NewsBusters Turns Two

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Two years ago today, we launched NewsBusters onto the web.

In the past year, we've added 10,000 registered users (we recently passed the 20,000 mark), switched web hosting companies, ushered several news stories into the liberal press, conducted a major software upgrade, and been featured in hundreds of media outlets large and small.

It's been a thrilling ride. Thanks for helping make it all possible through your continued readership. Special thanks go to those who have hit the little "support" link above and helped us grow and expand through a donation.

I'm also happy to say that we have a special announcement for everyone coming up in a few weeks so stay tuned.

In the mean time, I hope those of you living in the general vicinity of DC will be able to join us next Friday (Aug. 17 after 5:00pm) at Pat Troy's in Alexandria, Virginia for a special NB happy hour.


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Happy birthday! When our

Happy birthday! When our daughter turned two, we had her birthday at Chuck E. Cheese.

I really don't recommend it.

I will toast you in spirit next Friday.

*****

"Some people have a way with words. Other people, er, I don't know. Not have way, I guess." - Steve Martin.

HAPPY B-DAY!!

HAPPY B-DAY!!

}}---> No fair Matt

I'm logistically impaired. 

You see I bought this lottery ticket and none of the numbers got drawn.  So my question to John Edwards is this:  "What's wrong with America?"

HAPPY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

This site is my one vice.  And a healthy one I might add. 

The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.

 

High five y'all:)! Time

High five y'all:)!

Time sure flies when you are %100 correct all the time

NB = The American

NB = The American Revolution Continued

This site is by far the most thought provoking, entertaining, and INFORMATIVE one on the WWW.  Thank you to all NB Mastheads.  My donation is coming soon!

Great site! Happy Birthday,

Great site! Happy Birthday, NB!

Congratulations,,,,,,,and Thanks

Congratulations,,,,,,,and Thanks

Two years already? wait

Two years already? wait till ten years click by, this site will be huge! And the old dying media may be in the back ground by then. This site exposes them for what they are, and they can't take the spotlight on them, cause it shows them to be anti-amercan liers. Long live newsbusters spotlight. Everyday it shines brighter.

Also 10 years from

Also 10 years from now:

Legal: gay marriage, child porn, pot-smoking, prostitution (and all provided by Social Security after average retirement age of 120)

Illegal: Conservative Christianity, Boy Scouts

Slogan on US money: "In the MSM we still trust - for some idiotic reason"

New US states: Iraq, Mexico

Ex US states: still none of the damn blue ones despite constant pre-election promises

President: NB T-shirt hottie, NB is honorary VP, Nancy Pelosi is born-again and banished to missions in Madagascar

...to be continued

TM...if things do not improve

If things do not improve, hopefully the Republic of Texas will be its own nation and escape the insanity of liberalism which is invading the US...liberalism --> progressivism --> socialism...they are all the same.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

LK i do concur

and maybe you can go there and tell the people about me...

For I will be moving to France - the belly of the beast - and there I will confront Satan himself - and almost succeed - only to be burned at the stake due to a strategic miscalculation involving a cigar, fishnet stockings and high heels:(

the rest is a little too embarassing and personal to post if you don't mind

Truth,

....strategic miscalculation involving a cigar, fishnet stockings and high heels..

Yeah, but will it be with the T-shirt babe?

I mean, some things are worth it, ya know? :-^)

"hopefully the Republic of Texas will be its own nation"

South Carolina may beat us to it.

Contratulations...

...and happy anniversary!

This sight is as therapeutic as my three-hours-a-day therapy session with the Dr. of Democracy, Maha Rushie.

Thanks for keeping the truth up front where we can find out what's really going on. 

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

gosh yer swell!!!!

gosh yer swell!!!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, guys. You've done a great job. Thank you.

It would be worth the drive for the party. Unfortunately, I'll be enroute to dive. (Be jealous Blonde. LOL But, I'll try to get some good photos.)

Rest assured I'll raise a glass to toast you guys. And toast you to next years even greater success.

