Newsweek's Kliff: House of Reps Has 'Anti-Abortion-Rights Majority

April 1st, 2010 4:53 PM
"A strong Democratic majority in Congress does not mean a strong abortion-rights majority," Newsweek's Sarah Kliff lamented in a March 31 "Web exclusive," the subhead for which asks "[W]hy is there an anti-abortion-rights majority in the House?" "That fact became painfully clear during the health-care-reform debate, when intraparty fissures over abortion threatened to derail the Democrats'…

Captionfest: Newsweek's Idea of An April Fools' Joke

April 1st, 2010 3:36 PM
Ah, good ol' Joe Biden, America's favorite uncle. At least, the American Left's favorite, according to Newsweek's Katie Connolly in her March 30 "Web exclusive" entitled, "Say It Just So, Joe: Liberals love Joe Biden because he keeps things interesting in the White House."

Another Media Double Standard: Dems Also Use 'Target Maps' for Electio

April 1st, 2010 2:55 PM
As we've reported here at NewsBusters, the mainstream media has been in a tizzy over Sarah Palin's potentially violence-engendering "target map" for the upcoming midterm elections.Of course, what the liberal media isn't telling you is that the Democratic Leadership Council used similar "target maps" in the 2004 election. Verum Serum blogged about this yesterday morning (h/t Gateway Pundit): The…

Stupak's Startling Statement to Catholic News Agency Ignored Elsewhere

March 31st, 2010 1:27 AM
This item may not surprise those of us who have watched politicians take the safe way out at any opportunity, but it will give any voters who come across it reason to doubt any Democratic congressman who says that he or she voted no on principle against Obamacare on Sunday, March 21. This explains why it hasn't been covered much -- and maybe not at all -- in any establishment media outlet. On…

Roger Ebert: No President Has Needed Teleprompter Less than Barack Oba

March 30th, 2010 5:39 PM
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your amusement, film critic and liberal apologist Roger Ebert, in what I hope is an early April Fool's joke:"Since the invention of the teleprompter, no President has needed one less than Barack Obama." Has Ebert never heard of the infamous "corpseman" incident?

Steve Forbes Looks at Hugo Chavez-the Dictatorial Dominator of All Inf

March 29th, 2010 5:49 PM
Two Useful Idiots and the Man Who's Using Them In light of our recent look at Venezuelan thug dictator Hugo Chavez and the FCC Diversity Czar Lloyds who love him, we now bring you this.  The intrepid Steve Forbes took last Wednesday to FoxNews.com to analyze Chavez vis a vis a report by the Organization for the American States (OAS).  Forbes writes about:(…

Liberal Journos Use End of '24' to Claim 'Torture,' Liken Intelligence

March 29th, 2010 1:22 PM
With the recently announced end of Fox's hit series "24," many liberal pundits are parading the show as a false depiction of the notion that "torture works." Contrary to their accusations, the Jack Bauer interrogation methods bear exactly zero resemblance to any actual interrogation techniques used by American military, law enforcement, or intelligence agents."On '24,' torture saves lives," the…

Time's Alex Altman: Republicans 'Implicitly Validate' Anger Spurring V

March 25th, 2010 6:06 PM
Republicans are escalating political violence against Democrats by not shutting up with their insipid anti-ObamaCare talking points. That seems to be the argument of Time magazine writer Alex Altman, at least. Altman denounced what he held to be “The GOP Response to the Intimidation Campaign Against Democrat” in the magazine’s Swampland blog today. Of course, that headline presupposes that…

Newsweek Rolls Eyes at 'ObamaCare' Label But Loved Dismissive 'Reagano

March 25th, 2010 4:00 PM
Newsweek's Liz White took to her magazine's The Gaggle blog today to decry how conservatives critical of the Democratic health care bill have slapped it with "the ominous-sounding term ‘Obamacare.'"You see, most mainstream media sources only use the term when quoting opponents of the bill or when "carefully placed in quotations or alongside an explanation that Obamacare is how opposition refers…

CNN's Sanchez Asks: Are U.S. 'Zealots' Similar to Al Qaeda, Taliban

March 25th, 2010 3:01 PM
Not content with simply reporting on threats against lawmakers who voted for ObamaCare, the liberal media has taken it upon itself (with a bit of direction from the Democratic Party) to blame the Tea Party and the GOP. The coverage stands in stark contrast to the litany of similar instances involving conservatives and Republicans. They were treated as isolated incidents, if discussed at all.CNN's…

James Cameron: Shoot Climate 'Deniers,' Glenn Beck a 'F------ A--hole

March 24th, 2010 6:45 PM
"Avatar" director James Cameron had some nasty words for Glenn Beck and global warming "deniers" yesterday. Cameron said at a news conference that he would like to shoot "those boneheads," referring to skeptics of anthropogenic global warming. "Anybody that is a global warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their a** I'm not sure they could hear me," Cameron added.…

Newsweek's Katie Paul: It's 'Nonsense' That al Qaeda Hates West For It

March 24th, 2010 12:35 PM
"Let's just get it out of the way right off that bat that Al Qaeda madmen don't actually want to blast through bridges, skyscrapers, and subways in righteous protest of the First Amendment," an exasperated Katie Paul began her March 23 tirade about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)."It's mind-boggling that…

ACORN Disbanding; Press Not Handling It Well

March 23rd, 2010 1:16 AM
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has announced that it is disbanding. Though the hard-leftists that formed or were running it are likely to show up in some other venue and perhaps in a successor organization down the road (Update: or perhaps burrow themselves into the government, as NB commenter "Hunter 12" suggests), this is a moment to savor. Two twenty-…

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 "…