F-Bomb Fallout: Morning Joe Crew Reacts To Tape Delay

If Morning Joe seems every-so-slightly less up-to-date, there's a reason for it. The show is now seven seconds behind the times. A tape delay has been instituted in the wake of Joe Scarborough's unintentional dropping of an f-bomb two days ago.B&C reported the change yesterday, and NewsBuster Ken Shepherd discussed it here.  The Morning Joe crew had fun with the move on today's show. Coming…
Mark Finkelstein

BDS Gone Loony: Actor/Playwright Blames Bush for Writer's Block

Catching up with some pre-election whining, as James Taranto highlighted Friday in his “Best of the Web Today” compilation, character actor/playwright Wallace Shawn “blames President Bush for wrecking his love life and causing writer's block.” Shawn, a short man with a distinctive voice you'd recognize from his many guest roles on TV shows (IMDb page), from Murphy Brown to Law & Order: CI (…
Brent Baker

Post-Election News Business Layoffs Begin; Time and Current Lead the C

Well, they held out as long as the could. But now that the presidential election is over, layoffs in the news business have begun.Newsosaur predicted as much on the Sunday before the election, and pointed to a major reason:Public confidence in the mainstream media has been eroding for at least a decade. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press reported that only 19% of respondents…
Tom Blumer

Washington Post Quotes Liberal Catholic Saying U.S. Bishops Hold Minor

Note to WaPo: religions don't base moral teachings on opinion polls.
Kristen Fyfe

Matthews on Palin Seeking God's Okay: 'A Lot of Our Enemies Talk Like

MSNBC Hardball host suggests that politicians should not openly say they're looking for God's guidance in America's secular environment.
Jeff Poor

Anti Prop 8 Mob Swarms Elderly Lady: TV Anchor Proclaims 'Hate on Both

Watch this amazing video of an anti Proposition 8 mob in Palm Springs swarming an elderly woman, ripping a cross out of her hand, and then stomping on it. What is most amazing about this video is the idiotic summation of what happened by KPSP TV anchorman, Kris Long. However before we get to his money quote, let us take a look at a report on this mobbing by LifeSiteNews.Com: Video footage from…
P.J. Gladnick

CNN’s Rick Sanchez: Does the GOP ‘Have to Be Anti-Abortion

During a segment on Tuesday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez asked South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford if the Republican needed to abandon its social conservative principles in order to be successful again: "Do you have to be anti-abortion, because that's a very important, big topic in the South..?" Sanchez later asked the Republican governor, as well as talk show host Neal Boortz, "…
Matthew Balan

Shuster Tries To Pick Palin-Jindal Fight

The next presidential election might be four years off, but it's never too early to sow dissension in Republican ranks.  So would appear to be David Shuster's creed. Interviewing Bobby Jindal this evening, Shuster was clearly more interested in luring the brilliant Louisiana governor into a fight with Sarah Palin than in exploring the substance.Jindal was way too savvy and diplomatic to fall for…
Mark Finkelstein

2006 NY Daily News Podcast Interview With Rahm Emanuel On Compulsory S

 **Updated with more transcription 11/12/08 As a follow up to my previous post on the media blowing off President-elect Barack Obama's conscription plan(which seems to be disappearing from the Obama transition team's site among many other agenda items, as Newsbuster Tom Blumer has discovered), Naked Emperor News has found some interesting audio of Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff appointee…
Kerry Picket

Matthews: Palin 'Talking About God,' is 'Troubling

After airing an interview clip of Sarah Palin telling Fox News' Greta Van Susteren that she was looking for guidance from God about running for national office again, an appalled Chris Matthews called it "troubling," when he let loose this rant on Tuesday's "Hardball":Is, is this commentary about theocracy and going to God for approval? We've been through that with President Bush who said he, "…
Geoffrey Dickens

Maddow: Conservative Governing's Odd, Like a Vegetarian Butcher

On Monday night’s edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, radical MSNBC/Air America talk show host Rachel Maddow rehashed the antiquated argument that since conservatives do not believe in the existence of government, they should not be allowed to run the government: "I like vegans, but it’s like letting a vegan be your butcher. If you have somebody that is really against the idea of…
Tim Graham

GM Bailout Only Way to Stave Off Great Depression II, Says Cramer

'Mad Money' host tells viewers letting a bad business fail, putting the labor elsewhere would never work.
Jeff Poor

Sex and Aggression: The Media Impact on Children

CMI Senior Writer Kristen Fyfe reports on two profoundly important studies that link childrens media consumption to teen pregnancy and hostile behavior.
Kristen Fyfe

ABC's Terry Moran Gushes Over 'Obama Cool on Display

"Nightline" co-host Terry Moran on Monday fawned over every detail of Barack Obama's White House meeting with President Bush and insisted that that since the President-elect arrived in Washington D.C. wearing sunglasses, this was an example of the "Obama cool on display." Moran, who has regularly gushed over every aspect of Obama's election and transition, narrated the Democrat's interactions…
Scott Whitlock