Ed Schultz: IRS Targeting Tea Party Shows Why GOP Should Embrace Obama

Leave it to Ed Schultz to conjure up the most deranged spin yet in response to the Internal Revenue Service admitting to undue scrutiny of tea party groups. While many liberals have been critical of the Obama administration in the wake of the hardly surprising revelation, Schultz on his radio show yesterday was full-throated in his defense of the IRS -- even to the point of making the absurd…
Jack Coleman
May 14th, 2013 1:50 PM

New ‘Assault' Movie Depicts Massacre of Wall Street Employees

“Assault on Wall Street,” directed by Uwe Boll and starring Dominic Purcell, takes the liberal agenda to a whole new level. Every possible liberal ideal – anti-gun, anti-capitalism, the evils of health insurance companies, crazy gun supporters – is depicted in this 1 hour and 39 minute movie, which was released on May 10 in limited theaters and on Amazon instant video. Within the first ten…
Liz Thatcher
May 14th, 2013 1:21 PM

CNN Commentator Gloats That Rush Limbaugh Is Becoming a 'Relic,' 'as D

Rush Limbaugh is fast becoming a "relic," "as dated as Jazzercise or 'Macarena'" – or so says CNN regular Dean Obeidallah in a new CNN.com op-ed. Ironically, a CNN contributor is calling someone else irrelevant. But in all seriousness, Obeidallah gloats over Limbaugh's lost ad revenue in the past year and points to his inevitable decline: "Has Limbaugh become as dated as Jazzercise or '…
Matt Hadro
May 14th, 2013 1:17 PM

Networks an ‘Inferno’ of Hype for Dan Brown

If “Inferno” is anything like Dan Brown’s other novels, we can count on two things: crackpot conspiracy theories from the author and breathless hype from his fans in the media. “The Da Vinci Code,” author’s new thriller hits bookshelves May 14, 2013. “Inferno” takes place in Italy, where the protagonist, “battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a…
Katie Yoder
May 14th, 2013 1:10 PM

New ‘Assault’ Movie Depicts Massacre of Wall Street Employees

Movie glorifies psychopathic hero who executes hundreds.  
Liz Thatcher
May 14th, 2013 12:56 PM

NYT's Weisman Emphasizes Harsh GOP Partisanship Over Actual Obama Scan

Tuesday's front-page New York Times story by Michael Shear and Jonathan Weisman, "Obama Dismisses Benghazi Furor But Assails I.R.S," again emphasized partisan back-and-forth at the expense of journalistic digging into the actual facts of the IRS and Benghazi controversies swirling around the Obama White House. Weisman's byline is an assurance that the story to follow will be light on details…
Clay Waters
May 14th, 2013 12:15 PM

Stephanopoulos Channels Hillary to O'Reilly: 'What Difference Will' It

While sparring with Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday, George Stephanopoulos channeled his inner Hillary Clinton on the issue of the terrorist attack in Benghazi. On the subject of who, specifically, told United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to use faulty talking points, the Good Morning America co-anchor asserted, "Well, what difference will that make if the White House has already put out the talking…
Scott Whitlock
May 14th, 2013 12:12 PM

Time’s Rana Foroohar Laughably Claims Obama White House Largely Scan

MSNBC is well-known for excusing the failures of President Obama, usually by blaming Republican “obstructionism” for Obama’s faltering agenda. If that doesn’t work, they will pretend that the Obama administration is free from guilt regarding any criticism it may receive, essentially living in denial. Take the Monday May 13 edition of Now w/ Alex Wagner when Time magazine assistant managing…
Jeffrey Meyer
May 14th, 2013 11:59 AM

Media Blackout of Catholic Church Sex Abuse Audit

The 2012 annual report on priestly sexual abuse in the Catholic Church featured an audit done by StoneBridge Business Partners, and the data were gathered by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).   The report on sexual abuse, part of an annual audit, is available on the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Apparently, almost no one has read it. Not…
Bill Donohue
May 14th, 2013 11:46 AM

NBC Touts 'Defiant' Obama Dismissing Benghazi as 'Political Circus' Wh

While Monday's NBC Nightly News was content to accept President Obama labeling the Benghazi scandal as a "political circus" worthy of ridicule, on Fox News Channel's Special Report, chief Washington correspondent James Rosen was actually being a journalist and fact-checking the commander-in-chief's deceptive assertions on the controversy.   Introducing the Nightly News report on Obama…
Kyle Drennen
May 14th, 2013 11:45 AM

Bruni the Clueless? NYT Columnist Mocks 'Clueless' Americans and 'Mean

In his Sunday New York Times column, former White House reporter Frank Bruni took a whack at "America the Clueless" and Republicans in particular, but made a couple of pretty clueless errors of his own (Eighteen percent of AP survey respondents said Obama was Jewish)?
Clay Waters
May 14th, 2013 11:38 AM

NB ToonsDay: IRS Audits the Tea Party; Gosnell Guilty; Benghazi Tarnis

It's been a busy week full of news stories highly damaging to liberals, from the damning testimony about Benghazi to revelations that the Obama IRS targeted the Tea Party to yesterday's conviction of Philadelphia abortionist and infanticidal maniac Kermit Gosnell. So we at NewsBusters thought we'd show you how some conservative political cartoonists around the country were dealing with these…
NB Staff
May 14th, 2013 11:30 AM

Leno: 'I Was Going to Start Off Tonight With an Obama Joke But I Don't

Not surprisingly, Jay Leno on Monday had a lot of jokes in his monologue about the various scandals facing the White House. Right off the get go, the Tonight Show host said, "I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke but I don't want to get audited by the IRS."
Noel Sheppard
May 14th, 2013 11:13 AM

For First Time, All Three Networks Cover Gosnell

“In Philadelphia today,” anchor Scott Pelley said on the May 13 CBS “Evening News,” there was a verdict in a murder trial that got national attention.” He was talking about the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, and whatever “national attention” it received was given grudgingly by the media – including Pelley’s own network.  In fact, it took 56 days, multiple letters from members of the House of…
Katie Yoder
May 14th, 2013 11:09 AM