CNN.com Notes Unpopularity of ObamaCare, Hypes Minority Who Think It's

On the one year anniversary of ObamaCare being signed into law, nearly 6 out of every 10 Americans oppose ObamaCare, according to a new CNN poll. Yet in reporting the development, the network's website spun the development by noting the polling is about where it stood last year and that the latest poll could be bad news for Republicans. From a March 23 post at CNN.com's Political Ticker…
Ken Shepherd
March 23rd, 2011 1:03 PM

Only ABC Mentions Obama Flip-Flop on Presidential War Powers, CBS and

While a report on ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday referenced 2007 comments from then-Senator Barack Obama against a president taking military action without congressional approval, CBS and NBC both failed to point out President Obama contradicting those earlier statements by failing to seek congressional approval before committing U.S. forces in Libya. As NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock…
Kyle Drennen
March 23rd, 2011 12:45 PM

NOW Defends Palin for Being Called a 'Dumb [Vagina]' Without Mentionin

The National Organization for Women on Tuesday finally responded to Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a highly derogatory term for a woman's vagina, but did so without mentioning Maher's name, the program he said it on, or the television network he represents. NOW Communications Director Lisa Bennett also took the opportunity to bash conservatives (photo courtesy Reuters):
Noel Sheppard
March 23rd, 2011 9:49 AM

Howie The Hawk: 'You Can't Stay Out Of These Things

Call him Howie "The Hawk" Dean . . . Last evening we detailed Cenk Uygur's hypocrisy in supporting military action in Libya.  This morning brings news of another liberal nouveau-hawk: Howard Dean.   The man who was a scream away from winning the 2004 Dem presidential nomination based on his opposition to the Iraq war suddenly supports a muscular foreign policy.  On Morning Joe, Dean told Joe…
Mark Finkelstein
March 23rd, 2011 9:11 AM

Open Thread: Romney Explains How He Would Repeal Obamacare

"Repeal" isn't exactly the right word, though, since his approach would center on an executive order giving all 50 states full control over health care in their own states. Romney wrote at the NRO Corner Tuesday evening: If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of…
NB Staff
March 23rd, 2011 8:55 AM

NPR Anchors Line Up to Deny Bias; One Says the Charge Insults NPR-List

Newsweek’s Howard Kurtz suggests “What’s Killing NPR” is its failure to strike back at conservative charges of liberal bias: “Staffers flown in for a recent meeting in Washington groaned when executives said it would be too risky for them to aggressively defend NPR, and that perhaps they should get media training for Joyce Slocum, who took over on an interim basis after the firing of CEO Vivian…
Tim Graham
March 23rd, 2011 7:23 AM

Bozell Column: Flunking the Citizenship Test

Anyone who’s ever seen Jay Leno do one of his “Jaywalking” segments on NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on street corners, knows there are far too many Americans who know next to nothing about just about everything. They can’t name our first president, or don’t even know what the phrase “founding fathers” means. Ask them to name our current vice president and…
Brent Bozell
March 22nd, 2011 10:29 PM

On Libya, Obama-supporting Uygur Is Uber-hypocrite

Do people's politics color their views on the issues, even on life-and-death ones like war?  Yeah.  Happens on all sides.  But for Cenk Uygur to rip Republicans for having supported President Bush on Iraq while criticizing President Obama on Libya is nothing short of grotesque . . . given that Uygur now supports Obama on Libya, while when it came to Iraq and its aftermath he wanted Bush . . .…
Mark Finkelstein
March 22nd, 2011 10:14 PM

Salon's Joan Walsh: 'Unlike With Obama, People Who Criticized Bush Had

I've said for years it takes an amazing amount of rationalizations to be a liberal these days. On Tuesday's "Hardball," Salon editor Joan Walsh demonstrated perfectly what I mean (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 22nd, 2011 9:18 PM

CEO of Starbucks, Which Supported Obamacare, Now Worried Mandate Will

It seems Starbucks is regretting the health care Frankenstein it helped create. The company was a key corporate backer of Obamacare in its legislative stages, but its top executive has raised concerns about the law's economic damage.
Lachlan Markay
March 22nd, 2011 5:17 PM

Baltimore Sun Double Standard on Noting Party Affiliation of Maryland

The Baltimore Sun has no trouble noting for readers the political affiliation of politicians who face an ethical scandal and/or official investigation. That is, of course, if the pol in question is a Republican. Last Wednesday, I noted how the Sun's Julie Scharper failed to note Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's Democratic party affiliation in a story about her voting on city…
Ken Shepherd
March 22nd, 2011 3:58 PM

Get the Latest NewsBusted Episode Automatically Posted to Your Site

Readers may have noticed a slight change on the site. We've switched out the old Eyeblast video player for a YouTube player, which should function more smoothly than the old one. You've probably noticed the delay in new episodes showing up on the homepage. That will no longer be a problem. Some other big news regarding 'Busted: with this new player, you can now embed your own NewsBusted…
NB Staff
March 22nd, 2011 2:29 PM

Today Show Hero-Worships Rising Democratic 'Star' Cory Booker

NBC's Jamie Gangel gave Cory Booker the full liberal media rock star treatment in her Tuesday Today show profile of the Democratic Newark, New Jersey mayor as she cheered that he's "a celebrity with friends like Bon Jovi" and gushed he has "more than a million followers on Twitter." Calling Booker "a young ambitious politician often compared to Barack Obama," Gangel proclaimed: "He truly is…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 22nd, 2011 2:24 PM

New York Times Hypes Big Food When It Pushes Liberal "Crisis" of 'Hung

A Monday New York Times business story by Elizabeth Olson provided some unusual good press to Big Food, at least in aid of the wildly overstated liberal cause of “hunger” in America: “From a Food Giant, a Broad Effort to Feed Hungry Children.” Conagra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest…
Clay Waters
March 22nd, 2011 2:04 PM