Maybe the South Florida party. (Wink. Grin.)

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Gee dan, You got me on

Gee dan,

You got me on that one!

A very merry B'day to the NB organizers...and of course to all of us, the NB community.

My thanks to the MRC and Masthead for such a wonderful site.

 

TV Channel?

Who here thinks / wishes NB's "special announcment" will be that they're getting their own TV channel!

How freakin' cool would that be?  A news channel devoted to bringing the truth to other news channels.

Though... I suppose the donations would have to up just a wee bit, huh?

no it will be merchandise

no it will be merchandise like coffee mugs and t-shirts for purchase online

also brent's family page with vacation clips and occasional newsletter

and I'm going to have a "gardening tips with TM" section

I hoping to ghost write for

I hoping to ghost write for a column  "Ask Hillary"

v

Dear Hillary: I'm pretty

Dear Hillary:

I'm pretty sure my husband is cheating on me.  There are also rumors that he raped someone.

I don't believe that, of course, but I have to face it that he's been tomcatting around.  The problem is, he's charming and has a bright political future and could take us far.

What should I do, Hillary?  Do I keep my dignity and dump him or stay and potentially reap the political and power benefits?

Ambiguous in Arkansas

Dear Ambiguous, Unless

Dear Ambiguous,

Unless your name is Paris or Britney I don't think you have much choice!

Hill

"I hired you to get some track laid, not jump around like a bunch a kansas city faggots" Slim Pickens

Dear pretty, i did not

Dear pretty,

i did not read your letter, based on it's title:

Dear Hillary:   I'm pretty

i know my husband would be mia and i need him around (ps: i hate you)

golfingtitan sez:


Who here thinks / wishes NB's "special announcment" will be that they're getting their own TV channel!

Hmmm, you might be right.

What I would really like to see would be a nationwide NewsBusters daily newspaper, a la USA Today.

Wouldn't that be sweet.

I would have something to read with my morning coffee.

Sigh, just like the old days.

I can dream, can't I?

D


Keep the ILLEGALS out, join
NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

DFTT

I would be happy with a one hour Newsbusters Radio where Brent, Matt, Noel, Ken, Tim, Lynn, Mark, etc would go over the top stories.  Maybe first as a link (MP3?) here with possible syndication to station for broadcast.

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.

Hearty congrats.

Hearty congrats. And thanks to all involved for your hard work.

Can't make it to the party, but will raise a Mojito in honor on the 17th.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria

Maybe NB could liveblog

Maybe NB could liveblog and/or webcast the event for all of us who cannot attend!

On second thoughts, maybe watching other people getting progessively smashed on cheap happy booze isn't such a good idea.

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

Don't know Jack .

be interesting to see how biased the reporting would get. "I was drunk before I wasn't". If the msm (Lsm) was really smart, they'd sponsor the even, in order to get some dirt on sloshed conservatives.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

20,000 registered users?

20,000 registered users? How many were created by Hater? Haha!

It's been an honor to be a part of all this! Here's to two more years!

 

LOL Shrubbo -- but I think

LOL Shrubbo -- but I think Hater is now reponsible for 20,000 formerly-registered users.

he is a persistent little bugger, I'll give him that.

It would be funny if he turned out to be a waiter/busboy at Pat Troys.

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

Hater make an honest

Hater make an honest living?

C'mon, you know better...

...hater is very tricksy

...hater is very tricksy for TM

...very tricksy

...he seeks the precious, always he is looking for it

...we mustn't let him have it, no we mustn't 

Dang!

I'm so jealous. I wish I lived in DC. I think next year you should make it a combo fundraiser b-day party and give lots of notice so that some of us could travel if we want. You should make it in Sep though so congress would be back in session and only charge something like $100 so as not to be too elitist like the Heritage Foundation gigs (not that anything is wrong with them).

Happy Birthday Newsbusters!

 

Re: NewsBusters Turns Two

Happy Birthday !!

I make this site one of my daily stops. Keep up the good work!.

