N.Y. Times Downplayed Clapper ABC Gaffe -- No Critics, Only Pals Who F

Yesterday, we reviewed how other national networks skipped out on ABC’s accidental discovery in an interview last week that James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence, had no clue about London terror arrests that had been splashed all over TV that day. Several newspapers picked up the story on December 23, but they were all stocked only with chummy Clapper supporters trying to…
Tim Graham
 

ABC Scolds 'Rising Star of the Republican Party' Chris Christie for Mi

Of the three morning shows, only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday singled out New Jersey governor Chris Christie, chiding the "rising star of the Republican Party" for being out of the state when a blizzard hit. At the same time, reporter Sharyn Alfonsi praised Newark's Democratic Mayor Cory Booker for helping with the clean-up. She enthused, "Wow! A mayor with a shovel." Regarding…

Scott Whitlock
 

Open Thread: Olbermann Continues Losing Viewers

Today's starter topic: Left-wing MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann's ratings continue to drop:
NB Staff
 

Olbermann, Couric and Amanpour Won't Advance Our Efforts, Will You

Support NewsBusters with a tax-deductible year-end donation. We can provide NewsBusters as a free service only because of the thousands of concerned conservatives who support the Media Research Center financially each year and make possible the unique research operation behind the MRC's ongoing efforts to document, expose, and neutralize liberal media bias. We realize that over the last few…
NB Staff
 

Time Mag Headline 'Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming

In today's "Everything Is Caused By Climate Change" segment, the folks at Time magazine offer a howler destined to start your morning off right with a chuckle: "Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming." The contents were even more hysterical:
Noel Sheppard
 

Dignified Newsweek? They Print 'F--k John McCain,' Scalia a 'C--ksucke

Newsweek's year-end Interview issue is "graced" on the cover by lesbian "Glee" actress Jane Lynch. We'll put "grace" in quotes since the interview inside with Lynch and well-named sex columnist Dan Savage is rude and hateful. Apparently, gay activists are encouraged to put on a bullying tone and spray hate at conservatives. Savage would say something vulgar, and then Lynch would chime in…
Tim Graham
 

Barney Frank's Cuts: NATO 'Serves No Strategic Purpose

In the Bush years, liberals worried out loud about how our war on terrorism was destroying our reputation among our noble socialist allies in Europe. But in the Obama years, they are showing their old colors. The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel delighted in Barney Frank's idea that our NATO alliance with Europe is strategically worthless and our spending on it should be slashed: "These kind…
Tim Graham
 

AP’s Fram Charges GOP ‘Defied’ Public by Passing (Non-Existent

Catching up with a distorted news report from Christmas Day, the AP decided to distribute a particularly tendentious piece of “reporting” by the news service’s Washington, DC-based Alan Fram and Jennifer Agiesta, who misleadingly charged House Republicans “defied” public will on “tax cuts for the wealthy,” which were non-existent. They led: Republicans say they will follow “the people's…
Brent Baker
 

Bozell Column: Fox News Makes You Stupid

There is nothing the Left believes in more robotically than the stupidity of conservatives. Otherwise, they would not be conservatives. When liberals get routed in an election, they do not question themselves. The first, and for most, only verdict is that the American people were disastrously flooded by a tsunami of stupidity and misinformation. So it’s not surprising that left-wing bloggers…
Brent Bozell
 

The Annual Yawn: GAO Disclaims Opinion on Uncle Sam's Financials For t

When the legislators and good-government people who drafted the law requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit and render an opinion on the financial statements of the federal government as a whole and the major departments within it, they must have known that early-year results would not be very pleasant. But I also suspect that they thought the shame of being exposed as…
Tom Blumer
 

Cenk's Vulgar Jab At John Bolton

When you're subbing for Ed Schultz on MSNBC,  the race to the bottom is apparently irresistible . . . Cenk [pronounced, I hasten to add, "Jenk," thus adding to the headline's alliteration] broke out a dubious double-entendre this evening when speaking of John Bolton.  Describing the ambassador's allegedly bellicose tendencies, Cenk claimed that, if he could, Bolton would "like to invade…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Rare Admission From Liberal: Education Woes Not Due to Lack of Funding

Only time I recall a left-winger saying this, but hey, it's a start. Here's Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter, author of "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," talking about the economy and education on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday with guest host Jeff Santos of WWZN 1510 AM in Boston --
Jack Coleman
 

The Next Two Years: Predicting an Obama Future

The next two years, more than the last two even, depend on President Barack Obama. While conservatives and fiscal hawks pin their hopes on the newly elected House members to trim the Federal government, nothing will happen if President Obama vetoes.
Melissa Clouthier
 

MTV to Air Abortion Special, Media Yawn

MTV aims to make a profit airing a show about a pregnant teen deciding to abort her baby, and the best media writers can muster is to call it a “sensitive issue.” An MTV Special to be aired at 11:30pm Dec. 28, “No Easy Decision” is a half-hour program that follows a teen mom’s tragic decision to abort her child. The media coverage leading up to the program’s air date has merely glossed over…
Erin R. Brown