USA Today Special Calls for More Government Action on the Environment

USA Today featured a special article to help celebrate Earth Day by Mark Thoreau, an indirect descendant of author Henry David Thoreau. In “Thoreau Descendant Reflects on Walden Pond, Earth Day,” Thoreau, however, took the opportunity to call for more government involvement on environmental issues and even praised the Sierra Club, the left-wing environmental group.Thoreau, an Englishman,…
Sarah Knoploh

ABC's Sam Donaldson Hypes: Al Gore for the Supreme Court

On Thursday's Good Morning America, ABC journalist Sam Donaldson touted a liberal hero for the Supreme Court, one that even made George Stephanopoulos chuckle: Al Gore. After arguing that Barack Obama should choose a politician, Donaldson enthused, "Let's go further...I give you Al Gore." [Audio available here.]The veteran reporter, who was participating in GMA's Morning Mix panel, argued his…
Scott Whitlock

MSNBC's Maddow, Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Pa

So you do your part and pay your taxes to the federal government. However, you feel you pay too much and you don't like how that same government uses that money. Do you have the right to petition and protest that government? If it's on federal land that your tax dollars paid for, then your protest is hypocritical nonsense, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. To her, the tea partiers, who…
Jeff Poor

Lawrence O'Donnell Defends GEICO Voice-over Actor Who Called Tea Parti

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday defended a GEICO voice-over actor who referred to Tea Party members as mentally retarded killers.Last week, Lance Baxter aka D.C. Douglas left the following voice-mail at the offices of FreedomWorks (audio available here):Hi there. I`m doing a paper about FreedomWorks and I was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. I`m wrapping up and I just have…
Noel Sheppard

MRC's Brent Bozell on 'Fox & Friends' to Discuss Networks' Meager Repo

Brent Bozell joined "Fox & Friends" on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to discuss a new Business & Media Institute Special Report about the broadcast networks' distorted coverage of ClimateGate and other climate scandals. Bozell highlighted the way the networks have barely reported ClimateGate and the other climate science scandals that have eroded the credibility of the global…
Julia A. Seymour

MSNBC's Maddow, Penn. Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Party Too

Liberal host and Dem. politician argue the 'mainstream media' have made tea party movement more of a force than warranted.
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

WaPo Earth Day Story Finds Glum Greens Struggling to Sell 'Slippery' C

In its puffy celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, The Washington Post found the green movement in "midlife crisis." Sadly, reported David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, the American people aren't grasping the immediacy of global warming, or seeing their exhalations as pollution: The problems are more slippery: pollutants like greenhouse-gas emissions, which don't stink or sting the eyes. And…
Tim Graham

Pentagon Rescinds Graham's Invitation, while Sharpton is Welcome at Wh

Caving to 'Religious Freedom' group on National Day of Prayer event shows which religious figures the Obama administration deem important.
Colleen Raezler

Shocking Report: Police Find TEA Parties More Peaceful Than Anti-war P

On Monday, the Christian Science Monitor bucked its mainstream peers by reporting something truthful about the TEA party movement: police officials have begun to relax security requirements at conservative rallies because of the remarkable absence of violence. Yes, you read that right: despite nonstop media warnings about hateful protests, violence from TEA party attendants is so nonexistent…
Candance Moore

O'Reilly Remarks on Post-9/11 Racial Rapprochement Echoed -- by Freque

Occasionally a lefty gets it right. Then a conservative says much the same thing. Followed by liberals denouncing him for it.Latest example -- Bill O'Reilly's remarks on race at the Sharpton-organized National Action Network conference on April 14 in New York City. Speaking after O'Reilly was liberal action hero Ed Schultz, who spun what was said at the conference on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" that…
Jack Coleman

Joan Walsh Doubles Down, Claims There Are No Violent Liberals

Joan Walsh was unable to name an extreme left-wing media figure yesterday while appearing on MSNBC and today she is digging in deeper on her blog. Now she says that she wasn’t just talking about media figures, of which Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz are just the most obvious examples, but that she was talking also about violent nut jobs who threaten politicians. The title of her post is “…
Mitchell Blatt

YouTube Pulls All Versions of 'Hide the Decline' ClimateGate Videos

A day after Minnesotans For Global Warming pulled their "Hide the Decline" video from YouTube at the request of ClimateGate scientist Michael Mann, all versions of this global warming satire were apparently removed from the powerful website.As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, M4GW received a threat from Mann's representatives stating that if the video was not taken down, he would sue.After M4GW…
Noel Sheppard

Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science

Julia A. Seymour