 

Happy Happy!!!

Wish I could be there!!  I have to admit that I come to NB after Drudge.  How do I know what you guys are talking about unless I go there first???

I learned about NB from seeing Brent on FNC.  I always respected his opinions.  One time I saw a website below his name and actually wrote it down.

“You don’t understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.”  Representative Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX

On embarrassment

Why, thank you so much for the reminder that I live in Rep. Lee's district... :-(

Hmmmm...maybe I could premiere the Unsane Party in Houston! 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

}}---> Unsane

It's sad, I know.  Let's just hope the rest of NB doesn't discover how flamingly fabulously liberal Austin is.

Brevard flames the brightest

We have BJ Bob. I submit even Monroe County (which, barely, contains Key West) isn't as gay as Brevard! ;) The allegation against BJ-Bob was gay-enough, but his creative excuse is even more so. I mean, I've been scared of black guys & I've been scared of white guys in my time, but never in the process of being scared of them did the idea of paying $20 to fellate any scary guys ever occur to me!  I do love living in Florida, because this is apparently going to be one of those cases which just "keeps on giving," joke-wise.
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

On Moscow-On-The-Colorado

Too late, Cool Arrow.  I have been known to call Austin "Moscow-on-the-Colorado" on NB, and that isn't because of the presence of onion-domes there.   

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Congratulations NB and all

Congratulations NB and all of you NBers. I turned 1 year also today (1 year and 35 minutes) at NB, and frankly, I learned a lot from you folks- and Rush- in my 1 short year here than my first 46 years of my life....Again, congratulations!

hehe senior chief, wont be

hehe senior chief, wont be long and you'll be starting your "terrible two's" at NB! :-)

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Very cute Mightymouth - lol

Very cute Mightymouth - lol

MM, I still remember when my

MM, I still remember when my twin girls turned 2. I put them on "push-up position and give me 20" mode...And I give you all permission to do likewise when I'm becommin' terrible. I will be thanking you all for the "discipline with love", as my precious girls still calls it.  

NB is having an impact on

NB is having an impact on the MSM. Keep up the good work!!

Congratulations

Congratulations!

I have to start my workday with Gaggle.

 

Happy Birthday NB!

Happy Birthday Newsbusters!

I enjoy this site very much. Congratulations on your second year. I wish you many more.

Hey NB, happy birthday. I

Hey NB, happy birthday. I enjoy coming here and reading about MSM hypocrisy (sp), and it sure makes my day when I see others out there who think like I do, and won't let themselves be pushed around....Keep up the good work!!!

I look forward to the Newsbusters Annual convention

Happy Birthday!

I look forward to the day when we can have a Newsbusters Annual convention, and Keith Uberdolt will be attacking some company for being our sponsor.

(yes, he will still be on the air. GE needs the losses to offset their tax liability)

Free,

...GE needs the losses to offset their tax liability.

Wouldn't it be funny as hell to one day find out that is the only reason they keep that idiot around. I mean, it sure isn't because of his stellar ratings.

Congrats to NB

I would like to thank the Academy...uhhh...I mean, I would like to thank the editors and contributors for all of their hard work. You guys do a great job. Keep it up.

Next year, I think would should convene where the most posters reside...so, y'all come on to TEXAS!!!

 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

Great Site. Simple and plain.

Great Site. Simple and plain.

I come here right after checking in with Drudge.

Not only is this site informative but very educational.  Thanks NB.

face piles of trials with smiles -

happy day

congrats on two years, I love reading NB my favorite site.

u should post more

u should post more often:)!

please

Congratulations

Congratulations NewsBusters!

I have been reading NB for over a year and a member for just a few months now and I have always found the level of discussions informative and often entertaining.  The rational thoughts and honest opinions are a welcome part of my day.

Keep up the good work.

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain...and most fools do"  Andrew Carnegie

(blush)

(blush)

Get a grip

TM, I'm sure Viper wasn't referring to posters like you and me. :-(

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Leon probably.  Simple and

Leon probably.  Simple and plain.  ) :

v

i just assumed, didn't

i just assumed, didn't i:(?

