AFP Writes Up Proposed Tax With 'Next to No Chance' of Passage to Set

You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly more important priorities, the wire service leaps into action. Even AFP acknowledges that the tax proposal by several top-tier…
Tom Blumer
November 20th, 2009 10:59 PM

Bad Headline: 'Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage

Cam Edwards giggled as he shared his "Headline of the Week" with his audience Friday night at NRANews.com. It comes from Indianapolis: "Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage."Understandably, while that headline remains on Google, WXIN (Fox 59) has changed the headline now to the more appropriate "Homeowner holds burglar until police arrive." The lesson is a gun owner beats a burglar with a screwdriver…
Tim Graham
November 20th, 2009 9:40 PM

NYT Environmental Writer Confirms Probable Authenticity of Hacked Clim

Let us give New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin credit. He is one of the few in the mainstream media reporting on the hacked global warming e-mails story which has gone viral in the blogosphere and was covered in-depth by NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard. If you aren't yet familiar with this brewing scandal then I recommend you get up to speed on this controversy by reading Sheppard's…
P.J. Gladnick
November 20th, 2009 9:39 PM

CNN's Phillips: Kids Who Bully Pledge Spurner Are 'Wads, Dork Wads

On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted.  Some of his classmates allegedly call him names.  Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling:And a message to you boys who are bullying Will, shame on you. It's obvious you are jealous that Will…
Mike Bates
November 20th, 2009 9:15 PM

CNBC’s Regan Worries 'Freshman Congressmen from Timbuktu' to Have To

It's an issue that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed socialist agree on: Congress should have the authority to call for the Federal Reserve to be audited. But it is also something that some in the financial media are reluctant to support, especially judging from the tone of CNBC "The Call" co-host Trish Regan and comments CNBC senior economics…
Jeff Poor
November 20th, 2009 8:51 PM

Oops! Frequent Maddow Guest Cox Undercuts Nicolle Wallace's Catty Clai

Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow.Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Maddow told viewers of her MSNBC show Tuesday that John McCain held a conference call Nov. 13 and asked that if…
Jack Coleman
November 20th, 2009 8:18 PM

MSNBC’s Matthews Finds Obama’s Weakness: He’s ‘Too Darned Inte

At the top of Friday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews discovered the reason for President Obama’s political difficulties in recent months: “President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there....He’s exposed and vulnerable. His poll numbers are dropping. Is he just too darned intellectual? Too much the egg head?” Later in the show, Matthews talked to Atlantic Media’s…
Kyle Drennen
November 20th, 2009 6:35 PM

Americans Want to Live Longer? How Gauche, Sniffs the New York Times

Friday’s front-page “news analysis” by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, “Culture Clash in Medicine,” dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and cervical cancer. The recommendations have caused some outcry as a possible prelude to Obama-care rationing, concerns Sack dismissed as “anger and confusion” and some “…
Clay Waters
November 20th, 2009 5:05 PM

Bloviating Dick Cavett Bashes ‘Know-Nothing’ Sarah Palin, Obsesses

Talk show host Dick Cavett, whose TV show went off the air in 1982, appeared on MSNBC, Friday, to trash Sarah Palin as a "know nothing" and someone who has "no first language." Mostly, however, he seemed interested only in talking about himself, prompting News Live host Norah O’Donnell to chide, "Dick, this segment is about Sarah Palin, not about you, Dick." [Audio available here.] John Harwood,…
Scott Whitlock
November 20th, 2009 4:27 PM

Foreign Policy Magazine: Ft. Hood Happened Because Muslims Aren’t 'C

On Nov. 18, Foreign Policy's Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson wrote an article titled "The Real Shock of Fort Hood." If you thought that the shock of Fort Hood was that an Army Major fired over 100 rounds into a crowded processing center on a military base - killing 13 and wounding 29 - you're wrong. "It's not that the massacre occurred," said the article. "It's that it hadn't occurred before…
Carolyn Plocher
November 20th, 2009 4:23 PM

CNN.com Doesn't Explicitly Mention Party of Senator Burris (D

An unsigned CNN.com article on Friday noted that the Senate Ethics Committee had reproved Senator Roland Burris “for actions and statements reflecting unfavorably upon the Senate,” but did not directly mention the Illinois senator’s affiliation with the Democratic Party. The article did mention that Burris was “the only African-American U.S. senator.”The first two paragraphs from the CNN…
Matthew Balan
November 20th, 2009 4:13 PM

Company Mocks Catholicism to Sell Video Game

As if we needed more proof that Christians are the only group left in America that it’s safe to make fun of. A popular YouTube video purports to be an ad for a Wii-like game system called “Mass: We Pray,” which will be available at Easter 2010. In reality, the anti-religious video is a commercial for a new video game.In it, viewers see a family at home as a saccharine-voiced narrator reminiscent…
Matt Philbin
November 20th, 2009 3:45 PM

Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered

E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's "Hockey Stick"; Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate modeler, and;…
Noel Sheppard
November 20th, 2009 3:30 PM

Big Hack Attack: Global Warming Exposed as 'Globaloney

UPDATE: Also see Noel Sheppard's post on the same topic, where more names are named. Two months ago, there was the "Dog Ate My Global Warming Data" episode. As noted at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog (original source: National Review Online), we learned that important original information forming the underpinning of global warming alarmists' claims about the earth heating up has vanished. It is…
Tom Blumer
November 20th, 2009 3:24 PM