Obama s Media Strategy: Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and

BMI Staff
 

WaPo Loopy Labeling: 'Victims' Advocates' Oppose Gun Rights for Abuse

As veteran readers of NewsBusters know, a good deal of liberal media bias comes in subtle labeling and phrasing. Today's Washington Post provides an excellent example of just that in a Metro section article pitting "victims' advocates" against "gun rights advocates" in a story about new gun restrictions lobbied for by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) and approved by the Maryland House of Delegates.The…
Ken Shepherd
 

Attack Dogs? No, Democrats Walk the Dinosaur

Left and media go from post-partisan to Jurassic in less than two months.
Dan Gainor
 

Pants On Fire

Obama's big 5 percent lie.
Dan Kennedy
 

NewsBusters Talks to Senators Ensign and Thune About Budget

Senators John Ensign (R-Nev.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) participated in a blogger conference call on Monday.On the agenda was President Obama's 2010 budget proposal which Thune cautioned if enacted in its current form would double the federal debt in five years and triple it in ten.Those interested can listen to this fascinating discussion here (5.9 mb MP3).
Noel Sheppard
 

NBC/Wonkette Writer Praises Bush... for Refusing to Criticize Obama

Former President George W. Bush is a "classy guy" who might "mature into a proper elder statesman" some day.That's the verdict of NBC and Wonkette contributor Sara K. Smith in her March 18 article about how Bush refused to publicly criticize his successor to the presidency when given the chance at a Q&A session following at a luncheon in Canada. (h/t Twitter tipster @Thatcher):The one thing…
Ken Shepherd
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Global Warming Alarmist Irked by Cold Weather

Why, oh why, can't Mother Nature cooperate so we can promote our global warming agenda? That pretty much sums up the attitude of global warming alarmist and documentary filmmaker, Gabriel London. His frustration came about over the fact that lately the very cold weather we have been experiencing has made the public more skeptical than ever over global warming. London explains in his Huffington…
P.J. Gladnick
 

PC Police? Some Want St. Patrick's Day to Be 'Shamrock Day

Tim Graham
 

Kiss Me! I'm … an Obama

The Left is crazy over the sexy new first couple.
Erin Brown
 

Bozell Column: Congress and Excess

Brent Bozell
 

CBS News Poll: Limbaugh Has Higher Approval than Pelosi

“Limbaugh’s Favorable Rating: 19 Percent,” shouts the headline at the top of CBSNews.com tonight. A look, however, at the PDF of the full CBS News poll results, posted at 6:30 PM EDT Tuesday, pegs House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's favorable rating a point lower at 18 percent -- within the margin of error, but evidence Limbaugh is no less popular than the leader of congressional Democrats. (Friday's…
Brent Baker
 

Kudlow Warns Obama Treasury Secretary Geithner's 'Days May Be Numbered

Is President Barack Obama's administration showing hints it is losing confidence in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner? CNBC's Larry Kudlow said the signs are suggesting as much. The host of "The Kudlow Report" said in an appearance with CNBC On-Air Editor Charlie Gasparino on his March 17 broadcast that a statement put out earlier today by the administration, and placed at the top of the…
Jeff Poor
 

No Party ID for Murtha, But CBS Tags Critic Flake as '(R

Tuesday's CBS Evening News highlighted an ethics investigation of a long-serving House Democrat, but viewers were not clued in to his party affiliation verbally or with any an on-screen notation. Yet CBS slapped a party name on screen as a Murtha critic spoke: “Rep. Jeff Flake (R) Arizona.” Fill-in anchor Maggie Rodriguez avoided Murtha's party as she asserted “there are few politicians as…
Brent Baker