After Obama Criticism of Reality Show Culture, Kardashian-Obsessed NBC

While NBC's Today has done 35 stories on the Kardashians in the past six months and frequently promotes the family's reality show, a panel discussion on Tuesday's program posed this question: "Are We Keeping Up Too Much With the Kardashians?" Why the sudden introspection? It might have something to do President Obama being critical of a culture in which kids are "monitoring every day what Kim…
Kyle Drennen
August 13th, 2013 5:14 PM

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Google Is ‘Absolutely Evil’ Taking ‘Ou

Oracle’s Larry Ellison had some very harsh words for Google Monday, especially for co-founder Larry Page. In an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning, Ellison called Google “absolutely evil” for taking “our stuff” to create the Android phone.
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2013 4:39 PM

MSNBC's Hayes: Tea Party 'Climate Denialism' Shows 'Future of the Eart

On Monday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes fretted that "climate denialism" by the Republican party's "right-wing base" is preventing "meaningful climate policy" from being enacted. After showing clips of California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at a Tea Party event mocking global warming alarmists, Hayes described the conservative gathering as "the future of the earth in peril,"…
Brad Wilmouth
August 13th, 2013 4:16 PM

Oracle's Larry Ellison: Apple Is Going Down Without Steve Jobs

Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison said some amazing things about his former bestfriend Steve Jobs Monday while issuing a caution about Apple's future without him Appearing on CBS This Morning, Ellison said, "He's irreplaceable...They will not nearly be so successful because he's gone."
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2013 4:05 PM

NYT Columnist: Pro-Life Legislation Promotes Violence Against Women

While NewsBusters really doesn’t target op-eds, especially ones that are printed in the New York Times, egregiously absurd arguments merit exposure and ridicule. Enter Frank Bruni's August 14 column, wherein the Times scribe discussed how our culture facilitates the objectification of women.  Curiously, Bruni buried longtime Democratic politician Bob Filner, who saw women as objects he could…
Matt Vespa
August 13th, 2013 3:52 PM

ESPN Fires Commentator Hugh Douglas for Drunken Racial Insults Against

Sports cable channel ESPN has fired commentator Hugh Douglas for his alleged behavior at a convention for journalists where he showed up drunk at two public events and insulted a black colleague in gross racial terms. According to several published reports, Douglas became angry at Michael Smith, his former co-host, insulting him as a “house n-----” and an “Uncle Tom.”
Matthew Sheffield
August 13th, 2013 3:40 PM

Out of the Habit: Nets Favor Liberal Nuns

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious begins its annual assembly today in Orlando. The group of Catholic nuns from various orders is certain to be considering a response to the Vatican’s finding that LCWR’s liberal activism strays from Church doctrine on a variety of issues. But the sisters probably aren’t too worried. They have something the Vactican doesn’t – a friendly news media.
Lauren Enk
August 13th, 2013 3:25 PM

Piers Morgan Still Manages to Praise 'Very Intelligent' Anthony Weiner

Liberal Piers Morgan is still fond of the twice-disgraced Anthony Weiner and is wondering if he'll make another comeback after the present New York mayoral race. "Having said all this, there's something about Anthony Weiner I can't help liking. He's a very intelligent guy," Morgan admitted on his Monday show. "I've seen him make speeches at big events where he's brought the house down and…
Matt Hadro
August 13th, 2013 3:12 PM

Collusion? Martin Bashir MSNBC Blog Post Uses Same House GOP Climate Q

Politico reports “the White House, congressional Democrats and their allies are plotting an August recess offensive” to promote President Obama’s plan against “climate change.” Obama’s Organizing for America website (BarackObama.com) now lists 111 House members and 24 Senators their fans should tweet “Stop denying the science for climate change.” Politico left MSNBC out of this campaign.…
Tim Graham
August 13th, 2013 2:39 PM

Hypocritical Ex-DNCer Karen Finney Blasts Priebus Over Debates; In

It’s hardly surprising that MSNBC host and former DNC communications director Karen Finney took issue with Reince Priebus’ campaign against the liberal media on Saturday’s Disrupt. Finney mocked “Reince’s rage” and suggested that the Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman is “full of you know what.” What is surprising is that Finney’s searing critique came despite the fact that she and…
Andrew Lautz
August 13th, 2013 2:17 PM

Predictably, PolitiFact NJ Rates ‘Millions Will Die’ Ad as ‘True

Planet earth has been getting cooler, not warmer in the past few years. That’s an objective fact that PolitFact New Jersey omitted in its duplicitous July 22nd “Truth-O-Meter” article giving cover to Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-N.J.) alarmist statements on global warming. Holt is challenging Newark City Mayor Corey Booker in today’s N.J. Democratic primary. In a campaign ad, Holt claimed “millions will…
Kevin Mooney
August 13th, 2013 2:16 PM

Hillary's Questionable Handling of Benghazi A Passing Thought For CBS

John Blackstone promoted Hillary Clinton's potential 2016 presidential run on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, and minimized the ongoing questions about her leadership before, during, and after the September 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. For opposition, Blackstone merely noted that "a new ad, just released by the GOP, criticizes Clinton's handling of the terrorist…
Matthew Balan
August 13th, 2013 12:58 PM

D.C. Mayor Pressured Ex-Gay Gospel Singer Out of MLK Concert, WashPost

The Washington Post reporter today that Mayor Vince Gray (D-Washington, D.C.) confirmed it was he who pressured gospel singer Donnie McClurkin to back out of Saturday's city-sponsored concert honoring the late Martin Luther King, Jr. McClurkin was the target of local gay activists because of comments he made in 2002 in which he testified about how he used to practice homosexuality but repented…
Ken Shepherd
August 13th, 2013 12:04 PM

Daily Show: 'Matthews Doesn't Just Routinely Have Egg on His Face - He

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews last Wednesday predicted Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016. On Monday, John Oliver while substitute-hosting Comedy Central's Daily Show marvelously illustrated Matthews' propensity to make horribly wrong predictions concluding, "Chris Matthews doesn't just routinely have egg on his face -…
Noel Sheppard
August 13th, 2013 11:39 AM