: Yet overseas, where big action films often earn 60% or more of their ticket sales, rah-rah American sentiment doesn’t play well. So those references have vanished from the advertising. The…
John Nolte

Daily Kos Worried About Obamacare Protests; Claim Protesters Are Paid

It is said that the people are revolting. You said it! They stink on ice!That pretty much sums up the attitude of the Kossacks at the Daily Kos. However, unlike the Mel Brooks version of King Louis XVI in "History of the World: Part I," the Kossacks are fearful, deeply fearful, of the people. They are worried that the Tea Party protesters who show up at the town hall meetings conducted by members…
P.J. Gladnick

Experts Put the Con in E-con-omics

Downturn? Upturn? Journalists, politicians and economists are predictably wrong.
Dan Gainor

California Environmental Lawsuit Costs 1,000 Jobs

Eco groups and Chevron halt talks on reviving a project to upgrade a refinery near San Francisco.
Jeff Poor

NewsBusted

NB Staff

Open Thread

NB Staff

Contessa Brewer: Bible = Prop

Sarah Knoploh

White House Attacks Drudge for Exposing Obama's Goal to Eliminate Priv

The White House is striking back at recent revelations about what presidential candidate Barack Obama stated during the campaign concerning his desire to create a universal healthcare system in America and eliminate private health insurance.On Monday, the Drudge Report linked to a video created by our friends at Naked Emperor News -- first reported by NewsBusters Sunday -- that contained clips of…
Noel Sheppard

Baskin Becomes 13th MSM Journalist to Spin Through Revolving Door for

Roberta Baskin, a veteran of CBS News, ABC News, PBS and Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, with a stint at the Center for Public Integrity mixed in, “will join the Department of Health and Human Service's office of inspector general as a senior communications adviser in mid-August,” Washington Post “Federal Eye” blogger Ed O'Keefe reported late Monday. Specifically, O'Keefe related, her job will be…
Brent Baker

Olbermann Slams NY Times Article Claiming FNC/MSNBC Truce, Attacks

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann disputed a claim by a New York Times article that there exists a truce between FNC and MSNBC as he accused the Times’s Brian Stelter of ignoring Olbermann’s denial that such a truce existed, and contended that the story was a "misinterpretation" of the Countdown host’s own pledge from June 1 to discontinue Bill O’Reilly’s inclusion in the show’s…
Brad Wilmouth

Contessa Brewer: Bible = Prop

MSNBC anchor bashes Bible and conservatives who dare question ObamaCare.
Sarah Knoploh