Wall Street Journal Fails to Identify GOP-Bashing Author as Gay Activi

James Kirchick's column comes straight out of the homosexual political playbook.
Robert Knight
 

Running Purity Rings around MTV

Chastity enjoys a resurgence among some teen stars.
L. Brent Bozell III
 

Gibson Accuses Palin of 'Hubris' and Seeing Iraq as 'a Holy War

Charles Gibson's interview with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the first since her selection, not surprisingly focused mostly on pressing her to prove she's qualified for the job and quizzing her about foreign policy issues. While Gibson certainly treated her with more respect than would have many other national media figures, he did suggest her willingness to unhesitatingly…
Brent Baker
 

Charlie Gibson's Attempt to Twist Sarah Palin's Words

John Stephenson
 

Hip Hop Artist Ne-Yo To MTV's TRL Audience: McCain's Speech Made Me Ma

Hip Hop R&B artist Ne-Yo joined MTV VJ Lyndsey Rodrigues on TRL to co-host today.  Prior to performing, Ne-Yo was interviewed about a song on his new album titled "When You're Mad." Rodrigues asked the singer/song-writer the last time he was mad himself. RODRIGUES: When's the last time you got fired up? NE-YO: Last time I got fired up?...you know what got me mad? When I watched McCain's…
Kerry Picket
 

Vieira Challenges Begala on Obama's Lipstick Smear

On Thursday's "Today" show, co-host Meredith Vieira actually challenged former Clinton administration advisor Paul Begala about the significance of Barack Obama's recent "lipstick on a pig" comment. As was typical for this shameless pol, Begala viewed the McCain campaign's complaints concerning this remark as a distraction "from the fact that, you know, in the eyes of most people, the economy's…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNBC Media Editor Warns Democrats Will Exploit Sex for Oil Scandal

You would never associate sex and drugs with crude oil - but politically, the Democratic Party might try. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., appeared in an interview on CNBC's September 11 "Power Lunch" the day after it was revealed that federal investigators discovered an Interior Department group overseeing the collection of oil and natural gas royalties improperly had sex with subordinates and…
Jeff Poor
 

Hume Credits NewsBusters for Exposing Fake Trig Palin eBay Listing

On Tuesday's "Special Report," Fox News's Brit Hume credited NewsBusters for exposing a fake eBay listing auctioning off Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's baby Trig.As my colleague Warner Todd Huston wrote earlier that morning: Apparently, a poster at the radical nutroot site, DemocraticUnderground, created a fake listing for someone pretending to sell baby Trig on ebay. The faux…
Noel Sheppard
 

Cramer: 'Dysfunctional' Banking System Puts U.S. 'Totally' at Risk of

CNBC host promotes taxpayer-funded federal bailout and Fed interest rate cut to stem financial problems.
Jeff Poor
 

Bill Clinton to Help Obama Campaign Open Thread

NB Staff
 

NB Interview: Post’s Merida at McCain/Palin Rally Denies Media Bias

Washington Post staff writer Kevin Merida talked to NewsBusters at a rally for John McCain in Fairfax, VA and denied that the media are biased. He asserted, "I think that most journalists are really conscientious about, you know, really looking at all sides of issues and subjects." However, he did hedge that "there's always some bias in media coverage and some, just, not-terrific journalism."…
Scott Whitlock
 

Spinspotter: Exposing Media Bias or Reinforcing It

What if you could download a program that would scan, magically, any article written anywhere and expose the spin, bias, and misinformation? Would that interest you?This is what a new program--SpinSpotter--coming to you from Seattle, WA, purports to do. Business Week reports:The application's algorithms work off six key tenets of spin and bias, which the company derived from both the guidelines…
Jacob S. Lybbert
 

CNBC: Dems Will Exploit Sex Scandal to Stop Oil Drilling

Media editor predicts Obama will use Interior Department scandal to prevent opening off-limits federal land for energy exploration.
Jeff Poor
 

Palin Shown As Lipsticked Pig in Cartoon Days Before Obama Remark

Four days before the infamous "lipstick on a pig" remark by Sen. Obama, Gov. Sarah Palin was depicted as the lipstick-wearing porcine embodiment of "Federal Budget Earmarks" in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoon by R.J. Matson (see picture at right; h/t tipster Chuck Hodges).Yesterday NewsBusters contributor Warner Todd Huston noted that Obama's remarks sounded remarkably similar to a speech…
Ken Shepherd