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Maher Slams Religion: Tax Sunday School So Children 'Don't Get Stupid'
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher ended the show with a commentary against religion as he demanded that churches in the U.S. be taxed. The HBO comedian compared taxing religion to taxing destructive habits like smoking by suggesting a tax on Sunday school so children "don't get stupid." Conveniently ignoring that the Nazis and communists who mass murdered tens of millions…
NYT Frets if Obama Can 'Redeem His Legacy' on Immigration Via Amnesty
NewsBusters has long maintained that immigration is the issue that brings out the most egregious bias from the New York Times. As a significant case comes before an evenly split Supreme Court, the Times set the table with a collection of liberal clichés on Saturday. Reporters Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, both with a long pattern of sympathy toward Obama, fretted over whether the…
Everyone On PBS, NPR Agrees: Hillary's Speaking Fees Won't Hurt
After a contentious Democratic debate on CNN, with moderator Dana Bash asking HIllary why she won't release transcripts of her six-figure speeches to Wall Street firms, the pundits on PBS and NPR on Friday agreed: no one will care about this in the fall.
On NPR's All Things Considered, anchor Robert Siegel asked: "do you think in the fall that the speeches to Goldman Sachs will be an issue?"…
Alleged Brussels Terrorist Starred in Film on Immigrant Integration
Osama Krayem, the 23-year-old Syrian-born Swedish citizen arrested in Belgium last week for his involvement in the March 22 bomb attacks in Brussels, is a former poster boy for Sweden’s efforts at integrating immigrants into their society.
Now accused of murder -- and captured on closed-circuit television cameras carrying bags that contained explosive devices like those used to kill 32 civilians…
NYT Shows Balance in Clinton-Sanders A1 Stories by Fawning Over Both
The New York Times has been accused of slanting its 2016 political coverage toward Hillary Clinton while stiffing Bernie Sanders. Well, in Thursday’s edition, there was balance: the paper’s coverage was equally effusive for both Democrats. While Hillary Clinton got a mawkish front-page celebration of her supposedly personal, secret work with black mothers whose children had been killed in…
Media Silent on the Clinton Mortgage Banking Scam
Hillary and Bernie love to go after “the banks.” But the real scoundrel of the two on this subject? Without doubt it’s Hillary and her banking scam.
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Todd Tells Cruz Planned Parenthood Scandal ‘Made Up’
During an MSNBC town hall event with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd dismissed the Texas Senator’s condemnation of Planned Parenthood by insisting that scandal surrounding the abortion provider was “made up.”
Bozell & Graham Column: The Bathroom 'Freedom Fighters'
Back in the 1980s, Bruce Springsteen and other rock stars formed Artists United Against Apartheid and performed a song proclaiming “I ain’t gonna play Sun City,” referencing a resort in South Africa. The song mocked the Reagan administration’s “constructive engagement” policy in South Africa, but rock stars routinely performed in the totalitarian Soviet Union, believing that was incredibly…
Four Signs HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ Will Be Hopelessly Biased
We're about to re-live the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings all over again, courtesy of HBO. The respected pay channel debuts Confirmation at 8 p.m. EST April 16. The movie casts Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, the law professor who claimed Thomas sexually harassed her in the work place.
Some of the real-life Republicans who played key roles in the film aren’t happy about the production.…
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NewsBusted: Common Core Makes Delegate Path Possible for Kasich
Speaking of Bernie, shocking new poll has Sanders now enjoying a 90 percent approval rating...among parasites. - NewsBusted's Jody Miller
Outgoing NYT Ombud 'Won't Miss' Their Failure to Be Liberal Enough
For her final post on the blog “Public Editor’s Journal,” outgoing New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan described “Five Things I Won’t Miss About the Times – and Seven Things I Will.” The most memorable Won’t-Miss was “New York Times Exceptionalism: The idea that whatever The Times does is, by definition, the right thing. In editorial matters, this manifests itself as, ‘It’s news when…
Slate Writer: Eventually, Vatican Will Accept Same-Sex Marriage
Media coverage of Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia typically noted that it reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. Slate’s William Saletan acknowledges the literal truth of that reporting, but suggested in an April 8 article that the document contains seeds that will sprout into Vatican acceptance of same-sex unions, though he admits that process “might take centuries.”…
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Baldwin Amused Over Bad Reception for Cruz, Bristles at Kasich on Rape
On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, host Baldwin and guest Jackie Kucinich of the Daily Beast both seemed amused by reports that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz got a negative reception at a New York Republican dinner, and, a bit later, Baldwin seemed to bristle at John Kasich because the Ohio Republican advised a college student at a town hall to avoid parties with alcohol to…
