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Jodie Foster: Cheering in Her Payback Movie 'Shameful' and No One Shou
In an Entertainment Weekly interview, Jodie Foster explained her views on guns, “I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being.” She also said it is “shameful” that the “unsophisticated people who see a sophisticated movie” will cheer when she goes after the bad guys who kill her fiance in her new vigilante movie “The Brave One”(emphasis mine…
Katie Couric Says Gen. Petraeus Will Report Surge is Working
If CBS's Katie Couric is beginning to believe the surge is working, it seems that even the most liberal media member could be convinced. With that in mind, Couric was Bob Schieffer's guest on Sunday's "Face the Nation," and after spending some time touring Iraq with Gen. David Petraeus, felt the General will be quite optimistic when he reports to Congress next week. In fact, after Schieffer…
Bill Donohue Asks Christopher Hitchens ‘You Want to Take it Outside
A religious debate about Mother Teresa took place on Tuesday's "Hardball" between author Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue, the President of the Catholic League. Towards the end of the discussion, Donohue said to Hitchens, "Listen, you want to take it outside, Christopher, that's fine." For some reason, MSNBC decided not to include this in the transcript posted at its website (video…
Supposedly Muslim Offending 'Opus' Cartoon Part Two
Last week, NewBusters informed you of the hypocrisy behind 25 of America's newspapers opting not to publish an "Opus" cartoon which could be perceived by Muslims as being offensive. Much of the discussion at the time concerning the matter was just how innocent the Muslim reference seemed to be, and how absurd the decision not to publish the comic strip was.Well, the second of the two cartoons was…
Netroots Attack Maine Newspaper Editor’s Connection to Republican Se
A blog posting at Daily Kos on August 24 has fired up the Netroots to point accusatory fingers at a Maine newspaper editor whose wife works for Republican Senator Susan Collins. After all the smoke clears, liberal bloggers ignored some key facts concerning this matter:The editor under fire has worked at the newspaper in question since 1971 His wife - who is about to retire in September - has…
Open Thread
Possible talking point: Congress returns to work next week. Other than the war in Iraq and Petraeus's pending report, what will our legislators be addressing when they get back? Will the Democrats actually have an agenda besides Bush-bashing?
Alec Baldwin Foolishly Claims Larry Craig Voted to ‘Censor’ Barney
If you needed any more evidence as to how little actor Alec Baldwin actually knows about politics, it was provided Saturday evening in the second sentence of his article at the Huffington Post (emphasis added): "Even though [then Rep. Larry] Craig voted to censor Barney Frank for Frank's tryst with a male prostitute." To begin with, Alec, the term is censure. Adding insult to injury, a vote…