Marxist Writer: Conservatives Who Call Obama a Socialist Have a Point
On Thursday, American novelist and editor Benjamin Kunkel, who believes in the long-term "nonviability of capitalism," was the subject of an interview in the liberal online magazine Salon in which he stated that right-wing allegations about President Obama's socialist agenda are both "quite absurd" and "not altogether wrong."
The relevant exchange between Kunkel and interviewer Josh Eidelson…
Piers Morgan Uses Swan Song To Call For the Disarmament of U.S. Citize
Piers Morgan got in one last word in favor of gun control during the final episode of his CNN program on Friday, and called for the complete disarmament of the American citizenry: "As my brother, a British army colonel, says, 'You always want an American next to you in a trench when the going gets tough.' But that's where, I think, guns belong...in the hands of highly-trained men and women…
Once Again, Press Ignores Illinois' Billions in Unpaid Bills in Coveri
As I noted on Saturday, the idea that a state with about $6 billion in overdue unpaid bills would choose to raise taxes and apply the money to new spending is appalling. But when it comes to describing a state's finances, "appalling" and "Illinois" have belonged in the same sentence for so long, it's hard to remember when that wasn't the case.
Part of the reason that such proposals gain…
Networks Ignore Ultra-Low Support For ObamaCare; CBS Hypes 'Surging' W
Friday's CBS Evening News picked up where the Big Three morning shows left off earlier in the day and trumpeted how "visitors have been surging to [HealthCare.gov] – about one-and-half million a day." Scott Pelley did give a bit of slightly bad news during his 16-second news brief, noting that "today, the ObamaCare website was taken down for about 20 minutes, to fix a problem that affected log-…
RNC Leader Reince Priebus Demands, Gets Apology from Black Magazine fo
Ebony magazine, a routine booster of President Obama, issued an apology Friday for a staffer who tweeted an insult at RNC deputy press secretary Raffi Williams – the son of Fox News analyst Juan Williams – as a “white dude.”
Ebony.com senior editor Jamilah Lemieux began by mocking the idea of a new digital magazine for black conservatives that Dr. Ben Carson was starting with The Washington…
CBO Estimates Minimum Wage Hike Would Cost Private Sector $15 Billion
The network evening news casts have yet to report an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that President Obama's proposal to hike the minimum wage would cost the private sector $15 billion and raise the deficit.
The CBO report came out on Wednesday, but as of Friday evening the networks have ignored it. As the Washington Free Beacon pointed out, the CBO says that Obama's minimum wage…
Alec Baldwin Producing Documentary on Barney Frank, 'a Personal Hero o
Little more than a month after Alec Baldwin declared “goodbye to public life,” the liberal actor is back in the news after signing on as an executive producer of a documentary entitled Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, which will debut on April 27 at the Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan.
Barney Frank -- an openly gay, recently retired Congressman from…
NewsBusted: Al Gore, America's Original Weather Drone
"The Navy has come up with a drone that can predict the weather several months in advance. Which is not to be confused with Al Gore -- a drone who says he can predict the weather a hundred years in advance."
Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton, illegal immigrants on ObamaCare, and a drunk-driving Capt. Kirk also made Jodi's strike list for this Friday's NewsBusted, NewsBusters's own original…
Column: The Left's Drive to Regulate Is a Drive for Control
Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you'd have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously. Take the accusation that Republicans and conservatives are conducting a war on women. Does that mean they're waging war on their daughters, wives, mothers and other female members of their families? If so, do they abide by the Geneva Conventions' bans on torture, or do they engage…
Big Three Blackout: No Mention of Issa Threatening Contempt Charges fo
On Wednesday Fox News reported that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa threatened to hold the IRS commissioner in contempt of Congress if he didn’t hand over emails from Lois Lerner and other IRS officials.
So far none of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening or morning shows have mentioned the latest development in the ongoing investigation of the…
CBS Frets Over 'Tough' Abortion Law Being Upheld, Skips What Ruling Ac
While the CBS Evening News on Thursday and Good Morning America on Friday allowed mere seconds to explain a court ruling upholding "tough" "new abortion restrictions" in Texas, only Fox News fully detailed what the decision and law actually do. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Evening News guest anchor Sharyn Alfonsi briefly informed, "A federal appeals court today upheld Texas' new abortion…
Actress Lena Dunham's Music Video Features 'Abortion Dog
Lena Dunham has dun it again: pushing past the limits of controversial in the world of Hollywood.
Lena Dunham, star of the cable series "Girls," recently directed a music video for her boyfriend, "Fun." guitarist and Bleachers singer Jack Antonoff. In the video for the Bleachers' "I Wanna Get Better" single, Antonoff acts as a therapist who encounters a scantily clad patient. She reveals, "My…
Networks Cheer ObamaCare 'Sign-Up Surge' as 'Milestone,' Ignore Lack o
On Thursday evening and Friday morning, ABC, NBC, and CBS all touted a "surge" in sign-ups for ObamaCare ahead of Monday's March 31 deadline. What none of the networks mentioned was that the percentage of young, healthy enrollees was still short of the minimum necessary to sustain the health care law. On ABC's World News on Thursday, anchor Diane Sawyer hailed the enrollment numbers as an "…
New ‘Chávez’ Movie Avoids Immigration, But Left Still Use It to P
When millions treat César Chávez as a hero, it is easy to twist his story to promote an agenda. Liberals are using the popularity of the Latino cultural leader, via the new “Cesar Chavez” movie, to push amnesty for immigrants.
The film, which was released March 28, almost completely ignored the debate over immigration. This didn’t stop many liberals, including the director and lead actress,…
