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Topics in today's "NewsBusted" episode: John McCain and the Panama question, Barack Obama's wardrobe malfunction, ABC fakes anti-Islamic hatred, and Nicholas Cage getting in trouble with the IRS. Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your blog. Doing any of the above helps us take NB's…
Matthew Sheffield

In Obama Interview ABC's Gibson Imitates Saturday Night Live

In the February 23 Saturday Night Live parody of journalists in the tank for Barack Obama a reporter at a debate oozed: “Senator Obama, are you comfortable? Is there anything we can get for you?” Ending a taped interview Thursday with the real Obama, a real journalist, ABC anchor Charles Gibson, seemed to match the concern for Obama's personal comfort expressed in the SNL caricature: Senator, you…
Brent Baker

Washington Post Targets Mother in Tangled Tango Reporting

A Virginia school system employee and her children have been exposed to retaliation for opposing a pro-gay children's book.
Kristen Fyfe

Sermon from Mt. Obama Raises Big Questions

Barack Obama has expounded his revised standard version of the Sermon on the Mount, but the MSM couldn't care less if Obama waxes theological from here to eternity.
Jan LaRue, Esq.

AP: Improved Retail Sales in February Only a 'Reprieve

When January's retail sales failed to meet expectations, Old Media made sure we knew about how "disappointing" the result was. But today, February's result, which beat expectations by about as much or more than January's trailed them, was described as a mere "reprieve." Associated Press reporter Anne D'Innocenzio's January coverage began as follows: Stores Post Disappointing January Sales Here…
Tom Blumer

Headline: 'Global Warming Not Always to Blame for Extreme Winters

You know, it's one thing when some government employee sends you an e-mail message claiming that global warming will cause greater snowfall on the planet.However, it's really something else altogether when a major American newspaper would actually publish an article with the headline:Global Warming Not Always to Blame for Extreme WintersNo, this wasn't the National Enquirer, or The Star. This was…
Noel Sheppard

CBS's Foreclosure 'Crisis' Hype: 'American Dream Slipping Away

Delivering a ridiculous level of vacuous hyperbole, Thursday's CBS Evening News greeted reports of a 0.83 percent 4th quarter foreclosure rate with just under 6 percent of mortgages more than a month past due as proof “the American dream” is “slipping away” since “foreclosures are spreading like cancer.” Those may indeed be unusually high levels, but the American dream is hardly “slipping away”…
Brent Baker

BMI’s Gainor: ‘Stewardship’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Lunacy

Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor told viewers of the Fox Business Network that stewardship of the environment "doesn't mean you have to embrace every bit of global warming lunacy that comes down the pike."In his March 6 appearance, Gainor discussed BMI's new report, "Global Warming Censored," showed that network news shows routinely shut out debate on climate issues, even…
Nathan Burchfiel

GMA Spotlights Woman Who Is Husband and Dad

A couple at the "cross roads" of a "complicated" love story.  That's how Diane Sawyer set up the feature on a transgendered Microsoft executive, his/her wife, and their son in the 8:00 half-hour on "Good Morning America."The socially progressive bent of GMA was evident in the lack of context or perspective given to the family's story.  No consideration was given to the glaring social issues…
Kristen Fyfe

Friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton Takes Over CBS's Early Show

Brent Baker

ABC Reporter: Did Friends Mock 'Jesus Freak' Anne Rice

"Good Morning America" correspondent Chris Connelly talked with horror novelist, turned religious fiction writer, Anne Rice on Thursday about how friends reacted to her becoming a "Jesus freak." Though the interview was a friendly one, Connelly did ask, in a jovial tone, what it was like when friends said, "'Oh, my gosh. She's out of her mind. Oh, no. Look, she's become a 'Jesus freak.'"Now, he…
Scott Whitlock

MSNBC's Dan Abrams: Rush Limbaugh Is 'Un-American

Tim Graham

Advantage for Hillary? Carville Wants Primaries, Not Caucuses Due to

Clinton advisor uses 'idiotic economic policies' as rationale to support vote most favorable to former first lady.
Jeff Poor

Seattle Times: ELF 'Ecosaboteur' Convicted; P-I Sticks with Eco-terror

Just days after the Street of Dreams arsons suspected to be at the hands of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a federal jury found one Briana Waters guilty for her role in a 2001 ELF arson that destroyed the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture.NewsBusters has noted that the Seattle Times has avoided calling ELF a terrorist or eco-terrorist organization, preferring to call the…
Ken Shepherd