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Ann Coulter Destroys Rick Sanchez In Heated Debate Over Shirley Sherro
Conservative author Ann Coulter was Rick Sanchez's guest on the prime time edition of "Rick's List" Friday, and the sparks were flying.After showing a clip of Coulter earlier in the week claiming that Andrew Breitbart was set up with that partial video of Shirley Sherrod speaking at an NAACP function in March, Sanchez asked, "Look, doesn't Breitbart deserve to lose his credibility for this?"…
NPR Invites Newsweek's Alter to Attack 'Fox Obsessions' and 'Notorious
In all of its Shirley Sherrod coverage this week, National Public Radio never managed to interview a conservative guest on the subject (other than a few tossed-in audio clips of Andrew Breitbart), although NPR never landed a Sherrod interview, either, despite her whirlwind tour. On Wednesday night's All Things Considered news program, anchor Michele Norris interviewed Newsweek columnist Jonathan…
Obama's Oil Spill Response Bashed In Music Video: 'Same As It Ever Was
The folks at PolitiZoid have done it again, this time using the Talking Heads classic "Once in a Lifetime" to bash Obama's response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill:"And you may ask yourself, 'Did I really vote for him?'" (lyrics and commentary follow with original Talking Heads video):
Welcome to Janeane Garofalo's First Amendment Religion Lecture
If I might add one more pile of "crazy" to what Noel Sheppard reported on actress Janeane Garofalo's interview with The Onion's AV Club, there is the matter of religion and politics. Like many leftists, Garofalo explained that religion is okay when hallowed liberal legends once used it in the last century, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But use it to defend a conservative idea, and it's "…
Bozell Column: Hollywood Shocked as Family Films Flourish
The surprise box-office boom for the cartoon “Despicable Me” is making it clear again to Hollywood this summer that family films are the most likely to be top-grossing films. “Toy Story 3” is number one for 2010, not only among the critics, but among the people as well. “Despicable Me” already has broken into the top ten box-office hits for the year to date with almost $130 million in ticket…
PBS’s Borowitz Jabs ‘Rignorant’ Palin’s Intelligence, Prez Pal
On Friday’s Need to Know program on PBS, during the show’s semi-regular allegedly humor-based "Next Week’s News" portion of the show, Andrew Borowitz devoted the entire segment to mocking Sarah Palin’s intelligence as he faux-predicted that, after winning the 2012 presidential election, "Her first official act will be to cancel the agreement between nouns and verbs," and that she will then "…
Peter Orszag: Another Journolist Member With Government Ties? Klein Sa
NewsBusters posts Friday afternoon provided readers with a list of 65 known participants in the now-infamous Journolist (via Melissa Clouthier) and the special case of Jared Bernstein, Vice President Joe Biden's Economic Adviser (via Lachian Markey). (Aside: Does the fact that Biden has his own econ adviser explain why what the Vice President says in public about the economy is so often of sync…
NPR Listeners Loathe 'Fox's Sleazy Reporting' and the GOP 'Propaganda
The producers of NPR's evening newscast All Things Considered deserve credit for reading listener mail on the air, often to make corrections in the broadcast. But there was really nothing but liberals in the mailbag on Thursday, all furious at NPR for not being strong enough in denouncing Fox News and Andrew Breitbart: MICHELE NORRIS: Here's some of what you had to say about our coverage of the…
Stephanie Miller Fantasizes Drunks With Baseball Bats Beating O'Reilly
What is it with liberals and their violent fantasies? The Journolist has given us a public radio producer imagining herself laughing with glee as Rush dies a painful death, while other members want their political enemies thrown through plate-glass windows.This evening brings us "comedian" and liberal radio talk show host Stephanie Miller fantasizing about Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Geraldo…
Anatomy of a Botched Ambush: ABC Fails to Score Global Warming Point o
"It's so hot outside, you could fry an egg ..." or something like that. Perhaps ABC News should have rehearsed their attempted dramatic presentation to promote global warming alarmism before going forward. But instead, they have egg on their face - after failing to fry an egg in the heat, that is. According to a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a producer for ABC News senior…
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer Worried About Influence of Conservative Media
For two days in a row on her noontime news hour, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer worried aloud about the White House bowing to the wishes of the conservative media on the Shirley Sherrod case, describing it as "towing to right-wingers.""In some ways, it makes it look like the White House is kowtowing to right-wingers here, Mike," Brewer told MSNBC correspondent Mike Viqueira Wednesday as she was…
Five for Five: NewsBusters Highlights and Contest Winners
Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post.As we approach our 5th anniversary at NewsBusters, our celebration would not be complete without a recap of our best posts. It was a tough call, but we came up with the top 25, broken down evenly into five categories of five each. We call it our Five-for-Five. Each Friday through August 13 we'll…
Ed Schultz: I'm Sorry Beck's Going Blind - It's A Travesty He Won't Se
MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Thursday said he's sorry Fox News's Glenn Beck is going blind because "I think it's a travesty he's not going to see the country he's trying to destroy."As the keynote speaker of the opening festivities of the ultra-liberal gathering known as Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, the "Ed Show" host also bashed President Obama. "They must have a War Room at the White House. I think…