Media Take Sides in OK Lawmaker's 'Homophobia' Flap

An anti-Sally Kern rally of 300 made the New York Times. Almost no press mentions of the pro-Kern rally numbering at least 1,500.
Colleen Raezler

Who Had the Fairer Panel: Meet the Press or Fox News Sunday

For a moment, let's step away from the commentary, per se, and focus on the commentators. Liberals love to chide Fox News for its alleged conservative bias. So why don't we see, when it comes to being fair and balanced, how this morning's Fox News Sunday panel stacked up against that of its main competitor, Meet the Press?Here are the line-ups—you be the judge.MEET THE PRESS Host–Tim Russert…
Mark Finkelstein

Wallace Plays Hardball With Obama, Netroots Angered by Barack's Civili

Well, sports fans, the highly-anticipated, years in the making interview of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama on "Fox News Sunday" is over, and it's certain that folks on both sides of the aisle -- as well as all three remaining campaigns -- will find positives and negatives to glom on to.In fact, some well-known liberal bloggers have already expressed their displeasure with Obama,…
Noel Sheppard

Former NBC Analyst Confirms He Quit Due to Network's Move to the Left

Last February, NewsBusters reported the resignation of retired Col. Ken Allard from NBC News as a result of the military analyst's view the network was undergoing a "precipitous retreat from journalistic and ethical standards."On Sunday, Allard was more specific, claiming, "I thought they really had moved very slowly to the left, and I also thought that when they had the chance to clarify to the…
Noel Sheppard

AP: States Having Budget Problems, Therefore They're In Recession

Many in the press seem to have difficulty distinguishing between the economy as a whole and individual governments' fiscal situations. Because of that, they seem to be believe that if a state government is having difficulty balancing its budget, there must be a recession in the whole state's economy. That's what you would think if you read Andrew Welsh-Huggins's Associated Press report on Friday…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

NB Staff

'Like Willie Horton, Except Obama Knew Rev. Wright

This week's Fox News Watch was a mix of the candid, the intriguing and the downright comical. Let's start with the humor. Well-intentioned liberal panel member Jane Hall, wringing her hands over the fact that the Wright matter has injected race into the campaign, got off this bit of unintentional comedy.JANE HALL: Unfortunately, this is going to be what's going to be associated [with Obama]. I…
Mark Finkelstein

Olbermann Apologizes to Huff-Po About Hillary Needing a Beating

Tim Graham

Paper Throws Race Card, Misses Bigger Picture: Muslim Banking in Amer

The Daily Record in Baltimore, Maryland recently published a story by Brendan Kearney that oddly seems to present a conflict between a bank employing Islamic Shari'ah law with its American investments and some black American borrowers and painting it as a racist issue. Sadly, the real story, that of Islamic law being imposed on American investors, is sidelined in order to pursue the race card. (…
Warner Todd Huston

O'Reilly Looks at Planned Parenthood Racist Phone Call Controversy

Brad Wilmouth

Cramer Blames Inflation on Ethanol: 'Drop the Mandate, Prices Plummet

In the past couple of weeks, NewsBusters has reported the media's sudden negative opinion of ethanol as a result of rising food prices and rationing of rice by certain retailors.You can now add NBC to the list, and, in particular, the host of CNBC's "Mad Money," Jim Cramer, who on Friday's "Today" show actually blamed ethanol for the current crisis while stating emphatically, "You drop the…
Noel Sheppard

Wallace Has 'A Very Friendly Exchange' With Obama

MSNBC's Dan Abrams and the folks in the liberal blogosphere are going to be very disappointed tomorrow when they witness what Chris Wallace says was "a very friendly exchange" between the "Fox News Sunday" host and Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.In fact, despite what Talking Points Memo reported Friday concerning Obama doing the program to "take on Fox," as well as Jonathan Kim's ("…
Noel Sheppard

Huffington Concedes Her Lifestyle is 'Contradiction' to Global Warming

Brad Wilmouth

MSNBC's Abrams: I Don't Think Obama Should Go On Fox News

Honestly, the hypocrisy of liberal media members knows no bounds.On Friday, Dan Abrams of MSNBC voiced extreme displeasure with the announcement that Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama is finally going to be interviewed by Chris Wallace on this weekend's "Fox News Sunday."This from a man whose very network has hosted numerous presidential debates despite moderators Chris Matthews and…
Noel Sheppard