Bachmann Warns Media, Democrats 'Singing off Same Hymnal' to Achieve F

It's pretty obvious that oftentimes the media and the Democratic Party work in concert to marginalize opposition of a common goal. ABC's George Stephanopoulos working with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was just one example. The question is, how far will the media and Democrats take it?  According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., if the passage of ObamaCare is evidence, they're…
Jeff Poor
April 20th, 2010 11:19 AM

Bachmann Warns Media, Democrats 'Singing off Same Hymnal' to Achieve F

Minnesota congresswoman alludes to left, journalists targeting Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and other conservatives to silence voices of opposition.
Jeff Poor
April 20th, 2010 10:53 AM

Today Ignores Pew Poll on Less Trusted Government, Publicizes Pew Resu

A new Pew poll that shows just 22 percent of respondents trust the government was actually covered by NBC Nightly News on Monday night but for some reason NBC's Today show didn't find that news interesting as they failed to report on the results. However, on Tuesday's Today, they did find a Pew poll they did like, their results on teen texting, as Today co-anchor Ann Curry relayed: "The study by…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 20th, 2010 10:48 AM

WaPo Fawns Over Lawyer 'Taking Bites Out of [Catholic Church's] A

Jeff Anderson, a lawyer that has filed over 1,500 lawsuits against the Catholic Church, got a free 1,400-word advertisement in the Washington Post April 19. The supposedly non-opinion article was titled "Jeff Anderson, jousting with the Vatican from a small law office in St. Paul." The reporter, Peter Slevin, cast the Catholic Church as the big, bad wolf and Jeff Anderson - the "Vatican's chief…
Carolyn Plocher
April 20th, 2010 10:48 AM

Maddow and Guest Eugene Robinson Trumpet Alleged Goldman Sachs Fraud a

How do you know when laws are working as intended? When liberals want to rewrite them.On her MSNBC show Friday night, Rachel Maddow compared the alleged Goldman Sachs fraud to a "mean old man" in "Tiny Town, US" bribing the owner of "Ye Olde Donut Shoppe" to serve his customers chlorine in their coffee instead of non-dairy creamer, because "mean old man" had taken out life insurance policies on…
Jack Coleman
April 20th, 2010 10:18 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
April 20th, 2010 8:43 AM

Olbermann: Limbaugh ‘Hate Radio’ Has ‘Blood on Your Hands’ for

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used his regular "Worst Person" segment to accuse Rush Limbaugh of having "blood on your hands" for the Oklahoma City Bombing in response to the conservative talk radio host pointing out that, while some liberals have tried to blame talk radio for inspiring Timothy McVeigh to commit mass murder, McVeigh himself actually admitted to being…
Brad Wilmouth
April 20th, 2010 8:40 AM

Maddow Worries McVeigh's 'Voice from the Grave' Echoes, as She Plays H

For weeks, MSNBC has advertised Rachel Maddow's two-hour special broadcast about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building. This special, aired on the 15-year anniversary of that bombing, was billed as a way for viewers to see what can happen if anti-government sentiment gets out of control. "So tonight, exactly 15 years later, this special edition of ‘The Rachel Maddow…
Jeff Poor
April 20th, 2010 7:24 AM

Behar Links Racist Signs to Tea Partiers, Then Denies Mentioning Race

On Monday’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, when guest Mark Williams of Tea Party Express complained to Behar and fellow guest Ari Melber of the Nation about Tea Party activists being smeared as racist, the HLN host claimed that she had not brought up race during the segment, even though she opened the discussion by referring to stereotypes about Tea Party activists as she cracked that perhaps public…
Brad Wilmouth
April 20th, 2010 6:39 AM

Kurtz: Obama 'Has Little Patience' for 'Inflammatory' Bloggers and Tal

In his regular online chat at washingtonpost.com, Post media reporter Howard Kurtz responded to a question about Obama holding more press conferences to give the people "an ongoing view of his intellect, grasp of issues, and moderate temperament and views," but he seems to have "little, if any respect" for the press corps. Kurtz responded: My sense is that the president respects the mainstream…
Tim Graham
April 20th, 2010 6:38 AM

Bernie Goldberg Rips Jon Stewart: Your Frank Rich Interview Was a Lap

Bernie Goldberg on Monday accused Jon Stewart of being a gutless comedian that is much harder on Tea Partiers and Fox News personalities than liberal media members.Appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor," Goldberg admitted that "The Daily Show" host was right when he said last week that FNC anchors and hosts often make generalizations about liberals. But "when you had [New York Times columnist] Frank…
Noel Sheppard
April 20th, 2010 12:59 AM

Pro-Jihadists Threaten South Park Creators – Only Network to Cover i

Believe it or not, CNN - the same CNN which has recently dismissed the Fort Hood terrorist as lonely, has featured a member of ‘Jihad U' as a teacher of the ‘nuts and bolts of Islam', and which has run three separate stories interviewing the father of radical jihadist, Anwar al-Awlaki - has actually taken interest in a jihadist threat of physical violence upon the creators of South Park. It seems…
Rusty Weiss
April 19th, 2010 11:39 PM

Sticking to His Guns: Sedition Charges and the Journalistic Ethics of

One of the things taught in journalism schools, at least when it comes crime reporting, is that when someone charged with a crime, you carefully craft your rhetoric because in the United States, you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. But what if you're journalist and you're making accusations of crime where there's not even a charge? On NBC's April 18 "The Chris Matthews Show," Time…
Jeff Poor
April 19th, 2010 10:37 PM

Glenn Beck Strikes Back At Joe Klein: I'm Not Seditious. I Love My Cou

Glenn Beck struck back at Joe Klein and John Heilemann Monday for practically accusing the Fox News host, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh of being seditious.As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Time magazine's Klein and New York magazine's Heilemann made some rather inflammatory comments about the trio this weekend on the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show."When Beck saw our piece at the Drudge Report…
Noel Sheppard
April 19th, 2010 10:09 PM