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ClimateDepot's Morano: Global Warming Already Dead, ClimateGate 'Withh
Noted climate change skeptic addresses 2010 CPAC on global warming after accepting Accuracy in Media award.
ABC's Claire Shipman Worries About 'Republican-edgy' Tone of CPAC, GOP
Good Morning America's Claire Shipman on Friday highlighted the upbeat mood of the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, but also fretted about the "Republican-edgy" tone. This came after she mentioned unidentified conference promises of a "Nancy Pelosi pinata and a Harry Reid punching bag." Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos lectured that for Republicans…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the cure's the same as the disease?
Family Guy's Down Syndrome Actress Responds To Sarah Palin
The actress that did the voiceover for Ellen, the Down Syndrome Girl on Sunday's "Family Guy," has responded to her critics including Sarah and Bristol Palin.As NewsBusters previously reported, the hit Fox cartoon series took a swipe at the Palins by making a joke involving Down Syndrome and the former Alaskan governor. On Tuesday, Sarah and Bristol posted their feelings about this segment at…
Video: Rick Santelli - Free Market Champion and Tea Party Instigator
On the one-year anniversary of Santelli's famous rant, BMI looks back on his free market advocacy on CNBC.
Olbermann on Letterman: Tea Parties Are Like 'Homogenized Milk,' But S
Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann contnued to indict the racial makeup of Tea Party event partipants as evidence of an "unfortunate undertone" of racism as he compared the movement's members to "homogenized milk." He also asserted that "there’s nobody from any kind of minority group" at the events, in spite of a CBS News/New York…
New Republic Policy Wonk Tosses Cold Water on Leftwing Public Option G
It is still pretty much under the radar but the leftwing nutroots now want to replace the Senate version of ObamaCare with a public option bill to be passed via reconciliation. The completely unrealistic push for public option, currently opposed by President Obama, is now all the rage in the leftwing blogosphere as you can see in yesterday's Daily Kos thread. So before we find out the hard…
WaPo Front-Page Slam: CPAC 'Once a Venue for the Right Fringe
CPAC made the front page of Friday’s Washington Post, but reporter Philip Rucker wrongly insisted the convention was "once a venue for the right fringe" of the GOP, but now it hosts presidential aspirants. Below that, there was a promotional blurb in bold type for Dana Milbank’s column inside: "Rubio is the far right’s anti-Crist." Here’s Rucker’s sneering introduction: Emboldened by a belief…
Olbermann Incorrectly Cites MRC’s Bozell & Lumps w/ ‘Racists in Ri
On Thursday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann mixed up NewsBusters parent organization the Media Research Center with the group Accuracy in Media, as he linked MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell to an article written by AIM’s Roger Aronoff. In the article, titled "Olbermann’s Fuzzy Math on Race," Aronoff had responded to Olbermann’s Monday "Special Comment" in which he asserted…
Surprise: NY Times Finds Racial Stereotyping at Conservative Conventio
The New York Times suggests racist appeals were afoot at the Conservative Political Action Conference that kicked off Thursday morning in Washington. Reporter Kate Zernike filed on the paper's "Caucus" blog Thursday to chide as offensive "some" CPAC speakers, by which she evidently meant one in particular, young conservative author Jason Mattera: "CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones." The…
CNN's Sanchez and Velshi Omit Stack's Communist Sympathies
A trend is beginning to develop in the media reports concerning Joe Stack, the man who allegedly smashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas: his disgust for capitalism and support of communism must be ignored at all cost.As NewsBusters previously reported, both Time.com and a blog posting at the Washington Post have conveniently skipped two crucial sentences at the end of Stack's…
CBS Contends Democrats Victims of 'Incumbent Backlash,' Not Anti-Big G
Though polls and recent election results illustrate public antipathy to big government deficit spending and a preference for right-leaning Republicans, Thursday’s CBS Evening News foresaw an “incumbent backlash” in which Democrats are only more vulnerable because more of them hold national office. Katie Couric asserted “a lot of incumbents are in trouble” before reporter Chip Reid declared it’s “…
Olbermann Honored By NewsBusters Mats With His Face On Them
A second MSNBC host on Thursday commented about the NewsBusters doormats featuring the faces of America's most disgraceful cable news network.As NewsBusters reported moments ago, Rachel Maddow did a segment on her show Thursday evening about her visit to our booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.Not to be outdone, her partner in disinformation, Keith Olbermann,…