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Bozell: Christine O'Donnell's Reaction to Piers Morgan Was 'Downright Bizarre'

By Brent Bozell | August 19, 2011, 7:52 PM EDT

Editor's Note: The following commentary by NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell was posted late this afternoon on CNN.com. It's time to weigh in on the Christine O'Donnell v. Piers Morgan dust-up Wednesday. In short, O'Donnell's beh ...

Christine O'Donnell Walks Off CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight'

By Noel Sheppard | August 18, 2011, 12:22 PM EDT

Former Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell abruptly walked off the set of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Wednesday. O'Donnell wanted to discuss more meaty issues in her new book, such as her criticisms of President Oba ...

Lawrence O'Donnell: Bill O'Reilly is 'Bullying Nuts' and 'Freaks' Like Palin 'Off GOP Stage'

By Noel Sheppard | March 30, 2011, 12:35 PM EDT

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday cherry-picked an "O'Reilly Factor" segment to drum up a feud between Fox News's top prime time host and the former Alaska governor. Five sentences about Sarah Palin pulled from a six and ...

Kathy Griffin on 'Glee' Mocks Palin and O'Donnell, Depicts Tea Party as Homophobic Birthers

By Noel Sheppard | March 16, 2011, 12:38 PM EDT

As NewsBusters reported in February, vulgarian comedienne Kathy Griffin was cast to do a guest stint on the hit series "Glee" portraying a Palinesque Tea Partier. The advanced billing turned out better than the reality, for on Tuesday's sho ...

SNL Trashes Michele Bachmann, Imagines 'Second Attempt' at SOTU Speech

By Noel Sheppard | January 31, 2011, 12:26 PM EST

Predictably joining the media attacks on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), NBC's "Saturday Night Live" began its most recent installment mocking her response to the President's State of the Union address last Tuesday. Actress K ...

WaPo’s Colby King Finds Christine O’Donnell Worse Than South Carolina's Alvin Greene

By Brad Wilmouth | January 1, 2011, 5:59 PM EST

 On Friday’s Inside Washington on PBS, during a discussion of the biggest political mistakes of the year, Washington Post columnist Colby King asserted that the Delaware Republican Party’s choice of Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate was an even worse ch ...

CBS’s Crawford Dismisses Christine O’Donnell’s Response to Accusations

By Brad Wilmouth | April 29, 2015, 3:41 PM EDT

 On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, as correspondent Jan Crawford filed a report on the allegations that former Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell misused campaign money, the CBS correspondent seemed dismissive of O’Donnell’s reaction to ...

Nets Bolster Accusers of Christine O’Donnell, Ignore Liberal Nature of Watchdog CREW

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2010, 3:02 AM EST

 As the broadcast network morning newscasts on Thursday each interviewed former Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell regarding allegations that she misused campaign money, in the setup piece on each network, the correspondent failed to i ...

Matthews Congratulates Coons for Beating Christine O'Donnell: 'That Was Important for Life on This Planet'

By Noel Sheppard | December 16, 2010, 9:59 PM EST

Chris Matthews on Thursday not only congratulated Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) for beating Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell in November, but also said his victory was important for life on this planet. It wasn't a tingle up the l ...

George Stephanopoulos Hypes Christine O'Donnell Tweet on Hillary Clinton, Touts Scarborough Attack

By Scott Whitlock | December 1, 2010, 8:36 AM EST

A fascinated George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday analyzed a Tweet by Christine O'Donnell as a sign of support for Hillary Clinton. The Good Morning America host played up the approving comment by the Republican regarding the Secretary of State's ha ...

NB Interview: John Ziegler Discusses 'Media Malpractice' Re-release, Palin, Obama and Tea Party

By Noel Sheppard | November 22, 2010, 9:02 AM EST

NewsBusters readers should be quite familiar with John Ziegler, the independent filmmaker that produced the spectacular documentary about the 2008 presidential campaign " Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted." In the p ...

GOP Strategist Mark McKinnon: Sarah Palin ‘Cost Republicans the Leadership of the Senate’

By Brad Wilmouth | November 11, 2010, 9:21 AM EST

  Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Last Word on MSNBC, Mark McKinnon- former media advisor to the Bush and McCain presidential campaigns who writes a column for the Daily Beast- blamed Sarah Palin for the Republican Party’s failure to recapture control o ...

Matthews Mourns 'Death' of the Republican Moderate

By Geoffrey Dickens | November 2, 2010, 9:58 PM EDT

    Chris Matthews, during MSNBC's live election night coverage, was distressed at what he saw was the "death of the moderate wing of the Republican Party." After his colleague Keith Olbermann ran down the latest results of Republicans lead ...

Huffington Post Video Mocking GOP Women Contains Sexually Explicit Lyrics

By Erin R. Brown | November 2, 2010, 4:46 PM EDT

There is a fine line between tasteful political comedy and crossing-the-line crudeness, and the Huffington Post’s new song “My Girl's A Republican” just leaped over that line. With lyrics such as “Dick Nixon sucking lips” and “she made her oil money ...

Did Delaware TV Station ‘Forget’ to Air Christine O’Donnell Ad?

By Rusty Weiss | November 2, 2010, 1:35 PM EDT

Perhaps there is a bit of witchcraft to be found amongst the Christine O’Donnell camp after all.  Problem is, it appears to have generated from an independent television station in Delaware, who somehow managed to make the Republican Senate candidate’s 30 ...