Tamron Hall Justifies MSNBC Obsession With Rush Limbaugh

MSNBC’s Tamron Hall attempted to justify multiple stories on Rush Limbaugh supposedly comparing Barack Obama to Al Qaeda: "We have a right to cover people who are speaking out...Many people listen to this man, and we have a responsibility to report all sides and you can't try to duck and hide, throw the rock and then hide in the bush."Hall was responding to criticism by Republican strategist Alex…
Kyle Drennen
June 5th, 2009 12:15 PM

Olbermann Falsely Smears Pro-Life Blogger Stanek, Calls Her Readers 'C

MSNBC’s partisan-in-chief Keith Olbermann used his “Worst Person in the World” segment on Thursday evening to falsely accuse pro-life blogger Jill Stanek of posting the “addresses of the only two remaining physicians who will provide late-term abortions when the woman’s life is in danger,” thus enabling “a bunch of crazy people, like your readers, where they can find somebody and abuse, threaten…
Matthew Balan
June 5th, 2009 11:26 AM

When Keith Olbermann Attacks

It takes a big man to admit when he’s been bested. I have to say however, that after this one I had to walk away with my head hanging in shame.  You win this round, Mr Olbermann… You win this round. [video below page break]In my defense however, I will say that Maddow came way out of left field with the double-teaming.  I personally found it to be distasteful… But well played on Maddow’s part.
Steven Crowder
June 5th, 2009 11:10 AM

'World News' Trumps Up Severity of Former Countrywide CEO Civil Charge

Throughout 2008, Countrywide Financial, now owned by Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), was attacked as being culpable for the financial crisis. Adam Lashinsky of Fortune magazine, in an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Cavuto on Business" June 21, 2008, predicted the attacks "won't stop until they do a perp walk with Angelo Mozilo - the CEO of Countrywide." A year later, a report on ABC's June 4 "…
Jeff Poor
June 5th, 2009 10:51 AM

Cheney More Popular Than Pelosi! Will Media Notice

The man media hate more than virtually any other living American, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is currently more popular than the woman the press have been gushing and fawning over since it first became apparent she could end up being the Speaker of the House of Representatives.After they fall off their chairs and get over their disgust, will media members share this startling news with the…
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2009 10:20 AM

Dear NY Times: Beware of Unintended Consequences

Social-engineering by tax policy led to performance-based pay and less transparency.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.
June 5th, 2009 10:19 AM

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: job losses slow.The U.S. lost fewer jobs than forecast in May, reinforcing signs that the deepest recession in half a century is starting to abate. Payrolls fell by 345,000, the least in eight months, after a revised 504,000 loss in April, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The jobless rate increased to 9.4 percent, the…
NB Staff
June 5th, 2009 9:48 AM

NASA Study Makes 'Amazing' Discovery: Sun Heats Earth

A NASA study reported by Daily Tech has come to an "amazing" conclusion that is sure to cause depression among Al Gore and much of the mainstream media: the sun heats the earth. Yes, as astounding as that sounds, the NASA study has found that solar activity is the real culprit of any global warming. Sorry, Heidi Cullen. Here are some of the details of the NASA study:Report indicates solar cycle…
P.J. Gladnick
June 5th, 2009 8:31 AM

Nets Tout Obama's 'Historic' and 'Transformational' Speech in Cairo

The network evening newscasts on Thursday gave positive reviews to President Obama's speech in Cairo, with the NBC Nightly News the most glowingly positive, and ABC giving the most attention to skeptics in the Muslim world. NBC focused on positive reactions to the speech, quoting one observer who got "goose pimples," and another who compared the speech to that of President Kennedy in Berlin. NBC’…
Brad Wilmouth
June 5th, 2009 8:23 AM

CNNMoney.com E-Mail Exemplifies Unjustified Happy Talk About Down Econ

Today's Employment Situation Report from Uncle Sam (link will be updated for May results at 8:30 a.m.) will almost certainly report hundreds of thousands of seasonally adjusted jobs lost. According to this AFP report, "Most analysts expect employers to have cut 520,000 jobs, down from 539,000 in April. But the unemployment rate is still expected to have jumped to 9.2 percent, its highest since…
Tom Blumer
June 5th, 2009 8:11 AM

Is NPR Skipping Over the Murder of Private William Long

Tim Graham
June 5th, 2009 8:08 AM

Obama's 'Jobs-Saved' Claims Flat Out Untrue, Press Giving Him Pass

On CNBC, Tony Fratto, former White House Spokesman for President Bush, has used the nice word -- that would be "deception" -- to say that Barack Obama is lying about his claims that his "stimulus" efforts saved any American jobs. Not only does Fratto devastate the administration's claims to have saved jobs, but he rightfully points out that the lapdog media is letting Obama get away with the…
Warner Todd Huston
June 5th, 2009 7:50 AM

NewsBusted

NB Staff
June 5th, 2009 3:09 AM

Sex-Crazed Cosmo Highlights Women Who Don't Have Sex

Women's magazine finds seven virgins who are not holding out for religious reasons or for marriage.
Colleen Raezler
June 5th, 2009 12:00 AM