Slate Slams Obama On Transparency, Credits Fox News, Wash. Times For F

Some in the media have reported on the Obama administration reneging on its promise to be transparent and open.  The president’s drone policy is a testament to its commitment to secrecy.  The creation of a secret kill list is also another instance where Obama has betrayed a campaign promise to his liberal base.  So, why aren’t watchdog groups vociferously protesting the president’s 180-degree…
Matt Vespa
March 13th, 2013 10:11 AM

Seventeen Mag to 12-Year-Olds: Threesomes Just ‘Edgy

To be bold and edgy while building character, young girls should spice up their lives with nudity, drugs, and maybe even a threesome – or that was the story in the April issue of teen girl magazine “Seventeen.” The latest issue of “Seventeen” showed a smiling 23-year-old Ashley Benson modeling patriotic-themed clothing to a target audience of 12 to 19-year-old girls. The cover read that the…
Katie Yoder
March 13th, 2013 9:55 AM

Michael Moore Calls For Photos of Slaughtered Newtown Kids to be Relea

Schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore isn't pleased with the level of outrage or support for stronger gun control following December's massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. To gin this up further, he wants someone to release the pictures of the slaughtered children:
Noel Sheppard
March 13th, 2013 9:45 AM

Scarborough Ribs Shameless Schmoozer Ford, Jr.: Is There Anyone You Do

Five days ago, this NewsBuster wrote that Harold Ford, Jr. "seems more interested in cultivating friends and avoiding offense than in saying anything interesting." On Morning Joe that day, Ford had managed to praise a trio of pols, even breaking out the old "my dear friend" line to describe one of them.  When Ford employed the same shtick on today's show, Joe Scarborough eventually had enough,…
Mark Finkelstein
March 13th, 2013 9:45 AM

As Last Opposition TV Station in Venezuela Is Acquired Under Duress, A

In a mild shock -- mild because it's mentioned before the elections, but probably won't be when it really matters after the polls close -- Frank Bajak and Jorge Rueda at the Associated Press, in a story about how the last opposition TV station in Venezuela is being sold to an insurance magnate who is reportedly "friendly with government," noted the extraordinary handicaps that Venezuela's…
Tom Blumer
March 13th, 2013 9:17 AM

NYT’s Tom Friedman Urges Criminal Protests to Stop Keystone Oil Pipe

Incivility. It is a word that tripped off the lips and pens of liberal commentators great and small after the deadly 2011 shootings in Tucson that ended the political career of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. One of the most vocal critics of the right’s incivility in word and deed was The New York Times, which ran more than one finger-wagging editorial and found column inches for more of the…
Howard Portnoy
March 12th, 2013 10:51 PM

Bozell Column: Mourning 'Populist' Hugo Chavez

Our left-wing media’s somber, mourning coverage of Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez once again demonstrates the double standard journalists reserve for dictators. Seven years ago, the left’s greatest South American hate object, Augusto Pinochet, passed away. Never mind how he used free-market reforms to modernize Chile. Never mind that after 15 years of rule, he allowed a national plebiscite to…
Brent Bozell
March 12th, 2013 10:40 PM

Nanny Bloomberg Soda Ban Too Much for Some Liberal Reporters

When a New York state Supreme Court justice on Monday invalidated a New York City law that prevented the “sale of sweetened drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces” at certain establishments, it came as no surprise that conservatives hailed the ruling as a victory “for liberty-loving soda drinkers.” However, even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised to appeal judge Milton Tingling's ruling…
Randy Hall
March 12th, 2013 10:09 PM

Faithful Catholicism Simply Not An Option For CBS; Promotes Dissidents

Scott Pelley's liberal bias got the better of him on Monday's CBS Evening News as he interviewed three American seminarians studying in Rome. When one seminarian expressed his hope that next pope continues the "beautiful legacy of John Paul II and Benedict XVI," Pelley replied incredulously, "But you mentioned two popes who have a reputation for being doctrinally conservative. And this is…
Matthew Balan
March 12th, 2013 7:34 PM

Krauthammer: ‘Obama’s One of the Great Campaigners in History But

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday made a remark about the current White House resident that goes quite counter to the media's gushing and fawn over Barack Obama. Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Krauthammer said, "He’s one of the great campaigners in American history, but at governing he’s not that good."
Noel Sheppard
March 12th, 2013 6:57 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Rep. Ryan, Please Follow Rand Paul's PR Model

There are three major factors that stand in the way of entitlement reform and the other responsible budgetary measures that must be taken to avert an eventual national financial catastrophe, and they have a common source. The first is that too many American people remain, amazingly, in the fog about the scope of the problem. The second is that a certain political ideology refuses to…
David Limbaugh
March 12th, 2013 6:45 PM

New York Times Again Skips Dem Party ID for Convicted Detroit Mayor Ki

Detroit's former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday on multiple serious charges, including racketeering, fraud, and extortion. But Times reporter Mary Chapman buried Kilpatrick's Democratic party affiliation in paragraph 19 of her 21-paragraph report. Even then, the Times never even directly labeled Kilpatrick a Democrat:
Clay Waters
March 12th, 2013 6:03 PM

NBC: Despite Overturned NYC Soda Ban, Bloomberg's 'Fight to Make New Y

Introducing a report on Monday's NBC Nightly News about a New York City ban on large sugary drinks being overturned by a New York State Supreme Court judge, anchor Brian Williams touted how Mayor Michael Bloomberg "is saying this isn't over yet." In the report that followed, correspondent Rehema Ellis proclaimed: "In a city of more than 8 million, where health officials say the obesity…
Kyle Drennen
March 12th, 2013 5:59 PM

Fox News's Shep Smith Grouses Catholic Church 'Exclude[s] Half the Pop

With thick, black smoke pouring out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the College of Cardinals had not elected a new pope on their first ballot, Fox News Channel's Shep Smith took to the air at 3:15 p.m. EDT to grill Catholic priest and Fox News contributor Fr. Jonathan Morris on the Catholic Church being out of touch with the modern world, particularly regarding how women…
Ken Shepherd
March 12th, 2013 5:30 PM