Gay Censorship Update: Sex Columnist Berates CNN (on CNN) for Letting

CNN has demonstrated strongly and repeatedly that it does not believe in objectivity or fairness in reporting on homosexuality. On Tuesday's Newsroom, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips touted a new study from the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center that added some of the nation's leading social conservative groups -- including the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the National…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 4:06 PM

Americans Have Good Reason to Give Thanks

Nation can fix its problems, we just need to have faith.
Dan Gainor
November 24th, 2010 3:35 PM

Dear Mr. Buffett

If you think the rich should be taxed more, lead by example.
Dan Kennedy
November 24th, 2010 3:32 PM

ABC, CBS Inaccurately Report Pope's Condom Remarks as 'Change in Polic

On Tuesday evening, ABC and CBS furthered the mainstream media's largely inaccurate reporting on Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks on the morality of condom use. While the pontiff stated that condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection," World News anchor Diane Sawyer stated that "the Pope shifts his rules on condom use." Evening News anchor Katie Couric labeled…
Matthew Balan
November 24th, 2010 1:58 PM

Mayor of London Suggests Bush Could Be Arrested for Torture If He Land

On Monday's Democracy Now broadcast, taxpayer-subsidized Pacifica Radio anchor Amy Goodman promoted a newspaper column in the Daily Telegraph by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, suggesting that George W. Bush should be arrested if he lands in Great Britain on his book tour, much like former Chilean dictator Agosto Pinochet, put under house arrest in London in 1998.
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 1:50 PM

Media Mostly Ignore Gore Admitting He Only Supported Ethanol Mandates

On Monday, NewsBusters was the first American media outlet to report Nobel laureate Al Gore's admission that he only supported ethanol mandates in the '90s because he thought it would help his presidential ambitions. As it turns out, with very few exceptions, no major news divisions thought this was at all important:
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2010 1:15 PM

WaPo Columnist to Upset Air Travelers: 'Grow Up, America

Calling the uproar over the new TSA screening procedures "overblown" and "immature," Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus praised the majority of Americans polled who are okay with the body scanners at airports and scolded those who stand opposed to the searches. "'Don't tough my junk' may be the cri-de-coeur – cri de crotch? – of the post-9/11 world, but it's an awfully childish one," the…
Matt Hadro
November 24th, 2010 12:19 PM

Whoopi Goldberg Doesn't Believe Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, Thinks

Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday demonstrated an absolutely staggering ignorance concerning a variety of subjects. Appearing on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor," Goldberg admitted not knowing what a madrasa is, said it wasn't the Japanese that attacked America at Pearl Harbor, and claimed Muslims in America are more persecuted than Jews (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2010 11:44 AM

Chris Matthews Attacks Michele Bachmann as 'Zombie-Like' and 'Moonie-L

MSNBC host Chris Matthews cannot understand how conservatives could think that free enterprise is somehow American, and that being anti-free enterprise seems anti-American. On Tuesday night's Hardball, Matthews boosted a new effort by Democrats like David Brock and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to organize their own independent-expenditure campaign to beat Republicans. Matthews brought on Townsend…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 11:08 AM

Husband Says Abortion Internet Vote a Hoax, Wife Says No; She Was Fire

Read my previous post here. Well, no wonder the true intentions of the couple putting their preborn baby's life up for a vote were difficult to decipher. Turns out Pete Arnold is pro-life and his wife Alisha is pro-abortion. (Baby boy "Wiggles" is pictured above, waving at the camera at his 17-wk check-up earlier this week.) First, his side of the story. CNN reported yesterday Pete…
Jill Stanek
November 24th, 2010 10:51 AM

Ed Schultz Falsely Accuses Fox Biz Analyst of Recommending Cannibalism

Ed Schultz on Tuesday falsely accused Fox Business Network contributor Charles Payne of recommending people on unemployment lines eat each other to survive. Such ironically occurred on the "Psycho Talk" segment of the "Ed Show" (videos follow with partial transcripts and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2010 10:05 AM

Daily Kos: Tea Parties Much Like Texans Who Cheered JFK's Assassinatio

The Daily Kos could not let the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination pass without making comparisons between the "far right" greeting JFK received in Dallas in 1963 and the greeting President Obama receives from the Tea Parties today. The blogger with the handle "Devtob" claimed some Texans cheered the death of Kennedy in the "nut country," and presumes today's Texans would cheer…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 8:34 AM

Open Thread: Tea Party Group Aims to Punish Pro-Obama Corporations

FreedomWorks, the Tea Party group run by former House GOP leader Dick Armey, is weighing a campaign to boycott businesses that actively supported key parts of the Obama agenda. Those companies include mammoths like General Electric and Johnson & Johnson, U.S. News reports: In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are…
NB Staff
November 24th, 2010 8:31 AM

Health Tyrants

Do federal, state and local governments have a right to intervene in our lives when it comes to choices affecting our health? Recently, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to forbid restaurants from giving gifts with meals that contain too much fat and sugar, a measure aimed at McDonald's Happy Meals. The reasoning of these tyrants is to prevent McDonald's from using toys to lure…
Walter E. Williams
November 24th, 2010 12:01 AM