Whoopi Goldberg a 'Big Fan' of Dr. Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian, AKA Dr. Death, has a celebrity in his fan club, "View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg. Discussing the notorious suicide assisting doctor’s run for Congress on the March 25 edition, Goldberg said she’s a "big fan" of Kevorkian "because he believed that he could help people who were in, in a place where no one was helping them." Joy Behar wondered: "Why is he a bad guy? I don’t understand…
Justin McCarthy

Mortality Socialism: We Should All Live Exactly The Same Number of Yea

In today's "The Heck With Equal Opportunity, We Want Equal Outcome" segment, the New York Times on Sunday accidentally introduced a new concept to readers: mortality socialism.For those unfamiliar -- please count me amongst this woefully ignorant group until a few minutes ago!!! -- the Times feels that something has to be done to make sure that everybody's life expectancies are exactly the same…
Noel Sheppard

Hillary on 60 Minutes: 'Voters Are Tired of People Who Lie to Them

Now that the major media have acknowledged en masse that Hillary Clinton lied shamelessly about landing in Bosnia to sniper fire, it seemed like the right moment to remember Mrs. Clinton’s claims about honesty and truthfulness in the famous Steve Kroft 60 Minutes interview in 1992 – not the part that aired in 1992, mind you, but a different set of snippets that aired on February 1, 1998, twelve…
Tim Graham

Networks Combine to Deliver Economic Triple Threat

Will housing, gas prices and banking bring down the U.S. economy? On the news, it seems like a daily mantra.
Jeff Poor

CBS’s Rodriguez on Kilpatrick Scandal: 'Is Innuendo Evidence

On Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez talked to Khym Worthy, the prosecutor in the perjury case against Detroit’s Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and asked about sexually explicit text messages that proved Kilpatrick lied under oath about having an affair: "We know that in these thousands of text messages they talk about being madly in love and dreaming of spending days…
Kyle Drennen

YouTube Pulls Anti-Gore Ad For Supposed Copyright Infringement

YouTube watchers have often marvelled at the video website's floating enforcement of copyright laws.Another such incident guaranteed to cause a lot of conservative heads to be scratched is this weekend's decision by YouTube to yank an advertisement created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- as reported by NewsBusters March 12 -- harshly critical of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's hypocritical…
Noel Sheppard

After Week of Silence, TV Morning Shows Pounce on Hillary's Fib

One week after Hillary Clinton claimed that she faced sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia — and six days after NewsBusters posted contemporaneous news footage from CBS showing that she did not — the big broadcast networks have finally jumped on the story of Hillary’s big fib. Last night, as NewsBuster’s Noel Sheppard has already noted, the CBS Evening News featured a Clinton-busting report by Sharyl…
Rich Noyes

ChiTrib Blogger: Fake Blood-splattering Protesters a 'Frustrated Facti

If you ask the average man on the street, regardless of his religion, he'd probably tell you that anyone who would disrupt an Easter Mass with a political protest -- complete with stage blood and attempted "die-in" -- is a jerk with little if any reverence for God or the sanctity of a church as a place of worship.But according to the Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear the so-called Catholic…
Ken Shepherd

WaPo Doesn't Understand Why Hollywood's Dismal Iraq War Pics Are Flopp

Warner Todd Huston

New York Times Article on Iraq War Dead Features Israeli Flag

Joshua Sharf

Shocker: NYT Uses Dreaded L-Word To Describe Obama

Just recently Barack Obama eschewed the dreaded liberal label and said he preferred to be called a progressive, which by most definitions these days means ultra-liberal.The leading Democrat presidential candidate says the "old label" no longer applies and he's trying to be considered more "progressive" and a "pragmatist." Well, the New York Times apparently isn't following marching orders. Not…
James Murray

Open Thread

NB Staff

CBS Reports Clinton's Bosnia Gaffe Six Days After NewsBusters

In the "Better Late Than Never" category, CBS News has finally reported a misstatement by Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton my colleague Rich Noyes exposed last Tuesday. For those with short memories:
Noel Sheppard

AP Joins the Kwame Kilpatrick 'Name That Party' Parade

Here at NewsBusters yesterday, Brent Baker, Ken Shepherd, and Scott Whitlock noted now the TV networks, with rare exception, avoided calling indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick a Democrat. On the print and online side of Old Media, the Associated Press also avoided identifying Kilpatrick's party (HT to an anonymous e-mailer). This follows on the heels of another such example almost a week ago…
Tom Blumer