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Covering the Relevant Stories
What interests the media? Let's look at a couple of stories.Over the course of the last 30 days, the McCain campaign has raised questions - legitimate questions - about former community organizer* Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant terrorist William "Bill" Ayers. The McCain campaign even released an ad, to which the Obama campaign responded with an ad of their own, specifically about…
WaPo's Cohen: Palin Pick Like Caligula Naming His Horse a Consul
Imagine the outrage in feminist circles if a conservative columnist had mockingly analogized a sitting Dem governor to an animal. But Richard Cohen has said as much of Sarah Palin. And I predict you won't hear a peep from the Kim Gandys or Naomi Wolffs of the world—much less from their allies in the MSM.Cohen begins his WaPo column of today by dismissing Palin as "a sitcom of a vice…
'You Are a Pathetic Human Being, and You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself
No, not Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann. That media odd couple have already begun to kiss and make up. Instead, it was Joe Scarborough who authored the line this morning, directing it at Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski. The cause of Joe's ire was this email statement Bubriski released to the Miami Herald [emphasis added]:Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call…
NewsBusted
Topics in today's show: John McCain picks Sarah Palin, Hallmark sells gay wedding cards, McCain hopes to match Obama's speech ratings at the Republican convention, and incense causes cancer?Support conservative comedy! If you're a Myspace user, be sure to visit our MySpace page and add NewsBusted as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel and help take back Web 2.0 for…
CBS's Greenfield: Conservative Might Have Been Hypocrites on Pregnant
Instead of just flat-out making a hypocrisy accusation against “the social conservatives” who “are rallying behind” Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin following news her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, CBS's Jeff Greenfield suggested “very conservative Republicans” may be hypocrites based on how they might have reacted eleven years ago. On Monday's CBS Evening News, Greenfield, at…
Unreported: Montana Governor's 'Senior Counsel' Not Licensed to Practi
There is an ethics squabble going on in Montana perpetrated by the senior counsel to the Democrat Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer. It has been revealed that the Governor's "senior counsel," a man named Eric Stern, has been caught trying to "back-door" the judge in a case in which he is involved on behalf of Governor Schweitzer. The ethics violation is bad enough, but it has also been…
Savaging Sarah Palin
The media are trying to define the GOP vice presidential nominee before the public gets to know the real person.
Bennett, Live on CNN, Rebukes CNN for Exploiting Palin's Daughter to S
Late Monday afternoon live on CNN, Bill Bennett rebuked -- as an “outrageous” piece of “advocacy” and “attack journalism” that “has no place on CNN” -- a story the channel had just run which used the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter to score political points by relaying as fact the talking points on sex education from a left-wing group. A defensive Wolf Blitzer kept saying “hold on” as he…
Olbermann To Matthews: 'I Miss You Already
It's a love-in, man!Looks like the grown-ups at NBC/MSNBC have taken the kids aside and told them to kiss and make up. After the embarrassing "tension convention" [to quote Imus] at the DNC amongst Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough, we've already seen the Countdown host plucked out of the GOP convention, under the convenient excuse that he would be anchoring—back in NYC and…
O'Reilly Presents Scary Vision of NBC News's Liberal Future
Want an idea of just how bad things could get for NBC News if it continues to make this disgraceful shift to the left akin to its affiliate MSNBC?On Sunday, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly painted a picture of this network's likely fate in his syndicated column.Make sure children are out of the room, for this is REALLY frightening (h/t TVNewser):