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Gore’s Inconvenient Tax Hypocrisy
As NewsBusters has been reporting, Nobel Laureate Al Gore's recent employment by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm puts him in a fabulous position to turn his estimated $100 million net worth into billions. Upon further examination of the particulars, Gore's fortunes might rest on the defeat of tax law changes currently proposed by Democrats. Maybe more delicious, as a former congressman…
LAT Does Not Identify 'The Man'; Can You
How about a fun one for Thanksgiving?Yesterday's Los Angeles Times (Wed. 11/22/07) published this photo to accompany a story about the writers' strike. But the Times did not identify the central figure in the photo. Do you know who it is? If you've been a regular reader of NewsBusters, you should know!
Premature Emasculation: McClellan Doesn’t Believe Bush Lied
In the past couple of days, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an hysterical press report concerning an excerpt of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's soon to be released book seemingly implicating President George W. Bush in lying about the Valerie Plame Wilson affair. Those guilty of premature emasculation will likely be distraught over statements by the book's…
NewsBusted Thanksgiving All-Hillary Edition
It's Thanksgiving, a time when we get together with friends and family to celebrate and be thankful for the many things we enjoy.With that in mind as well as to celebrate the successful launch of MRC's new book Whitewash, we're presenting a special "NewsBusted" episode dedicated to making fun of the media's favorite politician, Hillary Clinton. We're grateful it's still legal to do so!Click the "…
Rosie O’Donnell Calls President Bush a War Criminal
After hearing Rosie O'Donnell's most recent despicable rant about the President, MSNBC should consider reopening discussions with the outspoken comedienne to get her on the cable network following Keith Olbermann's "Countdown."In fact, it seems a slam dunk! Consider comments O'Donnell made Monday at the 10th annual fundraiser for her charitable For All Kids Foundation. As reported by Fox…
Brian Williams Horrified He Offended Gays In Queen Elizabeth Story
On his blog The Daily Nightly, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was horrified that someone would think he sounded like a member of the religious right – you know, the ones Brian describes as stridently "anti-gay, pro-Jesus, and anti-abortion and no gray matter in between." He had used the phrase "marriage is under attack," which outraged gay-left bloggers:I was the recipient today of…
Bozell: TV Networks Ungrateful for Surge Success
In conjunction with the tour for his new book Whitewash, NewsBusters publisher and MRC president Brent Bozell was invited on to FNC's "Fox and Friends" to discuss the liberal media's constant search for bad news in Iraq.In his Thursday appearance, Bozell noted that things are so ridiculous that some liberal journalists are bemoaning how fewer deaths in Iraq harms the cemetery business there.…
Novak Clobbers Colmes on McClellan Claims
If Alan Colmes turns up at your Thanksgiving get-together sporting a couple shiners and a re-arranged smile, don't press the poor guy if he claims to have walked into a door. The FNC host just got clobbered by a certified DC heavyweight -- Bob Novak.Novak was a guest on this evening's Hannity & Colmes. Colmes first questioned the venerable reporter about the item he published this week…
Moyers: Liberalism About Friendship and Faith, Not Ideology
PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers is once again making speeches with tears in his eyes about the wonders of liberalism, which is apparently not an ideology as much as it's about Kumbaya kinship. Moyers touted the socialist vision of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he won a Freedom of Speech award from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and his remarks were excerpted by The Nation. He began by…
Prof: US Attack to Stop Nuke Program Would 'Hand Iran a
Moral relativism alert: a professor appearing on this evening's Hardball has declared that a US attack to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons would be handing Iran "their very own 9-11." Jo-Anne Hart, of Lesley College and Brown University, was a guest on this evening's Hardball. Host Chris Matthews set us up the bomb with a leading question.CHRIS MATTHEWS: What do you think were the…
Krugman Shows Why Liberals Think Economy Is Lousy
For years one of the great unanswered questions along Main and Wall streets has been why, in the midst of 24 consecutive quarters of uninterrupted growth, polls have regularly found Americans sour about the economy. On Tuesday, a battle between the New York Times liberal economics columnist Paul Krugman and WOR radio's Steve Malzberg offered a clue. In fact, after 16 minutes of sparring on…