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Well, they did stop short of presenting him with a ceremonial seppuku sword . . . But other than that, MSNBC's Daily Rundown duo of Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie did their best to convince Florida Dem Kendreck Meek to get out of the senatorial race to give Charlie Crist a shot against Marco Rubio. Todd tried the cold-hard-numbers route, while Guthrie made an emotional appeal, literally…

In the past eight days, ABC News has filed two shocking stories about "a serious epidemic" of sexual abuse and rape of children in Kenya. Not only did the network report that "over 1,000 teachers have been fired for sexually abusing girls over the last two years," but it also relayed systemic cover-ups, police corruption, and perpetrator interference. And while the New York Times, the Los…

We're finally here. Welcome to the new NewsBusters site design! Please have a look around and tell us your thoughts. There are still a few bugs to be worked out and we'll be squishing them like crazy so please post any you may see in this blog post. Credit for the design of our fancy new digs goes to NB member mrshy, aka Michael Miller who worked with us to come up with this new look.

Just in case anyone mistakenly believes Obama has heard (or gives a rip about) the loud voice of the American people rejecting his socialism, appeasement, unconstitutional abuses of power and unpresidential combativeness and divisiveness, let me share a few tidbits. --After House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a damning critique of Obama's economic policies, the administration's…

George Will on Sunday once again proved how little Nobel laureate Paul Krugman actually knows about economics. As the Roundtable segment of ABC’s “This Week” approached its conclusion, host Christiane Amanpour referred to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde’s claim earlier in the program that her country’s economy is already growing and doesn’t need any further stimulus spending.…

CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Sunday mocked President Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod for echoing last week’s unsubstantiated charge by a liberal website that the Chamber of Commerce is funneling foreign money to support Republican candidates. “The New York Times looked into the Chamber specifically and said the Chamber really isn’t putting foreign money into the campaign,” said the Face the…

George Will on Sunday exposed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman as a hypocrite when it comes to political ads. ABC’s Christiane Amanpour opened the Roundtable segment of “This Week” with a discussion about some of the Tea Party candidates and the campaign commercials they’re running. After Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m Not A Witch” ad was shown,…

Seemed like a good idea when first bandied about at MSNBC. In execution, however, Rachel Maddow's trip to Delaware on Oct. 5 to cover the Senate race between Republican Christine O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons left something to be desired. First up, Maddow speaking with "Delaware voter" Dr. Gilbert Sloan after Sloan asked Coons a question during a public forum at a…

Solidarity, schmolidarity.  It was one thing when the United Auto Workers agreed many years ago to temporary "two-tiered" wage structures at the plants of Detroit's Big Three automakers. After all, it was argued, they'll be brought up to a level of full pay and benefits in several years, and new employees aren't as productive as the veterans.  

Moments before attacking Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" took a swipe at religion and conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. In a mock commercial about the danger of having your mother as a Facebook friend, announcer Bill Hader offered college student Andy Samberg a solution: the "Damn It My Mom Is On Facebook" filter. "Go ahead and…

Two weeks ago in its season premiere, "Saturday Night Live" bashed Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell for "masturbating constantly." This Saturday, the NBC variety show mocked O'Donnell's recent "I'm Not a Witch" commercial by making it crystal clear: she really is a witch. "If elected to the human senate," soothingly said Kristen Wiig, "I promise to fly straight…

Wiley Miller's comic strip Non Sequitur is not a conservative strip. Right before the 2008 election, one of his characters was told that making up the news was illegal, and she replied "You don't see Rupert Murdoch in prison, do you?" But Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander reported Sunday that the Post censored Miller's "Where's Muhammad?" Sunday strip for October 3 -- even though there…

Even when a liberal justice retires, National Public Radio is still athletically suggesting he's not a liberal. The exit interview is as biased as the confirmation process. A first-Monday-in-October story on Morning Edition by legal reporter Nina Totenberg carried the online headline "Justice Stevens: An Open Mind on a Changed Court." Totenberg and the liberal justice insisted the incoming "…

James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal opinion page online has an eye for the absurd, as in the story of one reporter named Paul Vitello: The New York Times finds echoes of history in the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque. It seems that in 1785, some New Yorkers opposed a plan to build a Catholic church in Manhattan: