WaPo: NPR Insiders Furious NPR's 'Capitulating' to Fox News and Others

On Saturday, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi found that NPR insiders are furious at the forced resignation of Ellen Weiss, the senior vice president for news who so controversially canned Juan Williams. The liberal arrogance of NPR was on full display, that they were the future of "democracy," and Fox News was clearly the enemy of democracy and an independent press: "We have allowed…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2011 10:32 AM

'Don't Sweat' High Gas Prices -- They're a 'Good Sign

You've probably noticed that those prices at the pump have risen considerably over the last month or so. But don't worry! It's not that big a deal! Well, according to Yahoo! Finance's Daniel Gross, that is. Why? Well, Americans are consuming less gas per capita than a few years ago, cars are more fuel efficient, and people are just plain getting weary of more and more traffic (and, hence, are…
D. S. Hube
January 8th, 2011 10:11 AM

Bozell Column: Doritos and Pepsi Mock God

The Super Bowl is more than just a huge day for professional football fans. Part of the game’s massive audience is there for the chance to see how mega-corporations creatively spend millions of dollars for one Super Bowl commercial.  Some Super Bowl ads are brilliant and successful. Budweiser knows it has hit one out of the park when its ad is Monday’s water-cooler talk. But never…
Brent Bozell
January 8th, 2011 7:41 AM

NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias -- Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Rep

On the morning before NPR announced its internal review of its leftist purge of Juan Williams for appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, media reporter David Folkenflik was "reporting" that the problem with the American news media is its painful lack of bias. Come again? "Mainstream news reporters don't tell you what they think enough of the time." That came from the star of the Folkenflik story,…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2011 7:19 AM

WaPo’s Ezra Klein: Obamacare is ‘Best Thing’ Dems Have Done ‘I

 Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, Washington Post staff writer and Newsweek columnist Ezra Klein defended Obamacare and warned Republicans against attempting to repeal the law as he contended that some provisions are popular with the public. After host Keith Olbermann asked if Democrats should "relish rejoining the fight over health care reform" because it could hurt…
Brad Wilmouth
January 7th, 2011 10:59 PM

NBC Highlights Reid’s ‘Bold Prediction’ Tea Party Will ‘Disapp

Brian Williams on Friday night highlighted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s insistence “the  Tea Party was born because of the economy” and it “will disappear as soon as the economy gets better,” a forecast Williams characterized as a “bold prediction.” Williams set up the clip, from a pre-recorded interview for Sunday’s Meet the Press, by relaying how Reid “told David Gregory the Tea…
Brent Baker
January 7th, 2011 8:13 PM

Schultz Guest: Obama Will 'Come Close' To Castrating O'Reilly Pre-Supe

Guess we could get used to Bill a few octaves higher . . . Radio host Lionel has predicted that Barack Obama will "come close" to gelding [castrating] Bill O'Reilly when the president does an interview with the Fox News host on Super Bowl Sunday. Lionel, who's real last name is . . . Lebron, made his prediction of what would be news-breaking neutering on this evening's Ed Show. View…
Mark Finkelstein
January 7th, 2011 7:51 PM

CBS 'Early Show': 'Centrist' Bill Daley Means White House 'Open for Bu

Friday's CBS Early Show praised the pick of former Commerce Secretary William Daley as the new chief of staff for the Obama White House, with senior White House correspondent Bill Plante proclaiming: "While Daley has long ties to the Democratic Party, he's viewed as a centrist whose Wall Street connections should help him with the newly divided Congress." Following Plante's report, co-host…
Kyle Drennen
January 7th, 2011 4:33 PM

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Demands Evidence of White House Corruption

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, who last year wrote a lengthy book on the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, looked very displeased on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC program earlier this week when other guests concurred with accusations of corruption against the White House. The Ratigan segment centered on a statement by Rep. Darrel Issa, R-Calif., incoming chairman of the House Oversight and…
Lachlan Markay
January 7th, 2011 3:11 PM

More Assange Hypocrisy: Blasted Guardian for Publishing Info He 'Owned

For someone who deals in illicit information, Julian Assange sure gets touchy when people share information against his will. Last month the Times of London revealed that the Wikileaks proprietor was furious at a reporter for the UK Guardian who had published details of a police report concerning sexual assault allegations against Assange. His objection: they were private communications and…
Lachlan Markay
January 7th, 2011 1:59 PM

Why So Cynical? NY Times Steinhauer Nitpicks Reading of Country's Foun

Inspired by the Tea Party’s focus on the Constitution and the limits it places on the power of the federal government, the House of Representatives read the entire document in the House chamber as one of its first official acts on Thursday. But reporter Jennifer Steinhauer marked the occasion more with cynicism and snippiness than solemnity in Friday’s “Constitution Has Its Day (More or Less)…
Clay Waters
January 7th, 2011 1:39 PM

CNN's Spitzer Calls Tea Party 'Vapid, Puerile;' Parker Applauds Obama

On Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Eliot Spitzer lashed out at President Obama from the left, going so far as to accuse him of forfeiting his campaign promises, simultaneously attacking the Tea Party movement in the process: "He...let the Tea Party- one of the most vapid, puerile groups out there, without meaningful ideas- take over those voices for transformation, and now, he is embracing…
Matthew Balan
January 7th, 2011 1:34 PM

Congress and the Constitution: What Would Lincoln Do

You’d think Republicans read the Communist Manifesto from the floor of Congress this week. Perhaps the activist old media, or their friends in the Democrat Party would’ve been happier with a little Karl Marx, or maybe bring out Steven Colbert to read some Groucho Marx on the floor would’ve made them happier. The outrage over the reading of the U.S. Constitution is as despicable as it is…
Ron Futrell
January 7th, 2011 1:33 PM

Media Mash: Bozell and Hannity Take On Slanted Media Coverage of GOP C

Appearing on FNC's Hannity on Thursday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell slammed left-wing media coverage of the incoming Republican Congress, from ABC's Good Morning America bashing John Boehner while praising Nancy Pelosi, to all three networks dismissing a scheduled vote to repeal ObamaCare as simply "a fool's errand." In 2007, Good Morning America…
NB Staff
January 7th, 2011 12:33 PM