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NPR's 'Conservative' Pundit Brooks Agrees With Liberals: Susan Rice 'B
NPR's All Things Considered on Friday night repeatedly came to Susan Rice's defense -- and NPR journalists repeatedly played dumb, pretending to be confounded why critics would object to her lying about Benghazi on five Sunday talk shows.
While NPR's three full or partial features on the subject suggest Rice is having difficulty, the spin was all friendly. Anchor Robert Siegel asked NPR's…
December 1st, 2012 5:51 PM
MSNBC's Scarborough Complains of 'Arrogance in the Media Since the Pre
Many conservatives believe the fiscal cliff deal from President Obama that was delivered to Capitol Hill on Thursday by Treasury Security Timothy Geithner will not solve the government's financial problems despite the positive coverage the mainstream media is giving the plan.
One of those expressing concern about the proposal and the media attention it has received is Joe Scarborough,…
December 1st, 2012 5:31 PM
Al Gore's Current TV May Be Bought By Texas Startup Looking To Make It
NewsBusters reported in October that Al Gore's struggling television network Current was up for sale.
An Austin, Texas, startup named SocialGood.tv came out of hiding this week and announced that it's raising money to make a bid wanting to move the station from its "far-left talking points" and instead "focusing the programming in a centrist line."
December 1st, 2012 5:24 PM
Obama Did Not Thank God in Thanksgiving Address for Fourth Straight Ye
Barack Obama, who has been called “the Christian President with the Muslim-sounding name,” did not express any gratitude to God in his Thanksgiving address for the fourth year in a row, causing critics to claim that “he has ignored the central message of the holiday in favor of political grandstanding.”
In his address, Obama said that Thanksgiving is “a time to give thanks for each other,…
December 1st, 2012 5:10 PM
'Corporate Takeover'? Radical-Left D.C. Pacifica Station Moving Toward
Saturday's Washington Post reported “For more than three decades, noncommercial station WPFW-FM in Washington has been a feisty voice of sometimes radical leftist politics — relentlessly anti-war, anti-corporate and anti-Republican.” Sometimes radical?
The Pacifica network specializes in hard-left (even Marxist) diatribes that appeal to tiny audiences. Post reporter Paul Farhi relayed they’…
December 1st, 2012 4:24 PM
For AP, Small Climate Protest Is News, Opposition Letter From 129 Scie
In case you missed it, there's yet another United Nations climate conference in progress, this time in Doha Qatar. At the Associated Press, there is a story on a protest which organizers want to characterize as a "march for peace" by "a few hundred" climate activists demanding "climate justice." The AP's Karl Ritter warns readers that "Dangerous (global) warming effects could include flooding…
December 1st, 2012 4:00 PM
Thom Hartmann Blames Black Friday Store Fights on 'Thirty Years of Rea
While Team Obama might want a surge of economic activity over the holidays, the leftists are too anti-capitalist for that. On his radio show Monday, Thom Hartmann likened Black Friday to “The Hunger Games” death matches and talked of shootings and other violence that took place at or near stores last weekend. “The wealthy elite look down on the spectacle before them with amusement and, most…
December 1st, 2012 3:14 PM
Harvard Students Receive Social Club Invitation Reading 'No F--king Je
An as yet unidentified source left flyers for a new "final club" under the doors of Harvard University students Friday that read "No f--king Jews."
December 1st, 2012 2:26 PM
Kansas City Chiefs Player Shoots Girlfriend, Kills Himself
A Kansas City Chiefs football player allegedly shot his girlfriend Saturday morning and then killed himself.
(UPDATE: The player was identified as Jovan Belcher, 25, one of the team's starting linebackers.)
December 1st, 2012 11:12 AM
Leno: 'Know What You Call the Two Powerball Lottery Winners? Former De
Jay Leno continued a string of comedic pokes at liberal America Friday.
In his opening monologue on NBC's Tonight Show, the host said, "You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million Powerball lottery? Former Democrats" (video follows with commentary):
December 1st, 2012 10:41 AM
Creator of Controversial Obama Painting Admits He Thought the Presiden
Glenn Beck interviewed Michael D'Antuono, the artist who painted "The Truth," an image of President Obama with his arms extended as if he was being crucified and wearing a crown of thorns, during the conservative talk show host's Wednesday program on TheBlazeTV.
During the discussion, the painter stated that he did not intend to portray Obama as Jesus Christ, but after Beck replied "I don…
December 1st, 2012 8:01 AM
Bozell Column: Madison Avenue's Moral Madness
Angus T. Jones told the truth. In a religious video posted on YouTube, the former child actor who’s the “half” man of the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men” shocked the celebrity press by saying “I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.”
Calling this show “filth” is like calling your Christmas tree an evergreen. Yet about 14 million Americans…
December 1st, 2012 8:00 AM
'Tampon Crafts' Website Makes Nativity Scene, Promotes 'Bloody Good Ch
Penny Starr at CNSNews.com identified the latest ugly collision of Christmas kitsch: “A website that teaches visitors how to make crafts made of tampons includes a nativity scene with wise men, Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus made of tampons.”
Somehow it’s not awful enough that someone can’t resist dragging the holiest scene for Christians into the powder room. They have to make fun about a “…
December 1st, 2012 6:47 AM
Daily Kos Week in Review: Back in the URCR
You know those secession petitions that began circulating after President Obama was re-elected? Well, according to one Kossack, they're superfluous, since America's "increasingly deranged" red states already have, in effect, seceded and become "The Roviet Union, or more formally the URCR - Union of Roviet Capitalist Republikkks."
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or…
November 30th, 2012 11:31 PM