Fareed Zakaria Agrees With Obama: America IS Getting Soft

Barack Obama took a lot of heat last week for saying America has "gotten a little soft." Not from Fareed Zakaria who when not advising the president on foreign policy acts as one of his propaganda czars every Sunday on CNN (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 9th, 2011 11:37 AM

Newsweek Touts Jon Stewart's USO Tour -- And the Bush-Bashing Platform

Newsweek loves marrying Comedy Central liberals and the military -- Stephen Colbert and Iraq made the cover in 2009. In the latest issue, Newsweek touted "Jon Stewart, Live at the USO." Because like Al Franken, liberal comedians like Stewart need to differentiate themselves from the America's-the-real-terrorist leftists and proclaim they love the troops, and hated the commander-in-chief (when…
Tim Graham
October 9th, 2011 8:21 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Making Fun of ‘Occupy Wall Street

It’s been a month, but here's another entry in my semi-regular series of Saturday night humor postings for NewsBusters drawn from the clips Bret Baier runs at the end of FNC’s Special Report which he and his staff usually select from video montages picked up off the late night comedy shows. Tonight, from this past week’s Tuesday night program, a brief comedy bit produced by ABC’s Jimmy…
Brent Baker
October 9th, 2011 12:25 AM

On NPR, Guest Compares Herman Cain to...Southern Segregationists

NPR's apparently a great place to go to denounce Herman Cain. On Friday's edition of Tell Me More, host Michelle Martin cued up Cain's remarks suggesting the Occupy Wall Street protests are "planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration." Quite obviously, you can disagree with that theory without comparing Cain to segregationists. But that's…
Tim Graham
October 8th, 2011 11:36 PM

AP Unbylined Report on CBO's Fiscal 2011 Deficit Estimate Avoids All t

You would think that an Associated Press story about the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary estimate of the federal government's full fiscal year results would include things like total federal collections and total spending during the year and how they compared to the previous year. Don't be silly. If the AP let numbers that big -- and their direction -- get into its report, readers…
Tom Blumer
October 8th, 2011 9:04 PM

Actor Jay Mohr Makes Sexual Jokes About Palin, Finds Herman Cain 'Gett

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Imus in the Morning on the Fox Business Network, actor and comedian Jay Mohr took some sexual jabs at Sarah Palin, suggesting that she used to be his "booty call," and then later referring to her as "screwing black people since the mid-90s." He also imitated GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain as he cracked that Cain is "getting blacker" as the campaign…
Brad Wilmouth
October 8th, 2011 7:49 PM

New Washington Post Reporter Proclaimed ‘Ted Kennedy Has Been a Huge

Melinda Henneberger, who in 2009 proclaimed “Ted Kennedy has been a huge inspiration to me” and boasted of a “longtime political crush on the man who either in spite of his flaws and losses or because of them accomplished more than anyone else in my lifetime for causes that liberals (and other Americans) care about,” has joined the Washington Post where, per a Thursday announcement posted by…
Brent Baker
October 8th, 2011 7:24 PM

Newsweek Champions Anita Hill 'Surviving Clarence

Newsweek isn't shy about taking sides in celebrating the anniversary of Anita Hill's unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas. Their I-believe-Anita article is titled "Surviving Clarence." The author is feminist Leslie Bennetts -- a woman who's previously puffed Arianna Huffington as the "ultimate poster girl for change" and has even proclaimed that women who stay…
Tim Graham
October 8th, 2011 7:00 PM

Arianna Vows Balanced Journalism - and Provides Little But Gush on Wal

The Occupy Wall Street crowd squatting in lower Manhattan and elsewhere while the rest of us are working has a not-at-all surprising ally: Arianna Huffington. The limo liberal epitomized, Huffington is embroiled in a lawsuit with former bloggers who alleged she stiffed them on decent compensation for content at her site.
Jack Coleman
October 8th, 2011 5:26 PM

Maher Claims Steve Jobs 'Not a Corporate Type' Before Saying 'Apple Ma

Does Bill Maher ever listen to the nonsense coming out of his mouth to make sure he doesn't contradict himself from one minute to the next? On Friday's "Real Time," the host paid his respects to Steve Jobs by claiming how liberal the Apple founder was adding "He was not a corporate type" only to minutes later accurately note, "Apple makes their s--t in China. And they could still make it here…
Noel Sheppard
October 8th, 2011 3:53 PM

Mike Malloy Takes D.C. Stage to Tell 'Corporate Thugs' to Er, Love The

Leftist talk-radio screamer Mike Malloy brought his extreme rhetoric from the radio to an "Occupy" protest stage set up at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. He took a couple of days off from the radio show so he could delight the crowd by telling the "corporate thugs" to "go f--- yourself." His wife and producer Kathy blogged on the Malloy show website: "It’s not the Tea Party of…
Tim Graham
October 8th, 2011 3:50 PM

Sharpton Doesn't Know Higher Percentage of Republicans Than Democrats

As Al Sharpton ridiculed Herman Cain on MSNBC's "The Last Word" Friday for saying blacks have been brainwashed into voting for Democrats, the reverend ended up proving the Republican presidential candidate's point. Seconds after claiming, "What [Cain] does not have the right is to rewrite history by saying that blacks were brainwashed by becoming Democrats," Sharpton showed his ignorance of…
Noel Sheppard
October 8th, 2011 2:18 PM

NBC: Occupy Wall Street Like an ‘Arab Spring,’ is ‘Drawing Histo

Friday’s NBC Nightly News once again promoted the left-wing/anti-capitalist protests which Brian Williams non-ideologically described as “a protest against economic and social inequality” that “has now spawned organized marches in 45 states.” Reporter Chris Jansing featured a man whose “frustration brought him to lower Manhattan” and he pronounced: “I think it's our Arab Spring.” Jansing…
Brent Baker
October 8th, 2011 2:01 PM

Saturday Sports Open Thread

Big day in sports between college football, baseball playoffs, hockey and basketball seasons coming, etc. Let's chat.
NB Staff
October 8th, 2011 12:25 PM