MRC's Seton Motley Discusses Tea Party Media Bias on 'Fox & Friends

Media Research Center's Seton Motley appeared on FNC's Fox & Friends on April 16th to talk about the egregious media bias in covering the tax day TEA Party protests. And there was no shortage of bias to talk about.Of CNN's Susan Roesgen's openly hostile reporting from one event, Motley said, "She was totally in attack mode. She was almost angry to be there."He also addressed the juvenile…
NB Staff
April 16th, 2009 11:31 AM

Networks Ignore Jamie Foxx’s Verbal Attack on Miley Cyrus

The 41-year-old Oscar winner Jamie Foxx dished out some disgusting advice for Disney teen sensation Miley Cyrus, telling her to, among other things, “make a sex tape and grow up.” This tasteless “advice” coming from the father of a teen to a sixteen year-old girl didn’t seem to outrage anyone at ABC, CBS, or NBC.“The Foxxhole,” Jamie Foxx’s weekend radio show was the forum for a discussion of…
Erin R. Brown
April 16th, 2009 10:03 AM

Tea Party Open Thread

Despite what the contentious left and their media minions are depicting, April 15, 2009, could be an historic day in American history.I personally attended two Tea Parties yesterday, and experienced folks from both political parties, of all ages, and of varied economic strata speaking out against where the country is heading.With that in mind, I'd like to hear and see your stories from yesterday…
Noel Sheppard
April 16th, 2009 9:42 AM

Urban 'Dictionary' Attacking Tea Party Movement

I have to say, this tea party effort has the unhinged left more unhinged than usual. Here we have another example of that from a purported dictionary wiki called the "Urban Dictionary" where users can add kitsch definitions to words used on the "street." In this case the registered users posted to the pseudo dictionary some entries connecting the tax protests with a sexual perversion practiced in…
Warner Todd Huston
April 16th, 2009 4:30 AM

ABC, CBS and NBC Try to Discredit 'Tea Party' Protests

The broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday provided prominent coverage of the “Tea Party” rallies across the nation with time for the views of participants, but they tried to discredit the protests as a front for “corporate interests” or a “fistful of rightward leaning Web sites” -- a concern for motives and hidden agendas the same programs lacked when championing the 2006 pro-illegal…
Brent Baker
April 16th, 2009 3:22 AM

New Seth Rogen Film Forces the Question: Is Date Rape Funny

Moviemakers and critics indicate anything can be played for a laugh.
Colleen Raezler
April 16th, 2009 12:00 AM

Radio Critic Reveals 'Dirty Little Secret' of Rush Limbaugh's Success

Shhh! Put on your dark conspiratorial shades. Radio critic Bill Mann has revealed the highly classified "secret" of Rush Limbaugh's success in his Huffington Post blog. The information is so top secret that it has heretofore been known only to people even slightly familiar with the radio business. Listen as Mann whispers the "dirty little secret" in public: Ever wonder why Rush "Boss" Limbaugh's…
P.J. Gladnick
April 15th, 2009 9:16 PM

NPR Show Blames Beck for Cop Killing, 'Conservative' Guest Disses Limb

Tim Graham
April 15th, 2009 8:25 PM

Albany Paper Focuses on Alleged GOP Support for Gay Marriage, Ignores

In case you weren’t sure, the Albany Times Union firmly supports the legalization of gay marriage in New York, and they don’t care if they have to skew facts to prove it.The front page headline itself screams of what the paper is trying to push: GOP Votes for Gay Marriage?The sub-headline reads:            Some GOP senators may break ranks to back a bill for same-sex marriage in New YorkAfter…
Rusty Weiss
April 15th, 2009 5:47 PM

Ed Schultz to Dem: 'Do You Think That Fox News Wants the Government to

Tim Graham
April 15th, 2009 4:23 PM

Marking 144th Anniversary of Lincoln Assassination by Celebrating 'Mes

One hundred forty-four years after his assassination, Chicago Tribune religion blogger Manya Brachear hacked out an 11-paragraph post on how "Lincoln's death had sacred significance," according to some historians and Lincoln biographers."Harold Holzer, co-chair of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, said the Good Friday assassination earned Lincoln a permanent place in American mythology,"…
Ken Shepherd
April 15th, 2009 4:16 PM

MSNBC Again Touts Right-Wing Threat of Violence; Features GOP Logo

"MSNBC News Live" host Contessa Brewer on Wednesday reported four times on the possible threat of right-wing violence against the government. And for several of those segments there was a graphic in the background that featured the elephant logo of the GOP and the words, "New Right-Wing Threat?" Speaking to Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, Brewer asked about a Department of Homeland Security (…
Scott Whitlock
April 15th, 2009 4:15 PM

CNN Correspondent Claims Tea Parties 'Anti-Government,' 'Anti-CNN

CNN is finally covering the tea parties - by attacking the participants. After anchor Anderson Cooper made an obscene sexual joke about attendees, CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen rudely interrupted one of the protestors and slammed the event for being "anti-government," "anti-CNN," and "not really family viewing."Roesgen asked a man holding his toddler, "Why are you here today?" The man started…
Julia A. Seymour
April 15th, 2009 3:57 PM

Newsweek's Gross Confronted on 'Teabagging' Schtick

When a senior editor from Newsweek goes on MSNBC to discuss conservatives who protest the massive tax and spend agenda of the Obama Administration, why shouldn't he join in the fun of disparaging them with juvenile sexual innuendo? After all, he's among friends and fellow travelers. But eventually, someone may call that senior editor to account for his "pornographic" slurs, as St. Louis radio…
Matt Philbin
April 15th, 2009 3:52 PM