NYT's Zernike: Tea Partying Something To Do While Unemployed, Collecti

Betcha didn't know this: The Tea Party movement's growth was fueled by unemployed people lying around looking for something to do, and will have a hard time sustaining itself if/when the economy improves. Oh, and they're so distressed about the country's circumstances that they're letting emotion trump facts in their advocacy. Those are the themes of Kate Zernike's Saturday New York Times report…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2010 9:45 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
March 31st, 2010 9:44 AM

The Religion Blog That Hates Religion

No, hell hasn't frozen over but, yes, the Huffington Post now has a religion blog. The Huffington Post, a Web site devoted to rankling conservatives and pushing a liberal agenda, announced on Feb. 24 that it was launching HuffPost Religion. Huffington Post's co-founder, Arianna Huffington, claimed it would simply be "a section featuring a wide-ranging discussion about religion [and] spirituality…
Carolyn Plocher
March 31st, 2010 8:57 AM

The Five Craziest Attacks on Tea Parties

In case there are any residual doubts about how bad the tea partiers have been treated, here are the Top Five ways the left and the media have abused a grassroots movement. The coverage has been so hateful and so biased, it was almost impossible to narrow the list. Here they are in reverse order, just in time for the big tea party events April 15: 5) Protesters are Anti-Government The media…
Dan Gainor
March 31st, 2010 8:42 AM

WaPo Leads with Gooey Story on 'Dear Mr. President' Letters Lovingly A

The Washington Post rendered itself indistinguishable from the White House publicity effort on Wednesday. At top center of its front page was an article by reporter Eli Saslow -- the man who hailed Obama's "glistening pectorals" in 2008 -- on the letters President Obama reads from, and writes to, average Americans. Under a photo of unemployed Michigan woman (and Obama voter) Jennifer Cline, the…
Tim Graham
March 31st, 2010 8:23 AM

Bozell Column: Liberals In Vitriol Denial

When the Republicans shocked the liberal media elite by winning back Congress in 1994, they had been demonized for months. But it took the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 for Bill Clinton and all of his "objective" media devotees to really pull the violence card and smear that mass murder all over Newt Gingrich and conservative Republicans, blaming it on their "anti-government" rhetoric.…
Brent Bozell
March 31st, 2010 7:37 AM

Joy Behar in Leno Appearance to Glenn Beck: 'I Don’t Give a Flying

"The View" co-host Joy Behar isn't known for being the most graceful person, but for whatever reason she has managed to land her own cable news show and is now a sought after personality for shows like NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno." In a March 30 appearance on "The Tonight Show", Leno asked Behar about her feud with Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck. Beck recently suggested there is…
Jeff Poor
March 31st, 2010 7:08 AM

Stupak's Startling Statement to Catholic News Agency Ignored Elsewhere

This item may not surprise those of us who have watched politicians take the safe way out at any opportunity, but it will give any voters who come across it reason to doubt any Democratic congressman who says that he or she voted no on principle against Obamacare on Sunday, March 21. This explains why it hasn't been covered much -- and maybe not at all -- in any establishment media outlet. On…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2010 1:27 AM

Joy Behar to Glenn Beck: 'I Don't Give a [Expletive] About You

HLN and 'View' host says she doesn't hate Fox News host, but doesn't think highly of him otherwise during Leno appearance.
Jeff Poor
March 31st, 2010 12:00 AM

NBC Nightly News Showcases Devotional Obama as Lauer Cracks: 'Spiritua

Out of the lengthy interview sessions Matt Lauer conducted with President Barack Obama which were played back over the first hour-and-half of Tuesday's Today show, Brian Williams decided to highlight on Nightly News only Obama's explanation for “why his family hasn't found a church to attend yet in their new adopted home of Washington, D.C.” Obama's reasoning satisfied Lauer, who quipped: “It's…
Brent Baker
March 30th, 2010 8:12 PM

Premature Biden

Actually, Joe was merely channeling Nostradamus and predicting the future.
Glenn Foden
March 30th, 2010 7:45 PM

NewsBusters Interview: Jason Mattera, Author of 'Obama Zombies

Are young people completely in the tank for Barack Obama and the left? They voted for Obama over John McCain by a greater than 2-1 margin. Obama was young, cool, good looking, and well-spoken -- all the characteristics for a winning candidate in the eyes of the nation's youth.But it was more than just Obama's charisma that handed him the youth vote in 2008. He was abetted by lapdogs in the press…
Lachlan Markay
March 30th, 2010 7:04 PM

Behar Claims Liberals More Intelligent and Open-Minded Than Conservati

  The latest edition of CBS’s “Sunday Morning” featured a glowing profile of “The View” co-host Joy Behar in which the stand-up comic implied that conservatives are not intelligent and insisted that liberals are more open-minded.Interviewer Russ Mitchell asked Behar how she developed a liberal worldview, to which Behar responded: “It comes from, uh, being smart.”Mitchell then pressed Behar on…
Alex Fitzsimmons
March 30th, 2010 6:44 PM

Chris Matthews Breaks Down Spitting Video on Hardball

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, broke down video of a tea party protester, allegedly spitting on Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, like it was the Zapruder film as he and his guest John Heilemann of the New York magazine both claimed it reminded them of the integration of Little Rock Central High School, as Matthews blurted: "You know I just saw one of those pictures the other day, a woman down…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 30th, 2010 6:29 PM