Chris Matthews Show: 'Boss Rush Limbaugh' Stoking Racist Anti-Obama 'V

NBC's Norah O'Donnell, guest hosting for Chris Matthews over the weekend, repeatedly questioned her "Chris Matthews Show" panelists why there was "So much hate," and "venom," directed at Barack Obama at town hall events.Time's Joe Klein responded it was all Rush Limbaugh's fault as he depicted opponents of Obama as racists that are "being egged on by the demagogues in, in the Republican Party, by…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 14th, 2009 7:42 PM

CNN Zeroes-In on 'Dark Undercurrent' of Tea Parties

CNN’s Jim Spellman did his best to paint the participants of the Tea Party Express’s rallies across the nation in late August and early September as a bunch of extremists on Saturday’s Newsroom. Spellman played clips which zeroed-in on the protesters who called President Obama a Nazi, carried guns, or forwarded “outlandish conspiracy theories,” and labeled all of them “a dark undercurrent.”The…
Matthew Balan
September 14th, 2009 6:26 PM

ABC’s Bill Weir Frets Over 9/12 Rally Rage and ‘Anger;' Worries Ab

Over the weekend, ABC provided hyperbolic, worried reporting on the 9/12 protest in Washington D.C. And while the other networks had mixed results, Good Morning America co-host Bill Weir opened the program on Saturday by fretting, "This morning, outrage. Protesters descend on Washington to rally against the President's health care plan. As civility gives way to shouting, what's fueling all this…
Scott Whitlock
September 14th, 2009 6:04 PM

WaPo's Kurtz Offers Weak Excuses for Van Jones Silence

When Glenn Beck reports that a top-level White House advisor has endorsed communism, accused 'white polluters' of poisoning minority communities, called his political opponents a**holes, and believes an American president was complicit in the slaughter of innocent civilians, Beck must have a hidden agenda. When the mainstream media fails to report these facts, it's all an honest mistake.Or so one…
Lachlan Markay
September 14th, 2009 5:59 PM

MSNBC Airs Ad for Adultery Website: 'Life is Short. Have an Affair

"Live is Short. Have an Affair."So ends a truly disgraceful television commercial for the "married dating and affairs" website AshleyMadison.com.Readers might recall that the MRC's Brent Bozell wrote in February about how the NFL refused to allow this organization's commercials to be broadcast during this year's Super Bowl.According to National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez, the following ad by…
Noel Sheppard
September 14th, 2009 5:26 PM

Rep. Steve King Explains How ObamaCare Could Cover Illegals, MSNBC's S

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) appeared on MSNBC around 3:40 p.m. EDT today to defend Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) claim that President Obama was lying about Democratic health care reforms not ensuring "public option" coverage of illegal immigrants. [MP3 audio available here]King explained at length about Democrats voted down Republican amendments to put in place an enforcement mechanism to check the…
Ken Shepherd
September 14th, 2009 5:18 PM

CBS Face the Nation: Obama ‘Best Salesman’; ‘Keeps Topping Himse

On Sunday, CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer praised President Obama’s recent media blitz for health care reform: "There’s no question he is the best salesman on the staff," but wondered: "Does he run the risk of overexposing himself?" Politco.com’s Roger Simon dispelled that fear: "It is a risk, but he keeps topping himself."Simon elaborated on Obama’s oratory skill: "Every time you think…
Kyle Drennen
September 14th, 2009 5:12 PM

Jack Black Leads a Prayer to the Devil at the 2009 MTV Awards

Carolyn Plocher
September 14th, 2009 4:52 PM

CNBC's Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 DC March

Not everyone at the NBC Universal umbrella of networks got the gag order memo about the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C. Rick Santelli, who has been a target of the Obama White House and is credited with being the inspiration for the 2009 tea party movement, spoke out about how the media ignored the march. But, a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, he was making the larger point that the…
Jeff Poor
September 14th, 2009 3:13 PM

NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, Hails Smaller Liberal

There was a huge protest against Obama's big-government plans at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, but one was hard-pressed to find evidence of it on the New York Times home page Sunday morning: A small headline tucked under the Political subhead. The print edition wasn't much more forthcoming. Although the Washington D.C. Fire Dept. estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people attended the 9/12 protest, and…
Clay Waters
September 14th, 2009 2:28 PM

AP Quotes Teen Who Understands Why Someone Would Want to 'Punch' or 'S

An overlooked quote by a Michigan teenager picked up by the Associated Press regarding the murder of pro-life activist James Pouillon illustrates why many in the media are ignoring this story.: Later on Friday students outside the high school said Pouillon was a fixture there and regularly held graphic signs of aborted fetuses. "I can see someone spitting on him or punching him, but shooting…
Kerry Picket
September 14th, 2009 2:05 PM

Newsweek's Evan Thomas on 'The Case for Killing Granny

A prudent gerontologist may opt to remove the September 21 edition of Newsweek from his waiting room.Newsweek.com today has a cheeky frontpage headline in "The Case for Killing Granny," with a subheader promising an explanation as to "Why curbing excessive end-of-life care is good for America."For good measure the magazine also promises readers to explain "Why We Should Insure Illegals" and how "…
Ken Shepherd
September 14th, 2009 1:33 PM

LATimes Finally Finds Graphics Like Commie Propaganda Art… And It's

After the last three years of President Obama's graphics and poster art that evokes the style of graphics used in communist propaganda someone in the Old Media has finally discovered the similarity between today's political graphics and communist styled propaganda art. And on top of that another we see another member of the Media calling us all "tea baggers" So which of Obama's posters is the L.…
Warner Todd Huston
September 14th, 2009 1:27 PM

MRC-TV: Bozell Discussed Joe Wilson, ACORN on Sept. 11 'Hannity

Video of Baltimore ACORN activists willing to help a pimp and prostitute work out a tax shelter for a brothel is a "devastating" indictment of the liberal activist group, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell pronounced on the September 11 "Hannity." [MP3 audio available here]"It shows the power of the Internet. It doesn't matter anymore that [Big Three broadcast networks] ABC and NBC and…
NB Staff
September 14th, 2009 12:11 PM