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Behar on Oil Spill: Bush-Cheney 'Started It, And Now This Poor Guy Has

On her CNN Headline News show Thursday night, Joy Behar thought the "Obama's Katrina" language from Republicans was odd, since the "Bush/Cheney administration" is responsible for both disasters. Steve Kornacki of Salon.com insisted "all of the insults, all of the criticisms that were hurled at the Bush right after Katrina, they are just dying to throw back at the Democrats."Behar replied: "But…
Tim Graham

ABC and NBC Champion Illegal Alien Cause: ‘Will an Army of Protester

Another pro-illegal alien protest and, once again, the networks champion the cause. Four weeks after the broadcast network evening shows trumpeted May Day marches against Arizona’s effort to enforce federal law, another round of marches prompted ABC and NBC on Saturday night to push the left-wing cause. “Day of outrage, anger on the streets of Phoenix and across this country tonight,” ABC anchor…
Brent Baker

Ed Schultz Denies Calling Bush a Nazi -- But Compared Limbaugh to Hitl

Liberal action hero Ed Schultz does have his standards, albeit flexible ones.Here's Schultz chatting with barely coherent fellow left-wing radio host Bill Press on Wednesday about Press's new book, "Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves" (audio here) --SCHULTZ: What did the Wall Street Journal say about your book?PRESS: Wall Street Journal said ... OK, he's got some…
Jack Coleman

Live Broadcast of 'Stand With Arizona' Rally in Tempe

There is a rally going on in Tempe, Arizona, Saturday evening to show support for that state's new immigration law.Those interested can watch a UStream broadcast of the event live (live stream follows h/t Hot Air's Ed Morrissey):
Noel Sheppard

NPR Paints Conservative Virginia Attorney General as Persecutor of Sci

Ken Cuccinelli, the conservative Attorney General of Virginia, came under attack on Friday night's All Things Considered on National Public Radio. This is one angle of Climategate the national media have noticed. But they pitch the battle as Cuccinelli vs. Science or Cuccinelli vs. Academic Freedom. What's most infuriating is the notion that it's Cuccinelli who's "politicizing" science, and not…
Tim Graham

CNN Airs Allegations BP Bused In Gulf Workers To Scam Obama

CNN on Friday aired allegations that BP bused temporary workers into the Gulf Coast of Louisiana as a dog and pony show for President Obama's visit to the area."Now, if true, some other words might apply, a sham, a crock, an insult to the people down here who need help, real help, not to mention an attempt, if the allegations are true, to BS local leaders, Gulf state governors and the President…
Noel Sheppard

Liberal Author Now Bashes Sarah Palin's 'Ability to Incite Hatred' Ove

As if it wasn't shameless enough to rent the house next door to the Palins in Wasilla while he works on a Palin-exposing book, liberal author Joe McGinniss starred in a Saturday Washington Post report by David Weigel about how he's a good neighbor, but he's learned that Palin's "ability to incite hatred." He might not want to ask for that cup of sugar: McGinniss added that he had been a…
Tim Graham

NYT's Herbert: Big Companies Don't Care About People

It certainly comes as no surprise that liberal media members hate big business, but the level to which New York Times columnist Bob Herbert attacked some of the nation's largest employers on Saturday should concern everyone interested in preserving what's left of the free market."[T]he biggest, most powerful companies do not have the best interests of the American people in mind when they are…
Noel Sheppard

Olbermann Suspends Signoff Mocking Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished

Since February 2006, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has used the signoff of his Countdown show almost nightly to mock President Bush by recounting the number of days have passed since the former President stood on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. The speech, which President Bush delivered while a sign with the words "Mission Accomplished" could be…
Brad Wilmouth

Psst: Voters in Oklahoma and Other States to Vote on ObamaCare in Nove

Over the past two years, yours truly has noted how the economy in Oklahoma has with very little media attention outperformed most of the rest of the nation. The Sooner State's much lower unemployment rate, higher GDP growth, and higher personal income growth have "strangely" coincided with the passage of a strict illegal immigration law-enforcement measure in 2007. Now there's another…
Tom Blumer

George Lopez Cracks: ‘Every Latino’ Will Leave US if Palin Elected

Catching up on an item from the Thursday, May 20, The View on ABC, comedian George Lopez appeared as a guest and made a few anti-Sarah Palin cracks as he joked with the group about the new immigration law in Arizona, asserting that if Palin were to become President, he and other Latinos would flee the country: "This is the answer to immigration, I'm going to tell you right now. This is how to get…
Brad Wilmouth

NewsBusters Discusses Looming Federal Budget Crisis With Sen. Tom Cobu

Noel Sheppard

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