Boehner: 'President's Idea of a Negotiation Is Roll Over and Do What I

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.) had some harsh words Sunday for Barack Obama's proposal to avert the looming fiscal cliff. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Boehner said, "The president's idea of a negotiation is roll over and do what I ask."
Noel Sheppard
December 2nd, 2012 1:27 PM

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Urges ‘Cut the Knees Out from Under’ Norquis

In a colorful demonstration of the Washington press corps’ disdain for Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, on Sunday’s This Week, a flustered ABC News/NPR veteran Cokie Roberts blurted out: “It’s...politically smart to cut the knees out from under Grover Norquist. I mean this guy is, you know, who is he? He’s an unelected lobbyist.” She soon urged that “a certain amount of saying ‘the…
Brent Baker
December 2nd, 2012 12:30 PM

German News Magazine Can't Marshal Any Disapproval of Bestiality

The German news magazine Der Spiegel is neutral on bestiality. German legislators have recently moved to ban the sexual perversion. At the blog Get Religion, they report the magazine turned for expertise to Michael Kiok, the chairman of the pressure group ZETA (Zoophile Engagement for Tolerance and Information). Kiok argued the new law was unfair: “We see animals as partners and not as a…
Tim Graham
December 2nd, 2012 9:29 AM

Oklahoma Paper Smears Conservative Groups as ‘Controversial’ for A

One fact of politics that has not received much attention is that many of America's most conservative geographic areas are also home to radical left media outlets that regularly produce stories sneering at the values of their neighbors. In Oklahoma, one of the most conservative states, the perfect example of this is the Tulsa World newspaper which frequently derides conservative ideas and…
Brandon Dutcher
December 2nd, 2012 8:35 AM

NPR Reporters Don't Want to Blame Rice for 'Muddled Messages' On TV, L

On Friday night, NPR reporters couldn't say Susan Rice lied on television about the Benghazi attack, only that Senate Republicans make that accusation. In a report on Sen. Kelly Ayotte, reporter Don Gonyea could only manage "The trio accuses Rice of misleading the public in statements she made on television in the days following the attack." But that wasn't half as shameless at NPR State…
Tim Graham
December 1st, 2012 7:13 PM

NPR's 'Conservative' Pundit Brooks Agrees With Liberals: Susan Rice 'B

NPR's All Things Considered on Friday night repeatedly came to Susan Rice's defense -- and NPR journalists repeatedly played dumb, pretending to be confounded why critics would object to her lying about Benghazi on five Sunday talk shows. While NPR's three full or partial features on the subject suggest Rice is having difficulty, the spin was all friendly. Anchor Robert Siegel asked NPR's…
Tim Graham
December 1st, 2012 5:51 PM

MSNBC's Scarborough Complains of 'Arrogance in the Media Since the Pre

Many conservatives believe the fiscal cliff deal from President Obama that was delivered to Capitol Hill on Thursday by Treasury Security Timothy Geithner will not solve the government's financial problems despite the positive coverage the mainstream media is giving the plan. One of those expressing concern about the proposal and the media attention it has received is Joe Scarborough,…
Randy Hall
December 1st, 2012 5:31 PM

Al Gore's Current TV May Be Bought By Texas Startup Looking To Make It

NewsBusters reported in October that Al Gore's struggling television network Current was up for sale. An Austin, Texas, startup named SocialGood.tv came out of hiding this week and announced  that it's raising money to make a bid wanting to move the station from its "far-left talking points" and instead "focusing the programming in a centrist line."
Noel Sheppard
December 1st, 2012 5:24 PM

Obama Did Not Thank God in Thanksgiving Address for Fourth Straight Ye

Barack Obama, who has been called “the Christian President with the Muslim-sounding name,” did not express any gratitude to God in his Thanksgiving address for the fourth year in a row, causing critics to claim that “he has  ignored the central message of the holiday in favor of political grandstanding.” In his address, Obama said that Thanksgiving is “a time to give thanks for each other,…
Randy Hall
December 1st, 2012 5:10 PM

'Corporate Takeover'? Radical-Left D.C. Pacifica Station Moving Toward

Saturday's Washington Post reported “For more than three decades, noncommercial station WPFW-FM  in Washington has been a feisty voice of sometimes radical leftist politics — relentlessly anti-war, anti-corporate and anti-Republican.” Sometimes radical? The Pacifica network specializes in hard-left (even Marxist) diatribes that appeal to tiny audiences. Post reporter Paul Farhi relayed they’…
Tim Graham
December 1st, 2012 4:24 PM

For AP, Small Climate Protest Is News, Opposition Letter From 129 Scie

In case you missed it, there's yet another United Nations climate conference in progress, this time in Doha Qatar. At the Associated Press, there is a story on a protest which organizers want to characterize as a "march for peace" by "a few hundred" climate activists demanding "climate justice." The AP's Karl Ritter warns readers that "Dangerous (global) warming effects could include flooding…
Tom Blumer
December 1st, 2012 4:00 PM

Thom Hartmann Blames Black Friday Store Fights on 'Thirty Years of Rea

While Team Obama might want a surge of economic activity over the holidays, the leftists are too anti-capitalist for that. On his radio show Monday, Thom Hartmann likened Black Friday to “The Hunger Games” death matches and talked of shootings and other violence that took place at or near stores last weekend. “The wealthy elite look down on the spectacle before them with amusement and, most…
Tim Graham
December 1st, 2012 3:14 PM

Harvard Students Receive Social Club Invitation Reading 'No F--king Je

An as yet unidentified source left flyers for a new "final club" under the doors of Harvard University students Friday that read "No f--king Jews."
Noel Sheppard
December 1st, 2012 2:26 PM

Kansas City Chiefs Player Shoots Girlfriend, Kills Himself

A Kansas City Chiefs football player allegedly shot his girlfriend Saturday morning and then killed himself. (UPDATE: The player was identified as Jovan Belcher, 25, one of the team's starting linebackers.)
Noel Sheppard
December 1st, 2012 11:12 AM