The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: November 24 to

December 1st, 2007 10:10 AM
CNN's Clinton Crasher at GOP DebateFrom CNN's perspective, what would be the perfect addition to its YouTube Republican debate? Why, someone who is on a steering committee for the Hillary Clinton campaign! Keith Kerr, a retired, gay general was in the audience for the November 28 debate and grilled the Republican candidates over the issue of homosexuals in the military. Somehow, CNN forgot to…

Collins Can't Stop Thinking About Rudy's Love Life

December 1st, 2007 8:50 AM
OK, this is getting downright weird. Not one, not two but now three Gail Collins columns within three weeks dealing in one way or another with Rudy Giuliani's sentimental attachments. On November 8th came the suggestively-headlined "Pat Loves Rudy," about the Robertson endorsement. As observed here, that column contained Collins lurid allusion to Rudy "busy committing adultery." Just two days…

Suddenly Conservative Keith Concerned Rudy Has 'Infidelity, Morality I

November 30th, 2007 9:49 PM
Keith Olbermann: new Puritan? Perhaps. Unless memory fails it's hard to recall Keith condemning Bill Clinton for his flings on grounds of morality. But when it comes to a Republican presidential candidate, has the Countdown host gone Cotton Mather on us?Newsweek's Jonathan Alter was Olbermann's guest on this evening's Countdown to discuss the issue of Giuliani's accounting for the expenses of…

Weekend Captionfest

November 30th, 2007 4:00 PM
 Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign, in the audience at CNN's Republican debate of November 28th, making comments after the airing of his YouTube question on gays in the military.

CBS ‘Early Show’: Religious Right Turns Left for Hillary

November 30th, 2007 1:17 PM
Furthering the media’s love affair with Hillary Clinton, Friday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a segment on her recent speech at Saddleback Church in Southern California and how Evangelical Christians may be moving to the left in 2008. As co-host Harry Smith wondered at the top of the show, "Hillary Clinton addresses an Evangelical megachurch in California. Is it really possible that the Christian…

ABC Reporter Kate Snow Continues to Smile and Spin for Hillary

November 30th, 2007 12:49 PM
On Friday's "Good Morning America," reporter Kate Snow continued her habit of happily spinning Hillary Clinton's campaign maneuvering as nothing less than brilliant politics by the presidential candidate. She parroted talking points from the '08 contender's campaign about how smart it would be to target South Carolina voters who frequent hair salons. Sitting in a sylist booth, a smiling Snow…

CNN's Sam Feist Attacks Michelle Malkin As A Fox Stalking Horse

November 30th, 2007 9:29 AM

MSM Laughs Along As Chris Rock Tells Harlem Crowd Not to Vote for 'Tha

November 30th, 2007 7:15 AM
A conservative comedian [yes, there are some], appears at a venue in a heavily-white suburb at a campaign event for a white candidate and tells his audience composed overwhelmingly of people of pallor they'd be embarrassed if they supported a black candidate and the white candidate won, saying "Oh no. I can't call him now. I had that black guy. What was I thinking?"What are the odds the MSM…

Fred Barnes: CNN's Debates 'Screw Republicans...Boost Democrats

November 30th, 2007 3:47 AM
Describing the agenda of questions CNN chose to pose, during its Wednesday night Republican presidential debate with YouTube, as “completely different” from those forwarded to Democrats in July, Fred Barnes, on Thursday's Special Report on FNC, cited the contrast in questions about the military and Iraq as demonstrating how CNN picked the questioners to “screw Republicans” and “boost Democrats.”…

Top Time Editor Tosses Softballs at Obama for Cover Story

November 29th, 2007 11:32 PM

CNN Cites Omission of Bush’s Name at Debate, Quotes Daily Kos

November 29th, 2007 10:47 PM
A report on Thursday’s "The Situation Room" tried to make an issue out of the fact that President Bush’s name was only mentioned a few times at the Republican presidential debate that they organized with YouTube. CNN correspondent Carol Costello compared the President’s name to a curse word in her introduction to the report. "It sure seems like Bush has become a four-letter word you don't want to…

Another Plant: Former American Islamist Group Intern Posed Question at

November 29th, 2007 10:37 PM
The fake news keeps on coming: a former intern at the radical Islamist group CAIR was another questioner chosen by CNN at its "average joe" debate.

CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses New Guiliani Scandal, Gave Hillary Pass

November 29th, 2007 6:43 PM
On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith teased the lead story of the day on a scandal involving Rudy Giuliani and the possible misuse of taxpayer money during Giuliani’s affair with now wife, Judith Nathan, "Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani goes on the attack against Romney as the former New York Mayor's extramarital scandals of the past return to haunt his campaign." This story…

'View's' Shepherd: GOP Candidates Never Thought About Black on Black C

November 29th, 2007 6:19 PM