Those Demonstrators in the Park

It's called the Taranto Principle, and it's now being employed by the Kultursmogists to blanket the country in a preposterosity: namely that the Tea Partyers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd have much in common. So go ahead, loyal Democrats, and take up the Occupiers' anger. Giving presidential voice to the Occupiers' complaints will be a sure winner for President Barack Obama in 2012.…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
October 28th, 2011 5:53 PM

2011: Sharpton Mocks Perry's Skills; 2004: He Delivered His Own Rambli

While many on the liberal MSNBC network have attacked Rick Perry's performance in presidential debates, it might be interesting to look back at how one of the network's own cable anchors botched such a performance. On October 18, 2011, Al Sharpton himself trashed Perry's rhetorical skills: "And then there's Rick Perry, still dancing with the stars, but with every debate his Texas two step is…
Scott Whitlock
October 28th, 2011 5:41 PM

Networks Push for Infrastructure Spending, Ignore Cost and Danger of F

ABC, CBS and NBC silent about mistakes that took lives during Hurricane Katrina, wasted countless tax dollars for years.
Julia A. Seymour
October 28th, 2011 5:37 PM

CNBC's Brian Sullivan to MSNBC's Bashir: Have Me On to Debate Lefty Na

Nation magazine writer Ari Berman carped on today's Martin Bashir program on MSNBC that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) wants to take America back into "a new Gilded Age,"  an "era of the robber barons where the top one percent" would control the nation's wealth. Immediately after that segment, Bashir turned to CNBC's Brian Sullivan for the day's "CNBC Market Wrap," a look looking at how the nation's…
Ken Shepherd
October 28th, 2011 5:16 PM

Martin Bashir Calls on Boehner and Cantor to Resign if They Won't Rais

MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Friday called for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to resign if they won't raise taxes on the rich (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 28th, 2011 5:15 PM

AP on Which Vendors Get Paid in Ill.: Both Parties Supposedly Have Pol

The news item I will cite goes back over a week, but the problem surely remains. In light of the ongoing battles over public-sector wages and benefits as well as the taxes which pay for them, it deserves far more attention than it is currently receiving. It follows up on an October 15 post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) where I noted, in reviewing an Associates Press story which originally…
Tom Blumer
October 28th, 2011 5:04 PM

Chuckles Ahoy for NYT's OWS-Comedy Coverage: Sometimes 'You Need a Lit

Attempting to humanize the Occupy Wall Street protesters, New York Times Metro reporter Corey Kilgannon laughed off comedic threats of violence in Friday’s  Metro section story on a show hosted by comedian/activist Randy Credico for Occupy Wall Street protesters in Greenwich Village this week, “Protesters’ Night Out: Jokes, Laughs, and an Anthem on Autoharp.” Read the excerpt, especially in…
Clay Waters
October 28th, 2011 4:31 PM

Toure, MSNBC's Resident 9/11 Truther, Slams Rick Perry as a Birther

MSNBC analyst Touré, who is a 9/11 truther, appeared on the News Nation show to denounce Rick Perry as a birther. Speaking of the Republican presidential candidate, he slammed, "...I see Trump and the other birthers, Perry, virtually going to the White House and knocking on the door saying can we see your documentation to make sure you are actually an American?" It's odd that MSNBC would…
Scott Whitlock
October 28th, 2011 4:15 PM

WaPo Laments How 'Solyndra Fallout' Places Obama's Energy Secretary 'a

Poor Steven Chu. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Obama's Energy Secretary stands "at [the] center of [the] Solyndra policy storm," where he's learning "lessons in political science" according to Washington Post staffer Steven Mufson's 45-paragraph front-page article in the October 28 paper. Although the Post has done a decent job thus far in following the Solyndra scandal and reporting…
Ken Shepherd
October 28th, 2011 3:42 PM

After Lying About His Wealth on National TV, Michael Moore Admits He's

On Wednesday NewsBusters exposed Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore for lying on national television about his wealth. Clearly feeling the pressure to come clean, the schlockumentary filmmaker took to his blog Thursday to set the record straight - kind of:
Noel Sheppard
October 28th, 2011 2:40 PM

NYTimes Almost Ignores Anti-Cop Violence at Occupy Oakland

The thrust of the New York Times’s coverage of the violence in Oakland begs the question: When even the left-wing magazine Mother Jones reports of police in Oakland being assaulted with eggs, glass, and vinegar, what is the “objective” Times excuse for virtually ignoring the protester violence? Yet Jesse McKinley and Malia Wollan’s report from the “Occupy Oakland” protests Friday focused not…
Clay Waters
October 28th, 2011 1:44 PM

NBC and ABC Tout Injured Protester as 'Rallying Cry' for Occupy Wall S

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed: "Protesters across the country and a lot of Americans who are sympathetic to this Occupy Wall Street protest movement are tonight rallying around a 24-year-old Iraq war veteran who was seriously injured during a violent confrontation with police in Oakland, California on Tuesday." On ABC's World News, fill-in anchor George…
Kyle Drennen
October 28th, 2011 12:46 PM

Open Thread: Will Tea Parties Be Reimbursed

Nationwide, Tea Party groups are upset by the double standard applied to their rallies and Occupy Wall Street protests. While Tea Party groups typically are required to pay a fee to use a park for a one-day rally, OWS protestors have set up camp in the same parks for days at no cost. One Tea Partier, Colleen Owens of Richmond, VA, is taking action, demanding that the Richmond City Council…
NB Staff
October 28th, 2011 12:08 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Media Are 'Hoping Some Sort of Kent State-type Massacre

Taking a page from Donny Deutsch, Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday said the media are "hoping some sort of Kent State-type massacre is gonna take place" at an Occupy protest rally. The conservative talk show host also used a video created by the Media Research Center to illustrate his point about how crazy some of these demonstrators are (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 28th, 2011 11:45 AM