AP Admits Rep. Heath Shuler Did Not Hear Tea Party Racial Slurs...Afte

Oops!On the heels of a story a couple of days ago which used Congressman Heath Shuler as a source about how racial slurs were probably hurled at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on March 20, the Associated Press has been forced to backtrack.  Here is how AP writer Jesse Washington used what Heath Shuler supposedly heard to promote the idea of a Tea Party chock full of racists:A fourth Democrat, Rep…
P.J. Gladnick
April 15th, 2010 6:34 PM

Video: Our Troubling Tax System

EyeBlast.tv Staff
April 15th, 2010 5:42 PM

Media Confusion: Why the Protest? Not High Taxes, but Government Expan

'Tax Enough Already' movement isn't necessarily upset over increasing taxes, but 'other side of the coin,' as in the growth of government, says CNBC's Rick Santelli.
Jeff Poor
April 15th, 2010 5:13 PM

'Glee' Sucker Punches Republican Fans

Originally published yesterday at Big Hollywood. For a related blog post, click here. Must be nice being a leftie and NEVER having to worry about some childish television creator taking a gratuitous shot — from completely out of nowhere — at what you believe in. Not so for we righties. When all we want after a hard day of gay bashing, cross burning and kitten punting is to get lost in…
John Nolte
April 15th, 2010 5:12 PM

On Hardball: Slamming Republicans as 'Un-American' Is Fine, But Don't

Liberal Salon.com editor Joan Walsh appeared on the April 14 edition of Hardball and mocked Sarah Palin for suggesting that some of Barack Obama's policies are un-American. She sneered that this was "ridiculous" and attacked, "The choice of un-American is a typical Sarah Palin, divisive thing to say." However, the same Joan Walsh appeared on the December 30, 2009 Hardball to talk about the…
Scott Whitlock
April 15th, 2010 5:08 PM

Live Webcast: MRC's Rich Noyes on 'The B-Cast' at 5 p.m. EDT; Will Dis

Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes will appear on Breitbart.tv's "The B-Cast" Web-cast program at 5 p.m. Eastern time today. The NewsBusters senior editor will be discussing his latest report, "TV's Tea Party Travesty: How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement."You can watch the live Web cast by clicking here or by watching the embedded video below…
NB Staff
April 15th, 2010 4:40 PM

Newsweek Denounces Hateful 'Antigovernment Extremists' -- Like Glenn B

The April 19 Newsweek cover that's shamelessly selling the "remarkable" tale of our economic recovery also promises a story on "Hate on the Right." In fact the word "HATE" takes up half a page, white letters on a black background, with the subhead "Antigovernment extremists are on the rise – and on the march." Pictures illustrating the article strangely connect Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin with…
Tim Graham
April 15th, 2010 4:39 PM

MSNBC Anchor Spins for Obama after NBC Reporter Slams Him for NASA Cut

A visibly perturbed Jay Barbree, during MSNBC live coverage on Thursday, called out Barack Obama for making cuts in NASA that could result, as he claimed, in 9,000 employees losing their jobs even though during the campaign, as the long time NBC correspondent reported, the President "told 15,000 workers here at the Space Center that if they would vote for him, that he would protect their jobs."…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 15th, 2010 3:51 PM

George Lopez: Latinos Will Move Back To Mexico If Palin Becomes Presid

George Lopez thinks if Sarah Palin becomes President in 2012, Latinos will all move back to Mexico.So said the comedian on "Larry King Live" Tuesday night.He also went after Fox News and Glenn Beck. Not surprisingly, this was all prompted by the host actually asking Lopez for his opinion about the former Alaska governor (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t HotAirPundit):
Noel Sheppard
April 15th, 2010 3:06 PM

What About the Poor? Boston Globe Urges Liberal Readers to Splurge Wit

The Boston Globe is a proudly liberal newspaper. So it’s a little stunning for their staff writers Christopher Muther and Hayley Kaufman to suggest that tax refunds are best spent on conspicuous consumption. They suggested “you may want to put any windfall toward your credit card bill,” but they didn’t suggest liberal Globe readers redistribute their refund income to the poor in the inner cities…
Tim Graham
April 15th, 2010 1:44 PM

NBC's Mitchell Upset at Palin's Millions Now, Celebrated Bill Clinton

NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Thursday's Today show, delivered a snarky piece about Sarah Palin "making millions on books" and "highly paid speeches"going as far to portray the former Republican Alaskan governor as a diva who demands a Lear jet and "bendable straws" for her water bottles at appearances. However Mitchell was singing a different tune back in 2001 when a former Democratic officeholder,…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 15th, 2010 1:17 PM

News Coverage of April's Economic Data Sounds More Like April Fools

Whenever you are bored or in need of a good laugh, help yourself to some mainstream media coverage of the economy under President Obama. Each month we at NewsBusters wonder how the recession will be spun anew, and each month news outlets act with increasing hilarity. First up for April was an earnest little piece by USA Today writer Matt Krantz published Thursday. Krantz insisted on reporting "…
Candance Moore
April 15th, 2010 1:07 PM

HuffPo Columnist Calls for Pope's Arrest

Another day another anti-religion piece from Huffington Post Religion. On April 14 columnist Derek Beres wrote “Why Arresting the Pope is a Great Idea.” Not only that, but Beres actually compared Pope Benedict to director Roman Polanski, who raped a young girl. He also, of course, couldn’t resist ranting against the Church’s teachings on priests remaining celibate. Atheists Richard Dawkins and…
Sarah Knoploh
April 15th, 2010 1:01 PM

After More Than A Year, CBS 'Early Show' Does First Full Story on Tea

While the tea party movement began to take shape in late February of 2009, the CBS Early Show did not offer a complete story on it until nearly 14 months later, with co-host Harry Smith declaring: "Today is tax day, April 15th. And thousands of tea party activists are headed to Washington...a new CBS News/New York Times poll is showing us just who these passionate conservatives really are."…
Kyle Drennen
April 15th, 2010 12:58 PM