You know how in various forms of addiction, the addicted person must resort to greater and more intense doses of the substance they are abusing — drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. — to…
Ponte Unleashes More Dubious Smears on Obama
Lowell Ponte has unleashed a new series of Obama smears at Newsmax. In an Oct. 10 column, Ponte bizarrely asserted: If Barack Obama is declared winner of the vote this Nov. 4…
Cashill Keeps Building His Obama Conspiracy
Jack Cashill is starting to sound like conspiracy-obsessed Richard Mellon Scaife (but without the bottomless barrel of cash). Just as Scaife insisted that Vince Foster’s death was the Rosetta Stone of the…
Krugman Derangement Syndrome
There’s a case of some very sour grapes at the Media Research Center over Paul Krugman being awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. In an Oct. 13 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein took…
Is AIM Boycotting NY Times, Or Stumping For McCain?
Accuracy in Media has launched a “Boycott the New York Times” website, aimed at, according to an Oct. 8 press release, “encouraging news consumers to boycott the most powerful media voice in…
Newsmax Takes Andy Martin’s Side — Again
Newsmax stood behind noted anti-Semite and fabulist Andy Martin in 2007, when it printed a Martin column baselessly claiming that Barack Obama “locked … away” his white grandmother “in his racist closet.”…
Too Much Macaca, Not Enough Fact-Checking
Poor Tim Graham. He just can’t get over the macaca thing. Graham isn’t even two paragraphs into his Oct. 13 NewsBusters post ostensibly about a Washington Post reporter’s comments about William Ayers…
Brent Bozell’s Favorite Domestic Terrorist
An Oct. 12 NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer asserts that a Chicago Tribune article “demonstrates that for all these years a large plurality, if not a majority, of Democrats who hold the…
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Part 2
By the early 1930s, Germany was in the grip of an economic meltdown. Its loss in World War I, followed by the Draconian conditions imposed by the victorious United States, Britain, and…
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
The secret to selling bad ideas is to make sure they are the only ones available. This is how totalitarian regimes take power. Whether it was Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany or…