Thank You!

Happy Birthday and Thank You!!!

Count me in the bunch 1st thing in the morning it's Drudge then NB

Thank you guys SO MUCH for all the info, links, backstories, lie/spin deconstruction/exposition... and the occasional humor =)

May God Bless You All! =)

(vote Ron Paul) =P

NewsBusters is truly special.

Congratulations to NewsBusters for two really great years. A special thanks to all of you who work very hard to not only keep this site going, but who labor to maintain its very high level of integrity.

Thanks also to the MRC for creating a unique site such as this, and for allowing all of us, sane or otherwise, the true privilege of participating in it. This wonderful site may be one of the few truly sane places that remains on the net.

No web site yet conceived has done more to alter my perceptions of the world I live in than has this one.

thanks dave! i take all

thanks dave!

i take all the credit but of course deserve absolutely mostly none of it, very very little actually, if any...in fact NB probably succeeds in spite of my participation:(

I'll go now

Truth, ROFLMAO!

..in fact NB probably succeeds in spite of my participation:

Funny, as I was thinking the exact same thing about myself.


Yes, ditto all of

Yes, ditto all of this.

Thank you, everyone at NewsBusters.

NB

NB - HB!!!

Happy birthday and

Happy birthday and congratulations to the folks who took the risk and put in the energy to run this site. I am particularly greatful to be given the opportunity in some small part to drive a stake into the heart of the MSM by breaking their stranglehold on the flow of information to the public.  An informed public means a public capable of making it's own decisions with the all the facts at their disposal, a free people need no guidance in the facts. 

The Truth is the sum of all facts, the most convincing lies are told by using only some of the facts (the relevant ones).  A legal decision is rendered on the relevant facts; however, without the Truth, there can be no Justice, The Law without Justice based on a legal decision is Tyranny.  The Truth is an absolute, when one disparages the absolute as narrow minded, one must of necessity disparage the Truth as judgemental.  Tyranny is always found in the relativistic defining of the Truth, as any ruler that is arbitrary and capricious is always a Tyrant. Truth is not in the eye of the beholder, Truth is in the eye of God.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

WOO HOO!

Outing the in crowd one story at a time.

Better stake someone in the

Better stake someone in the parking lot or take the bus. I'm thinking some lurker or another might decide to key cars or something equally nasty. You know libs...can't win the battle of wits, so I'd gather temper tantrums will be forthcoming.

Hey, did anyone send Chrissy or Keith a personal invite? It's maroons like them that help fuel this site. No matter that their intellects are low-wattage, the NB light shines brightly.

Congratulations. I can't

Congratulations.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Happy B-day!

Happy birthday, NB.  I love you guys!!!

Happy hour will be lots more fun if sarcasmo shows up with all of his positive energy!

 

Alexandria

I used to live in Alexandria. The city was nice but I lived in the most DEPRESSING place imaginable. Hunting Towers. It was so depressing that I had nightmares that I would be trapped there forever. I moved out about 6 months after moving in. Unfortunately, I still suffer from Hunting Towers flashbacks where I dream that I am still stuck in that place.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you News Busters for being a voice of reason in a nation bordering on insanity!  I am on here everyday waiting to see what liberal-media bias you will expose today.  Makes for great reading and educational purposes!  Your site has definitely made it easy to go up against those that are ridiculously dem or lib.  Exposing their idiocy is one of the highlights of my days, and you make that possible!

 

I have been praying that Texas would be allowed to cecede from the US and kick all the illegals out in the process.  But alas that might be a day that Satan gets ice water in hell.  Keep up the work NB!  You are appreciated! 

If you don't stand behind our troops; please feel free to stand in front of them!

Congratulations

And Happy Birthday!

Wishing NewsBusters continued and lasting success in any and all endeavors.

