O’Reilly and Bruce Discuss New ‘Gestapo’ in America Smearing Con

In the wake of the recent media-created scandal concerning statements made by Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on his radio show, a rather enlightening discussion has ensued regarding the existence of a well-organized campaign to demonize every television and radio personality whose political opinions don't march in lock-step with the left. A rather frank and candid conversation concerning this…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

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NB Staff

CNN's Sanchez: O'Reilly Fears Sex-Charged 'Mandingo' Rappers

Tim Graham

Why Won't AP Describe Taliban as Terrorists

Warner Todd Huston

Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to Mecca

John Stephenson

Busting the News, Episode

It's Thursday which means it's time for another episode of our new comedy webcast "NewsBusted!" You can watch the show over at the top of the sidebar of this page. Click here to see the show archive, you can also subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new vlogs.If you like the show, help us spread the word! You can also help by leaving positive ratings…
Matthew Sheffield

Scarborough Slaps Sharpton For Not Going After 'Moron' O'Reilly

This could be a first: Al Sharpton criticized for being insufficiently inflammatory; faulted for not shooting from the hip.At the opening of today's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough panned the Rev's "O'Reilly Factor" performance last evening, in which the normally obstreperous one was relatively subdued on the subject of his host's comments on Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem. Scarborough later…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS News Disreputably Promotes Left-Wing Smear of O'Reilly

The morning after CNN and MSNBC began salivating over a potential “Imus moment” pushed by a far-left group to suppress Bill O'Reilly over a supposedly racist remark, CBS and NBC on Wednesday advanced the liberal group's cause with multi-part segments on the topic. But while NBC's Today at least provided some balance and proper labeling, CBS's Early Show, with “In Hot Water” and “O'Race Factor” on…
Brent Baker

Matthews 'Warming Up To' Hillary, Fox's Wallace a Partisan 'Ignoramus

On Wednesday's "Countdown" show, just minutes before the beginning of the night's Democratic debate coverage on MSNBC, Chris Matthews remarked that he was "warming up to Hillary these days," while host Keith Olbermann responded that "I don't have anything to warm up from." Matthews also attacked Fox's "partisanship" and suggested that its anchor, Chris Wallace, is an "ignoramus.""When [Wallace is…
Brad Wilmouth

CNN's Toobin: 'No Doubt' Roe v. Wade Will Be Overturned With Republica

According to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, the election of a Republican president in 2008 will bring a certain end to Roe v. Wade.Toobin has made the rounds promoting his new book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. In a recent Time.com article (a straight question-and-answer account of his interview), Toobin stated the following:Time.com: Your book strongly suggests that…
Jason Aslinger

MRC/NB's Bozell on FNC's 'Hannity & Colmes' About Couric on Iraq

Brent Bozell, President of the MRC which runs NewsBusters, appeared Wednesday night on FNC's "Hannity & Colmes" to discuss comments Katie Couric made hostile to the Bush administration decision the launch the war in Iraq. Couric spoke about the Iraq war at a Tuesday night "Kalb Report" forum at the National Press Club (C-SPAN2 will air it Wednesday night at 11:15pm EDT). Couric contended that…
NB Staff

Bill Clinton’s ‘Squinting Two-Minutes Hate’ on CNN

Matthew Balan

NASA’s Hansen Mentioned in Soros Foundations Annual Report

As NewsBuster Jake Gontesky reported, an editorial in Investor's Business Daily Monday claimed one of billionaire leftist George Soros's foundations gave $720,000 in 2006 to the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen. Since this editorial was published, according to LexisNexis and Google News searches, not one major media outlet has reported these allegations. Maybe…
Noel Sheppard

MRC/NB's Graham: Couric Comments on Iraq War a Sop to MoveOn

Katie Couric "really sounds like... a light-headed Hillary [Clinton] and it sounds like she's trying to claw back into the good graces of MoveOn.org and maybe she's trying to rub the belly of the Buddha, Frank Rich, and everybody who attacked her for being some sort of Bush tool when she went to Iraq."That's how MRC director of media analysis and NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham described…
NB Staff