NewsBusted

Topics in today's show: John McCain's medical records, Al Franken's tax troubles, American Airlines charges passengers $15 per bag, and Angelina Jolie's pregnancy.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, subscribe to our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your blog. Doing any of the above helps us take NB's message of truth to people who'd never see it…
NB Staff

Media Black Out Discussion of California Same-Sex 'Marriage' Implicati

The First Amendment is in jeopardy. Why isn't the press rushing to its defense?
Julia Seward

Another Cost of Celebrity Obsession

Should we restrict the paparazzi or curb the appetite for celebrity Mcnews?
Kristen Fyfe

Olbermann Touts Truce—Then Proposes Impeachment

Of all the people to call for a "truce" on excessive partisanship . . . Interviewing Scott McClellan tonight, Keith Olbermann sanctimoniously suggested that a "truce" on rough political tactics "would be nice." But speaking with John Dean just minutes later, the Countdown host—he who has repeatedly called President Bush a liar and a fascist—reverted to form and regretted that it might be too late…
Mark Finkelstein

Chris Wallace Says What No One Will About McClellan and Olbermann

Now that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has written a tell-all book about the Bush administration, he's being lauded with so much praise from the usual liberal media suspects that it must be making MSNBC's Keith Olbermann a tad jealous.This makes Chris Wallace's interview Thursday with WOR radio's Steve Malzberg even more timely, for the "Fox News Sunday" host showed his…
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews Holding Long Time Grudge Against Arianna Huffington

Let's take a little time off of more serious matters for some juicy gossip. Over at gawker.com there is a somewhat humorous little tale of an MSNBC photo shoot that saw TV yaker Chris Matthews of "thrill going up my leg" fame storming out after being told he might be required to share the camera frame with blog maven and born again lefty Arianna Huffington. Apparently Chris is still mad at her…
Warner Todd Huston

ABC Uses Weird Non-Customer Example to Attack Credit Card Companies

'Good Morning America' claims arbitration unfair by featuring rare case from activist group's report.
Nathan Burchfiel

McClellan Tells ABC & CBS: 'Intrigued' by Obama, May Vote for Him

In the midst of media hype for “insider” Scott McClellan's attacks on the Bush White House, ABC's Martha Raddatz and CBS's Katie Couric prompted a revelation from McClellan that undermines the presumption he's any kind of partisan Republican or conservative ideologue. They asked a question NBC's Meredith Vieira did not in two lengthy live segments on Thursday's Today show: Will he vote for John…
Brent Baker

McClellan Book Reminds Matthews of 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

"I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me! Not him. Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!"—Claude Rains as the corrupt Sen. Joseph Paine in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"…
Mark Finkelstein

Have Media FALN Down on the Job

Have the media fallen down on the job in pressing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) about her war on terrorism bona fides? If silence over the 1999 pardon of 16 FALN terrorists is any indication, yes. A Google News search for "Clinton FALN clemency" yielded but one result, this May 24 item from Politico's Ben Adler (emphasis mine):[Y]ou have to look back roughly a decade to find the last time Puerto…
Ken Shepherd

'Right-wing' Rupert Murdoch Heaps Praise on Barack Obama

Aside from President Bush, one of the left's favorite boogeymen is Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, owner of the Fox television networks and myriad newspapers around the globe. Murdoch, as the story goes, is deliberately foisting a far-right ideology upon the world, intent upon making it to support his personal political agenda. In order for that to be true, however, paranoid lefties have…
Matthew Sheffield

Newsweek Pens Cover Story That's a Friendly Obama Advice Memo

Tim Graham

Vieira Presses McClellan to Charge White House Was 'Lying

NBC's "Today" show gave Scott McClellan two segments, on Thursday morning, to slam the Bush administration and promote his book What Happened and while Meredith Vieira repeated his charge that the administration was "shading the truth," in the run up to the Iraq war, that wasn't enough for the "Today" co-host as she pressed McClellan to go further and accuse the White House of "lying" America…
Geoffrey Dickens

ABC's Chris Cuomo Gushes Over 'Great,' Honest Liberal Author

"Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo touted Bush-bashing author and former anti-terrorism official Richard Clarke on Thursday's "Good Morning America." Cuomo lauded Clarke's first book, "Against All Enemies," as "great." (In that book, Clarke slammed the White House for focusing too heavily on Iraq.) The GMA host also attempted to pass off the ex-government official's liberal comments…
Scott Whitlock