Barney Frank Seeks Prosecutions for Those Involved in Downturn

House Financial Services Committee chairman to push for civil, criminal statutes to make bad practices illegal, but avoids addressing his own role in downturn.
Jeff Poor
March 5th, 2009 11:06 PM

Interviews from NewsBusters at CPAC

There were many famous people at CPAC this year and I was lucky enough to run into some of them. And some of those I ran into even let me ask them a few questions about media bias. The resulting videos are embedded below the fold.The four interviews I was able to get where with Joe the Plumber, John Ziegler, George Phillips, and Roger Simon. Each have unique experiences with liberal media bias…
Stephen Gutowski
March 5th, 2009 9:38 PM

CNN’s D. L. Hughley Ends Show, Days After He Called Republicans Nazi

Less than a week after stating that the Republican National Convention “literally look[s] like Nazi Germany,” D. L. Hughley has decided to end the run of his CNN program. Both Entertainment Weekly and the TVNewser blog gave the official CNN statement on the matter: “D.L. approached CNN about being permanently based in Los Angeles, where his family lives. To accommodate this, we agreed upon a new…
Matthew Balan
March 5th, 2009 8:34 PM

Newsweek’s Alter on MSNBC: GOP ‘Party of Jell-O’ For Not Standin

During the 3:00PM EST hour on MSNBC on Thursday, anchor Norah O’Donnell teased an upcoming segment on Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party: "Coming up, is the party of Lincoln in danger of becoming the party of jell-o? Why conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh could be a liability for the Grand Old Party." O’Donnell was referring to an Newsweek article by columnist Jonathan Alter and later…
Kyle Drennen
March 5th, 2009 6:16 PM

Ari Fleischer Zings MSNBC: Should Dems Denounce Keith Olbermann

Former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer appeared on the Thursday edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and stopped the program cold when he challenged the hosts as to whether they were "going after Democrat members of Congress for why they aren't distancing themselves from Keith Olbermann?" Co-anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who had been discussing the battle between the…
Scott Whitlock
March 5th, 2009 6:10 PM

Rachel Maddow on Leno: Limbaugh Should Back Socialism Once It's Enacte

Tim Graham
March 5th, 2009 4:47 PM

Media Mum on AFL-CIO Florida Trip

They hammered Northern Trust events a week ago, but networks silent as AFL-CIO bosses 'work' in South Beach, Florida.
Edward Schatz
March 5th, 2009 3:53 PM

MSNBC: GOP ‘Sinking Fast’ Because of Rush Limbaugh

At the top of Wednesday’s 3:00PM EST hour on MSNBC, anchor Norah O’Donnell declared: "Well, the back and forth between Rush Limbaugh and RNC Chairman Michael Steele continues. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows the GOP's approval is sinking fast, only 26% of those polled give the party a positive rating." O’Donnell spoke to Jennifer Skalka, editor of the blog Hotline On Call, and asked…
Kyle Drennen
March 5th, 2009 3:05 PM

CNBC's Macke: Obama Holding Dow Back 2,000 Points as Markets Sag

Finally after five straight down days for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), it rallied back 149 points to finish at 6,875 on March 4. But it picked right back up today and continued to fall. What's holding it back? CNBC "The Kudlow Report " host Larry Kudlow had Jeff Macke, founder and president of Macke Asset Management on his March 4 program and asked if the rally, along with other…
Jeff Poor
March 5th, 2009 2:39 PM

Obama's UN Ambassador Married to 'This Week' Executive Producer

The unholy alliance between the White House and ABC's George Stephanopoulos goes beyond mere conference calls with President Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.The executive producer of "This Week" is married to newly-confirmed United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice.Such was reported by Commentary magazine's Jennifer Rubin Thursday:
Noel Sheppard
March 5th, 2009 2:32 PM

D.L. Hughley Gets Ugly on Nazi GOP: CNN Boss Jon Klein Told Him 'Anyth

Tim Graham
March 5th, 2009 2:10 PM

Media Absent on Prom and Politics

Don’t you dare go buy that $300 department store satin dress for your senior prom; a Captain Planet costume is more appropriate. Some high school students are entering an online video contest called Project Green Prom in which they promise to create a “zero waste event” for their high school prom.For the next 25 days, high school students have the opportunity to send in three minute videos…
Erin R. Brown
March 5th, 2009 1:50 PM

Former NYT Reporter Calls 'Clown' Limbaugh a 'Sweaty, Swollen Man

Liberal New York Times reporter turned liberal nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan's latest rant against conservative talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh, "Fears of a Clown," was propped up on the front page of nytimes.com on Thursday for the delight of the paper's liberal audience. Last February, Egan called Limbaugh "talk radio's leading gasbag." Today, after lamenting about the ubiquity of Limbaugh on…
Clay Waters
March 5th, 2009 1:37 PM

CNN'S Rick Sanchez's 'Brand-New Statistic' Is Four Years Old

On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez, who's increasingly mimicking MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's off-the-chart liberalism, took a swipe at several Republican governors:First, let me try and set this up. You have heard the conversation on this newscast and on many other newscasts just a couple of weeks ago. There were many red state Southern governors who were on the record saying we're so…
Mike Bates
March 5th, 2009 1:00 PM