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Bill Maher: Tea Party Protesters Just a Bunch of Stupid Cultists
The left's comedic mud-slingers have been working overtime lately. Bill Maher injected his latest bit of invective Friday when he labeled the Tea Party movement a "cult" and hurled epithets at major conservative figures.Angry that Americans would dare object to his particular brand of ultra-liberal politics, Maher has recieved a bit of press lately for his unending stream of hatred for anyone who…
Will: Government's Only 'Broken' When Left Can't Enact Its Agenda
George Will said Sunday that people only talk about the government being broken when the Left is having trouble enacting its agenda.During the Roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week," "Nightline" host Terry Moran brought up the recent announcement by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) that he would not seek reelection in November because "Congress is not operating as it should."When the baton was tossed to…
Is There NB Commenter-Inspired Journalistic Improvement in Latest AP I
Between its January 31 and February 20 reports on developments in the "interrogation memos" saga, the Associated Press may have learned a lesson in basic journalism from a NewsBusters commenter. I'll describe; readers can decide. The wire service's unbylined report three weeks ago opened with this paragraph: NB commenter "TE" took justifiable umbrage at that opening:
Huffington Repeats Charge of ‘Disturbing’ & ‘Violent Imagery
Appearing during the "Roundtable" segment on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington continued her campaign to portray conservatives as promoters of violence as she recounted what she referred to as the "violent imagery" of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s speech at CPAC in which he, alluding to Tiger Woods’ troubles, suggested that a golf club should be used to "…
Elton John Blames Parade Mag For His 'Jesus Was Gay' Remark
Pop singer Elton John is blaming Parade magazine for his remark in Sunday's edition that Jesus Christ was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man."Parade magazine did a kind of a sneaky thing and put it on their website that I said this," John told Chicago's WGN-TV.According to John, he made the comment "as part of the conversation during the interview," but he apparently didn't think this was…
CBS, AP, N.Y. Daily News Play Twitter Tag on Conservatives With the Au
It’s getting tiresome that the liberal media will use the ramblings of any extremist on Twitter and try and associate them with the conservative movement. CBSNews.com [on their 48 Hours Mystery page] blogged the AP and the New York Daily News reporting that Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack has fan pages on the Internet: "Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no…
Tony Blankley Rebuts Arianna on 'Undertones of Violence' at CPAC
Arianna Huffington just keeps slamming our Olbermann floor mats. Plugging her own appearance on the public-radio show Left, Right, and Center (based at Santa Monica NPR station KCRW), the Huffington Post blurb writer suggested CPAC was based in Texas: "Taking the temperature of the conservative GOP: To judge from their conference in Austin, they're quite cheery, yelling Run Dick Run to Dick…
ABC Gives Credibility to Claim ‘Queen of Fake Outrage’ Palin ‘Ov
Now that actress Andrea Fay Friedman of the Fox television series the Family Guy has spoken out publicly against Sarah Palin’s criticism of the show, ABC News has aired a story on the controversy, which ran on Saturday's World News. The Family Guy episode in question not only treated Down’s Syndrome as something to laugh at (credit to NB reader Birch Barlow for emailing in the link as a tip), but…
Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Speech To Enthusiastic CPAC
Glenn Beck gave the keynote speech to conclude this weekend's CPAC meeting Saturday, and the Fox News host did not disappoint.The rising conservative star touched on familiar themes saying that progessivism "is the disease in America.""It is a cancer," he said. "It must be cut out of the system because it cannot co-exist. And you cannot cure cancer by saying, ‘I'm just going to give you a little…
Rachel Maddow Miffed That Constitution Allegedly Sullied by Accompanyi
After strolling through the exhibition hall of CPAC 2010 on Thursday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow told viewers that night of her impressions.Here's Maddow describing one of the things she didn't like --MADDOW: There were lots of people giving away copies of the Constitution, but in a thing that sort of bothers me, they couldn't resist adding their own documents to the Constitution. So you can get the…
Breitbart Takes On Salon's Blumenthal For Calling O'Keefe Racist
Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart had a heated exchange with Salon's Max Blumenthal at CPAC Saturday. A few weeks ago, Salon published an article by Blumenthal disgracefully titled "James O'Keefe's Race Problem." The subheadline was even worse: "A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment."With pressure from Breitbart's…
Newt Gingrich Invokes Reagan and Freedom in Address to CPAC
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed a huge audience at CPAC Saturday offering his plan to save America."I think this is the most important CPAC meeting since Ronald Reagan came and said that we have to have no pale pastels but bold colors," the Speaker stated to thunderous applause."I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."Of course, one of the…