Rosie Ratifies Troops As Terrorists Suggestion on Her Blog

NewsBusters reader Bender messaged me earlier noting that, given an opportunity to explain her views on American troops and terrorism, Rosie O'Donnell made no effort to clear the air on her blog in a posting the evening of May 23 at Rosie.com.Here's the relevant exchange:
Ken Shepherd

Memorial Day: It's Not Just for Heroes, Anymore

Presidential candidate John Edwards is urging people to crash Memorial Day ceremonies with anti-war protests....We're still waiting for the media outrage over this hijacking of a sacred day to honor the war dead.
Robert Knight

Amnesty at Any Cost: the Media Support Illegals, Disparage Law Enforce

Isn't American culture and sovereignty worth defending?
David Niedrauer

Supporting the Troops by Saving Their Marriages

ABC's World News Tonight shines spotlight on program aimed at saving military marriages
Kristen Fyfe

MRC/NB's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes About Michael Moore's 'Sicko

Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which publishes NewsBusters, appeared live Thursday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes to discuss Michael Moore's latest far-left documentary, Sicko. IMDb describes it as “a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth.” Sean Hannity pointed out how the New York Times called it “a virtual love letter to…
NB Staff

'The View's' Joy Behar Calls Nixon a Constipated Orangutan and a Paran

On a day when Rosie O’Donnell was absent from ABC’s “The View,” an intelligent person would expect the discussion would be a bit more civil, right?WRONG!Instead, as co-host Joy Behar discussed her evening at the theatre to see the critically acclaimed “Frost/Nixon” – which she actually referred to as “Nixon/Frost” – the comedienne stated that the former president was “an orangutan who’s…
Noel Sheppard

Using Corzine as Peg, CBS Evening News Scolds Bush for Not Wearing a S

As if President Bush needed any new actions for which to be criticized by the news media....In a Thursday CBS Evening News story on the federal government's Memorial Day weekend effort to get people to wear seatbelts, reporter Nancy Cordes maintained that President Bush “is taking heat” for not wearing a seatbelt while driving his pick-up truck at his Texas ranch. Cordes began with a new public…
Brent Baker

Time Magazine: If You've Seen One Republican

Mike Bates

Winter Sports Seek Congressional Protection from Global Warming

Julia A. Seymour

Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib

In early 2004, when the first revelations about prisoners being tortured by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq appeared, the media covered the story on almost a daily basis for months.With that as a pretext, the website The Smoking Gun has obtained graphic sketches of various torture techniques being employed by al Qaeda, as well as pictures of victims that have undergone such…
Noel Sheppard

Dan Rather's CBS Producer Mary Mapes: Speaker on The Nation Magazine C

Tim Graham

The Liberal Attack on Freedom of Speech

Liberals, who once championed freedom of speech, have become the foremost critics of uncurbed opinion, and are working to deny free speech to people with whom they disagree.
Robert Knight

NY Times Links Higher Gas Prices to Bush and Ethanol

Noel Sheppard

Bubble, Schmubble: Median Home Sale Price Decline Almost Entirely Due

Tom Blumer