CBS/AP Fail to Call FARC Narco-terrorists Terrorists

Leftist Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is threatening neighboring Colombia with war after that country successfully killed via airstrike FARC terrorists in a camp in Ecuador. Yet in reporting the story, CBSNews.com and the AP downplayed the terroristic nature of the leftist rebel movement.The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has been on a Comprehensive List of Terrorists and Groups…
Ken Shepherd

Joy Behar Defends Gloria Steinem's Anti-Military Remarks

Justin McCarthy

Geraldo Rivera: Rush Limbaugh 'Dean' of 'Nativist Reaction

According to Geraldo Rivera, Rush Limbaugh is "the dean of the academy" of a "nativist reaction" and "the most savage talk radio campaign every in history." Appearing on the March 3 edition of "The View," the Fox News correspondent promoted to his book, "His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S." Rivera also said McCain’s virtual lock of the Republican nomination is "a victory for the…
Justin McCarthy

BMI's Gainor: 'Disagreement is Not Allowed in the Media

Business & Media Institute Vice President tells 'Fox & Friends' media ignore and mistreat global warming 'skeptics.'
Nathan Burchfiel

NY Times Profiles Racist, 'Deteriorating' Labor Market

Newspaper claims businesses are in a 'hiring strike,' downplays stable, low unemployment.
Nathan Burchfiel

After Much Obama Boosting, ABC's Moran Finally Quizzes Barack

"Nightline" host Terry Moran appeared on Monday's "Good Morning America" with a segment in which he repeatedly quizzed Senator Barack Obama on the subject of his relationship to indicted political operative Tony Rezko, now facing corruption charges. Moran persistently asked the Democratic presidential candidate if he would release all information relating to the role Rezko played in a house…
Scott Whitlock

ChiTrib Fails to Note Ex-Alderman's Democratic Affiliation

Ken Shepherd

AP Writer Miscasts Housing Measurements to Hype Home-Value 'Crisis

On Wednesday, Associated Press Business Writer J.W. Elphinstone used a curious definition of "narrow" to emphasize the importance of a home-price measurement index that only looks at the country's largest metro areas, while minimizing the significance of one that catalogs virtually the entire USA -- all apparently done to create an overwrought portrayal of home values as being "in freefall."…
Tom Blumer

AP's Fantasy Headline: 'Bush Resigns Because Of Plagiarism

You can mark this as news from a moonbat's fantasy land, but the AP has made a howler of a Freudian slip in their headline about a low level Bush aide who has resigned because he plagiarized a newspaper article he wrote. Instead of saying that a Bush aide resigned, AP headlined their report "Bush Resigns Because of Plagiarism." (Image as it appeared on the CBS website) Me thinks that the AP's…
Warner Todd Huston

Troop Surge Belies Deeper Success of New Tactics in Iraq, Ex-Marine Tu

Iraq’s Anbar Province has awakened, the U.S. military is on the offensive, and Al Qaeda and is on the run but it is a mistake to assume this dramatic turnaround is exclusively the result of additional troops, J.D. Johannes, a former Marine and television news producer explained in an interview. Johannes traveled to Iraq with the Marine Corps unit he previously served with in 2005 with the…
Kevin Mooney

Open Thread

NB Staff

Goldwater Enjoyed Favorable Press Prior to Presidential Run, New Book

Kevin Mooney

Harry Smith: Hillary Will Boink Bill With Her 'Frying Pan

Here at NB, we're not normally in the business of feeling sorry for MSMers like Harry Smith. But I can't help but express some sympathy for the Early Show anchor at the prospect of the feminist, Clintonite wrath that is likely to descend on his head after a comment he made this morningAmong the metaphors most likely to drive feminists up the wall is that of the angry woman yielding that symbol…
Mark Finkelstein

TV Reporter Maintains Straight Face Reporting on Super Silly Superdele

P.J. Gladnick