Bill Maher: Sean Hannity's Too Chicken to Put Me On Fox

HBO host Bill Maher is touring the country doing "comedy" and granted an interview in Eureka, California to reporter Myles Cochrane, who brought up a recent attack (on July 18) from Sean Hannity. "He hates God. He hates religion. He smokes pot. He wants to be Hugh Hefner. You know, he's not hard to figure out." After running tape of Maher attacking Sarah Palin as illiterate, Hannity added "he…
Tim Graham
August 24th, 2011 11:24 AM

Maddow Scolds McCain for Meeting Gaddafi in 2009, Ignores Obama Meetin

The hypocrisy of Rachel Maddow knows no bounds. On Tuesday's "Late Show," the MSNBCer scolded Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for meeting with Libya's Moammar Gaddafi in August 2009 while completely ignoring the fact that President Obama met him at the G8 summit the month before (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 24th, 2011 10:39 AM

Open Thread: White House Spins Biden Statement on One-Child Policy

Joe Biden wasn't praising or excusing China's one-child policy, he was criticizing it, the Obama White House is insisting. Caroline May of the Daily Caller has the story:
NB Staff
August 24th, 2011 10:14 AM

Study: Tea Party Is Libertarian -- And Authoritarian

The liberal blog Talking Points Memo is highlighting an academic study of the Tea Party that somehow finds that the Tea Party is both authoritarian and libertarian (in addition to being nativist and afraid of change). How does that make sense? Apparently, this means that Tea Party activists want a return to constitutional principles and also believe that children should listen to their…
Tim Graham
August 24th, 2011 8:23 AM

Gwen Ifill's Overactive Imagination: Media Unfair to Obama on Race and

President Obama's vacation in Martha's Vineyard also became an occasion for a panel of liberal journalists, politicians, and academics to mourn his alleged mistreatment in the media at a race-and-the-media panel discussion organized by Harvard professor Charles Ogletree. PBS Washington Week anchor Gwen Ifill  lamented the overwhelming media bias against Obama in the Henry Louis Gates…
Tim Graham
August 24th, 2011 7:27 AM

Biden Backs Off of 'Not Second-Guessing One-Child' Comment Made in Chi

Earlier this evening, Vice President Joe Biden, through a spokesperson, backed away from his Sunday comment at a Chinese university about that nation's "one-child" policy, wherein the state allows couples, with relatively rare exceptions, to have only one child. This of course has led to a horrible abortion death toll. A Laura Ingraham email I received this evening, corroborated by a China's…
Tom Blumer
August 23rd, 2011 11:04 PM

Bozell Column: NPR, the Statism Network

One of the greatest perversions of statism is the use of taxpayer money to push for ever more government spending and more government intervention. A casual listener to the far-left end of the FM dial, National Public Radio, will quickly conclude that NPR is one of America's leading offenders in this perversion. Let's just take one show, the August 22 evening newscast "All Things Considered…
Brent Bozell
August 23rd, 2011 9:51 PM

CNN's Phillips Questions GOP Candidates' Silence on Libya

On Tuesday morning, CNN's Kyra Phillips asked why the Republican presidential candidates have not been speaking out on foreign policy in Libya during the climactic battle in the country's capital between rebel and imperial forces. CNN had interviewed Republican candidate Jon Huntsman the night before, but had not yet asked him about the conflict in Libya, in the first of a two-part interview…
Matt Hadro
August 23rd, 2011 7:16 PM

Obama: A Robot That Needs Reprogramming

President Obama's legacy is shaping up to be a recurring cycle of rhetorical failures chasing policy failures, an endless, stupefying effort to convince us of the wisdom of pursuing — again and again — policies that have already failed. This point is reinforced as we read reports about Obama's umpteenth luxurious golf outing while our economy and financial condition approach DEFCON 2 and…
David Limbaugh
August 23rd, 2011 6:16 PM

Al Sharpton Officially Given His Own MSNBC Program - 'PoliticsNation

Since Al Sharpton took over for Cenk Uygur in MSNBC's 6:00 time slot last month, he's been derided and ridiculed as a laughing stock totally unqualified to host a cable news program. Ironically, that makes him a perfect fit at this farce of a news outlet, and on Tuesday, the folks at MSNBC rewarded his incompetence by officially giving him his own show (press release via TV By The Numbers):
Noel Sheppard
August 23rd, 2011 6:16 PM

Piers Morgan: Huntsman Saying 'I'm Going to be President' in Chinese

As NewsBusters has been reporting for weeks, America's Obama-loving media are pushing for Utah's perilously moderate former governor Jon Huntsman to be the Republican presidential nominee. On CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Monday, the host was floored by Huntsman's claim in Chinese “I’m going to become the next President of the United States” telling his guest, "This clip could become viral. We…
Noel Sheppard
August 23rd, 2011 5:36 PM

Obama: Smuggling Guns and Registering Yours

President Barack Obama wants you to believe that America's Founding Fathers were in error when they gave citizens the right to bear arms. The Obama administration and even its Mexican counterpart have manipulated public opinion to believe that the cartel drug wars are being fueled largely by American guns. In support of that spin, they are trying to impose a new regulation that requires…
Chuck Norris
August 23rd, 2011 5:30 PM

Bernie Goldberg: Media Use 'Conservative' to Depict Right as 'Alien' a

Bernie Goldberg on Monday said the media are constantly using the "conservative" label to make right-leaning people appear "out of the mainstream," "alien," and "dangerous to your mental health." The Emmy Award-winning political commentator, appearing on Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor," used a recent Media Research Center study to make his case (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 23rd, 2011 5:09 PM

NBC, CBS Skip Poll Showing Obama Tied or Losing to Republicans

The morning shows on NBC and CBS skipped a new Gallup poll finding Barack Obama either behind or tied with his Republican challengers. Only ABC's Good Morning America mentioned the stark numbers. In an otherwise unrelated story on Sarah Palin, George Stephanopoulos briefly mentioned, "We're going to switch gears now to politics and there is a brand-new Gallup poll showing that the four top…
Scott Whitlock
August 23rd, 2011 4:15 PM