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Establishment Press Largely Covers Obama's Tracks on Disgraceful Danie
President Barack Obama's statement just before he signed the Freedom of the Press Act on Monday painfully avoided reality to the point of giving offense. If it became widely known, it would likely become very problematic. Here is what the President said that was particularly offensive (bolds are mine): And obviously the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s…
New Prime Time Sitcom: '$#*! My Dad Says
Would you watch a sitcom with your kids at 8:30 PM that had the title "$#*! My Dad Says?"The folks at CBS think you will.In fact, they're so confident the vulgar reference won't offend viewers that the star -- and hence, the dad in the vulgar title!!! -- is none other than "Star Trek's" William Shatner.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Parents Television Council is threatening to challenge…
Bozell Column: A Global Sports Problem
The 2010 World Cup opens in South Africa in a few weeks. As a sports event it is unrivaled in its popularity. It promises to bring a half-million soccer fans to that country. But it will also draw out the worst of the worst. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the economic promise of an expected half a million largely male incoming consumers is attracting a massive influx of prostitutes…
Maher Show: Tea Partiers Fall for 'Brilliant Magic Trick' of Associati
Bill Maher invited comedian Patton Oswalt to his table on HBO's Real Time on Friday night and saluted his small film from 2009, "Big Fan," in which he plays a superfan of the New York Giants, even after a Giants linebacker beats him up severely. Maher turned this analogy to politics and leftist Thomas Frank's book "What's the Matter with Kansas?" which argued that poorer Americans are duped into…
Economic Guru 'Dr. Doom' Advises People Buy Spam Not Gold
The man that predicted the economic and financial collapse two years ago advised people that are concerned about inflation to buy Spam rather than gold.As you can't turn on a TV these days without seeing an ad for gold or some economist recommending you buy the precious metal, Nouriel Roubini's comment on Friday's "Real Time" deliciously went against the tide of financial advisors across the…
John Fund Smacks Down Bill Maher: Stop Saying 'Teabaggers
John Fund on Friday smacked down Bill Maher for calling Tea Partiers "teabaggers."As the panel discussion of HBO's "Real Time" convened, the host said, "The teabaggers I guess think they had a big win Tuesday."He then asked the American Spectator's Fund, "Why are they so silent on financial reform?" After Fund answered the question, he said, "I think people should be called by the term that they…
AP's Castro Can't Hold In Bias (and Perhaps Ignorance) in Report on Te
It would not surprise me if the Associated Press's April Castro has spent the last 10 weeks gritting her teeth non-stop. In March (covered at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), she was clearly peeved at the Texas State Board of Education. In a supposedly objective news story entitled "Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences," she decried a "faction" (actually a nearly two-thirds majority) of…
As If They're Brangelina: Nina Totenberg and Mark Shields Mock the Sex
They say people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. But that saying didn't stop NPR's Nina Totenberg and PBS pundit Mark Shields from making fun of the sex appeal of conservative Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana, who resigned this week after admitting an affair with a female staffer. On the local PBS talk show Inside Washington, Totenberg mentioned the abstinence video Souder made with his lover,…
Calif. Congressman Blasts Calderon's Ariz. Comments and Dems for Appla
A California Congressman on Thursday strongly criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his comments about Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law while also excoriating "the left wing of the White House" and "many Democrats in this Congress" who cheered his remarks.As has been widely reported, Calderon, speaking before a joint session of Congress, said, "I strongly disagree with the…
AP Wastes Almost 1,000 Words Wondering: 'Is Dora the Explorer an Illeg
The Associated Press's Sophia Tareen has apparently had a lot of time on her hands the past couple of days, and her wire service bosses couldn't find much for her to do. How else to explain Tareen's devotion of almost 1,000 words to the burning question of whether cartoon character Dora the Explorer is an illegal immigrant? You read that right, but it's worse than that. Tareen claims that images…
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley Threatens to Shoot Reporter at Gun Control
In a bizarre attempt to demonstrate how vital gun control is in his city, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley threatened to stick a bayonted rifle up a reporter's rear end and pull the trigger. Of course if a Republican had done the same to demonstrate the conservative position on gun control, there would be a media bonanza. Not so for the Democratic mayor. "If I put this up your—ha!—your butt—ha ha!—…
New York Times Sees GOP Jeopardy Over AZ Law, Even As Democrats Stand
The top story at NYTimes.com Friday afternoon, presumably headed for the front-page of Saturday morning’s newspaper, touted how: “Immigration Law in Arizona Reveals G.O.P. Divisions.” All but one paragraph of the 30-paragraph report by Jennifer Steinhauer described the dilemma for Republicans torn between popular sentiment in favor of Arizona’s pro-enforcement stance, and the need to not alienate…