On Day of Michelle Obama Garden Photo-Op, CBS Trumpets: 'One Thing Tha

ABC and NBC on Wednesday night managed to contain to a brief item their enthusiasm for First Lady Michelle Obama planting her garden for the season, but not CBS which dedicated a full story to how the hula-hooping First Lady “is enjoying the kind of popularity her husband would jump through hoops for.”Employing some creative puns playing off the gardening theme, CBS Evening News anchor Katie…
Brent Baker
 

CNN's Lavandera Zeroes in on Tea Party's 'Lack of Diversity

On Wednesday's American Morning, CNN's Ed Lavandera focused on the "overwhelmingly white" turnout at the rallies sponsored by the Tea Party Express organization and played up the criticisms that there is an "anti-minority undertone" at the demonstrations.Lavandera, who is covering the Tea Party Express' cross-country tour, highlighted the race issue from the beginning of his report, which first…
Matthew Balan
 

MSNBC's Ratigan Cites Left-Wing Blog to Bash Drudge Report

Near the end of Wednesday's Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan led his 'Busted' segment by claiming that The Drudge Report did "not let facts get in the way of a good headline" on Tuesday, by featuring one which read: "CIA: Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapon." Ratigan remarked: "That'll get the ratings up."Despite the fact that most of the world has long operated under the…
Kyle Drennen
 

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Rants Over Drilling: Is President Obama 'Nothing

According to MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Barack Obama is nothing more than a shill for the Republican Party. The liberal anchor on Wednesday railed against the President's plan to allow limited offshore oil drilling: "This is a fraud...Is a pattern emerging? Is President Obama nothing more than a Democrat in name only? Dare we say it? A DINO?" [Audio available here.] According to Ratigan, Obama, the…
Scott Whitlock
 

Leftist Agenda Over Profit: Hollywood Resurrects Toxic Rosie O'Donnell

I must have missed the groundswell of support and the public clamor for the return of Rosie O'Donnell to the daytime airwaves. It seemed that her time in the cultural spotlight had passed following her notorious 2008 variety show failure (It was hailed by one merciful critic as "dead on arrival") and her exile to a daily Sirius XM radio show that caters to creepy shut-ins and those unlucky…
Kurt Schlichter
 

CNN Still Hungry for Food Rules, Eats Up Oliver's Call for Billions fo

Cable network continues its pro-regulation, pro-government obesity reporting with extreme examples, lack of critics and calls for government funding.
Julia A. Seymour
 

Larry King Deferential to Sinead O'Connor, Tough on Carrie Prejean

CNN's Larry King, moderating a panel discussing the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal on his program on Tuesday, tossed softballs at noted anti-Catholic Sinead O'Connor, who recently pushed for Catholics to stop attending Mass. By contrast, King hostilely interrogated former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean in November 2009, to the point where she almost walked out of the interview.The CNN host…
Matthew Balan
 

Ed Schultz Promotes Anti-Hannity Freedom Concert Smear, Even Though It

Ed Schultz rehashed an already-discredited smear of conservative talk show host Sean Hannity on the liberal talker's March 30 "Ed Show" program on MSNBC.Blustered Schultz as he introduced Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW): Finally tonight on "The Ed Show," it's been 12 days since Sean Hannity hasn't answered the questions about possible fraud and misuse…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS's Schieffer Grills GOP Pols on Violence; Asks DNC Chair About 'Saf

Host Bob Schieffer led Sunday's Face the Nation by fretting over opposition to the passage of ObamaCare: "What about the violence in the wake of the congressional action? Isolated incidents or signs of a dangerous anger?" He told viewers that he would talk to "Republican firebrands, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann" about the issue. Schieffer pressed…
Kyle Drennen
 

ABC, CBS and FOX Ask Concessions from Comcast for NBC Merger

CNBC media correspondent Julia Boorstin reports affiliate associations from NBC competitors could seek special considerations from Comcast not to oppose merger.
Jeff Poor
 

Does Grayson Owe Rather Royalties? Signs Off Fundraiser With 'Courage

Does Alan Grayson owe Dan Rather royalties for borrowing his famous sign-off?As a loyal member of the Democracy For America [Howard Dean's old organization] email list, I just received a fundraising message from Grayson.   The Dem congressman from Florida who sprang to national attention with his stunt on the House floor accusing Republicans of wanting Americans to "die quickly" has death on the…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Mike Malloy Spews Hate in E-mail and Radio Show on Same Day He Appeare

On the very same day that MSNBC put him on to discuss Sarah Palin's violent-sounding rhetoric about a "hit list," leftist talk-radio host Mike Malloy e-mailed a reply to a NewsBusters reader and a group of conservative talkers on his list including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, John Gibson, Hugh Hewitt, and Joe Scarborough, as well as several other Fox News producers with this message…
Tim Graham
 

CNN Still Hungry for Food Rules, Eats Up Oliver's Call for Billions fo

BMI Staff
 

O'Reilly Notes Blatant Media Hypocrisy on Protestor Anger

Last night, Bill O'Reilly used recent instances of inflamed, occasionally violent liberal protests to give his viewers a lesson in Media Bias 101. Lefties dominate the mainstream press, and are reluctant to cover events that don't suit their agendas, he stated."The Mainstream media largely ignores crazy stuff generated by the far left because many media types sympathize with liberal politics." It…
Lachlan Markay