Dobbs on ABC: With Bid for Anheuser-Busch, 'America for Sale

'Good Morning America' slants business buyout story into national security scare.
Amy Menefee

About Those Barack Obama Rumors

Those rascally right-wing bloggers. Always starting up rumors.Or not.
Matthew Sheffield

CBS Blames Corn Prices on Floods, but Ignores Ethanol Mandates

U.S. corn futures topped out at record highs on June 11 on the news that the impact of flooding in the Midwest would hurt this year's corn crop, but the June 11 "CBS Evening News" left out one significant detail in its reporting about the crisis. "[A]gricultural disaster aid has been requested for Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan," CBS correspondent Cynthia Bowers said on the June 11 "…
Jeff Poor

ChiTrib Religion Blogger: 'Have Southern Baptists Lost Their Way

Chicago Tribune religion reporter and blogger Manya Brachear echoed a familiar liberal media meme about orthodox Christianity in her latest "The Seeker" blog post, "Have Southern Baptists lost their way?" (emphases mine): As a number of conservative Protestant denominations now face decline, leaders have chosen to batten down the hatches, endorse orthodoxy and herald the importance of sharing…
Ken Shepherd

ABCNews.com Features Sexually Charged Vulgar Video Bashing McCain Supp

Months ago, Obama Girl seductively sang about her love for the junior senator from Illinois. Now, a satirical video, loaded with sexual content, depicts young McCain supporters as inept, clumsy, and not worthy of dating.Making matters worse, ABCNews.com not only reviewed the video, but also embedded it at its website despite the soundtrack including a vulgarity beginning with the letter "F".I kid…
Noel Sheppard

From Her Glass House, Behar Casts Stone at Mel Gibson

Justin McCarthy

ABC Web Site Compares Current Day to Fall of Rome 'If We Don't Save Ou

Network's 'Earth 2100' program warns about collapse of civilization, asks 'Are we next?'
Dan Gainor

ABC Hypes Sci-Fi Future of Death, Doom and Fire

In order to promote a new climate change special airing this fall, Thursday's "Good Morning America" hyped terrifying future predictions of "more floods, more droughts, more wildfires" and, bizarrely, invited viewers to somehow morph into prophets and "report back" about what life is like in the year 2100. Featuring a slate of global warming alarmists, reporter Bob Woodruff previewed "Earth 2100…
Scott Whitlock

Mark Levin to Listeners: Defend Talk Radio

Yesterday we at NewsBusters noted how Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell is backing an effort to move an up-or-down vote on the Broadcasters Freedom Act (BFA), currently stalled in the House of Representatives. Later that evening on his June 11 radio program, conservative talk show host Mark Levin issued a warning- urge your congressman to support the…
Peter Sasso

Actor John Cusack Does Anti-McCain Ad For MoveOn.org

If you find the love affair media are having with Barack Obama unseemly, you'd better prepare yourself for how low Hollywood elites will be stooping in the coming months to get their candidate in the White House.As a potentially sick-making foreshadowing of things to come, MoveOn.org just released a new television advertisement featuring "War, Inc." actor John Cusack playing the role of a…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

'Evening News' Blames Corn Prices on Floods, not Ethanol

CBS segment reports government estimates for this year's corn crop will be 10 percent lower than last year, but fails to mention effects of fuel subsidies on prices.
Jeff Poor

The Audacity of Barnes & Noble: Search for 'God' Yields Obama Book

Mark Finkelstein

Olbermann Hits 'Worst Person' Katie Couric for Charging Anti-Hillary B

On Wednesday's Countdown show, during the show's regular "Worst Person in the World" segment, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who rarely hits liberals during the segment while he often targets conservatives, turned his ire toward CBS News anchor Katie Couric for her recent charges that some media figures were guilty of anti-Clinton, or pro-Obama bias. Olbermann accused Couric of taking out of "…
Brad Wilmouth