Michael Moore: Foreclosed Homeowners Like Rape Victims

No, that's not a made-up headline. The foreclosed and/or evicted homeowners that have played such a role in the current economic meltdown - are they irresponsible borrowers that lived beyond their means or are victims that got swindled? Michael Moore is clear on where he thinks they fall. Moore matched up with Fox News and conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity on Hannity's Oct. 6 program…
Jeff Poor

Is NYT's Herbert Losing Faith in Obama or Pushing for Stimulus II

"The Obama administration seems hamstrung by the unemployment crisis. No big ideas have emerged. No dramatically creative initiatives."Such was written Monday by one of President Obama's biggest supporters -- New York Times columnist Bob Herbert.So concerned is Herbert that he's presaging doom and gloom for the president if things don't change soon.Maybe even more shocking, as he addressed the…
Noel Sheppard

Left, Media Gearing Up to Thwart Limbaugh's NFL Bid

We've already seen CNN's Paul Begala, affectionately referred to as "The Forehead" by Rush Limbaugh, and one ESPN personality, Fred Roggin, taking shots at Limbaugh on the heels of news of his interest in the National Football League's St. Louis Rams. But it was just a matter of time before the usual culprits on the left would attempt to make an issue of it, in what seems to be an effort to…
Jeff Poor

Michael Moore: Foreclosed Homeowners Like Rape Victims

Filmmaker tells Sean Hannity blaming irresponsible borrowers 'like asking a woman how short was your skirt after she's been raped.'
Jeff Poor

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NB Staff

WaPo Tops Its Front Page with Protest Drawing...176 People

Tim Graham

NPR News Director Calls Republican Candidate 'Nimrod

Your tax dollars at work . . . Forwarding a press release from a GOP Senate candidate to his Dem opponent, an NPR News Director called the Republican a "nimrod." Roll Call's "Heard on the Hill" column has the [subscription-required] story, which it describes as "another tale of e-mail forwarding gone wrong" [emphasis added]:Army Col. Conrad Reynolds is one of several Republicans vying to take on…
Mark Finkelstein

Morning Joe's Roggin: ESPN 'Canned Rush For Racist Remarks

The National Review's breezily brilliant Jay Nordlinger recently described the way sports reporters are increasingly injecting their liberal politics into their work.To the list of sports scribes who should supposedly be concerned with balls and strikes but instead use their gigs as platforms to let their liberal flags fly, add Fred Roggin, who does a regular sports spot on Morning Joe.On today'…
Mark Finkelstein

AP Excited 'Bold Colors' and 'Squiggly Lines Have Arrived' on White Ho

“You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House,” gushed the AP's Nancy Benac in the lead to her Tuesday night dispatch headlined: “Modern art hits 1600 Pa. Ave.” Benac heralded: The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls. New pieces by contemporary African-American and…
Brent Baker

Hollywood Crazy Talk

Roman Polanski case shines spotlight on divide between Tinsel Town and Main Street.
Colleen Raezler

Bozell Column: Obama's Olympic Arrogance

In the category of "intentional misunderstandings" about the political fiasco over the 2016 Summer Olympics, liberals win the gold medal. Cheers and laughs broke out in conservative offices and radio studios on the morning of October 2 when Chicago’s bid came in dead last. This was not an exercise in behavior so flagrantly unpatriotic that it’s almost like a flag-burning indoors. It was rejoicing…
Brent Bozell

CBS: U.S. Turning Attention to Iraq from Afghanistan the 'Gravest Erro

For the second night, CBS devoted time in its “Afghanistan: The Road Ahead” series -- which consumed the entirety of Tuesday's CBS Evening News -- to stressing how the decision to go into Iraq undermined success in Afghanistan. Lara Logan, CBS's chief foreign correspondent, rued “the U.S. allowed Osama bin Laden to escape from the Tora Bora mountains” and then, in endorsing the view she credited…
Brent Baker

Paul Begala Returns to Bashing Rush Limbaugh With Drug Reference

Democratic strategist Paul Begala can be relied upon to use the “drug card” against Rush Limbaugh whenever the talk radio host is brought up, and he was true to form on Tuesday’s Situation Room. When anchor Wolf Blitzer asked what it would mean if Limbaugh bought the St. Louis Rams, Begala snarked, “Just don’t put him in charge of the team’s drug policy....Don’t give him access to that medicine…
Matthew Balan

Conservative Bible Project Draws Predictable Liberal Scorn

As NewsBusters' Ken Shepherd noted in an October 5 post, some conservatives have undertaken an online Conservative Bible Project to rid the Good Book of "translational bias" and correct the "lack of precision" in both original and translational language. As Shepherd also noted, Time Magazine's Amy Sullivan wasted no time heaping derision on the effort. Unsurprisingly, others on the left have…
Colleen Raezler