Milk Dudes

You can't get blood from a stone or get more milk from this cow. That doesn't mean they won't stop trying though.
Glenn Foden

'Heroes' of Discovery Channel Show Use Lasers on Japanese Whalers

The Discovery Channel program "Whale Wars" portrays the radical activists of the left-wing Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as heroes going up against Japanese whaling ships, instead of the pirate-like harassers they really are. According to Ecorazzi.com, a self-proclaimed "green" gossip site, the group revealed it was using a "photonic disruptor" against the whaling crew. According to…
Julia A. Seymour

NPR Prepares for Christmas With Snarky Feminist Satire Songs

Here’s how National Public Radio celebrates the week before Christmas, with cutesy ukelele songs about feminism. On Monday, the nationally distributed talk show Fresh Air with Terry Gross rebroadcast a 2007 interview with leftist singer Nellie McKay (pronounced to rhyme with rye), who has a new album out of Doris Day covers. McKay began the replayed segment by performing a song called "Mother of…
Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

GM Indefinitely Lays Off More Workers Barely a Week After It Said It W

On December 8, Susan Gustafson at MLive.com proclaimed that "GM's announcement of no more layoffs is good news after years of hemorrhaging jobs": General Motors' announcement this morning that it plans no further layoffs in the immediate future is huge news for both the automaker and Michigan as a whole after years of steady erosion in the ranks of hourly and salaried workers..... the company…
Tom Blumer

Your Year-End Grade

When deciding what you deserve, be sure to use the Obama Curve.
Dan Kennedy

Not News: Obama EO Removes Restrictions on INTERPOL

Here are some examples of Executive Orders issued by President Obama that have received New York Times or Associated Press coverage: NYT, October 29 -- "Obama Order Strengthens Spy Oversight" (the browser window title is "Obama Moves to Roll Back Bush Changes to Intelligence Oversight Board"). NYT, October 2 -- "Obama Prohibits Federal Employees From Texting While Driving for Work." NYT,…
Tom Blumer

MRC-TV: On Breitbart 's B-Cast, Motley Discusses the Media's Flagrant

We Give It a Solid B+ Yesterday, Media Research Center (MRC) Director of Communications and NewsBusters Contributing Editor sat down with Breitbart.tv's Liz Stephans and Scott Baker to discuss the media not discussing the major rifts that exist between liberals and Democrats and Democrats and Democrats on the health care legislation wending its way fitfully…
NB Staff

Bozell Column: A Year of Obama Love

Brent Bozell

CNN's Costello: 'Might the Republicans Blame in Part Themselves' for S

On CNN's American Morning today, anchor Carol Costello advanced a theory on who's responsible for the Let's Make a Deal environment permeating the Senate as it stumbles to completion of a health care bill.  Here is part of her exchange with CNN political analyst and GOP strategist Ed Rollins:COSTELLO: Might (the) Republicans blame in part themselves for this, because none of them were going to…
Mike Bates

Chris Matthews Calls Saul Alinsky One Of His Heroes

Chris Matthews on Tuesday called "Rules for Radicals" author Saul Alinsky one of his heroes.This admission came only five days after the "Hardball" host proudly admitted on the air that he was a liberal. "I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused," Matthews told "Hardball" guest Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).Such was revealed as the pair discussed the fate of healthcare…
Noel Sheppard

Sarah Palin Responds to Winning 'Lie of the Year

Sarah Palin has responded to claims that her "death panel" comment concerning healthcare reform legislation is the "Lie of the Year."As NewsBusters previously reported, the Palin-hating press have been having a field day since she won this dubious honor from the website PolitiFact last week. On Tuesday, the former Alaska Governor responded at her Facebook page, and did so with skill and aplomb (…
Noel Sheppard

No Surprise: NY Times Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse Donated

Here’s a shock: Retired New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse donated to the Obama campaign. Greenhouse revealed the donation in a nytimes.com column expressing her ambivalence about McCain-Feingold’s stringent restrictions on campaign speech. In "Hurry Up and Wait," an Opinionator piece on campaign finance reform posted December 17 at nytimes.com, Greenhouse admitted donating to…
Clay Waters

Maddow Invents New Terms to Degrade Conservatives: GOP-Baggers, Tea-Pu

On Dec. 22, when Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama announced he would be switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, it was to be expected MSNBC, the so-called "Place for Politics" would spin it in anyway imaginable. But Rachel Maddow decided to use the left's favorite boogeyman, the tea party movement, to denigrate conservatives and distract from what could be real problems for…
Jeff Poor