MRC's Bozell: Media Must Report Liberal Hate Speech Directed at ObamaC

UPDATE:  Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity read Bozell's statement on the air on August 6th.  The audio can be found here.  Liberal Democrats have launched a war of outrageous hate speech directed at Americans who haved dared to express opposition to Obama's health care "reform." First, the Democratic National Committee launched a Web video charging "desperate Republicans…
NB Staff
August 6th, 2009 11:44 AM

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NB Staff
August 6th, 2009 10:43 AM

WaPo Slams Obama/Joker Posters as ‘Coded,’ ‘Racially Charged

An article in Thursday’s Washington Post lashed out at the viral Obama-as-the-Joker posters, attacking them as promoting "coded," "racially charged" images. Art critic Philip Kennicott smeared the images, which have been showing up in Los Angeles, as flat-out bigoted: "The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but…
Scott Whitlock
August 6th, 2009 10:23 AM

CNN: More View Obama's First 6 Months A Failure Than Bush's

Here's a shocking new poll result from CNN that seems almost guaranteed to not get a lot of attention from the media: more people believe Barack Obama's presidency is a failure after six months in office than felt that way after George W. Bush's first half year.Maybe even more shocking: the poll included an oversampling of African-Americans.Impossible? Well, the good folks at Real Clear Politics…
Noel Sheppard
August 6th, 2009 10:07 AM

Liberal Talker Mike Malloy Hopes Glenn Beck Commits Suicide

The hate speech directed at conservatives by the far left in this nation continues to get more and more disgusting as well as dangerous.The most recent incident: liberal radio host Mike Malloy called for Fox News's Glenn Beck to commit suicide and do it on television "because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular video for months."What follows is the transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
August 6th, 2009 9:35 AM

Alleged Racial Healer Sharpton Alarmed by Potential Reconciliation Bet

This from a man of the cloth, no less.That Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant James Crowley may attend a baseball game together has the Rev. Al Sharpton concerned.Sharpton had this to say on his radio show on Monday while talking with Gates' lawyer Charles Ogletree, who also teaches at Harvard (click here for audio) --SHARPTON:  Let me start out by…
Jack Coleman
August 6th, 2009 6:44 AM

If it's Morning, it Must Be Michael Jackson

Over five weeks after pop star's death, the networks' morning shows continue to pay homage.
Sarah Knoploh
August 6th, 2009 12:00 AM

Chicago Enlists 'Birthday Sex' Singer for Back-to-School Campaign

School officials indifferent to message in Jeremih's lyrics.
Colleen Raezler
August 6th, 2009 12:00 AM

After Guilty Verdicts, NBC Fails to ID Jefferson's Party Affiliation

Wednesday's NBC Nightly News devoted a full minute to the guilty convictions for bribery, racketeering and  wire fraud against former nine-term Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, but failed to name his political party. ABC's Charles Gibson mentioned Jefferson's party in a brief World News item. The CBS Evening News didn't air anything about Jefferson's convictions which were…
Brent Baker
August 5th, 2009 8:49 PM

The Real Reason for CNBC Ratings Decline: 'Experts' Ignore Left-Ward T

When in doubt blame conservatism, even when it comes to the struggles of a media outlet - and ignore the possibility that liberalism might be to blame. Ever since Nielsen came out with the July numbers for CNBC that showed the network had suffered a 28 percent ratings decline over a year ago, some of the financial media intelligentsia have been eager to point to what they perceive are the right-…
Jeff Poor
August 5th, 2009 7:04 PM

G.I. Joe's Benetton Moment

So the latest GI Joe flick is creating controversy, because the character is no longer portrayed as a typical American soldier. Instead he’s part of some elite murky force of international fighters - a Benetton ad with rocket launchers. On MSNBC, Donny Deutsch tried to take John J. Miller to task over his objections to the change – pointing out that the shift from an iconic American…
Greg Gutfeld
August 5th, 2009 6:25 PM

MSNBC Goes to Bat Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell

It's been a long time since MSNBC could pretend to be anything but a shill for liberal politicians, policies and causes. Any remaining doubts about that can be dispelled by surveying the network's recent coverage of the controversy over gays in the military. Cable news' self-described "place for politics" covered the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" administrative policy six different…
Colleen Raezler
August 5th, 2009 5:49 PM

'Experts' Ignore CNBC's Leftward Tilt as Cause for Ratings Drop

Cable business network ratings are down 28 percent versus a year ago, after making an effort to include more liberals like Huffington, Dean.
Jeff Poor
August 5th, 2009 5:47 PM

Rx for Bias: Networks' Top Docs Are Heavy Dem Donors

Today NewsBusters' parent organization, the Media Research Center (MRC), revealed that ABC News is not the only network guilty of giving Democratic-donating medical doctors a microphone to "report" on President Barack Obama's government health care proposal. CBS and NBC medical physician correspondents have also chipped in their own cash to Democratic - but never Republican - candidates."ABC,…
NB Staff
August 5th, 2009 5:25 PM