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Anderson Cooper and CNN Strike Back at Fox News
Well that certainly didn’t take long, did it? I hope everyone is safely tucked in their bomb shelters, for the war of the cable networks is in full swing, and shrapnel is now dangerously flying in all directions.In response to Fox News’s ad attacking Anderson Cooper while promoting Greta Van Susteren as reported by NewsBusters here, CNN has now released its own ad. In it is are couple of strikes…
Liberals Smell A Rat: 'Democrat Party' Is A GOP Slur, A Smear, 'Jarrin
The amazing liberal vapors over President Bush’s use of the word "Democrat" to describe, er, Democrats, continues. In an NPR interview with Juan Williams, President Bush claimed it was a simple mistake in his State of the Union speech, but liberals quickly found more of these grievous offenses in searching speech texts at the White House website. Certain left-wing media critics who lay face down…
CNN's Velshi Argues Boosting Minimum Wage Could Boost the Economy
Business reporter says higher-paid workers will spend more, but fails to take into account lost jobs, lost hours, lost profitability from businesses.
Post's Givhan Continues Complaint about Skinny Models
Writer attacks industry for thin model preference, but could just as well gripe about customers who drive the New York market.
Fox News’s ‘Anderson Cooper is Paris Hilton’ Ad Angers CNN
As the Beatles sang years ago, It’s getting better all the time.Forget about this Sunday's Super Bowl, sports fans. World War III in the arena of cable news is raging on, and the players have started taking prisoners. As NewsBusters reported here and here, the most recent escalation between heavyweight Fox News and steadily becoming also-ran CNN started when the former took out an ad in…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 27 to February
When it comes to the subject of global warming, members of the media have lost all restraint. CNN’s Larry King nervously wondered if climate change might "really kill us all?" Could it "submerge cities like New York and Washington and San Francisco under floods from melting Arctic ice caps?" Not to be outdone, "Good Morning America’s" weatherman warned of the dire threat of global warming. The…
King Tut's Hummer: ABC Says Temp Increase 'Greatest in Thousands of Y
GMA's segment this morning on the big global warming confab in Paris was filled with predictably alarmist rhetoric. But one factoid slipped through the MSM filter that could put a chill on the "it's-all-man's-fault" view of the matter: thousands of years ago, global warming exceeded anything we're currently experiencing. Oh, and did you know the result of global warming is . . . fewer…
Friday’s Law & Order: Coulter Character 'Causes' Murder, Has Drinks
The plot of tonight’s (Friday) Law & Order on NBC will revolve around a “right-wing” character who is clearly inspired by Ann Coulter and who brags about having a drink with “Rush.” In a 20 second promo aired this week for the February 2 episode that will air at 10pm EST/PST, the announcer touts how “a controversial speaker causes a campus shooting.” A detective calls the Coulter character “…