NASA's Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth

Climate realists around the world have contended for years that the real goal of alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his followers is to use the fear of man-made global warming to redistribute wealth.On Monday, one of Gore's leading scientific resources, Goddard Institute for Space Studies chief James Hansen, sent a letter to Barack and Michelle Obama specifically urging the president-…
Noel Sheppard

Radio Host Ed Schultz's Theory for Conflict in Gaza: Fought to Get Oba

OK, so Barack Obama isn't really the political Messiah of critics' caricature, despite the fervor of his supplicants. But according to liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz, Obama qualifies for the less lofty but still impressive description of Hub of the World.Schultz offers an unlikely theory for the renewed fighting in Gaza, one more revealing of the person suggesting it than the subject at…
Jack Coleman

Global Warming? New Year Ushers in New Snowfall Records

As soon as your humble correspondent flipped on the TV set this New Year morning, he heard an MSNBC report about record levels of snowfall that just hit the Pacific Northwest. Checking around the web, it turns out that other parts of the country were also hit with record levels of snowfall. Here are a few of the reports starting with this one in the Green Bay Press Gazette  (emphasis mine):…
P.J. Gladnick

New Years Day Bowl Game Open Thread

NB Staff

Time Editor: Obama Is Charismatic, Super-Competent, Stupendous Star of

Tim Graham

2008: Another Year of the Dropped-D Scandal

Tim Graham

Happy New Year! Open Thread

Happy New Year from NewsBusters. Before we look ahead to the new Congress next week or the new president in about 20 days, what about tonight's festivities on TV? Were you sickened by the Clintons pretending to be all schmaltzy and dancing? Did anyone look better than Fox's Megyn Kelly? Did you see any media bias on the networks? Do tell...
NB Staff

CBS’s Reid: Will Country Be ‘Better Off’ With ‘Progressive Gov

On Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, fill-in host Chip Reid discussed the economic crisis with left-wing economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, wondering: "I know you've been arguing for a more progressive government for a long time and obviously at difficult times like this, I don't want to suggest that a recession is a good thing. But if looking back at this five years, or some…
Kyle Drennen

CNN.com Goofs: Transcript Page Includes Kathy Griffin's 2009 Waterboar

Tim Graham

Balance AWOL in WaPo, MSNBC Coverage of Atheists’ Inauguration Suit

Well-known atheist Michael Newdow is old news. Few mainstream media outlets are covering the suit he filed  Dec. 30 in U.S. District Court to strip prayer and any mention of God from the inaugural ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama. Of those that are reporting on the suit, however, the Washington Post and MSNBC gave Newdow and his fellow litigants a largely unchallenged platform to argue…
Colleen Raezler

The Associated Press Chronicles 'Guerrilla Warrior' Castro's 'Push to

Associated Press writer Will Weissert apparently thought that the Communist government in Cuba wasn't doing a good enough job of white washing and glorifying Fidel Castro's legacy and decided to try his hand at it. Thus he wrote a little piece describing the humble hut that Castro used as a head quarters during his Communist rebellion:Before he was Cuba's unchallenged "Maximum Leader," Fidel…
Stephen Gutowski

The Obvious-Crotch-Jokes Ending of

Tim Graham

ABC Hypes Obesity Tax: Pay More; Live Longer

On Wednesday's "Good Morning America," fill-in host Bill Weir and reporter Dan Harris touted the benefits of New York's proposed 18 percent obesity tax on soft drinks. Weir teased the segment by enthusing, "One official says making you pay more could actually save your life later." Harris repeatedly played clips from New York's state health commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines, who created a YouTube…
Scott Whitlock

For Media, 2008 Was Year of Hollywood Values

Erin R. Brown