Geist: 'Never Underestimate the Stupidity of the American Public

Unlike the sensitive folks over at Media Matters, we NewsBusters are a relatively thick-skinned lot. And no one's ever confused me with Gloria Steinem. So we're not going to overreact to Willie Geist's comment this morning and demand a Matthewsesque mea culpa.However . . . Willie did manage to diss the intelligence of his compatriots on today's Morning Joe. A Friday show tradition is for Geist…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusters Piece Featured in Fake Soldiers Video

Former Navy SEAL Steve Robinson has been tracking down and exposing people falsely claiming to be real Navy SEALS or Green Berets, etc., for quite some time now. He says that people making false claims that they are members of America's elite forces are on the rise since 9/11. With the assistance of video producer John Carey, Mr. Robinson has created a little video about his efforts in which a…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

NB Staff

NewsBusted

It's Friday which means another episode of our comedy webcast "NewsBusted!" Topics in this show include rumors of Mike Bloomberg entering the presidential race, insane allegations about Halliburton assassinating Barack Obama, and Hannah Montana's body double.If you're a Myspace user, feel free to click over to our new MySpace page and add us as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube…
Matthew Sheffield

Shuster Sides With Clintons on Caucus Kerfuffle

Bill and Hillary might be taking flak for the vote-suppressing lawsuit their supporters brought in Nevada, but the couple can count on at least one supporter in the MSM: David Shuster.On today's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC's David Shuster got into an extended argument over Mitt Romney's testy exchange with a reporter over the candidate's claim that Washington lobbyists were not…
Mark Finkelstein

Agenda Over Women's Health: LAT Continues Abortion Falsehoods

In the article, "Abortions down 25% from peak" (Thu. 1/17/08), the Los Angeles Times continues their practice of propagating abortion falsehoods. But their faulty reporting exceeds simple factual errors. Their falsehoods put women's lives in jeopardy.In a passage on the activities at pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, the author of the article, Stephanie Simon (more on her below), writes,Some of…
Dave Pierre

Olbermann Says His Critics, Including Military Officers, 'Can Go to He

On Thursday's Countdown show, after recounting the story of American soldiers deployed to Iraq while still recovering from injuries, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seemed to oddly suggest that not only military officers, but also politicians and even commentators, presumably conservative ones, were responsible for the orders that these troops be deployed. The Countdown host contended these critics of…
Brad Wilmouth

Evangelists for Teen Sex

The Midwest Teen Sex Show is a series of infomercials for 'comprehensive' adolescent indulgence.
L. Brent Bozell III

Washington Post's Bias Seeps Into Sex Ed Story

Paper equates the Southern Baptist Convention with 'religious fundamentalism,' media shorthand for 'extremists.'
Robert Knight

AP's Glen Johnson Interrupts and Argues with Mitt Romney (Video

Greased Lightning Bias Try as I might, the Associated Press's bias is outpacing my best efforts. No sooner do I extensively examine their weak week that was than I am delivered more media manna from Heaven, on video no less. [Thank you very much, DaBird -- loved your work with the Celtics.] Below the fold, the Reporter (a term we use exceedingly loosely…
Seton Motley

Chris Matthews Apologizes to Hillary Clinton

Bowing to pressure from liberal blogs, feminist groups and upper management, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spent the first five minutes of Thursday night’s "Hardball" personally apologizing to Hillary Clinton for insinuating that she owed her political success to sympathy derived from having endured Bill Clinton’s unfaithfulness. At the top of the show Matthews begged for forgiveness: Some people I…
Geoffrey Dickens

‘Nightly News’ Takes Protectionist Tone for Foreign Investment Sto

American capitalism - it's so great even the Chinese Communist government loves it! That's sounds like it ought to be a bumper sticker, but the January 16 "NBC Nightly News" advised it is something we should be cautious of. Foreign investors have been on a buying spree in the U.S. stock markets - as stock prices have fallen with all the skittishness in the wake of the credit crunch. "…
Jeff Poor

ABC's Sam Champion Touts 'Old Yogurt Cup' Razors; Fair Trade

Scott Whitlock

Too Much Drool: Matthews Says Obama Is 'Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool

Tim Graham