True or False: ObamaCare Could Fund Abortions
If you've been keeping up with the health care debate, opponents of President Barack Obama's health care plan have been accused of spreading misinformation to thwart the administration's efforts. Even Obama himself said recently that those who raised the abortion concern were "bearing false witness." But the same sorts of claims have come up in the media. For example, on August 18 left-wing…
Bozell Statement on MSNBC's Slander of Town Hallers As 'Racist' Via Se
Media Research Center President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell today issued a public statement in which he demanded that MSNBC accept responsibility and apologize for concocting a racially charged "news" story that falsely accused a supposedly white health reform protester of carrying a gun out of hatred for a black President.NewsBusters.org's Kyle Drennen initially reported on this…
LA Times Accidentally Lists 'Jackass' in Olbermann's Time Slot
The Los Angeles Times Calendar section on Thursday accidentally listed MTV's hit series "Jackass" as airing on MSNBC at 7 and 10PM.7 and 10PM just so happen to be when "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" replays on the West Coast.Innocent mistake or Freudian slip? You decide as you read what Andrew Malcolm deliciously reported Friday:
Gun Rights Group Calls Out MSNBC for Claiming Gun-Carrying Protesters
Following MSNBC coverage of ObamaCare protesters legally carrying guns, on Thursday, the Second Amendment Foundation condemned the liberal network for "using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as ‘racists.’"As NewsBusters reported on Tuesday, MSNBC…
MSNBC's Shuster Dismisses Fear of ObamaCare Covering Abortion
Reviewing a new NBC poll shortly after 3 p.m. EDT today, MSNBC's David Shuster today dismissed as "false" the fears of 50 percent of respondents that "tax dollars will help pay for abortions." But Shuster's flat denial belies the fact that there is reasonable debate over what exactly Democratic health care proposals before Congress would mean when it comes to financing abortion via the so-called…
Schultz: 'Left Seriously Considering Dumping Obama
If Napoleon was right about not interfering with an [in this case political] enemy in the process of destroying itself, this could be a time for Republicans to lay low. According to Ed Schultz, the left could be on the verge of an anti-Obama crack-up.On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz said to the face of a senior admin official that the left is seriously considering dumping support for the…
MSNBC Guest Inserts Gratuitous Palin Slam Into College Football Story
Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC’s News Live on Tuesday to discuss college football and ended up trashing Sarah Palin. Talking with host David Shuster about a new SEC regulation stopping fans from using social networking sites at games, Zirin frothed that odd sports rules are like "Sarah Palin considering herself a college graduate. Just ‘cause you call yourself that,…
'Pres. Obama Doesn't Have A Very Robust Sense Of Humor
You might call it a decided understatement. Still, it was refreshing to hear a member of the White House press corps state an inconvenient truth about Pres. Obama: that he is under-supplied in the sense of humor department.Julie Mason, White House correspondent of the Washington Examiner, offered the observation this afternoon on MSNBC. She was on to discuss the awkward situation created by the…
Reality Check: Media Double-Standard on Anti-ObamaCare 'Mobs
With President Obama and congressional liberals facing loud protests over their big government health care plan, journalists are casting the anti-ObamaCare forces as “ugly,” “unruly,” “nasty” mobs, with reporters presenting the most odious images (like pictures of Obama drawn as Hitler) as somehow representative. But when President George W. Bush faced left-wing protests, the media scrubbed their…
MSNBC: ObamaCare Protesters ‘Racist,’ Including Black Gun-Owner
UPDATE: The Second Amendment Foundation reacts, Politico.com cites NewsBusters and gets MSNBC response. On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white…
Rachel Maddow Mines Alleged Humor From Name of Congressman 'LaTourette
Hey, if you can't poke fun at someone whose name dovetails with that of a potentially devastating neurological disorder ...MSNBC cable show host Rachel Maddow demonstrated what passes for humor on her show Aug. 12 when she said this about Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette of Ohio --MADDOW: Next up on the bizarre health-care debate circuit, Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette attended a…
Maddow and Armey Squabble Over 'Bush Is Hitler' Ad
On Sunday's "Meet the Press," a bit of a squabble happened when panelists Dick Armey and Rachel Maddow bickered over whether or not MoveOn.org once ran an ad equating former President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. Regardless of who was right, someone should instruct Maddow as to the difference between being a guest and a host, for her continual interruptions when Armey was speaking, though…
Are You, Or Have You Ever Been, A Member Of The Tea Party Coalition
Somewhere, Joe McCarthy is smiling . . . On today's Meet The Press, Rachel Maddow demanded to know whether Dick Armey was a member of a coalition with the Tea Party Patriots, a group she alleges to promote "violence." Moderator David Gregory joined in the cross-examination of Armey, head of Freedom Works.
