MSNBC Mocks Fox for Low Standards, But What About Olbermann's 'Cheney

On MSNBC on Monday, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue anchor David Shuster decried a lack of "standards" on Fox News: "The inflammatory rhetoric from the wing nuts, is it merely entertaining or seriously dangerous?....Shouldn't there be some standards at some of these other networks? I mean, that's a problem, isn't it? There's no standards."
Tim Graham

Morning TV Misses White House's Teleprompter Flub

Update added below.Between the White House and the Associated Press, nobody can figure out what the President said and did. Nobody is really worried, though. Other than Fox and Friends, they're the only ones who've heard of the President's latest teleprompter gaffe.According to the stunningly unclear AP report:Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St.…
Mike Sargent

CNN on HIV in Africa: Listen to the 'Experts,' Not the Pope

CNN’s Zain Verjee couldn’t seem to find any health care “experts” who agreed with Pope Benedict XVI during a report on Tuesday’s Situation Room about the “political firestorm” the pontiff apparently set off during his first visit to Africa. Verjee not only cited unnamed “experts” who disagreed with the pope’s statement that the distribution of condoms on the continent “increases the problem” of…
Matthew Balan

Ed Schultz on Card Check: Secret Ballot 'Sacred' in Elections - Unless

Jack Coleman

Dear WSJ: Market is Risk Regulator

Systemic risks are small when the market is free, voluntary and open to competition.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Obama s Media Strategy: Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and

BMI Staff

WaPo Loopy Labeling: 'Victims' Advocates' Oppose Gun Rights for Abuse

As veteran readers of NewsBusters know, a good deal of liberal media bias comes in subtle labeling and phrasing. Today's Washington Post provides an excellent example of just that in a Metro section article pitting "victims' advocates" against "gun rights advocates" in a story about new gun restrictions lobbied for by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) and approved by the Maryland House of Delegates.The…
Ken Shepherd

Attack Dogs? No, Democrats Walk the Dinosaur

Left and media go from post-partisan to Jurassic in less than two months.
Dan Gainor

Pants On Fire

Obama's big 5 percent lie.
Dan Kennedy

NewsBusters Talks to Senators Ensign and Thune About Budget

Senators John Ensign (R-Nev.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) participated in a blogger conference call on Monday.On the agenda was President Obama's 2010 budget proposal which Thune cautioned if enacted in its current form would double the federal debt in five years and triple it in ten.Those interested can listen to this fascinating discussion here (5.9 mb MP3).
Noel Sheppard

NBC/Wonkette Writer Praises Bush... for Refusing to Criticize Obama

Former President George W. Bush is a "classy guy" who might "mature into a proper elder statesman" some day.That's the verdict of NBC and Wonkette contributor Sara K. Smith in her March 18 article about how Bush refused to publicly criticize his successor to the presidency when given the chance at a Q&A session following at a luncheon in Canada. (h/t Twitter tipster @Thatcher):The one thing…
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread

NB Staff

Global Warming Alarmist Irked by Cold Weather

Why, oh why, can't Mother Nature cooperate so we can promote our global warming agenda? That pretty much sums up the attitude of global warming alarmist and documentary filmmaker, Gabriel London. His frustration came about over the fact that lately the very cold weather we have been experiencing has made the public more skeptical than ever over global warming. London explains in his Huffington…
P.J. Gladnick

PC Police? Some Want St. Patrick's Day to Be 'Shamrock Day

Tim Graham