Bernanke Says No Recession; U.S. Economy Will Show 'Resilience' in Lon

Fed Chairman tells House Budget Committee a stimulus package could be needed to help the economy in the short-term; food and energy prices should 'decelerate.'
Jeff Poor

AP Writer Claims GOP is Avoiding 'Diverse' Nevada Electorate

Yesterday Newsbuster writer Seton Motley wrote a couple of articles about the blatant liberal bias that stinks up syndicated feeds and news reports coming out of the Associated Press. As a testimony to the truthfulness of Motley's articles I perused the headlines from the rapidly changing AP RSS feed of their top political news and found that the tone of the teasers were less than ingratiating…
Terry Trippany

Who is Angry in the Mitt Romney-AP's Glen Johnson Exchange

They May Have It BackwardsAccording to ABC News, it is Mitt. Riled! Angry Romney Rips ReporterSparks fly as Mitt Romney tells reporters lobbyists aren't running his campaign. According to anyone else who has watched the video, theirs is a difficult assessment with which to agree.As we stated when we posted the video last night (video below as well), the Associated Press' Glen Johnson angily…
Seton Motley

Tobacco, Taxes Sunk McCain in 2000 S.C. Primary, Not Dirty Tricks

One of the American mainstream media's favorite John McCain memes is that South Carolina voters rejected the Arizona Republican in 2000 because of a baseless smear campaign about McCain's personal life. That bias is so infectious it's now a global pandemic, just witness this item from the January 18 edition of the London-based Financial Times: McCain hopes to avoid repeat of 2000For John McCain,…
Ken Shepherd

Washington Post Spreads Clinton's Angry Dose of 'Hey Diddle Diddle

Tim Graham

'Street Sweetie' Burnett: Jim Cramer 'Certifiably' Crazy

NBC News' favorite economic pundit takes 'crazy pills' according to talk show host Conan O'Brien.
Jeff Poor

Lauer Fears 'Rich' Might Get Some Tax Relief

'Today' host grills Treasury Secretary to make sure likely tax rebates will benefit only the lower and middle classes - despite the fact that 'rich' fork over most of the nation's revenue.
Nathan Burchfiel

Lauer Worries About Tax Rebates for the 'Rich

Justin McCarthy

'Nightly News' Reports on Foreign Investment with Isolationist Tone

Segment neglects to explain foreign countries invest in the U.S. economy because it offers a good investing opportunity.
Jeff Poor

Geist: 'Never Underestimate the Stupidity of the American Public

Unlike the sensitive folks over at Media Matters, we NewsBusters are a relatively thick-skinned lot. And no one's ever confused me with Gloria Steinem. So we're not going to overreact to Willie Geist's comment this morning and demand a Matthewsesque mea culpa.However . . . Willie did manage to diss the intelligence of his compatriots on today's Morning Joe. A Friday show tradition is for Geist…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusters Piece Featured in Fake Soldiers Video

Former Navy SEAL Steve Robinson has been tracking down and exposing people falsely claiming to be real Navy SEALS or Green Berets, etc., for quite some time now. He says that people making false claims that they are members of America's elite forces are on the rise since 9/11. With the assistance of video producer John Carey, Mr. Robinson has created a little video about his efforts in which a…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

NB Staff

NewsBusted

It's Friday which means another episode of our comedy webcast "NewsBusted!" Topics in this show include rumors of Mike Bloomberg entering the presidential race, insane allegations about Halliburton assassinating Barack Obama, and Hannah Montana's body double.If you're a Myspace user, feel free to click over to our new MySpace page and add us as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube…
Matthew Sheffield

Shuster Sides With Clintons on Caucus Kerfuffle

Bill and Hillary might be taking flak for the vote-suppressing lawsuit their supporters brought in Nevada, but the couple can count on at least one supporter in the MSM: David Shuster.On today's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC's David Shuster got into an extended argument over Mitt Romney's testy exchange with a reporter over the candidate's claim that Washington lobbyists were not…
Mark Finkelstein