Actress Eva Longoria Trashes 'Dangerous' 'Extremists' Who Oppose Obama

Actress Eva Longoria appeared on Tuesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live to trash the "dangerous" "extremist movement" that opposes Barack Obama. The Desperate Housewives star became just the latest celebrity to smear Tea Partiers. Longoria didn't directly identify the group as the target of her anger. However, she made her point clear, fuming, "...[Obama] keeps getting beat up lately because there's…
Scott Whitlock

Daily Kos Claims 2012 GOP Prez Candidates Would Cheer Reagan's Executi

Usually, leftists will mock conservatives for having a cult of Ronald Reagan, or in Bill Maher's case "almost gay" for Reagan. On Thursday, Managing Editor Barbara Morrill posted the "Midday Open Thread" on the Daily Kos, claiming the current crop of Republican candidates "would cheer at his execution" -- which is a little implausible in his current historical condition. Referring to a…
Tim Graham

Networks Decry Rise in Health Care Costs, Ignore ObamaCare Partially t

Anchor Brian Williams led Tuesday's NBC Nightly News with a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation about the rising cost of health care, direly proclaiming: "We're going to begin tonight with a crippling trend in America that simply cannot go on without taking entire families with it." Missing from the coverage was any mention of ObamaCare contributing to the increased costs. In the…
Kyle Drennen

NYT's Landler Portrays Obama's Aggressive, Big-Spending Partisanship A

New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler followed President Obama out West on what certainly felt like a partisan campaign tour. Landler acknowledged Obama’s partisanship and “acidic words” for the G.O.P., but also protected the president’s right flank by characterizing his appeals for higher taxes and his class rhetoric as “populist,” not liberal, and by failing to correct the…
Clay Waters

MSNBC's Matthews, O'Donnell, Schultz and Sharpton Still Haven't Report

Despite the growing scandal involving failed solar company Solyndra - now officially four weeks old - MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ed Schultz, and Al Sharpton have still not reported the matter on their respective prime time programs. The only regular MSNBC host to mention this subject in prime time is Rachel Maddow who predictably discounted its importance Monday (transcript…
Noel Sheppard

Perdue 'Suspend Elections to Congress For Two Years' Audio Surfaces

UPDATE: John Frank responded to yours truly in an email. Go to the end of the post for the email and my reax. Yesterday, Raleigh News & Observer blog contributor jbfrank, who from all indications is also RN&O reporter John Frank, assured readers that North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue was joking when she suggested that "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress…
Tom Blumer

The New Luddites: Time to Rage Against the Machine

Left and media bash civilization from dams to pipelines.
Dan Gainor

NBC 'Playboy Club' Star Lashes Out at Mormons, Catholics on Twitter

NBC’s series The Playboy Club remains in search of an audience, so some stars are lashing out on Twitter at the Parents Television Council, who’s calling for the show to be cancelled, since it promotes one of the world’s leading pornography brands. David Krumholtz – who many might remember from CBS’s “Numb3rs”– attacked the PTC on Twitter for “randomly” choosing the Playboy show, but…
Tim Graham

Obama's Rehabilitation Tour, or 'I Promise I'm a Leftist

Poor President Obama. His leftist backers have momentarily fallen out of love with him for not destroying the country fast enough. Obama must ask himself, "What would Hugo Chavez do?" Obama decided to embark on a personal rehabilitation tour. He first stopped by the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus and told blacks to "stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'." Don'…
David Limbaugh

Tom Brokaw Praises 'Non-Ideological' Christie For Not Using 'Tea Party

Discussing the possibility of Chris Christie entering the presidential race on Wednesday's NBC "Today," Tom Brokaw praised the New Jersey Govenor as a moderate: "He's not an ideologue.... he played outside the ideological lines that have been drawn in the Republican primary." Co-host Matt Lauer said of Christie, "...a lot of conservative Republicans, while loving the fact that he's a fiscal…
Kyle Drennen

Open Thread: Trust in Federal Government At All Time Low

According to a new national survey released this morning by CNN/ORC International, the public's trust in the federal government is at an all-time low. Only 15% of Americans say they trust the federal government to mostly or always do what is right, down 10% from September 2010. Additionally, 77% of those surveyed say they trust the federal government to act correctly some of the time, while 8%…
NB Staff

Bernie Goldberg: Trust in Media Low Due to Love Affair With Obama

As NewsBusters reported last Friday, America's trust in the media has fallen to new lows. Appearing on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday, political commentator Bernie Goldberg said it was because of the media's love affair with Barack Obama (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard

More Class From NYT's Krugman: Rep. Ryan's Medicare Plan 'Would Kill P

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman showed his usual class when discussing Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, whose comprehensive budget plan calls for transforming Medicare into a voucher system in order to preserve the financially imperiled program and to trim the deficit. For his efforts, Krugman claimed that Ryan’s “voucher would kill people, no question.” Krugman featured as a talking head in…
Clay Waters

People Magazine: Palin Books Lie, But There's 'Fuel for Both Sides

People magazine gave prominent play on the front of its Books section in the latest edition (dated October 3) to two Palin-trashing books, by Joe McGinniss and Levi Johnston. They weren't officially reviewed, since there was no rating of how many stars they had earned. The headline was "Seeking the Real Sarah? Two dirt-dishing bios of Sarah Palin play fast and loose with the facts but transport…
Tim Graham