Billy Crystal Mocks Bill Maher for Saying ‘When Harry Met Salary

Boy, that Bill Maher sure is smart, isn't he? On HBO's Real Time Friday, the holier than thou host introduced guest Billy Crystal as "a comedy legend who has starred in such hits as 'When Harry Met Salary'" (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 21st, 2013 12:10 PM

Jay Leno Tries to Smother Jimmy Fallon With a Pillow

The NBC Tonight Show began Friday with a humorous segment featuring host Jay Leno trying to smother a sleeping Jimmy Fallon with a pillow. The bit begins with Fallon sleeping on a couch in the Green Room.
Noel Sheppard
September 21st, 2013 11:46 AM

Daily Kos Blogger: Forget Rules, Say Republicans -- Block Those (Minor

Sports analogies are a lot more illuminating when those who make them understand how the relevant sports are played. The Kossack known as "Helpless" failed that test on Friday. "Helpless" asserted that Democrats are far more ethical than Republicans, as demonstrated by the Dems' enthusiasm for registering voters contrasted with the GOP's alleged eagerness to suppress votes from heavily…
Tom Johnson
September 21st, 2013 11:00 AM

Twitter Account of KU Prof Now on Leave Over Wishing Death on NRA Memb

On Thursday, Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters noted that Kansas University journalism professor David Guth, in the wake of Monday's Navy Yard murders, tweeted, "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you." In an update which now also includes a defense of Guth by a former student, Ken noted that he has placed on administrative…
Tom Blumer
September 21st, 2013 10:34 AM

Bozell Column: Newtown Amnesia in Hollywood

After the Newtown school shooting, commentators on the Left expressed outrage that gun-rights groups were exploiting the attack to build membership in the wake of all the liberal demands for a federal crackdown on gun owners. Nine months later, they’re curiously silent as Rupert Murdoch’s cable network FX milks a fictional Catholic school shooting for commercial gain. The September 10…
Brent Bozell
September 20th, 2013 10:30 PM

Daily Beast's Goldberg Fearmongers About 'Sinister Side of Homeschooli

We already know that, in Michelle Goldberg's overactive imagination, evangelical Christians are theocrats-in-waiting, hoping to impose an actual honest-to-goodness theocracy on America. So it should come as no surprise that she seems to think homeschooling is a convenient excuse for child-abusing whackjobs to harm their kids. The way she writes about it, you'd think every other homeschooling…
Ken Shepherd
September 20th, 2013 7:15 PM

Krauthammer: ObamaCare Increases Number of Tax Collectors and Decrease

"Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors – brilliant!" So said syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer about ObamaCare on Fox News's Special Report Friday.
Noel Sheppard
September 20th, 2013 7:05 PM

AP Spins Pope's Slam of Abortion as 'Olive Branch' to Church's 'Conser

On Friday, Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press shamelessly construed Pope Francis' denunciation of abortion and euthanasia as an "olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church". Winfield ballyhooed how the pontiff "issued a strong anti-abortion message and cited Vatican teaching on the need to defend the unborn". The Bishop of Rome advised a group…
Matthew Balan
September 20th, 2013 6:42 PM

CNN: House GOP 'Inmates Are Running the Asylum,' Holding the Economy

Throughout Friday morning's coverage of the House vote on the continuing resolution (CR), CNN repeatedly slapped Republicans for supposedly risking a government shutdown to defund Obamacare. A CNN chyron even stated that they were voting on a "shutdown," though that is inaccurate since the bill voted on would still fund the government, just not Obamacare. Below is the worst of CNN's contempt…
Matt Hadro
September 20th, 2013 6:10 PM

MSNBC’s 'NewsNation' Uses Chicago Gang Violence To Again Push For Gu

There was another horrific gang-related shooting last night in Chicago, the gun control capital of the United States. Despite that city’s already-strict limits on firearms, MSNBC’s News Nation used the tragedy to push yet again for gun control. It’s not as if they didn’t understand the nature of the shooting. Anchor Tamron Hall played a clip in which Chicago Police Superintendent Gary…
Paul Bremmer
September 20th, 2013 5:45 PM

Media Mash: MSNBC's Schultz Wonders Why 'People Don't Love Obama

It "amazes" MSNBC's Ed Schultz "that people don't love Obama" and think he's doing a stellar job handling the economy. Reacting to a video clip of that absurd rant, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told the audience of Sean Hannity's September 19 program the reasons why. There's "1.9 million less jobs" now than when President Obama took office, not to mention "47,600,000 Americans on food…
NB Staff
September 20th, 2013 4:18 PM

AP Headline Whitewashes KU Prof's Placement on Leave Over Wishing Sons

The Associated Press, in story carried at Channel 6 in Lawrence, reported (HT Twitchy) that a Kansas University professor has been "placed on administrative leave" after he issued the following tweet concerning Monday's Navy Yard murders: "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you." A NewsBusters post by Ken Shepherd…
Tom Blumer
September 20th, 2013 3:53 PM

Big 3 Ignore Benghazi Victims' Parents, Marvel at Caroline Kennedy's

The Big Three broadcast networks made their slanted priorities clear on their Thursday evening newscasts, as they fawned over Caroline Kennedy's Senate confirmation hearing earlier that day, but failed to cover the emotional congressional testimony of Pat Smith. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, who died in the 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi, Libya. ABC's Martha Raddatz…
Matthew Balan
September 20th, 2013 3:25 PM

CNN Anchor Uses Pope Francis Interview to Slime Conservative Catholic

CNN's Chris Cuomo turned a discussion on Pope Francis' recent interview into an ugly personal attack and sharp lecture of his guest, the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, on Friday's New Day. The fracas began when Cuomo lectured Donohue on the Pope's statement that the ultimate focus of the church is "salvation" and not one particular moral issue. He said "it really sounds like you're one of…
Matt Hadro
September 20th, 2013 3:09 PM