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NB Staff

CNN's Campbell Brown Giddy Over Al Gore, Pushes Him for VP

Campbell Brown, filling in for Anderson Cooper, led CNN's 10 PM EDT hour Monday evening by letting viewers in on her excitement over Al Gore's endorsement of Barack Obama earlier in the evening: “Tonight, everybody, he blew the roof off the joint. Al Gore, one of the last big-name Democrats, getting behind Barack Obama in a big way, making a speech that could have won him the White House if he'd…
Brent Baker

CBS Praises Oil Company for $50 Million in College Aid

'Evening News' segment praises Murphy Oil for providing college funding for high school graduates of Arkansas town.
Jeff Poor

CNBC Hypes California Gay Marriage as an Economic Salvation

Pushing a liberal social agenda is the last thing you'd expect to see on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." But the network's June 16 mid-morning show featured a segment praising the California Supreme Court for legalizing same-sex marriage because of a predicted economic benefit. "This time around, one study expects over 100,000 gay couples will tie the knot, providing a boost to California's…
Jeff Poor

Obama: Our Oil 'Addiction' Funds 'Both Sides' of the War on Terror

Tim Graham

NewsBusted

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NB Staff

Forget Facts, Media Sell Same-Sex 'Marriage' with Emotion

The societal ramifications offer our friends in the press quite a lot to write about, if they'd just take off those party hats.
Brian Fitzpatrick

'The Sky Is Not Falling' – Yet

Get used to hearing this term in the coming weeks, as the media interview pro-homosexual spokesmen about same-sex marriage in California.
Robert Knight

Clueless on Catholicism IV: More Dishonest, Error-Laden Articles From

Using the sexual abuse scandal as a backdrop, a dissident former bishop from Australia, Geoffrey Robinson, has penned a book on the Catholic Church. As a Statement from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference clearly articulates, Robinson's book is riddled with serious theological and doctrinal concerns. The Conference also concluded that Robinson's book ultimately questions a number of…
Dave Pierre

Williams: Afghanistan Deadlier Than Iraq, As If Iraq Not Improving

NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday evening rued that Afghanistan “is too often called the other war or perhaps even the forgotten war” when “in the month of May, for the first time ever, American and allied combat deaths were higher in Afghanistan than the monthly loss in Iraq.” But that's as much because of good news from Iraq, which Williams ignored, as bad news from Afghanistan. The number of…
Brent Baker

Bozell Column: Dan Rather, Journalism Guardian

Brent Bozell

NBC Trumpets Gore's 'Return to Electoral Politics' to Endorse Obama

Just under a year after NBC turned over more than 75 hours of air time on several of their channels to Al Gore's “Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis,” Monday's NBC Nightly News championed Al Gore's “major endorsement” of Barack Obama -- as if a Democratic politician backing the Democratic nominee is newsworthy. (ABC's Jake Tapper gave the then-upcoming event a sentence while the CBS…
Brent Baker

CNN: Economist Predicts 'Game Over' Because of Rising Oil Costs

'Your $$$$$' discusses impact of high oil prices and 'biggest fear' that prices will drop.
Rachel Waters

Ohio Judge With Posters of Che and Obama, Where's MSM Outrage

The AP had a short newsbreak story on Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge who ruled that the state must stop the method of executions in the state, saying that the "lethal injection procedure doesn't provide the quick and painless death required by Ohio law." Accompanying the short story is the picture we post here showing the judge in his office where he proudly displays two posters,…
Warner Todd Huston