Cokie Roberts: Glenn Beck 'Corrupting' Democracy, a 'Traitor' to Ameri
March 23rd, 2010 1:53 PM
Journalists love the marketplace of ideas until people start selling ideas they find objectionable. The liberal media somehow manages to shout about its right to speak freely while demanding others be silenced.Glenn Beck is probably the most popular target for the left's demands for censorship. Cokie Roberts and her husband Steve picked up that ball and ran with it today in their joint syndicated…
Krauthammer Predicts European-Style VAT Tax
March 23rd, 2010 8:12 AM
Remember when it was the liberals that considered the potential of a value added tax or VAT in the United States? More and more, conservatives are starting to express their concerns about it becoming a reality. The VAT is a consumption tax that is placed on a product whenever value is added at a stage of production and at final sale. For example, as Investopedia.com explains, "When a television…
Schlussel's Anti-Hannity Allegations Investigated and Found 'Fundament
March 22nd, 2010 10:50 AM
On Friday, NewsBusters editor-at-large Brent Baker noted that the Freedom Alliance was strongly refuting allegations by blogger and radio host Debbie Schlussel that the veterans charity organization founded by Oliver North and actively promoted by radio host Sean Hannity was a "huge scam."Upon an "exhaustive investigation," Tim Mak of FrumForum.com concluded in a March 19 post that there is "…
Al Sharpton: 'The American Public Overwhelmingly Voted for Socialism W
March 22nd, 2010 8:04 AM
Some of the American people probably thought they were voting for hope and change when they voted for President Barack Obama on Nov. 4, 2008. But according to Rev. Al Sharpton, they were voting for socialism. Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network and talk radio host told Fox News on March 21, during their special coverage of the House of Representatives' passage of health care…
Krauthammer: ObamaCare 'Will Be the Law of the Land as of Tonight and
March 21st, 2010 8:38 PM
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer gave a very ominous prognosis of health care in the United States, assuming House Democrats have finally mustered up votes to pass particular legislation. On a special broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier" on March 21, Krauthammer announced upon passage of health care reform legislation in the House of Representatives, we…
MRC's Bozell Discusses Baier/Obama Interview on 'Fox & Friends
March 19th, 2010 2:47 PM
The mainstream media are carping about Bret Baier's "contentious" interview when in fact "he did nothing unlike what Tim Russert did in all the years that Tim Russert interviewed Republican presidents," argued Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell on today's "Fox & Friends." [MP3 audio available here; WMV format video available here]Just as the late "Meet the…
MSNBC's Shuster Claims Fox More Conservative Than MSNBC Liberal
March 18th, 2010 1:02 PM
Near the end of the 10AM ET hour on MSNBC Thursday, anchor David Shuster criticized Fox News anchor Bret Baier for having "interrupted the President numerous times" in a "contentious" and "heated" Wednesday interview. Shuster later accused the network of bias: "Fox is far more – far more conservative overall than MSNBC could ever be liberal."Shuster brought on left-wing Mother Jones editor David…
Kudos to FNC's Baier for Tough Interview with President Obama
March 18th, 2010 12:16 PM
Finally! A reporter who stands up to the media's Chosen One and isn't afraid to ask the tough questions. Kudos to Bret Baier. He prepared for a difficult interview and came right out of the gate asking the questions that matter most to the millions of Americans protesting government takeover of health care. Other networks have had this opportunity in innumerable interviews, but Fox has proved…
Media Critic: Baier's Obama Interview Antidote to Brian Williams' Bow
March 18th, 2010 9:22 AM
Contrary to how most of the President's sycophants saw his interview with Bret Baier Wednesday, a media critic from the Baltimore Sun felt it was "a textbook encounter of how the press should engage the executive branch of government." "As much credit as I give Obama for taking his healthcare message to Fox News and staying on point, I also praise Baier for being thoroughly prepared and hitting…
O'Donnell: Thou Shalt Not Interrupt The Messiah
March 17th, 2010 9:47 PM
When did Larry O'Donnell rip the "Question Authority" bumper sticker off his old Volkswagen van?Liberals normally love to celebrate those who "speak truth to power." But Larry O'Donnell is bent out of shape that Fox News' Bret Baier had the chutzpah to challenge and, yes, interrupt, Pres. Obama when interviewing him today about ObamaCare. Larry displayed his sudden deference to high-office on…
FNC’s 'Hannity' Cites MRC’s Business & Media Institute on Gore Glo
March 17th, 2010 12:17 AM
In case you missed this one, former Vice President Al Gore is looking for anything - any weather event at all to correlate to so-called anthropogenic global warming. During a conference call for activist hosted by his group Repower America on March 15, Gore attached blame to the recent windy and rainy weather in the Northeastern United States could be tied to global warming. "Just look at what…
Hume: Befuddled Washington Press Corps Sign that Pelosi Health Care Mo
March 16th, 2010 8:37 PM
It's certainly not business as usual in Washington, D.C., but that's probably not what the American people had in mind when they elected President Barack Obama to come to the White House and usher in a new era of change. And this diversion from business as usual is something former Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume, now a senior political analyst for network, said he had never seen…
Time's Sullivan: Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus
March 15th, 2010 5:46 PM
"Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?" asked Time's Amy Sullivan in a Sunday March 14 Swampland blog post:When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should "run as fast as you can" from any church that preached "social or economic justice" because those were code words for Communism and Nazism, he probably thought he was tweaking a few crunchy religious liberals who didn…
Red Eye's Robot Theater Rips Chavez and Penn's Love Affair
March 13th, 2010 2:59 PM
The folks at Fox News's late night hit "Red Eye" on Saturday lampooned the strange relationship that exists between Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez and actor Sean Penn.As NewsBusters has been reporting, Penn has made some bizarre comments recently which include wishing his critics would die screaming of rectal cancer and saying journalists should be jailed for calling Chavez a dictator. This…