As Hundreds of Thousands March For Life, Salon's Williams Asks: 'So Wh

In a Wednesday Salon column which should be saved onto the hard drives of everyone in the pro-life movement as a reminder of the fundamental evil of their opposition, Mary Elizabeth Williams stated why, to her, it doesn't matter that abortion involves the taking of a human life: "I believe that life starts at conception. And it's never stopped me from being pro-choice." The establishment…
Tom Blumer
January 27th, 2013 12:29 AM

Melissa Harris-Perry Admits: U.S. Military 'Despised By Many Progressi

It's hardly a secret.  After all, in a letter to a senior officer, no less than a young Bill Clinton openly admitted that many of his cohort  "loath[ed] the military." Still, it's stunning to hear a modern-day liberal make a similar admission. On her MSNBC show today, Melissa Harris-Perry stated that the U.S. military is "despised as an engine of war by many progressives."  View the video…
Mark Finkelstein
January 26th, 2013 10:05 PM

ABC and CBS Spike Huge Pro-Life March, Yet Highlight Puny Pro-Gun Cont

The annual pro-life march, this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, drew tens of thousands to Washington, DC on Friday, but didn’t garner a syllable of coverage on Friday’s World News on ABC nor the CBS Evening News. Yet on Saturday night, both newscasts highlighted a pro-gun control protest in DC which CBS anchor Jim Axelrod pegged at drawing “close to…
Brent Baker
January 26th, 2013 9:31 PM

Cal Thomas: 'Media Treated Obama as a Messiah, They’re Going to Trea

As NewsBusters reported last week, America's media were in total swoon mode over Hillary Clinton following her testimony before Congress. On Saturday, syndicated columnist Cal Thomas said of their behavior on Fox News Watch, "They're going to part the waters like Moses did the Red Sea to give her a clear path to be the first woman president...They treated [Barack Obama] as a Messiah, they’re…
Noel Sheppard
January 26th, 2013 3:46 PM

Bill O’Reilly Illustrates How Media Have Expanded Love for Obama to

“Is Hillary Clinton the new Barack Obama in the eyes of the national media?” Bill O’Reilly asked in his Friday night “Talking Points Memo,” using the same examples as highlighted in the NewsBusters post on coverage of her Wednesday Benghazi testimony: “Networks Swoon for Hillary’s ‘Indignation’ and ‘Tears,’ Champion ‘Riveting’ Testimony from ‘Political Pro.’”
Brent Baker
January 26th, 2013 3:34 PM

Maher Shockingly Blasts 'Takers': 'We Have 23.5% Dirt Bags In America

Stop the presses! Stop the presses! Bill Maher on Friday actually said something well-reasoned and intelligent that conservatives - including members of the Tea Party - might agree with. "We have 23.5 percent dirt bags in America," the HBO Real Time host surprisingly said. "It just seems like there’s less people pulling the wagon and more people in the wagon, and at some point the wagon is…
Noel Sheppard
January 26th, 2013 2:06 PM

Kirsten Powers: ‘We Need to Hire Grown-ups to Cover the President

Despite her liberal beliefs, FNC commentator Kirsten Powers has really distinguished herself by her willingness to tell the truth about America's media elite which has moved from being a legion of skeptics into a team of cheerleaders during the presidency of Barack Obama. Earlier this week, Powers acknowledged the discomfort that many statists feel when confronted by conservative beliefs…
Randy Hall
January 26th, 2013 1:00 PM

Maher Tells Pelosi ‘You Really Should Be Speaker Because Democrats G

As NewsBusters readers know, one of my great pleasures is pointing out the staggering stupidity of Bill Maher. My hero came through once again on HBO’s Real Time Friday telling Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), “You really actually should be the Speaker because Democrats got a million more House votes” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 26th, 2013 12:41 PM

Stephen King: NRA Should 'Clean Up Blood, Brains and Chunks of Intesti

"One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these [violent] scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander’s last meal." So wrote horror writer Stephen King in a…
Noel Sheppard
January 26th, 2013 11:10 AM

Video: Bozell Describes 'Cornered Rat' Media's Template for Discrediti

The liberal media's handling of any conservative political organization is a four-phase process, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Tea Party News Network reporter Scottie Nell Hughes in a recent interview in the MRCTV studio. "It begins by ignoring them, and if you can make them go away that way, you're done," the Media Research Center founder noted. "If that doesn't work, then you go to…
NB Staff
January 26th, 2013 10:15 AM

Director: New Matt Damon Film 'Pretty Gay' - 'La Cage Aux Folles on St

NewsBusters reported earlier this month that Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh believes Hollywood studios weren’t interested in his biopic about Liberace because it was “too gay.” On Friday, Soderbergh repeated this claim during an interview with the Huffington Post saying that the HBO film starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon is “pretty gay...'La Cage Aux Folles' on steorids.”
Noel Sheppard
January 26th, 2013 9:57 AM

Bozell Column: The Teenage Horror of 'Parenthood

The NBC series “Parenthood”’ has drawn raves from TV critics this season for a storyline about a fortysomething mother fighting cancer. Then on January 1, NBC asked viewers to tune in the following Tuesday for an “unforgettable” new episode. A teenager would get an abortion at Planned Parenthood. Such is NBC’s definition of “parenthood.” Drew, one of show’s leading teenager characters, has an…
Brent Bozell
January 26th, 2013 8:24 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Whacking Witchy Wingnuts

The Daily Kos gang enjoyed President Obama's lefty second inaugural address both because it affirmed their views and because they knew it would anger and annoy the right, many of whose beliefs are, one Kossack opined, "melting away."  As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
January 26th, 2013 7:55 AM

March for ____? Yahoo! News's Pruitt Omits Name of Famous Annual March

The annual March for Life has gone on every year in late January since January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The March, which turns out thousands every year, marked its 40th anniversary on Friday with yet another march. By no means is it an ad hoc protest that happens to come together. Yet in noting the event in a "weekend in politics" roundup on Yahoo! News's "The Ticket"…
Ken Shepherd
January 25th, 2013 7:08 PM