MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Brands Bill O'Reilly 'Liar' and 'Jackass Fool' O

  Smearing Bill O'Reilly as an "extremist" and a "jackass fool," MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan fired back at the Fox News Channel host for saying Muslims "killed us on 9/11." On his Friday afternoon MSNBC show, the liberal host launched a blistering attack on O'Reilly and accused him of lying and being a "fearmonger." O'Reilly made his remarks in a heated debate on ABC's "The View" Thursday…
Matt Hadro
October 15th, 2010 6:47 PM

CBSNews.com's Bizarre Headline: 'John Boehner: A Pelosi Ally

An article on CBSNews.com, Thursday, included a rather bizarre headline: "John Boehner: A Pelosi Ally?" Reporter Stephanie Condon trumpeted, "Boehner sided with Pelosi and Democrats 52 percent of the time, according to a review of this year's votes that Democrats provided to The Hill." To show some sort of contradiction, she highlighted examples of Republicans pointing out "how closely…
Scott Whitlock
October 15th, 2010 6:43 PM

CBS Finds 'Independent' Voters Who All Bash the Tea Party

On Thursday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric talked to a group of supposedly independent voters in Pennsylvania, but touted how none of them were undecided about one thing: "...there was unanimous agreement in this group, the Tea Party isn't their cup of tea." [Audio available here] Following that declaration by Couric, each voter took their turn denouncing the conservative…
Kyle Drennen
October 15th, 2010 6:07 PM

NBC's Norah O'Donnell: Maybe Behar and Goldberg Were Right in Storming

Against the opinion of the "Morning Joe" panel (and Barbara Walters herself), NBC's Norah O'Donnell half-defended Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg for brazenly walking off the set of ABC's "The View" when guest Bill O'Reilly got too controversial for them. Without saying that she personally was okay with Goldberg's and Behar's stunt, O'Donnell hinted that they had a legitimate reason for…
Matt Hadro
October 15th, 2010 6:03 PM

Norah O'Donnell's Faulty Memory: Falsely Asserts Michelle Obama 'Never

According to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, Michelle Obama "never said that she had not been proud of her country." The cable host on Friday spun for the First Lady while reporting on a speech Sarah Palin gave in California. In fact, on February 18, 2008, Mrs. Obama addressed a crowd in Wisconsin and announced, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not…
Scott Whitlock
October 15th, 2010 5:43 PM

Tell the Truth! Action Alert: Protest in NYC on Sunday with Brent Boze

At 2 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, October 17, the Manhattan Tea Party will join forces with NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell to lead a protest at the New York Times and NBC outside their Manhattan headquarters. Bozell, MRC grassroots activists, and Tea Party protesters will be joined by four massive billboard trucks which are circling Manhattan as part of…
NB Staff
October 15th, 2010 5:15 PM

WaPo Buries Former Obama Car Czar's Troubles with SEC, NY Attorney Gen

Steven Rattner, the first Obama car czar who allegedly "bribed a political consultant to win business from New York's pension fund for his former investment firm," was extremely close this week to cutting a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), only to see that agreement held up this week to the intervention of New York Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate…
Ken Shepherd
October 15th, 2010 4:50 PM

WaPo Hails Obama's 'Zest for Inquiry,' This 'Probing, Cerebral' Presid

It’s not every day that a front-page Washington Post report has copy that can be mocked as “Auditioning to Be the Next Obama Girl.” (That is, unless you count Eli “Obama's Chiseled Pectorals” Saslow.) James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal designated this florid passage for that title, from a sprawling 5,355-word Wednesday front-page article by reporters Michael Leahy and Juliet Eilperin.…
Tim Graham
October 15th, 2010 4:38 PM

Viguerie: CNN Needs More Conservatives; Parker-Spitzer Brings on Libs

Conservative Richard Viguerie brought his criticism of CNN's "left-of-center" bent on Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, and recommended that the network bring on more "articulate conservatives." The two CNN hosts, whom Viguerie recently criticized in a recent column, did their best to support his allegation by bringing on four liberals as guests during the program. The conservative wrote an August…
Matthew Balan
October 15th, 2010 4:17 PM

CBS's Smith Labels Bill O'Reilly 'Bloviator-in-Chief' Over 'View' Appe

 On Friday's CBS Early Show, after news reader Erica Hill reported on Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's heated Thursday appearance on ABC's 'The View,' co-host Harry Smith proclaimed O'Reilly to be "the bloviater-in-chief" and that "he was in full bloviation mode yesterday." Hill began her report by declaring: "When Barbara Walters introduced the conservative talk show host on 'The View'…
Kyle Drennen
October 15th, 2010 3:59 PM

Pleasant Surprise: Networks Include God in Chilean Miners’ Rescue

The world watched as 33 Chilean miners were pulled from a deep Chilean mine after 70 grueling days, and their harrowing rescue was nothing short of miraculous. Several miners credited God with their comfort and rescue, and the media played along nicely. “I met God, I met the Devil – God won.” This now famous quote, from Mario Sepulveda, the second Chilean miner to be pulled to safety,…
Erin R. Brown
October 15th, 2010 3:37 PM

Schultz Claims GOP Wants to Create 'Little China Workforce' Out of Une

In his latest meandering diatribe, MSNBC left-wing bloviator Ed Schultz yesterday hilariously mischaracterized the Republican Party's position on education reform as a scheme to create a cheap labor force of ignorant Americans by abolishing public education. "They want us to be just like the folks in Indonesia," fumed Schultz. "They love the cheap labor. They love the 40 cents an hour…
Alex Fitzsimmons
October 15th, 2010 3:26 PM

U.S. Chamber of 'Terror Companies

Wednesday's wacky edition of the Stephanie Miller show spread the noxious idea that somehow the Chamber of Commerce was comparable to "terror companies" -- or that's what Fox News would call them, because they're apparently well-known smear artists. The charge came from leftist columnist and Media Matters staffer Karl Frisch, as Miller begged him to share his latest column full of liberal…
Tim Graham
October 15th, 2010 1:55 PM

Newsweek's Advice to Christine O'Donnell: Submit to a Husband and Open

After getting spanked in the November 2 election, Christine O'Donnell needs to find herself a good Christian man to submit to. Or she could open a Wiccan supply store.  Those are just two of the six mocking suggestions that Newsweek's David Graham came up with yesterday on the magazine's The Gaggle blog for the Delaware Republican Senate nominee's future. Graham's list is just more evidence…
Ken Shepherd
October 15th, 2010 12:59 PM