Richard Belzer Hopes Obama Redefines 'Warmongering, Intolerant,' Ameri

Over the weekend, on Fox News' "Geraldo At Large," actor/comedian Richard Belzer declared his hope for Barack Obama to redefine America from the "warmongering," "far right," "intolerant," atmosphere-"raping", poor-"demonizing" nation that it's become under the Bush administration. Prompted by host Rivera to reveal his choice in the 2008 campaign the "Law and Order" star took off on the following…
Geoffrey Dickens

Anti-Fox News Blog Runs Not One but Two Ads for Fox Biz Network

Update below (18:45 EDT | March 10).It happens from time to time, believe me. You're going over your Web site and what do you see but a product or service advertised that, to be charitable, conflicts with your mission, or otherwise is just plain embarrassing. It's the nature of having third-party advertising arrangements, and usually you can get these things resolved with an e-mail or two to your…
Ken Shepherd

Burnett Quadruples Foreclosure Statistics

Reporter says 8 percent of homes are in foreclosure, when it was actually 2 percent for the fourth quarter of 2007.
Nathan Burchfiel

Stephanopoulos Pleads for Clinton-Obama 'Time-Out

While members of the media are often pleased when Republicans fight amongst themselves, it's apparently not so fun to see Democrats do the same thing. On Friday's "Good Morning America," George Stephanopoulos appeared and pleaded for calm in the increasingly contentious battle between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The ABC journalist and former top aide to Bill Clinton proclaimed, "…
Scott Whitlock

NBC Warns Federal Govt Intervention Needed for Student Loan Shortages

"NBC Nightly News" has found yet another hardship story caused by the credit crunch - prospective college students seeking student loans. The March 6 "Nightly News" aired a segment about how a lack of funding for student lenders will cause some students not to be able to attend their first choice of college. "More than a dozen lenders have pulled out of the federal student loan program,…
Jeff Poor

AP Highlights Fewer Jobs, Ignores Steep Drop in Unemployed

Here's is the core information the Associated Press's Jeannine Aversa had to work with today in the Employment Situation Report released by the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): The "Dec.-Feb. change" column was added by me, but is easily calculated from the data in the BLS report. What Aversa did with this info, and my comments, are after the jump. (see also Noel Sheppard's post…
Tom Blumer

Reporter Who Badgered Elderly Robbery Victim Fired

We reported last October the story of reporter Rebecca Aguilar of Fox 4 in Dallas, Texas who confronted and badgered an elderly victim of several robberies who responded to his attackers with deadly force. Aguilar was seen in her interview keeping the poor fellow from shutting his car door as she accusingly asked the man if he was "a trigger happy person" because he had killed the robbers who…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Republican Party leads Democrats in fund-raising:The Democratic National Committee ended 2007 nearly flat broke, with cash of $2.9 million and debts of $2.2 million. Since then it has raised some money, paid down debt and managed to put $3.7 million in its piggy bank. This compares, however, with $25 million that the Republican National…
NB Staff

1995 Barack Obama: Mean, Cruel Times, Christian Right - Narrow Minded

As reported by NewsBusters earlier, Michelle Obama debased America by characterizing it as a mean nation of "cynics, sloths, and complacents". Although this sort of talk is becoming a theme for Michelle-O she wasn't the first Obama to call America mean. A similar sentiment was echoed by Barack Obama in 1995 as he tried to rally the African-American vote for his Senate run after the Million Man…
Terry Trippany

General Election Preview? Bloomberg News Sees Racial Animus Against Ob

Hitting what is likely to be a media refrain in the general election, Bloomberg News Service reporter Heidi Przybyla dredged up the outdated "Archie Bunker" character to imply that white people who refuse to support Barack Obama do so out of racial animus."Barack Obama is having trouble with Archie Bunker. [...] The state's white voters aren't 'bigots, but the image they see every day of black…
Matthew Sheffield

NewsBusted

Topics in today's "NewsBusted" episode: John McCain and the Panama question, Barack Obama's wardrobe malfunction, ABC fakes anti-Islamic hatred, and Nicholas Cage getting in trouble with the IRS. Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your blog. Doing any of the above helps us take NB's…
Matthew Sheffield

In Obama Interview ABC's Gibson Imitates Saturday Night Live

In the February 23 Saturday Night Live parody of journalists in the tank for Barack Obama a reporter at a debate oozed: “Senator Obama, are you comfortable? Is there anything we can get for you?” Ending a taped interview Thursday with the real Obama, a real journalist, ABC anchor Charles Gibson, seemed to match the concern for Obama's personal comfort expressed in the SNL caricature: Senator, you…
Brent Baker

Washington Post Targets Mother in Tangled Tango Reporting

A Virginia school system employee and her children have been exposed to retaliation for opposing a pro-gay children's book.
Kristen Fyfe

Sermon from Mt. Obama Raises Big Questions

Barack Obama has expounded his revised standard version of the Sermon on the Mount, but the MSM couldn't care less if Obama waxes theological from here to eternity.
Jan LaRue, Esq.