Open Thread

NB Staff
October 13th, 2009 9:58 AM

NYT Blog Says PWC's Study Is 'Industry Report,' While It Omits Dem Ped

Let's see. A Big 4 independent public accounting firm vs. the Democratic Party's go-to health care economics guy. Who has more presumptive credibility? It's more than a little offensive to see the people whose party gave us entitlement programs with multitrillion-dollar unfunded liabilities (Social Security and Medicare), pension plans that are completely unsustainable (the federal government…
Tom Blumer
October 13th, 2009 9:52 AM

'Journalists' Claiming Limbaugh Praised MLK's Assassin Offer No Proof

Tim Graham
October 13th, 2009 9:08 AM

Lynyrd Skynyrd Members Talk 'God and Guns' with Hannity on FNC

On Friday’s Hannity show on FNC, host Sean Hannity showed a pre-recorded interview in which he was joined by members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd – Johnny Van Zandt, Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington – as the group talked about their latest CD, titled "God and Guns," and the three expressed their support for such conservative values as belief in God and the Second Amendment right of gun…
Brad Wilmouth
October 13th, 2009 7:49 AM

Fox’s Wallace Sees ‘Idiocy’ in CNN Fact-Checking Anti-Obama SNL

On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, as host Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace discussed recent comedy directed at President Obama and the First Lady – including a re-dubbed clip of Sesame Street’s Big Bird grilling Michelle Obama from the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Wallace opined that he hopes that there would be more such comedy and that the Obama’s should be…
Brad Wilmouth
October 13th, 2009 5:56 AM

Brit Hume Fires Back at White House Attacks on Fox News: Calls It 'Ris

It's obvious the Obama administration has a low regard for Fox News as a media outlet - whether it has been President Barack Obama hinting at what he has thought about Fox News, the administration passing over Fox News in a recent round of Sunday morning interviews or as White House communications director Anita Dunn recently has done - just declare open season on the network. However Brit Hume…
Jeff Poor
October 13th, 2009 1:28 AM

Boston Globe: Serious Rationing Nearly a Reality Under MA's Commonweal

I suppose President Obama is still running around telling everyone who will listen, along with anyone else who won't, that "If you like your doctors and medical providers, you can keep them." It would also not surprise me to learn that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is still singing the praises of CommonwealthCare, the state-run system conservatives also deride as RomneyCare, so named…
Tom Blumer
October 13th, 2009 12:26 AM

Pulitzer Winner on Rush's NFL Bid: He Sees 'Visions of Plantation Gran

Hunter College professor and author of 'Pimpology' uses challenged quote to make racist charge against Limbaugh; Says NFL should refuse him as owner.
Jeff Poor
October 13th, 2009 12:00 AM

Fall TV Season: A Little Good, A Lot of Bad and Ugly

Family values, Hollywood style; dirty jokes and the gay agenda anchor the 2009 television season.
Colleen Raezler
October 13th, 2009 12:00 AM

Neil Cavuto Slams Anita Dunn: Let's Pretend You Work for the President

If White House communications director Anita Dunn thought she was going to get away with attacking the Fox News Channel without a response from the objects of her disaffection, she was sadly mistaken.As NewsBusters previously reported, Dunn told CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday that Fox is "a wing of the Republican Party" and "not a news network at this point." On Monday, FNC's Neil Cavuto answered…
Noel Sheppard
October 12th, 2009 10:55 PM

Stop the Presses! Liberal Admits Nixon Began Withdrawing From Vietnam

Since the Iraq-Vietnam analogy they were so fond of citing no longer holds water, liberals have switched to applying the threadbare comparison to the war in Afghanistan.In the process, an observer will occasionally hear things from left of center he's rarely heard before. For example, on Ed Schultz's radio show Oct. 9, John Nichols of The Nation magazine had this to say about the dilemma facing…
Jack Coleman
October 12th, 2009 10:39 PM

CNN's Rick Sanchez Features Dubious Limbaugh Slavery Quote

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez read a disputed racist quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh about antebellum slavery on Monday’s Newsroom: “Limbaugh’s perceived racist diatribes are too many to name. Here’s a sample- he once declared that ‘slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.’”Before discussing…
Matthew Balan
October 12th, 2009 5:53 PM

NBC's Jones On Senate Committee ObamaCare Vote: 'Looks Like It's Going

Latest evidence of the MSM/Obama mind-meld . . . Reporting on the prospects of an ObamaCare bill coming up for a Senate committee vote, NBC's Athena Jones told Tamron Hall during MSNBC's 4 PM hour today: "It looks like it's going to work out fine to pass tomorrow."
Mark Finkelstein
October 12th, 2009 5:42 PM

MSNBC’s Source for Dubious Limbaugh Quote on Slavery? A Football Pla

[Limbaugh denies. See update below.] For the second time on Monday, MSNBC cited a dubious "quote" from Rush Limbaugh in which the conservative radio host supposedly said that "slavery had its merits." The source? A linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Discussing Limbaugh’s interest in owning the St. Louis Rams, News Live host David Shuster asserted that "James Farrior says Limbaugh should be…
Scott Whitlock
October 12th, 2009 5:36 PM