As Correspondents’ Dinner Comedy Act, McHale Denigrates Republicans

Joel McHale, the comedy performer at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered some zingers at the cable networks, the President and Democrats, but reserved his political invective for Republicans, the only group whose motivations he impugned – specifically, as racists. His very first joke: “Good evening Mr. President — or, as Paul Ryan would call you,…
Brent Baker
May 4th, 2014 2:02 AM

Bozell: Liberal Networks Deliberately Suppressing Benghazi Emails Stor

"This is a media that are deliberately... suppressing the news from their audiences. This is dangerous stuff," Media Research Center president Brent Bozell told Fox News substitute host Stuart Varney on the Friday edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto regarding the media's near total lack of interest in the latest Benghazi coverup revelations. The email evidence proves a "wide variety of…
NB Staff
May 3rd, 2014 9:55 PM

Don Rickles: Performing for President Ronald Reagan Was the ‘Highlig

Comedian Don Rickles told David Letterman, on Friday’s Late Show, that “the highlight of my life was doing the Ronald Reagan Inaugural,” the 87-year-old (88 on May 8) recalled of his legendary career. He reminisced about how Frank Sinatra used his clout to overcome opposition to his inclusion by Reagan aides concerned Rickles would “make us all look like jerks.”
Brent Baker
May 3rd, 2014 8:28 PM

Not Too Long Ago, the LA Times Lavished Praise on Don Sterling

And so, what many suspected is documented. The liberals of Los Angeles loved Donald Sterling. So much so that the liberal Los Angeles Times – acknowledging the paper knew of stories alleging Sterling was a bigot – headlined and sub-headlined a loving profile of Sterling on January 3, 2010 by reporter Sandy Banks this way:
Jeffrey Lord
May 3rd, 2014 1:20 PM

Daily Beast Writer Hails Obama for 'Weaponizing Comedy' at White House

"You want to know the real reason why I wasn't in the  White House Situation Room on September 11, 2012? Because Michelle would have kicked me in my mom jeans if she caught me in that room in a bad situation with Beyoncé." Don't expect President Obama to tell that joke tonight at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight for two reasons. One reason is that it makes reference to his…
P.J. Gladnick
May 3rd, 2014 12:12 PM

Dude! Fox News's Baier Talks Vietor Interview Prep on WMAL

You may have seen Bret Baier’s interview with former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor on Fox News Thursday evening. The conversation dealt with the Benghazi attack, and it was combative at times. Vietor spun hard for the administration, even smugly calling Baier “dude” at one point. But Baier appeared to be well-prepared for Vietor’s spin with a wide array of relevant video…
Paul Bremmer
May 3rd, 2014 11:50 AM

Rather Than Pull Stale, Liberal Doonesbury, Wash Post Runs 41 Year-Old

[UPDATED with response from the Washington Post. See below.] The liberal comic Doonesbury has been on hiatus for ten weeks with no return date in sight. Instead of removing the strip from its pages, the Washington Post is running 41-year-old reruns. However, when the non-political Get Fuzzy comic took too many breaks, the Post simply axed it. On November 5, 2013, writer Donna Peremes derided, "At…
Scott Whitlock
May 3rd, 2014 10:32 AM

Bozell Column: Catholic School Celebrates 'Year of Lady Gaga

Buyer beware those promising a “Catholic education.” St. Mary’s Institute (SMI) is the Catholic grade school in my wife’s New York hometown, Amsterdam. It is affiliated with St. Mary’s Catholic Church, whose pastor Father John Medwid pens the opening to the Saint Mary’s Institute annual newsletter.
Brent Bozell
May 3rd, 2014 9:15 AM

NewsBusted: St. Barack Doesn't Have a Prayer

"The Vatican canonized two new saints last week. And President Obama was disappointed to learn he wasn't one of them." Other liberals who didn't have a prayer of avoiding Jodi Miller's acerbic wit this week include Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). To watch the May 2 edition of NewsBusted, click play on the embed below the page break. To get NewsBusted delivered…
NB Staff
May 3rd, 2014 12:10 AM

Establishment Press Has Virtually Ignored DOJ's Pernicious 'Operation

In June 2006, the New York Times, over strident pleas not to from the Bush 43 administration, published details of how counterterrorism officials were "tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry." According to the administration, the program had "helped in the capture of the most wanted Qaeda…
Tom Blumer
May 2nd, 2014 11:59 PM

CBS Evening News Finally Notices Benghazi Emails; Discloses Exec.'s Fa

On Friday, CBS Evening News caught up with its Big Three competitors and reported on the latest developments on the controversy surrounding the September 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya. CBS also finally mentioned its own president's family connection to a White House official involved in the Obama administration's handling of the immediate aftermath of the attack…
Matthew Balan
May 2nd, 2014 8:34 PM

WashPost's 'Mr. Manners' Favors Dan Savage, Alec Baldwin on Gay Matter

Regardless of what The Washington Post says, its “Civilities” advice column is not primarily about manners. It's a political correctness column, about adjusting to the new intolerance of anything that doesn’t offer complete acceptance of the gay agenda. Steven Petrow isn’t really for “manners” when it comes to conservatives or religious traditionalists. On his Facebook page, he praised a “…
Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2014 6:29 PM

WashPost Insists 'Low-key' Liberal Arkansas Democrat Is 'Extreme Moder

The liberal media all too often confuses temperamentally "low-key" red-state Democrats for moderates when their voting record is anything but.  The latest example comes today in Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold's 40-paragraph front-page profile for Sen. Mark Pryor, who is facing a tight reelection battle against the "sharply conservative" Tom Cotton. Pryor's "personality matches his…
Ken Shepherd
May 2nd, 2014 5:50 PM

O'Reilly: 'Disgraceful' Media 'Doesn't Give A Damn' About Benghazi

One day after accusing the press of ignoring the Benghazi scandal in order to protect President Obama, on Thursday's O'Reilly Factor, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly ripped into the media yet again: "Does it get any worse than that in our democracy?...The Obama administration was completely derelict in the Benghazi terror attack and was dishonest in the aftermath. And the national press doesn't…
Kyle Drennen
May 2nd, 2014 4:16 PM