The Audacity of Truth

You come to NewsBusters for the reporting the American Media just won't do, to hold truth to power, and to point out when they look the other way as their ideological leader does things like give an easy button to Russia, or claims that cars were invented by Americans, while getting economic advice from someone who can't actually make money.  And in hindsight, I almost have to admire Bill Clinton…
Mithridate Ombud
March 9th, 2009 7:56 PM

Matthews: Limbaugh Like a Bond Villain, a 'Human Vat of Vitriol

Over the weekend, Chris Matthews compared Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villain and claimed the radio talk show host was a "human vat of vitriol. He relishes the attention and he sells anger as a weapon." Before playing a clip from "You Only Live Twice," in which a Bond nemesis drops a victim into a piranha tank, Matthews, on his syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," offered up the following…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 9th, 2009 6:47 PM

ABC Features Gayle King to Sing About, Tout 'Great Ideas' of First Lad

O Magazine editor Gayle King appeared on Monday's "Good Morning America" to rave about the "un-jaded," "not-complicated" and "so-darned normal" Obama family. The close associate of Oprah Winfrey talked with Diane Sawyer and repeatedly enthused about a Winfrey interview (see picture at right) with Mrs. Obama, at one point cooing that the first lady "only wants to be Michelle Obama, really. And…
Scott Whitlock
March 9th, 2009 5:26 PM

ABC Champions President Obama's Embryo-Destroying Stem Cell Decision

Correspondent Lisa Stark’s report on ABC’s World News on Sunday almost completely slanted in favor of President Obama’s decision to overturn the ban on federal funding of stem cell research which destroys human embryos. Stark minimized the controversial nature of the research, devoting only one sound bite out of four to a critic of the president’s move.Anchor Dan Harris introduced Stark’s report…
Matthew Balan
March 9th, 2009 5:26 PM

Pile of National Media Stars Turn Up for Ted Kennedy's D.C. Birthday T

Many liberal media outlets have reported the Kennedy Center birthday party Sunday night for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Few have mentioned the media turnout. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, the former Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, joined Caroline Kennedy in awarding Sen. Kennedy the Kennedy Library’s "Profile in Courage" Award. Frank Mankiewicz, the former president of National…
Tim Graham
March 9th, 2009 4:45 PM

Dear NY Times: Savings Creates Efficiencies

Both Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman Are Wrong About Oversaving
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.
March 9th, 2009 4:39 PM

NBC Ups the Ante on Economic Woe, Profiles Sacramento 'Shanty Town

Chris Jansing continues media's Great Depression theme with images of 1930s and today.
Edward Schatz
March 9th, 2009 4:20 PM

MSNBC Attacks Limbaugh Again: 'Is Rush Toxic for GOP

MSNBC host David Shuster continued his dogged pursuit of Rush Limbaugh on Monday, hosting a segment with an onscreen graphic that screamed, "Is Rush Toxic for GOP?" After discussing a birthday celebration in honor of Senator Ted Kennedy, Shuster asserted, "About the only thing that might have put a damper on Kennedy's celebration were some jarring comments from conservative heavyweight Rush…
Scott Whitlock
March 9th, 2009 3:37 PM

The AP Channels the Democrats in the Limbaugh-Kennedy ‘Scandal

***TWO UPDATES, including the response from AP's Ron Fournier, at the end of this post.***Friday evening the Associated Press (AP) issued an un-bylined story which was nothing more than a stenographic reprint of the latest dishonest Democratic attack on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.  The Friday story apparently reflected zero research into the charge levied by Brian Wolff, executive…
Brent Bozell
March 9th, 2009 2:47 PM

Kernen Asks Buffett: 'You Might Not Have Fixed Global Warming' After D

The U.S. is at war with the failing economy, according to Warren Buffett, who told CNBC viewers that it had "fallen off a cliff."In September 2008, Buffett compared the market turmoil to "an economic Pearl Harbor," and on March 9 he returned to that metaphor in a "Squawk Box" interview that began at 6 a.m. and continued through the 7 and 8 a.m. program hours. Buffett also criticized the…
Julia A. Seymour
March 9th, 2009 2:21 PM

CNBC's Kernen: 'You Might Not Have Fixed Global Warming' After D-Day

'Oracle of Omaha' Warren Buffett agrees, says job 1, 2 and 3 must be the 'economic war.'
Julia A. Seymour
March 9th, 2009 12:24 PM

CBS Claims Obama Overturned Stem Cell ‘Ban’; Makes Correction

At the top of Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen incorrectly declared: "Reversing course. President Obama lifts the ban on embryonic stem cell research today...But is the President going far enough?" During the later segment, co-host Maggie Rodriguez had to offer a correction: "And we should say, this under President Bush was not banned or illegal, except now we're getting federal…
Kyle Drennen
March 9th, 2009 12:13 PM

Cramer Bashes Obama and Liberal Media While Praising Fox News

Noel Sheppard
March 9th, 2009 10:41 AM

Congressman Urges Climate Change 'Agitation' Through Newspapers, Radio

McClintock tells Heartland Institute ICCC conference one-on-one interaction with politicians over global warming issue is less effective.
Jeff Poor
March 9th, 2009 10:21 AM