"Hillary Clinton will soon separate herself from Republicans, traditionally thought of as the party of the old and rich. She plans to do this by lying about her age, and her income." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller
Humor
By NB Staff | May 20, 2015 | 9:42 PM EDT
By Tom Johnson | May 18, 2015 | 6:07 PM EDT
Over the past decade or so, David Letterman has become outspokenly liberal, but according to cultural critic Scott Timberg, the seemingly apolitical comedy that Dave did in the 1980s actually hurt the left. Specifically, it served as a sort of opiate which left his audience disinclined to push back against Reaganism.
“For those on the progressive or liberal side of the aisle,” wrote Timberg last Tuesday in Salon, “the irreverent irony ‘Late Night’ brought to the table probably helped neuter the American left…The helpless bemusement behind it certainly became -- for anyone aiming at social or political or economic change -- a dead end.” In Timberg’s telling, laughter, rather than activism, became the “default response” to “the stupid stuff thrown to us by cheap consumerism and the Reagan-Thatcher takeover.”
By Brent Baker | May 16, 2015 | 11:47 PM EDT
David Letterman may have grown more liberal over the years, but days before his last show this Wednesday, he aired a cute anti-Obama video imagining how mothers Obama called on Mother’s Day reacted to getting a phone call from the President. It’s just what you’d dream of doing if Obama ever called you.
By NB Staff | May 12, 2015 | 9:52 PM EDT
"Politico reports there is a stunning lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton in Hollywood. It seems celebrities have finally realized that Hillary is as phony as they are." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller.
By Tim Graham | May 12, 2015 | 5:06 PM EDT
Via Mediaite, we learn comedian Keegan-Michael Key – who performed with President Obama as his character “Luther the Anger Translator” – was merely acting out with attack lines given to him by the White House writers shop. So it really was Team Obama unloading on CNN and Fox and Chuck Todd in the routine.
“They wrote it, the White House wrote the piece,” Key told an interviewer from TMZ. “He just told me, whatever you do, just don’t break up out there, just don’t laugh while we’re doing it, and I said, ‘OK, sir, I promise.”
By Brent Baker | May 10, 2015 | 12:41 AM EDT
FNC’s Bret Baier ended his show this past Monday with a clip the Tonight Show featured of President Obama at an event the previous Thursday with middle schoolers at a library in Washington, DC, to promote reading. Baier explained that “when the President began to ramble a bit, the moderator gave him what those of us on live TV know as ‘the hard wrap.’”
By NB Staff | May 6, 2015 | 8:45 PM EDT
"In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, CNN has hired 40 new political reporters. So CNN now officially has more political reporters than viewers." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller
By NB Staff | April 30, 2015 | 12:18 AM EDT
"Hillary Clinton recently said all her grandparents were immigrants, but records show only one came to America as a child. Sadly, none of Hillary’s grandparents lived to see what a magnificent liar she has become." -- Jodi Miller, NewsBusted.
Ezra Klein: Obama Got Real at WHCD By Showing He’s ‘Annoyed at the Press’ and ‘Appalled at Republicans’
By Tom Johnson | April 27, 2015 | 5:17 PM EDT Did President Obama do a standup comedy routine at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Not as much as he performed “a recital of brutal truths,” asserted Vox’s Klein in a Monday article.
For example, regarding Obama’s remark that his executive actions on climate change and immigration were “the right thing to do,” Klein noted, “That's not a joke. That's Obama's actual justification for the aggressive executive actions of his second term…[O]nly [at the WHCD] can [he] say what everyone already knows: his actions are huge, they are controversial, they push the norms of American politics, but fuck it, at a moment when American politics seems increasingly broken, Obama has decided to just go ahead and do what he thinks is right.”
By NB Staff | April 16, 2015 | 9:58 PM EDT
"Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy on Twitter. And here’s hoping Anthony Weiner will NOT be endorsing her on Instagram!" -- Jodi Miller.
By Ken Shepherd | April 16, 2015 | 8:13 PM EDT
In some ways, the gaffetastic Chris Matthews is the Joe Biden of cable news. Tonight on his Hardball program, the liberal pundit seemed to think that Blockbuster video stores are a fairly ubiquitous thing in suburban and small-town America. In point of fact, Blockbuster closed up shop entirely in January of 2014, felled by the ease and convenience of cable TV video-on-demand and video-streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
By Brent Baker | April 12, 2015 | 12:27 AM EDT
Picking up on the Draft Biden 2016 group’s “I’m Ridin with Biden,” a short and amusing clip, with a more accurate alternative slogan, created by NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon which Bret Baier played at the end of his Friday show on FNC.