Hoax Claiming Walmart Heiress Supported Friday Protests Fools USA Toda

The third page of an unbylined report with an early Saturday time stamp credited to "USA Today" carried at the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger (like USAT, a Gannett Company) claimed that "Walmart heiress Alice Walton expressed solidarity with Walmart's striking workers." Putting aside whether or not an action taken by what the company estimated may have been fifty associates is a "strike…
Tom Blumer
November 25th, 2012 9:34 AM

Politico Gushes Bill Press Knows More Than Anyone, Waits Until End of

Anyone who doesn’t think Politico is a left-wing rag hasn’t seen their latest gushing profile of Bill Press. Wide-eyed media reporter Mackenzie Weinger began like a fangirl: “Bill Press says there’s a simple difference between him and just about every other pundit in Washington.” “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about,” Press explains. Insert laugh track. But it continues:
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2012 9:06 AM

Planned Parenthood Ran a Black Friday Special

You may think I’m setting you up for a spoof, but no. Planned Parenthood brings new meaning to the term, “Black Friday,” doesn’t it?  
Jill Stanek
November 24th, 2012 8:33 PM

Current TV's Fugelsang: NewsBusters Is 'Crack and Porn For the Human I

On Tuesday’s edition of the Bill Press radio show, fill-in host John Fugelsang (another “star” of Current TV) celebrated being attacked on NewsBusters for five minutes. “It’s like crack and porn for the human id...It’s like your id gets crack and porn at the same time, and the darkest part of your nature can run free, thanks to NewsBusters.” On Monday, NB’s Ken Shepherd reported that…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2012 7:54 PM

WashPost Hails Patty Murray as Gaffe Beneficiary; Forgets Her 2002 Who

Saturday’s Washington Post devoted the left-hand corner of the front page to hailing liberal Sen. Patty Murray, the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. “In a Congress of hot tempers and sharp tongues, Murray doesn’t favor over-the-top rhetoric,” oozed Post reporter Rosalind Helderman. Sen. Harry Reid added: “Everyone takes Senator Murray seriously because she does not bluster.” She…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2012 5:00 PM

Abortions Down 5%, Biggest Decline in a Decade

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that the number of abortions dropped five percent in the most recent reporting period. This was the largest decline in a decade.
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2012 12:38 PM

Shields Mocks Christie's Weight: 'Watching Him Get Out of SUV Like Wat

Liberal commentator Mark Shields is hardly the poster boy for health and fitness in this country. Despite that, the portly PBSer took a cheap shot at Governor Chris Christie's (R-N.J.) weight on Friday's Inside Washington (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2012 11:18 AM

WashPost Celebrates Turkey Day By Saying 'Great Day to Come Out as Gay

On Thursday, The Washington Post celebrated Thanksgiving as somehow secular, the perfect day to announce you're gay. Ned Martel's article began: "Word to the wise: Thanksgiving is the proper holiday to tell your family that you’re a homosexual. It’s arguably secular, so you’re confronting tradition, not faith. Even though National Coming Out Day is in October, this is the day when gays and…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2012 10:56 AM

NBC Uses Dubious Propaganda Images from Gaza War

During the recent war in Gaza, NBC News used two images of which definitely one and possibly both qualify as deceptive propaganda against Israel's war effort. The first example is the infamous image of a child who was killed by shrapnel from a rocket fired out of Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas, but which some news outlets, including CNN, attributed to an Israeli airstrike early on.
Brad Wilmouth
November 24th, 2012 10:13 AM

Doctor's Column: Nagging, Intrusive ObamaCare 'Intentionally' Makes Ac

In a Saturday PJ Media column ("A Physician’s New Reality: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law"), Dr. Peter Weiss, relays several important and ugly realities of what life will be like under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare, which could easily have been reported any time during the past couple of years by members of the establishment press. Most of what Dr. Weiss discusses…
Tom Blumer
November 24th, 2012 9:51 AM

Teacher Writes on Whiteboard 'You Can't Be a Democrat and Go To Heaven

A Kentucky high school teacher was reprimanded by her school district this week for writing on her whiteboard "You can't be a Democrat + go to heaven."
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2012 9:47 AM

Bozell Column: NBC Whistles Past the Rude Rap

On Monday, November 19, NBC’s “Access Hollywood” asked if the sex that suffuses our TV, our movies, our music, and our social media is “too much, too soon” for children. Could it be more blatantly obvious? The irony was thick. On that same Monday, on that same NBC network, the “Today” show brought on the rapper Flo Rida to perform live on national television. NBC’s Natalie Morales touted how…
Brent Bozell
November 24th, 2012 9:29 AM

ABC Calls Black Friday An 'Orgy Of Capitalism

It's enough to make an MSMer nostalgic for the good old days of the Soviet Union, when the masses didn't stampede into stores because there was little of interest to buy and little money to buy it with, and the good stuff was reserved for the ruling elites at special shops. Here's how ABC's Dan Harris opened today's Good Morning America: "This morning, Black and Blue Friday.  America's…
Mark Finkelstein
November 24th, 2012 9:01 AM

Reuters Social Media Director Wonders Why Israel Should 'Retaliate' (i

Well, that didn't take long. Fulfilling a fear expressed on Tuesday by David Horovitz in the Times of Israel, someone is already using the country's mostly (but to be sure, not completely) successful deployment of its Iron Dome missile defense system as an argument against Israel's right to robustly defend itself. The assertion came the very next day in the form of a tweet from a member of…
Tom Blumer
November 24th, 2012 8:37 AM