USNews Columnist: Dems 'Must' Keep Census Political -- 'Gerrymander an

Bonnie Erbe, a columnist and blogger for U.S.News and World Report, is keen to make sure that Democrats continue to cheat on re-districting as much as possible. She is insisting that Democrats not fall for a bi-partisan or a fair approach to re-districting and says that the Census should stay "politicized" because, after all, it’s Democrats in power now! So, as far as she is concerned, the…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

NB Staff

Sweden Raises Taxes to Curb Global Warming, Will Media Care

For years NewsBusters and other climate realists around the country have warned that the anthropogenic global warming myth is all a plot to raise taxes.On Tuesday, the government of Sweden announced it is raising taxes on vehicles and fuel "as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."As recent polls have shown Americans far less concerned about "climate change" than the media or those…
Noel Sheppard

Rachel Maddow Still Can't Get it Right About Hoover

Jack Coleman

Steyn: David Frum Far Guiltier Than Limbaugh of Putting Himself In Fro

Tim Graham

NewsBusted

NB Staff

How Mainstream is Porn? Just Ask Body Art Barbie

A little girls' icon gets ink. Can 'Pole Dance Barbie' be far behind?
Matt Philbin

Matthews Squish of the Week, Frum, Agrees Rush Has ‘Race Problems

Perhaps David Frum is jealous of all the media adoration Kathleen Parker now receives. Knowing he would be challenged on other media outlets, as he was previously on Mark Levin’s radio show, Frum appeared with MSNBC's Chris Matthews tonight.  He talked about his recent column in Newsweek titled on the magazine's cover as "A Conservative's Case Against Rush Limbaugh." Appearing on Hardball to…
Kerry Picket

CBS's Stem Cell Expert: Doctor Who Yearned to Shape Obama's Health Pol

Four days after Sanjay Gupta, in the wake of Tom Daschle's withdrawal as HHS Secretary-designate, decided to turn down the Obama administration's offer to become Surgeon General, CBS went to the CNN medical correspondent for expert analysis on the benefits of Obama's decision to allow federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells. (Monday afternoon following Obama's announcement, CNN…
Brent Baker

The Audacity of Truth

You come to NewsBusters for the reporting the American Media just won't do, to hold truth to power, and to point out when they look the other way as their ideological leader does things like give an easy button to Russia, or claims that cars were invented by Americans, while getting economic advice from someone who can't actually make money.  And in hindsight, I almost have to admire Bill Clinton…
Mithridate Ombud

Matthews: Limbaugh Like a Bond Villain, a 'Human Vat of Vitriol

Over the weekend, Chris Matthews compared Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villain and claimed the radio talk show host was a "human vat of vitriol. He relishes the attention and he sells anger as a weapon." Before playing a clip from "You Only Live Twice," in which a Bond nemesis drops a victim into a piranha tank, Matthews, on his syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," offered up the following…
Geoffrey Dickens

ABC Features Gayle King to Sing About, Tout 'Great Ideas' of First Lad

O Magazine editor Gayle King appeared on Monday's "Good Morning America" to rave about the "un-jaded," "not-complicated" and "so-darned normal" Obama family. The close associate of Oprah Winfrey talked with Diane Sawyer and repeatedly enthused about a Winfrey interview (see picture at right) with Mrs. Obama, at one point cooing that the first lady "only wants to be Michelle Obama, really. And…
Scott Whitlock

ABC Champions President Obama's Embryo-Destroying Stem Cell Decision

Correspondent Lisa Stark’s report on ABC’s World News on Sunday almost completely slanted in favor of President Obama’s decision to overturn the ban on federal funding of stem cell research which destroys human embryos. Stark minimized the controversial nature of the research, devoting only one sound bite out of four to a critic of the president’s move.Anchor Dan Harris introduced Stark’s report…
Matthew Balan

Pile of National Media Stars Turn Up for Ted Kennedy's D.C. Birthday T

Many liberal media outlets have reported the Kennedy Center birthday party Sunday night for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Few have mentioned the media turnout. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, the former Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, joined Caroline Kennedy in awarding Sen. Kennedy the Kennedy Library’s "Profile in Courage" Award. Frank Mankiewicz, the former president of National…
Tim Graham