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On PBS, David Brooks Predicts Herman Cain Is 'Behaving Badly' and Will
On the Friday news roundup on the PBS NewsHour, pseudoconservative analyst David Brooks of The New York Times kept up his disparaging of Herman Cain, predicting "he will be deflated very seriously within a week or two." He attacked Cain for "behaving badly" and having "gone for the home run" in denying all sexual harassment claims. Mr. Brooks didn't consider it at all possible that Cain could…
November 12th, 2011 11:24 PM

CNN's Blitzer Lets Debbie Wasserman Schultz Insist on Cain Disclosure
Colby Hall at Mediaite highlighted how Democratic Party Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz went on The Situation Room on CNN on Friday and trashed Herman Cain for using the word "princess" for Nancy Pelosi: “I thought it was a pretty callous, sexist throwaway line.” Then Wolf Blitzer allowed her to unload a wagon of talking points against the entire GOP field for 66 seconds. When he then asked…
November 12th, 2011 2:29 PM

Artist Frank Miller Shocks Left With Harsh Criticism of OWS Protests
Oh how your humble correspondent has yearned for his own Marshall McLuhan moment. You might remember that scene from the movie "Annie Hall" when some pompous blowhard on a theater line pontificated about the thoughts of the author of "the medium is the message." An irritated Woody Allen then pulled out McLuhan himself to harshly rebuke the guy.
Well, now I get that opportunity with comics …
November 12th, 2011 2:07 PM

Penn State and Nebraska Teams Pray Together For Child Sex Abuse Victim
There was a touching scene before Saturday's Penn State-Nebraska football game when all the players and coaches from both teams joined in the middle of the field to say a prayer for the victims in the emerging child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the nation (video follows with commentary):
November 12th, 2011 1:01 PM

Bill Maher: Newt Gingrich 'Is a Fat Womanizing Blowhard
As NewsBusters previously reported, Bill Maher spent the bulk of his final program Friday disgracefully attacking Republicans.
After saying on HBO's Real Time, "Jon Huntsman can suck my c--k," the host played a satirical movie trailer about Newt Gingrich which concluded with the announcer calling the former Speaker of the House "a fat womanizing blowhard" (video follows with transcript and…
November 12th, 2011 12:59 PM

Bill Maher: 'Jon Huntsman Can Suck My C--k
Bill Maher spent the bulk of his final program of the season Friday disgracefully attacking any Republican he could think of.
Early in the panel segment of HBO's Real Time, the host went into a tirade about the former governor of Utah saying, "Jon Huntsman can suck my c--k" (video follows with transcript and commentary, strong vulgarity warning):
November 12th, 2011 11:37 AM

Author Stephen King: Right-Wing 'Hate' of Obama Is Like Anger That Led
According to Stephen King, conservative "hate" of Barack Obama is similar to the anger that led to the assassination of John Kennedy. Appearing on Friday's Hardball to promote "11/22/63," his new novel, the author compared, "Here is where hate will get you eventually. This is what happens. Finally, it's the barrel of a gun."
Discussing his book, a work of historical fiction about stopping…
November 12th, 2011 10:17 AM
Weekend Open Thread
For general discussion and debate about anything in the world you want.
November 12th, 2011 9:34 AM
Weekend Sports Open Thread
Lots of great games this weekend. Can we talk?
November 12th, 2011 9:32 AM

'How History Is Molded': SF Chron Whitewashes Oakland Murder Victim's
I went to the Associated Press last night to see what the self-described Essential Global News Network would have to say about the murder which took place in Oakland on Thursday afternoon "near" that city's increasingly disgusting and dangerous "Occupy" camp.
Here's what I found, as written by Terry Collins (the report has since been updated and its 7:07 a.m. today version is saved here, but…
November 12th, 2011 9:21 AM

Bozell Column: No 'Glee' About Virginity
In Hollywood, the only truly serious sexual disease is virginity. It’s a dire and embarrassing condition, desperately in need of elimination. Teenagers that still have “it” are woefully immature. They might as well consider themselves to be walking the school hallways in diapers.
Along comes Fox Entertainment to enlighten us. Get ready. It’s sick.
November 12th, 2011 9:17 AM

Black NPR Reporter Rips Cain: 'Willing to Be a Minstrel' for White Rep
On the same Morning Edition broadcast on Friday that made time to honor Obama's tender concern for veterans, black NPR reporter/Obama supporter Karen Grigsby Bates ripped into Herman Cain with a chorus of condemnation from black liberals.
Harvard professor Randall Kennedy claimed “Black people know that if Herman Cain had his way, their lives would be diminished.” Former Time reporter Jack E…
November 12th, 2011 8:01 AM

NPR Makes Time for Veterans Day Tribute...to Obama
On Friday, NPR's Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep marked Veterans Day by inviting in Eric Shinseki, Obama's secretary of veterans affairs. But the main person honored was not a veteran. Instead, it was President Obama.
NPR brought on Shinseki to hail "the president stepping out and leading in this area, trying to provide incentives for hiring young veterans. And this is the jobs bill.…
November 12th, 2011 7:11 AM

Wacky Thom Hartmann: Networks Were Forbidden Since Reagan to Talk of P
Listening to liberal talk radio is sometimes like just listening to the world being turned upside down. Liberal hosts make claims that are demonstrably ridiculous, and expect listeners to lap it up.
Case in point: Thom Hartmann praised the Occupy Wall Street protesters for changing the media conversation. He claimed that ever since Reagan was elected, the media has forbidden any discussion of…
November 11th, 2011 10:55 PM