Oscar-Winning Director: HBO's Liberace Movie 'Too Gay' For Theaters

January 7th, 2013 9:25 AM
Is there anything that's "too gay" for Hollywood? The answer is "Yes" according to Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh who recently told the New York Post that studios throughout tinseltown had no interest in his biopic about Liberace despite it starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

Heads Didn't Roll: State Department Officials Who 'Resigned' Over Beng

December 26th, 2012 11:00 AM
On December 18, in covering the aftermath of the official report on the terrorist raid on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the Associated Press reported in the first three paragraphs of its coverage that "Three State Department officials resigned under pressure," identifying those who had stepped down as "Eric…

Broadcast Media Outlets Continue to Ignore Obama's Campaign Financing

October 25th, 2012 10:50 PM
While President Obama's record-breaking pace to raising a total of $1 billion earlier this month received significant media attention, there was little if any curiosity among the traditional press about how he was on track to achieve such an unprecedented milestone in presidential fundraising. The broadcast networks in particular have not bothered to mention the growing scandal that is being…

Biden's Brother Awarded Lucrative Gov't Contracts: Media Silent Thus F

October 23rd, 2012 6:29 PM
The rampant crony capitalism of the federal government simply can't be ignored anymore, but the media has made a habit out of selectively picking and choosing what it wants to report on with this administration. This latest example may ultimately be ignored and denied too however, because it involves the brother of our current vice president. According to Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business, a…

George Zimmerman Sues NBC Over Edited 911 Tape

October 4th, 2012 8:20 AM
In March, NewsBusters broke the story about NBC's Today show airing an edited audiotape of George Zimmerman's 911 call the day he shot Trayvon Martin in Florida. On Thursday, the New York Post reported Zimmerman is suing the Peacock Network.

Networks Ignore DNC Benediction: Archbishop Dolan Defends Right to Lif

September 7th, 2012 3:22 PM
After offending religious Americans by appearing to boo God, the Democratic National Convention had the top ranking Catholic official in the country perform the closing Benediction Thursday night. Cardinal Timothy Dolan did the same for the Republicans last week in Tampa Bay, but those delegates didn’t seem to have a problem with a party platform that included God and Jerusalem. The only…

Unions and University Endowments Have Invested Billions With Bain Capi

September 2nd, 2012 11:57 PM
In his weekend syndicated column, Deroy Murdock unearthed and relayed information the establishment press hasn't told the nation about how certain public-sector pension funds and university endowments have chosen to invest money entrusted to them in Bain Capital. Yes, Bain Capital. Until three weeks ago, it would have been somewhat understandable if the business press didn't expect to find a…

Gasparino at NY Post on 'Lie-bor' Scandal: 'Geithner Yawned at Epic Fr

July 16th, 2012 4:53 PM
Here's how a "Business Highlights" item at the Associated Press summarized the situation between Timothy Geithner and London banks whose officials had admitted to rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate ("Libor") on Friday evening: "The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released documents Friday that show it learned five years ago of big banks understating their borrowing costs to manipulate a…

Podhoretz: Fast and Furious 'Would Have Dominated Mainstream' News 'Fo

June 22nd, 2012 11:31 AM
"There’s a reason you don’t know much about the complicated and confusing mess known as 'Fast and Furious,'” wrote conservative columnist John Podhoretz at the New York Post Thursday. "The mainstream media have largely ignored this Obama administration scandal, which would have dominated mainstream front pages and homepages and programs for months had it all taken place under a Republican…

HuffPo: Samuel L. Jackson's 'I Voted for Barack Because He Was Black

February 12th, 2012 6:38 PM
For more than 24 hours, the internet has been abuzz with the New York Post's revelation that actor Samuel L. Jackson told Ebony magazine he only voted for Barack Obama in 2008 "because he was black." For some reason, the folks at the Huffington Post thought this was a "surprising confession" (photo courtesy Getty):

Iranian Filmmaker: 'Michael Moore Is the Most Famous Director in Iran

January 12th, 2012 9:18 AM
According to one of Iran's most acclaimed directors, anti-American schlockumentarian Michael Moore is the most famous filmmaker in that Middle Eastern nation that so happens to be a sworn enemy of the United States. As the New York Post reported Thursday:

NYT Ignores Shocking Child Abuse Crimes in Its Own Backyard

December 14th, 2011 12:23 AM
District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, of Kings County, New York, recently announced that in the last three years 85 accused child predators have been arrested in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community. The cases involve at least 117 alleged victims. One man, Andrew Goodman, has been charged on 144 stomach-turning counts of sexually abusing two Orthodox boys – one from 11 to 15 years old, the…

'J. Edgar' Film 'Disappointment of the Year

November 16th, 2011 6:50 AM
Kyle Smith of the New York Post and I may share a similar political philosophy but we rarely agree on films. I sense we might agree on this one: …but as “J.Edgar” sits at an astonishing 39 percent [at Rotten Tomatoes] it would be disingenuous not to notice that this film is getting hammered by critics. Despite its Oscar-winning director, writer (Dustin Lance Black) and Oscar-nominated star…

New York Times Finally Notices Crime, Dangerous Environment at Occupy

November 9th, 2011 2:48 PM
The New York Times is belatedly starting to commit actual journalism on what’s actually happening at the Occupy Wall Street camp-out in Zuccotti Park. Cara Buckley and Matt Flegenheimer reported for Wednesday's Metro section: “At Scene of Wall St. Protest, Rising Concerns About Crime,” mostly abandons the chirpy promotionalism that has infected the paper’s coverage of OWS, catching up to what…