Washington Examiner's Carney Rips MSNBC Host for Denigrating 9-12 Marc

You might have figured this was coming, that when dust settled from the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C., the brain trust at MSNBC would attempt to frame it as negatively as possible. And MSNBC's resident left-wing curmudgeon-in-training David Shuster didn't disappoint. The former host of the canceled "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" took a report from the Huffington Post debunking attendance…
Jeff Poor
September 15th, 2009 7:02 AM

ABC Plugs a Swirling Tom DeLay on 'Dancing with the Stars

Brent Baker
September 15th, 2009 2:16 AM

The Rush Limbaugh Proposition: Take the Next Conservative Protest to t

There's no doubt the so-called mainstream media turned their collective noses up at the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C. to protest the policies of Democratic-controlled federal government - whether in the form of denigration, downplay or outright ignoring the event. However, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has suggested a different tactic. On his Sept. 14 show, Limbaugh proposed a…
Jeff Poor
September 15th, 2009 12:26 AM

Crutsinger's Crud, Part 3: AP Again Erroneously Cites Cost of Wars As

Somebody really needs to find the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger some OCD therapy. It seems that he has a not-magnificent obsession with the two major theaters of the War on Terror (yeah, I still call it that), and that he seemingly won't be able to conquer it without outside intervention. In his report on August's federal budget deficit, the AP reporter continued to cite the wars in Iraq…
Tom Blumer
September 14th, 2009 11:42 PM

CNN's Situation Room Charges: 'Racial Tinge to Tea Movement

CNN's efforts to smear Obama critics as racist gained visibility on Monday's Situation Room when the usually more sensible Wolf Blitzer, with “RACIAL TINGE TO TEA MOVEMENT” as the on-screen heading, set up a story on how, “most disturbing,” within the tea party crowds there's “a very small but vocal minority, they're targeting President Obama's race.” Though reporter Elaine Quijano said “we have…
Brent Baker
September 14th, 2009 9:44 PM

Open Thread: Senate Votes to Stop Funding ACORN

NB Staff
September 14th, 2009 9:44 PM

Leftwing Blogosphere Dreams Up Bizarre Conspiracy Theories to Explain

The leftwing blogosphere has been trying to convince themselves and others that the attendance at the 9/12 Washington, D.C. Tea Party was fairly small. However, there is one really big problem for them. How to explain away a highly inconvenient time lapse video from a camera showing massive numbers of Tea Party folks parading down Pennsylvania Avenue (video below the fold). The way they get…
P.J. Gladnick
September 14th, 2009 9:41 PM

Liberals Manage to Find Classism in Williams's Tantrum

Who would have thought Karl Marx would rear his ugly head at the US Open. But some liberals just could not help attributing Serena Williams's match-ending outburst in her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters to class warfare.Here's what happened. Williams supposedly foot-faulted on her second serve to put Clijsters one point away from the match. Rather than challenging the call or sucking it up…
Lachlan Markay
September 14th, 2009 8:45 PM

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