WaPo Headline Bias: Paper Profiles Clergyman 'Seeking to Put Asunder

Headline wording choice can set the tone for liberal bias, and a November 18 Washington Post Style front-pager is a classic example.Profiling Pentecostal preacher Bishop Harry Jackson, the Post titled staffer Wil Haygood's story "Seeking to put asunder," an obvious allusion to Jesus's declaration about the holy nature of matrimony (Matthew 19:4-6 KJV):And he answered and said unto them, Have ye…
Ken Shepherd
November 18th, 2009 11:40 AM

SNL's Seth Myers on Palin's 'Rude Double-Entendre' Claim: 'That's

Brent Baker
November 18th, 2009 11:28 AM

Al Gore Speech Venue Graffitied: 'Don't Buy False Solutions

For the second time in only six days protesters have emerged at venues where Nobel Laureate Al Gore was scheduled to speak about global warming.Vandals on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on the walls of Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon, just hours before the former Vice President will talk about his favorite bogeyman.This follows Saturday's protests against Gore in Boca Raton, Florida.  The…
Noel Sheppard
November 18th, 2009 11:18 AM

Behar’s Hurt Feelings: Complains Palin’s Anti-Elitism Tack is 'Div

HLN host and "The View" panelist Joy Behar doesn't care much for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and it's obvious from her language. Just a day after snidely attacking former Miss California Carrie Prejean, Behar dedicated the top of her Nov. 17 program to go after Palin and insult her, calling her "incoherent." "It wasn't just one interview. It was a series of incoherent sentences and lack of…
Jeff Poor
November 18th, 2009 10:46 AM

Entertainment Weekly Praises More Graphic ‘Gossip Girl’ Threesome

Carolyn Plocher
November 18th, 2009 10:40 AM

Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees

For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is.Last Thursday, NBC "Tonight Show" viewers got a perfect example of how the Nobel Laureate basically makes things up, and that his poor grades in college were quite an…
Noel Sheppard
November 18th, 2009 10:27 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
November 18th, 2009 10:05 AM

Wrong! CBS Early Show Claims Hillary 'Never Seen Before' in Vogue Maga

Tim Graham
November 18th, 2009 7:37 AM

Olbermann Crudely Cheers 'Teabagger' as Word of the Year Finalist

One of the media members who made the disgusting term "teabagger" popular did a victory lap Tuesday after the New Oxford American Dictionary declared the epithet a finalist for its 2009 Word of the Year.Like a child giggling as he tries to say "truck" with his fingers in his mouth, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was not only visibly pleased with himself as a result of this announcement, he also used the…
Noel Sheppard
November 18th, 2009 12:07 AM

Behar's Hurt Feelings: Complains Palin's Anti-Elitism Tact is 'Divisiv

HLN host who doesn't pull punches suddenly cries foul about former Alaska governor's use of 'the real America.'
Jeff Poor
November 18th, 2009 12:00 AM

Entertainment Weekly Praises More Graphic 'Gossip Girl' Threesome

EW claims embellished threesome story line goes 'back up the quality ladder.'
Carolyn Plocher
November 18th, 2009 12:00 AM

Bozell Column: Seeing Moral Grays in

Picking up the Sunday paper on November 15 could make a reader a little airsick – even while standing in the driveway. The Washington Post "news analysis" on the front page carried the headline "9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrong: Before worldwide audience, both prosecution, defense seek control of narrative." Does The Washington Post really think that the death and destruction…
Brent Bozell
November 17th, 2009 10:55 PM

Tuesday Funnies: People Who Don't Bow To Japan's Emperor

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, President Obama caused a bit of an international incident this weekend when he bowed before Japanese emperor Akihito.Not surprisingly, his adoring fans in the media have done everything in their power to cover for this peculiar demonstration by the most powerful man in the world.With this in mind, the College Republicans at the University of Connecticut have put…
Noel Sheppard
November 17th, 2009 10:07 PM

CNN Holds Focus Group on Palin...With No Palin Supporters

CNN's Rick Sanchez hosted a forum of 'average joes' yesterday in a sort of focus group on Sarah Palin. CNN did not feel, however, that it needed to invite any Palin supporters. Despite claims that the group accurately represented American opinion, its responses demonstrated a total disconnect from actual public sentiment.Sanchez, shown right in a file photo, asked the group to inform viewers of…
Lachlan Markay
November 17th, 2009 7:33 PM