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Yahoo! Slams 'Bigoted Boxer' Manny Pacquiao For 'Homophobic' Remarks
Ben Maller skewered Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao as a "homophobic boxing superstar" and a "bigoted boxer" in a Wednesday post on ThePostgame.com, an online magazine of Yahoo! Sports. Pacquiao had criticized the redefinition of marriage in a Friday interview: "It [marriage] should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah…
May 16th, 2012 3:45 PM
Taliban Terrorism Poetry Gets June Release in United States
On September 11, 2001, thousands of Americans died in an attack that was planned and trained for in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. The same Taliban that sheltered Al Qaeda governed Afghanistan as a 7th Century theocracy where women were hidden under burqas and homosexuals were executed by having stone walls toppled on them. They were removed and kept from power at the cost of thousands of U.S…
May 16th, 2012 3:21 PM
Taliban Terrorism Poetry Gets June Release in U.S
Reviewer claims poetry will make Westerners ‘forget which side they are supposed to be on.’
May 16th, 2012 3:06 PM
One Cheer for The View Hosts for Questioning Obama's Silly Racebaiting
As previously noted here at NewsBusters, while the predominantly liberal hosts of The View did generally coddle and flatter President Obama during his appearance on their show yesterday, they do deserve some credit for questioning at least one ridiculous thing he said when he claimed that he might lose the election due to his untraditional name.
In his appearance, Obama suggested that…
May 16th, 2012 3:00 PM
NYT's Stelter Reports Media's Support for Gay Marriage, as His Paper D
Brian Stelter's media reporting for the New York Times slants to the left, but even he seemed to acknowledge that the mainstream press is strongly supportive of gay marriage in a May 10 blog post:
For years, conservative media critics have asserted that many mainstream journalists favor gay marriage and tilt their coverage of the topic accordingly. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Mark…
May 16th, 2012 2:32 PM
Meet Gipper, the Media Research Center's Mascot
The voters have spoken! NewsBusters' parent company The Media Research Center asked its Facebook fans ("like" their page here), grassroots members and staff to vote on the name for the MRC's mascot—the truth-loving bulldog trained to sniff out liberal media bias.
More than 2,000 of you cast a vote and the clear winner was Gipper with over 50 percent of the vote.
May 16th, 2012 1:15 PM
CBS's Rose Fishes For 'High Marks' For Obama From Robert Gates
Charlie Rose desperately tried to find confirmation from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday's CBS This Morning on whether President Obama is a good commander-in-chief: "You can answer this question as well as anyone I know....do you give President Obama high marks in the national security arena?" Gates exposed Rose's pro-Obama tactic when he laughingly replied, "If I don't, I'm…
May 16th, 2012 12:40 PM
Lesley Stahl Mocks 'Out of Mainstream' GOP; Joe Klein Smears Tea Parti
60 Minutes journalist Lesley Stahl is apparently concerned about how such "out of the mainstream" Republicans ran in the 2012 presidential primaries, given what a "centrist" country America is.
Stahl moderated a New York Historical Society discussion on the state of the race. Time journalist Joe Klein appeared at the May 3 event to smear conservative groups as racist. After noting that he…
May 16th, 2012 12:39 PM
Obama Spokeswoman Complains To Chuck Todd: CBS-NY Times Poll Was 'Bias
The CBS News-New York Times poll is often one of the most favorable surveys for Democrats, so it was amusing to see Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter complaining to Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown on Tuesday.
Todd wasn’t focusing on the vanishing gender gap or Romney’s lead, but on the vast majority that agreed that the president’s proclamation in favor of gay “marriage” was made for…
May 16th, 2012 12:18 PM
Fmr. White House Science Analyst: FNC ‘Racism Cloaked in Thinly Veil
Jeff Schweitzer wants to help us “rediscover our inherent good, and act accordingly, individually and collectively,” according to a summary of his book, “A New Moral Code.” Unfortunately, that’s going to be difficult in this “new age of McCarthyism” in which the “Fox hydra” is “tearing apart the fabric of our society with vitriol and venom, lies and half-truths.”
Yes, a news network that…
May 16th, 2012 11:49 AM
Big Journalism's John Nolte: Shameless Hack at Politico Digging Up Dir
Our friend John Nolte at Big Journalism points out that Politico is back to its old tricks, defending Barack Obama from criticism by digging up dirt on a private citizen who supports his Republican opponent. In 2008, it was Joe the Plumber who was vetted by the Politico. This time around, it's an Iowa man who appears in a Romney Web ad.
"Right now Politico is doing oppo-research on private…
May 16th, 2012 11:42 AM
Letterman: Bush-Cheney Didn’t Want to Get bin Laden Because They Did
In a particularly sleazy allegation, David Letterman on Tuesday night alleged former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney “went soft” on finding Osama bin Laden “because they were worried about upsetting their Saudi Arabian royalty buddies.” Talk about a lack of civility and respect for elected officials.
Letterman’s impugning of the former administration came…
May 16th, 2012 11:12 AM
Multiple Mistakes About Obama and the Born Alive Act Plague New Book
Edward Klein’s unauthorized biography of Barack Obama, "The Amateur," was released yesterday.
While I appreciate that Klein devoted a chapter of his book, albeit only three pages, to Obama’s opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, he got it pretty much all wrong. You can read the chapter at the link above, but here is the relevant section:
May 16th, 2012 10:37 AM
Open Thread: Obama Inserts Himself Into History
It probably wasn't his decision (one hopes not) but the latest update to the White House website is really quite embarrassing: It appears that people have gone into the site's biographies of the past 9 presidents and inserted electioneering material touting President Obama into them. As chronicled by IBD's Andrew Malcom:
May 16th, 2012 10:18 AM