Messed up in Japan

Does playing a video game based on sexual assault sound like a healthy evening in front of the TV?
L. Brent Bozell III

Chris Matthews Asked SPLC's Potok When Did Scary 'Black Helicopters' A

On Tuesday night's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews invited Mark Potok of the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center to estimate when all this frightening and hateful anti-government militia talk started. Potok argued it began with Ronald Reagan, and his supposed description of "the federal government as a kind of enemy."Matthews said one could be concerned about government growing too large, "But…
Tim Graham

On NBC, Boy Scout Scandal Merits Story, But Club's 100th Anniversary D

When it comes to socially-conservative groups media outlets like to cover the scandals instead of the celebrations. That's exactly what NBC did to the Boy Scouts of America which had its 100th anniversary Jan. 25. NBC "Nightly News" completely ignored the anniversary, but did remember to cover Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day during that broadcast. But NBC will find time for scandal. On April 1, NBC'…
Anthony Kang

Media Run to NYT's Defense, Accuse Vatican of 'Killing the Messenger

On Thursday's Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan went after the Vatican for criticizing the slanted New York Times reporting on the priest sex abuse scandal: "Blame the messenger. The Vatican blasting the New York Times for telling the truth about Church – the Church and its harboring of sex abusers. It's the paper's fault." Ratigan spoke with Democratic strategist Steve Hildebrand,…
Kyle Drennen

CNN's Cafferty Bashes Pope Benedict XVI For Two Straight Days

CNN's Jack Cafferty slammed the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI during his regular commentaries on Wednesday and Thursday, for a total of three times during the course of a week, as he also targeted them on March 25. On all three occasions, Cafferty also read mostly Catholic-bashing e-mails from viewers.During the March 25 "Cafferty File" segment, the CNN commentator wasted little time in…
Matthew Balan

Santelli’s Plea to Obama: Use TARP, ObamaCare Tactics to Drill Now a

Green jobs to save the American economy?  If you have listened to the various politicos on the left end of the spectrum, especially before and after the passage of the $787-billion stimulus package earlier, you would think that is the cure-all. But so far it isn't working and there are other fundamental problems that lie ahead according to some energy market analysts, like much higher oil…
Jeff Poor

Washington Post: Government May Have to Waste Millions of H1N1 Vaccine

Last year many Americans were convinced the H1N1 virus, commonly called the swine flu, would turn into a pandemic. That’s no surprise given the fear mongering media.News media helped make the case for the government to rush a vaccine and the government spent over a billion dollars producing those vaccinations. But now, according to the April 1, 2010 Washington Post millions of vaccines are still…
Sarah Knoploh

NBC's Brian Williams Knocks 'Hatred,' 'Venom' in Health Care Fight, To

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams appeared on the BBC podcast Americana on Sunday and asserted that "hatred" and "venom" were part of the health care debate. He then hyperbolically claimed, "I would sooner jab my hand into a food processor than take a side." [MP3 Audio available here.] The NBC journalist seriously trumpeted, "In my line of work I never engage in opinions, anyway." BBC…
Scott Whitlock

Newsweek's Kliff: House of Reps Has 'Anti-Abortion-Rights Majority

"A strong Democratic majority in Congress does not mean a strong abortion-rights majority," Newsweek's Sarah Kliff lamented in a March 31 "Web exclusive," the subhead for which asks "[W]hy is there an anti-abortion-rights majority in the House?" "That fact became painfully clear during the health-care-reform debate, when intraparty fissures over abortion threatened to derail the Democrats'…
Ken Shepherd

HuffPo Religion Blogger Worships Pinocchio While Intoning Slurs About

What does it say about the Huffington Post when one of their religion bloggers traffics in unproven charges about supposed racial slurs hurled at Congressman John Lewis at the March 20 Tea Party in Washington D.C.? Here is Eddie Glaude, Jr., Professor of Religion at Princeton University, performing his Pinocchio impression:The word n----er found its way back into our national conversation…
P.J. Gladnick

'Time 100' Poll Has About Four Times as Many Liberals and Leftists as

Time.com unveiled 200 names for its Time 100 (most influential people in the world) issue Thursday. Obviously, liberals and leftists have great influence in today's political sphere, but the conservatives drew about one-fourth the names on the ballot. This may be picky, but I count about ten conservatives on the list. I put a few "half" picks in brackets for people who aren't as political and/or…
Tim Graham

Captionfest: Newsweek's Idea of An April Fools' Joke

Ah, good ol' Joe Biden, America's favorite uncle. At least, the American Left's favorite, according to Newsweek's Katie Connolly in her March 30 "Web exclusive" entitled, "Say It Just So, Joe: Liberals love Joe Biden because he keeps things interesting in the White House."
Ken Shepherd

Another Media Double Standard: Dems Also Use 'Target Maps' for Electio

As we've reported here at NewsBusters, the mainstream media has been in a tizzy over Sarah Palin's potentially violence-engendering "target map" for the upcoming midterm elections.Of course, what the liberal media isn't telling you is that the Democratic Leadership Council used similar "target maps" in the 2004 election. Verum Serum blogged about this yesterday morning (h/t Gateway Pundit): The…
Ken Shepherd

CNN Still Hungry for Food Rules, Eats Up Oliver's Food 'Revolution

The "obesity epidemic" is the fault of poor individual choices and sedentary lifestyles, but in the news, blame typically falls on companies, rather than on the individual. CNN has attacked grocer stores, restaurants and food manufacturers for creating supposedly "addictive" products and in story after story called for more food regulations, taxes or other intervention. CNN's hearty…
Julia A. Seymour