CNN Again Cites Liberal Study on Talk Radio, Pushes Localism

CNN’s Carol Costello again omitted the liberal source of a statistic she touted during a report on Wednesday’s American Morning, that 91% of talk radio is apparently conservative. Costello also pushed the left-wing aim of localism in radio programming, playing three soundbites in favor of the proposal, versus two against it.Near the end of her report, which aired at the bottom of the 7 am Eastern…
Matthew Balan

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NB Staff

Olbermann: Prejean's Complaints About Breast Surgery Publicization 'Ir

It was bound to happen - an inevitable character assault on former Miss California Carrie Prejean by a host from MSNBC, the place for misogyny, after K2 Productions, the company that directs the Miss California USA pageant, filed a publicity-seeking, lawsuit. Prejean unintentionally created a firestorm when she answered a question from self-proclaimed gay rights activist and gossip blogger…
Jeff Poor

Former FNC Lib: CNN and MSNBC Further Left Than Fox Is Right

Recently fired liberal Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill claimed Tuesday the White House attacks on his former employer reek of propaganda.Speaking with WOR radio's Steve Malzberg, Hill also agreed that the two other cable news networks he used to contribute to, CNN and MSNBC, are far more to the left than Fox News is to the right. These were fascinating comments from someone that was…
Noel Sheppard

Krauthammer Rips 'Repulsive Audacity' of White House for Fox News Atta

By now, the cat is out of the bag - President Barack Obama and his administration are no fans of the Fox News Channel and have been all too eager to wear that sentiment as a badge of honor. However, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer identified the vigor with which the Obama administration has attacked Fox. He explained on the Fox News Oct. 20 broadcast of "Special Report with Bret…
Jeff Poor

Is the WaPo Stuffing Its Own Ballot Box for the 'Public Option

The Washington Post touted a new poll on Tuesday that popular support is increasing for a government-run "public option" health care system – just as liberal Democrats try to push that into the Senate Finance Committee bill. The headline was "Public option gains support: Clear majority now backs plan." So it’s not surprising, as Ed Morrissey found at Hot Air, that the Post is stuffing its poll…
Tim Graham

Three's Company: Pop Culture 'Knocks at the Door' of Group Sex

Teen-oriented entertainment attempts to normalize three-ways.
Colleen Raezler

Olbermann Calls Prejean's Privacy Complaint over Breast Surgery Detail

MSNBC host equates belief in traditional marriage with privacy breaches.
Jeff Poor

People Mag Falsely Claims Palin Refused To Appear On Oprah Last Year

As NewsBusters reported a few hours ago, Oprah Winfrey has finally decided to allow former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on her highly-rated daytime talk show.Shortly after it was announced, People magazine's web article on the matter falsely informed readers that Palin refused Oprah's invitation during the campaign last year (h/t NB reader Christy Ellsworth):Oh, what a difference a multimillion-…
Noel Sheppard

Wanda Sykes: Bush 'Abused' America, Michelle's Arms Way Nicer Than Bar

Tim Graham

Obama: 'I Hope That Everybody Is Willing To Recapture That Sense Of Ex

Cue the B.B. King, baby.  The thrill is gone.Here was Pres. Obama speaking to his $30,000-a-couple fundraiser tonight in NYC: "I hope that everybody here is willing to recapture that sense of excitement that comes from a big but achievable challenge, not a superficial excitement that comes from election day, but an excitement that comes from knowing we took on something that had to be taken on."…
Mark Finkelstein

Overbearing in Role as Liberal Savior, Rep. Alan Grayson Alludes to Hi

Potential title of Tom Wolfe novel with protagonist based on Congressman Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida -- A Man in Fulsome.Rachel Maddow had just introduced Grayson on her MSNBC show Monday night and what does he do? Disparages the size of her audience.Maddow was talking about Florida Republicans gearing up to unseat Grayson --  MADDOW: I know that two of the people who are going to run…
Jack Coleman

NBC's Todd: 'Clean White Suit' Obama a Victim of High Expectations for

ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday night all aired stories on President Barack Obama hobnobbing with the wealthy during a recession, at Manhattan fundraisers to be attended by the very Wall Street players he's condemned. But only NBC's Chuck Todd served as a mouthpiece for self-serving rationale which painted Obama as a victim of an image of perfection susceptible to “any speck of mud,” as Todd relayed…
Brent Baker

Bill Maher Stirs Crowd With Plea for Obama to Make Limbaugh 'Explode L

Tim Graham