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Cry Babies: 'View' Hosts Walk Out on O'Reilly During Heated Mosque Deb
Whoopi calls O'Reilly's claims 'bull****' before storming off stage
Controversial Video Game Only Renames Taliban, 'Opposition Forces
EA's 'Medal of Honor' fails to remove divisive enemy combatant multi-player option.
Tribune Newspapers Exec Suspended Over NSFW E-mail
Lee Abrams, the eccentric chief innovation officer for Tribune newspapers -- and no stranger to NewsBusters criticism -- has reportedly been suspended for sending co-workers a not-safe-for-work (NSFW) e-mail.
Phil Rosenthal and Michael Oneal of the Chicago Tribune reported the story this afternoon (story accessed here via the Los Angeles Times):
Newsweek’s Alter Cheers Obama Bringing ‘Poetry’ Back to Campaign
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday’s The Ed Show on MSNBC, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter applauded President Obama for bringing "poetry" back into the campaign as he cited former New York Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo’s famous saying about campaigning "in poetry" and governing "in prose." Alter: "Look, he (Obama) overlearned Mario Cuomo's famous lesson. Cuomo said you campaign in poetry and govern…
Liberals at Daily Kos See Chile Mine Rescue as Just More Grist for Sti
Naturally, the rejoicing over the surfacing Chilean miners can't just be a human triumph. At the Daily Kos, it's just another excuse for “Yomamaforobama” to unfurl a utopian laundry list of liberal dreams:
This is the ultimate example of humanity racing to better and save its own. This is what is so sorely missing from our everyday lives. No wonder that, when the forces of good and…
Chris Matthews: Chamber of Commerce Causing Unemployment, Hurting Econ
The White House thinks its got a great campaign issue in falsely accusing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of funneling foreign dollars to Republicans, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews is making it clear he's willing to assist the administration in making its case.
Who cares that there's absolutely no factual basis in what President Obama and the "Hardball" host are saying?
So hell-bent on making…
Free Weekly Newspaper Scoops Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in Amazing E
What happens when a mainstream newspaper gets too cozy with local politicians? In the case of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel they often have to play catchup with the free alternative weekly, the Broward Palm Beach New Times, when it comes to exposing the foibles of those same politicians such as happened when the New Times' Bob Norman led the way with his stories about Broward School Board…
Matthews: Chilean Miners Would Be Dead if They Followed Tea Party's 'E
Leave it to Chris Matthews to shoe-horn in a crass political point against the Tea Party, even in the midst of a heartwarming story like the rescue of the Chilean miners. On Wednesday's Hardball, the MSNBC host, along with his guest Richard Trumka, president of the AFL/CIO, claimed those miners would never have survived if they had followed the "every man for himself" philosophy of the Tea…
The Future Is Bleak: American Parents Pessimistic About Prospects For
How do Americans feel? Pessimistic says Bloomberg’s Rich Miller:
J Street Co-Founder Calls Creation of Israel 'An Act That Was Wrong
As if people need further evidence that the left-leaning “pro-Israel” lobbying group J Street is a complete mess, the blog “Mere Rhetoric” has posted a video showing J Street co-founder Daniel Levy calling the creation of Israel in 1948 “an act that was wrong.”
Levy made the comments at a forum for Arabic news organization Al Jazeera last May. He said that he personally believed that the…
Character Assassination Nation, Brought to You by Obama and Co
Journalists part of the triangulation that targets right-wing leaders.
Video: What Do Average People Think of Wasteful Stimulus Spending
NewsBusters sister site Eyeblast.tv hit the streets of Alexandria, Va., recently to see what average people think about some of the wasteful spending in the stimulus package. Needless to say people weren't too happy about how their tax dollars are being spent:
Liberal 'Comedy' Writer Gets Paranoid About Heritage Action Ad
Earlier this week an essay appeared on the Huffington Post which accused Heritage Action of plagiarism with regards to some Internet spots they are currently running starring Clint Howard. As the writer for the Heritage Action ads in question, let me address the charge of plagiarism directly. First of all, I can give you my word of honor as a gentleman* that until yesterday morning I had never…
Joe Scarborough Hints to Newt Gingrich: 'Shut Up
Former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough is wondering if somebody should tell former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to "shut up," in his newest Politico column. In referencing a 1996 best-seller by David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf, "Tell Newt to Shut Up," the MSNBC host writes that "maybe it's time for someone to deliver that message again" in lieu of recent controversial soundbites from…