Congrats on the 2nd year

Congrats on the 2nd year anniversary:) I wish NB success in the coming years

Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many more to one of my favorite sites. This site is one of the first stops in my rounds of the internet.

Keep it going! 

The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program...........Ronald Reagan

 

Happy Birthday!

Happy B-Day all NewsBusters.

I love this site so much I am afraid it will grow too much and become too difficult to follow. The posters really make this site stand out. I recognize about 90% of the posters now, not looking forward to the time I will NOT recognize 90%.

Oh well, they say change is good.

Many more to all!!

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Thank God for News Busters

 Happy Birthday!!!!!! - Trying to keep the media honest, one blog at a time.

Never argue with an idiot.  They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Matt

Thanks for all your hard work to you and all those who provide such a wonderful alternative to the MSM bias.

Happy Birthday to all and to all a good night 

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.

Happy B.day. Great work

Happy B.day.

Great work for our great country.

God bless each and every one of you.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

Tag Lines...

I have to give credit where it is due.... I used the tag line "Never argue with an idiot.... They will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.  I received a barrage of text messages from my ex today and she was looking for a fight... I just texed her back one time and said that I don't want to argue with you... you'll just drag me down to your level and beat me with experience.  I did not receive another msg!  Just one of the many uses one finds for the things you can learn on NewsBusters!

Thanks pb!

I know what you mean!

I know what you mean!

I've pondered sending my quote to various MSM outlets and Dem candidates!

"I hired you to get some track laid, not jump around like a bunch a kansas city faggots" Slim Pickens

I'm hopeless. :(  I'll

I'm hopeless. :( 

I'll never learn that lesson because I seem to believe that idiots can be reasoned with on some level.  I dunno where I get that.  It's a knee jerk impulse that I can't let go.

-PJ 

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07 

Congrads NB, I haven't been

Congrads NB, I haven't been here that long but don't see myself living without it!

"I hired you to get some track laid, not jump around like a bunch a kansas city faggots" Slim Pickens

I'm six days from being here one year:) NB,s 2 that's cool!

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

 

A very well done two years.

A very well done two years. I kinda thought you were old and established. I see this site growing and growing. I also see an inundation of leftist attacks, as they start to realise that the average person is not as dumb as they think. Word is getting out. You oughta take Paypal, and I hope all those who think this site is vital to the national interest might cough up what they feel is a just donation. To all the commenters who's posts I have had the pleasure of reading, you are the brightest bunch on the net. 

To NewsBusters

Unfortunately I will be found firmly ensconced in TX on the 17th of August...but, regardless, Happy Birthday to NewsBusters, and many thanks to all involved, and all those who post here along with me! 

I'd rather unleash my frustrations here than throw my television out the window on a daily basis.  That gets expensive after awhile. :-) 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Happy Birthday NB! There

Happy Birthday NB!

There is no place like home for me but here....

Thanks so much for all you have done and continue to do.

I have learned tons here in more ways than one.

Have a well deserved blast on the 17th....my thoughts will be with you all.

Cheers...and many many more.

i asked my wife if I could

i asked my wife if I could go and she said no.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

So? Drinks are at 5:00

Well it's obvious who wears the pants in your family! :-)

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Well, duh?  Take her with

Well, duh?  Take her with you.  You can't go alone otherwise motherbelt or blonde might pick you up.   snicker

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

Happy Birthday!

My favorite moments have been when you have gutted Media Matters stories. 

Get Email updates from Fred http://socialnet.imwithfred.com/email_alert_july_26.html

NewsBusters Rules!

NewsBusters is one of the best websites out there. The guys here are all over the liberal propagandists like stink on a monkey! Good job.

Great Site

Thanks for letting us spout off. One of the best sites for learning the real story.

 

Happy Birthday

 

TPD

For those of us who will

For those of us who will not be able to attend the party, let's have an on-line party of our own to mark the two year anniversary of our favorite site!

  I think I will have my own little pre-party party right now....yeah, that's what it is.  A 'pre-party party'....chugchugchug. ;).    (goofy) 

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar.