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Maddow, Still Bravely Struggling With Accuracy, Makes False Claims Abo
Rachel Maddow has to get it right eventually, what with the law of averages and all. We'll just have to remain patient.Latest targest of her self-righteous wrath? Congressman Bart Stupak, apostate Democrat of Michigan, for his opposition to taxpayer-funded abortion. Here's Maddow from her MSNBC show on Wednesday, alleging deceit by Stupak while engaging in it herself twice over -- MADDOW: One…
Pauley Back on NBC, Yearned for ‘Cool, Steady Hand’ of ‘Exceptio
In 2008, just four years after leaving NBC News, Jane Pauley gave the maximum allowed donation to Barack Obama ($2,300) and campaigned for him in her native Indiana where she proclaimed “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day” and predicted Obama will be “an exceptional” President, enthusing: “I so look forward to it!” On Tuesday morning (March 9)…
Red Eye's Robot Theater Rips Chavez and Penn's Love Affair
The folks at Fox News's late night hit "Red Eye" on Saturday lampooned the strange relationship that exists between Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez and actor Sean Penn.As NewsBusters has been reporting, Penn has made some bizarre comments recently which include wishing his critics would die screaming of rectal cancer and saying journalists should be jailed for calling Chavez a dictator. This…
Helen Thomas Asks Gibbs 'Why Do We Give Commitments to Israel When it
Helen Thomas on Friday asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs why the United States keeps giving iron-clad commitments to Israel when it violates international law?Gibbs responded during the press briefing, "Well, again, we enjoy a strong relationship with the country and the people. We are committed to their security." Giving what the late Tony Snow marvelously referred to as "The…
NBC's Golden Girl, Kathy Griffin: 'I'd Like to Push Sarah Palin Down t
"Class act" are the last two words most people would use for comedian Kathy Griffin. Radar Online thrilled at the chance to forward the story this week of an unnamed publicist for Playgirl magazine channeling Griffin’s snarl: "Then we went to a gay bar called Mad Myrnas. I asked Kathy what star she’d like to see take a ‘celebrity spill’ and she said ‘I’d like to push Sarah Palin down the stairs…
Dem Pollsters: Media Deceiving Themselves ObamaCare's Popular
Two prominent current and former Democrat pollsters are accusing media of deceiving themselves about healthcare reform being popular."Nothing has been more disconcerting than to watch Democratic politicians and their media supporters deceive themselves into believing that the public favors the Democrats' current health-care plan."So wrote Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen in an op-ed published at the…
USA Today Shockingly Asks 'Is President Obama Losing His Base
"Is President Obama losing his base?"So shockingly began an article published by USA Today Thursday.Entitled "Obama's Liberal Base 'Disengaged,'" the piece actually answered its own question, and in a fashion that had to disappoint liberals as it raised conservative eyebrows (h/t Big Government):
WaPo Report on DC-MD-VA January Job Market Betrays Seasonal, Other Ign
Yesterday, Jim Taranto at the Wall Street Journal's indispensable Best of the Web took note of a report by the Washington Post's V. Dion Hayes about the state of the employment market in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and summarized its findings thusly: So what looks to the Post like good news that looks like bad news is actually bad news that looks like good news. Even that assessment turns out to…
Barbara Walters Lets Jesse Ventura Spread 9-11 Truther Rant, Gives Out
Professional conspiracy theorist (and former independent Minnesota Governor) Jesse Ventura hawked his book American Conspiracies on ABC’s The View on Wednesday. Barbara Walters plays a journalist on TV, so why would she spread horrific and unproven conspiracy theories on ABC? Just for the ratings? The View began with this promo: "Jesse Ventura’s blowing the lid off American conspiracies. Why he…
George W. Bush Urinal Reported by CBS News and MSNBC
A sculptor in San Francisco makes urinals in the likeness of former President George W. Bush, and two American media outlets actually reported it last week.This disgusting story appears to have first surfaced Monday on CBS's San Francisco affiliate KPIX.The following day, CBS News felt it necessary to share this vulgar farce with Americans from coast to coast by publishing the segment at its…
CBS News Gets Coffee Party Fever: It's a Lot Like TEA Parties
On Friday, CBSNews.com's blog Political Hotsheet ran a gushing article that amounted to free advertising for the left's new gimmick of coffee parties. Aside from the friendly tone and complete lack of criticism, the most astounding part was when writer Stephanie Condon remarked that many issues discussed at a Coffee Party could just as well have come from a TEA party. Condon's article began…
Bozell Column: NBC's Special Victims
NBC’s "Law & Order" programs are long-established and all over the schedule. But the sex-obsessed vice cops of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" are a breed apart. They exist to be socially provocative, which is to say, to rattle, to disturb. Viewers at home probably weren’t ready for the plot that aired on NBC on March 3. These script writers are so revolting that they become almost…
NPR Skips Over Publicity for Conservative Authors, But Makes Time for
Conservative authors rarely get interviewed on National Public Radio. (For example, there was no air time for Mark Levin's best-seller Liberty and Tyranny.) When they do, it can be like Bill O'Reilly's sour and hostile experience with Fresh Air interviewer Terry Gross. On Monday, Gross provided a much kinder 35-minute forum for someone apparently more respectable and noteworthy than conservative…