'The Notebook' Director Nick Cassavetes Defends Incest By Comparing It

Two days after a Gawker editor wrote about pedophilia being a "sexual orientation," film director Nick Cassavetes defended incest by comparing it to gay marriage. Such occurred during an interview with TheWrap Sunday.
Noel Sheppard
September 10th, 2012 6:25 PM

Wolf Blitzer Tosses Softballs to Obama-Hugging Pizza Man

CNN deemed it newsworthy enough to interview an Obama-supporting restaurant owner who gave the President a bear hug on the campaign trail. The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer tossed softballs to guest Scott Van Duzer, a registered Republican, on Monday afternoon. "It's the campaign stop everyone's talking about. The President of the United States got a lift, literally, from a super-…
Matt Hadro
September 10th, 2012 6:14 PM

Rihanna Tells Piers Morgan 'Grow a D--k

Pop singer Rihanna and CNN's Piers Morgan had a heated exchange on Twitter Sunday. After Morgan said the singer needs to grow her hair back, Rihanna replied, "Grow a d--k." From there, the conversation got even more vulgar.
Noel Sheppard
September 10th, 2012 5:57 PM

NBC's Kevin Tibbles Seems More Concerned About Political Repercussions

Throughout its morning and afternoon news coverage today, MSNBC has dealt with the hours-old teachers strike in Chicago. NBC reporter Kevin Tibbles did a few standups next to a picket line "outside the Ray Elementary School in Chicago." During his 11:40 a.m. Eastern live report, Tibbles interviewed a union teacher, John Cusick, who said he'd heard from parents, "mostly" who "support us" because…
Ken Shepherd
September 10th, 2012 5:43 PM

NBC Already Rooting for Hillary in 2016: 'She Would Clear the Field

Eager to get a jump-start on biased coverage of the next presidential race, on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell salivated over a possible Hillary Clinton run: "Well, the conventions were barely over before politicians in both parties started talking about likely contenders for 2016, and overshadowing all others is the woman who wasn't even there." Mitchell sympathetically…
Kyle Drennen
September 10th, 2012 4:41 PM

Ominous Liberal Signs From the New York Times' New Public Editor Marga

Uh-oh. Has the New York Times hired a new Public Editor that will spend her term criticizing the paper from the left? Less than a week after starting, Margaret Sullivan has already hailed the political wisdom of late left-wing author Gore Vidal while praising a Times "fact-checking" piece that excoriated Republicans. She has also expressed concern on the paper's lack of coverage of liberal fair…
Clay Waters
September 10th, 2012 4:28 PM

CBS Plays Softball With Durbin on ObamaCare, Chicago Teachers Strike

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell let Illinois Senator Dick Durbin forward the Democratic Party's talking points against Mitt Romney on ObamaCare by tossing him softball questions on the issue. Rose acknowledged that "the Obama health care reform was unpopular in the country", but wondered if Republicans would "be on dangerous ground if the debate becomes health…
Matthew Balan
September 10th, 2012 3:53 PM

Sunday's ABC World News Skipped Looming Chicago Teacher Strike

One the eve of the nation's third-largest school district seeing a massive teacher's strike ABC's World News was strangely silent. Of course, even as other media outlets have covered the story, they've often done a poor job at presenting the public relevant information. For example, as my NewsBusters colleague Scott Whitlock reported today, CBS This Morning was the only broadcast network…
Matt Vespa
September 10th, 2012 3:46 PM

HuffPo News Flash: Mormons Don't Think Jesus was Black

Finding racism in ridiculous places: It isn’t just for MSNBC anymore. The Huffington Post has performed a neat trick, exercising its own religious bigotry by accusing someone else of racism. The result is a breathtakingly inane article. (The crusade to re-elect Obama has spurred his media acolytes to heroic exertions, hasn’t it?) Writing in HuffPo on Sept. 9, Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum…
Matt Philbin
September 10th, 2012 3:27 PM

HuffPo News Flash: Mormons Don’t Think Jesus Was Black

Authors claim LDS worships a racist Christ.
Matt Philbin
September 10th, 2012 3:06 PM

NBC's Gregory: Romney Knows He'll Have to 'Infuriate Conservatives' if

Responding to co-host Savannah Guthrie observing that Mitt Romney looked like he "was moving toward the center" on Monday's NBC Today, Meet the Press host David Gregory asserted: "...he knows he's going to have to make tough choices if he becomes president. That he would indeed have to infuriate conservatives on some of these budget deals..." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the…
Kyle Drennen
September 10th, 2012 2:53 PM

Toure Slams GOP Racist Code Words: 'Do Democrats Use Racial Code? No

Time columnist and MSNBC host Toure could really be quite a humorist. Take this unintentional entry: "Do Democrats use racial code? No. The Democratic party is a racially diverse coalition. There would be no value to playing this game." I doubt he means hey, liberals don't use subtle codes: they blatantly accuse Republicans of killing, like in the NAACP's James Byrd ad. This came in an…
Tim Graham
September 10th, 2012 2:13 PM

Scarborough: Eastwood Spoke 'From The Bottom Of A Bottle

Joe Scarborough has suggested that Clint Eastwood was drunk when he gave his RNC speech. Today's Morning Joe opened with a clip of Mitt Romney telling David Gregory that it was a thrill to have  Eastwood speak on his behalf at the RNC, and that he felt Eastwood spoke "from the heart."  Scarborough came on and said that rather than speaking from the heart, Eastwood spoke more "from the bottom…
Mark Finkelstein
September 10th, 2012 1:19 PM

CNN Panelists Admit Media 'Nostalgia' for Clinton, Past 'Love Affair

The media have "nostalgia" for Bill Clinton and a "tedious marriage" with President Obama, according to panel members on Sunday's Reliable Sources. Is media bias any more evident when reporters admit the media had a past love affair with the current Democratic president and pine for the days of his Democratic forerunner? CNN's Howard Kurtz mused that "the extraordinary media reaction to Bill…
Matt Hadro
September 10th, 2012 12:55 PM