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Amanda Marcotte: Right-Wingers Lie Like a Rug
In 2003, future U.S. senator Al Franken trashed conservatives in his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." This past Wednesday on the lefty website AlterNet, blogger Amanda Marcotte posted a brief, unofficial follow-up to Franken's work in which she detailed "5 Things Conservatives Lie Shamelessly About."
"Conservatives have figured out a neat little rhetorical trick," claimed…
April 6th, 2014 6:56 AM
ABC's Dan Harris Denies Any Conscious Liberal Bias; Claims There Are
ABC "Nightline" co-host Dan Harris appeared on the Steve Malzberg show Friday on Newsmax TV to promote his new book promoting meditation called "10 Percent Happier." After the two communicators discussed having panic attacks while they were broadcasting, Malzberg concluded the interview by asking about liberal media bias.
Harris repeatedly said he was "open" to the idea, but insisted it was…
April 5th, 2014 9:56 PM
NYT Gives Print Op-ed Space to Venezuela's Maduro, Ignores Growing Rep
On April 1 for its April 2 print edition, the New York Times allowed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to hold forth in an op-ed about how wondrously the country has been ruled since 1998, mostly by the late Bolivarian thug Hugo Chavez and during the past year by himself.
Maduro's piece made the Times's print edition. The Times posted letters objecting to Maduro's characterizations of his…
April 5th, 2014 7:34 PM
NY Times: Mozilla CEO's 'Anti-Gay' Stance 'By Definition Disqualifying
Our web guru Steve Edwards passed along a tweet from Moe Lane that said "New York Times confirms: Open Source advocacy is for liberals/progressives only. "
Lane linked to an obnoxious blog post by Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times titled “Why Mozilla’s Chief Had to Resign.” You see, “Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization.” And activists apparently find it very…
April 5th, 2014 6:59 PM
Weekend Open Thread
If you're into college sports, feel free to comment on the Final Four below, or whatever else is happening. Turner Sports and CBS are experimenting with airing two additional telecasts of both NCAA semifinals. Along with the main coverage on TBS, there will be separate versions on TNT and truTV with different announcing crews connected to each school.
For the early game, the Florida broadcast…
April 5th, 2014 6:20 PM
Snide Stephen Colbert Tells O'Reilly 'You'll Never Be As Emotionally M
On Thursday night, Comedy Central fake conservative Stephen Colbert really launched into Bill O’Reilly as an infantile moron. In a Talking Points commentary on Obama’s hunt for equality, the Fox News star lightly suggested he would “never have physical equality with my fellow Irishman, Shaquille O’Neal. I will never be as smart as Einstein or as talented as Mozart or as kind as Mother Teresa…
April 5th, 2014 11:49 AM
Kevin Spacey Defies Hollywood's Hugo Fans, Embraces Opposition in Vene
Sean Penn usually throws punches at paparazzi, but Kevin Spacey may want to watch for him on the Red Carpet, even though they've starred together in "Hurlyburly."
On his blog, Kevin Spacey expressed fervent support for the opposition protesters to Venezuelan president Maduro, the successor of Penn's favorite dictator, Hugo Chavez. Spacey met for three hours with Chavez in Caracas 2007.
April 5th, 2014 10:46 AM
NewsBusted: Jimmy Carter May Actually Be on to Something
"Jimmy Carter says that he believes the government is monitoring his emails. Of course they are, Jimmy… where else do you think the Obama administration gets all their brilliant policy positions?"
Ed Schultz, Chris Christie, and California prisons were other subjects of Miller's mockery in the latest edition of NewsBusted, which you can watch by clicking play on the embed below the page break…
April 5th, 2014 10:26 AM
Hillary Fails to Name a Single Accomplishment at State Department
Several weeks ago, MRC-TV's Dan Joseph visited the Democratic Party's winter meeting to see if attendees could name a single tangible of Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. They couldn't. It turns out that Hillary Clinton herself can't even do that.
Remember how Texas Governor Rick Perry was mercilessly ridiculed in the press for his 2011 debate brain cramp when he couldn…
April 5th, 2014 9:32 AM
WashPost Promotes Anita Hill Documentary, Ignores Hill's Defense of Cl
Friday’s Washington Post published an essay by its own arts writer Soraya Nadia McDonald hailing the new leftist documentary on Anita Hill. It doubles down on the alleged sainthood of Anita Hill and her still-unsubstantiated charges of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas. Nobody ever mentions that this paragon of taking sexual harassment seriously.... wrote in Bill Clinton’s defense in The New…
April 5th, 2014 7:22 AM
AP Headline Falsely Claims 'U.S. Finally Regains The Jobs Lost in the
This afternoon, in an unbylined item headlined "US BUSINESS HIRING FINALLY TOPS RECESSION LOSSES," the Associated Press showed that it deserves the nickname "Administration's Press." The story embarrassingly described the job market's return to its previous January 2008 employment peak as a "pivotal moment." Get real. Given over six additional years of growth in the adult population, that's…
April 4th, 2014 11:39 PM
Megyn Kelly Declares CAIR Is 'Not Getting' a Retraction for Covering F
On Tuesday, the host of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel discussed Honor Diaries, a documentary intended to depict the “systematic, institutionalized misogyny against Muslim women around the world.”
The first segment aired on Monday and drew a demand for an apology from the Council of American-Islamic Relations. Twenty-four hours later, Megyn Kelly told CAIR: “Well, guess what -- you’…
April 4th, 2014 10:36 PM
Business Insider and Slate 'Reporters:' 'Extremist' Mozilla CEO Akin t
Jim Edwards, the deputy editor of the Business Insider website, and Slate.com's tech reporter Will Oremus slammed former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich on the Friday edition of BBC World Service's World Have Your Say program. Edwards likened Eich's $1,000 donation in support of California's Proposition 8 to someone who "donated some money to the KKK." The editor also repeatedly accused the tech…
April 4th, 2014 10:10 PM
Blackout: 140 Days Since ABC's 'Nightline' Has Covered ObamaCare
As of April 3, 2014, it's been 140 days since the once-vaunted Nightline covered ObamaCare or any of the problems associated with it. Instead, the ABC News program has mostly avoided hard news, focusing on tabloid-heavy topics such as a city in Brazil that has become known as the "model factory." [See below for a video montage of the frivolous topics covered instead. MP3 audio here.]
On…
April 4th, 2014 5:38 PM