AP, NPR Erroneously Tag Westboro Baptist as 'Fundamentalist' Church

Today's Supreme Court ruling in Snyder v. Phelps is proving to be yet another occasion for the media to falsely describe the homosexuality-fixated Westboro Baptist Church as a "fundamentalist" congregation. The Associated Press, MSNBC and NPR.org have been among the news outlets using that tag for the Topeka, Kansas, organization that protests funerals of soliders, celebrating their deaths by…
Ken Shepherd
March 2nd, 2011 11:58 AM

'Weirdly Racist' Tiger Mom Overtones in the WaPo

Amy Chua is a Hot Author for writing the book "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" about how she's raising more successful children by having higher expectations. She stirred up trouble with a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior." A February 20 Washington Post story by Monica Hesse on a Chua appearance at the fashionably "progressive" Politics and Prose bookstore…
Tim Graham
March 2nd, 2011 11:13 AM

CBS's Couric Attended Party of Convicted Sex Offender Shortly Before C

On December 18, 2010, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric posted a video on her blog, Couric & Co., calling on Congress to pass tougher legislation to combat underage sex trafficking. However, what she failed to reveal to online viewers was that only two weeks earlier she attended a party at the Manhattan townhouse of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender accused of trafficking underage…
Kyle Drennen
March 2nd, 2011 11:12 AM

Speak No Evil- Networks Obscure Deadly Extremism of Muslim Brotherhood

ABC, NBC and CBS news programs have mentioned the Muslim Brotherhood 135 times in 17 years, but only linked them to fundamentalist Islam 37 percent of the time. Just since the unrest in Egypt began in January, they've mentioned the Brotherhood 85 times, and decreased how often they report the nature of the group - just 32 percent of those stories mentioned the group's extremism. Declaring "…
Erin R. Brown
March 2nd, 2011 10:42 AM

Obama Thumbs His Nose at Congress, His Constitutional Duty with Stand

President Obama has said his view of same-sex "marriage" is "evolving." Apparently he thinks that the law should be based on a kind of Darwinian jurisprudence which allows it to "evolve" and become whatever the ruling politicians at a given moment say it is (or isn't). How else to explain the decision by the president and his attorney general, Eric Holder, not to defend the Defense of…
Cal Thomas
March 2nd, 2011 9:56 AM

Media Boycott of Wisconsin Assemblyman Telling Assemblywoman 'You Are

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Laura Ingraham interviews Assemblywoman Litjens. As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, a Wisconsin Democrat Assemblyman vulgarly assaulted a Republican Assemblywoman last week disgracefully saying to her after a procedural on the state's budget, "You are f--king dead!" Although the story was first broken by a Wisconsin radio station at 12:53 PM Monday, America's supposedly…
Noel Sheppard
March 2nd, 2011 9:47 AM

Open Thread: Wis. GOP Senator Surrounded by Mob, Saved by Dem Colleagu

Well, "saved" may be a bit dramatic, since GOP Sen. Glenn Grothman later said that he didn't feel he was in any real danger. But as you can see in the video below the jump Grothman was surrounded by a very loud and angry group of pro-union demonstrators. Democratic Assemblyman Brett Hulsey stepped in at around the 2:50 mark to try to calm the protesters down. "This guy and I disagree on…
NB Staff
March 2nd, 2011 9:16 AM

'Today' Plays Softball With Susan Rice on Libya -- Not a Game John Bol

NBC's Today interviewed Obama U.N. ambassador Susan Rice on Tuesday about Libya. It was dull. It had no crackling opposition. There was one question doubting the effectiveness of sanctions. Despite plenty of conservative criticism about Obama's weak and delayed responses, and Rice's odd downplaying of the Libyan situation by skipping Security Council meetings to go to South Africa, there was no…
Tim Graham
March 2nd, 2011 6:50 AM

MSNBC's Matthews, O'Donnell, Schultz and Uygur Cherry-pick Huckabee to

Four of MSNBC's extended prime time hosts on Tuesday cherry-picked something Mike Huckabee said on Steve Malzberg's radio show in order to depict the possible Republican presidential candidate as a birther. Before getting to their highly unprofessional snippets, implications, and conclusions, here's what the former Arkansas governor actually said Monday (videos follow with transcripts and…
Noel Sheppard
March 2nd, 2011 12:52 AM

Editors Love Leaks, But Are Furious That Fired Darrell Issa Aide Share

The media's policy on leaks is obviously "Good for me, but not for thee." It is okay for journalists to score scoops and win Pulitzer Prizes by printing everyone else’s secrets. It's okay for Julian Assange to goad the U.S. "military industrial complex" with WikiLeaks. But leak reporter E-mails, and you have no ethics whatsoever. Politico broke the story that Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for…

Tim Graham
March 1st, 2011 11:05 PM

Reich To Rich: Redistribute Or Risk Angry Populace Turning On You

Nice house there, rich guy.  Wouldn't wanna see nuthin' happen to it . . . Robert Reich has actually argued that the rich should welcome redistributing more of their income to prevent an angry American populace from turning on them. Clinton's former Labor Secretary made his astounding assertion on Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening.   View video after the jump.  
Mark Finkelstein
March 1st, 2011 8:42 PM

CNN.com Story on Gov. Walker's 'Overreach' Loaded with Unanimous Anti

CNN's Ed Hornick apparently couldn't find anyone who disagreed with the notion that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker "overreached" in his push to eliminate collective bargaining for public sector unions. He couldn't even quote Walker himself. Hornick's Tuesday article quoted from two political science professors, a "progressive" editorial writer, and a former United States comptroller general,…
Matthew Balan
March 1st, 2011 7:41 PM

Fox Dominates (Again), Takes Top 11 Cable News Slots in February

The Fox News Channel absolutely dominated its cable news competition in February. In terms of overall viewers, the top 11 cable news shows were all on Fox. In the coveted 25-54 demographic - the group that advertisers pay particularly close attention to - Fox took 11 of the top 15 spots. The Rachel Maddow Show earned the top spot for an MSNBC program. Despite her struggles with factual…
Lachlan Markay
March 1st, 2011 7:07 PM

Matthews Ignores Democrat's 'You're F–ing Dead!' Threat of Republica

Chris Matthews has yet to condemn Democratic Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz for yelling "You're f–ing dead!" at Republican State Representative Michelle Litjens during a legislative session on Friday, but the Hardball host did find the time, on Tuesday's show, to slam Speaker of the House John Boehner for engaging in "Glenn Beck talk" about guns. Matthews, initially teasing a…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 1st, 2011 6:49 PM